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- 4 days ago24 min
Weekly Roundup feat. Gus Coldebella 05/15/26 (Clarity advances, Circle's Arc token) (EP.720)
Matt and Nic are aback with another week of news and deals, today joined by Gus Coldebella to cover the CLARITY Act. In this episode: The Clarity Act advances resoundingly from committee Sen. Warren doesn't like the Clarity Act Will there be an ethics provision inserted into Clarity? The next fight in DC What's up with Nantucket real estate? Nantucket's ponzinomics Nantucket is the birthplace of venture capital Circle is issuing a token Cprkrn recovers 5 BTC with the help of Claude
- 1 weeks ago43 min
Weekly Roundup 05/08/26 (Consensus Miami, AI layoffs strike Coinbase, Clarity compromise, AI energy and water use) (EP.719)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Will Hantavirus become another global pandemic? Kraken buys Reap for $600m Bullish buys Equiniti for $4.2b Reflections on 10 years of attending Consensus Is it acceptable to wear a backpack with a suit a16z crypto announces a $2.2b fundraise Coinbase is laying off 14% of the firm Will AI lead to massive job losses? Is VC immune from AI job displacement I bipartisan compromise is finally reached on Clarity How the AI water use debate is just like Bitcoin The AI lobby is learning from Fairshake The SEC delays prediction market ETFs
- 2 weeks ago29 min
Weekly Roundup 05/30/26 (DeFi's worst ever month, PTJ on Bitcoin, quantum canaries) (EP.718)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: DeFi had its worth month of hacks ever How are people falling for the fake Zoom link hack The KelpDAO Aave bailout is happening Is Bitcoin's security degrading because miners are pivoting to AI? Litecoin suffers a 51% attack Is Bitcoin PoW at risk? Computershare partners with Securitize Meta will offer creator payouts in stablecoins via Stripe Q-day prize controversy Why quantum canaries might not provide much of a warning Paul Tudor Jones is spooked by quantum Some evidence for insider information in political prediction markets
- 3 weeks ago35 min
Pluto (Harbor) on the fate of DeFi after KelpDAO (EP.717)
Pluto is a veteran of DeFi and cross chain systems, with prior stints at Thorchain and Airswap, now building Harbor, a native asset DEX. In this episode, we talk about the KelpDAO exploit and how DeFi can regain people's trust. Nic sits down with him to discuss: What exactly happened with the KelpDAO/ Aave hack? Will new AI models make hackers more proficient? Is advanced AI a defensive or offensive technology for smart contracts? Why protocol exposures are often not on chain Why DeFi might want to segregate execution from settlement Is it possible to have instant settlement and proactive monitoring Do we have anything to learn from DeFi What could Aave have done different? Where did LayerZero go wrong? Can DeFi work if there are occasional freezes and seizures? Pluto's reflections on Thorchain What Thorchain did right Arbitrum's questionable precedent What Pluto is building with Harbor Where does DeFi go from here? Learn more about Harbor and follow Pluto on X
- 3 weeks ago36 min
Weekly Roundup 04/24/26 (Finding Satoshi, KelpDAO retrospective, Insider weather betting, Coinbase's Quantum report) (EP.716)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals: The Finding Satoshi documentary has a new guess Was it Hal or Len? Could Satoshi have been a team? Why Stylometry might not reveal Satoshi Why the cypherpunks were interested in resurrection What happened with KelpDAO? Is DeFi cooked? Is Arbitrum decentralized? The Paris temperature market was manipulated Coinbase releases their highly-anticipated quantum risk report Performance tradeoffs for post-quantum signature schemes SBF was a good investor The Justin Sun WLFI saga continues Did an Indian tanker fall victim to a crypto scam in the Strait of Hormuz? Content mentioned in this episode: Finding Satoshi Documentary Fidelity Digital Assets, Getting Off Zero: Evaluating Bitcoin in 2026 Coinbase, Quantum report
- 3 weeks ago18 min
Brandon Arvanaghi (Meow) on Banking AI Agents (EP.715)
Brandon Arvanaghi, the co-founder and CEO of Meow, joins the show. In this episode we discuss: The rise of agentic payments and the convergence of LLMs and financial services. Meow's approach to banking the agentic economy. How financial services firms and banks will need to evolve in order to service AI agents. Meow's product roadmap. Meow recently made history as the first fintech to enable AI agents to open business bank accounts and virtual cards. Meow has been building the banking and treasury infrastructure for crypto-native and VC-backed companies for several years now. This includes USDC/USDT rails, stablecoin card programs, treasury management, and FX. To learn more about Meow visit meow.com
- Apr 17, 202634 min
Weekly Roundup 04/17/26 (BIP361 proposal, SEC's DeFi frontend policy, CSW's Bitcoin movie) (EP.714)
Matt and Nic are back for more news and deals: Jameson Lopp's BIP361 gets an official BIP number What about an official salvage process for the quantum-vulnerable Satoshi coins What about recycling Satoshi's bitcoins into long-term tail emissions Why the Satoshi freeze war will be unlike the Blocksize war Kraken confidential files for an IPO The SEC says defi frontends might not be broker dealers even if they list tokenized securities Goldman files for a Bitcoin ETF WLFi is having a feud with Justin Sun Ether Machine, an Ethereum DAT winds down There is a new Satoshi documentary coming out There is an A-list Hollywood movie coming out about Craig Wright Leo Aschenbrenner's secret Tether invests into Drift Protocol post-hack Why is USDC refusing to freeze funds after hacks? Do we need an "on-chain" Chancery Court for blockchains Content mentioned on this episode: Nic on X, How to resolve the matter of the Satoshi coins without a freeze
- Apr 10, 202635 min
Weekly Roundup 04/10/26 (New Satoshi candidates, Mythos' 0-days, CZ's memoir) (EP.713)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: The New York Times thinks Adam Back is Satoshi The problems with the NYT's analysis The case for Len Sassaman The case for Satoshi not being alive Could Satoshi be a group? Why Satoshi might be discovered this year Morgan Stanley launches their Bitcoin ETF Scott Bessent asks for Congress to pass Clarity The White House finds that stablecoin yield would not harm the banking system Kalshi secures a key win in a NJ appeals court Anthropic's Mythos model is exposing vulnerabilities CZ is publishing a memoir Will Hormuz tolls be payable in Bitcoin?
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Hosts Matt Walsh and Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures explore news and deals in the public blockchain space and talk to some of the leading experts in the industry. Learn more and stay up to date at CastleIsland.vc and follow on twitter @CastleIslandVC
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