CoinDesk Podcast Network

China to seize 618,00 BTC in fraud case.

Chinese prosecutors are moving to confiscate more than 61,800 bitcoin linked to an alleged $5.7 billion wealth-management fraud run by Qian Zhimin. The coins, seized in the UK after he fled China, could be worth far more today than when they were taken. 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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Digital asset vaults are growing rapidly, but understanding the risks behind them requires more than on-chain data. S&P Global Ratings' Vault Risk Assessment (VRA) delivers independent, forward-looking insight into vault credit quality, governance, and risk management, helping bring institutional-grade risk transparency to digital asset markets. Learn more at https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/products/vault-risk-assessments.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Alex Gluchowski, CEO and co-founder of Matter Labs, joins CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook to unpack Prividium Commander, the company’s new product built to take digital assets from pilots to revenue. Gluchowski explains why operational friction, not technology, keeps institutions from moving digital asset experiments into production, and how Commander gives banks one control plane to run digital asset services under their own rules.

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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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Digital asset vaults are growing rapidly, but understanding the risks behind them requires more than on-chain data. S&P Global Ratings' Vault Risk Assessment (VRA) delivers independent, forward-looking insight into vault credit quality, governance, and risk management, helping bring institutional-grade risk transparency to digital asset markets. Learn more at https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/products/vault-risk-assessments.

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Timecodes:

00:00 - Matter Labs’ Alex Gluchowski Joins Markets Outlook

01:40 - What Is Prividium Commander?

02:03 - Why Bank Blockchain Pilots Stall Before Production

04:30 - What Happens When Banks Build Their Own Plumbing

05:34 - How Cari Network Is Bringing 30 Banks to Tokenized Deposits

06:48 - The Path From Commander to ZK

09:06 - What Institutions Want From ZK Privacy

10:52 - Can Blockchains Handle Bank-Level Volume?

12:04 - Matter Labs’ Vision for a Global Digital Asset Economy

What a potential SpaceX-Tesla merger means for their BTC bags.

Elon Musk said SpaceX and Tesla are exploring a merger that would combine the two companies and their more than 30,000 bitcoin. Both have formed special committees to weigh the deal, though Musk says he can't take part because of his stakes in each. 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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Digital asset vaults are growing rapidly, but understanding the risks behind them requires more than on-chain data. S&P Global Ratings' Vault Risk Assessment (VRA) delivers independent, forward-looking insight into vault credit quality, governance, and risk management, helping bring institutional-grade risk transparency to digital asset markets. Learn more at https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/products/vault-risk-assessments.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

JPMorgan expects BTC to outperform U.S. stocks, bonds and gold in the next decade.

JPMorgan now expects bitcoin to outperform U.S. stocks, bonds and gold over the next 10 years, forecasting a 10% annualized base case. It's the first time the bank has put a range on bitcoin returns — a notable shift for a firm whose CEO once called it a "fraud." 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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Digital asset vaults are growing rapidly, but understanding the risks behind them requires more than on-chain data. S&P Global Ratings' Vault Risk Assessment (VRA) delivers independent, forward-looking insight into vault credit quality, governance, and risk management, helping bring institutional-grade risk transparency to digital asset markets. Learn more at https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/products/vault-risk-assessments.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

S&P Global Ratings Managing Director and Digital Assets Analytical Lead Andrew O’Neill joins CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie to unpack the firm’s new Vault Risk Assessment (VRA). He explains how onchain lending vaults work, why transparency isn’t the same as understanding risk, and how the VRA looks at a vault’s portfolio, liquidity, curator, operational security and governance. Plus, how the VRA differs from a credit rating, how vaults could fuel a liquidity flywheel for onchain finance, and what agentic AI could mean for the pace of risk in financial markets.

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Digital asset vaults are growing rapidly, but understanding the risks behind them requires more than on-chain data. S&P Global Ratings' Vault Risk Assessment (VRA) delivers independent, forward-looking insight into vault credit quality, governance, and risk management, helping bring institutional-grade risk transparency to digital asset markets.

Learn more at https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/products/vault-risk-assessments.

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Timecodes:

00:00 - S&P Global Ratings’ Andrew O’Neill Joins CoinDesk

02:00 - What Is a DeFi Lending Vault?

03:09 - How S&P Global Ratings Evaluates Vault Risk

05:14 - Is the VRA a Credit Rating?

07:07 - Why S&P Global Ratings Is Focusing on Vaults Now

08:25 - The Biggest Gaps in Onchain Finance

09:26 - S&P Global Ratings’ Vision for Tokenized Finance

11:08 - Agentic AI and the New Pace of Risk