Raoul Pal: The Journey Man

After an abundance of bankruptcies, multiple market crashes, proliferating scams, and a lot of plain old bad news, you’d be forgiven for feeling a little despondent about crypto right now. So we're happy to share some good stuff at the top of today’s Real Vision Crypto Daily Briefing: Paul Guerra and Elaine Ly talk about Brazil legalizing crypto payments, Binance entering Japan, and Animoca Brands earmarking huge investment in the metaverse. Later, Ethereum Name Service co-founder and lead developer Nick Johnson and Coinbase head of identity product management Alex Reeve join Paul and Elaine to explain how CeFi and DeFi players are teaming up to make Web3 an easier, more secure, generally better experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just hours after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, crypto lender BlockFi fired off another court motion, this time aimed at Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX. BlockFi alleges SBF pledged shares of trading company Robinhood as collateral on BlockFi and now wants to seize the stock. On this edition of Real Vision Crypto Daily Briefing, Nico Brugge and Elaine Ly discuss this latest development as the tangled web of FTX links becomes a little clearer with each day. Nico and Elaine also welcome Kristin Smith, executive director of the Blockchain Association, to talk about the incoming changes to the regulatory landscape in the wake of FTX's collapse, upcoming hearings in the U.S. Congress, a new JPMorgan report that will be a welcome read to people running centralized exchanges, and Kraken settling for apparent breach of Iran sanctions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Crypto lender BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., becoming the latest company to collapse due to an FTX shockwave that shows little sign of abating. Digital financial services company BitGo has been chosen by FTX as the custodian of the bankrupt crypto exchange's remaining assets. And BitGo CEO Mike Belshe joins Jeremy Varlow and Moritz Seibert for today’s Crypto Daily Briefing to talk about his company’s role in the process of identifying, gathering, and securing assets for FTX creditors. Later, Tania Reif, the chief investment officer at Senda Digital Assets, joins for a discussion of Bahamian officials’ defense of their country's crypto regulatory regime, Binance’s expansion of its industry recovery fund, and MetaMask’s user data controversy.This episode is sponsored by The Crypto App. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Revealing that a “substantial amount” of the collapsed crypto exchange’s assets are either missing or stolen, attorney for new management James Bromley also described FTX as the “personal fiefdom” of co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried during the first U.S. bankruptcy court hearing on the matter on Tuesday. Marco Olivera and Ash Bennington welcome Mike Alfred, a value investor and the managing partner at Alpine Fox, and Sam Kessler, a reporter for CoinDesk, to talk about the latest developments in the FTX saga as well as CZ’s Coinbase tweet, Grayscale’s reserve problems, and Genesis’s unwinding fate for the final Crypto Daily Briefing of the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bitcoin fell to $15,600 on Monday evening as mainstream media outlets honed in on Genesis, the digital-assets brokerage arm of the Digital Currency Group conglomerate. Bloomberg is reporting that Genesis has been seeking $1 billion in emergency funding following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. Wall Street Journal sources say the brokerage approached Binance and private equity giant Apollo Global Management for the cash and was rejected by the former. Santiago Velez, co-founder and R&D Division Lead at Block Digital, joins Ash Bennington for today’s Real Vision Crypto Daily Briefing to talk about Genesis's potential bankruptcy. Later, Santiago and Ash welcome Ian Andrews, the chief marketing officer at Chainalysis, and Drew Hill, general counsel at Valkyrie Investments, for a panel discussion on Genesis and a U.S. investigation into FTX and the major hole in its finances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

That $600 million or so stolen shortly after collapsed crypto exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy just over a week ago has since been converted into enough Ether to make the exploiter one of the largest holders of that coin. Now, those funds are on the move again, their conversion into other coins raising fresh questions about the perpetrator(s). We address them at the top of today’s Real Vision Crypto Daily Briefing. Elaine Ly and Ash Bennington welcome Genevieve Roch-Decter, the CEO of Grit Capital and a Chartered Financial Analyst, and Thomas Braziel, a managing partner at distressed asset specialist 507 Capital, to discuss the whereabouts of the missing funds, FTX’s potential liabilities, other vulnerable companies, and an important new deadline for customers of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here," writes John Ray, the new CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, in a court filing. With 40 years of experience cleaning up bankrupt companies, including Enron, Ray knows what he’s talking about. Jeremy Varlow and Ash Bennington take up the increasingly fetid picture of Sam Bankman-Fried’s monstrosity with the CEO of crypto exchange Bitstamp, Bobby Zagotta, the CEO of crypto exchange Bitstamp, and Mathias Imbach, a co-founder and Group CEO of Swiss-based digital assets bank Sygnum. That includes a brewing jurisdictional battle between the U.S. and the Bahamas and Genesis’s desperate attempts to stay afloat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alpha Centauri Kid (ACK) is one of the most respected artists in the NFT world. In this special episode, ACK reveals to guest host Sergio Silva the muse for his upcoming show at Christie’s auction house. He also explains his move from digital to physical art for this collection, noting its parallels to Andy Warhol’s work. ACK and Sergio also explore the past and future of NFTs, identify the artists shaping the space, and share advice for those who want to make a living through self-expression.Never miss an episode of Raoul Pal: Real Vision - subscribe here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Block is reporting that U.S. federal lawmakers want to question Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of FTX, about the bankrupt crypto exchange’s collapse. They’d also like to hear from Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao about his company’s role in FTX’s demise. Also, Binance is said to be preparing to acquire the assets of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital that FTX had won at auction, and centralized exchange Gemini is experiencing elevated withdrawals. Nico Brugge and Ash Bennington welcome Leigh Drogen, a general partner and the chief investment officer at Starkiller Capital, and Miles Deutscher, a crypto analyst at Crypto Banter, to talk about the latest developments in the FTX crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At the top of today’s Web3 Wednesday, we’re joined by Zeneca, the founder and CEO of Zen Academy and a seed investor in Blur Marketplace. We talk about NFT education for beginners and best practices for navigating Web3. Later, former San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker and the Club dVIN team drop in to discuss the tokenization of wine. Follow @realvision on Twitter and come learn with us every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. ET. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices