Jose Fernandez da Ponte, PayPal’s senior vice president and general manager of blockchain, crypto, and digital currencies, discusses PayPal’s crypto game plan, how CBDCs might be implemented, crypto regulations, and[…]
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Visa Is Building Infrastructure for NFTs, Smart Contracts, and L2s. Why?
Cuy Sheffield, Visa’s head of crypto, discusses Visa’s crypto game plan, stablecoin regulation, NFTs, and more. Show highlights: Cuy’s background and his journey down the crypto rabbit hole how Visa[…]
How the Greatest Decentralizing Force for Crypto Projects Is the SEC
How does the SEC determine if a token is a security? Why is DeFi particularly hard to regulate? What will regulators do about stablecoins? On Unchained, Greg Xethalis, chief compliance[…]
This NFT Marketplace Is Burning More ETH Than Any Other Protocol
August 16, 2021 / Unchained Daily / Laura Shin Daily Bits ✍️✍️✍️ Polygon acquired Hermez Network for $250M, marking the first merger[…]
Add This $74B Company to the List of Those Holding BTC
July 22, 2021 / Unchained Daily / Laura Shin Daily Bits ✍️✍️✍️ Robinhood’s crypto division expects a $30M fine from the New[…]
Will Bitcoin’s Price Go Up Again? Yes, According to On-Chain Analytics
Willy Woo, on-chain Bitcoin analyst and writer of the Bitcoin Forecast, a market intelligence newsletter, and Rafael Schultze-Kraft, co-founder and CTO of Glassnode, discuss Bitcoin and what the on-chain metrics[…]
Is Tether a Fraud? Its Bank Says It’s Not
Gregory Pepin, deputy CEO of Deltec Bank and Trust, responds to allegations in a blog post by the pseudonymous Crypto Anonymous, that Tether is a “highly probably fraud.” In this[…]
Central Bank Digital Currencies: How Should Privacy Be Built In?
Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no-hype resource for all things crypto. I’m your host Laura Shin. This panel, from a panel for the fifth anniversary of Hyperledger, features Rob[…]
2020 Highlights: The Biggest News Stories of the Year in Crypto
Host Laura Shin recaps the biggest stories of the year in crypto, with clips from shows throughout the year. In this episode, we cover how the pandemic drove Bitcoin to[…]
Why Rohan Grey Believes Stablecoin Issuers Need to Be Banks
Rohan Grey, assistant professor at Willamette Law, talks about the STABLE Act, which would require stable coin issuers to obtain a banking charter, require approval from the Federal Reserve and[…]