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For today's episode, Blockchain.com's Head of Research, Garrick Hileman, reads his article titled "Crypto-Wall Street Convergence". It was first published in July of last year and makes the case that the long heralded arrival to crypto of traditional financial institutions (like banks) was underway. Read the article here: https://medium.com/blockchain/crypto-wall-street-convergence-881a6c3d2dee

On today's episode of The Blockchain.com Podcast, our Head of Research, Garrick Hileman, is joined by Yuriy Anosov . Yuriy is the Head of Trading at Anchorage, one of the leading crypto custodial firms focused on institutions. They discuss a range of topics, including the current state of crypto market infrastructure what barriers to further institutional adoption of crypto still exist today and w...

Crypto taxes are gaining attention, and not just because assets like bitcoin and ethereum continue to make new all-time highs. Policymakers around the world have been debating the issue of crypto taxes and with relatively new types of crypto activity it can all be a bit confusing.  Today's episode, Garrick Hileman - Blockchain.com Head of Research and visiting fellow at the London School of E...

On today's episode, Garrick Hileman - Head of Research at Blockchain.com and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics - discusses Peter Thiel's recent comment "I do wonder whether bitcoin should be thought of as a Chinese financial weapon against the U.S." Coindesk's 'Crypto Long & Short: Peter Thiel Defines Bitcoin's Accidental Role in Global Politics' Coindesk's 'Is Bitcoin a Chin...

In today's April Market Outlook, we were joined by Enjin's Chief Technology Officer, Witek Radomski , and Chief Operating Officer, Caleb Applegate.   Our Head of Research, Dr. Garrick Hileman and Co-Founder, Nicolas Cary sat down with them to discuss NFTs: what are NFTs, what new functionality do they offer and why have they attracted so much interest? They also dive into the background of th...

On today's episode, Garrick Hileman, Head of Research at Blockchain.com, reads his article 'The future doesn't look like Robinhood'. The article covers why disgust over GameStop’s trading shut down will accelerate DeFi adoption and how you can gain DeFi investment exposure. Read the article here: https://medium.com/blockchain/the-future-doesnt-look-like-robinhood-793e70b1dcd2

On this episode of the Blockchain.com Podcast, our Head of Research, Garrick Hileman, reads the opening to our March Market Outlook report titled, Trust | Want | Need. This report discusses the three important elements of crypto adoption and how the space has grown - or still needs to grown - in each particular dimension.   Read the article here: https://medium.com/blockchain/trust-want-need-...

During today's March Market Outlook, we were joined by Ambre Soubiran, CEO of crypto market data provider, Kaiko .  Our Head of Research, Garrick Hileman and VP of Marketing, Jason Karsh, discuss with her what the institutionalization of crypto adoption could mean for the duration and depth of future crypto winters, the current state of crypto data and the one data point that is particularly...

This month’s Market Outlook live event, we’re joined by Lewis Tuff, Blockchain.com’s VP of Engineering, to dig into why some exchanges go down during times of volatility and how the ecosystem could mature.

Today Blockchain.com Co-Founder Nicolas Cary and Head of Research Garrick Hileman are joined by Anthony Scaramucci - American financier and founder of Skybridge bitcoin fund. The three discuss Anthony’s odyssey into bitcoin, why he believes it to be a new store of value and why other institutional investors are adding bitcoin to their balance sheet.  Enjoy!

On this episode of The Blockchain.com Podcast, Blockchain.com's Head of Research, Garrick HIleman, reads his article titled, The Great Mother of All Financial Crises. This article outlines why we're moving closer to a US dollar crises that would threaten the dollar's dominant reserve currency status.  Read the article here: https://medium.com/blockchain/the-great-mother-of-all-financial-crise...

Head of Research, Garrick Hileman, recently wrote an oped article for CoinDesk entitled: Governments Will Start to Hodl Bitcoin in 2021. In today's episode, Garrick reads this timely piece diving into outsized government spending and money printing, the U.S-China economic and geopolitical tension, and post-pandemic acceleration. Read the article here: https://www.coindesk.com/government-hodl-bitco...

Blockchain.com's Co-Founder, Nicolas Cary and Head of Research, Garrick Hileman ring in the new year with a discussion on the crypto markets, featuring our Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Markets, Charlie McGarraugh.  It's no secret the markets have been on the run these past few weeks, but what does that mean looking ahead and is that sustainable? Are there signs of overheating and an upc...

Blockchain.com's Co-Founder, Nic Cary and Head of Research, Garrick Hileman sat down with Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at Coin Center, to discuss the crypto regulatory space, including recently proposed STABLE act, hosted vs unhosted wallets and the likelihood of bitcoin getting banned. 

On this episode of The Blockchain.com Podcast, Garrick Hileman, our Head of Research and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, reads one of his blog posts, The Coming US Digital Dollar - What it is and why it matters. This will dive into exactly what a digital dollar is and how it differs from the dollars we use in our every day life, where money comes from in the first place, winners...

Head of Research, Garrick Hileman, sat down with Reid Simon, Blockchain.com's Head of Lending, in our latest episode. They discussed different topics surrounding crypto lending such as high interest rates and how crypto companies are able to offer those, the risks and issues crypto lending participants should consider, how the crypto lending market may evolve and many others. 

Blockchain.com's Co-Founder, Nicolas Cary and Head of Research, Garrick Hileman sit down with Blockchain.com Venture's Managing Partner Sam Harrison to discuss investing in early-stage crypto projects.

Garrick Hileman -- Head of Research at Blockchain.com and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics -- dives into DeFi and the crypto lending market in our latest podcast. Listen as he reads his article: How Big is DeFi? A look at the Crypto Lending Market. Read the blog here: https://medium.com/blockchain/how-big-is-defi-a-look-at-the-crypto-lending-market-fe2271d477b7

Garrick Hileman -- Head of Research at Blockchain.com and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics -- is back with another blog reading recounting his article: The World's 'Hardest' Asset is Ironically Virtual. Read the blog here: https://medium.com/blockchain/the-worlds-hardest-asset-is-ironically-virtual-91187667e10e

Blockchain.com's Co-Founder, Nicolas Cary and Head of Research, Garrick Hileman sit down with Algorand's CEO, Steve Kokinos to discuss their ongoing innovation within the blockchain space.

In our latest podcast, Garrick Hileman — Head of Research at Blockchain.com and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics — provides a reading of his blog post entitled: Taxation Without Representation: the Financial Repression Stealth Tax. We want to make more of our content available in formats that work for you, so let us know what you think. Read the blog here: https://medium.com/block...

This episode we look at DeFi: what is it, why should people care, and what are the big drivers of activity and excitement for DeFi throughout the Ethereum community. We're joined by an expert on all things Ethereum, Anthony Sassano. In addition to being a speaker, a podcast host himself, and the author of The Daily Gwei newsletter, he also works with the team at SetProtocol, an automated asset man...