CoinDesk Podcast Network

Mert Mumtaz on Why Internet Capital Markets Are "Finally Actually Happening" on Solana

Privacy, internet capital markets, and quantum commuting threats to crypto with Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz. In a conversation with CoinDesk, Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz breaks down the biggest news from Solana Breakpoint, including new perps exchanges and the influx of institutional capital from firms like J.P. Morgan and Galaxy. He argues that the choice for private transactions is essential for creating internet capital markets, likening financial privacy to voting in a democracy. Plus, he concludes with a warning about the existential threat of quantum computing to both bitcoin and the entire crypto industry. - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Marissa Trew.

How Solana Plans to Build Financial Infrastructure for 5.5 Billion People

Finance for everyone with Solana Foundation President Lily Liu. Solana Foundation President Lily Liu sits down with CoinDesk from Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi to discuss the future of the ecosystem. Reflecting on this year's event, she reveals why Solana's focus on shipping products and unifying liquidity is essential for building the financial infrastructure for billions of people. - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Marissa Trew.

How Binance's CZ is Guiding Aster Founder Leonard

The rise of Aster and CZ's endorsement of the project with Aster CEO Leonard. Binance Alum and Aster CEO Leonard joins CoinDesk Live from Binance Blockchain Week to discuss the project's sudden rise, which gained massive attention after a public endorsement from CZ. Plus, Leonard reveals the valuable advice he received from the Binance founder and breaks down why he believes perpetual DEXs could soon surpass centralized exchanges. - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Sam Ewen.

El Salvador Teams With Elon Musk’s xAI for National Education | CoinDesk Daily

El Salvador partners with Elon Musk's xAI to build an AI-powered education system. El Salvador is partnering with Elon Musk’s xAI to launch the world’s first national AI-powered public education system. The government plans to deploy the Grok chatbot to over 5,000 schools for millions of students. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

THE MINING POD: ERCOT’s 266 GW Surge, IREN’s $2.3B Raise, GPUs > ASICs, Whatsminer M70

This week in bitcoin mining news, ERCOT sees a 266 GW of interconnection requests in 2026, IREN closed a $2.3 billion convertible note offering, and GPUs are leaving ASICs in the dust. Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! [https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com/] Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Ethan Vera, COO of Luxor, joins us as we dive into MicroBT’s Whatsminer M70 launching into a challenging ASIC market, IREN’s $2.3 billion convertible note offering, the precarious state of hashprice, Luxor’s new GPU hardware sales business, the staggering 270% leap in ERCOT interconnection requests, and the controversial Cat bitcoin fork proposal aimed at filtering ordinals / inscriptions. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com **Notes:** - Hash price is below $40 per second - Three negative difficulty adjustments - Ercot requests leaped 270% in 2025 - 73% of requests from data centers - IREN raised $2.3B in convertible notes - M70 efficiency: 12.5 J/TH 00:00 Start 02:35 Difficulty Report by Luxor 07:26 IREN note 10:44 M70 launch 20:02 Luxor launches GPU trading 27:12 ERCOT LL requests up 270% in 2025 34:10 Cry Corner: another filter fork proposal 👉CleanSpark [https://www.cleanspark.com/], America's Bitcoin Miner! CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) is a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. We own a portfolio of power, land, and data centers across the United States powered by globally competitive energy prices. Sitting at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship, we optimize our infrastructure to deliver superior returns to our shareholders. Monetizing low-cost, high reliability energy by producing a global emerging critical resource – compute – positions us to prosper in an ever-changing world. 👉 FBOX [https://www.fbox.tech/], Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 Luxor [https://luxor.tech/], Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware [https://luxor.tech/firmware?utm_source=TheMiningPod&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=LuxOS]. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!