Unchained

How GenLayer Is Building a Court System for Disputes Between AI Agents

Albert Castellana and Arthur Hayes walk through how GenLayer resolves an AI agent's dispute in minutes, for cents, without a single human judge involved. ===============

Why the Question Over How to Regulate Perps Has Turned Into a Fight

The CME is suing its own regulator over how perps get classified, and the ruling decides who in the US can trade them. Three lawyers make the case for futures over swaps.

Uneasy Money: Inside the AI Agent Scandal That Cheated, Then Covered Its Tracks

OpenAI's AI agents already had the exam answers. So why did they hack Hugging Face anyway? Kain, Tay, and Austin Griffith explain. ======================================

The Chopping Block: Robinhood Chain's Memecoin Mania and Tokenized Stocks

Laura joins Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun to unpack Robinhood Chain's surge, the strange fusion of stock tokens and memecoins, the damage speculative entertainment can do to ret

Bits + Bips: Is Kalshi Headed to the Supreme Court Next?

📢 Bits + Bips has its own channel now — full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitsandbips  A Ninth Circuit panel ruled 3-0 that Nevada can enforce its gambling la

How Cory Klippsten Would Decide How to Secure Bitcoin Post-Coldcard

Bitcoin rallied 23% after Bessent's debt-buyback comments and settled near $80K. Swan's Cory Klippsten weighs in on what ETF inflows and onchain exchange moves really mea

How Tokenized Stocks Could Undercut Interactive Brokers' 77% Profit Margin

Coinbase just launched fully backed tokenized stocks on Base.  Dromos Labs’ Alex Cutler says they’ll chip away at Interactive Brokers "77% profit margin." ============

The Chopping Block: Crypto's Rebound, Reg Crypto, and AI Router Wars

The crew sizes up Bitcoin's rebound, the fight to bring Hyperliquid onshore, the SEC's new token fundraising framework, and why Stripe's OpenRouter deal could make AI inf

Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags On

Roman Storm's retrial slides to April 2027. Peter Van Valkenburgh argues prosecuting Tornado Cash's developers cost real ground in zero knowledge cryptography. =========

Bits + Bips: How Bessent’s Treasury Buyback Is Fueling Bitcoin’s Rally

📢 Bits + Bips has its own channel now — full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitsandbips  Bitcoin is pushing toward $80,000 after Scott Bessent's Treasury long-e

One Type of Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Most Popular. Why Is Crypto Trying Out Three?

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger's Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challe

Uneasy Money: Why Erik Voorhees Calls AI's Hidden Filter 'Deceptive'

Venice founder Erik Voorhees says crypto's real job was never speculation. It's becoming the rails AI agents actually need. Plus, why he sold equity, not tokens. =======

Arthur Hayes on Why AI Agents Will Want to Transact in Units of Compute

Arthur Hayes unveils Flop, a new protocol for AI compute, and makes the case for why Bitcoin is entering a fresh liquidity-driven leg up. ===============================

EIP-8363: Should ETH Be Sound Money or a Productive Asset?

Ethereum wants to slash staking yields toward zero. Gitcoin's Kevin Owocki, DV Labs' Oisín Kyne, and Ethereum-France's Jérôme de Tychey debate whether that breaks DeFi.

DEX in the City: The CFTC's Kalshi Rescue and the Limits of Emergency Power

The CFTC has used emergency powers just six times ever. Twice this month, both for Kalshi. Jessi, Jacob, and Jane ask whether that protects innovation or sets a dangerous

Bits + Bips: Is Crypto Privateering Even Legal?

📢 Bits + Bips has its own channel now — full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitsandbips  Austin Campbell runs through the strongest legal objections to Trump’s

Uneasy Money: An Agent Deleted Kain's Database. Two AI Models Rebuilt It in 30 Seconds.

Kain and Taylor unpack the AI agents that built their own society inside OpenAI's sandbox, then slipped into Hugging Face for days — plus a Bitcoin fork that died in two

Bits + Bips: Bitcoin Has Been Oversold for Months. Is a Buy Signal Next?

📢 Bits + Bips has its own channel now — full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitsandbips  Bitcoin has done almost nothing for weeks, and Katie Stockton says that

The Chopping Block: threadguy on Crypto's Social Trading War, Trader Celebrities & AI Agents

Welcome to The Chopping Block, where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. This week, crypt

I Went Undercover to Interview a North Korean Crypto Hacker

Under a fake name and a fake Zoom account, Laura Shin interviewed one of North Korea's state-sponsored crypto developers. Laura Shin went undercover as a recruiter named