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$VVV Community Call | October

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Inside the $6 Billion Binance Hack | Ari Redbord

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ROLLUP: Bitcoin to $57K? | Wall Street Bets on Hyperliquid | The Tokenization War | Zcash Drama

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Wall Street, Regulation, and the Future of Money | J. Christopher Giancarlo

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What Is Bitcoin Telling Us? | Michael Howell, Macro Analyst

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Black October! What Is Happening to the Internet? | Hari Mulackal & Odysseas Lamtzidis

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ROLLUP: Black October | Uptober Lasted 4 Hours | JPMorgan's Bitcoin Forecast | Gold Alchemy

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The CFTC’s Proposed Rules to Reshape US Crypto Markets | CFTC Chair Mike Selig

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ROLLUP: Redtober Is Here | AI Debt Fears | $102M Ledger Attack | Richard Heart Arrested

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Cypherpunk Owns $500M of Zcash and 18% of Its Hashrate | CIO Will McEvoy

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ROLLUP: AI Threatens Crypto Security | Tom Lee Stops Buying ETH | Ethereum L2s Shut Down | Zcash ETFs

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Why the Near $NRR ETF is Different | Hunter Horsley and Sal Ternullo

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$VVV Community Call | September

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ROLLUP: Uptober Green Light? | Robinhood Goes All-In | $400M Bitget Hack | Prediction Markets to SCOTUS

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Is Variational the Next Hyperliquid? | CEO Lucas Schuermann and Justin Bram

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Ben Cowen Says You Have Permission to be Bullish

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ROLLUP: The Bull Market is On? | Zcash & NEAR | Kalshi Wash Trading | BlackRock Goes Onchain

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FOMO, Meme Stocks and Robinhood Chain | Andy8052 & Eric Conner

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How Robinhood is using the SEC's New Innovation Exemption | Johann Kerbrat

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ROLLUP: The Bull Market Test | Clarity Dies | SEC Opens the Door | Hyperliquid Comes Onshore

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Arc Mainnet, AI Agents, and Tokenized Markets | Nikhil Chandhok, CTO of Circle

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Crypto is Ready for Onchain Options | Nick Forster, CEO of Derive

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ROLLUP: Is Altcoin Season Here? | Treasury’s Bond War | Robinhood Chain Mania | OpenAI’s Math Controversy

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The New Economics of Crypto Tokens | Austin Barack

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ROLLUP: Robinhood’s Meme Economy | Solana Cuts Issuance | Saylor’s Comeback | AI Alarm

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FWA and the New Market Structure for NFTs | Adam (Rhynotic) and Eric Conner

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"We Want to Be Bigger Than the CME" | Kalshi's John Wang

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Bullish on Automation and Robotics, but not Humanoid Robots | Shahin Farshchi

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ROLLUP: The Debasement Trade is Back | Bessent Put | Tokenized Stocks | AI Capital Crunch

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Ethereum Privacy for Institutions | Mo Jalil and Oskar Thoren

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Coinbase Launches Tokenized Stocks on Base | Jesse Pollak

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What's Next for Bitmine after 5% of ETH? | Chairman Tom Lee

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ROLLUP: Is the Bull Market Back? | Treasury QE | Trump Pumps Crypto | SEC Token Rules

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Why Ethereum MUST Change Its Monetary Policy | Sam Jernigan and Jerome de Tychey

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Why Raising Rates Would Actually Calm Markets | Jim Bianco

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EtherFi’s Next Act: Stocks, Loans, and Global Banking | Mike Silagadze

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ROLLUP: Bitcoin’s Fork Died in 2 Blocks | Saylor Sells Again | Robinhood Chain | Fidelity Staking

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NEAR’s New Token Utility and AI Economy | Illia Polosukhin

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The EIP That Destroys DeFi | Stani Kulechov & Mike Silagadze

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ROLLUP: The ETH Issuance War | $130M Coldcard Exploit | Saylor Sells Again | Uniswap Launchpad

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$ANSEM, Robinhood Chain, & Why SOL Still Beats ETH in 2026 | Mike Dudas

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The Next Bull Market is Here, and Obvious | Spencer and Aleks, Blockchain Capital

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ROLLUP: Korea Gets Liquidated | The AI Trade Unwinds | Crypto Holds Firm | Warsh Holds Rates

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What's Next for Vaults? | Steakhouse Co-Founder, Adrian Cachinero

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Morpho Midnight: The Future of Fixed-Rate Lending | Paul Frambot

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From Harvard at 18 to Building Crypto's Fastest Exchange | Vlad, Lighter

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s 2-Week Deadline | The CLARITY Act | $100 Oil | OpenAI Model Escapes

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Securitize Just Went Public — Are We Still Tokenizing the World?

