• Govt shutdown ends
• Crypto fear and greed index drops to bear market levels
• The Hyperliquid vault x POPCAT attack saga 
• Aave-Aptos tie up 
• Aerodrome and Velodrome's merger

We're discussing the grumblings across crypto that Monad has rugged its loyal farmers with a 3% allocation for the long-awaited airdrop. 

Three years of tweeting gMonad leads to this?! How dare they!

Also MegaETH revokes an ICO allocation after tweets insinute that there was an intention to sell, the U.K. shits the bed on stablecoins and Farage says he will save the day.

What a week. 

• JPMorgan rolls out JMP Coin 
• UAE executes its first transaction using the digital dirham
• XRP ETF to go live on Thursday
• Lighter raises at $1.5 billion valuation  
• Lido drops proposal for LDO buy backs

• Uniswap's fee switch proposal 
• Monad tokenomics 
• Coinbase's ICO platform launch
• MegaETH x ICO Beast saga
• ETPs and staking rewards

• US government shutdown is coming to an end 
• Trump promises $2k dividend for Americans 
• Ledger is looking to go public in 2026
• Bitcoin and the 50 week moving average battle 

• LayerZero buys $10 million worth ZRO  
• Ark Invest and JPMorgan unveil Bitcoin price targets
• OG whales have been selling Bitcoin all year
• Google to offer Kalshi and Polymarket data on finance searches

Bread (CMO at MegaETH) is this week’s guest with Alex and Grant.

We’re discussing what’s gone down with MEXC freezing funds, the Balancer hack and Berachain, plus getting the info on what’s next for MegaETH ahead of launch.

• Trump says US will be the "crypto capital of the world"
• Ripple raises $500 million in latest investment round
• Robinhood ($HOOD) earnings: Revenue doubled
• ZachXBT teams up with Binance Chain

• Sequans becomes the first BTC DAT to sell its holdings 
• Wintermute says no more four-year cycle
• Berachain is back online after recovering $12.8 million
• Gemini to launch prediction market contracts 
• Government shutdown is coming to an end according to Kalshi/Polymarket

• Balancer exploit breakdown
• Canton Network TGE and its upcoming $540 million DAT  
• Stream Finance and its $93 million loss 
• Strategy's new offering: Stream $STRE  
• The Wintermute x Binance legal saga

• MEXC saga unfolded 
• The Fed's $30 billion injection
• Government shutdown updates
• CZ and his $2 million ASTER purchase
• PUMP airdrop soon?

Defi Dad and Nomatic join Grant and Alex on this week's episode to talk about the week that was in crypto. 

We get into the Blockworks news and talk about journalism's place in crypto, as well as Kalshi and Polymarket's agreement with the NHL, ETHZilla let down the Ethereum bulls and we ask the fellas which project they're watching at the minute.

Enjoy. 

• SBF opens up about FTX's solvency
• Coinbase & MicroStrategy earnings round up
• Did CZ dump Aster?  
• MegaETH's historic ICO raise

• 21Shares files for Hyperliquid ETF 
• OpenAI's $1 trillion valuation and IPO buzz  
• Visa to adopt 4 stablecoins across 4 chains
• Macro updates: FOMC & Trump-Xi talks

• ETHZilla Sells $40M worth ETH
• Mt Gox repayments delayed by another year
• Bitcoin treasury companies add to their stacks 
• MegaETH ICO sees 9x oversubscription

• US-China tariff negotiations look promising
• Bitcoin selling decelerates 
• Pump acquires trading terminal Padre  
• Agent-to-agent transactions skyrocket
• Japan launches stablecoin JPYC

Bulletin Highlights

• Trump pardons CZ
• Robinhood continues listing spree, adds HYPE
• Stable deposit cap shenanigans
• Aave acquisition & aggressive buy-backs in the works

Topics:

• Polymarket & Kalshi eye deca-billion valuations
• A16Z "State of Crypto 2025" is released
• Kinetiq (LST provider on Hyperliquid) announces token & airdrop
• Jeff "finance as a whole" goes viral
• Bunni shuts up shop after recent $8 million hack

• Trump tariff talk spooks the market
• Coinbase's $375 million Echo deal
• Kadena blockchain's sunsetting plans
• Bitcoin whales and shorting  
• Jupiter and its Kalshi-powered prediction market launch 

It's our first time live-streaming the blocmates podcast and we're two weeks behind, so Nev's come along to catch up on what we've missed. 

Obviously we're stoked about Echo and Up Only, but there are headlines to talk about! And talk about them we shall!

• Coinbase buys Cobie's Up Only NFT for $25 million
• Is AI going to out-trade us? NOF1.ai competition heats up
• Will Bitcoin catch up with gold?
• New multchain memecoin launchpad to go live today
• Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade is nearing

Topics:

- Ethereum Foundation gets Danksharded
- Top Crypto execs to discuss market structure bill
- Bitcoin shows signs of recovery, weekly back in the range
- Who is selling Bitcoin? Onchain analysis

• Gold continues parabolic rise, Schiff's euphoric
• Robinhood and its listings
• Ripple and its upcoming $1B DAT 
• Regional bank trouble: Is the printer coming?

• Launchcoin to Believe migration 
• Paxos' $300 trillion onchain error 
• Binance's South Korean exchange acquisition
• Trump's announcement of an announcement  
• Ripple's African moves 

• QT is nearing its end with rate cuts ahead
• Binance issues more refunds
• MetaMask ties up with Polymarket
• Coinbase invests in India's biggest exchange