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ROLLUP: Google’s Quantum Warning | Trump’s Iran Speech | Ethereum Economic Zones | Drift Hack

Google just dropped a major quantum warning for crypto, claiming a breakthrough that could accelerate the timeline to breaking Bitcoin and Ethereum’s core security. Ryan and David unpack what changed, …

Apr 03, 2026 · 1h 4m

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3 Megatrends Every Investor Needs to Know: Demographics, Wealth Inequality, & the End of Labor (with Jeff Park)

Three macro forces are converging that almost no one is pricing in correctly. Jeff Park returns to Bankless to lay out what he calls the "certain truths" shaping markets for …

Mar 30, 2026 · 1h 27m

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ROLLUP: The World is On the Clock | The Clarity Act | Crypto Mortgages | Bitmine Staking

We examine the proposed Clarity Act and its impact on stablecoin yields and crypto finance. Ryan and David discuss geopolitical tensions in Iran and their effects on global markets. Highlights …

Mar 27, 2026 · 1h 0m

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The Economics of AGI: Why Verification Is the New Scarcity w/ Christian Catalini

MIT economist Christian Catalini joins Ryan and David to unpack his new paper, "Some Simple Economics of AGI," which argues that the scarce resource in the AI economy is no …

Mar 26, 2026 · 1h 25m

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

NEAR founder and Transformer co-author Illia Polosukhin joins us to break down why today’s AI agents still fall short, what’s missing to make them actually useful, and how IronClaw could …

Mar 24, 2026 · 1h 17m

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Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

Quantum used to be crypto’s distant sci-fi problem. Justin Drake says it now has a clock. In this episode, we unpack what “Q-Day” actually means, why Justin thinks 2032 is …

Mar 23, 2026 · 1h 40m

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ROLLUP: Crypto Momentum | Regime Shift? | Payments War | Prediction Boom | SBF on Netflix

Ryan and David break down a historic week for crypto as the SEC and CFTC finally deliver long-awaited clarity, classifying major tokens and reshaping the market. At the same time, …

Mar 20, 2026 · 1h 9m

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Tempo Mainnet: The Race to Agentic Commerce

Tempo Mainnet is live, but this episode isn’t really about just another chain launch. It’s about a bigger claim: that AI agents are about to need native money, and that …

Mar 19, 2026 · 1h 19m

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Trump's Grand Strategy: Iran, China & The New World Order | Kamran Bokhari

A deep dive into Trump’s emerging grand strategy and the geopolitical logic behind the Iran conflict. Kamran Bokhari joins Bankless to unpack how the U.S. is trying to reshape the …

Mar 18, 2026 · 1h 8m

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Ethereum Foundation's New Mandate Has The Community Divided | Bankless Takes

The Ethereum Foundation’s new mandate has reignited one of Ethereum’s oldest debates: Should it stay laser-focused on cypherpunk values, or lean harder into adoption, product, and market share? Ryan and …

Mar 17, 2026 · 59m

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Robinhood CEO: "Gen Z Is the Most Retirement-Savvy Generation Ever" | Vlad Tenev

The next great battle in finance may not be over stocks, crypto, or even payments. It may be over where the $90 trillion great wealth transfer actually lands. In this …

Mar 16, 2026 · 1h 1m

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ROLLUP: Chaotic Era | Oil, Jobs, Credit | Nasdaq x Kraken | BlackRock Staked ETH | Roman Storm Retrial

Ryan and David break down a week where war hit markets, and the safe-haven playbook broke down. Oil spiked, gold failed, bonds sold off, the dollar caught the flight to …

Mar 13, 2026 · 56m

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Where is ETH in the cycle? | Michael Nadeau

Ethereum underperformed this cycle, and investors are asking the big question: did ETH just skip a cycle, or is something deeper going on? Michael Nadeau joins Ryan to break down …

Mar 11, 2026 · 56m

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Making America the Crypto Capital of the World | New CFTC Chairman Michael Selig

A conversation with new CFTC Chairman Mike Selig on the policy shift behind America’s push to become the crypto capital of the world. We cover the CFTC’s evolving role in …

Mar 09, 2026 · 59m

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ROLLUP: Wartime Markets | Kraken Gets Fedwire | Trump vs Banks | AI vs Pentagon | NYT Says Crypto Is Dead

Ryan and David break down a week where war hit markets, and the safe-haven playbook broke down. Oil spiked, gold failed, bonds sold off, the dollar caught the flight to …

Mar 06, 2026 · 1h 2m

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AI Finds 70% of Smart Contract Exploits | Alpin Yukseloglu

AI is getting dangerously good at smart contract security. Faster than crypto is ready for. Alpin Yukseloglu joins Bankless to break down EVMBench (built with OpenAI), a benchmark testing whether …

Mar 05, 2026 · 1h 1m

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Building a Million Dollar Zero Human Company with OpenClaw | Nat Eliason

Nat Eliason joins to show what it looks like to build a “zero human company” with OpenClaw agents. — led by Felix, an AI CEO that ships products, runs ops, …

Mar 04, 2026 · 1h 34m

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

Crypto still feels like a minefield for humans: Haseeb Qureshi argues that’s a clue, not a bug: blockchains and smart contracts are machine-readable systems that AI agents can parse, simulate, …

Mar 02, 2026 · 1h 12m

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ROLLUP: Extreme Fear | Tariff Whiplash | Citrini AI Crash | Jane Street vs Terra | Pentagon vs Anthropic

February ends with peak FUD. Ryan and David unpack why crypto is stuck in historic “Extreme Fear” even without a major blowup, and why markets feel like they’ve entered an …

Feb 27, 2026 · 1h 3m

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Zero Crypto at Home: Bankless in the Age of Wrench Attacks and Phishing | Jameson Lopp and Beau

Crypto’s newest threat isn’t a smart contract exploit, it’s a knock at your door. In this episode, Ryan sits down with Jameson Lopp (Casa) and Beau (former CIA, now safety …

Feb 25, 2026 · 1h 42m

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Ethereum’s next big leap might not look like a single “flip the switch” moment—but it could change how the chain verifies everything. In this episode, Ansgar Dietrichs comes back to …

Feb 23, 2026 · 1h 20m

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ROLLUP: Prediction Market War | Base Leaves Optimism | Tomasz Exits EF | Clarity Act Lives | Harvard Buys ETH

A legal war over prediction markets just went public. Ryan and David break down the CFTC’s claim of exclusive authority, the backlash from state officials and lawmakers, and why this …

Feb 20, 2026 · 1h 9m

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Lyn Alden: How to Survive The Gradual Print Era — Fed Chair Warsh, Gold & Bitcoin

Lyn Alden joins us to make sense of the “everything, everywhere, all at once” macro moment. A fourth-turning-style unwind of the long-term debt cycle, rising fiscal dominance, and a rare, …

Feb 16, 2026 · 1h 38m

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