The blocmates Podcast

Trading the World Cup Onchain While Alts Decouple From Bitcoin

Grant, Alex and Lazer are joined by Adam from sports.fun for the usual overnight chaos, Saylor selling Bitcoin and HYPE printing new highs.  Then we fire up the World Cup Predictor on sport.fun, run through the fixtures and lock in who we reckon is actually winning the whole thing.  We're running a watchalong activation across the tournament, so stick around to find out how you can jump in and help pick our team.

DraftKings vs Kalshi, Hype vs Solana and Ethereum Dies Slowly

Grant, Alex and Eli are back to catch up on being weirdly disconnected from crypto, regretting sidelining HYPE, and reminiscing about missing obvious “alpha” like VVV.  Then it’s straight into Ethereum’s slow-motion identity crisis: DeFi roots, EF incentives, and why the market’s rewarding pragmatism over ideology.  After a quick detour into stand-up, dating and how cursed “I work in crypto and have a podcast” is, they unpack DraftKings vs Kalshi, why prediction markets look like shittier sportsbooks, and whether perps traders would just get banned as sharps.  They close on Hyperliquid’s USDH/USDC shift, Coinbase/Circle strategy, potential KYC books, and Solana’s perps fightback with Phoenix/Ellipsis and why listings matter more than tech in the long run.

DeFi Unites While the Ethereum Foundation Keeps on Selling

Grant’s back with Alex and Eli to talk about DeFi United and how Stani, Aave and the wider industry have banded together to save the day. But people are still just never happy, are they? Anyway, apparently the Bitcoin conference is garbage this year, RWAs is the dumbest name of all time and we’re going to Miami next week.  Spotify and links to follow all below. Please like and subscribe but most importantly, enjoy.

DeFi's Latest Donation to DPRK's Nuclear Apocalypse & Aliens Kill Scientists

563 joins Lazer and Alex this week to join the discussion around this week's news of the Kelp hack and the LayerZero fall out.  We're talking about the impact on DeFi as a whole and how we recover from the contagion. That's as well as getting into Cobie's latest appearance on threadguy's stream and what we took from that, TLDR: net positive for a multitude of reasons. Oh and also why creepy anons are moaning about ladies posting selfies on CT while simultaneously simping them with public comments asking 'Dubai?' Hope you enjoy it. Grant's back next week, give us a like and stuff like that. Cheers.

Sam Altman Firebombed, Pasternak Sued & Evelyn Ha Left Him

This week we're covering the attempted Molotov (and gunfire) attacks on Sam Altman's home, why Ben Pasternak might be cooked as the class action against him heats up (and why Evelyn Ha reportedly walking away is somehow the bigger story online), and the insane Colossus piece on Jeff and why this could be bullish HYPE. Alex and Lazer also get into why sentiment has flipped overnight with BTC back at $74K, the tokens they've actually been nibbling on-chain this week, why the Tether wallet ad is one of the worst pieces of marketing in crypto history, and how crypto has quietly become the fashion industry.