Episode Details

A Google engineer allegedly profited $1.2 million on Polymarket betting that d4vd would be Google's most-searched person of 2025 — using Google's own internal data. Plus: Blockworks' new Token Transparency Alliance, and an OpenZeppelin co-founder telling friends and family to exit DeFi.

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Intro

(01:03) Polymarket Insider Trading

(10:39) Transparency Alliance

(21:56) DeFi Unsafe?

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