Kaupr Weekly

Binance just suffered the biggest hack in crypto history — $6.3 billion gone in under an hour. Not through stolen keys, but a hijacked signing system, a weakness far more mundane than blockchain cryptography. This episode traces how it happened, puts t...

Is crypto finally merging with the rest of finance? For years the story was two separate worlds — onchain and everything else. This episode argues that line is gone. Bitcoin is now a line item for wealthy investors and a listed treasury asset. Stock ex...

Is finance finally going onchain? The question could have been asked more or less every year for the last five or six years. This time the answer starts in an unexpected place: the European Central Bank, which has published official articles under the ...

Blockchain has been called a solution searching for a problem, and for a long time that has been fair. The technology came first, and the search for something to point it at came afterwards. Stockholm in early September offered a different order. At a ...

Over five weeks this summer, three million people opened an account with Kalshi, an American exchange where you can trade on the outcome of almost anything. By the end of the World Cup, prediction markets accounted for more than a quarter of all legal ...

Last year, close to fifteen Nordic companies announced a bitcoin treasury strategy. Mining companies, rig companies, gaming companies. Everyone wanted to be first. Then bitcoin fell from its October peak, and the premium the whole model depended on dis...

In this episode of Kaupr Weekly, host Morten Myrstad looks at what happens when buyers start purchasing computing power they have no intention of using. Oil, electricity and freight all made the same journey. None of them stopped being a cost — every c...

In this episode of Kaupr Weekly, host Morten Myrstad looks at a convergence that got measurable this summer. In one week, Hyperliquid — a platform built for crypto — turned over more in stocks, oil and silver than in crypto. In the same season, the New...

In this episode of Kaupr Weekly, host Morten Myrstad starts in a room in Oslo in September 2023, on stage at an event called Unleash the Future of Internet. The premise was convergence — AI, Web3 and AR/VR coming together. Three years on, he's honest a...

In this episode of Kaupr Weekly, host Morten Myrstad takes stock of the final stretch before Europe's biggest crypto regulatory deadline. On 1 July, MiCA's transition period ends — and across the Nordics and Baltics, the picture is split. Firi and K33 ...

In this episode of Kaupr Weekly, host Morten Myrstad dives into a week when stablecoins moved firmly onto the Nordic agenda. Sweden got its first private digital krona. A 37-bank European consortium for a regulated euro stablecoin became a reality — wi...

Welcome to the frontlines of the digital finance revolution. In this episode of Kaupr Weekly, host Morten Myrstad dives into a seismic shift that is redefining the very nature of economic activity: the convergence of AI and crypto, and the rise of the ...

The Clarity Act: Current status and compromise details on U.S. stablecoin legislation. CryptoQuant Analysis: Profit-taking data and market indicators on Bitcoin's recent run. Venture Capital & Tech: Aly Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz) and Dan Morehead (Pan...

Kaupr Weekly — Episode 1: The payments stack is being rebuilt This week, the future of payments arrived — not from crypto companies, but from Western Union, Meta, Visa, Stripe and David Marcus. Money is being rebuilt from the ground up, and stablecoins...