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The Decrypting Crypto Podcast
by Matthew Howells-Barby & Austin Knight
We highlight the people, products, and protocols shaping the future of crypto, DeFi, and web3. Your hosts, Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight, will take you on a journey of decrypting the various concepts related to blockchain and web3 technology, explaining them in a language that everyone can understand.
Episodes
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Is Gold Stealing Bitcoin's Shine?
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the current state of the crypto market, focusing on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the impact of the recent Fed rate decision. They explore the significant rally in precious metals, particularly gold,...
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Can BTC Rally in Late December?
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the recent Federal Reserve rate decision and its implications for the cryptocurrency market, particularly Bitcoin. They analyze the correlation between macroeconomic factors and BTC price...
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Bitcoin's Last Stand?
In this conversation, Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the current price levels of Bitcoin and their significance, particularly in relation to ETF investments. They emphasise the importance of the recent price range and its implications for institutional investors, highlighting the...
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UNI Fee Switch, Strategy's mNAV, and the State of the Markets
Summary In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the current state of the crypto market, the implications of the recent government shutdown, and Trump's economic proposals. They delve into liquidity trends influenced by Federal…
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EOY Predictions Check-In & Q4 Outlook
Summary In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the current state of the cryptocurrency market, review their predictions made at the beginning of the year, and analyze various economic factors influencing the market. They delve into...
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The Aftermath of Crypto's Black Friday
Summary In this episode, hosts Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the recent significant market crash in the crypto space, dubbed 'Crypto's Black Friday.' They analyze the causes of the crash, including the unprecedented $19 billion in liquidations and the role of perpetual futures...
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Uptober, Perp Wars & AI x Crypto
In this episode, Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight explore the latest trends in the crypto world, focusing on the phenomenon of 'Uptober,' the competitive landscape of perpetual swaps, and the emerging intersection of AI and cryptocurrency. They discuss market dynamics, regulatory…
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After the Rate Cut: Bullish or Bearish?
In this episode, Matt Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the recent Fed rate cuts and their implications for the crypto and equity markets. They delve into the dot plot's insights, the SEC's easing of ETF regulations, and the overall market sentiment regarding valuations and investor…
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Eyes on the Rate Cut, Hyperliquid's Stablecoin, & Crypto IPO Season
Summary In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matt Howells-Barby and Austin Knight share their market reactions and economic data, analyzing inflation trends and the potential for rate cuts. The conversation shifts to the rise of Hyperliquid and its upcoming stablecoin, USDH,...
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The Path to Going Parabolic
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matt Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the current state of the crypto market, influenced heavily by macroeconomic factors. They analyze Nvidia's recent earnings report, the implications of jobless claims data, and the potential for…
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Market Volatility and Monero's 51% Attack
Join Matt Howells-Barby as he navigates the latest in crypto and macroeconomic trends. This episode delves into the impact of potential rate cuts on global markets, the volatility surrounding Jay Powell's upcoming speech, and the fascinating story of Monero's 51% attack by Qubic. Plus, a look at...
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Tokenizing Everything
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matt Howells-Barby and Austin Knight delve into the transformative world of tokenizing real-world assets. Discover how tokenized stocks and bonds are reshaping traditional finance, offering unprecedented access and flexibility. From the rise...
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Fed Hawkishness, BTC ETFs Record AUM, and ETH's 6s Block Times
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matt Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the recent Federal Reserve rate decision, its implications for the economy and markets, and the reactions from various sectors. They delve into the performance of tech stocks following earnings...
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An Inflection Point for ETH
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matt Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the latest developments in the crypto market, focusing on Bitcoin and Ethereum's performance, the surge in Ethereum validators entering the exit queue, and the implications of the recently passed...
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ETH Takes Center Stage During Crypto Week
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matt Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the latest developments in the cryptocurrency market, including significant price movements, the recent Pump Token ICO, and the implications of new legislation on the crypto landscape. They…
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Are Bitcoin Treasury Companies the Next Black Swan Event?
Summary In this episode, Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the evolving landscape of Bitcoin treasury companies, their impact on the market, and the associated risks. They explore the differences between leveraged and non-leveraged treasury companies, the influence of MicroStrategy,...
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Welcome to Stablecoin Summer
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, Matthew Howells-Barby discusses the latest developments in the cryptocurrency market, including the May CPI report, the surge in IPOs, particularly in the stablecoin sector, and GameStop's recent investment in Bitcoin. He highlights the positive...
