Best Global Coin Research Podcasts (2025)

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Mysten Labs: How Sui Leverages Move to Build the Composable Web3nternet - Adeniyi Abiodun 1:03:09

5d ago1:03:09

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Founded by former Meta Diem team members, Sui is a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain designed for horizontal scaling and low-latency transactions. It uses an object-centric data model and the Move programming language to enable transaction parallelization which can handle >200,000 txs/s. Sui’s goal is to combine the benefits of blockchains with …

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Maple Finance: On-Chain Institutional Yield & Lending Markets - Sidney Powell 54:49

10d ago54:49

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With an extensive experience in traditional money markets, Maple Finance was envisioned as an institutional capital marketplace which combines the transparency & capital efficiency of blockchains with the regulatory framework of TradFi. Unlike many DeFi protocols that require over-collateralized loans (e.g. Aave), Maple also specializes in under-co…

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Crypto is merging with mainstream finance. Regulators aren’t ready 55:30

18d ago55:30

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Timothy Massad is currently a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School and a consultant on financial regulatory and fintech issues. Massad served as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission fro…

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Tally: The Software Layer for Tokenized Organizations - Dennison Bertram 1:01:21

18d ago1:01:21

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Tally is a software platform designed to support tokenized organizations, particularly Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and crypto communities. It provides tools for launching tokens, governing protocols, and enabling staking to foster community participation and growth. Tally facilitates onchain governance, allowing transparent and de…

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ENS V2 Cross-Chain Domains & Namechain - Nick Johnson 48:42

26d ago48:42

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Namechain is an L2 developed by ENS Labs, to enhance the scalability and efficiency of managing decentralized identities on Ethereum. It is designed to work in tandem with ENS V2, which introduced a hierarchical registry system for more efficient subdomain management and custom resolvers. A key vision for Namechain is to unify multi-chain user iden…

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Professor Joe Nye coined the term “soft power.” He says America’s is in decline under Trump 31:17

26d ago31:17

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Joseph S. Nye Jr. is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, and former Dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He has served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and as deputy undersecretary of state for security assistance, science a…

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America’s geopolitical realignments, authoritarianism, and Trump’s endgame 39:17

1M ago39:17

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Ambassador Wendy Sherman, the 21st U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and the first woman in that position, has been a diplomat, businesswoman, professor, political strategist, author, and social worker. She served under three presidents and five secretaries of state, becoming known as a diplomat for hard conversations in hard places. As Deputy Secreta…

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Lido V3: Ushering in Institutional Staking Through stVaults - Hasu 1:19:32

1M ago1:19:32

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Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake created a unique set of conditions (i.e. lack of protocol-level delegation, 32 ETH requirement, long exit queues, etc.) that led to Lido’s liquid staking model to gain huge traction, significantly eclipsing other LSD providers on native PoS chains. stETH added on-demand liquidity, bypassing…

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Ronin: How Axie Infinity Kickstarted the Blockchain Gaming Revolution - Jeff Zirlin 54:34

1M ago54:34

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While DeFi’s ultimate goal is to provide an alternative for TradFi, blockchain gaming caters to retail masses, onboarding millions of users to crypto through incentives and fun gameplay. The greatest success story in Web3 gaming thus far has been, without a doubt, Axie Infinity. Apart from creating an engaged community whose early adopters also exp…

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If the U.S. courts can’t defend the rule of law, who can? 46:57

2M ago46:57

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With a Republican Congress apparently unwilling to check Trump’s power, many Americans fear a looming constitutional crisis and are looking to the federal courts to ride to the rescue. But political scientist and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Maya Sen, who studies the federal judiciary, says the cavalry probably isn’t coming. The Trump administr…

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Solana: From On-Chain Nasdaq to the Pump Fun Craze - Anatoly Yakovenko 1:18:28

