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Friday · 25 minCould Wisconsin Strip Your Voting Rights for Using Prediction Markets?
On CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol, Renato Mariotti is joined by guest host Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, for a conversation on the politics of the CLARITY Act, the state-vs-federal fight over prediction markets, and Wisconsin's invocation of an 1849 law that could bar prediction-market users from voting. And, they sit down with Rachel Anderica, Head of Global Operations at Anchorage Digital, who walks through Anchorage's agentic banking build inside its OCC trust and a "cashless reserves" model in partnership with JPMorgan. Plus, the hosts name the TradFi endorsers of CLARITY — BlackRock, Fidelity, and Goldman Sachs — as the Person of the Week. - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. Find out more at realfi.co. - Ledn provides a secure and transparent way to access liquidity while maintaining your bitcoin holdings. Perfect 8 year track record of keeping clients assets safe. Don't sell your bitcoin. Get a bitcoin-backed loan. Check out your rate by using their loan calculator at ledn.io - JPEG Trading is a global proprietary trading firm specializing in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance markets. From market structure and liquidity provision to quantitative trading strategies, JPEG Trading operates across the full spectrum of blockchain-based assets. Follow @jpegtrading on X to stay ahead of the latest developments in digital asset markets: https://x.com/jpegtrading - Timecodes: 00:00 Cold Open: Wisconsin's 1849 Voting Law 01:13 Welcome to The Policy Protocol 01:29 Ari Redbord Joins as Guest Host 02:13 CLARITY's Law Enforcement Provisions 03:05 'Burn and Reissue': Getting Funds Back to Victims 04:19 The Politics: Why the Votes Aren't There 06:26 Prediction Markets and the CFTC Battle 08:04 Wisconsin's 1849 Law and the Right to Vote 09:53 Federalism, Circuit Splits, and the Road to SCOTUS 11:10 The HFSC Scam Report and AI at Scale 14:04 Rachel Anderika of Anchorage Digital Joins 14:34 Who's Liable When an Agent Moves Money? 18:56 OCC Rulemaking, Secondary Markets, and Sanctions 20:40 'Cashless Reserves' with JPMorgan Tokenized Funds 22:53 Trash Talk: The Skinny Master Account 24:29 Person of the Week: The TradFi Endorsers of CLARITY
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Thursday · 8 minZcash Sealed $1.7B – Here's Everything You Need to Know | Markets Outlook
Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade, sealing roughly $1.7 billion in ZEC behind a one-way turnstile after a researcher found a flaw that could have minted counterfeit coins. Here’s everything you need to know. Plus, on Brand New Rails: POSCO International puts its trade receivables on-chain with LG CNS on Injective. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts Markets Outlook. - 00:00 Welcome to Markets Outlook 00:55 Zcash Activates Ironwood, Seals $1.7B Orchard Pool 01:18 The Four-Year Orchard Counterfeit Bug 02:15 How the Turnstile Locks Out Counterfeit Coins 02:32 Quantum Recovery and Verification 03:05 The Voluntary Migration to Ironwood 03:53 Who Is Zcash For? Tushar Jain Weighs In on The Rollup 04:32 Why Ironwood Matters Beyond Zcash 06:19 Brand New Rails: Tokenizing Global Trade 06:38 POSCO Puts Trade Receivables On-Chain with Injective 07:03 What is a Trade Receivable? 07:24 Injective CEO Eric Chen on Faster Settlement - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. Find out more at realfi.co. - Ledn provides a secure and transparent way to access liquidity while maintaining your bitcoin holdings. Perfect 8 year track record of keeping clients assets safe. Don't sell your bitcoin. Get a bitcoin-backed loan. Check out your rate by using their loan calculator at ledn.io - JPEG Trading is a global proprietary trading firm specializing in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance markets. From market structure and liquidity provision to quantitative trading strategies, JPEG Trading operates across the full spectrum of blockchain-based assets. Follow @jpegtrading on X to stay ahead of the latest developments in digital asset markets: https://x.com/jpegtrading - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.
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Thursday · 1 minTelegram Hit With Terror Cases in Two Continents | CoinDesk Daily
Telegram faces terror-related case in Australia.
