Crypto for Beginners (100 episodes)

EPISODE 134 — What Is Crypto Custody — and Why Does It Matter? When BlackRock launched its BUIDL tokenised Treasury fund, it used Anchorage Digital as custodian. When MicroStrategy holds over 500,000 Bitcoin on its...

EPISODE 133 — What Is a Rug Pull — and How Do You Spot One? In October 2021, the Squid Game token launched riding the global viral wave of the Netflix show, rose 45,000% within days, then crashed to zero in seconds as...

EPISODE 132 — Real-World Asset Tokenisation — The Biggest Trend in Institutional Crypto In March 2024, BlackRock — the world's largest asset manager with over ten trillion dollars under management — launched BUIDL: a...

EPISODE 131 — What Is Yield Farming — The Strategy at the Heart of DeFi In the summer of 2020, Compound Finance began distributing its COMP governance token to anyone who lent or borrowed on the platform. Within days...

EPISODE 130 — What Is Crypto Gaming — and Which Blockchain Games Actually Have Players? In 2021, Axie Infinity players in the Philippines were reportedly earning more money breeding cartoon creatures than from a...

EPISODE 129 — Lista DAO — The BNB Chain Liquid Staking Play BNB Chain is one of the most widely used blockchains in the world, serving tens of millions of users across Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America. But...

EPISODE 128 — What Is Crypto Regulation — How Governments Are Catching Up For most of crypto's history, governments' regulatory position could be summarised as uncertainty. The FTX collapse in November 2022 — where a...

EPISODE 127 — Omni Network — Connecting Every Rollup Layer 2 networks solved Ethereum's scaling problem — but created a new one. Today there are dozens of rollups, each with its own liquidity, its own user base, and its...

EPISODE 126 — Bitcoin Halving — What It Is and Why It Moves the Entire Market On April 20, 2024, at block height 840,000, Bitcoin's block reward was automatically cut in half — from 6.25 Bitcoin to 3.125 Bitcoin. No...

Episode 125 — What Is a Pump and Dump — Protecting Yourself as a Beginner The most common form of market manipulation in crypto happens every single day, across every blockchain, in hundreds of tokens simultaneously. A...

EPISODE 124 — What Are NFTs in 2026 — Are They Dead or Evolving? At the peak of the NFT boom, a single Bored Ape sold for a quarter of a million dollars. By 2026, approximately 96% of the NFT collections that launched...

EPISODE 123 — Drift Protocol — The Solana Trading Hub On April 1, 2026, Drift Protocol — Solana's largest decentralised perpetual futures exchange — was drained of nearly $285 million in one of the most sophisticated...

EPISODE 122 — What Is a Cold Wallet vs a Hot Wallet? Every major crypto exchange failure — FTX, Celsius, Mt. Gox — follows the same pattern: customer assets were stored on platforms connected to the internet, and when...

EPISODE 121 — Renzo — The Liquid Restaking Protocol EigenLayer introduced restaking to Ethereum — the ability for your staked ETH to simultaneously secure multiple decentralised protocols, earning additional yield on...

EPISODE 120 — What Is a Layer 2 — How Ethereum Gets Faster and Cheaper In 2020, using Ethereum could cost you fifty to a hundred dollars in gas fees for a single swap. Today, the same transaction on a Layer 2 network...