The Chopping Block: 2025 Winners & Losers + 2026 Predictions - Ep. 998

Don't curse. Cool. Alright. I would never. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the chopping block. Boom. Not a dividend. It's a tale of two fun. Now your losses are on someone else's balance sheet. Generally speaking, airdrops are kind of pointless anyways. I manage trading firms who are very involved. Alec.eat is the ultimate possible. DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Shopping blog. Every couple weeks, the four of us get together and give the industry insiders perspective on the crypto topics of the day. Quick intros. First, we got Tom, the DeFi maven and master of memes. Hello, everyone. Actually, we got Robert, the crypto connoisseur and czar of Super State. Happy New Year. Actually, got Tarun, the giga brain, and the grand poobah at gauntlet. Yo. Happy New Year. And I'm Asib, the head hype man at Dragonfly. We're early stage investors in crypto, but I want to caveat that nothing we say here is investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice. Please see chopping blocks at x y z for more disclosures. So boys, it is a new year. It is now 2026. I know Robert loves to celebrate with profanity, so I thought we'd put put a little bit of, you know, like curveball in there. I am anti profanity. Are you anti profanity, actually? Yes. Listen. I have young kids. I try to have a profanity free lifestyle and house, so no profanities. I did not know that. Is that do you, like, knockers on the show? Like, do No. I I do not curse on the show. You do knockers on the show? We can play back the tape. We'll see if I'm somewhat wait. Wait. Now someone's gonna I don't think I'm watching the show, Robert. Someone's gonna get the highlight reel of every time I've, like Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Are you are you trying to put money on this? You wanna put money on this? I won't put money on this, but I tried it. Especially New Year's resolution. On the show. All of us. Okay. The young young ushers, we're gonna get a mix tape. Turned into a New Year's resolution. We're gonna get we're gonna get a mix tape of all the time that Robert is cursed on the show. We've had a special episode. Just Robert cursing set to music. I love that. Anyway okay. So we're it's been another year, which means another year of winners and losers and notables for 2025. So for those of us who remember, a lot of ups and downs, we started in the year with the election, the AI boom, you know, Ethereum going through its ups and downs, meme coins. It's been a crazy year, but we are going to, as the chopping block team, look back on a year of episodes of ups and downs and tell you who were the biggest winners, losers, surprise, best new mechanism, best meme, best or …