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Wednesday · 22 minRealFi Wants to Put Your Idle Stablecoins to Work
RealFi CEO John O'Connor joins CoinDesk's Sam Ewen to explain how his platform is reimagining the stablecoin model, replacing reflexive DeFi yield with real-world fixed income assets, and giving holders of sUSDr the returns that issuers like Tether and Circle currently keep for themselves. He breaks down the portfolio construction behind USDr, why crypto treasurers are the ideal first customer, and what he learned from testnet ahead of a mainnet launch. - Timecodes: 00:00 - RealFi's John O'Connor Joins CoinDesk 00:56 - What Makes USDr Different From USDC and USDT 05:22 - Cross-Chain Interoperability and the New Risk Surface 06:46 - How RealFi Manages Portfolio Risk and Liquidity 11:39 - Who Is RealFi's Ideal Customer? 12:42 - The Pitch to Crypto Treasurers 14:22 - Yield-Bearing Collateral and Looping Strategies 15:44 - How TradFi Is Adopting DeFi's Best Ideas 18:10 - Testnet Learnings: UX Debates and Community Excitement 19:41 - What Success Looks Like in 18 Months - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. RealFi is launching August 2026. Join the Testnet now at realfi.co.
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Wednesday · 7 minRobinhood Is Changing the Rules of Investing
Johann Kerbrat, SVP and GM of Crypto at Robinhood, breaks down why Robinhood built its own blockchain and what it unlocks for the tens of millions of retail investors already on the platform. From Robinhood Earn, offering approximately 7% yield on stablecoins, backed by an insurance program with Lloyd's of London, to stock tokens that can be traded on weekends, used as collateral, and transferred to any wallet, Johann lays out a vision where the line between TradFi and DeFi disappears entirely. - Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro: Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood 0:12 - Ecosystem excitement at chain launch 0:48 - Robinhood Chain is permissionless 1:24 - Morpho lending protocol partnership 2:04 - Stock tokens on Robinhood Chain 2:45 - Weekend trading and DeFi volume 3:07 - Tokenization of real-world assets 3:37 - Beyond stocks: real estate, art, private equity 4:36 - Blockchain as backbone for AI/agentic trading 6:00 - Accessibility and giving customers tools - From our sponsors: Ledn provides a secure and transparent way to access liquidity while maintaining your bitcoin holdings. Perfect 8 year track record of keeping clients assets safe. Don't sell your bitcoin. Get a bitcoin-backed loan. Check out your rate by using their loan calculator at ledn.io - JPEG Trading is a global proprietary trading firm specializing in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance markets. From market structure and liquidity provision to quantitative trading strategies, JPEG Trading operates across the full spectrum of blockchain-based assets. Follow @jpegtrading on X to stay ahead of the latest developments in digital asset markets: https://x.com/jpegtrading - Check out CoinDesk Research’s report on Zcash’s push toward private scale and quantum resilience at: https://www.coindesk.com/research/building-the-zcash-machine-tachyon-and-quantum-readiness
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Wednesday · 1 minBNY Moves $8.6 Trillion Fund Business Onchain | CoinDesk Daily
BNY's $8.6T move onchain.
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Tuesday · 6 minMorgan Stanley Launches Cheapest Ether and Solana ETFs at 14 Basis Points
Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Global Head of ETFs Ally Wallace breaks down the firm's newly launched Ether and Solana ETFs from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wallace explains why Morgan Stanley priced all three of its crypto products at 14 basis points — the cheapest on the market — and how its April Bitcoin ETF became the firm's most successful launch ever. And, she unpacks the staking component of the new proof-of-stake products, including Morgan Stanley's decision to pass back 100% of staking rewards to investors. - 00:00 Morgan Stanley Launches Ether and Solana ETFs 00:17 Launching Into a Subdued Crypto Market 00:57 Bitcoin ETF Pulls In $400M, MS's Best Launch Ever 01:27 Competing at 14 Basis Points, the Cheapest on the Market 02:15 The First Bank-Owned Asset Manager in the Space 02:33 Passing Back 100% of Staking Rewards 03:02 How the Staking Economics Work 03:52 Positioning Solana and ETH in Portfolios 04:46 Why Morgan Stanley Chose CoinDesk Benchmarks 05:28 Coinbase and BNY Mellon on Custody
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Tuesday · 1 minU.S. Senate Puts Off CLARITY for Now | CoinDesk Daily
The Senate puts off the CLARITY Act.