2M ago1:18:28

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Solana needs no introduction. Ever since its inception, it pushed throughput scaling on a single chain, without the need of sharding or rollups. Despite its ups and downs that culminated at the bottom of the bear market after the FTX crash, it managed to not only survive, but build a vibrant community around crypto's (arguably) most prominent PMF (…

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AI can make governing better instead of worse. Yes, you heard that right. 41:36

2M ago41:36

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Danielle Allen and Mark Fagan say that when tested, thoughtfully deployed, and regulated AI actually can help governments serve citizens better. Sure, there is no shortage of horror stories these days about the intersection of AI and government—from a municipal chatbot that told restaurant owners it was OK to serve food that had been gnawed by rode…

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Bitcoin, Institutions, and Market Structure: A Deep Dive with David Lawant 49:52

2M ago49:52

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In this episode of Because of Bitcoin, Mauricio Di Bartolomeo sits down with David Lawant, Head of Research at FalconX, to break down how institutions are engaging with Bitcoin, the role of prime brokerages, and what market structure looks like for large-scale buyers. David shares his journey from growing up in Brazil during a period of hyperinflat…

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Build on Bitcoin: Combining Bitcoin's Security With Ethereum's Versatility - Alexei Zamyatin 1:10:10

2M ago1:10:10

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Bitcoin’s security and reliability as a store of value are undeniable. However, its liquidity remained untapped for too long due to a lack of trustless bridges and native smart contract capabilities. As BTC is only native to Bitcoin’s L1, any attempt to include it in DeFi relies on the trust assumptions of third party custodians that wrap it. Build…

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Ricardo Hausmann on the rise of industrial policy, green growth, and Trump’s tariffs 58:39

2M ago58:39

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For market purists, any mention of the term industrial policy used to evoke visions of heavy-handed Soviet-style central planning, or the stifling state-centric protectionism employed by Latin American countries in the late 20th century. But that conversation turned dramatically over the last several years, as President Joe Biden’s signature legisl…

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Puja Ohlhaver: Why Community Currencies Are Crucial for Governance in DeSoc 1:04:42

2M ago1:04:42

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In the digital networked age, people’s attention often overlooks local problems in favour of global ones, which don’t necessarily impact them in their daily lives, or over which they don’t have a say due to the skewed Pareto distribution of power in modern day societies. Puja Ohlhaver, in her recent research paper ‘Community currencies’, proposes a…

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Market Cycles, Peak Sentiment, and Bitcoin's Role in Global Finance with Ram Ahluwalia 42:17

2M ago42:17

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In this episode of Because of Bitcoin, Mauricio Di Bartolomeo welcomes Ram Ahluwalia, Founder and CEO of Lumida Wealth, to discuss the psychology of markets, investment cycles, and Bitcoin's place in the broader financial system. Ram brings his deep expertise in asset management, banking, and alternative investments to unpack how investors can navi…

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Nevermined: Payment System for the AI Agentic Economy - Don Gossen 1:04:38

2M ago1:04:38

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Even though current LLM providers usually charge flat rates regardless if the subscriber is a ‘power user’ or not, as AI agents become the workhorses of the online economy, a dynamic AI-to-AI payments infrastructure would prove crucial for proper remuneration. Nevermined proposes a blockchain-agnostic, AI-agnostic credit system, that each builder c…

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Turtle Club: Helping Web3 Users Monetize Their On-Chain Activity - Esfandiar Lagevardi 1:09:25

3M ago1:09:25

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As more and more protocols compete for marketshare, user acquisition represents one of the most important elements of the GTM strategy. Web3 projects, through their governance tokens, can incentivise users directly to participate in meaningful activities for each protocol, subsidising their revenue generation through vested upside in the project. T…

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Oligarchy in the open: What happens now as the U.S. confronts its plutocracy problem? 46:42

3M ago46:42

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Ten years ago, political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern took an extraordinary data set compiled by Gilens and a small army of researchers and set out to determine whether America could still credibly call itself a democracy. They used case studies 1,800 policy proposals over 30 years, tracking how they made …