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Rebuilding the $12T Repo Market on Bitcoin | Bitcoin Dave

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ROLLUP: Bull Market? | Inflation Cools, War Heats | Robinhood Flips Base | ETH’s Fee Problem

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Why Every Chain, Wallet & App Is Integrating NEAR Intents | Kendall Cole

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Jito Declares War on Coinbase & Binance | Lucas Bruder on the Launch of JTX

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Is Bitcoin Going According to Plan? Gold, Saylor, Satoshi | Dan Held

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ROLLUP: War Returns, Markets Shrug | Saylor Sells | Robinhood Memecoins | Ethereum 3.0?

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How Hyperliquid Becomes the Backend for ALL of Finance | Tushar Jain

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The Rise of Robinhood Chain: Tokenized Stocks, Perps, and 27M Users | Johann Kerbrat

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ROLLUP: Crypto Bullish Again? | OpenUSD vs USDC | Robinhood Chain | Trump’s $1.4B Haul

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How Ondo Is Bringing Stocks and Perps Onchain | Ian De Bode

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Strategy is Trapped & in Crisis — "It's Basically a Hedge Fund Now" | Jeff Dorman & Matt Walsh

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Ethlabs: The New Org to Make Ethereum Win | Ansgar & Caspar

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ROLLUP: Bitcoin Breaks Below $60K | Saylor’s Three Bad Options | ETH Labs | The Quantum Clock

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AI, Surveillance, and the Fight for Digital Sovereignty | Near's Illia Polosukhin

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"The Fed Can't Print Moore's Law" - How the AI Crash Sends Bitcoin to $1M | Arthur Hayes

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ROLLUP: Saylor Risk? | Warsh’s New Fed | SpaceX IPO | Coinbase’s Everything Exchange

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How Re is Rebuilding the $1T Reinsurance Market with Stablecoins | Karn Saroya & Avichal Garg

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Why The Pokémon Card Market Is Blowing Up | Andy8052

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Perps Are Coming Onshore | CFTC Chairman Mike Selig

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ROLLUP: One More Dip? | Saylor Sold | IPO Season | Ethereum vs ETH

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Is $LIT Cheap? | Will Price and Flip

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Venice is Here to Win: How a Private AI Company Plans to Take On OpenAI and Anthropic

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ROLLUP: Bitcoin’s Confidence Game | Bitmine’s ETH Bet | Token Rotation | U.S. Perps

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Capitol Hill War Stories from a DC Lobbyist Who’s Seen It All (SBF, Gensler, Elizabeth Warren)

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"ZODL is to Zcash What Coinbase Was to Bitcoin" | Josh Swihart on ZEC’s Awakening

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ROLLUP: False Strength? | ETH Crisis | Altcoin ATHs | Satoshi’s Coins

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NEAR’s AI Money Thesis: Intents, Privacy, and Tokenomics | Sal Ternullo

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

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ROLLUP: David Sold His ETH | EF Exodus | Hyperliquid’s Breakout | Stagflation Fears

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Bitcoin’s $300T Credit Market Opportunity | Jeff Walton

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"Crypto Without Privacy Isn't Crypto" - The Zcash Bull Case | Tushar Jain & Mert Mumtaz

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Clarity Act Odds Jump to 75% After Surprise Senate Vote | Alex Thorn

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ROLLUP: Is the Bull Back? | The Clarity Act | Wall Street on Ethereum | Anthropic Nukes Perps

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The $200 Billion Shadow Market Behind Anthropic's Stock | Dio Casares

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Will AI Populism Decide the 2028 Election? | Jasmine Sun

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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau

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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs

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ROLLUP: Crypto’s Nasdaq Problem | The CLARITY Act | Saylor Selling? | ETH L1 Scaling

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“Finding Satoshi”—How a Private Investigator Solved the Mystery of Bitcoin’s Creator | Bill Cohan & Tyler Maroney

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ROLLUP: $120 Oil vs New Highs | AI Boom Masks War | IPO Top Signal | DeFi Bailout

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MegaETH Token Launch with Co-Founders Shuyao and Lei

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$200 Oil by June?—The Biggest Oil Shock in History | Rory Johnston on The Hormuz Crisis

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Has Bitcoin Bottomed? Jordi Visser on AI, Inflation, and Moats

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ROLLUP: $300M DeFi Hack Fallout | Arbitrum Freezes Funds | AI Deflation Debate | Productive ETH

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

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Productive Money: The Most Bullish Case for Ethereum ($250K) | Michael McGuiness & Vivek Raman

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Can AI Agents Build Real Businesses? | Kelly Claude creator Austen Allred

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ROLLUP: Markets at ATHs | Saylor’s STRC Bid | Trump DeFi Scandal | SEC Clears DeFi

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Why Hasn't The Dollar Fallen? | Lessons from Currency Historian Barry Eichengreen

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Up or Down from Here? Bears vs. Bulls

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"Fix the Money, Fix the World" — Michael Saylor's Master Plan (plus questions on Quantum and Ethereum)

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ROLLUP: Iran Ceasefire Rally | Anthropic’s “Mythos” Model | Q-Day Divide | Stablecoin Yield Debate