Bankless Podcast

January 30, 2025 - 12:11 PM

The Buy ETH, Sell Gold Trade?

July 21, 2026

A look at the stretched ETH/gold ratio and how traders can express the long ETH, short gold bet onchain.

Morpho Midnight and the Rate DeFi's Been Missing

July 20, 2026

Morpho Midnight is aimed at powering the fixed-rate, fixed-term lending DeFi needs for institutions.

Morpho's Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol Midnight Nears

July 17, 2026

Morpho Midnight exits beta within days with fixed-term lending, multi-market offers, and a deliberately cautious rollout.

Ethereum Is Building Reunification Machinery

July 17, 2026

Ethereum outsourced scaling to L2s. Now native proof verification and fast finality can bring them back into the fold.

Ethereum Researcher Francesco D'Amato Departs EF for Ethlabs

July 16, 2026

One of the EF's most versatile protocol researchers just left for Ethlabs, saying serious protocol work now has "a credible shot" outside the Foundation.

Visa Unveils Stablecoin Platform With OUSD at Its Core

July 16, 2026

Visa's Stablecoin Platform packages OUSD access, wallet infra, and treasury integration for institutions entering crypto.

The Stablecoin Logic of Stripe's PayPal Bid

July 16, 2026

PayPal in the front, Tempo in the back?

DTCC Executes First Live Trades With Tokenized Wall Street Assets

July 15, 2026

Wall Street's $114T clearing backbone just executed real production trades with tokenized securities.

JTX Is Jito's Bid to Become Solana's Front Door

July 15, 2026

Do trades fill better on Solana than on Coinbase? JTX's new Good Trade feature puts that to the test on every order.

CLARITY Advances as Its Political Path Narrows

July 14, 2026

The CLARITY Act cleared Senate Banking, but an unresolved ethics fight, a departing White House negotiator, and a shrinking calendar threaten its passage.

Galaxy Debuts GOFR to Pipe Institutions Into DeFi Credit

July 14, 2026

Galaxy's new managed lending program gives institutions one blended DeFi borrowing rate without having to go through crypto wallets.

Ethereum Foundation Privacy Team Spins Out as EthSystems

July 14, 2026

Ex-Ethereum Foundation privacy researchers have launched EthSystems, a for-profit firm building privacy tech for institutional Ethereum adoption.

Who Sent This Bot? The Web Needs an Answer

July 13, 2026

AI agents are getting blocked alongside crawlers because websites can't tell them apart, so the race is on to build an ID layer for the agent economy.

Sablier Is Winding Down Development of Its Token Streaming Protocol

July 13, 2026

Ethereum's OG money-streaming platform is closing up shop, though its smart contracts will live on.

Jupiter Partners with Collector Crypt on New Pokémon Card Gacha

July 13, 2026

Jupiter just teamed with Collector Crypt to launch onchain gacha packs to its millions of users.

Strategy's New MSTR Sale Pushes Its Cash Reserves to $3B

July 13, 2026

Strategy held its 843,775 BTC steady last week while stacking dollars via MSTR.

DeFi's Big Robinhood Chain Winners

July 10, 2026

Memes lit the fuse on Robinhood Chain, but DeFi's blue chips are also catching the upside as picks and shovels.

Empery Digital Sells Half Its Bitcoin Treasury for $87M

July 10, 2026

Empery Digital sold 1,400 BTC for debt, an AI data center deal, and legal costs, echoing Strategy's shift toward treating BTC as liquidity.

Circle Wins OCC Approval for National Trust Bank

July 10, 2026

Circle's new OCC-chartered trust bank gives USDC federal custody backing, sending CRCL up 10%+ as it claws back OpenUSD selloff losses.

Kraken Rebuilds App Around Embedded AI Intelligence

July 10, 2026

Kraken is rebuilding its app with AI in its core, joining Coinbase and Robinhood in making AI the connective tissue for their platforms.

Inside x402's Breakout Traction

July 09, 2026

Inference routing and premium data are working for x402. Content monetization could be what makes it essential if Cloudflare's gateway proves it can scale.

Hyperliquid Policy Center and Phantom Ask CFTC to Pave Way for Onchain Infra

July 09, 2026

HPC and Phantom asked the CFTC to confirm code isn't a financial service.

Robinhood Chain's Unexpected Meme Meta

July 08, 2026

Robinhood built its L2 for serious onchain finance, but degens had other plans.

Paradigm Raises $1.2B Fourth Fund, Expands Into AI

July 08, 2026

Paradigm's $1.2B fourth fund broadens beyond crypto into AI and robotics, joining Framework Ventures and Haun Ventures in widening their scopes.

BNB Chain Builds New L1 for Agentic Trading

July 08, 2026

BNB Chain's new L1 removes the mempool and targets sub-50ms preconfirmation, built for AI agents as chains race for agent trading tools.

