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The Crypto Tape from GSR brings you inside crypto’s capital markets, where topics like credit and liquidity converge with actually interesting stories and perspectives. As one of the world’s leading crypto investment firms, GSR has traded trillions in digital assets. Now, we’re opening the door to the people shaping this market.Hosted by Frank Chaparro, The Crypto Tape features candid conversations with investors, traders, exchange operators, and founders building the next generation of financial infrastructure.Subscribe to stay close to the people and ideas moving markets forward.
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- 6 days ago31 min
Markets That Never Close with Simran Singh
Simran Singh, co-founder and CEO of Monaco, joins Frank Chaparro during TOKEN2049. Simran started his career on Goldman Sachs' commodities desk, spent nearly four years at GSR across OTC, prop trading and DeFi, and is now building an onchain exchange for real world assets and frontier markets, from single name equities to oil and, potentially, electricity.Simran explains why the promise of tokenization is borrowing and posting collateral against an asset, not just owning a digital copy of it. They also get into where crypto native market makers keep their edge as Citadel, Jump and others move in, why listing a new market is still so painful, and what traders lose when markets never close.
- 1 weeks ago25 min
Liquid Private Markets with Jonathan Shaffer
Jonathan Shaffer, co-founder and CEO of Fission, joins Frank Chaparro to talk about the missing piece in tokenization: liquidity. Asset managers are lining up to tokenize their funds, but most of those products are still semi-liquid, with quarterly redemption windows and gates. Fission steps in as the buyer, so holders can exit when they want. Jonathan walks through how conversations with private credit managers have shifted from "maybe one day" to "which product first," why cross-chain settlement matters when the same fund lives on several blockchains, and how tokenization could unlock liquid private markets for investors around the world. His view is that the U.S. private markets that finance American innovation still run on paper, and that needs to change.
- 2 weeks ago31 min
Perps, Patience and a Quiet Market with Alex Taaffe and Andy Baehr
Frank Chaparro takes The Crypto Tape to SALT Wyoming in Jackson Hole for two conversations with his GSR colleagues. First, Alex Taaffe, GSR’s Chief Revenue Officer, describes how the crowd has shifted from projects and policy to banks and blazers. He explains why one of the slowest stretches of token issuance he's seen could set up the next cycle, and why perpetual futures are becoming a way for investors around the world to get exposure to U.S. stocks and commodities.Then, Managing Director of Asset Management Andy Baehr takes the temperature of a stalled market. He explains why a low-volume range isn't a reliable floor, why months of call selling have crushed volatility, and why he's watching for an ether-led rally and rising DeFi borrow rates.
- 3 weeks ago21 min
The Risk of Not Being in Crypto with Chris Perkins
Chris Perkins joins Frank Chaparro in his return to The Crypto Tape to talk about building Franklin Crypto inside Franklin Templeton, a firm that has been investing in the space since 2017.Chris explains why institutions that once took risk by being in crypto now take risk by staying out, and why they need a trusted agent to get in. He describes what crypto is exporting to traditional finance, from 24/7 markets to perpetual futures and prediction markets, and what traditional finance brings back in controls. He makes the case that years of regulatory precedent will be hard to unwind regardless of what happens with Clarity or the next election, and closes with the topic he says no one is talking about enough: post-quantum cryptography, and why crypto will solve it before the rest of the global economy.
- Oct 9, 202613 min
Tokenized Equities for the Other 80% with Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick joins Frank Chaparro for a conversation on The Crypto Tape and shares more on his role leading Chainlink's institutional business after stints at E*Trade, Morgan Stanley and eToro.Andrew explains why calling Chainlink an oracle company undersells it, and why tokenized equities have become its fastest-growing area. He makes the case that tokenization is a global access story, for investors outside the U.S. and for the roughly 80% of Americans who have never placed a trade. He also shares what has surprised him most since joining: large banks wanting to talk about DeFi, including tokenizing private company stock so holders can borrow against it.
- Oct 2, 202621 min
TradFi Took Over the Room with Bhaji Illuminati
Bhaji Illuminati, CEO and co-founder of Centrifuge, joins Frank Chaparro in studio at RWA Summit in Brooklyn, the tokenization conference Centrifuge launched in 2023.Bhaji describes how the room flipped from mostly DeFi builders to mostly traditional finance, and why the tokenization playbook flipped with it: asset managers now start with real onchain demand and AUM, and treat operational efficiencies as the long game. She walks through how a $1 billion T-bill RFP from Sky led Janus Henderson to bring its flagship AAA CLO strategy onchain with Centrifuge, why vaults are turning asset managers into onchain curators, and why Centrifuge is proposing to let token holders convert into tokenized equity.
- Sep 25, 202635 min
The Desk – What Institutional Stablecoin Flow Actually Looks Like with Edward Woodford
Edward Woodford, founder and CEO of zerohash, joins Frank Chaparro and Slater Santer for episode five of The Desk to describe stablecoin adoption from a seat almost nobody else occupies: the infrastructure layer that banks, brokerages, and fintechs use to offer crypto trading, stablecoins, and tokenization. Stablecoins are now the majority of that business, which Interactive Brokers led a $104 million round into in September 2025 at a $1 billion valuation, alongside Morgan Stanley, Apollo-managed funds, and SoFi. Edward walks through what institutional flow actually looks like, [flow figure or growth rate], and which corridors and use cases produce volume rather than headlines. He explains why the hard part of this business is licensing and compliance rather than technology, which is why fintechs rent the stack instead of building it, what MiCAR authorization changed for operating across jurisdictions, and how the shift from holding a stablecoin balance to funding accounts, settling payments, and spending at the point of sale changes what platforms need underneath. A conversation about the plumbing that stablecoin adoption runs on, from the person building it for the institutions using it.
- Sep 24, 202618 min
The Meme-ification of Equity with Robert Leshner
Robert Leshner, CEO of Superstate, returns to The Crypto Tape to join Frank Chaparro during the RWA Summit for a look at what has changed in tokenization since his last appearance on the podcast in February.Robert explains why the products gaining traction look retail native and even anti-institutional, why most tokenized stocks are wrappers on brokerage balances several steps removed from the issuer, and why Superstate is focused on the pipes underneath to put the primary security itself onchain. He also makes the case that value will accrue to trading venues rather than token issuers, predicts that three years from now there will be more ways to trade Tesla than at any point in history, and explains why agents or aggregation will have to tame all that choice over the long run.
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The Crypto Tape from GSR brings you inside crypto’s capital markets, where topics like credit and liquidity converge with actually interesting stories and perspectives. As one of the world’s leading crypto investment firms, GSR has traded trillions in digital assets. Now, we’re opening the door to the people shaping this market.Hosted by Frank Chaparro, The Crypto Tape features candid conversations with investors, traders, exchange operators, and founders building the next generation of financial infrastructure.Subscribe to stay close to the people and ideas moving markets forward.
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