The Breakdown

The full week's episodes in one (plus a bonus TL;DR on ZeroHedge's deplatforming.  Tuesday | Narrative Watch: The Future of Fud Wednesday | Exclusive Interview with Binance US CEO Catherine Coley a...

1 Feb 20202h 4min

Yesterday Chainlink released price reference data for 25 of its decentralized oracle networks which, together, power more than $100m in DeFi.  On this special interview episode, @nlw talks with Serg...

31 Jan 202051min

The best way to fund open source projects remains a question, and one that - in the context of crypto protocols - has never had higher stakes. Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen live action experimen...

30 Jan 202021min

In a Breakdown exclusive, Binance US CEO announces that the exchange will begin supporting staking, starting with ALGO and ATOMs.  On this episode, Catherine and I discuss: How the company prioriti...

29 Jan 202022min

We’re over $9,000! That means a lot of good things, of course. But any price increase brings with it increased scrutiny and, yes, increased FUD. The question for this time around is whether the FUD is...

28 Jan 202022min

A single long-form episode with all the week's content + a TL;DR. This week was all about macro frame-setting coming out of Davos.  Monday - 4 Reasons Crypto Should Care About Davos Tuesday - Gitco...

24 Jan 20201h 54min

That’s a wrap! The World Economic Forum is over, and the key ideas coming out of Davos for our industry are: 1) a continued ‘blockchain, not crypto’ narrative; 2) a believe in the inevitability of cas...

24 Jan 202020min

There is an ongoing debate in the crypto community about where mainstream adoption. One point of view is that it will be the slow steady acceptance of digital assets. On that front, Bakkt president Ad...

23 Jan 202019min