The blocmates Podcast

Bulletin Highlights Trump pardons CZ Robinhood continues listing spree, adds HYPE Stable deposit cap shenanigans Aave acquisition & aggressive buy-backs in the works

Topics: Polymarket & Kalshi eye deca-billion valuations A16Z "State of Crypto 2025" is released Kinetiq (LST provider on Hyperliquid) announces token & airdrop Jeff "finance as a whole" goes viral Bunni shuts up shop after recent $8 million hack

Trump tariff talk spooks the market Coinbase's $375 million Echo deal Kadena blockchain's sunsetting plans Bitcoin whales and shorting   Jupiter and its Kalshi-powered prediction market launch 

It's our first time live-streaming the blocmates podcast and we're two weeks behind, so Nev's come along to catch up on what we've missed.  Obviously we're stoked about Echo and Up Only, but there are headlines to talk about! And talk about them we shall!

Coinbase buys Cobie's Up Only NFT for $25 million Is AI going to out-trade us? NOF1.ai competition heats up Will Bitcoin catch up with gold? New multchain memecoin launchpad to go live today Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade is nearing

Topics: - Ethereum Foundation gets Danksharded - Top Crypto execs to discuss market structure bill - Bitcoin shows signs of recovery, weekly back in the range - Who is selling Bitcoin? Onchain analysis

Gold continues parabolic rise, Schiff's euphoric Robinhood and its listings Ripple and its upcoming $1B DAT  Regional bank trouble: Is the printer coming?

Launchcoin to Believe migration  Paxos' $300 trillion onchain error  Binance's South Korean exchange acquisition Trump's announcement of an announcement   Ripple's African moves 

QT is nearing its end with rate cuts ahead Binance issues more refunds MetaMask ties up with Polymarket Coinbase invests in India's biggest exchange

Tariff talks continue Strategy's BTC accumulation spree resumes HIP-3 market debuts with Based's XYZ US 100 ETFs record large outflows Monad airdrop checker goes live

Trump and tariffs  Crypto crash and the 'oracle' drama Hyperliquid founder's response to 'underreporting' allegations HIP-3 upgrade breakdown 

Binance's meme rush saga Roger Ver is off the hook Hyperliquid attracts whales Will dollar strength ruin the party?

Yu Hu, Founder of Kaito speaks with Alex about 2025 and the past 12 months of rapid growth for the business.  Kaito is arguably one of the most talked-about names in the crypto industry. Since last year, it has been on a journey, from being the hottest product on the market to often being vilified and misunderstood. Yu discusses what it's been like adapting and building Kaito as a platform, w...

CZ's YZi Labs rolls out $1 billion BNB fund Solana staking ETFs are on the way  Polymarket token soon? MetaMask rolls out perps trading; prediction markets integration to follow

Alex is out, the boys are in — and chaos inevitably follows. This week on the Blocmates Podcast, Gaz, Grant and Mike rip up the script and dive straight into: - Whether the bull market is actually back (for the fifth time this year) - Why everyone feels broke even when Bitcoin’s flying - Barron Trump’s rumoured $150M crypto bag (and what it says about privacy coins) - PolyMarket’s $2B deal with th...

$TRUMP DAT in the making  ICE's $2 billion investment in Polymarket BNY Mellon and its tokenization plans  Meteora and Monad TGE developments 

Bitcoin's new ATH Binance season rings in Staking ETFs and their Wall Street debut

Bitcoin claims new ATH  Is Saylor still stacking?  Aster airdrop details and data shenanigans Japan follows the US lead to run it hot MetaMask rewards program x LINEA token incentives 

Trump to handout a Q4 stimulus? CME to launch 24/7 crypto futures trading  Perp DEX trading volume hits $1 trillion in September BNB hits new ATH 

Plasma founder offers clarity amid Twitter criticism Pump.fun introduces mobile onramp improvements blocmates Solana validator goes live Stablecoin news from Sui (suiUSDe) and Solana (USYC)

Tether and Metaplanet stack BTC Barron Trump earns $80 million from crypto investments Robinhood to take prediction markets worldwide US government shuts down, Bitcoin network stays up

Back from Korea and feeling grumpy.  YEET will give you $2k to play, sign up: https://yeet.com/register?aff=blocmates500 We're talking about the Hyperliquid Hypurr NFTs and what it means for the ecosystem. That's as well as what we think of Andre's new project Flying Tulip and its $200m raise, and what it means for Sonic and DeFi. And we finish on a low note, with the kids who put p...

Flying Tulip raises $200 million 61k Bitcoin scammer gets convicted in London ETFs scoop the dip 'Professor Crypto' wins content creator of the year award second time in a row

Hypurr NFT airdrop and points tease CZ and Aster relationship dynamics Plasma and its climb up the rankings ladder  XRP ETFs rollout timeline Eric Trump's bull posting 

Plasma goes live; Aster perps glitches  Hyperliquid spot market for XPL is an instant success DATs in trouble with SEC for insider trading $170 billion wiped from crypto markets