CoinDesk Podcast Network

Wanchain bridge hack, why Ethereum keeps getting it wrong, and Cardano's outlook with Charles Hoskinson.

After a bridge hack rattled the Cardano ecosystem, Charles Hoskinson, CEO and Founder of Input Output, joins Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook to lay out why crypto desperately needs wallet insurance, ZK-powered identity, and white hat rescue frameworks. Plus, what Cardano's latest hard fork really means for decentralized governance, why he thinks Ethereum keeps getting it wrong, and what it will actually take for prices to recover. Plus, we look at the DTCC taking tokenized securities live in today’s Brand New Rails segment.

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Timecodes:

00:00 - Charles Hoskinson Joins Markets Outlook

01:25 - Wanchain Bridge Hack and What It Revealed

02:21 - Why Midnight Was Built for This Moment

03:44 - Why Crypto Needs Wallet and Bridge Insurance

05:28 - How ZK Identity Unlocks Recovery and White Hat Rescues

09:46 - The "Unsexy" Unlock: Why Insurance Could Onboard the Masses

13:17 - Cardano's Hard Fork to v11 and What It Means

14:42 - Cardano's Decentralized Governance in Action

17:35 - Executive Function: The Last Governance Milestone

20:08 - Brand New Rails: What’s Next After the DTCC Moved Tokenized Securities Into Live Production

22:07 - Cardano's Outlook: Narrative Reset, Bitcoin DeFi, and the Partner Chain Model

26:05 - The Anthropic Analogy: Why Doing It Right Beats Doing It Fast

29:12 - Why Ethereum Keeps Getting It Wrong

36:22 - When Will Prices Catch Up? Charles' Market Framework

42:28 - The AI Wildcard and What It Means for Crypto

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

Revolut valued at $115 billion.

Digital bank Revolut has been valued at $115 billion in a secondary share sale, a 53% jump in under a year that makes it Europe's most valuable private company. The crypto-friendly firm has floated seeking a $200 billion valuation in a future IPO. 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.

Dan Romero, who leads go-to-market at Tempo, joins Sam Ewen with a 12-year crypto perspective that stretches from the early days at Coinbase to building Farcaster to now focusing entirely on stablecoin payment rails. He breaks down why these three things: regulation, infrastructure, and distribution, have finally aligned to make real world crypto adoption possible, and why Tempo's betting on being the best payments chain rather than a general purpose blockchain.
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Timecodes:
0:00 – Intro on stablecoin yield philosophy
1:20 – From Farcaster to Tempo: the through line
2:56 – The market split: speculation vs. stablecoins
5:37 – Regulatory tailwinds from the Genius Act
8:41 – How yield on Tempo works
14:23 – Balancing privacy and transparency
17:38 – What it takes to win in payments infrastructure
21:01 – Why compliance matters
22:25 – Outlook on the Genius Act rulemaking
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"Spotlight" features host Sam Ewen.

Clarity Act odds surged after unverified reports of a Trump ethics deal.

Polymarket traders raised the odds of the Clarity Act becoming law this year to 42%, after reports that President Trump agreed to the ethics provision that had stalled the crypto market structure bill. 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.

On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Ben Emons, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of FedWatch Advisors, to break down the market fallout from Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and why the Fed is now actively debating rate hikes rather than cuts ahead of the August 7th CLARITY Act deadline.

Nadine Chakar, Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Assets at DTCC, explains how the firm moved tokenized securities into live production and outlines DTCC's role as an institutional multi-chain orchestrator ahead of a full commercial launch. The conversation turns to ETF flows, where Bitcoin funds finished last week with $76 million in net inflows despite a $425 million outflow on Monday alone, and Ethereum ETFs outpaced Bitcoin inflows led by $135 million into BlackRock's ETHA.

Finally, Bilal Little, Global ETF Strategist at Direxion, unpacks the debut of BTCU and EVMU — the industry's first 2x leveraged spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs — explains why an ETF wrapper beats margin on a crypto exchange for retail traders, and responds to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas's thesis that Bitcoin ETFs will mirror gold's 22-year "triumph and pain" trajectory. The episode closes with the Fear and Greed Index at 29.

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Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to Public Keys

00:22 Ben Emons (FedWatch Advisors) Joins Public Keys

00:48 China's Kimi K3 Rattles Chip Stocks Friday

01:42 Bitcoin Holds $64K, While AI Sells Off

02:59 Crypto Miners Pivot to AI: HUT8 Up 14%

03:58 Kimi K3 vs. DeepSeek: This Time It's a Price War

05:03 AI Selloff Tightens Financial Conditions, Helps Fed

06:32 Fed Now Debating Rate Hikes, Not Cuts

06:58 CLARITY Act Deadline: August 7th

09:15 DTCC Takes Tokenized Securities Into Live Production

09:36 Nadine Chakar on the 10-Year Journey to Live Tokenization

13:45 DTCC's Multi-Chain Roadmap

15:26 DTCC's Digital Twin Framework

18:14 Bitcoin ETF Flows: $76M Week Masks $425M Monday Outflow

18:49 Ether ETFs Outpace Bitcoin; Robinhood Chain Hits $800M+ Daily Volume

19:35 Bilal Little (Direxion) on the First 2x Spot Crypto ETF Debut

22:42 How BTCU and EVMU Work — and Why Not Just Use Margin?

25:50 Do Bitcoin ETFs Mirror Gold?

27:38 Fear and Greed Index at 29