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Monday · 1 minNorth Korea Arrests Its Own Hackers Over Stealing From State Banks | CoinDesk Daily
North Korea arrests hackers accused of stealing from state banks.
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Monday · 30 minWall Street Giants Back $15M Push to Quantum-Proof Bitcoin as the CLARITY Act Nears a Do-or-Die Deadline
On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Charles Schwab Head of Crypto Research Jim Ferraioli, who breaks down the odds of a Fed hike, why he believes the CLARITY Act is not yet priced into Bitcoin, and his finding that some 60% of Bitcoin's daily price move can't be tied to macro factors. Galaxy Head of Firmwide Research Alex Thorn unpacks the newly launched $15 million Bitcoin Security Consortium — backed by nine firms including BlackRock, Coinbase, Fidelity, Galaxy, and Strategy — and Galaxy's own $5 million Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative, while making the case that CLARITY is in its "11th hour" ahead of the August recess. Finally, FalconX Head of Derivatives Griffin Sears kicks off CoinDesk's Perps Week, explaining how perpetual futures jumped from crypto into oil, single-name equities, and pre-IPO SpaceX exposure. Plus, a look at ETF flows and a Crypto Fear & Greed reading stuck at 30. - Learn more at https://www.bullish.com/. - Register now for CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event on September 24, 2026: https://policy-regulation.coindesk.com/. - To get market moving news delivered daily, download CoinDesk’s mobile app: https://linktr.ee/coindeskapp. - Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome to Public Keys 00:23 Charles Schwab's Jim Ferraioli Joins 00:40 Fed Hike Odds and What to Watch This Week 02:16 Why the CLARITY Act Isn't Priced Into Bitcoin 04:35 60% of Bitcoin's Price Move Is Unexplained 06:30 Ether ETFs Outperform Bitcoin 07:56 What's Really Driving Ethereum's Flows 09:33 Bitcoin's Year-End Outlook and $95K Fair Value 12:02 $15M Bitcoin Security Consortium Launches 12:29 Galaxy's Alex Thorn on Quantum Readiness 16:33 Is $15M Enough to Secure Bitcoin? 19:07 The CLARITY Act at the 11th Hour 21:15 Bitcoin and Ether ETF Flows Diverge 23:05 FalconX's Griffin Sears Kicks Off Perps Week 25:55 Perps Move Into TradFi and Pre-IPO Bets 28:46 What's Still Holding Perps Back 30:15 Crypto Fear & Greed Stuck at 30
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July 24 · 1 minBitMEX Is Shutting Down and Facing a Theft Lawsuit | CoinDesk Daily
BitMEX to shut down by the end of September.
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July 24 · 20 minWhite House's Patrick Witt: CLARITY Is 'Not a Giveaway' to Crypto and Trump's 'Historic' Ethics Concession
CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open on the week's biggest policy news from SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce's statement on crypto vaults to the London Stock Exchange's launch of a 24/5 tokenized market. Then, Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, joins to make the case that the CLARITY Act deserves a Senate floor vote before the August recess and argues that President Trump's agreement to subject himself to conduct restrictions is a "historic" and unprecedented ethics concession. Witt also breaks down the CFTC's expanded mission and the fight over funding and staffing. Plus, Rebecca and Renato debrief on the lessons of MiCA and the state of bipartisan compromise on the Hill, and name the state attorneys general, led by an op-ed from Montana's AG, as their Person of the Week. - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. Find out more at realfi.co. - JPEG Trading is a global proprietary trading firm specializing in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance markets. From market structure and liquidity provision to quantitative trading strategies, JPEG Trading operates across the full spectrum of blockchain-based assets. Follow @jpegtrading on X to stay ahead of the latest developments in digital asset markets: https://x.com/jpegtrading - Check out CoinDesk Research’s report on the evolution of crypto centralized exchanges, with a case study on Binance at: https://www.coindesk.com/research/the-evolution-of-the-crypto-cex-landscape-a-case-study-on-binance - Timecodes: 00:00 Cold Open: 'No Other President Has Done That' 01:07 Welcome to The Policy Protocol 01:59 Hester Peirce on Crypto Vaults & Onchain Lending 04:22 The LSE's 24/5 Market, LSE24 05:59 NYSE, OKX, and TradFi's Tokenization Push 06:18 The CLARITY Act & Guest Patrick Witt 06:41 Will CLARITY Pass Before the August Recess? 09:01 Inside the Bill's Historic Ethics Provision 11:06 The Tillis Ethics Compromise 12:40 Funding the CFTC's Expanded Mission 14:03 Why CLARITY Isn't a Giveaway to Crypto 17:04 Debrief: MiCA's Lessons and Market Structure 20:37 Person of the Week: State Attorneys General
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July 23 · 45 minCharles Hoskinson on Cardano's Future, Ethereum's Mistakes, and Crypto's Missing Safety Net | Markets Outlook
Wanchain bridge hack, why Ethereum keeps getting it wrong, and Cardano's outlook with Charles Hoskinson. After a bridge hack rattled the Cardano ecosystem, Charles Hoskinson, CEO and Founder of Input Output, joins Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook to lay out why crypto desperately needs wallet insurance, ZK-powered identity, and white hat rescue frameworks. Plus, what Cardano's latest hard fork really means for decentralized governance, why he thinks Ethereum keeps getting it wrong, and what it will actually take for prices to recover. Plus, we look at the DTCC taking tokenized securities live in today’s Brand New Rails segment. - Timecodes: 00:00 - Charles Hoskinson Joins Markets Outlook 01:25 - Wanchain Bridge Hack and What It Revealed 02:21 - Why Midnight Was Built for This Moment 03:44 - Why Crypto Needs Wallet and Bridge Insurance 05:28 - How ZK Identity Unlocks Recovery and White Hat Rescues 09:46 - The "Unsexy" Unlock: Why Insurance Could Onboard the Masses 13:17 - Cardano's Hard Fork to v11 and What It Means 14:42 - Cardano's Decentralized Governance in Action 17:35 - Executive Function: The Last Governance Milestone 20:08 - Brand New Rails: What’s Next After the DTCC Moved Tokenized Securities Into Live Production 22:07 - Cardano's Outlook: Narrative Reset, Bitcoin DeFi, and the Partner Chain Model 26:05 - The Anthropic Analogy: Why Doing It Right Beats Doing It Fast 29:12 - Why Ethereum Keeps Getting It Wrong 36:22 - When Will Prices Catch Up? Charles' Market Framework 42:28 - The AI Wildcard and What It Means for Crypto - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. Find out more at realfi.co. - Ledn provides a secure and transparent way to access liquidity while maintaining your bitcoin holdings. Perfect 8 year track record of keeping clients assets safe. Don't sell your bitcoin. Get a bitcoin-backed loan. Check out your rate by using their loan calculator at ledn.io - JPEG Trading is a global proprietary trading firm specializing in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance markets. From market structure and liquidity provision to quantitative trading strategies, JPEG Trading operates across the full spectrum of blockchain-based assets. Follow @jpegtrading on X to stay ahead of the latest developments in digital asset markets: https://x.com/jpegtrading - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.
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July 23 · 1 minRevolut Hits $115B Valuation in Employee Share Sale | CoinDesk Daily
Revolut valued at $115 billion.
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July 22 · 23 min"Getting The Fortune 500 Onchain is The Primary Goal"
Dan Romero, who leads go-to-market at Tempo, joins Sam Ewen with a 12-year crypto perspective that stretches from the early days at Coinbase to building Farcaster to now focusing entirely on stablecoin payment rails. He breaks down why these three things: regulation, infrastructure, and distribution, have finally aligned to make real world crypto adoption possible, and why Tempo's betting on being the best payments chain rather than a general purpose blockchain. - Timecodes: 0:00 – Intro on stablecoin yield philosophy 1:20 – From Farcaster to Tempo: the through line 2:56 – The market split: speculation vs. stablecoins 5:37 – Regulatory tailwinds from the Genius Act 8:41 – How yield on Tempo works 14:23 – Balancing privacy and transparency 17:38 – What it takes to win in payments infrastructure 21:01 – Why compliance matters 22:25 – Outlook on the Genius Act rulemaking - From our sponsors: Ledn provides a secure and transparent way to access liquidity while maintaining your bitcoin holdings. Perfect 8 year track record of keeping clients assets safe. Don't sell your bitcoin. Get a bitcoin-backed loan. Check out your rate by using their loan calculator at ledn.io - This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. Find out more at realfi.co. - Check out CoinDesk Research’s report on Zcash’s push toward private scale and quantum resilience at: https://www.coindesk.com/research/building-the-zcash-machine-tachyon-and-quantum-readiness - "Spotlight" features host Sam Ewen.
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July 21 · 1 minClarity Act Odds Jump to 42% After Reported Trump Ethics Deal | CoinDesk Daily
Clarity Act odds surged after unverified reports of a Trump ethics deal.
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July 20AI Shock Spares Bitcoin, Wall Street Moves On-Chain, and Leveraged Crypto ETFs Explained
On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Ben Emons, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of FedWatch Advisors, to break down the market fallout from Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and why the Fed is now actively debating rate hikes rather than cuts ahead of the August 7th CLARITY Act deadline. Nadine Chakar, Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Assets at DTCC, explains how the firm moved tokenized securities into live production and outlines DTCC's role as an institutional multi-chain orchestrator ahead of a full commercial launch. The conversation turns to ETF flows, where Bitcoin funds finished last week with $76 million in net inflows despite a $425 million outflow on Monday alone, and Ethereum ETFs outpaced Bitcoin inflows led by $135 million into BlackRock's ETHA. Finally, Bilal Little, Global ETF Strategist at Direxion, unpacks the debut of BTCU and EVMU — the industry's first 2x leveraged spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs — explains why an ETF wrapper beats margin on a crypto exchange for retail traders, and responds to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas's thesis that Bitcoin ETFs will mirror gold's 22-year "triumph and pain" trajectory. The episode closes with the Fear and Greed Index at 29. - Learn more at https://www.bullish.com/. - Register now for CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event on September 22, 2026: https://policy-regulation.coindesk.com/. - To get market moving news delivered daily, download CoinDesk’s mobile app: https://linktr.ee/coindeskapp. - Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome to Public Keys 00:22 Ben Emons (FedWatch Advisors) Joins Public Keys 00:48 China's Kimi K3 Rattles Chip Stocks Friday 01:42 Bitcoin Holds $64K, While AI Sells Off 02:59 Crypto Miners Pivot to AI: HUT8 Up 14% 03:58 Kimi K3 vs. DeepSeek: This Time It's a Price War 05:03 AI Selloff Tightens Financial Conditions, Helps Fed 06:32 Fed Now Debating Rate Hikes, Not Cuts 06:58 CLARITY Act Deadline: August 7th 09:15 DTCC Takes Tokenized Securities Into Live Production 09:36 Nadine Chakar on the 10-Year Journey to Live Tokenization 13:45 DTCC's Multi-Chain Roadmap 15:26 DTCC's Digital Twin Framework 18:14 Bitcoin ETF Flows: $76M Week Masks $425M Monday Outflow 18:49 Ether ETFs Outpace Bitcoin; Robinhood Chain Hits $800M+ Daily Volume 19:35 Bilal Little (Direxion) on the First 2x Spot Crypto ETF Debut 22:42 How BTCU and EVMU Work — and Why Not Just Use Margin? 25:50 Do Bitcoin ETFs Mirror Gold? 27:38 Fear and Greed Index at 29
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July 20 · 1 minIs China's AI Sector Behind? Moonshot Plans for IPO After Kimi K3 Rattled Markets | CoinDesk Daily
Moonshot AI plans for IPO.
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July 18 · 14 minLedn Goes Beyond Bitcoin: Tether Gold Trading Now Live, Loans Next
Ledn Founder and Chief Sales Officer Mauricio Di Bartolomeo joins CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie to discuss why his platform is adding tokenized gold alongside its flagship bitcoin-backed loan product and what shifting client behavior is telling him about where the market is headed. Plus, why he believes the bear market is nearing its end and where he sees bitcoin closing the year. - Timecodes:00:00 - Ledn Founder Mauricio Di Bartolomeo Joins CoinDesk 00:33 - Ledn Adds Tokenized Gold 03:24 - Are Gold Bugs Rotating Into Bitcoin? 05:05 - Addressing Tokenized Gold Custody Concerns 08:47 - Gold-Backed Loans Coming to Ledn This Year 10:29 - Bitcoin's Bear Market Bottom & Year-End Price Target - Ledn provides a secure and transparent way to access liquidity while maintaining your bitcoin holdings. Perfect 8-year track record of keeping clients' assets safe. Don't sell your bitcoin. Get a bitcoin-backed loan. Check out your rate using their loan calculator at ledn.io.