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FCAT Crypto Brief™ — 110 episodes

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1

Building Bonds: A Conversation with Ian Cain

2

On-chain Market Access: A Conversation with Ian De Bode

3

Rails of Change: The Race to Redefine Payments

4

Unlocking DeFi: A Look inside the Vault

5

Building Superteams: A Conversation with Alejandro Gutierrez

6

Tokenization, Unpacked: The Rise of On-chain Collectibles

7

The Intelligent Crypto Investor: A Conversation with John Hargrave

8

Beyond Expiration: Perps, Transparency & The Future of Trading

9

Securing Crypto: Addressing New Threats on-Chain

10

Building Blocks: A Conversation with Natalie Brunell

11

Countdown to Q-Day: What Quantum Could Mean for Crypto

12

Pay it Forward: The Rise of Agentic Payments On-Chain

13

What’s Next for OPNEXT? A Conversation with Charlie Spears

14

SOL of the Network: Speed, Scale & Validation on Solana

15

Linking Up: How Institutions Are Reshaping Blockchain

16

The Road Not Taken: An Ethereum Strategy Deep Dive

17

Overdue Process: The Future of Finance with Amanda Wick

18

2026 Look Ahead: A Conversation with Chris Kuiper

19

Block by Block: Building a Crypto Community with Doug Mehne

20

Fueling Bitcoin's Future: A Conversation with Alexander Neumüller

21

Interoperability at Scale: A Conversation with Bryan Pellegrino

22

From White Paper to Wall Street: Crypto’s Maturity Moment?

23

Are We There Yet? The Mainstreaming of Crypto

24

Live at ETH Boston: Trends in Tokenization

25

The Bitcoin Renaissance: A Technical Deep Dive

26

Into the Vault: A Crypto Treasury Company Deep-dive

27

Capitol Gains: Regulation, Innovation & the Road Ahead

28

Crypto Rewind: A Three-year Lookback

29

Linking TradFi & DeFi: a Conversation with Sergey Nazarov

30

Building Blockchain’s Future: A Crypto Research Deep-dive

31

Headwinds & Tailwinds: A Crypto Q&A

32

A Tale of Two Networks: Ethereum vs. Solana

33

Evolution or Identity Crisis? Breaking Down Ethereum’s Next Upgrade

34

Buy vs. Build? Exploring Growth On-Chain

35

Linking the Chain: Updates on Crypto Funding & M&A

36

Converging Forces: New Liquidity Pools, Networks & Acquisitions

37

Regulatory Shifts & Market Movement: What's Next for DeFi?

38

Digital Gold? Governments Consider Crypto Reserve Strategies

39

A Historic Hack: How Did It Happen & What Comes Next?

40

Innovation & Regulation: A Look at the New Crypto Landscape

41

Updates & Upgrades: A New Chapter for Crypto

42

Foot on the Gas: Exploring New Offerings & Efficiencies

43

Riding the DeFi Wave: Staking, Scaling & Shifting Trends

44

What’s Next Post-OP_NEXT? A Conversation with Blockspace Media

45

Rise of the Machines: An Exploration of Agentic AI in Crypto

46

State of the Market: A Look at the Year Ahead

47

Regulatory Shifts & Banking Bottlenecks

48

Options & Oversight

49

Building Consensus (Again)

50

Looking Forward: Insights into Predictive Markets & Futures

51

Into the Vault: TBAC Covers Tokenization

52

Chain Reaction: Unpacking New Blockchain Utility

53

From the Canvas to the Chain

54

Survival of the Fittest

55

What’s Trending with Stablecoins?

56

More Conversions, Decentralized Identities & Special Purpose Broker Dealers

57

Next-Gen Solutions in Crypto

58

Michael Dascal on the Future of Crypto & Quantum Computing

59

Historic or Hype: Diving into the Bitcoin Halving

60

Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov on Smart Contracts, Tokenized Assets & Cross-chain Security

61

A Look Ahead: Historic Milestones, Macro Trends & the Halving

62

Peaks and Valleys from 2023

63

Current State of Crypto VC

64

Burning Questions Answered – Special Edition Listener Q&A

65

Getting Institutional Grade: Price Oracle Competition & Interoperability Attempts

66

Beyond the Blocks: Hot Takes on L2s

67

A Twist of Irony: Solana Dev. Fires Up as SBF Trial Ends

68

What to Know About Restaking

69

Castle Island's Nic Carter on the Resiliency and Growth of Stablecoins

70

Real World Asset Tokenization

71

Deep Dive into Arbitrum & L2 Rollups with Steven Goldfeder, CEO of Offchain Labs

72

Wondering about Wallets and Tether

73

Liquidations, Lightning and Future Proofing

74

Stablecoins Are Making A Statement

75

Demonstration of Decentralization

76

Hazy Headwinds: The Macro Environment and Crypto

77

"Blockchain found me" Sterling Ingui's Crypto Journey at Fidelity

78

Earnings and Exploits

79

What in the World is Worldcoin

80

Keeping up with the Satoshis

81

Ripple Effects: What to make of crypto’s recent rulings

82

Decentralization of Socialization

83

Making Sense of Crypto's Market Moves

84

Learnin’ with Love: A conversation with Maggie Love of SheFi and W3BCLOUD

85

SEC's Regulatory Actions Against Coinbase and Binance

86

Out of the Ordinal-ary: What’s going on with Bitcoin NFTs?

87

Bitcoin Mining 101

88

Is 2023 The Year for Web3 Gaming?

89

Ethereum’s Consensus Delays

90

Meme Coins Movin’ Markets

91

Findings from Consensus

92

Who is Extracting Value from MEV?

93

Crypto Regulation Around the Globe

94

What the Shanghai Upgrade Could Mean for the Eth Network

95

CFTC Sues Binance, World's Biggest Crypto Exchange

96

AI Use Cases in Blockchain with AI researcher Sarah Hoffman

97

Rollups: From Nice-to-Have to Necessity

98

Where Do Crypto Companies Bank Now?

99

This Fad Isn't Fizzling Away

100

What’s Happening & What’s Next with Enterprise Blockchain Adoption

101

The TLDR of Liquid Staking

102

Let’s Talk About the Elephant in the Room

103

Bookmark this for 2028

104

Wallet Wars: An Evolving Landscape

105

Market Disruption Continues: Genesis Files for Chapter 11

106

What Doesn’t Kill Them Makes Them Stronger

107

2022 Pivotal Crypto Market Trends

108

Chaos to Clarity: What’s Known About FTX & Bankman-Fried’s Downfall

109

MetaMask Policy Changes Amid Privacy Concerns

110

The Merging of TradFi & DeFi