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November 9, 2026

Trump Defends World Liberty Stake, Says Past Presidents Owned ‘Whatever Crypto Was at the Time’

Asked about foreign money in the crypto venture, the president cited index funds, his sons and George Washington after midterms that hand Democrats control of congressional committees and their subpoena power.

PODCASTS

November 6, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Midterm Mega Tsunami, a16z Goes Frontier, the CFTC Clears Equity Perps, and the Fight Over Abliterated AI Models

Haseeb is back after two weeks away. The boys break down the midterm blue tsunami and how prediction markets called it, what a 2:1 pro-crypto Congress means with Trump corruption on the agenda, the CFTC clearing single-stock perps and Cboe and Citadel suing within hours, Anthropic’s S-1 update and the data center backlash, and a think tank’s push to regulate abliterated AI models.

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Episode #1266 | November 5, 2026

What the 2026 Midterm Elections Mean for Crypto Regulation and the Clarity Act

Democrats won both chambers in a historic midterm wave. Mike Katz and Justin Slaughter on what that means for the Clarity Act, DeFi and crypto’s next 2 years.

November 5, 2026

Uneasy Money: What the $6B Binance Hack Revealed About Who Can Freeze Stolen Funds

November 3, 2026

Binance Lost $6.3 Billion. Why Does Crypto Still Lack Circuit Breakers?

Episode #1262 | November 3, 2026

How North Korea Stole $6.3 Billion From Binance in 20 Minutes

October 31, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Binance Hack, Circle’s Fast Freeze, YC’s Crypto Wishlist, and ICE Bringing Hyperliquid Perps Onshore

Episode #1260 | October 29, 2026

Bitcoin’s Price May Have Bottomed. One Reason Is the AI Debasement Trade

October 29, 2026

Uneasy Money: Why Anthropic’s IPO Governance Has Crypto Veterans Worried

October 27, 2026

How AI Agents Are Exposing a Bank Business Model Built on ‘Laziness’

Episode #1257 | October 27, 2026

Why America’s New Cyber Privateers Can’t Go After North Korea

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Bitcoin

November 9, 2026

Strategy Buys 1,036 BTC but Spends More Repurchasing Its Preferred Stock Just Under $100

Michael Saylor's company spent $188.3 million buying back Stretch preferred shares at about $99.76 each last week, and sold none even after the stock touched $100 intraday on Nov. 4.

November 9, 2026

Strive’s Weekly Bitcoin Buying Shrinks for a Second Straight Week, to 29 BTC

Strive paid about $75,721 per coin from Oct. 31 to Nov. 6, the lowest average cost of its last three weekly purchases, a new SEC filing shows.

November 7, 2026

Texas Voted to Pause New Data Centers. Which Bitcoin Miners Are Already Past the Freeze?

Texas’s governor-elect wants data center approvals on hold until lawmakers act. For AI-pivoted miners, what matters is which projects already have theirs.

November 6, 2026

Bitcoin Slides to a Seven-Week Low Near $75,200 as AI Stocks Drag Wall Street Lower

Bitcoin gave back its post-midterm rally as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite posted their worst day since April 2025, though it fell less than the Nasdaq 100.

Business

November 9, 2026

Coinbase Wallet Builds a Web ‘Terminal’ for Active Traders, Eyes AI Agents by Year’s End

The web-first product will sit alongside the mobile app, said Coinbase Wallet trading lead Ox Bid, who pointed to a 10x jump in cross-chain transactions over three months.

November 9, 2026

Trump Defends World Liberty Stake, Says Past Presidents Owned ‘Whatever Crypto Was at the Time’

Asked about foreign money in the crypto venture, the president cited index funds, his sons and George Washington after midterms that hand Democrats control of congressional committees and their subpoena power.

November 9, 2026

Departing Binance CFO Kaiser Ng Plans Tokenization Startup as CZ Floats YZi Labs Backing

Ng says his new company will bring assets from basketball to gold onchain, after Binance named Airwallex finance veteran Justin Yek to replace him in a handover it says took six months to plan.

November 7, 2026

Why Coinbase Wallet’s Solana Trading Jumped 12x Without Incentives

Ox Bid, who leads trading at Coinbase Wallet, joins Unchained Premium to explain a 12x jump in Solana trading and what trading activity suggests about where we are in the market.

DeFi

November 7, 2026

Why Coinbase Wallet’s Solana Trading Jumped 12x Without Incentives

Ox Bid, who leads trading at Coinbase Wallet, joins Unchained Premium to explain a 12x jump in Solana trading and what trading activity suggests about where we are in the market.

November 5, 2026

Aave’s Risk Manager Wants a Borrowing Speed Limit After Binance Hackers Took $44.6 Million

CEO Adam Sadowski said LlamaRisk will cap what can be borrowed on Aave over certain periods of time, six days after a wallet tied to the Binance hack drew a $44.6 million ETH loan from the lender.

November 5, 2026

Base Says Users Unaffected as Reth and Base Ship Fixes for State Root Bug

Reth's maintainers rated the release carrying the fix high priority, and Base told node operators to upgrade to v1.5.3, saying it had recomputed its state root and found it correct.

November 5, 2026

dYdX Team’s Arcus Opens Stock-Token Collateral to All Perps Traders, With a $20,000 Cap

The Robinhood Chain exchange dropped the $25 million volume requirement from its October early access, but non-USDG deposits stay capped at $20,000 per trader and $2 million overall.

