Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKraken’s $15B Secret Raise and the Race to IPO
Fortune revealed that Kraken quietly raised $500 million at a $15 billion valuation—its first significant raise in over a decade—as the exchange eyes…
8 months, 1 week ago
Friday Five: Tether’s $500B Play, SEC Opens the Door, and Vanguard Bows to Crypto
In this week’s Friday Five, we dive into Tether’s jaw-dropping $500B valuation bid, the SEC’s surprise innovation exemption, bipartisan momentum on a…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Agentic Payments and the Next Internet Economy
Coinbase and Cloudflare are pushing forward with X402, a new crypto-powered payments protocol for AI agents. Could agent-to-agent transactions reshap…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Tether’s Half-Trillion Dollar Valuation
Tether is reportedly courting outside investors for the first time—at a staggering $500 billion valuation. In today’s Breakdown, NLW digs into Bloomb…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin’s September Shakeout: $1.7B in Liquidations Sets Stage for Q4
Bitcoin’s September rally finally stumbled, with a 3.5% drop triggering $1.7B in long liquidations—the biggest of the year. While traders were caught…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Senate Democrats Push for Bipartisan Role in Crypto Market Structure Bill
On today’s Breakdown, NLW looks at the latest twists in the crypto market structure bill. A group of 12 Senate Democrats is pushing for true bipartis…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week
In this week’s Friday Five, NLW digs into why Bitcoin’s September performance is surprising markets, what the Fed’s anticlimactic rate cut means for …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Fed Cuts Rates Amid Rising Labor Market Risks
The Federal Reserve delivered its first rate cut since last November, reducing the target range to 4–4.25% as weakening labor data outweighed inflati…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Google’s New Agent Payments Protocol and What It Means for Crypto
Today on The Breakdown, NLW explores Google’s announcement of AP2, a new open-source payments standard that lets AI agents transact securely. Built w…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Coinbase Considers Token Launch
On today’s Breakdown, NLW unpacks the Senate’s confirmation of Trump adviser Stephen Moran to the Fed and the fierce debate over central bank indepen…
8 months, 3 weeks ago