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The weekly podcast from the blocmates camp with Alex, Grant and Gazz, covering all the news that we've found the most worthwhile to talk about from the past week in crypto.
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In 3-5 years, "literally billions" of AI agents will use crypto and stablecoins - Circle's Jeremy Allaire MLMabc breaks down Hyperliquid team unlocks being OTC'd to a DATGame changer for private DeFi: Railgun is rolling out Railgun Connect MetaDAO futarchy vote: MM or no MM?
Trump’s Greenland deal Is Solana Mobile's Seeker going to the moon? AI coins to add to your radar Ondo Finance's onchain equity push Ark Invest's BTC target for 2030
Key industry stats roundupSaylor adds over $2 billion in BTCBitmine is aggressively pursuing its "Alchemy of 5%" goal, nearly 74% thereNetherlands to start taxing unrealized capital gains W for ZCash - Winkelvoss twins gift Shielded Labs over $1.2 millionSeeker airdrop goes live
NYSE to create platform for 24/7 tokenized equity tradingCoinbase and Circle to power Bermuda's transition to an onchain economyPumpdotfun unveils $3 million "Build in Public" initiative blocmates' 2026 thesis goes live on the site
Macro pressure mounts as Trump hits NATO allies with Greenland tariffsAnalyzing Bags app's volume spike Trove ICO smells like a scam, MLM on the sceneZachXBT receives 10,000 HYPE tokens from the Hyperliquid Team
Nikita nukes info-fiClaude AI meta kicks up a gearSport.fun debuts its $FUN token What's up with Pump.fun?Clarity act latest updates
TR joins this week for a general chat about the state of things online and where the world’s going. The Delphi research man has a view that you may as well edge towards optimism when it comes to the rapid developments of tech in our society, because why have it any other way? We talk about the algorithm changes, if crypto still has a future and where we’ll end up with tokens.
Meta lays off 1500 staff from metaverse divisionCoinbase withdraws support from crypto market structure bill SEC brings an end to ZCash investigationAre Hyperliquid competitors running out of catalysts?
US inflation data updates Trump's roadmap for the Fed CoinGecko's sale plans21Shares' latest Gold, Bitcoin ETP launch
Former New York Mayor, Eric Adams, allegedly orchestrates $3.5 million rug pullProgress made on Clarity Act, committee set to meet on ThursdaySaylor buys $1.25 billion worth BTCPump.fun moves ICO raise funds, where did they go?Looking for market neutral yield? Check out our latest article on Neutrl
Trump threatens Powell and Fed independence X to roll out "smart cashtags"Tether freezes funds as privacy meta moonsPump.fun to make changes to creator fees
What's up with Zcash?Vitalik's cypherpunk arcAll updates w.r.t. Optimism and buybacks
Wyoming launches its own stablecoin Polymarket goes exclusive with Dow Jones and WSJDiscord files for IPOSolana Seeker seals TGE date
Auld Lang Syne, a song by Rod Stewart. Happy New Year, everyone. It's nice to be back. We thought it'd be tumbleweed for the first week of January but that's not been the case. Kain and Infinex have found themselves in hot water again but is it just nonsense? Prediction markets and insider trading is seemingly big on the menu in every industry across the world, but do they even care? And memes have come out of the gates strong in 2026, who knew. So we'll offer up some thoughts on that one as ...
MSCI confirms Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) will remain in its global index. Is this bullish for MSTR? Crypto.com partners with Stripe allowing merchants to receive crypto paymentsLighter begins begins buybacks from protocol fees. We dive into the numbers
Did the US become the second largest BTC holder? Ledger falls victim to yet another major security breachPolymarket and Parcl bring real estate prediction markets to the public
DEX wars - Hyperliquid vs. LighterAave's alignment proposal Upcoming MetaDAO ICOs to keep tabs onJupiter, Helium buyback updates
Macro updates from US & JapanPump.fun dev's 6-year sentenceFinal voting begins for Uniswap's UNIfication proposal Jump Trading gets sued by Terra administrators
Trump's announces his first official stimmy - 'Warrior Dividend'Coinbase unveils Super AppRobinhood lists $PIPPIN, despite insiders controlling 80% of the supply ETHGas raises $12 million to create an Ethereum gas futures marketblocmates MetaDAO article & podcast plugged
Alex, Grant, 563 and Nev jump on for our last blocmates pod of the year to talk about the good and bad from 2025. We realise there’s a load we’ve missed but without doing this for three hours, we don’t have much of a choice. Expect us to get into our personal choices for the best bits including HIP-3, Rekt drinks sending, the privacy meta and everything coming onchain. Things look good for 2026, zoom out of the market and let it ride.



