Landmark Regulation, ICOs, Downtober & Privacy: 2025 Crypto Year in Review (Part 2) - Ep. 991

I think it was Kobe who said something right. Like, the road from, like, a 100 225 will be the easy road, then a 125 to, like, two fifty or that that will be the hard road, and then 1 twenty five to two fifty will be the easy road. So, I got I got liquidated on gold, and that was, like, the only position I had open. It's hilarious. Like, I had, of course, naively had zero idea that I could get liquidated on three x on gold. Yeah. But, honestly, it's really not ideal that Bitcoin can go down like that in thirty minutes. Thread Guy was hit by a big tax bill and was, like, stressing about it on the timeline. And literally the next day, all of a sudden, we'd, like, see maybe it wasn't the next day, but, like, within, you know, forty eight hours, we see this huge surge in zcash. Like, am I wrong in thinking that there was a connection there, or or, like, was was there or wasn't there? Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin. Thanks for joining this live stream, but just FYI that this is prerecorded. Before we get started, a quick reminder, nothing you hear on Unchained is investment advice. The show is for informational and entertainment purposes only. My guest and I may hold assets discussed on the show. For more disclosures, visit unchainedcrypto.com. Are you a builder who needs to add on chain trading to your product? The Uniswap trading API from Uniswap Labs offers plug and play access to some of the deepest liquidity in crypto. It's on chain execution at an enterprise level. More liquidity, less complexity. Visit hub.uniswap.org to learn more. Mantle is launching the global hackathon twenty twenty five to accelerate the future of real world assets. With a $150,000 prize pool backing from a $4,000,000,000 treasury and direct access to Bybit's 7,000,000 plus users, this is the ultimate ecosystem for builders. Today's topic is twenty twenty five year in review part two. Here to finish the discussion are Gort, host of the Gort Show, and Doug Colkitt, cofounder of Fogo and Ambient Finance. Welcome, Doug and Gort. Hey. Thanks for having us back. Thank you for yeah. Round two. Happy to be here. Yeah. I'm excited to finish off the second half of the year because there was so much that happened. We're gonna start with the Genius Act, which was the first stablecoin sorry. The first the first crypto law that we have seen in The US, and, there were, you know, a few, like, interesting surprises in there. I think probably the main one, that, you know, has continued to cause controversy and is also, I think, a sticking point in the negotiations of the crypto mark crypto market structure bill is that there's a prohibition on stablecoin issuers directly handing the interest off to users. Anyway, …