CoinDesk Podcast Network

BlackRock launches the BITA fund.

BlackRock's Bitcoin Premium Income Fund, ticker BITA, begins trading today, holding spot bitcoin and IBIT shares while selling call options to generate monthly income. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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

Crypto scams and how to protect yourself with Chainalysis' Eric Jardine.

Eric Jardine, Head of Research at Chainalysis, joins Gen C to break down their latest crypto crime report and the staggering numbers of nearly $17 billion stolen in scams in 2025 alone. Eric explains how AI has changed the scam equation by allowing bad actors to hit massive scale without sacrificing quality, why the people executing scams in Southeast Asian compounds are often trafficking victims themselves, and why crypto's measurability is actually an argument in its favor and not against it.

Links mentioned from the podcast:
Chainalysis Website: https://www.chainalysis.com/
Crypto Crime Report: https://www.chainalysis.com/reports/crypto-crime-2026/

Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Sam's intro: crypto crime by the numbers
1:44 Welcome Eric Jardine, Chainalysis
2:34 $17B+ stolen in crypto scams (2025)
2:55 Why are scams growing? Bull markets & victim pools
4:19 Impersonation scams up 1400% YoY
5:10 How impersonation scams work (IRS, Coinbase, deepfakes)
6:53 E-ZPass smishing — crypto settlement demands
8:24 Scam-as-a-service: $500 spoofed government websites
10:24 AI as a productivity boost for criminals
11:58 DPRK (Lazarus Group) vs. Southeast Asia scam compounds
13:57 Human trafficking & forced labor in scam operations
17:37 How to protect yourself
20:09 Jurisdictional challenges & enforcement gaps
21:45 Silk Road anniversary & crypto's illicit narrative
23:04 Is crypto actually worse than cash for crime?
25:13 Enforcement wins: 61K BTC recovered, $15B forfeiture
26:13 Closing Remarks

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"Gen C" features host Sam Ewen. Executive produced by Uyen Truong.

Anthropic pulled the plug on its Mythos / Fable 5 model after the U.S. government raised concerns, and IREN has completed its acquisition of Nostrum for 490 MW of capacity in Spain.

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Anthropic and Uncle Sam are trading blows again, with the frontier LLM company pulling its recently released Mythos / Fable 5 model after whistleblowers said the model’s guardrails were bypassed. Lygos Finance’s CEO Jay Patel joins us for his reaction to the news and the market rally with a reported, imminent peace deal coming for the Iran War this week. For other news, we cover IREN’s closing its acquisition of Nostrum, which will give it a 490 MW foothold in Spain for AI data center development, and the EPA’s stance that it won’t regulate AI data centers.

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Energy Investors Forum is coming to Dallas on July 23, bringing together executives, operators, fund managers and investors across AI infrastructure, energy markets, data centers and bitcoin mining.

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On this episode of Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by GSR's Joshua Riezman on SpaceX's $1.29 billion Bitcoin bet and the outlook for the CLARITY Act; Citi's Artem Korenyuk on the bank's new platform for tokenizing private company shares; and Coinbase's Lincoln Murr on AI agent trading and the future of autonomous finance. Plus, Ponzi Trader's highest-conviction trade of the week on 10X, presented by Kraken Pro.

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Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to Public Keys

01:00 U.S.-Iran Deal Reopens Strait of Hormuz

01:28 SpaceX IPOs With $1.29B in Bitcoin

02:01 GSR's Joshua Riezman Joins Public Keys

03:23 Bitcoin's Corporate Treasury Era

04:47 AI vs. Crypto for Capital Flows

07:06 CLARITY Act: Now or Never

10:20 10X: Ponzi Trader’s Top Trade is XPL

12:04 Citi's Artem Korenyuk Joins Public Keys

13:29 Digital Depository Receipts Explained

16:13 Citi's Broader Tokenization Strategy

18:12 Investor Rights and Private Share Ownership

20:20 BTC and ETH ETF Flows

21:18 Coinbase Launches for Agents, Lincoln Murr Joins

23:03 AI Agent Safety and Coinbase Advisor

26:02 The Agentic Financial Future and x402

28:19 Fear & Greed Index Climbs to 20

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

Peace deal between U.S. and Iran.

The peace deal between the U.S. and Iran over the weekend sent the broader crypto market up. Bitcoin reached the highest level in two weeks while oil slid on news the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. CoinDesk's Sam Ewen hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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