BREAKDOWN: Why Crypto's 'Rogue State' Narrative is a Risk to the Industry

BREAKDOWN: Why Crypto's 'Rogue State' Narrative is a Risk to the Industry

Crypto tokens weren’t the only thing that saw a major pump yesterday. The total value locked in DeFi ascended to new heights. While part of this can be explained simply by the rise in ETH price, it also reflected traders turning to DeFi platforms as a way to get more exposure to the market action without selling their core assets. For all the exciting price action, not everything is pointing in a positive direction. These market moves don’t seem to reflect new market participants, for example, and anecdotally, times remain tough for projects trying to fundraise. In our final segment, we look at a blockchain conference in North Korea that the UN suggests simply attending may violate international sanctions, an Iran-focused hedge fund that uses cryptocurrency to work around international restrictions, and ask whether this sort of activity presents a narrative risk to the industry as a whole? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Blockspace: Kraken Cancels IPO, Vanity Fair Takes Down Crypto, Ledn's CEO on Bitcoin loans, & Mining to AI/HPC

Blockspace: Kraken Cancels IPO, Vanity Fair Takes Down Crypto, Ledn's CEO on Bitcoin loans, & Mining to AI/HPC

Kraken shelves its IPO as market conditions shift. Francis Corvino joins to break down the Blockfills bankruptcy and the $145M in claims. Plus, the SEC's new token guidance, Circle’s stock surge, and ...

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Will Bitcoin's Rally End in a "Sell the News" Dump? | CoinDesk Daily

Will Bitcoin's Rally End in a "Sell the News" Dump? | CoinDesk Daily

Will bitcoin dip after this FOMC meeting like before? Bitcoin briefly surged above $74,000 ahead of the March FOMC meeting, but historical data reveals that BTC has dropped after nearly every Fed mee...

18 Mar 2min

Why Mastercard is Acquiring a Stablecoin Company for $1.8B | CoinDesk Daily

Why Mastercard is Acquiring a Stablecoin Company for $1.8B | CoinDesk Daily

Mastercards big move. Mastercard is making a $1.8 billion bet on stablecoins, Phantom secures a "first-of-its-kind" green light from the CFTC, and Sam Altman’s World is teaming up with Coinbase to ve...

17 Mar 2min

PayPal Goes Global with 70 New Crypto Markets

PayPal Goes Global with 70 New Crypto Markets

PayPal is launching its PYUSD stablecoin across 70 new markets to lower cross-border transaction costs and power the future of agentic AI commerce. PayPal is taking its PYUSD stablecoin global. With ...

17 Mar 10min

Blockspace: Coinbase and CLARITY, OP_NET Raises $5M, Blockfills Goes Bankrupt, Drukenmiller Fades BTC

Blockspace: Coinbase and CLARITY, OP_NET Raises $5M, Blockfills Goes Bankrupt, Drukenmiller Fades BTC

On today’s Blockspace Live, we address reports alleging that Coinbase is meddling in the CLARITY Act and break down Blockfill’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices...

17 Mar 1h 1min

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Hormuz Risks, BTC vs. Gold and Abra to Go Public | Public Keys at NYSE

Public Keys' DEBUT EPISODE from the New York Stock Exchange. Amid geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, Bitcoin is outperforming both gold and equities as the ultimate digital safe haven. On...

16 Mar 29min

Trump-Linked WLFI Offers "Direct Access" for $5M Stake | CoinDesk Daily

Trump-Linked WLFI Offers "Direct Access" for $5M Stake | CoinDesk Daily

$5M for "direct access" to the WLFI team? World Liberty Financial, the DeFi protocol backed by the Trump family, just passed a governance vote on a three-tier staking system that requires up to a $5 ...

16 Mar 3min

Blockspace: Ark Labs Raises $5.2M, CleanSpark on BTC Price, Luxor's Mining Outlook, and the IRS New Crypto Form

Blockspace: Ark Labs Raises $5.2M, CleanSpark on BTC Price, Luxor's Mining Outlook, and the IRS New Crypto Form

In this week’s news, we hit Ark Labs raising from Tether, CleanSpark and Two Primes’ take on Bitcoin price action, and how the IRS is trying to get more info about your digital asset stack. Get you...

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