Ethereum

November 9, 2026

Bitmine Gets Within About 40,000 ETH of Tom Lee’s 5% Target After Another Week of Buying

The Ethereum treasury company said it held 6,070,092 ETH as of Nov. 8, or 4.97% of the token's supply, part of $14.3 billion in crypto, cash and stakes.

November 9, 2026

Vitalik Buterin Says Maximizing ETH’s Fee Burn Would Cost Ethereum Its Decentralization

In a four-part X thread, the Ethereum co-founder argued that chasing burned fees would push the network toward corporate-style spending and governance, while a store-of-value focus fits its decentralization goals.

November 5, 2026

Base Now Makes a Block Every 0.2 Seconds After Its Denim Upgrade

The switch from two-second blocks took effect at 1 p.m. ET Thursday, so any timer started since then that counts blocks instead of minutes now runs out 10 times faster.

November 2, 2026

Arbitrum’s Security Council Can Move a Wallet’s Funds Without Its Key, Binance Freeze Shows

The council froze 8,426 ETH and 74.6 million ARB on Oct. 30, and a Nov. 2 walkthrough on Ethereum Magicians traces how it sent the transfers in the holder's name.

NFTs

October 13, 2026

NFT Marketplace Blur Is Retiring Blur.io on Nov. 12, Keeping Its Contracts Live Onchain

Blur set Nov. 12 as the date it retires the blur.io interface, saying the marketplace protocol stays live onchain and the BLUR token keeps control of its fee switch.

September 1, 2026

StonkBrokers Are Popular on Robinhood Chain. But Is the NFT a Security or Collectible?

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

August 4, 2026

POAP Winds Down After Five Years and Nearly 7.6 Million Onchain Badges

Co-founder Isabel Gonzalez said POAP could not build a sustainable business without undermining what made the project matter, ending a protocol used by Coinbase, Amex, and Warner Music Group.

July 2, 2026

Melania Trump Raked in Over $6 Million From NFTs and Collectibles in 2025

The first lady's annual financial disclosure shows nearly $17 million in total earnings, driven by her Amazon documentary, memoir, and a booming NFT business.

Regulation

November 9, 2026

Coinbase Wins Final OCC Approval to Charter a National Trust Company for Crypto Custody

Coinbase says a federal charter now covers its planned trust company, but its announcement gave no date for when customer custody moves over.

November 9, 2026

FinCEN, Fed Withdraw Proposal That Would Have Written Crypto Into Travel Rule Definitions

The regulators say any future attempt to lower the cross-border recordkeeping threshold to $250 or spell out crypto coverage will first go back out for public comment.

November 9, 2026

Labor Department Sends Final 401(k) Rule on Crypto, Other Alternatives to White House

A White House regulatory office logged the final version of the fiduciary safe harbor rule on Nov. 5, a review that comes before the Labor Department can publish it.

November 6, 2026

Ex-FBI Agent’s Plea Puts Crypto Theft at $2.47 Million, Over Twice What He First Told the FBI

Patrick Yaroch admitted to about 100 transfers out of wallets connected to 35 FBI cases. In July, he told FBI headquarters he had made about 10, into a wallet holding roughly $1 million, an August affidavit says.

Tech

November 3, 2026

Consensys Bets Banks Will Pay to Connect Their Private Ledgers, With Canton on Deck

The Ethereum software firm says its new product lets banks, custodians and asset managers settle trades across separate ledgers while assets stay where they are.

November 3, 2026

How North Korea Stole $6.3 Billion From Binance in 20 Minutes

A compromised developer laptop and 50 pre-signed transactions let North Korea drain $6.3 billion from Binance. Jonty and Pablo Sabbatella trace how it happened.

November 2, 2026

Trezor Now Accepts 128-Character Passphrases, Pointing to Coldcard’s Seed Flaw

Trezor's Nov. 1 update lets most of its hardware wallets take passphrases up to 128 characters, and the company opened the announcement with the Coldcard seed failure.

October 30, 2026

Blockchain Data Firm Allium Says Every Chain Passed Checks After Security Incident

Allium says its warehouse data has passed verification checks for every chain five days after it found unauthorized access to its systems, but it has not said how that access happened or what it reached.

In Case You Missed it

November 6, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Midterm Mega Tsunami, a16z Goes Frontier, the CFTC Clears Equity Perps, and the Fight Over Abliterated AI Models

Haseeb is back after two weeks away. The boys break down the midterm blue tsunami and how prediction markets called it, what a 2:1 pro-crypto Congress means with Trump corruption on the agenda, the CFTC clearing single-stock perps and Cboe and Citadel suing within hours, Anthropic’s S-1 update and the data center backlash, and a think tank’s push to regulate abliterated AI models.

October 31, 2026

The Chopping Block: The Binance Hack, Circle’s Fast Freeze, YC’s Crypto Wishlist, and ICE Bringing Hyperliquid Perps Onshore

Rob Hadick guest-hosts for a second week with Tom and Robert, joined by Nemil Dalal of Y Combinator. Hours before the show, Binance lost an estimated $5 billion in what looks like the largest hack in crypto history, Circle and Tether froze funds faster than anyone expected, YC lays out its crypto Request for Startups, and ICE signs with trade.xyz to bring regulated perps built on Hyperliquid’s technology to US customers.

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