The Market Runup

What happens to Wall Street when stocks can trade around the clock? Matthew Snider, author of Warren Buffett in a Web3 World, joins Erin Gambrel on The Market Runup to discuss tokenized stocks, blockchain-based financial markets, and the future of investing. As the SEC explores a regulatory framework for tokenized equities, Matthew explains how 24/7 trading, shareholder rights, and blockchain tech...

Are ETFs becoming smarter investment tools or are investors taking on risks they don't fully understand? Mike Schiemer of Dividend Vision, former marketing director at VistaShares, joins Erin Gambrel on The Market Runup to explore the evolution of ETF investing, AI stock concentration, and the growing demand for alternative investment strategies. From AI infrastructure and robotics to dividend...

Brian Esposito joins Erin Gambrel on The Market Runup to discuss DiamondLake's approach to real-world asset tokenization, commercial real estate, and creating new forms of investor access. Brian explains why he believes the underlying asset must come before liquidity or speculation, and how revenue sharing models could change the relationship between investors and physical assets. They also ex...

Evan Gold  joins The Market Runup to discuss how the ETF market is evolving, why artificial intelligence may still be early in its buildout, and how investors are navigating higher interest rates, technology valuations, and new investment opportunities. ETFs were once associated primarily with simple index investing. Today, the market includes thematic strategies, leveraged single-stock exposure,...

The ETF industry has exploded into thousands of products,  but Jeff Weniger believes parts of the business are still operating with a decades-old playbook. Jeff Weniger, Chief Investment Strategist at Corgi Invest, joins Erin Gambrel on The Market Runup to explain why he made the move to Corgi, how the company plans to compete in an increasingly crowded ETF market, and why cost could be one of its...

Private tech employees can be worth millions on paper  while having limited access to that wealth in practice. Terence McMenamin joins Erin Gambrel on The Market Runup to explain the liquidity problem facing employees, founders and investors whose wealth is tied up in private-company equity, and how Tech Dollar is building credit infrastructure around late-stage frontier technology assets. They ex...

Stablecoins are quickly moving beyond crypto trading  and into the center of banking, global payments and financial infrastructure. Brian Consolvo joins Erin Gambrel on The Market Runup to explain how stablecoins could reshape the way money moves around the world, why financial institutions are taking digital assets more seriously, and what growing stablecoin adoption could mean for banks and the...

Bitcoin has just experienced one of its strongest weeks in recent history, raising the question: Is this the beginning of a sustained rally or a more complex market shift?  In this episode of The Market Runup, John D'Agostino joins Erin Gambrel to analyze Bitcoin’s recent surge, discussing his perspective on why the traditional four-year cycle may be losing relevance and how institutional invo...

Benjamin Cowen joins Erin Gambrel on The Market Runup to break down where Bitcoin, crypto, and the broader market cycle could be heading next. Ben explains why he still views markets as being in a late-cycle environment, why Bitcoin may not have completed its reset, and why historical midterm-year patterns point to Q4 as an important window to watch. He also breaks down the relationship between Fe...