Robinhood Chain's First Big Traction Comes From Memecoins

July 08, 2026

Robinhood Chain was built for tokenized stocks and agentic trading, but memecoin CASHCAT is driving its first real surge in trading volume.

How Strategy Can Sell Billions More in Bitcoin

July 07, 2026

Strategy sold $216M in Bitcoin to fund dividends but still reports full $1.25B reserve capacity. The build-versus-replenish loophole explained.

SEC Tees Up "Regulation Crypto" in New Rulemaking Agenda

July 07, 2026

The SEC just published its 2026 rulemaking agenda, and crypto is a top priority.

Lazy Summer Protocol Drained of $6M in Vault Price Exploit

July 07, 2026

Lazy Summer Protocol lost $6M to a NAV manipulation exploit three months in the making.

Ondo Unveils Perps DEX With Tokenized Stocks as Collateral

July 07, 2026

Ondo just launched a perps platform where tokenized stocks can be used to back leveraged positions.

Ethereum's Third and Ultimate Form Is Taking Shape

July 06, 2026

Nearly every major piece of Ethereum is slated for transformation.

USDC Extends Lead Over USDT to 70% of Volume in 2026

July 06, 2026

USDC now handles 70% of adjusted stablecoin transaction volume as banks like Standard Chartered and BNY build on Circle's network.

Buterin Proposes 'Extremely Lean' Ethereum Overhaul

July 06, 2026

Buterin's new proposal would shrink Ethereum's validator state sharply using daily ZK proofs, part of the multi-year "Lean Ethereum" redesign.

Strategy Sells $215M More BTC as Bitcoin Holds Steady

July 06, 2026

Strategy sold $215M in BTC over two weeks to fund dividends, and BTC closed the week higher, testing whether the market can absorb ongoing sales.

eToro Leads $12.5M Round for Onchain Perps Platform Extended

July 02, 2026

eToro led a $12.5M round for Extended, a perpetuals exchange it will integrate into its recently acquired self-custodial wallet, Zengo.

Africa's Largest Centralized Exchange Integrates Hyperliquid Perps

July 02, 2026

VALR will become the first major regulated exchange to natively integrate Hyperliquid, sourcing onchain liquidity for 200+ perps markets.

Robinhood Just Revealed Lighter's Master Plan

July 02, 2026

Robinhood's integration marks the first Lighter Domain, and a preview of how the zk perps DEX plans to scale.

Solana Launches Onchain Governance With 100K SOL Entry

July 02, 2026

Solana's new governance system lets validators with 100,000 SOL staked propose network changes, while delegators vote for or against the changes.

Open USD Is Coming for Circle's Margins

July 01, 2026

The newest major stablecoin consortium is offering businesses a better deal than Circle has. Will Circle be fazed?

Tokenized Trading Card Gachas Blow Past $300M in June

July 01, 2026

June marked a new ATH for onchain gacha spending volume, the category's fourth record month running.

Ethereum Institutional Launches as Ecosystem's New Wall Street Liaison

July 01, 2026

Ethereum Institutional has arrived as a nonprofit liaison for institutional adoption.

Venice Joins the Unicorn Club, Now Valued at $1B

July 01, 2026

Venice just raised a war chest for its mission to bring private AI into the mainstream.

Solana’s Venice is Loading

June 30, 2026

The case for confidential compute on Solana amid the ANSEM frenzy has an interesting setup forming for Arcium's token.

SEC Starts Comment Period on Rules for Crypto and "Novel" ETFs

June 30, 2026

The SEC is asking the public whether its current rulebook can keep pace with novel funds covering digital assets, prediction markets, and more.

NFTX Teases v4 Relaunch With New Whitepaper

June 30, 2026

NFT trading protocol NFTX is relaunching with a next-gen design atop Uniswap v4.

Dozens of Major Companies Become Open USD Launch Partners

June 30, 2026

Some of the biggest names in finance and beyond are joining forces to back the Open USD stablecoin.

Galaxy Cuts Clarity Act 2026 Passage Chances to "50-50"

June 29, 2026

Galaxy lowered its Clarity Act passage odds to 50%, citing Senate calendar constraints and stalled negotiations rather than problems with the bill's substance.

The Case for a Second Ethereum R&D Lab

June 29, 2026

Making ETH inevitable and scaling Ethereum to the world. Ethlabs's co-founders sat down with Bankless to unpack the new org's mission.

Strategy Authorizes Up to $1.25B in BTC Sales for Dividends

June 29, 2026

Strategy's new framework authorizes selling up to $1.25B of Bitcoin to fund preferred dividends, retiring its long-held "never sell" posture.

BlackRock Adds Ethena’s USDe to Risk Management Platform

June 29, 2026

BlackRock is adding Ethena’s USDe to Aladdin while making BUIDL the main reserve asset for Ethena’s whitelabel stablecoins.