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ROLLUP: Wartime Markets | Kraken Gets Fedwire | Trump vs Banks | AI vs Pentagon | NYT Says Crypto Is Dead
Ryan and David break down a week where war hit markets, and the safe-haven playbook broke down. Oil spiked, gold failed, bonds sold off, the dollar c…
1 month, 1 week ago
AI Finds 70% of Smart Contract Exploits | Alpin Yukseloglu
AI is getting dangerously good at smart contract security. Faster than crypto is ready for. Alpin Yukseloglu joins Bankless to break down EVMBench (b…
1 month, 1 week ago
Building a Million Dollar Zero Human Company with OpenClaw | Nat Eliason
Nat Eliason joins to show what it looks like to build a “zero human company” with OpenClaw agents. — led by Felix, an AI CEO that ships products, run…
1 month, 1 week ago
Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI
Crypto still feels like a minefield for humans:
Haseeb Qureshi argues that’s a clue, not a bug: blockchains and smart contracts are machine-readable …
1 month, 1 week ago
ROLLUP: Extreme Fear | Tariff Whiplash | Citrini AI Crash | Jane Street vs Terra | Pentagon vs Anthropic
February ends with peak FUD. Ryan and David unpack why crypto is stuck in historic “Extreme Fear” even without a major blowup, and why markets feel l…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Zero Crypto at Home: Bankless in the Age of Wrench Attacks and Phishing | Jameson Lopp and Beau
Crypto’s newest threat isn’t a smart contract exploit, it’s a knock at your door. In this episode, Ryan sits down with Jameson Lopp (Casa) and Beau (…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs
Ethereum’s next big leap might not look like a single “flip the switch” moment—but it could change how the chain verifies everything. In this episode…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
ROLLUP: Prediction Market War | Base Leaves Optimism | Tomasz Exits EF | Clarity Act Lives | Harvard Buys ETH
A legal war over prediction markets just went public. Ryan and David break down the CFTC’s claim of exclusive authority, the backlash from state offi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Lyn Alden: How to Survive The Gradual Print Era — Fed Chair Warsh, Gold & Bitcoin
Lyn Alden joins us to make sense of the “everything, everywhere, all at once” macro moment.
A fourth-turning-style unwind of the long-term debt cycle,…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
ROLLUP: Crypto Pain Market | Coinbase Super Bowl Rug Pull | IBIT Liquidation Cascade | Prediction Markets Explode | BlackRock x Uniswap
Crypto feels cooked in 2026, and the Super Bowl proves it. Ryan and David unpack Coinbase’s Backstreet Boys rug pull ad and what it reveals about cry…
2 months ago