Inflection Point

The next phase of crypto won't be decided by technology alone, it will be won by whoever controls distribution and user experience. This week, the team explores how competition is shifting across crypto infrastructure, from Bitcoin and Solana to perpetual futures, tokenized assets, and Ethereum's evolving leadership. We discuss Strategy's changing Bitcoin playbook, Solana's surge in onchain activi...

Markets are being rebuilt around blockchain, but the rules governing them are still being written. This week, we sit down with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to discuss how tokenization is reshaping market structure and where regulation is headed next. We cover tokenized securities, the innovation exemption, Rule 611, DeFi market structure, and the future of public markets. Enjoy! TIMESTAMPS: 00:0...

Strategy built a Bitcoin credit machine and now the market is testing whether it really works. This week, we examine the growing pressure on Strategy as STRC trades below par, investors questioning the company’s evolving role, and how the market reassesses the assumptions behind its Bitcoin-backed capital structure. We also discuss what it would take for STRC to recover, Bitmine copying Strategy,...

The biggest opportunities in crypto may be emerging just as prices eye a bottom and investors are questioning old assumptions about markets, regulation, and where value will accrue next. This week, we explore whether recent market strength signals a meaningful shift for crypto or simply another chapter in an increasingly complex macro environment. We also discuss record M&A activity, SEC market st...

In this special episode, Blockworks announces its acquisition of Messari and unpacks what it means for crypto’s next phase. Michael and Jason explore why Messari’s breadth of data, APIs, and research complement Blockworks’ deep on-chain analytics, investor relations, and disclosure products. They also address crypto’s trust problem, the need for standardized data and disclosures, and how Blockwork...

A quiet shift is underway that could fundamentally change how capital markets operate. This episode, Gabriel Otte, co-founder and CEO of Dinari, explains why tokenization is more than a new wrapper for securities and how it could transform financial infrastructure. The discussion explores tokenized stocks, regulatory frameworks, global market access, ownership rights, and why programmable assets m...

The institutions are coming, but not where most crypto investors expect. As Wall Street adopts blockchain technology, the biggest opportunities may be shifting from Bitcoin itself to the infrastructure, applications, and market structures reshaping finance. This week, we discuss the arrival of perpetual futures in the U.S., the stablecoin battle with traditional banks, and why crypto is increasing...

As capital floods into AI, crypto is being forced to answer a tougher question: what actually deserves to survive when narratives stop driving markets? This week, we explore why crypto has fallen out of favor while AI dominates investor attention, and whether regulatory uncertainty is keeping capital on the sidelines. We also discuss Hyperliquid’s rise, the growing privacy narrative around Zcash,...

This week, we discuss Bitcoin's price action, break down Hyperliquid's growth into a derivatives super app, the SEC withdrawal of its innovation exemption and the CLARITY Act's path through the Senate. Enjoy! --- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Intro (01:27) Outlook on Bitcoin (08:41) Hyperliquid’s Revenue Engines (16:40) HYPE ETFs Steal the Show (26:04) ICE & OKX Challenge Hype (36:33) SEC Pauses Innovation...

Washington, Wall Street, and Big Tech are all converging on stablecoins at the exact same moment, but the next phase may depend less on ideology and more on politics, payments, and institutional flexibility. This week, we discuss the Clarity Act, stablecoin adoption accelerating through Big Tech, and why Strategy considering Bitcoin sales to help power STRC. We also explore stablecoin yield battle...

Crypto markets may finally be entering crypto’s next phase, but the biggest breakthroughs could depend less on price action and more on regulation, infrastructure, and who controls the rails. This week, the team breaks down Bitcoin’s macro-driven rally, accelerating ETF demand, and why optimism around the Clarity Act is suddenly rising. They also explore tokenized equities, transfer agents becomin...

Bitcoin is pressing against a critical threshold, but the real story lies beneath the surface where institutional forces, market structure, and crypto-native coordination are reshaping the next phase. This week, we unpack Bitcoin’s push toward $80K, the surge in ETF inflows, and how institutional demand is aligning in a way that could shift market momentum. We also explore DeFi’s response to crisi...

