The blocmates Podcast

Grant and Alex jump on for an breaking news chat to cover the announcement that trade[XYZ] is joining forces with ICE, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, to bring perpetual futures on Hyperliquid to U.S. regulated markets.

Huge news for the program. This week's usual pod will be available from tomorrow.

Chimpfone and KP join Alex and Grant to talk about the NFL and the British overlap, Zuckerberg and Guinness, Pearl as a scam, Papertrade, and other things that honestly I can't even categorize in this. 

Enjoy and rate us five stars. 

563, Head of Research at blocmates joins Alex and Eli (in Korea) to check in on the past week and what's moving.

We get into Solana's latest trading competition at KBW and brand marketing spend, how to position for this cycle, ZEC, the privacy trade, how the market's shaping up and the curious story of Sam Altman's Grindr expeditions. 

What a variety we bring to the table. 

One of our favourite ct contributors joins Grant and Alex. We get into the Kalshi situation and if it's all a bit overblown, as well as how crypto has changed with onboarding, memecoins, fomo and more. 

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The lads are back. 

They discuss World launching a Solana-based prediction market inside Phantom powered by Chainlink and debate improving Solana sentiment, perps progress, and whether meme coins (including Ansem’s “Black Bull” and his reported airdrops) can run again. 

They then cover the OpenUSD/Open Standard stablecoin consortium led by Bridge after Stripe’s acquisition, why it could pressure Circle/USDC, and the importance of distribution via partners like Ramp, while noting Tether may be less affected. 

The episode also includes sport.fun league standings and a walkthrough of picking squads vs weekly team...

Grant, Alex and Lazer are joined by Adam from sports.fun for the usual overnight chaos, Saylor selling Bitcoin and HYPE printing new highs. 

Then we fire up the World Cup Predictor on sport.fun, run through the fixtures and lock in who we reckon is actually winning the whole thing. 

We're running a watchalong activation across the tournament, so stick around to find out how you can jump in and help pick our team. 

Grant, Alex and Eli are back to catch up on being weirdly disconnected from crypto, regretting sidelining HYPE, and reminiscing about missing obvious “alpha” like VVV. 

Then it’s straight into Ethereum’s slow-motion identity crisis: DeFi roots, EF incentives, and why the market’s rewarding pragmatism over ideology. 

After a quick detour into stand-up, dating and how cursed “I work in crypto and have a podcast” is, they unpack DraftKings vs Kalshi, why prediction markets look like shittier sportsbooks, and whether perps traders would just get banned as sharps. 

They close on Hyperliquid’s USD...

Grant’s back with Alex and Eli to talk about DeFi United and how Stani, Aave and the wider industry have banded together to save the day. But people are still just never happy, are they?

Anyway, apparently the Bitcoin conference is garbage this year, RWAs is the dumbest name of all time and we’re going to Miami next week. 

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563 joins Lazer and Alex this week to join the discussion around this week's news of the Kelp hack and the LayerZero fall out. 

We're talking about the impact on DeFi as a whole and how we recover from the contagion. That's as well as getting into Cobie's latest appearance on threadguy's stream and what we took from that, TLDR: net positive for a multitude of reasons.

Oh and also why creepy anons are moaning about ladies posting selfies on CT while simultaneously simping them with public comments asking 'Dubai?'

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This week we're covering the attempted Molotov (and gunfire) attacks on Sam Altman's home, why Ben Pasternak might be cooked as the class action against him heats up (and why Evelyn Ha reportedly walking away is somehow the bigger story online), and the insane Colossus piece on Jeff and why this could be bullish HYPE.

Alex and Lazer also get into why sentiment has flipped overnight with BTC back at $74K, the tokens they've actually been nibbling on-chain this week, why the Tether wallet ad is one of the worst pieces of marketing in crypto history, and...

Lazer has joined the blocmates podcast as our new and semi-permanent guest. We’re discussing the recent Citrini article on the Strait of Hormuz, why EthCC was kind of good but also bad. 

How to get a job in crypto, where the real people are, how to play these market conditions and why the key to unlocking privacy tech might be hidden in the consumption of adult entertainment.

In this episode, we break down one of the most important shifts happening right now: the rise of AI agents and the infrastructure being built to support them.

We’re joined by the founder of AgentMail, a company that just raised $6M to build the communication layer for AI agents. What starts as email for agents quickly turns into something much bigger a vision for an entirely new internet, built not for humans, but for agents.

Macro updates - it's not looking good, bruv Fannie Mae accepts first crypto-backed mortgage productWhop integrates with DeFi rails

This week we're covering why the timeline has largely become a sewage of useless AI content, why sentiment feels particularly bad this bear market, and most importantly, how we'll get out of it. 

Grant and Alex talk about the only assets worth holding in your portfolio, why wealth is made when sentiment and markets are down as bad as they are right now, and what we're going to be watching over the next few months.

NYSE chooses Securitize to bring securities & ETFs on crypto railsCircle drops 20%: Here's why Bernstein calls Bitcoin bottom  

TACO or no TACO: That's the macro questionPharmaceutical company pivots to stablecoin development corporation and invests in SKY Claude can now operate your entire computer autonomously

Clarity Act, stablecoin yield, and the tokenization of marketsUSR depeg: WTF happened?Hyperliquid ETF talk, and HIP-3 ATH

Morgan Stanley S1 Amendment with the SEC for BTC ETF (Will be first US bank to issue one directly)Polymarket x MLB - Official exclusive Predictions partner, also signs integrity deal with CFTCAgent Pay from World Liberty Financial

This week Jenn, video storytelling goat and content master and Hyperliquid permabull.

It felt like a good time to run this with the recent price action on HYPE and what it means for the entire state of Hyperliquid and its ecosystem. 

We discuss common brand and marketing headaches across crypto and tech, how to tackle them with video content, where to start and why founders who don't get it aren't even worth your time. 

Alex: https://x.com/alexblocmates
Jenn: https://x.com/djenn
blocmates: https://x.com/blocmates

SEC APPROVES TOKENISED SECURITIES ON NASDAQ + S&P DOW JONES PUTS ITS INDEX ON HYPERLIQUIDTEMPO MAINNET IS LIVE — UNVEILS MACHINE PAYMENTS PROTOCOLWORLD NETWORK (Formerly WorldCoin) LAUNCHES AGENTKIT

Key data points driving the market AWS and its x402 guide All about MiroFish

Hormuz, oil, panic - What's being said?BlackRock's ETHB debut Strategy and the road to 1 million BTC

What's going on in the Hyperliquid ecosystem? The $50 million fat finger episodeAnthropic latest updates 

CPI and mixed data points to impact next week's FED rate decisionMastercard rolls out crypto partner program Strive buys $50 million in STRC - ponzi or printer?

Hyperliquid ships portfolio margin with guardrails & HIP-4 on testnetKraken x Nasdaq partnership to bring stocks onchainBitcoin mining in space? This company says it's possible & cheaper

Has Saylor cracked the code on stacking Sats?HYPE to $150?ERC-8183 explained - Agentic commerce from Virtuals