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On The Brink with Castle Island
Hosted by Castle Island Ventures · EN
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 @CastleIslandVC
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Alex Cutler (Aerodrome) on DeFi’s Next Steps (EP.624)
May 14, 202500:39:25Tap to summarizeWyatt sits down with Alex Cutler, founder of Aerodrome for another episode in our stablefi series. In this episode: DEX trading advantages Building on-chain FX DeFi as a backbone
Transcribe →TN (Pendle) on Stable Yield (EP.623)
May 12, 202500:32:48Tap to summarizeWyatt sits down with TN, cofounder of Pendle. Covered in this episode: How Pendle works The evolution from alt yield to stable yield DeFi's future core assets
Transcribe →Weekly Roundup 05/09/25 (GENIUS stalls, Coinbase buys Deribit, Bessent on stables) (EP.622)
May 9, 202500:28:28Tap to summarizeMatt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: We have a new Pope The etymology of ampersand The GENIUS act collapses spectacularly Coinbase consummates its acquisition of Deribit Did World Liberty Financial’s USD1 torpedo the GENIUS act? Did “pro crypto” democrats snake on the industry Scott Bessent thinks stablecoins could reach $2T The OCC says banks can provide crypto custody and execution Stripe is launching stablecoin financial accounts The SEC explores a sandbox for tokenized securities Tariff the L2s
Transcribe →Adam Healy (Station 70) and Josh Schwartz (Fordefi) on failover MPC wallets (EP.621)
May 8, 202500:35:07Tap to summarizeAdam Healy, co-founder of Station 70 and Josh Schwartz, co-founder of Fordefi join the show. In this episode we discuss: The collaboration between Station 70 and Fordefi on failover MPC wallets. Announcement here. The state of the wallet category Best practices for blockchain cybersecurity The future of bank custody for digital assets Station 70’s Bunker product Station 70 and Fordefi are holding a joint webinar to showcase this product collaboration. You can register here. Learn more about Station 70 Learn more about Fordefi
Transcribe →Nitya Subramanian (Capsule) on Leveraging Crypto's Superpower (EP.494)
Jan 3, 2024Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we host Nitya Subramanian, founder and CEO of Capsule, which is building cross-application embedded wallet infrastructure. We discuss: Outstanding challenges with web3 onboarding How applications are integrating parts of the wallet experience How Capsule helps developers give their end users the key privileges Why interoperability is crypto's key superpower How Capsule simplifies the transaction signing process How Capsule's infrastructure is complimentary to smart contract wallets Learn more about Capsule here. Follow Nitya here.
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Brannin McBee (Core Weave) on Greening the Grid, the Texas Meltdown, and Bitcoin Mining (EP.183)
Feb 22, 2021Tap to summarizeCore Weave chief strategy officer and former energy trader Brannin McBee joins the show to talk about the grid meltdown in Texas and the impact of renewables on the grid. In this episode: Brannin's history in energy trading and energy analytics How his firm survived a 95% collapse in the price of natural gas – and how that presaged his work in the crypto space How Brannin's firm Core Weave alternates between mining ETH and monetizing GPUs through high-performance compute How wholesale power trading works – and how it provides valuable informational signals to the grid How the US grid is arranged – and how the energy mix has changed in the last decade How coal has been marginalized in the last decade through natural gas and renewables Why energy is not globally fungible Why forecasting wind is so difficult – and how that complicates including wind into the grid How renewables trade off reliability against carbon impact How increasing the share of wind and solar destabilizing the grid Why increasing units of wind requires new units of gas on the grid The confluence of causes behind the Texas grid failure last week How Core Weave selected their location on the grid – and how they took political risk into account How much energy Bitcoin consumes – and where that stands relative to the energy consumption of the US How flaring natural gas to mine Bitcoin works – and whether it's economical Does Bitcoin work as a load balancer for grids? Can you compare Bitcoin's footprint to that of entire countries?
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