On the eve of KBW Mike has resurfaced for this week's podcast. 

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It's been a huge seven days for pump.fun with the new streaming feature working wonders. That's on top of more pivots and conflict in the United Kingdom around our home country's stance on crypto, it's all very confusing.

Coinbase explore a token for Base And Hyperliquid's stablecoin king is crowned in Native Markets. 

• Rate cuts and crypto rallies
• ETF flood gates to open soon
• CZ is officially back in the game
• Avalanche lands Korean stablecoin

• DOJ <> Binance deal to be sealed soon
• Circle becomes stakeholder in Hyperliquid
• UK-US to join hands to support crypto adoption, regulation 
• HIP-4 to bring prediction markets to Hyperliquid 
• Rate cut imminent

Today's headlines include:

•⁠  ⁠Pump.fun streaming hits high gear
•⁠  ⁠⁠Ethereum unveils privacy roadmap
•⁠  ⁠⁠Trump says it’s going to be "a big cut" 
•⁠  ⁠⁠Tether's American stablecoin

Today's headlines:

•⁠  ⁠USDH Conclusion Nears
•⁠  ⁠⁠Solanat Treasuries Pile In 
•⁠  ⁠⁠Global Liquidity Set to Rise into 2026

Today's headlines include: 

•⁠  ⁠⁠AVAX treasury strategies 
•⁠  ⁠⁠SEC ETF delayed til Q4
•⁠  ⁠⁠Pump.fun continues to dominate

Nev (@nevlyfans) joins Alex, Gaz and Grant this week to make it two in a row for the Australia contingent. 

This week's obvious stories are the Hyperliquid stablecoin battle, Pokémon and collectibles hitting the timeline, and a series of scams, rugs, and Black Mirror tokens. 

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Today's headlines include:

•⁠  ⁠Sky enters the USDH wars
•⁠  ⁠⁠Bitcoin Strategic reserve back on the menu 
•⁠  ⁠⁠Someone got Pasternak’d
•⁠  ⁠⁠Tom Lee is a trading God
•⁠  ⁠⁠MegaEth flips the script on chain economics

Gaz covers prices and flows, and the headlines you need to know today, including: 

- The Hyperliquid stablecoin battleground 
- pump.fun buybacks 
- Tether FUD 
- Solana treasury companies

The uncs are in charge this week.

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Joining Alex, Gaz, and Grant is Chop from Pyth, a fellow millennial and another man too old for crypto. 

We're riffing on the last week in our industry and the headlines we most enjoyed, including:

- ZachXBT's KOL list and the randomers earning $60k a tweet
- Are we too old for crypto? The Gen Z wimps have rattled us
- Eliza Labs has been removed from Twitter by Elon
- And Chop gives us an idea of what's going on behind the scenes at Pyth HQ after this week's big news

Alex is back with Grant and Gaz for an extended episode with special guest Caleb from Football.fun, the consumer app that exploded across crypto Twitter this past week. 

Caleb talks us through why the platform is so popular, how to win and make money, and what's next in terms of infiltrating U.S. sports like NFL, basketball and baseball so the burgers don't feel so left out. 

We're also covering Kanye West's token, the Stargate acquisition drama, Solana being bought by everybody and plenty of other stuff that's too long for the description. 

Alex is out, KP is in… In this episode we unpack the Story Protocol mess - founder exit, $17 fees, and whether “soft rug pull” is fair. Then MetaMask’s mUSD and Circle’s L1 where USDC pays for gas. Clear takeaways for your wallet.

Ugh, sorry for the technical difficulties at the start of this one!

Mando from of Rekt fame joins Alex and Grant this week for a special guest appearance. Some big news to cover, starting with the Kaito changes that have lit a fire in the bellies of the shameless leaderboard farmers.

Depends which side of the fence you sit on here. I know where we stand. 

We’re talking about Stripe’s announcement that it’ll be launching its own L1 dedicated to stablecoins, aligning with Grant’s theory from a few weeks back. Typically, since recording, Circle has also announced its own stablecoin blockchain.

We can’t fckin keep up man.  

