Podcast profile
Unchained
By Laura Shin
Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how crypto assets and blockchains will change the way we earn, spend and invest our money. Tune in to find out how Web 3.0, the decentralized web, will revolutionize our world.
Latest episode
Inside the Coldcard Hack That Drained Over $100 Million in Bitcoin: Uneasy Money
1 hr 7 min
- Cadence
- Daily
- Typical length
- 52 min
- Latest release
- Aug 7, 2026
- Language
- EN
Topics
Capital & Markets
Venture capital, investing, financial markets, fundraising, and deals.
Industry Transformation
How technology changes the operating model of a named industry.
Policy & Society
Regulation, governance, ethics, and the cultural effects of technology.
Formats
Interview
A host-led conversation with one or more guests.
Audience level
Informed
Basic familiarity helps because industry context and terminology appear.
People behind the show
Current hosts
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This directory never re-hosts or republishes podcast audio.
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Episode audio and show facts come from the checked-in refresh of the show’s public sources.
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Latest episodes
Unchained1 hr 7 min
Inside the Coldcard Hack That Drained Over $100 Million in Bitcoin: Uneasy Money
A hardware wallet's 5-year-old randomness bug just let hackers drain over $100 million in Bitcoin. How many more waves are coming? Plus, Ethereum's fight over cutting ETH issuance. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn'
Unchained1 hr 3 min
The Chopping Block: ColdCard's $100M RNG Hack, AI-Powered Security & Ethereum's Staking Yield Taper
This week we dissect ColdCard's ~$100M RNG exploit that Claude Code cracked in 8 minutes, debate whether AI just killed open-source security and Bitcoin maximalism, tear apart Ethereum's EIP-8361 staking-yield taper, and unpack Leopold Aschenbrenner's 67% Situational Awareness blowup and CLARITY Act's ethics fight. Wel
Unchained50 min
DEX in the City: How Claude's Red-Teaming Agents Escaped a Test Without Realizing It
Anthropic's AI agents escaped a hacking test and still think they're inside it. Katherine, Jessi, and Vy Le on who's liable when a model breaks free, plus the $100M Coldcard hack and Kalshi's court losing streak. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! Cape: Your bigge
Unchained19 min
Is Any Cold Wallet Safe? Inside the Coldcard Hack's Wave Three
📢 Bits + Bips has its own channel now — full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitsandbips A firmware bug quietly introduced into Coldcard hardware wallets in 2021 has let attackers drain an estimated 1,600 to 2,000 bitcoin, over $100 million, from cold storage addresses that sat untouched for years. Galaxy Digi
Unchained1 hr
Should Tokenized Stock Only Come From Issuers? Yes, Says Carlos Domingo
Wall Street's transfer agents want issuers, not outside platforms, to control tokenized stock. Securitize's CEO says the alternative invites insider trading. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnera
Unchained10 min
Meta Fell 10%. Microsoft Didn't Blink.
📢 Bits + Bips has its own channel now — full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitsandbips Meta and Microsoft reported earnings on the same night, and investors sent their stocks in opposite directions. Chris Galipeau of the Franklin Templeton Institute walks Steven Ehrlich through why Meta got punished for rais
Unchained1 hr 3 min
Zcash, Ethereum, Aztec, Canton and More: Which Chain Will Win the Privacy Race?
Privacy is having a moment in crypto. As competition heats up, the pitfalls of the technology around the quantum threat, regulatory risk and more make the trajectory hard to predict. A counterfeit bug sat undetected in Zcash's Orchard privacy pool for four years, capable of minting an unlimited supply of untraceable co
Unchained1 hr 12 min
Should Crypto Tokens Come With Investor Rights? - Uneasy Money
BitMEX shut down without an angry tweet. Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder joins Kain and Taylor on why dead tokens never get that mercy. Plus, Kyle Samani's Multicoin blowup. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your
Unchained58 min
Has Control Replaced Decentralization as DeFi's Legal Test? - DEX in the City
Vy Le and Jessi Brooks trace an AI agent's sandbox escape back to crypto's own fight over open code. Plus, Plume general counsel Salman Banaei on Clarity's knife's-edge vote math. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't you
Unchained12 min
Does Capitalism Doom Every Closed AI Model to Get Copied?
📢 Bits + Bips has its own channel now — full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitsandbips Jensen Huang had been running the world's most valuable company for years without ever posting on X. When he finally did, it wasn't a hello. It was an open letter arguing that open AI models are a national asset — and with
Unchained1 hr 7 min
The Chopping Block: Wind Downs, YC's Nemil Dalal, & Will Every Failed Crypto Idea Eventually Work?
YC's Nemil Dalal joins to explain why he's never been more bullish as BitMEX winds down after 11 years, whether every failed crypto idea (TCRs, DAOs, creator coins) eventually works, why crypto is really about money, Base's consumer mea culpa, on-chain reputation and credit, and who pays in the x402 AI-agent era. Welco
Unchained30 min
Kristin Smith on Why the Clarity Act Comes Down to a Memecoin
Kristin Smith walks through the vote math, the ethics fight, and what happens to crypto capital if the Clarity Act stalls before the midterms. The Senate needs 60 votes to pass crypto's market structure bill, the Clarity Act, before an August recess deadline just weeks away. Majority Leader John Thune says the votes li
Unchained23 min
Paid Partnership: How Can DeFi Fix Its Liquidity Problem? 1inch's Aqua Offers a Solution
SPONSORED CONTENT: This video is a paid partnership with 1inch. It was produced in collaboration with 1inch and is separate from Unchained's editorial coverage. 1inch cofounder Sergej Kunz says up to 85% of DeFi's liquidity sits idle. He walks through Aqua, the self-custodial product built to put that capital back to w
Unchained9 min
Bits + Bips: Why Bitcoin Has the Least to Gain From the Clarity Act
Cole Kennelly, founder and CEO of Volmex Labs, traces why BVIV and BVIV-US diverge around IBIT's regulated options market, makes the case that Ethereum, Solana, and Hyperliquid have more to gain from the Clarity Act than Bitcoin, and shares his outlook for an increasingly institutional crypto market by year-end. Host:
Unchained28 min
How Jesse Pollak Is Mapping Out Base's Next Chapter After the App Pivot
Jesse Pollak owns the Base App's social miss, unpacks Robinhood Chain's rise, and explains Brian Armstrong's memecoin moment. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your
Unchained1 hr 11 min
Cobie Taking Over Base App? He's 'the Respectable Trencher': Uneasy Money
An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to cheat its own test. Kain and Taylor break it down — plus Base’s failed social bet and the North Korean IT workers still inside crypto. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wall
Unchained52 min
The Chopping Block: The CLARITY Act Endgame with Patrick Witt + Gauntlet's $125M SBI Raise + Balaji's Malaysia Exodus
Patrick Witt, the White House's executive director for digital assets policy, calls in mid-episode to give the Chopping Block crew a live read on the CLARITY market structure bill! Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the la
Unchained50 min
DEX in the City: How Kalshi’s Rough Week Became a Federal Fight for Prediction Markets
The CFTC pulled a power last used in the Carter era to rescue Kalshi. Katherine, Jessi, and Vy Le on what it means — plus Japan’s crypto tax cut and DTCC’s tokenization leap. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your walle
Unchained13 min
Why You Can't Opt Out of the AI Guardrails Race
📢 Bits + Bips has its own channel now — full episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitsandbips/ Austin Campbell's claim that Claude Fable 5 cracked the decades-old Jacobian conjecture opens onto a bigger question: why AI's real-world impact on health care is still lagging. The conversation turns to battlefield drone
Unchained54 min
How Lyn Alden Will Take on Bitcoin DATs and Private Equity With Orange Juice
Lyn Alden raised $40M to launch Orange Juice, a holding company that buys cash-flowing businesses and layers Bitcoin on top, not another pure-play treasury bet. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerabilit
Unchained6 min
How a Surprise Clarity Act Vote Could Move Crypto Prices
If you haven't yet, be sure to subscribe to Bits + Bips on its dedicated channels. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, X, Unchained and wherever you get your podcasts. 🔥 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bits-bips/id1827931786 🔥 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuKiSkbYrUOOEE
Unchained1 hr 29 min
Why Cap Cuts Its Stabledrop Rewards From $11M to $4M: Uneasy Money
Cap's founders on shrinking their Stabledrop from $11M to $4M — plus a $23M hack traced toward North Korea, a BarnBridge governance exploit, and Kain's case to force weak L2s to become their own L1s. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulne
Unchained29 min
Why Robinhood Chain Saw Memecoins Take Off Before Real World Assets
Two weeks after launch, 85% of Robinhood Chain's trading is memecoins and just 1% is RWAs. Johann Kerbrat says that doesn’t change the strategy. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet,
Unchained56 min
DEX in the City: Why the Supreme Court's FTC Ruling Could Rewire Crypto Regulation
The Supreme Court just made it easier to fire SEC and CFTC commissioners. Katherine, Jessi, and Vy on why that could reset who controls crypto policy. Plus, the UK's new rulebook. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wa
Unchained1 hr 5 min
Crypto Has Seen Drama Over ENS, BonkDAO and VVV. What Does DeFi's Future Look Like?
Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS's treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice's VVV token. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape