The Starting Block
The Starting Block is The Block's new flagship daily live show — the breaking news, the context behind it, and the people shaping where crypto goes next. Each episode is a 45-minute live broadcast hosted by award-winning journalist and broadcaster Gareth Jenkinson and powered by The Block's newsroom and research desk.
Episodes
The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Polygon CEO Marc Boiron.
Polygon CEO Marc Boiron joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the launch of the Open Money Stack on Solana, Polygon's strategic pivot to payments infrastructure, and why he sees Polygon competing with payments players rather than other blockchains.
Boiron opened by explaining what the Open Money Stack is: a...
Episode 48 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Andrew McCormick, The Head of Institutional and Market Development at Chainlink Labs.
Andrew McCormick, Chainlink Labs's Head of Institutional and Market Development, joined Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to announce and explain Chainlink's expanded collaboration with S&P Global Ratings. The duo also discussed bringing vau...
Episode 47 of The Starting Block was hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, and joined live with SkyBridge Founder Anthony Scaramucci.
SkyBridge Founder Anthony Scaramucci joined Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss what he calls the "inevitable" rise of prediction markets, the potential effects of the midterms on the crypto market, his and views on Michael Saylor's Strategy, and ended with some heartfelt advice for fo...
Episode 46 of The Starting Block, hosted by Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with StarkWare Founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson.
StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson joined Gareth Jenkinson on episode 46 of The Starting Block, to discuss Starknet's recent community vote to research becoming a post-quantum secure Layer one blockchain, the potential threat quantum computing poses to current blue-chip crypto tokens, and how AI is reshaping bo...
Episode 45 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Coinbase Head of Policy for Europe Katie Harries.
Coinbase Head of Policy for Europe Katie Harries joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the stalling of the US Clarity Act, the Stand With Crypto movement's growth in the UK and EU, and the campaign to unlock stablecoin rewards under MiCA.
The Block Briefing opened with...
Episode 44 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Walt CCO Alex Kruglov.
Walt (formerly Wallet in Telegram) CCO Alex Kruglov joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the company's rebrand, the platform's expansion into trading, tokenized assets and agentic trading, and how Telegram's billion-user network gives Walt a distribution edge over their rivals.
Kruglov opened b...
Episode 43 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Moca Network CEO Kenneth Shek and the Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, Jesse Knutson.
Moca Network CEO Kenneth Shek joined Gareth Jenkinson on episode 43 of The Starting Block, to announce Moca Network's mainnet going live. Shek discussed the various use cases for Moca Network, seeing it as digital identity blockchain that a...
Episode 42 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Bitget CEO Gracy Chen.
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the $388 million hack of Bitget's hot and warm wallets, how attackers exploited a third-party zero-day vulnerability to bypass risk controls, and how the exchange is using its protection fund to cover all user losses.
The attack began a...
Episode 41 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with DoubleZero Co-Founder Austin Federa.
Key topics
• DoubleZero launches real-time full order book data feed for Hyperliquid
• Multicast technology allows uncapped, rate-limit-free data delivery to traders
• AI agents can now subscribe to DoubleZero feeds to build automated trading strategies
• Trading venue consolidation com...
Episode 40 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom.
Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss how AI agents will rewire traditional finance, the case for Ethereum as the settlement layer of the future economy, and SharpLink's conviction on ETH as a treasury asset.
Chalom laid out his thesis that four elements are col...
Episode 39 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Coinmarketcap Head of Research Alice Liu.
CoinMarketCap Head of Research Alice Liu joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the Bitcoin short squeeze that drove BTC to $87,000, whether we're in an altcoin season or not, and her macro outlook for Bitcoin through the end of 2026.
Liu attributed Bitcoin's spike to $...
Episode 38 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with The Block's Publisher, Adam James, and Bitwise's Head of Research Europe, André Dragosch.
About the guest
Adam James is the Publisher at The Block, the leading global information services brand covering cryptocurrency and blockchain, where he previously served as editor-in-chief and managing editor for Europe, the Middle East a...
Episode 37 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Injective Labs Head of Public Policy John Medel.
Injective Labs Head of Public Policy John Medel joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the Clarity Act's Senate impasse, how the SEC and CFTC are stepping up with aggressive rulemaking in Congress's absence, and why Injective remains bullish on building in the United St...
Episode 36 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Crypto Banter Founder & CEO Ran Neuner.
Crypto Banter Founder & CEO Ran Neuner joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss his bull market thesis using Bollinger Bandwidth and the 50-week EMA, why altcoins are poised to outperform Bitcoin 6-7x this cycle driven by RWA tokenization, AI agent settlement on blockchain...
Episode 35 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Mysten Labs Co-Founder Kostas Chalkias.
Mysten Labs Co-Founder Kostas Chalkias joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss AI as a growing threat to cryptographic security, the case for continuous automated auditing of blockchain code, and how Walrus Memory enables decentralized AI data portability across LLMs.
OUTLINE
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Episode 34 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Aptos Co-Founder & CEO Avery Ching.
Aptos Co-Founder & CEO Avery Ching joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the intersection of AI and blockchain technology, Aptos's Decibel DEX and how it compares to Hyperliquid, the Open USD stablecoin consortium, and overall quantum readiness in the crypto industry.
OUTLIN...
Episode 33 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Flying Tulip Founder Andre Cronje.
Flying Tulip Founder Andre Cronje joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the origins of his DeFi career in crypto code reviews, the capital efficiency innovations behind Flying Tulip and its total return swap differentiator, and how AI coding tools have transformed his development pr...
Sam Callahan, OranjeBTC's Director of Bitcoin Strategy & Research, joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block where the duo discussed the launch of Digi11 – Brazil's first Bitcoin preferred equity ETF Digi11. They also touched on Strategy's STRC capital structure and Bitcoin accumulation goals, and the investor appetite for Bitcoin-backed income products in Brazil.
OUTLINE
00:06 - Show Open & Recap
01:31 - Bloc...
GSR's Chief Legal and Strategy Officer Joshua Riezman joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the Clarity Act being pushed to September, the political hurdles blocking its passage, and what crypto market volatility and TradFi convergence signal for the industry's future.
OUTLINE
00:06 - Welcome & Show Intro
01:47 - Block Briefing: Top Headlines
04:00 - Hive Digital's AI Pivot
04:47 - Strategy's Bitcoi...
DoubleZero Co-Founder Austin Federa joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the DoubleZero recently announced integration with Kalshi and how multicast fiber networks are supercharging prediction market data feeds.
OUTLINE
00:06 - Show Open & Headlines
01:33 - Tether's KPMG Audit
02:52 - Gemini Q2 Earnings
03:53 - Bullish Exchange Results
04:41 - Kalshi Regulatory Battles
06:05 - Crypto Phishin...
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