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Market Momentum, Meta's Stablecoin Push, and Phantom Enters the LST Market
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matt Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the recent market rally in the crypto space, highlighting the significant rise of altcoins and the impact of inflation data on market sentiment. They celebrate Coinbase's entry into the S&P 500 as…
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Crypto Add $100bn in Value Overnight
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matt Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the recent surge in Bitcoin and the overall crypto market, driven by macroeconomic factors and optimism surrounding trade deals. They delve into the implications of the Federal Reserve's interest...
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TRUMP Surges & BTC Dominance Continues: Can the Rally Hold?
In this episode of the Decrypting Crypto podcast, hosts Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight discuss the latest trends in the cryptocurrency market, including the impact of political announcements, macroeconomic factors, and new investment vehicles. They explore how Trump's recent statements...
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It's So Over; We Are So Back
🎙️ Off Chain Weekly Recap – April 10, 2025 This week, Matt and Austin unpack one of the wildest weeks in markets this year: 🔹 Trump’s Tariff Tsunami: A 10% universal tariff turned into a tit-for-tat trade war with China, peaking at 125% tariffs on Chinese imports. China hit back hard — tariffs,...
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The Fed is Dovish, While Strategy Remains Bullish
In this week's episode we cover yesterday's Fed meeting and rate decision, discuss the macro outlook, dig into the pump.fun vs Raydium battle within Solana, and explain Strategy's recent STRF issuance.
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The Crypto Strategic Reserve: What's Coming?
In this week's episode, we take a look at the state of the markets, as well as the recent announcements regarding the US Strategic Crypto Reserve.
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Buying opportunity or a reason to be cautious?
In this week's episode, we dig into this week's market volatility, looking at the impact of DeepSeek across global markets, yesterday's FOMC meeting, and the reasons behind the disproportionate sell off in alts and memes.
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2025 Predictions & 2024 Prediction Results
This week's episode is a bumper episode where we look back at our predictions from the start of 20245 and see how we performed. Plus, we make predictions for 2025 across the following topics: What will be the highest price BTC hits in 2025? What will be the highest price ETH hits in 2025? How…
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The Fed Turns Hawkish: What's Next?
In this week's episode, we discuss the recent shift in approach from the Fed and how this has impacted the crypto markets.
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100k BTC: What's Next?
In today's episode, Matt looks at the contributing factors to Bitcoin's meteoric rise above 100k and shares his take on where we go from here. After this, he looks at the emerging winners across the wider crypto asset space and shares some thoughts on how to approach the next few weeks and months.
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The Golden Bull
After a couple of months off, we're back! We dig into everything you've missed and share our thoughts on how you can play the next few months. Could this be the beginning of a golden era of crypto?
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CBDCs: The [Dark] Future of Money (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second of a two-part series where Matt and Austin take a deep dive into central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This episode focuses on the arguments for and against their use.
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CBDCs: What's Coming and Why Should You Care? (Part 1 of 2)
This is the first in a two-part series where Matt and Austin take a deep dive into central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This episode focuses more on what CBDCs are, what they're capable of, and what their current rate of development progress is. Part two will go live next week where we dig…
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While the Rest of the Market Chops, DeFi is Thriving
In this week's episode, we dig into the impressive trading volume happening across the DeFi ecosystem and the gains that DEX volume is making on CEX volume. Alongside this, we look at some of the big capital movements from the past few weeks.
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The Land Grab for Wrapped Bitcoin Dominance
There was significant news in the crypto ecosystem this week as Maker DAO passed a proposal to limit their exposure to WBTC across their platforms, effectively offboarding the asset from their ecosystem. We talk through what's happened and what the implications of this are.
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Explaining the Current Market Volatility
In this week's episode we break down the major drivers of volatility in global markets. We unpack what's causing the major drawdown in the Nikkei, S&P500, NASDAQ, and many other major global indices, plus the bleed in crypto markets. Plus, we take a look at one bright spot: the ETH & BTC ETF flows.
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All Roads Leads to YES: Behind the Curtain of Launching a Memecoin
We speak with Mightysol, the founder of the Chads NFT collection and now $YES memecoin to talk about what it was like launching an NFT collection on Solana in the fallout of the FTX collapse as well as what goes into the planning of a memecoin launch.
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The Bullish Path Ahead
We talk through the state of the market, the upcoming ETH ETFs, the impact of Mt.Gox, FTX, and BLockFi redistributions, and the macro outlook for the rest of 2024.
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Building a Bitcoin Layer 2 with Max Chamberlin of Bitfinity
In today's episode, we're joined by Max Chamberlin, the cofounder of Bitfinity - a next-gen EVM Bitcoin layer 2.