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Story Protocol: Tokenizing Intelligence Into Programmable IP Assets - Jason Zhao 58:54

3M ago58:54

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As online content becomes predominantly AI-driven, intellectual property (IP) rights should not be neglected as (human) creators will heavily rely on them. While the main use cases for blockchains revolve around financial applications, one could argue that our everyday lives constantly intersect IPs in different forms. Although the legal framework …

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What the EU must do to compete—and become the leader the world needs 35:31

3M ago35:31

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Alexander De Croo became Belgium’s prime minister in October of 2020. It’s a relatively small country, with about 12 million inhabitants—slightly less than the city of Los Angeles—but it’s very much the face of Europe with the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, and NATO all calling Brussels home. Prime Minister De Croo, who saw…

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Balancer: Custom AMMs and Liquidity Solutions - Fernando Martinelli 1:04:35

3M ago1:04:35

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While AMMs (automated market makers) represent a DeFi innovation in themselves, research and experimentation have pushed the possibilities well beyond the limitations of the classic x*y=k constant product formula originally used by LPs. One of the main innovators in this field remains Balancer - from multi-token pools with different weights replica…

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The policy changes needed now to avoid a climate-driven global food crisis 39:23

3M ago39:23

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The warning lights are blinking for the world’s food supply. At least that’s what 150 Nobel Prize and World Food Prize laureates said in a recently-published open letter calling for a “moonshot” urgency effort to start the immediate ramping up of food production to meet the global demands of 9.7 billion people by 2050. Harvard Kennedy School econom…

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Kiln: Democratising Value Creation in Digital Assets - Laszlo Szabo 59:58

3M ago59:58

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Kiln operates as a staking-as-a-service platform, primarily focused on Ethereum, enabling users to stake assets programmatically, managing validators, rewards, and commissions through an API-first approach. In addition, it offers white-label solutions that allow institutional clients to integrate staking functionalities into their own offerings, wi…

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Building Bridges: Bitcoin, Traditional Finance, and Crypto Wealth Management with Bryan Courchesne 47:53

3M ago47:53

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In this episode of Because of Bitcoin, Mauricio Di Bartolomeo sits down with Bryan Courchesne, Founder and CEO of DAIM, the first registered investment advisor (RIA) focused on digital assets. Bryan shares his inspiring journey from the construction industry to Wall Street, and ultimately to pioneering crypto wealth management. They discuss the cha…

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Babylon: Self-Custodial Bitcoin Native Staking & Bitcoin-Secured Networks - David Tse 49:43

4M ago49:43

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Throughout the years, there were many attempts of tapping into Bitcoin’s liquidity and security, but almost all of them came with different caveats. Most notably, wrapped BTC (wBTC) depended on the wrapper contract security. However, the recent surge in research and development for native solutions has led to breakthroughs previously thought imposs…

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RedStone: The Oracle Pioneering the Future of DeFi - Marcin Kaźmierczak 1:04:40

4M ago1:04:40

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The DeFi landscape has significantly evolved since 2018 when Chainlink was launched. Recent developments such as L2 rollups, liquid staking, restaking and the rise of BTC DeFi have created huge demand for more customizable, modular oracles that would be able to provide accurate data for countless use cases, crosschain. RedStone set out to do exactl…

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From insight to impact: Dean Jeremy Weinstein wants the Kennedy School to embrace and solve complex public problems 56:29

4M ago56:29

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Jeremy Weinstein became the newest dean in the 88-year history of the Harvard Kennedy School this past June, arriving from Stanford University, where he was an award-winning scholar and the founding faculty director of the Stanford Impact Labs. The pursuit of deep scholarly curiosity and roll-up-your-sleeves impact has been a theme in his life and …

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Redefining Bitcoin Security: Collaborative Custody and the Future of Self-Sovereignty with Nick Neuman 50:36

