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The Chopping Block: The Ledger Hardware Implant, a Listening Device at OpenAI, Papertrade's 1000x House, and the Death of Technical Moats
The boys regroup after TOKEN2049. Ledgers sold through CryptoBilis, an authorized reseller in Malaysia, came with an LTE implant that read seed phras…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Why Crypto Buybacks Are 'the Wrong Way to Allocate Capital'
ARK Invest's Lorenzo Valente says quantum fears and the Ledger hack are speeding up the death of self-custody, that Ethereum has to pick a lane, and …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
How NEAR Intents Identified a Suspect and Got Its Stolen Funds Back
A bridging bug cost NEAR Intents $3.8 million. Alex Shevchenko reveals how a coded tweet and a Signal invite encrypted with the attacker's key got th…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Chopping Block: Live at TOKEN2049 feat. Balaji Srinivasan & Arthur Hayes on Kazakhstan, Crypto Bunker Mode, and the L2 Shutdowns
Live from TOKEN2049 in Singapore, Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun sit down with Balaji Srinivasan and Arthur Hayes.
Welcome to The Chopping Block, where cryp…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
How OpenAI's Math Dump Has Crypto Rethinking Its Cryptography: Uneasy Money
Justin Drake told holders not to panic. Ben DiFrancesco says if AI weakens elliptic curves, the clock is how fast Chinese models catch up.
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3 weeks, 2 days ago
THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?
In this spicypost-Bitget hack debate, THORChain co-founder Chad Barraford says the protocol can't block laundering. Taylor Monahan points to the halt…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Paid Partnership: How Nexo Wants You To Build Wealth Using Crypto
SPONSORED CONTENT: This video is a paid partnership with Nexo. It was produced in collaboration with Nexo and is separate from Unchained's editorial …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Chopping Block: Bitget's 387 Million Dollar Hack, Kalshi's Cooked Perps Volume, and Agentic Bank Runs
North Korea takes $387 million from Bitget and moves it through THORChain while NEAR's Shield freezes what it can, a Consensys validator hack tests w…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Uneasy Money: The $388M Bitget Hack Started With a Security Vendor
Taylor Monahan ties the Bitget hack to North Korea and the crew asks why THORChain still avoids the scrutiny Tornado Cash got.
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4 weeks, 2 days ago
Is Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP Coin a Scam? He Says the Wallets Prove It Isn't
Hunter Biden walks through the $LAPTOP launch, when thin liquidity sent the token to a $317 billion market cap in a minute, and why he says it isn't …
4 weeks, 2 days ago