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RIP BAYC?
In today's episode, we dig into the demise of Bored Ape Yacht Club. The floor price of BAYC NFTs has reached its lowest point since early 2021 and sentiment among the community is at an all-time low. Can Yuga turn things around?
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Ordinals, Runes, and $DOG to the Moon w/ Leonidas
We host Leonidas, the founder of Ord.io, creator of the Runestone Ordinals project, and overall mega-bull on Runes. We discuss the future of Runes, Ordinals and Bitcoin L2s. Don't miss this one.
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On Chain Gaming's Struggle to Find Product Market Fit
In this week's episode, we discuss: 1. Quick overview of the current macro situation. 2. Crypto gaming's struggle to find PMF and what's next. 3. Lessons learned from minting Runes.
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Which Crypto Narratives We're Focused On, PLUS - Is Crypto A Major Political Issue Now?
In this week's episode, we discuss the upcoming narratives in the crypto space where we think there are the most opportunities over the coming months. Plus, we dig into the growing feeling that crypto is becoming a major theme in the upcoming US presidential election.
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Why You're Not Bullish Enough
In this week's episode, we dig into the major catalysts that are coming to the crypto markets in the coming few months, and the reasons why you should be bullish. We dig into the implications of the spot Ether ETF plus the recent FIT21 legislation.
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A Primer on Bitcoin Layer 2s, plus the US Goverment's MEV Case
In this week's episode we dig into the exciting world of Bitcoin Layer 2s, explaining why they're important, how they work, and what to look out for. Alongside this, Austin digs into the recent case from the US Government against the Pepaire-Bueno brothers and their MEV exploit which earned them...
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EigenLayer's Stakedrop is Nearly Here... Here's What You Should Know
In today's episode, we dig into the upcoming $EIGEN token launch, what we expect the value to come in at, plus some of the controversy surrounding it. Plus, we explain why. CZ's sentence confirms that we're living in a simulation.
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An Introduction to Runes and What's Next Post-Bitcoin Halving
Runes is a fungible token protocol built on Bitcoin. If you’re familiar with Ordinals, more specifically Inscriptions - they’re effectively NFTs on Bitcoin. Runes, on the other hand, are like ERC-20s (from Ethereum) on Bitcoin. In this episode, we do a deep dive into the protocol that's set to...
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Everything You Need to Know About the EigenLayer Mainnet Launch
In this week's episode, Matt gives a full overview of the EigenLayer protocol, how restaking changes the way new projects are launching, and what this means for staking on Ethereum.
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How Pendle is innovating in the liquid restaking space
In this week's episode we do a deep dive into the DeFi innovation happening within the liquid restaking space via Pendle. Alongside this, we give a regulatory update on the SEC's fight with Coinbase, Ripple, and more.
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Blobs Hit Ethereum, Saylor Engages Beast Mode, and the Sphere Has a Hat
In this week's episode of Off Chain, we discuss the following stories: The Ethereum Dencun Upgrade Microstrategy Doubles Down on Bitcoin... AGAIN WIF is set to appear on the Las Vegas Sphere
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Farming airdrops as a node operator with Sami & Theo from Noder
In case you didn't notice, it's airdrop season. Free money is raining down but airdrop farmers have to get smarter about how they're going to qualify for these juicy payouts. We speak with Theo and Sami, the cofounders of Noder.bot which is a node-as-a-service platform focused on setting you up...
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Off Chain 2/15/24: Our Killer ETF Trade, PLUS Sotherby's Lists an Ether Rock
In this week's episode of Off Chain, we cover the following stories: Sotherbys is auctioning off an Ether Rock… we must be back! Inflows to Bitcoin ETFs reach new highs, powering a BTC rally The Ethereum ETF applications are coming in thick and fast - we share an interesting trade that could…
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Off Chain 2/8/24: Staked ETH ETF? AI Passing KYC, and the Ethereum Dencun Upgrade
In this week's episode we cover: Ark 21shares amended its spot ETH ETF filing to include a cash creation/redemption process (similar to spot BTC ETFs) and some language surrounding staking. A look at the underground site where basic AI is being used to bypass KYC and AML. Ethereum's Dencun…
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We highlight the people, products, and protocols shaping the future of crypto, DeFi, and web3. Your hosts, Matthew Howells-Barby and Austin Knight, will take you on a journey of decrypting the various concepts related to blockchain and web3 technology, explaining them in a language that everyone can understand.
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