Laura Shin

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Imagine this: 🗓️ It’s a holiday. 🇳🇬 Your clients need dollars. 🏦 The U.S. banking system is closed. 🎧 Elizabeth Rossiello on why crypto is essential https://unchainedcrypto.com/crypto-and-fintech-are-colliding-who-wins-and-how/

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Fintech and crypto are finally converging, and Elizabeth Rossiello, who launched the first bitcoin exchange in Africa, has been living that reality for a decade. She joins Unchained to explain: 🤝 Why dLocal just bought her company 🧱 Why new entrants keep failing to gain traction 💥 The impact of stablecoins 💰 Why liquidity > tech https://unchainedcrypto.com/crypto-and-fintech-are-colliding-who-wins-and-how/

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JPMorgan is launching a deposit token on Base. Jesse Pollak, head of Base, joined Unchained to unpack: 🏦 Why the largest bank on earth picked Base 💸 What deposit tokens really are 📲 Coinbase’s plan for one-tap DeFi 🌐 And why Base is still Ethereum https://unchainedcrypto.com/podcast/why-jpmorgan-and-shopify-are-rolling-out-new-products-on-ethereum-layer-2-base/

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If they pull it off… “they’re #1. Period.” Arthur Hayes says HIP-3 could make Hyperliquid THE decentralized exchange. Here’s why 👇 https://unchainedcrypto.com/arthur-hayes-and-hanson-birringer-on-hyperliquids-success-and-what-could-stop-it/

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Arthur Hayes asks the hard question: What happens to Hyperliquid when Coinbase and Robinhood launch perps? https://unchainedcrypto.com/arthur-hayes-and-hanson-birringer-on-hyperliquids-success-and-what-could-stop-it/

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Did James Wynn fake it all? 🙊 Here’s why Arthur Hayes is skeptical of the story 👇 https://unchainedcrypto.com/arthur-hayes-and-hanson-birringer-on-hyperliquids-success-and-what-could-stop-it/

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🤑 How do you build loyalty in DeFi? Hanson Birringer says it’s not just airdrops, it’s about making your users rich. And that’s exactly what Hyperliquid did. https://unchainedcrypto.com/arthur-hayes-and-hanson-birringer-on-hyperliquids-success-and-what-could-stop-it/

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Ever since its airdrop in November, $HYPE has been on a tear 🔥. On Unchained, Arthur Hayes & Hanson Birringer explain: 🚀 what actually fueled Hyperliquid’s rise 🪙 why the Wynn saga looks like a clever farm 📉 how Robinhood and Coinbase could be a real threat 🧠 and why HIP-3 is the DEX “holy grail” https://unchainedcrypto.com/arthur-hayes-and-hanson-birringer-on-hyperliquids-success-and-what-could-stop-it/

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🛒 Shopify just said it would enable USDC payments. That’s millions of merchants, dozens of millions of customers. Former Circle exec Vicky Fu says this is exactly what stablecoins were built for. https://unchainedcrypto.com/a-soon-to-be-2-trillion-stablecoin-market-stripe-shopify-and-banks-want-in/

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What if stablecoins became the financial infrastructure? Former Circle exec Vicky Fu joins me to discuss: 💥 why the market mispriced Circle (and how she saw it early 👀) 🛒 why Shopify x USDC could be a turning point 📈 what the Plasma ICO conveys 🏦 and why banks may be late to the stablecoin race https://unchainedcrypto.com/a-soon-to-be-2-trillion-stablecoin-market-stripe-shopify-and-banks-want-in/

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🚫🏠 Suburbs out. Sats in. Does today’s youth want 1 BTC more than a mortgage? https://unchainedcrypto.com/jeff-park-on-why-owning-1-bitcoin-is-young-peoples-american-dream/

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👑 It’s Bitcoin… or nothing? Jeff Park says that, at least for now, institutions only care about BTC 👇 https://unchainedcrypto.com/jeff-park-on-why-owning-1-bitcoin-is-young-peoples-american-dream/

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👀 Truth is messy… and fighting misinformation might do more harm than good? This clip from my latest interview with Jeff Park is particularly interesting 👇 https://unchainedcrypto.com/jeff-park-on-why-owning-1-bitcoin-is-young-peoples-american-dream/

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If Jeff Park could pick only two assets for his radical portfolio, he’d choose BTC and STRK. Here’s why 👇 (spoiler: you are not as diversified as you think) https://unchainedcrypto.com/jeff-park-says-the-60-40-portfolio-may-be-dead-heres-his-radical-fix/

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The market used to reward value 📊 Now? It rewards anything that outruns inflation 🏃 https://unchainedcrypto.com/jeff-park-says-the-60-40-portfolio-may-be-dead-heres-his-radical-fix/

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The 60/40 model assumes the US is creditworthy 👀 But what happens when that trust starts to wobble? Jeff Park lays out a radical alternative. 👇 https://unchainedcrypto.com/jeff-park-says-the-60-40-portfolio-may-be-dead-heres-his-radical-fix/

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📉 The 60/40 portfolio: dead? 💥 The risk-free rate: no longer risk-free? 🧠 And Bitcoin: the only asset that still makes sense. Jeff Park of Bitwise joins Unchained to explain his Radical Portfolio Theory on how to invest in a changing world 👇 https://unchainedcrypto.com/jeff-park-says-the-60-40-portfolio-may-be-dead-heres-his-radical-fix/

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Does ETH rely on charity? 😮 If MEV goes away, and fees collapse, who’s left securing Ethereum? Tom Dunleavy says it’s about aligned incentives. Austin Federa calls that charity 😇 https://unchainedcrypto.com/does-high-rev-signal-a-blockchains-strength-or-its-user-exploitation/

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If the sequencer is centralized and Ethereum does all the work, does your L2 need a token? Tom Dunleavy says that most L2 tokens are fundamentally worthless 🥵 https://unchainedcrypto.com/does-high-rev-signal-a-blockchains-strength-or-its-user-exploitation/

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Is REV the best way to measure blockchain value or just noise? I moderated a debate between Tom Dunleavy and Austin Federa where they discussed all things REV: 🤔 Does it reflect chain strength or inefficiency? 📊 Why Solana has higher REV than ETH 0️⃣ Whether it’s all going to zero ➕ and more! https://unchainedcrypto.com/does-high-rev-signal-a-blockchains-strength-or-its-user-exploitation/

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