The blocmates Podcast

A 24 hours that just about sums up the crypto industry. More validation of blockchain adoption than ever before, straight into the biggest hack of all time (maybe?).  Another quick, last minute pod from Alex and Grant to go over what we know so far, which we don't doubt will be almost immediately outdated. What a week. 

Grant and Alex jump on for an breaking news chat to cover the announcement that trade[XYZ] is joining forces with ICE, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, to bring perpetual futures on Hyperliquid to U.S. regulated markets. Huge news for the program. This week's usual pod will be available from tomorrow.

Chimpfone and KP join Alex and Grant to talk about the NFL and the British overlap, Zuckerberg and Guinness, Pearl as a scam, Papertrade, and other things that honestly I can't even categorize in this.  Enjoy and rate us five stars. 

563, Head of Research at blocmates joins Alex and Eli (in Korea) to check in on the past week and what's moving. We get into Solana's latest trading competition at KBW and brand marketing spend, how to position for this cycle, ZEC, the privacy trade, how the market's shaping up and the curious story of Sam Altman's Grindr expeditions.  What a variety we bring to the table. 

One of our favourite ct contributors joins Grant and Alex. We get into the Kalshi situation and if it's all a bit overblown, as well as how crypto has changed with onboarding, memecoins, fomo and more. 

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The lads are back.  They discuss World launching a Solana-based prediction market inside Phantom powered by Chainlink and debate improving Solana sentiment, perps progress, and whether meme coins (including Ansem’s “Black Bull” and his reported airdrops) can run again.  They then cover the OpenUSD/Open Standard stablecoin consortium led by Bridge after Stripe’s acquisition, why it could pressure C...

Grant, Alex and Lazer are joined by Adam from sports.fun for the usual overnight chaos, Saylor selling Bitcoin and HYPE printing new highs.  Then we fire up the World Cup Predictor on sport.fun, run through the fixtures and lock in who we reckon is actually winning the whole thing.  We're running a watchalong activation across the tournament, so stick around to find out how you can jump in an...

Grant, Alex and Eli are back to catch up on being weirdly disconnected from crypto, regretting sidelining HYPE, and reminiscing about missing obvious “alpha” like VVV.  Then it’s straight into Ethereum’s slow-motion identity crisis: DeFi roots, EF incentives, and why the market’s rewarding pragmatism over ideology.  After a quick detour into stand-up, dating and how cursed “I work in crypto and ha...

Grant’s back with Alex and Eli to talk about DeFi United and how Stani, Aave and the wider industry have banded together to save the day. But people are still just never happy, are they? Anyway, apparently the Bitcoin conference is garbage this year, RWAs is the dumbest name of all time and we’re going to Miami next week.  Spotify and links to follow all below. Please like and subscribe but most i...

563 joins Lazer and Alex this week to join the discussion around this week's news of the Kelp hack and the LayerZero fall out.  We're talking about the impact on DeFi as a whole and how we recover from the contagion. That's as well as getting into Cobie's latest appearance on threadguy's stream and what we took from that, TLDR: net positive for a multitude of reasons. Oh a...

This week we're covering the attempted Molotov (and gunfire) attacks on Sam Altman's home, why Ben Pasternak might be cooked as the class action against him heats up (and why Evelyn Ha reportedly walking away is somehow the bigger story online), and the insane Colossus piece on Jeff and why this could be bullish HYPE. Alex and Lazer also get into why sentiment has flipped overnight with...

Lazer has joined the blocmates podcast as our new and semi-permanent guest. We’re discussing the recent Citrini article on the Strait of Hormuz, why EthCC was kind of good but also bad.  How to get a job in crypto, where the real people are, how to play these market conditions and why the key to unlocking privacy tech might be hidden in the consumption of adult entertainment.