A podcast for professionals navigating crypto’s institutional future. Hosted by @marcarjoon @Matt_Hougan @marcryptonio @dlawant Built by @Blockworks
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NEW POD: Is Distribution Crypto's Biggest Moat?
We Cover:
🔹 Strategy's new playbook
🔹 Solana's volume surge
🔹 Battle over perps market
🔹 Ethereum's leadership shift
🔹 $HOOD vs $COIN & more!
@marcarjoon @marcryptonio @dlawant
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Inflection Point retweeted
NEW POD
We Cover:
– Robinhood chain
– Why $HOOD chose Ethereum
– Building Robinhood's DeFi stack
– If equities + crypto converge & more!
@JasonYanowitz @JohannKerbrat
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:59 Robinhood’s Onchain Vision
04:46 Will Robinhood Move Fully Onchain?
11:07 Inside Robinhood Chain’s Explosive Launch
14:33 Building The Chain For Adoption
16:15 Ads (peaq)
17:00 Building Robinhood’s DeFi Stack
21:20 Why DeFi Partners Stay Independent
26:58 Tokenized Equities Go Global
30:38 Robinhood’s Crypto Growth Strategy
34:52 Competition And Financial Convergence
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Crypto's next winners may be decided by distribution.
@marcarjoon argues that Binance, Robinhood, Coinbase, and OKX have a structural advantage because they already control the user relationship.
As RWAs and perps mature, access to users may matter more than owning the underlying protocol.
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Crypto natives may stay on Hyperliquid, but mainstream users usually choose the platform that removes the most friction.
@dlawant argues that $COIN and $HOOD are converging into full-service financial platforms, while traditional incumbents risk falling behind.
"You should never underestimate the benefit of convenience."
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NEW POD: Is Distribution Crypto's Biggest Moat?
We Cover:
🔹 Strategy's new playbook
🔹 Solana's volume surge
🔹 Battle over perps market
🔹 Ethereum's leadership shift
🔹 $HOOD vs $COIN & more!
@marcarjoon @marcryptonio @dlawant
Links Below ↓
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The SEC shouldn't regulate code like it's a company.
@HesterPeirce says decentralized markets may still involve registered exchanges or ATSs, but software itself shouldn't become the regulated entity.
"We can't be in a world where you require registration of software code."
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Stablecoin neobanks are quickly becoming one of crypto's strongest consumer use cases.
Weekly crypto card volume has grown to more than $200M, and a handful of tokens are emerging as the primary ways to gain exposure to the trend.
ETHFI is the current leader on execution. GNO is the most established player. XPL is growing the fastest but its token economics remain uncertain. AVICI has the strongest alignment between its business and token, while JUP and AAVE offer more indirect ways to play the trend.
As crypto payments move from niche to mainstream, the biggest winners may be the protocols building the financial apps people actually use.
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Ready the full @blockworksres report by Carlos Gonzalez Campo ↓
app.blockworksresearch.com/r…
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Inflection Point retweeted
Really excited to have our first guest on @BWInflection, and we could not have picked a better one to kick things off: @HesterPeirce.
From current topics in tokenization and mkt structure to the future of capital markets, her takes were sharp as always.
This one is worth your time.
NEW POD with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
We Cover:
🔹 Tokenized securities
🔹 Innovation exemption
🔹 Rule 611 vs DeFi
🔹 Crypto’s gray areas & more!
@HesterPeirce @marcarjoon
@marcryptonio @dlawant @SECGov
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ICYMI NEW POD with SEC Commissioner Peirce
We Cover:
🔹 Tokenized securities
🔹 Innovation exemption
🔹 Rule 611 vs DeFi
🔹 Crypto’s gray areas & more!
@HesterPeirce @marcarjoon
@marcryptonio @dlawant @SECGov
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
02:19 What People Misread About The SEC
05:07 Hester Peirce’s Regulatory Path
09:10 Tokenized Securities Framework
12:21 The Innovation Exemption Debate
16:11 Does Rule 611 Block DeFi?
20:27 Where Registration Should Attach
25:16 Onchain Finance vs DeFi
32:30 Crypto’s Remaining Gray Areas
40:12 Making Public Markets Work Again
46:13 Tokenized Securities Models
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Price discovery may matter more than regulation for integrated tokenized markets.
@HesterPeirce argues that markets naturally arbitrage price differences, making transparency more important than mandates as tokenized markets evolve.
"We don't need to have a regulatory system that mandates that. It will happen organically."
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Tokenization is exposing just how outdated market infrastructure has become.
@HesterPeirce argues this is a rare opportunity to redesign the rules around transfer agents and clearing agencies, not just digitize existing markets.
"Now is actually a better time for us to rethink what those rules should look like."
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"If you are going to tokenize something, you need to figure out which bucket it fits in."
@HesterPeirce explains why tokenization doesn't create a new regulatory category.
The key distinction is whether it's the underlying security, an entitlement, or a synthetic, because each carries different regulatory obligations.
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NEW POD with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
We Cover:
🔹 Tokenized securities
🔹 Innovation exemption
🔹 Rule 611 vs DeFi
🔹 Crypto’s gray areas & more!
@HesterPeirce @marcarjoon
@marcryptonio @dlawant @SECGov
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The AI trade may be leaving the bottleneck phase.
@dlawant explains why the market may be shifting from bottleneck-chasing to durable-moat underwriting.
“When your CapEx bill is running at tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars, you don’t give yourself too much room for error.”
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$BMNR is testing the ETH version of $MSTR's credit machine.
BitMine announced a preferred with a lower yield (9.5%) despite being a more volatile instrument. @marcarjoon
@dlawant says the lower yield may reflect a different risk profile because BitMine can use staking income against its ETH base.
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$MSTR may be changing the product investors thought they owned.
@marcryptonio points to Saylor’s post-sale framing around STRC (“the best credit instrument in the world”), not Bitcoin.
“Is Strategy rebranding from a leveraged Bitcoin proxy to a Bitcoin-backed credit issuer?”
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The CLARITY Act is the closest the U.S. has come to a comprehensive crypto regulatory framework.
It draws a clear line between SEC and CFTC oversight, creates an objective path for tokens to become decentralized, protects staking and self-custody, clarifies NFT and stablecoin rules, and strengthens AML enforcement.
If passed, it would replace years of regulatory ambiguity with defined rules, likely accelerating institutional adoption while imposing stricter transparency and compliance standards.
Ultimately, CLARITY is designed to answer the question that has defined U.S. crypto for years: who regulates what, and when?
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Read the full @blockworksres report by @marcarjoon ↓
How CLARITY Reshapes Crypto Regulation
app.blockworksresearch.com/r…
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