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The Chopping Block: Perp Wars & Stablecoin Battles: Hyperliquid, Aster, Tether
Episode 911
Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in c…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Plasma's Successful Launch, Revenue Over TVL & the Future of Pump.fun
Episode 910
How do stablecoin-first blockchains win distribution? Does TVL actually map to value? And why speculation may become the default language of online c…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Hyperliquid Should Cut Its Total Token Supply Nearly in Half
Episode 909
Crypto investors love to throw around “FDV” as if it’s the ultimate measure of value. But what if that number is more misleading than helpful?
In th…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Bits + Bips: How Wall Street Could Make a Killing off the Next Crypto Winter
Episode 908
Markets had a flood of liquidations on Monday, and traders lost over $1.5 billion in positions. So, why are liquidations spiking? Is this a warning o…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Debate: Should Stablecoin Chains Have an Ethereum L2 or Their Own L1?
Episode 907
In this episode, Cyber Capital’s Justin Bons and Codex’s Haonan Li challenge the new orthodoxy: whether payments chains should be alt L1s or Ethereum…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Chopping Block: Stablecoin-as-a-Service: The Next Big Crypto Gold Rush?
Episode 906
Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in cr…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Bits + Bips: Could a Base Token Be Coinbase's Key to a Super App?
Episode 905
This week on Bits + Bips, hosts Steve Ehrlich and Ram Ahluwalia speak with Blockchain.com’s Nic Cary and Franklin Templeton’s Max Gokhman.
We talk ab…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Base Will Likely Have a Token: Why Now, Who Wins, and How Big It Gets
Episode 904
Base just crossed its own Rubicon. After months of saying “no token,” Jesse Pollak now says Base must decentralize and is “exploring” a token. What c…
10 months ago
The Chopping Block: USDH Bake-off—Native Markets, Validators & the “Beauty Contest” Debate
Episode 903
Hyperliquid’s USDH ticker set off the most dramatic “RFP” in recent memory. The crew breaks down why Native Markets ran away with validator support, …
10 months ago
Why the War Over the USDH Ticker on Hyperliquid Is Bullish for Crypto
Episode 902
Stablecoins are supposed to be boring, but the fight for the USDH ticker on Hyperliquid has turned into one of the most dramatic battles in crypto.
…10 months ago