Unchained
Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how crypto assets and blockchains will change the way we earn, spend and invest our money. Tune in to find out how Web 3.0, the decentralized web, will revolutionize our world.
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February 28, 2026 • 72 mins
MegaETH's Namik Muduroglu joins the Uneasy Money crew to discuss how the industry can fix token incentives, the continued escalation of the Aave civil war and more.
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February 27, 2026 • 83 mins
Tushar Jain and Mike Ippolito make the bull case for Solana as competition heats up.
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With Ethereum refocusing on L1 and Hyperliquid adoption growing, Solana is arguably facing stronger competition than e...
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February 27, 2026 • 58 mins
Robinhood's Coy Garrison and Seong Seog Lee join the crew to unpack the Robinhood Chain launch strategy.
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Robinhood's proposed chain for the trading of tokenized assets is live in testnet.
In this DEX in the City episode, Coy Garrison, Robinhood's deputy general counsel on crypto, and Robinhood Crypto Head of Product Seong Seog Lee walk hosts Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos and Jes...
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February 27, 2026 • 61 mins
Explore how AI could reshape crypto and finance, redefining traditional systems and introducing new threats. As AI-powered agents promise efficiency, Haseeb, Tom, Tarun, and guest Illia Polosukhin critique Citrini's controversial predictions on a global financial crisis and consider whether AI might just save or further complicate crypto's role in the economy.
Welcome to The Chopping Block — where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, T...
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February 26, 2026 • 68 mins
DATs may be collapsing, AI agents may be overhyped, but Omid Malekan thinks the strongest case for crypto has nothing to do with either.
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Bitcoin is below $63,000, digital asset treasuries are under pressure, and the debate over whether crypto markets are bottoming or breaking down is splitting the hosts.
Ram is skeptical of institutional demand when he looks at the ...
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February 23, 2026 • 64 mins
Jansen Teng announces Virtuals’ new humanoid robotics accelerator. Is this the next frontier for the AI agent meta?
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Virtuals Protocol has announced the launch of Eastworld Labs, an AI accelerator to make it easier for builders to deploy humanoid robots.
Virtuals Protocol co-founder Jansen Teng unpacks the idea behind the program, how it would work a...
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February 22, 2026 • 78 mins
Matt Corallo says “the community that exists at the time” will make decisions on how Bitcoin deals with the threat of quantum computing.
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When it comes to the quantum computing threat to crypto, the focus is
often on Bitcoin and for good reason. The blockchain lacks a defined
governance structure and the vulnerability around Sato...
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February 20, 2026 • 83 mins
LayerZero’s Bryan Pellegrino joins to unpack Base's decision to leave the OP Stack, Zora's migration to Solana and more.
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Coinbase's Base is making a shock move away from Optimism's OP Stack.
In this Uneasy Money episode, LayerZero Labs CEO Bryan Pelle...
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February 20, 2026 • 57 mins
Stani Kulechov unpacks Aave Labs’ “Aave Will Win” proposal, explaining why the company wants the DAO to have power over its finances.
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Aave Labs has proposed a “Aave Will Win” framework that will direct all revenue to the DAO to bring the protocol under “a token-centric model.”
In this episode, Aave founder Stani Kulechov explains why Aave Labs is putting its funding at the mer...
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The Chopping Block: Dragonfly's $650M Fund + Crypto's Great Resignation + OpenClaw vs Crypto Twitter
February 19, 2026 • 55 mins
Dragonfly raises a $650M Fund IV amid crypto's institutional vs retail sentiment gap, the industry exodus including Kyle Samani's departure from Multicoin, OpenClaw's OpenAI acquisition and crypto Twitter harassment, X402 payment standards for AI agents, Polymarket's controversial 5-minute Bitcoin betting markets, and the brewing federal vs state regulation battle over prediction markets.
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February 19, 2026 • 53 mins
The crew tackles everything from the CFTC's controversial stance on prediction markets to the real-world impacts of rising crypto crime.
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February 18, 2026 • 67 mins
The Mag 7 have committed over $700 billion to AI infrastructure, but the companies building the models may never capture the value.
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The BLS just quietly revised away 862,000 jobs, and real-time inflation trackers now peg price growth below 1%, less than half of what official figures report.
If the Fed is steering monetary policy with stale data,...
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February 16, 2026 • 54 mins
As miners approach historical stress zones, Bitcoin’s correlation with tech stocks is hitting at the worst possible moment. Enter AI.
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Public mining companies are once again approaching breakeven territory, a zone that in prior cycles preceded forced selling and capitulation. But unlike past downturns, balance sheets today are cleaner, leverage is lower, and many operators are pivoting...
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February 16, 2026 • 73 mins
The crew unpacks BlackRock buying UNI, ARK, Citadel, DTCC, the Intercontinental Exchange and other TradFi players backing Zero, , Vitalik's thoughts on AI, and more.
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AI safety chiefs are leaving, BlackRock's launching on Uniswap and buying UNI, LayerZero launches “the last blockchain” with institutional backing, Kaito is...
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February 13, 2026 • 55 mins
The market structure bill introduces a "control" test for DeFi protocols. The problem: nobody agrees on what control means.
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Peter Van Valkenburgh of Coin Center sits down with Jessi Brooks and Vy Le to confront a question that will determine which DeFi projects can operate i...
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February 13, 2026 • 52 mins
Namik Muduroglu and Amir Almaimani walk through MegaETH's launch strategy and why they are delaying the TGE.
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Months after its oversubscribed initial coin offering, MegaETH's mainnet is live. But the project is not launching its token just yet.
In this Unchained podcast episode, MegaETH strategy chief Namik Muduroglu and Head of Ecosystem Amir Almaimani break down th...
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February 12, 2026 • 76 mins
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Are bitcoiners underestimating the quantum threat to Bitcoin? That's the question Castle Island Ventures Partner Nic Carter has posed with some recent posts gauging the views of several leading Bitcoin developers on quantum computing.
To help answer the question, Unchained reached out to Ethereum Foundation Researcher Justin Drake and Michigan University Professor Chris ...
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February 11, 2026 • 47 mins
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What happened to Bitcoin on Feb. 5? And why does the apex crypto continue to underperform?
DeFi Development Corp investment chief Parker White has some theories. In this Unchained podcast episode, Parker walks Laura Shin through them as they gain traction on X.
At the center of it all is non-crypto Hong Kong fund and another fund that may be executing a ‘Big Short’-styl...
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February 11, 2026 • 66 mins
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Bitcoin slid toward $60,000 on Feb. 5 in a brutal, cross-asset selloff that hit gold, equities, and crypto alike. With leverage unwin...
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February 10, 2026 • 41 mins
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LayerZero Labs is making bold promises with its coming Zero Blockchain. 2 million transactions per second per node. A thousandth of a penny per transaction. No compromises to decentralization. The big question is how?!
In this Unchained podcast episode, LayerZero Labs CEO Bryan Pellegrino explains how the team was able to crack scalability by fixing blockchain storage and rethin...
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