Bankless Transcripts

Ethereum Foundation's New Mandate Has The Community Divided | Bankless Takes

Robinhood CEO: "Gen Z Is the Most Retirement-Savvy Generation Ever" | Vlad Tenev

ROLLUP: Chaotic Era | Oil, Jobs, Credit | Nasdaq x Kraken | BlackRock Staked ETH | Roman Storm Retrial

Where is ETH in the cycle? | Michael Nadeau

Making America the Crypto Capital of the World | New CFTC Chairman Michael Selig

ROLLUP: Wartime Markets | Kraken Gets Fedwire | Trump vs Banks | AI vs Pentagon | NYT Says Crypto Is Dead

AI Finds 70% of Smart Contract Exploits | Alpin Yukseloglu

Building a Million Dollar Zero Human Company with OpenClaw | Nat Eliason

Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

ROLLUP: Extreme Fear | Tariff Whiplash | Citrini AI Crash | Jane Street vs Terra | Pentagon vs Anthropic

Zero Crypto at Home: Bankless in the Age of Wrench Attacks and Phishing | Jameson Lopp and Beau

Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

ROLLUP: Prediction Market War | Base Leaves Optimism | Tomasz Exits EF | Clarity Act Lives | Harvard Buys ETH

Lyn Alden: How to Survive The Gradual Print Era — Fed Chair Warsh, Gold & Bitcoin

ROLLUP: Crypto Pain Market | Coinbase Super Bowl Rug Pull | IBIT Liquidation Cascade | Prediction Markets Explode | BlackRock x Uniswap

What’s the Story? AI Stocks, Crypto Downturn, Metals Selloff, SaaSpocalypse | Jim Bianco

Robinhood Chain Takes on NYSE/Nasdaq | Robinhood Crypto GM Johann Kerbrat

MegaETH Mainnet is Live! — The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

Vitalik Signals the End of the Rollup-Centric Roadmap: What's Next?

ROLLUP: Crypto in Free Fall | Vitalik’s L2 Pivot | Warsh Fed Pick | Clarity Act Showdown

AI on Ethereum: ERC-8004, x402, OpenClaw and the Botconomy | Austin Griffith & Davide Crapis

Where Do We Go From Here? | Michael Nadeau

Capitalism’s Endgame: The Last Companies That Will Ever Exist

ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

Iran Unchained: How the Islamic Republic Holds Power and Why Protests Keep Returning | Sana Ebrahimi & Ameen Soleimani

Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

ROLLUP: Trump Eyes Greenland | Davos Goes Crypto | NYSE Goes Onchain | Quantum Spooks Bitcoin | Farcaster + Lens Acquired

The Duopolies of 2026: Ethereum & Solana, Coinbase & Robinhood, Polymarket & Kalshi | Ryan, David & Arnav Pagidyala

ROLLUP: Clarity Bill Stalls | Powell vs. Trump | NYC Meme Rug | Silver Explodes | X Adds Crypto

Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Is Canton a Real Blockchain? | Canton Founder Yuval Rooz

ROLLUP: Prediction Market Bill | Solana DEX ATH | ETH Stablecoins ATH | Zcash Implodes | Vitalik “Trilemma Solved”

ROLLUP: Silver Parabolic | Aave Civil War | Uniswap Unifies | New CFTC Chair | Bitcoin vs. Quantum

27 Crypto Predictions for 2026 | Mike Ippolito

Investing Trends for 2026: DeFi, Tokenization, Capital Formation, Speculation & AI | Ben Lakoff & Arnav from Bankless Ventures

Where is Crypto Going in 2026? | Ben Cowen

Is the Crypto-Native Era Coming to an End? - Lessons from 10 Years in Crypto with Joey Krug, Founders Fund Partner

The DeFi Report Podcast | Was the Fed Rate Cut a False Signal for Crypto?

Is Privacy A Winnable Battle? | Andy Yen, Founder of Proton

ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

The Return of the ICO | Ryan & David

Inside Gary Gensler’s SEC: A Conversation with Former Crypto Policy Advisor Corey Frayer

ROLLUP: Buy Signal? | Fusaka Launch | Polymarket Mainstream | Trump’s Fed Chair | SEC Crypto Shift

Why Prices Are Crashing & What's Next—How Mike Nadeau Called the Cycle

The Holy Grail of Crypto Privacy: Encrypted Ethereum, FHE & Living Forever | Rand Hindi, Zama Co-Founder

Do We Need Another L1? - Inside Monad’s Parallel EVM with Co-Founder Keone Hon

The Real Crypto Cycle: What Happens When Global Liquidity Peaks | Michael Howell

Defensive Investing for an AI Bubble | Ruchir Sharma's Hedge Rules