Episode 625
Weekly Roundup 05/16/25 (GENIUS is back, Coinbase data breach, Big Tech stables) (EP.625)
On The Brink with Castle Island · Castle Island Ventures
May 16, 202540m 53s
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Show Notes
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:
- Why is Boston such a good sports city?
- Price inflation in dinosaur skeletons
- Cryptopunks IP is sold
- Machinsky is sentenced
- Nakamoto Holdings launches
- Meta wants to add stablecoins to its platforms
- Exchanges are honeypots for KYC data
- Coinbase suffers a data breach
- The GENIUS act is going to a vote next week
- GENIUS act new provisions
- More Movement shenanigans
- Thailand is launching a $150m crypto token
Content mentioned in this episode:
- Tuongvy Le and Austin Campbell published a paper, "Crypto and The Evolution of Capital Markets", which dissects the current market structure for securities trading and settlement and discusses how blockchain networks can improve this architecture.