📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium --- Quantum used to be crypto’s distant sci-fi problem. Justin Drake says it now has a clock. In this episode, we unpack what “Q-Day” actually means, why Justin thinks 2032 is the date the entire industry should be planning around, and why Ethereum is targeting 2029 to get post-quantum ready. --- BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🔮POLYMARKET | #1 PREDICTION MARKET https://bankless.cc/polymarket-podcast 🪐GALAXY | INSTITUTIONAL DIGITAL ...

Another week, another all-time high in poly market prediction market volumes. Okay, so Ryan, at the peak, the spike of the 2024 election, there was a weekly volume of just over a billion dollars traded on Poly Market and that was November 2024. So now we are into March of 2026.We are three weeks in a row of poly market volumes being over $2 billion a weekly volume. We are starting to look back on what looks like a very high spike of polymarket trading volumes and we are doing double that on a consistent bas ...

It is the third week of March, David. They actually did it. The SEC and the CFTC just dropped something that is absolutely historic.This is rulemaking coming from them that gives us the thing we've always asked for, which is some clarity. Tell us which assets are securities and which aren't in crypto. And they're actually doing that by name.I think this is uh one of the biggest things I've actually ever seen on the regulatory front happen in crypto. Insanely bullish. We'll talk about this rulemaking today.> ...

Banglation. I'm here with Giorgio's Constantopolis. He's an engineer at Tempo. And also joined with him is Brendan Ryan, another engineer at Tempo.Brendan Georgios, welcome to Bankless. >> Good to be with you guys. >> Big day.>> Thank you. >> Yes. >> So, congrats congrats on the Tempo launch.Uh what is I want to know what just like the the launch actually looks like, you know, day one or or just in the near term, the short term. What are the some of the first movers that are coming online. And then also jus ...

And unfortunately, we're in an age where the amount of information available to people has just sort of exponentially increased and continues to increase while our abilities, our collective ability to analyze in a sort of like an disciplined manner has tumbled significantly and we now are more prone to conspiracy theories, politicized conversations, partisan discourses, fake news and so on and so forth. It's a species level problem and it is the biggest conundrum that the planet is facing in my opinion for ...

📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ The Ethereum Foundation’s new mandate has reignited one of Ethereum’s oldest debates: Should it stay laser-focused on cypherpunk values, or lean harder into adoption, product, and market share? Ryan and David debate CROPS, self-sovereignty, ETH as money, and whether the EF is protecting Ethereum’s soul or holding it back. ------ 🔮POLYMARKET | #1 PREDICTION MARKET https://bankless.cc/polymarket-podcast 🪐GALAXY | INSTIT ...

📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium --- The next great battle in finance may not be over stocks, crypto, or even payments. It may be over where the $90 trillion great wealth transfer actually lands. In this episode, Robinhood founder and CEO Vlad Tenev returns to Bankless for a fast-moving conversation on how Robinhood wants to position itself for that generational handoff, why he believes 24/7 markets and tokenization are inevitable, and why the popular narra ...

“There is $25 million of volume” on oil price by end of March. "The majority of that volume came after a lot of the volatility happened." Which indicates "there is actually pretty clear hedging activity going on." A real Polymarket financial use case emerging in real time. 🎬 #Polymarket #PredictionMarkets #OilPrice #CrudeOil #Macro #Geopolitics #BreakingNews #FinanceTok #CryptoNews #MarketUpdate ...

📣FIGURE | CRYPTO-BACKED LOANS & ~9% RWA YIELD https://bankless.cc/Figure --- Ryan and David break down a week where war hit markets, and the safe-haven playbook broke down. Oil spiked, gold failed, bonds sold off, the dollar caught the flight to safety, and crypto somehow bounced right through it. Then they unpack Trump’s public pressure campaign against banks over stablecoin yield, Kraken’s historic Fedwire breakthrough, and why crypto is starting to look less like an outsider and more like part of the fin ...

📣GALAXY | INSTITUTIONAL DIGITAL FINANCE https://bankless.cc/Galaxy --- Ethereum underperformed this cycle, and investors are asking the big question: did ETH just skip a cycle, or is something deeper going on? Michael Nadeau joins Ryan to break down where Ethereum sits in the market cycle today, why several of his key indicators suggest ETH is entering a fair value zone, and whether the true macro bottom could still lie ahead. They also unpack why ETH struggled despite improving fundamentals. Mike explains ...