On The Brink with Castle Island

Business & Economics Podcasts

Hosts Matt Walsh and Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures explore news and deals in the public blockchain space and talk to some of the leading experts in the industry. Learn more and stay up to date at CastleIsland.vc and follow on twitter...

Episodes

Weekly Roundup 07/09/26 (BonkDAO exploit, Choke Point 2.0 extended to audit firms, Kraken v Mazars) (EP.729)

Weekly Roundup 07/03/26 (OpenUSD announced, Binance leaves the EU, Strategy's new framework) (EP.728)

Weekly Roundup 06/26/26 (Quantum EOs, STRC's selloff, more MSTR) (EP.727)

Weekly Roundup 06/19/26 (STRC under pressure, Illinois' crypto tax, Open weight AI vs the AI boom) (EP.726)

Weekly Roundup 06/12/26 (Strategy survives, Zcash Orchard bug, the thin model hypothesis) (EP.725)

Omid Malekan (Columbia Business School) on Private Money, Financial Systems, and Crypto in Geopolitics (EP.724)

Weekly Roundup 06/05/26 (MSTR wobbles, Polymarket's MSTR market, Andrew Left convicted) (EP.723)

Weekly Roundup 05/29/26 (Was debanking real, SoFiUSD, WSJ gets free banks wrong, trouble in ETHland) (EP.722)

Weekly Roundup 05/22/26 (AI and power bills, SpaceX IPO, Prime Trust clawbacks, USG invests in quantum) (EP.721)

Weekly Roundup feat. Gus Coldebella 05/15/26 (Clarity advances, Circle's Arc token) (EP.720)

Weekly Roundup 05/08/26 (Consensus Miami, AI layoffs strike Coinbase, Clarity compromise, AI energy and water use) (EP.719)

Weekly Roundup 05/30/26 (DeFi's worst ever month, PTJ on Bitcoin, quantum canaries) (EP.718)

Pluto (Harbor) on the fate of DeFi after KelpDAO (EP.717)

Weekly Roundup 04/24/26 (Finding Satoshi, KelpDAO retrospective, Insider weather betting, Coinbase's Quantum report) (EP.716)

Brandon Arvanaghi (Meow) on Banking AI Agents (EP.715)

Weekly Roundup 04/17/26 (BIP361 proposal, SEC's DeFi frontend policy, CSW's Bitcoin movie) (EP.714)

Weekly Roundup 04/10/26 (New Satoshi candidates, Mythos' 0-days, CZ's memoir) (EP.713)

Connor Dougherty (Valinor) on the Evolution of Private Credit (EP.712)

Weekly Roundup 04/03/26 (Two big quantum papers, Drift protocol hack, Maritime Salvage law) (EP.711)

Weekly Roundup 03/27/26 (Google's Quantum Deadline, Circle's selloff, DATs are selling) (EP.710)