Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBitcoin’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…
5 months, 1 week 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…
5 months, 1 week 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 …
5 months, 1 week 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…
5 months, 2 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…
5 months, 2 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…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Checking In On Last Week’s Crypto IPOs
Gemini and Figure Markets both raised significant cash in their IPOs last week, but their subdued trading debuts highlighted a cooler speculative env…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Friday Five: SEC Turns Pro-Crypto, Tokenization Race Heats Up, Gemini IPO
This week’s Friday Five dives into the accelerating cryptoization of finance. SEC Chair Paul Atkins signaled a new era of pro-innovation policy, exte…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
SEC Chair: "Crypto’s Time Has Come"
SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the Gensler era of regulation by enforcement is over, as the agency launches Project Crypto to bring clarity and push capi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Senate Democrats Unveil Competing Crypto Market Structure Bill
Senate Democrats have introduced their own framework for crypto market structure, setting up negotiations with Republicans and potentially clearing t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago