Making America the Crypto Capital of the World | New CFTC Chairman Michael Selig
A conversation with new CFTC Chairman Mike Selig on the policy shift behind America’s push to become the crypto capital of the world. We cover the CFTC’s evolving role in crypto, prediction markets, ...
9 Mar 59min
ROLLUP: Wartime Markets | Kraken Gets Fedwire | Trump vs Banks | AI vs Pentagon | NYT Says Crypto Is Dead
Ryan and David break down a week where war hit markets, and the safe-haven playbook broke down. Oil spiked, gold failed, bonds sold off, the dollar caught the flight to safety, and crypto somehow boun...
6 Mar 1h 2min
AI Finds 70% of Smart Contract Exploits | Alpin Yukseloglu
AI is getting dangerously good at smart contract security. Faster than crypto is ready for. Alpin Yukseloglu joins Bankless to break down EVMBench (built with OpenAI), a benchmark testing whether AI a...
5 Mar 1h 1min
Building a Million Dollar Zero Human Company with OpenClaw | Nat Eliason
Nat Eliason joins to show what it looks like to build a “zero human company” with OpenClaw agents. — led by Felix, an AI CEO that ships products, runs ops, and even manages other agents for support an...
4 Mar 1h 34min
Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI
Crypto still feels like a minefield for humans: Haseeb Qureshi argues that’s a clue, not a bug: blockchains and smart contracts are machine-readable systems that AI agents can parse, simulate, and e...
2 Mar 1h 12min
ROLLUP: Extreme Fear | Tariff Whiplash | Citrini AI Crash | Jane Street vs Terra | Pentagon vs Anthropic
February ends with peak FUD. Ryan and David unpack why crypto is stuck in historic “Extreme Fear” even without a major blowup, and why markets feel like they’ve entered an uncertainty bubble. They bre...
27 Feb 1h 3min
Zero Crypto at Home: Bankless in the Age of Wrench Attacks and Phishing | Jameson Lopp and Beau
Crypto’s newest threat isn’t a smart contract exploit, it’s a knock at your door. In this episode, Ryan sits down with Jameson Lopp (Casa) and Beau (former CIA, now safety at Pudgy Penguins) to map th...
25 Feb 1h 42min
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs
Ethereum’s next big leap might not look like a single “flip the switch” moment—but it could change how the chain verifies everything. In this episode, Ansgar Dietrichs comes back to unpack the ZK EVM:...
23 Feb 1h 20min