4M ago50:36

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In this episode of Because of Bitcoin, Mauricio Di Bartolomeo welcomes Nick Neuman, the Co-founder and CEO of Casa, to discuss the evolution of Bitcoin self-custody, the benefits of collaborative custody, and how Casa simplifies Bitcoin security for individuals and businesses. Nick shares his journey from growing up in Kansas City to becoming a lea…

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Privado ID & Quark ID: On-Chain ZK-Powered Unified ID - Diego Fernandez & Evin McMullen 1:06:49

4M ago1:06:49

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Traditional KYC and AML regulations have often forced companies to comply, without having the right tools to do so. Simply storing users’ personal information led to the creation of security honeypots which haven’t gone unnoticed by hackers. Web3 solutions like Privado ID aim to cryptographically prove certain traits from a user’s personal data, wi…

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Abundance: The First 1 Gigagas/second Stack for Sovereign Rollups - Hilmar Orth 1:09:00

4M ago1:09:00

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One of the most limited blockchain resources is blockspace. From Bitcoin’s Blocksize Wars to Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, a common denominator seems to have emerged in the form of rollups. Advancements in zero knowledge proofs have enabled trustless bridges, which are a cornerstone to onboarding liquidity to any blockchain. Furthermore, Celestia’s m…

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Monad: The EVM-Compatible 10,000 TPS L1 Blockchain - Keone Hon 1:10:54

5M ago1:10:54

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The status quo for developers choosing an ecosystem for their blockchain usually revolves around trade-offs: do they go for Ethereum’s network effect, liquidity and decentralisation, or sacrifice some features in favour of a higher throughput. Monad aims to combine the best of both worlds, while not being limited by excessive hardware requirements.…

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Using Data to Manage Risk with Henry Stott 36:18

5M ago36:18

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In this episode of Because of Bitcoin, Mauricio Di Bartolomeo dives into the world of data-driven decision-making and risk analysis with Henry Stott. Henry’s career includes helping Tottenham Spurs with data-driven player selection, pioneering risk analysis models, and flagging FTX as a high-risk exchange months before its collapse. Learn how data …

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Succinct: Every Rollup Will Be a ZK Rollup! - Uma Roy 49:28

5M ago49:28

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Polynomials are quintessential in machine learning for establishing relationships between outputs and inputs. However, there is also a field in cryptography which could not be made possible without polynomials - zero-knowledge technology. In zero-knowledge proof systems, computations are often represented as arithmetic circuits, and these circuits …

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The Banana Zone with Raoul Pal 45:37

5M ago45:37

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In this episode of Because of Bitcoin, Mauricio Di Bartolomeo sits down with expert macroeconomic investor Raoul Pal to discuss his illustrious career, Bitcoin’s role in global finance, and why liquidity cycles dictate market behavior. From Raoul's early career at Goldman Sachs to his groundbreaking work in educating the masses about macroeconomics…

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Bitcoin OS: Bitcoin Block 853626 Changed Everything For BTC Smart Contracts - Edan Yago 1:10:20

5M ago1:10:20

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Bitcoin’s Taproot update paved the way for a new & exciting era for Bitcoin, as it expanded its use case far beyond that of an immutable ledger. However, Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens and, more recently, Runes, have limited functionality compared to what DeFi is capable of, on other smart contract blockchains. BitcoinOS envisions a revolutionary Bitcoin …

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Symbiotic: Scaling Shared Security Through Restaking - Misha Putiatin 1:05:36

5M ago1:05:36

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Bootstrapping and maintaining a validator set can be a challenging endeavour, especially for projects that are in search of a product market fit. However, this does not mean one should abandon the ethos of decentralisation in favour of a more streamlined centralised approach. The notion of shared security had been previously explored in the Cosmos …

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Legalized gambling is exploding globally. What policies can limit its harms? 42:36

5M ago42:36

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Turbocharged by the internet and mobile technology, legalized gambling has exploded across the globe, leaving behind ruined lives, broken families and financial hardships, and should now be classified as a major public health concern. A four-year study by a public health commission on gambling convened by The Lancet, the respected British journal o…

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