Inflection Point

Is Distribution Crypto's Biggest Moat?

The next phase of crypto won't be decided by technology alone, it will be won by whoever controls distribution and user experience. This week, the team explores how comp

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce On The Rulebook For Crypto & Tokenized Securities

Markets are being rebuilt around blockchain, but the rules governing them are still being written. This week, we sit down with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to discuss

Is Strategy’s Credit Machine Starting To Crack?

Strategy built a Bitcoin credit machine and now the market is testing whether it really works. This week, we examine the growing pressure on Strategy as STRC trades belo

Outdated Rules Are Holding Crypto Back

The biggest opportunities in crypto may be emerging just as prices eye a bottom and investors are questioning old assumptions about markets, regulation, and where value w

Blockworks Acquires Messari

In this special episode, Blockworks announces its acquisition of Messari and unpacks what it means for crypto’s next phase. Michael and Jason explore why Messari’s breadt

How Tokenization Will Rebuild Capital Markets | Gabe Otte

A quiet shift is underway that could fundamentally change how capital markets operate. This episode, Gabriel Otte, co-founder and CEO of Dinari, explains why tokenizatio

Crypto Is Forcing Traditional Finance To Upgrade

The institutions are coming, but not where most crypto investors expect. As Wall Street adopts blockchain technology, the biggest opportunities may be shifting from Bitco

AI Is Winning The Capital War Against Crypto

As capital floods into AI, crypto is being forced to answer a tougher question: what actually deserves to survive when narratives stop driving markets? This week, we exp

Hyperliquid Is The First Crypto Super App

This week, we discuss Bitcoin's price action, break down Hyperliquid's growth into a derivatives super app, the SEC withdrawal of its innovation exemption and the CLARITY

Clarity's Make Or Break Moment And Strategy Selling Its Bitcoin

Washington, Wall Street, and Big Tech are all converging on stablecoins at the exact same moment, but the next phase may depend less on ideology and more on politics, pay

Bitcoin Breaks $80k As Washington Moves On Clarity

Crypto markets may finally be entering crypto’s next phase, but the biggest breakthroughs could depend less on price action and more on regulation, infrastructure, and wh

Bitcoin Flows & DeFi Value Are Driving Crypto’s Next Repricing

Bitcoin is pressing against a critical threshold, but the real story lies beneath the surface where institutional forces, market structure, and crypto-native coordination

DeFi Reality Check & The KelpDAO Hack

DeFi faces a defining stress test as a wave of exploits exposes hidden fragilities and forces a rethink of how decentralized systems actually operate. This week, we unpa

Strategy's Yield Machine & SEC Unlocking DeFi Front Ends

Crypto is quietly rebuilding the financial system from the ground up, but what happens when traditional structures like yield, regulation and creative financial engineeri

Vaults Are The Next Asset Management Revolution

Vaults promise to rebuild asset management from scratch and do it faster, cheaper, and fully programmable, but the path from niche DeFi product to institutional backbone

Crypto's Quantum Risk is Coming Faster Than Expected

A quiet but accelerating threat is forcing crypto to confront its biggest vulnerability yet: what happens if quantum computing breaks the foundations of digital security

Crypto Still Lacks A Valuation Framework

Crypto may be nearing a critical inflection point, but one foundational problem still lacks consensus: how do you actually value a blockchain network? We sit down live f

Investor Relations in the Onchain Era

In this special episode, we introduce Blockworks’ new investor relations platform for onchain businesses. As institutional capital continues to enter crypto markets, exp

The S&P Moves Onchain Amid Massive Regulatory Sea Change

Crypto’s long-standing regulatory fog is beginning to lift, raising a deeper question about what the industry actually becomes once clarity arrives. The team discusses a

Kraken Gets Fed Access as Crypto Takes on the Banks

In this episode, we explore a major turning point in crypto’s relationship with the traditional financial system and why a single banking approval could reshape the futur