Episode 592
Weekly Roundup 01/31/25 (Senate Debanking Hearing, Powell's pivot, Tokenized Securities) (EP.592)
On The Brink with Castle Island · Castle Island Ventures
January 31, 202535m 6s
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Show Notes
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- Should we revisit Basel rules on Bitcoin?
- Jay Powell evolves on banks serving crypto
- Are banks going to offer crypto custody post SAB121?
- Gensler joins MIT Sloan
- Should crypto firms boycott MIT?
- The Senate will hold a hearing on debanking next week
- Choke Point 2.0 is getting caught up in conservative debanking
- Where are we on DeSci?
- Is tokenization finally going to happen?
- X is adding payments to the platform with Visa
- Truth Social is launching Truth.Fi
- Christine Lagarde says the ECB will not buy Bitcoin
- Is the Czech Republic buying bitcoin?
- Kraken turns back on staking
- Apollo is launching a tokenized credit fund on Ethereum and Solana
- Fairshake raises another $116m for the midterms
- SBF is asking Trump for a pardon
- Elliott says crypto is in a bubble
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