CoinDesk Podcast Network

Leo Zhang, Co-founder of Alkimiya Protocol, talks about their trading solution for Bitcoin blockspace, offering wallets, miners & traders a way to manage fees. The platform could enable on-chain transactions even with high fees, creating a new commodity for miners. Topics include hash rate speculation, block space management, transaction fee volatility, building on Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Season Two products.

Bitcoin ETF investors bought the dip as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw significant inflows after a price plunge. France's hung parliament could impact crypto regulation. Germany's Bitcoin holdings also discussed.

Switchboard co-founder Chris Hermida joins to discuss the recent crypto market crash, the popularity of meme coins, and how stablecoins are attracting new users to the crypto space. The conversation also touches on portfolio allocations, sentiment towards altcoins, the rise of DeFi and GameFi, and the potential impact of an Ethereum Exchange-Traded Fund in the US.

NEAR Protocol's co-founder, Illia Polosukhin, discusses the shift to user-owned AI and NEAR's transition from an AI project to a blockchain platform. Key topics include the importance of user-owned AI, data availability in blockchain, chain abstraction for seamless interaction with networks, and NEAR Protocol's focus on practical applications driving blockchain and AI adoption.

US adds 206,000 jobs in June; Mt. Gox starting repayments in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash; U.S. crypto stocks drop with Bitcoin's crash

Nick Tomaino, Founder of 1confirmation and investor in Polymarket, discusses how prediction markets like Polymarket gained traction predicting Biden's potential dropout. He explores challenges faced by Polymarket, the truth they bring amidst media narratives, conflicts in resolving markets, and the role of oracles in market outcomes. The podcast also covers crypto updates, meme coin surges, regulatory settlements, and legal actions in the industry.

This podcast covers Cleanspark's acquisition of Griid, Northern Data and Genesis Digital Assets eyeing public markets, and a local story on ASIC theft. They discuss the decline in hash rate, acquisition trends, industry consolidation through M&A, and Genesis's power capacity and industry growth.

Host Jennifer Sanasie discusses Kraken potentially using nuclear energy for data centers, Nigeria's trial against Binance executives, and the rising odds of Biden dropping out of the presidential race on Polymarket.

Bitwise Asset Management Senior Investment Strategist Juan Leon discusses the position of bitcoin, ether, and Coinbase shares in a portfolio. Topics include market trends in relation to the U.S. Presidential election, potential approval challenges for a new crypto asset ETF, and synergies between the crypto and AI industries for economic growth.

Crypto analysts Jose Macedo and Ari Paul discuss why crypto assets can have different prices in public and private markets, the impact of upcoming token unlocks, the manipulation of circulating supply, and the challenges in determining a coin's true value. They also talk about the shift from ICOs to private investments, the anomaly in perpetual trading funding rates, proposed solutions for determining crypto token value, and the risks and rewards of long-term investments in the crypto industry.