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Blockchain.com's Co-Founder, Nicolas Cary and Head of Research, Garrick Hileman ring in the new year with a discussion on the crypto markets, featuring our Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Markets, Charlie McGarraugh.  It's no secret the markets have been on the run these past few weeks, but what does that mean looking ahead and is that sustainable? Are there signs of overheating and an upcoming correction? Listen as they discuss this and much more including Wall Street's adoption of crypto and the bitcoin digital gold thesis as the main adoption catalysis today. 

Blockchain.com's Co-Founder, Nic Cary and Head of Research, Garrick Hileman sat down with Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at Coin Center, to discuss the crypto regulatory space, including recently proposed STABLE act, hosted vs unhosted wallets and the likelihood of bitcoin getting banned. 

On this episode of The Blockchain.com Podcast, Garrick Hileman, our Head of Research and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, reads one of his blog posts, The Coming US Digital Dollar - What it is and why it matters. This will dive into exactly what a digital dollar is and how it differs from the dollars we use in our every day life, where money comes from in the first place, winners and losers of a potential digital dollar, and much more.  Read the blog here: https://medium.com/blockchain/the-coming-us-digital-dollar-part-1-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters-a8a92d8e4eef

Head of Research, Garrick Hileman, sat down with Reid Simon, Blockchain.com's Head of Lending, in our latest episode. They discussed different topics surrounding crypto lending such as high interest rates and how crypto companies are able to offer those, the risks and issues crypto lending participants should consider, how the crypto lending market may evolve and many others. 

Blockchain.com's Co-Founder, Nicolas Cary and Head of Research, Garrick Hileman sit down with Blockchain.com Venture's Managing Partner Sam Harrison to discuss investing in early-stage crypto projects.

Garrick Hileman -- Head of Research at Blockchain.com and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics -- dives into DeFi and the crypto lending market in our latest podcast. Listen as he reads his article: How Big is DeFi? A look at the Crypto Lending Market. Read the blog here: https://medium.com/blockchain/how-big-is-defi-a-look-at-the-crypto-lending-market-fe2271d477b7

Garrick Hileman -- Head of Research at Blockchain.com and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics -- is back with another blog reading recounting his article: The World's 'Hardest' Asset is Ironically Virtual. Read the blog here: https://medium.com/blockchain/the-worlds-hardest-asset-is-ironically-virtual-91187667e10e

Blockchain.com's Co-Founder, Nicolas Cary and Head of Research, Garrick Hileman sit down with Algorand's CEO, Steve Kokinos to discuss their ongoing innovation within the blockchain space.

In our latest podcast, Garrick Hileman — Head of Research at Blockchain.com and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics — provides a reading of his blog post entitled: Taxation Without Representation: the Financial Repression Stealth Tax. We want to make more of our content available in formats that work for you, so let us know what you think. Read the blog here: https://medium.com/blockchain/financial-repression-stealth-taxation-without-representation-c61d0a4ea8fb

This episode we look at DeFi: what is it, why should people care, and what are the big drivers of activity and excitement for DeFi throughout the Ethereum community. We're joined by an expert on all things Ethereum, Anthony Sassano. In addition to being a speaker, a podcast host himself, and the author of The Daily Gwei newsletter, he also works with the team at SetProtocol, an automated asset management protocol that's very much at the heart of DeFi. At Blockchain.com we had news this week, listing yearn finance (FYI) and Aave (LEND) on the Exchange, providing access to DeFi tokens to our millions of users worldwide.