Unchained

Jesse Pollak owns the Base App’s social miss, unpacks Robinhood Chain’s rise, and explains Brian Armstrong’s memecoin moment.

Pantera Capital led the first close of a WLD sale that the foundation says will push its iris-scanning “proof of human” ID toward enterprises, consumers, and AI agents.

A now-deleted post from Tenev’s compromised account touted a fake token called $VLAD and claimed a Robinhood listing amid a memecoin frenzy on Robinhood Chain.

Patrick Witt, the White House’s executive director for digital assets policy, calls in mid-episode to give the Chopping Block crew a live read on the CLARITY market structure bill!

The company behind the swap aggregator says the app goes read-only on July 27 and shuts down for good on July 30, leaving users a narrow window to secure their funds.

An attacker drained nearly all of AFX Trade’s funds by compromising the signing keys to a bridge the Arbitrum protocol operates, in another off-chain crypto exploit.

An oracle-manipulation exploit let an attacker liquidate collateralized vaults that should have been safe, netting about $912,000 and collapsing the stablecoin’s peg.

The plan would end validator-gated listings, requiring deployers to lock about $30 million in tokens while letting them keep up to half the trading fees.

Jesse Pollak owns the Base App’s social miss, unpacks Robinhood Chain’s rise, and explains Brian Armstrong’s memecoin moment.

Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS’s treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice’s VVV token.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

Nike quietly exited its NFT business by selling RTFKT months after shutting it down, as former holders pursue legal action over lost value.

Nick O’Neill, more popularly known by his persona “Choose Rich Nick,” delves into how he became internet famous, the man behind the persona, his endgame and the secret to his success.

Majority Leader John Thune says the crypto market structure bill probably won’t pass before the August recess, though he hopes to start its floor process first.

The Goldman chief endorsed the crypto market-structure bill just as a group of Senate Democrats rejected the latest draft over ethics and illicit-finance concerns.

Polymarket plans a legal challenge to France’s nationwide block of its website, arguing the regulator wrongly treated an information source as illegal gambling.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the agency’s most crypto-friendly voice, said DeFi vaults and onchain lending can qualify as securities depending on how they are managed.

Jesse Pollak owns the Base App’s social miss, unpacks Robinhood Chain’s rise, and explains Brian Armstrong’s memecoin moment.

A vulnerability in Zilliqa’s Ledger app, present since 2019, lets attackers rebuild a signer’s private key from data already public on the blockchain.

B20, now live on Base mainnet, runs tokens as native code in the chain and bakes in roles, blocklists, and freeze-and-seize powers aimed at stablecoin and real-world-asset issuers.