DeFi faces a defining stress test as a wave of exploits exposes hidden fragilities and forces a rethink of how decentralized systems actually operate. This week, we unpack the KelpDAO exploit, exploring what went wrong and what it reveals about infrastructure, risk, and market structure. We discuss single points of failure, contagion across lending markets, AI-driven exploits, evolving risk pricin...

Crypto is quietly rebuilding the financial system from the ground up, but what happens when traditional structures like yield, regulation and creative financial engineering get reassembled onchain? This week, we explore new financial primitives, focusing on Strategy’s STRC product and the evolving DeFi regulation shaping institutional adoption. We discuss synthetic yield products, Bitcoin treasury...

Vaults promise to rebuild asset management from scratch and do it faster, cheaper, and fully programmable, but the path from niche DeFi product to institutional backbone is far from straightforward. We sit down this week to unpack how vaults are evolving from crypto-native yield tools into a serious contender for institutional capital. We explore programmable funds, institutional adoption, risk an...

A quiet but accelerating threat is forcing crypto to confront its biggest vulnerability yet: what happens if quantum computing breaks the foundations of digital security sooner than expected? Marc and David explore this very threat, bringing an institutional lens to the growing urgency around quantum risk, Bitcoin’s governance constraints, and how different ecosystems may respond to a potential “Q...

Crypto may be nearing a critical inflection point, but one foundational problem still lacks consensus: how do you actually value a blockchain network? We sit down live from the Digital Asset Summit in New York to unpack crypto valuations through institutional and market structure lenses. We explore cash flow vs. scarcity, network effects, revenue limitations, market share dynamics, and why a share...

In this special episode, we introduce Blockworks’ new investor relations platform for onchain businesses. As institutional capital continues to enter crypto markets, expectations around transparency, standardization, and professionalism are rising. But instead of replicating legacy systems, Blockworks IR takes a different approach, leveraging real-time, onchain data to create a more transparent, d...

Crypto’s long-standing regulatory fog is beginning to lift, raising a deeper question about what the industry actually becomes once clarity arrives. The team discusses a major sea change in regulation and institutional adoption, unpacking how new SEC and CFTC guidance is reshaping the institutional crypto landscape. We explore token classification, Hyperliquid’s S&P license, stablecoin adoption in...

In this episode, we explore a major turning point in crypto’s relationship with the traditional financial system and why a single banking approval could reshape the future of the industry. Marc is joined by David, Michael, and Matt to unpack Kraken securing a “skinny” Fed master account and what it signals about crypto’s growing integration with the U.S. banking system. We also discuss crypto mark...

In this first episode of Inflection Point, we explore the accelerating convergence between traditional finance and crypto as institutional adoption begins reshaping the foundations of global financial infrastructure. The conversation examines ETFs, DeFi innovation, market structure shifts, institutional flows, and how evolving investor behavior is changing Bitcoin and digital asset markets. Along...

In this episode, novelist Tibor Fischer joins Supply Shock to discuss why Bitcoin finally found its way into fiction, using satire and storytelling to explore crypto culture, Austrian economics, and the human motivations behind speculation, belief, and escape. Fischer reflects on Bitcoin’s ideological roots, the difference between Bitcoin and broader crypto, and why markets, not narratives, ultima...

In this episode, Don Bei joins the show to discuss how Bitcoin is moving from the fringes into institutional portfolios, from pensions and endowments to corporate treasuries, while also spreading at the grassroots level through workers and local politics. We dig into market dynamics, adoption hurdles, and what comes next. Enjoy! — Follow Don: https://x.com/Beiwhatch Follow Rizzo: https://x.com/pet...

In this episode, Director of Digital Asset Research at Franklin Templeton Christopher Jensen discusses why quantum computing is a real threat to Bitcoin, why the topic is resurfacing now, how institutions are pricing and managing that risk, and what potential upgrade paths could look like. Enjoy! — Follow Franklin Templeton: https://x.com/FTI_Global Follow Rizzo: https://x.com/pete_rizzo_. Follow...

In this episode, we dig into one of Bitcoin’s strangest early stories; the time a group of OG Bitcoiners pooled BTC to buy a real racehorse. We explore early crypto finance experiments, on-chain sleuthing, unanswered questions about the investment, and what this forgotten episode reveals about Bitcoin’s earliest believers. Enjoy! — Follow Satshoshi Daemon: https://x.com/SatoshiDaemon Follow Rizzo:...