Empire
677 episodes — Page 1 of 14
Jeff Yan On Hyperliquid’s Plan To Bring All Finance Onchain
Compute Is A Trillion-Dollar Market Trading In Group Chats | Brett Harrison & Andrawes Bahou
Everyone Is Watching AI While Crypto’s Bull Market Builds | Weekly Roundup
Markets Sending, Just Buy Consensus, Meta's AI Moment & Who Wins Tokenization? | Weekly Roundup
CLARITY Failed, Many Stablecoins Debate, Circle Launches Arc & Meta's AI Edge | Weekly Roundup
The Six Tokens To Own This Cycle | Yan Liberman
Memecoins Are Stress-Testing The Future Of Tokenized Stocks | Weekly Roundup
Cloudflare CEO: The Man Deciding The Internet’s Next Business Model
Robinhood Is Proving Distribution Captures Crypto’s Value | Weekly Roundup
Beezie & Collector Crypt CEOs on Why Onchain Collectibles Are Exploding
Story vs Valuation, Hyperliquid TAM, Pump’s Problem & Ethena’s Token Reset
New SEC Crypto Proposal Could Finally Fix Tokens
Uniswap Is Building The Liquidity Network For Everything | Hayden Adams
Crypto’s Speculation Problem, Regulation Without CLARITY & The Gambling Economy
Morpho Is Coming For The $200 Trillion Credit Market | Paul Frambot
Venture Mandates, Cloudflare Wallets, Circle Earnings & Saddam Hussein Patek Philippe
AI Fatigue, Robinhood & Every Market Becoming Crypto | Weekly Roundup
Robinhood's Plan to Bring Global Finance Onchain | Johann Kerbrat
The Bill That Could Reshape Crypto In America with Greg Xethalis from Multicoin
Clarity Window Closing, Robinhood Eating Ethereum Value & Coinbase's Base Reset
Fomo Co-Founders on Building the Social Network for Finance
Crypto's Value Capture Problem & Why Robinhood Built Its Own Blockchain
What’s Circle’s End Game, Robinhood Launches A Chain & Venice Raises $65M
Can You Really Buy A House Without Selling Your Crypto? | Vishal Garg
State of The Market, The Prediction Market Wars & Kraken Pursues Aave
Optimism Co-Founders: What Happened to the L2s? Ben Jones & Karl Floersch
Anthropic's Fable Banned, Will Microstrategy Blow Up & Structuring A Portfolio in 2026
The Bull Case For Hyperliquid | Ryan Watkins
Blockworks Acquires Messari
CFTC Chair Michael Selig On Perps, Prediction Markets & Crypto In The U.S
SpaceX’s $1.75T IPO, Strategy Sells Bitcoin & Crypto’s Hard Reset
Avichal Garg On Investing in Crypto, AI and Ethereum’s Path Forward
Why’s Everyone So Bearish, Robinhood's AI Agent and SoFi's Stablecoin Launch
Hyperliquid Just Had It's Breakout Moment
Figure Co-Founder: How Figure Became A $10B Business | Mike Cagney
AI Feels Like Crypto In 2017, Circle Raises $222M and Anthropic Cracks Down On SPVs
How KelpDAO's $290M Exploit Nearly Killed DeFi | Stani Kulechov & Mike Silagadze
Big Tech Earnings, DeFi United and Pump Fun’s Token Burn
A Quantum Fork is Coming to Bitcoin | Alex Pruden & Philip Martin
DeFi’s Latest $290M Hack, Kalshi vs Polymarket & Will the Clarity Act Pass?
The Blockworks Vision
Solana vs Hyperliquid, Why Ethereum Is Overvalued & Crypto In 2026 | Logan Jastremski
Markets Bounce Back, The Hyperliquid Thesis and Kraken Raises $200M
How To Make DeFi Great Again | Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic & Luca Prosperi
Why DeFi Is Unattractive, Claude Mythos and Cryptos's Biggest Winners
Hivemind: Ceasefire In Iran, Is AI a Bubble & Drift Exploited For $280M
Paxos CEO on Crypto Today & Why Stablecoins Are Exploding | Charles Cascarilla
Making Tokenization a Reality: Bringing Assets Onchain | Samara Cohen
Making Tokenization a Reality: Bringing Assets Onchain Speakers: Samara Cohen, Jason Yanowitz This is a panel from DAS New York 2026. To explore more Blockworks events, visit blockworks.co/events
Western Union CEO: Western Union's Stablecoin Future
Inside Western Union's Stablecoin Fueled Future Speakers: Jason Yanowitz, Devin McGranahan This is a panel from DAS New York 2026. To explore more Blockworks events, visit blockworks.co/events
The Two Biggest Issues In Crypto Today | Weekly Roundup
This week, we’re back with another roundup covering whether it’s time to buy the dip, crypto’s VC mass extinction event, the state of secondary markets, Drift’s $280M exploit, Bitcoin’s quantum threat and more. Enjoy! -- Follow Jason: https://x.com/JasonYanowitz Follow Rob: https://x.com/HadickM Follow Santi: https://x.com/santiagoroel Follow Empire: https://x.com/theempirepod -- ZKsync is the Bank Stack of Ethereum. It is a network of chains secured by cryptography, not validators. Its cutting-edge ZK innovation enables the privacy, performance and connectivity that businesses need to thrive in the digital assets economy. To find out more visit: https://www.zksync.io/ -- Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (05:34) Time To Buy The Dip? (10:42) Crypto’s VC Mass Extinction Event (23:55) Crypto's Token Reset (39:25) ZKsync Ad (40:07) Blockworks Investor Relations (40:58) Drift Exploited For $280M (59:28) Bitcoin's Quantum Threat (01:10:18) Content of The Week -- Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, Rob and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.