CoinDesk Podcast Network

Zcash jumps above $1,000.

Zcash surged around 20% to $1,000, nearly doubling in a month and liquidating $34.5 million in short positions. A new Grayscale spot ETF is helping fuel the privacy coin's run. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise Asset Management, joins Jennifer Sanasie for a special edition of Markets Outlook from the New York Stock Exchange to unpack the market's overnight flip from despair to euphoria. Hougan explains why a traditional 60/40 portfolio is "100% fiat currency," why holding 0% Bitcoin has become a misallocation, and where he's allocating now. Plus, why he gives Bitcoin a good chance of reclaiming $100K this year and sees $1.3 million by 2035.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon also joins to unpack Stellar crossing $4 billion in tokenized real-world assets, a 400% jump since January.

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Timecodes:

00:00 - Matt Hougan Joins Markets Outlook

00:45 - Despair to Euphoria: What Flipped the Market

03:20 - AI Stocks vs. Bitcoin

05:49 - Brand New Rails: Stellar Crosses $4B in Tokenized RWAs

08:05 - Bitcoin, Zcash, and the Tokenization Trade

14:15 - Matt's Bitcoin Price Prediction This Year and By 2035

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This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment platform. Grayscale's mission is to make digital asset investing simple and open to every investor. Learn more at grayscale.com.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

The copy-paste hack that stole $150K.

CrowdStrike and federal authorities dismantled Sality, a botnet that spent eight years swapping copied wallet addresses for the attacker's, so victims unknowingly sent crypto to a stranger. The fix is simple: check the first and last characters of any address after you paste it. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment platform. Grayscale's mission is to make digital asset investing simple and open to every investor. Learn more at grayscale.com.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Tether faces lawsuit for allegedly freezing $42M USDT before a warrant.

Two Thai businessmen are suing Tether, alleging it froze 42.4 million USDT months before U.S. authorities obtained a seizure warrant. Tether calls the lawsuit baseless, but it raises the question of whether the issuer can freeze tokens in private wallets before any legal process. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment platform. Grayscale's mission is to make digital asset investing simple and open to every investor. Learn more at grayscale.com.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Ben Spiegelman, Head of Institutional at Base, to break down Coinbase's newly launched tokenized stocks. Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale, unpacks the debut of the first-ever Zcash ETF. Plus, Solstice CEO Ben Nadareski explains strcUSX, a Solana-based product that splits the economics of Strategy's STRC preferred into senior and junior tranches.

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Chapters/Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to Public Keys

00:24 Coinbase Brings Tokenized Stocks to Base

00:44 Base's Ben Spiegelman Joins Public Keys

01:02 What Makes Coinbase's Tokenized Stocks Different

03:26 The Killer DeFi Use Case: Borrowing Against Your Stocks

04:11 The CLARITY Act and a Future US Launch

05:24 Trading, Financing, and Payments on Base

07:04 What Still Gives Institutions Pause On-Chain

09:15 ETF Flows: Bitcoin and Ether Cool After a Record August

10:04 Grayscale's Zach Pandl on a Healing Crypto Market

11:13 What Happens If the CLARITY Act Doesn't Pass

12:18 'Recktember' and the Q4 Bitcoin Outlook

13:42 The First-Ever Zcash ETF and the Privacy Thesis

15:47 Scarcity vs. Privacy: What's Driving Zcash

17:10 Institutional vs. Retail Demand for the Zcash ETF

19:04 Solstice's Ben Nadareski and Strategy's STRC on Solana

20:38 Inside strcUSX: Senior and Junior Tranches

21:40 Building on Strategy's Platform

23:19 Why Solstice Built on Solana

25:30 The Institutional DeFi Adoption Curve