CoinDesk Podcast Network

CoinDesk Podcast Network

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October 26, 2026 • 1 min
SpaceX raised $40B to buy GPUs. Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $40 billion in debt to buy GPUs, but he warned that debt markets have almost entirely cut off financing for companies without revenue independent of AI data centers. He predicts most of the 200-plus "neoclouds" will not survive. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment...
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Venice.ai founder Erik Voorhees sits down with CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie ahead of the Lumara Film Festival to explore the fast-growing world of AI filmmaking. He says video generation has grown to about 30% of Venice’s usage since the company launched its video studio this spring, and that creators can now make a full movie with roughly $10,000 in AI credits. He also previews the festival’s roughly 750 submissio...
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Polymarket fires CMO. Polymarket fired chief marketing officer Matthew Modabber, a close friend of CEO Shayne Coplan, after an internal probe into several episodes, including a reported fake-trades scheme. The board reportedly concluded he was slowing the company's push toward a possible IPO. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused inv...
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CoinDesk’s The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open on the OCC finalizing its stablecoin rules and dig into the OKXICE filing that showed a growing pile of blue-chip objections to tokenized equities. They’re then joined by Zero Knowledge founder and CEO Austin Campbell, who breaks down JPMorgan’s JPMD deposit token landing on Ethereum, and argue that crypto becoming “plumbing”...
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China to seize 618,00 BTC in fraud case. Chinese prosecutors are moving to confiscate more than 61,800 bitcoin linked to an alleged $5.7 billion wealth-management fraud run by Qian Zhimin. The coins, seized in the UK after he fled China, could be worth far more today than when they were taken. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focus...
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Alex Gluchowski, CEO and co-founder of Matter Labs, joins CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook to unpack Prividium Commander, the company’s new product built to take digital assets from pilots to revenue. Gluchowski explains why operational friction, not technology, keeps institutions from moving digital asset experiments into production, and how Commander gives banks one control plane to run digital asset ser...
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What a potential SpaceX-Tesla merger means for their BTC bags. Elon Musk said SpaceX and Tesla are exploring a merger that would combine the two companies and their more than 30,000 bitcoin. Both have formed special committees to weigh the deal, though Musk says he can't take part because of his stakes in each. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest d...
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JPMorgan expects BTC to outperform U.S. stocks, bonds and gold in the next decade. JPMorgan now expects bitcoin to outperform U.S. stocks, bonds and gold over the next 10 years, forecasting a 10% annualized base case. It's the first time the bank has put a range on bitcoin returns — a notable shift for a firm whose CEO once called it a "fraud." CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to...
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S&P Global Ratings Managing Director and Digital Assets Analytical Lead Andrew O’Neill joins CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie to unpack the firm’s new Vault Risk Assessment (VRA). He explains how onchain lending vaults work, why transparency isn’t the same as understanding risk, and how the VRA looks at a vault’s portfolio, liquidity, curator, operational security and governance. Plus, how the VRA diffe...
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On this episode of CoinDesk’s Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Peter Christiansen, Director of Digital Assets Equity Research at Citi, who explains why the bank is turning more bullish on crypto equities ahead of Q3 earnings — breaking down its upgrades of Galaxy and Gemini, its downgrade of Securitize, the MSCI index-exclusion threat facing Strategy, and why Circle is his...
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JPMorgan takes JPM Coin to Ethereum. JPMorgan is expanding its JPM Coin beyond Coinbase's Base network to Ethereum, citing the blockchain's deeper liquidity and institutional user base. The largest U.S. bank already moves more than $7 billion a day on its private Kinexys network. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment platf...
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Tesla Roadster unveiling lifts tokenized TSLA. Elon Musk unveiled a flying version of the Tesla Roadster, and with U.S. stock markets closed, traders piled into Hyperliquid's TSLA perpetual, sending hourly volume up roughly 1,580%. It's a sign of how round-the-clock crypto markets are becoming the first place investors react to news about traditional companies. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is...
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CoinDesk’s The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open on two hot topics: the CFTC’s interim final rule carving casino-style gambling out of the “swap” definition and the OCC’s “bombshell” report finding that America’s largest banks systematically debanked lawful businesses, based on a review of over 100,000 complaints from 2020–2025. Then they sit down wi...
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RealFi Chief Business Officer Seny Orlov joins CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie to break down the protocol’s Cardano mainnet launch, which followed a public testnet with more than 3,000 verified wallets. He explains how staked USDr earns yield from real-world assets and why that portfolio is producing an annualized yield of over 12% right now. Orlov also covers why family offices and trading firms want a dollar that’s ...
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Juan Otero, CEO of Travala, joins CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook to explain how the company’s new AI travel agent lets you book any of 2.2 million hotels in more than 230 countries just by chatting. Otero walks through how Travala uses BNB Chain’s machine payment protocol for gasless transactions and Binance Pay for settlement. Plus, he lays out the bigger plan: a future where agents anywhere can b...
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Larry Finks warns the data center halt would lead to a recession. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says halting the U.S. data center buildout would tip the economy into recession, pointing to the trillions in AI capital spending now driving growth. He also flagged a national debt that has climbed from $8 trillion in 2000 to $40 trillion today. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by Graysc...
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Ripple brings crypto wallets to AI agents. Ripple is bringing Stripe-owned Privy’s wallet technology to the XRP Ledger, letting apps and AI agents create accounts, hold crypto, and make payments on their own. The push comes as agent payments already account for roughly 25% of activity on the network. CoinDesk’s Uyen Truong hosts “CoinDesk Daily.” - This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's ...
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On this episode of CoinDesk’s Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Nick Ducoff, General Manager of Institutional at the Solana Foundation, to unpack Samsung’s move to bring USDC stablecoin transfers to 82 million Galaxy devices in the US. Nuva Labs CEO Anthony Moro breaks down HOME, a new token that gives non-US investors a 7% target yield backed by tokenized US home equity loans ...
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Ledger says hackers hid spy chips in wallets sold by reseller. Ledger says covert hardware implanted in wallets sold by reseller CryptoBilis read users' recovery phrases off the screen and beamed them to attackers over a cellular connection. Onchain researchers estimate up to $93.2 million stolen across more than 300 wallets. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world'...
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CoinDesk’s The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open on the week’s biggest stories: the CFTC’s new advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) to regulate spot crypto exchanges without Congress, and Justin Drake’s “bunker mode” warning about AI breaking wallet cryptography. Then they sit down with Jonathan Jachym, Chief Policy Officer at Payward, who explains how Payward...
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