Erin Gambrel sits down with Anthony Anzalone, infamously known in the space as "Burnt Banksy," the CEO and Founder of Verona (formerly Xion), to discuss why the tech world is quietly pivoting away from traditional crypto infrastructure and betting everything on AI.  Anthony breaks down the dangerous reality of the current AI boom: the internet is drowning in unverified, fake data, and th...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Jay File, CEO of Lite Strategy, exactly one year after the company closed its deal to make Litecoin its primary treasury asset — and he makes a compelling case for why that bet is just getting started.  Jay breaks down what he calls DAT 3.0, the idea that just buying and holding crypto is table stakes now, and the real opportunity is in actively...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) catches up with her longtime friend Gav Blaxberg, Founder & CEO of Wolf Financial, for a conversation that's part market strategy, part behind-the-scenes look at what it actually took to build one of the most recognizable investing communities on social media from scratch.  Gav makes a compelling case that the dumb money vs. smart money debate is dead. Wha...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) catches up with Benjamin Celermajer who's been leading Synthetix’ day-to-day since late 2024, to talk about why perps are one of the most underrated financial innovations crypto has ever produced. Instead of chasing the L2 trend, Ben believes building them on Ethereum mainnet will pay off long term. He makes a case that decentralization alone was never going t...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) catches up with Nick O'Neill — crypto media veteran, software developer, and one of the more honest voices in the space. Their conversation goes way further than market talk as Nick pulls no punches on meme coins, breaks down why they're not just zero sum but technically negative sum, and argues why the Ansem bump, as fun as it was to watch, isn't...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with DeFi Dave, co-founder of CAP, to get into why credit has always been the engine of the economy and why onchain credit might finally be the story that pulls institutions and retail alike back into DeFi.  Dave breaks down how CAP works — a three-sided marketplace of depositors, borrowers, and underwriters where smart contracts replace the trust yo...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Abram Wimmer of HODL Bonds who thinks the space's biggest enemy has never been AI, regulation, or even bear markets — it's the emotional whiplash of its own users.  Abram breaks down why HODLing sounds simple but keeps failing in practice, and walks through HODL Bonds, the structured product he's building that lets people hold Bitcoi...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Kyle Reidhead, Co-Owner of Milk Road & Co-Founder of Impact3 to talk about all the ways crypto is suffering right now.  Kyle's been saying "buy Compute, sell Bitcoin" for months, and he breaks down exactly why. Corporations are treating Compute the way everyone thought they'd treat Bitcoin, as a productive store of value, a...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Brian J. Esposito, founder of Diamond Lake, to talk about why he's spent 13 years building toward a world most people are only now starting to pay attention to. Brian has a lot to say about what's broken in the current financial system and he argues tokenization isn't just a trend, it's the only real fix.  He walks through the Diamond Lake model...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Chris Soriano, co-founder and CCO of Bridgeport, to dig into the market structure shift that's been quietly reshaping how institutions actually move capital in crypto. Chris breaks down why pre-funding requirements have locked up billions in dead capital across exchanges, and why off-exchange settlement is the fix that serious players have b...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Fahmi Syed, President of the Midnight Foundation, to break down why privacy has to be core infrastructure before crypto sees real institutional adoption. Fahmi spent over 20 years in traditional finance, including 17 years at a hedge fund that scaled from $1B to $45B AUM, and he draws a straight line from that world to why on-chain transparency...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Amar Odedra, Head of Investments at Algorand Foundation, to discuss how tighter liquidity is exposing which crypto business models were only sustainable in speculative environments. Amar explains the shift from Web3 read-write-own culture toward digital assets and tokenization, with stablecoins leading adoption over the past 3-4 years. Higher in...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Xiao-Xiao J. Zhu, President of Jupiter Exchange, to discuss how Jupiter is expanding from Solana's leading DEX aggregator into a comprehensive on-chain finance super app. Xiao-Xiao explains the difference between creating value and capturing value, revealing how institutions enter crypto through different pathways: investing in DeFi tokens l...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Aryan Sheikhalian, Head of Research at CMT Digital, to discuss the current macro regime, Bitcoin's complete correlation flip, and why institutional capital is shifting from narratives to infrastructure revenue. Aryan explains we're in a hybrid regime where the Fed holds rates around 3.5-3.75% while the balance sheet starts turning. Year-...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with John Nahas, Chief Business Officer at Ava Labs, to discuss why crypto is at the end of the beginning, how the industry is maturing from speculation to real business infrastructure, and where Avalanche fits in the institutional adoption wave. John explains why crypto is no longer the shiny object as AI takes center stage, and how the industry is...

Host Erin Gambrel (The Blonde Broker) sits down with Giang Bui, VP of Issuer Growth at Securitize, to break down one of the biggest shifts in markets right now: the move from speculation to infrastructure. As institutions like the New York Stock Exchange begin building tokenized securities platforms, Giang explains why tokenization is no longer experimental — it’s becoming core financial infrastru...