The Decrypting Crypto Podcast

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we cover the following stories: Celsius files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Mt.Gox case is finally reaching a settlement, with 150,000 BTC (~$3bn) set to be paid out to creditors A deeper look into the current state of the crypto market. WZRDS Project Punishes Flippers By Burning Listed NFTS. GameStop launched its NFT marketplace 48 hours ago. It's done over $2,000,000 in trading volume. & more.

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we cover the following stories: How hackers of the Ronin bridge tricked a Sky Mavis employee into fake job. Voyager Capital is the latest casualty in the web3 VC space along with 3AC filing for bankruptcy. Has North Korea's crypto losses impacted their nuclear program?! The latest on the Roger Ver / CoinFlex debacle.

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we cover the following stories: The latest $100mm bridge hack. The drama unfolding with Solend. 3AC's implosion. The Solana smartphone. Plus a whole lot more in our news roundup.

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we cover the following stories: US Senators Introduce Crypto Bill Outlining Sweeping Plan for Future Rules. The Case Against The PoolTogether Inc Co-Founder And Pooly NFTs. Started on June 15th, an anonymous individual is sharing 137.21GB of private Telegram group chats and messages that were gained via an exploit. PayPal now allows the transfer of crypto to external wallets. Coinbase has been rescinding job offers.

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we cover the following stories: Tron Becomes DeFi’s Third-Largest Blockchain (in TVL) Thanks to Terra-Like Stablecoin LUNA reboot (Terra 2.0) fell over 70% just hours after its launch Goblin Town NFT collection explodes in popularity and claims the second spot in OpenSea’s 7-day volume rankings behind BAYC Block’s 2022 Bitcoin Report is out, and makes an interesting observation: the more you know about Bitcoin, the more optimistic you are Binance has raised a $500M web3 and crypto fund

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we cover the following stories: FTX moves into stock trading. The LUNA hard fork proposal passes. OpenSea loses its place as the top NFT marketplace by daily trading volume. a16z launches a $4.5bn web3 fund. GameStop launches... an Ethereum wallet (wut?). Will the Merge ever happen? And the Portugal crypto tax drama continues.

In this week's episode of Off-Chain, we cover the biggest stories of the past week in web3. This includes: The governance proposal that's targeting a hard fork of the Terra blockchain. The state of Bitcoin mining in China. Do Kwon's legal battles. How Stablegains has lost $48mm of investor's cash and has no way to pay them back. Robinhood launching a web3 wallet.

If you listened to our episode on STEPN back in March, you’re probably familiar with the term “move-to-earn”. It’s a subset of play-and-earn and it’s gaining a lot of traction. Put simply, these web3 games center around you doing physical activity in exchange for crypto-based rewards. STEPN has arguably been the category creator here and now boasts over 300,000 DAUs, but there are a lot of new projects entering the space that are building on the model. Genopets is one of them. It’s probably unfair to say they’re new to the space because this project has been in the works for several years, but what I love about it is how they blend together the nostalgia of a Tamagotchi game with a physical exercise game element. If you have no idea what a Tamagotchi is, well, you obviously didn’t grow up through the 90s! Actual gameplay to one side, the Genopets tokenomics are really interesting. They have both a completely free-to-play element that doesn’t require you to purchase an NFT initially, as well as a path that includes buying in-game assets. I’ve been playing in the beta and have been enjoying it so far, and I believe they’re slated for a full launch in Q3 of this year. If you’ve enjoyed some of the recent episodes where we’ve been speaking with GameFi teams, this one’s going to be popular with you. I talk with Albert Chen, the co-founder & CEO, as well as Kevin Kim, the COO, and we dig into all aspects of the gameplay, game economy, and what to expect from the future of the project. Genopets website.

Markets have been in turmoil this past week, triggered by rising inflation concerns and then the monumental de-pegging of the Terra stablecoin, $UST. We dig into exactly what happened, including how someone has walked away with around $800mm in profit as a result. All this and more in this week's episode of Off Chain, your weekly roundup of the biggest stories happening in web3.

We sit down with Shane Mac, the cofounder of XMTP, which aims to become the communication network for web3. We discuss the evolution of communication and how there's a huge gap in web3 for wallet-to-wallet communication that requires an infrastructure layer like SMTP to power it.