Alex and Gaz and joined by Waj as this week’s special guest jumping in for Grant while he takes a week out.

We’ll start off with the boring but important regulatory stuff and then get into the cop who thought he’d get involved in a Bitcoin heist, Justin Sun the astronaut and is the directionless UK actually going to adopt crypto?

We’ll see. 

Alex, Gaz and Grant cover off the main headlines and decide if Coinbase's latest product is garbage or not. Plus, we're getting into Polymarket's new competitor, why Elon and X are involved and why it stinks a little bit. 

Also happy birthday Ethereum, we love you really.

Alex, Gaz and Grant are joined by mr Juhyuk Bak aka MORBID-19 straight outta Seoul for an episode dedicated to our lord and saviour Ethereum and South Korea.

Not quite, but we’re discussing the last week or so Eth’s outperformance, the global marketing campaign that is taking over, plus:

• Is Ethereum pumping a bad thing?
• Are NFTs back on the menu?
• Charles Hoskinson’s (maybe) in the jungle taking ayahuasca
• The entire world loves XRP
• Why South Korea loves crypto 
• Price predictions for the remainder of the bull

There’s one story on the agenda today: Pump Fun and the $PUMP token launch.

What has happened so far, what comes next, and is the token worth buying? Regardless of what you think about the platform and its impact on the space, there’s a trade here and a decision to make on how you play it.

Ask yourself the question: do you want to be right, or do you want to make money?

Pump.fun just got flipped. And Zelensky’s suit causes uproar.

The meme coin casino is getting wild...

In this episode:

- LetsBONK dominates launchpads – how to catch the next 100x
- Is Pump.fun cooked?
- Does Elon Musk's new party supports Bitcoin?

In this week’s episode of The blocmates Podcast, we break down the massive geopolitical shockwaves rocking the crypto markets. The US just launched strikes on three key Iranian nuclear facilities, Iran's parliament is pushing to shut down the Strait of Hormuz – a chokepoint for 20% of global oil supply – and the market reacted hard.

We’re talking:
- The Trump–Iran chaos and why the “peace prize” moment aged horribly
- Strait of Hormuz and how it could reshape global energy (and your bags)
- Bitcoin dipping below $100k and $1B in daily liquidations
- Major breach season: from fake Ledger giveaways to Apple, Meta, Google and CMC being compromised
- Can decentralized infrastructure actually save us here? Enter: Tether’s PearPass

All this, plus our usual no-filter takes, bullish/bearish calls, and what it all means for the markets.

Strap in – this one’s stacked.

Elon vs Trump shakes the market, a man gets kidnapped, and Justin Sun might actually take Tron public?!

In the first episode of the newly branded blocmates Podcast, we break down the chaos across crypto — from France to the Middle East, meme coin madness to stablecoin adoption. Plus: Bybit’s bold DEX play and why Solana keeps winning.

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Alex and Gazz are driving the conversation this week and there will be no mention of Loudio. 

Rattling through our favourite stories, heavily centred around Trump’s latest fuckery, a potential pardoning for Sam Bankman-Fried, countries buying up Bitcoin and showstopper James Wynn teaching us all how to really trade with leverage.

Hola! And so we have it, another all-time high on Bitcoin, despite the fact that we've been brought back down to earth as I type this and we push the episode live.

Jedi is on the pod this week, bullish as ever, as we rattle through the top stories. Happy Friday. Share this with your pals. 

Gazz is back from his 2 year sabbatical to join Alex and Mike this week. 

We’re covering the Internet Capital Markets meta, everything that has happened with the Coinbase exploit and subsequent bounty by Brian Armstrong, plus more fuckery from pump.fun.

We even have some positive news for the industry and a real-world use case for blockchain tech, with Lyft jumping on the bandwagon.

Alex and 563 sit down for a chat about the creepy advancements in the AI sector and discuss how centralized players are already taking advantage.

We cover why it's already important that you're aware of what data you hand over, and where these developments could lead us in the future.

It's not all bleak, though, and 563 chats through how this incredible technology can bring real benefits to our day-to-day, if built responsibly.