The news flow is all about Bitcoin today as Fidelity follows BlackRock in applying for a spot bitcoin ETF; mining activity ramps up, with miners sending a record amount of revenue onto exchanges; and an unusually large number of bitcoin options are set to expire today. Are we set for more volatility ahead? Mike Alfred, founder and managing partner of Alpine Fox LP, joins Ash Bennington to dissect it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ash Bennington is hosting Jacob Blish, the head of business development at Lido, the biggest liquid staking protocol. Liquid staking has grown into an increasingly important sector of the crypto economy, recently becoming the most valuable category of DeFi. Can it maintain its momentum despite a skeptical SEC? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ash Bennington sits down with Lars Seier Christensen, founder and chairman of Concordium Foundation, to talk about the layer 1 blockchain that promises regulatory compliance through embedding zero-knowledge identification into every transaction. The two also discuss the future of DeFi and where we are in the current market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Crypto jargon can be pretty daunting for newcomers. Asking for a Friend is designed to help with that. Join Real Vision's Elaine Ly and Elizabeth Olson, head of growth at Xverse, for a breakdown of one of the hottest new trends in Bitcoin: Ordinals. What are they? How do I get into them? And are they a value-add or a drain on Bitcoin? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ash Bennington is joined by Steven Goldfeder, co-founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, the company that has developed Arbitrum, a layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. The two will discuss Arbitrum's positioning in the L2 space, the latest upgrades, and the outlook for the protocol, its sister chain, and the wider market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this long over-due catch-up, Jeff Dorman, CIO of Arca, joins Raoul to examine the fallout from the ongoing banking crisis and share why he's bullish on Bitcoin. Jeff and Raoul also cover ETH staking, regulation, and just what might be the biggest issue for the industry going forward. Recorded on May 3, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the fifth day of the Festival of Learning: AI Edition, Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and Raoul Pal come together, focusing on how AI is about to majorly upend everything we know. Learn from them why you should consider “investing in your own demise," how entrepreneurship could be the key in the age of AI, and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the biggest obstacles to scaling Ethereum is the number of transactions it can process per second. Mantle, which is scheduled to launch on mainnet next month, hopes its DAO-governed (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) layer-2 blockchain is the solution. Ash Bennington discusses this with Arjun Kalsy, Mantle's head of the ecosystem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Crypto investors are finally breathing an air of optimism with the price of bitcoin and ether enjoying double-digit percentage gains over the past week. What a great time then for Ash to catch up with Raoul for an Ask-Me-Anything session. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Parataxis Capital co-founders — CEO Edward Chin and CIO Thejas Nalval — join Ash Bennington to assess the state of the crypto markets, liquidity conditions, where we are in the cycle, how institutions are allocating their investments, and where opportunities lie right now. And of course, they'll break down BlackRock's big move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices