Eight years into covering crypto and still captivated every day!
From "Blockchain, not Bitcoin" to a vast spectrum of idealists and speculators, it's been an evolving journey, says Laura Shin.
Watch this part of Laura’s conversation with
@zackseward
for the 500 episodes of…
An Unchained Resource Thread, feat.
@solana
Recent highlights:
* SOL is up ~250% this month, breaking $100 for the first time yesterday
* Total-Value-Locked in Solana DeFi just cracked $3B
* Solana has NFTs too!
1/ OG show feat.
@SBF_FTX
+
@aeyakovenko
🤖 Imagine an Airbnb for GPUs powered by blockchain, suggests
@alpackaP
, who dives into how crypto can solve AI's biggest hurdles, offering a future where innovation is accessible to all through decentralized marketplaces.
🎧 Listen now:
Can you listen to this story about
@AlexisGauba
sending her 11-year-old sister some ETH without smiling?
What is your favorite crypto conversion moment?
📉 Ethereum Foundation researchers suggested a revision to the ETH issuance curve, proposing a significant shift in
@Ethereum
's monetary policy. (Bitcoiners, don't laugh).
💥 However, the community has mounted a significant pushback.
🗞 Read more:
Tarun Chitra (
@tarunchitra
) thinks
@Solana
’s been struggling to stay live because of first principles – developers made choices on Ethereum for a reason, and many Solana devs are just now learning those lessons.
Do you agree?
Full episode:
Special guest
@balajis
will be joining The Chopping Block this week!!
*New* day/time: see u Wednesday 9:30pm EST!🌙
You know the drill, let us know what Qs you have for him!!👇👇
save this for the livestream⬇️
Just finished writing show notes for next Tuesday's
@Unchained_pod
featuring a conversation between
@cobie
and
@cburniske
on ~surviving~ the bear market.
For crypto investors old and new, it's 90 minutes of pure gold. I cannot wait for you to hear it.
sneak preview:
Horizontal scalability, convergence of crypto ecosystems, and recognition from political figures are
@httpsageyd
's three top takeaways from ETHDenver 2024.
The allocation will support the process of creating on-chain digital representations of real world assets using Avalanche’s consensus mechanism, the Foundation said.
A fiery debate- don’t miss tomorrow’s episode with Aaron Kaplan, co-CEO & cofounder of Prometheum, and Rodrigo Seira, special counsel at Paradigm.
Subscribe now to get the ep as soon as it drops:
🔮 DeFi’s oracle problem…
Pyth sees room for improvement and is enlisting a bunch of trading firms to fix it.
@mdomcahill
explains why low latency matters.
🔊 Full episode:
All
@a16z
tokens on
@Coinbase
have underperformed ETH since listing, says
@Faktastic11
. In 2020, Coinbase listed 13 tokens which averaged a 200% return, while 18 tokens it considered but ultimately did not list averaged an 1800% return. What is going on?
Might have gone a bit too far down the NFT rabbit hole this weekend.
Totally missed
@CaitlinLong_
+
@AvantiBT
confirmation of its application to become a Federal Reserve Member Bank.
Press Release:
@WSJ
Coverage:
🚨 OpenSea Volume 🚨
January-July = $740M
August = $793M
@opensea
has done more volume in the past 15 days than the first SEVEN months of the year combined 🤯
Source:
@TheBlock__
Today,
@SyndicateDAO
is launching Web3 Investment Clubs, a product that transforms an ETH wallet into an investing DAO. On
@Unchained_pod
, cofounders
@WillPapper
and
@ianDAOs
explain how they work + why they think DAOs could disrupt the VC industry.
Link:
📈 Spot
#Bitcoin
ETFs on the brink of approval!
@JSeyff
and
@EricBalchunas
join
@unchained_pod
to dive into:
⚖️ Fee battles – And, what’s up with Grayscale’s 😮 1.5% fee?
🏦 The role of authorized participants
🤫 BlackRock's $2 billion liquidity rumor
🎙 Announcing the Audius Podcast RSS feed uploader
You have been asking for a better way to upload podcasts, and a community member has built a solution!
Check it out 👇
🌪.
@BlackRock
’s new institutional crypto fund received 0.97 unsolicited ETH via Tornado Cash within hours of launching, potentially creating legal problems for the world’s largest asset manager.
✍️ by
@httpsageyd
🗒 via
@ArkhamIntel
🗞 Read more:
.
@Chainlink
, the largest Oracle provider connecting blockchains to real-world data, rolled out the newest version of its staking program Tuesday afternoon and drew more than $140 million in deposits in the first six hours.
@httpsageyd
Congressman
@BradSherman
has criticized (and attempted to ban) crypto.
@AarikaRhodes
, a school teacher from California, is running to unseat him and is pro-Bitcoin.
Check out Aarika's appearance on Unchained -->
Here’s what she has to say to Brad:
The Jarrett's (
@nohardforks
), a Tezos-baking couple, are fighting the IRS for staking rewards to be taxed as property rather than income. On Unchained,
@TheCryptoCPA
shares the full story.
Do you think this will change how staking income is taxed?
Remember when everyone was excited about
@opensea
hitting $1B in monthly volume?
The NFT marketplace just did that in a single week.
On pace to crack $3B in August.
During last weekend’s market downturn, many DeFi protocols on
@Solana
proved unusable, creating what
@hosseeb
Qureshi calls “Solana bread lines.” 🍞
He blames Solana’s lack of a fee market. Do you agree that’s the core issue?
Link:
Special guest
@balajis
will be joining The Chopping Block this week!!
*New* day/time: see u Wednesday 9:30pm EST!🌙
You know the drill, let us know what Qs you have for him!!👇👇
save this for the livestream⬇️
NFTs are on 🔥🔥🔥
If you are interested in the
#metaverse
, wondering why ppl are dropping $$$ on JPEGs, or just want to learn about non-fungible tokens,
@Unchained_pod
+
@laurashin
has you covered.
Here's ~the~
@unchained_pod
NFT resource thread
🧵
Unchained Daily Sneak Peek:
Here's an early Recommended Read from tomorrow's newsletter. It's a
@gladstein
piece about how Bitcoin could be used as a tool against monetary colonialism.
It's 👀 opening.
The Chopping Block streams in < 1 hour!
@jillrgunter
joins
@hosseeb
and
@tomhschmidt
to talk about the week's biggest crypto news.... 🔥🔥🔥
Potential topics: Tornado Cash, social slashing, the Merge, cbETH, Ava Labs...leave comments for requests!
📱 Solana’s Saga phone was a flop 🩴
It sold ~2,500 units, and even
@aeyakovenko
uses it as his “NFT phone.”
🔮 Here’s what Solana Labs is thinking about the future of the Solana Saga.
🎧Listen now:
🥭 OPINION: The vastly different—and mutually exclusive—conclusions that the SEC, CFTC, and DOJ have come to about MNGO have exacted a real cost on the growth of the U.S. crypto industry, write
@amandatums
and Jane Khodarkovsky.
Last month, we announced the $IMX rewards to recognize our early supporters who contributed to the protocol growth
Due to the ongoing regulatory uncertainty in the US, we had to adjust the rewards terms
Read the announcement
or continue the thread 👇🏼
Decentralized data storage network
@ArweaveEco
revealed the testnet for
@aoTheComputer
, a way for blockchains to take on large computational workloads, including running AI models within smart contracts.
@BrandyBetz
reports
On The Chopping Block,
@hosseeb
Qureshi and Robert
@rleshner
debate whether native assets should be traded at a premium to wrapped assets:
What do you think?
70ish pages into
@twobitidiot
+
@MessariCrypto
's 2022 Crypto Theses and found an
@Unchained_pod
reference that feels pretty relevant today, on a day where Coinbase launched a lending product everywhere besides the US.
@collins_belton
any extra thoughts on this?
Why is
@collins_belton
frustrated with the SEC? Because he feels the SEC is being “disingenuous” in their portrayal of cryptocurrency companies. He specifically cites a “catch-22,” where the SEC asks companies to register but won’t offer approval.
Link:
The Texas GOP wants this in the state’s Bill of Rights:
"The right of the people to own, hold and use a mutually agreed upon medium of exchange, including cash, coin, bullion, digital currency or scrip...."
🤠read more 👇
Ethereum just burned 10X the normal amount of $ETH in the last hour thanks to the
@AdamBombSquad
NFT mint, which saw 25,000 NFTs sold in about 40 minutes.
An extra long livestream of The Chopping Block starts in < 30 minutes! 🔥
@laurashin
will join
@hosseeb
@tomhschmidt
and
@tarunchitra
to talk about all the FTX news and weirdness ❗️
👇👇
*see you in the chat 🤗
Tomorrow we'll be doing an extra long *LIVE* Chopping Block discussing the FTX fiasco @ 12:30PT, 3:30PM ET.
@tarunchitra
,
@rleshner
,
@tomhschmidt
and I discuss:
* FTX Friday night hack 🧨
* The horrific leaked balance sheet 📝😬
* Bahamian poly adderall commune👍
And more...
This week,
@yugalabs
announced it would be doing metaverse real estate sales. But when it comes to virtual real estate in general,
@punk6529
isn’t very bullish. Here’s why:
What do you think?