The Crypto Tape

The Crypto Tape from GSR brings you inside crypto’s capital markets, where topics like credit and liquidity converge with actually interesting stories and perspectives. As one of the world’s leading crypto investment firms, GSR has traded trillions in digital assets. Now, we’re opening the door to the people shaping this market.Hosted by Frank Chaparro, The Crypto Tape features candid conversations with investors, traders, exchange operators, and founders building the next generation of financial infrastructure.Subscribe to stay close to the people and ideas moving markets forward.

The Crypto Tape is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 45 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts The Crypto Tape, a business show with 45 episodes published.

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  TradFi Took Over the Room with Bhaji Illuminati

  Oct 2, 202621 min

  Bhaji Illuminati, CEO and co-founder of Centrifuge, joins Frank Chaparro in studio at RWA Summit in Brooklyn, the tokenization conference Centrifuge launched in 2023. Bhaji describes how the room flipped from mostly DeFi builders to mostly traditional finance, and why the tokenization playbook flipped with it: asset managers now start with real onchain demand and AUM, and treat operational efficiencies as the long game. She walks through how a $1 billion T-bill RFP from Sky led Janus Henderson to bring its flagship AAA CLO strategy onchain with Centrifuge, why vaults are turning asset managers into onchain curators, and why Centrifuge is proposing to let token holders convert into tokenized equity.

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  The Desk – What Institutional Stablecoin Flow Actually Looks Like with Edward Woodford

  Sep 25, 202636 minS1

  Edward Woodford, founder and CEO of zerohash, joins Frank Chaparro and Slater Santer for episode five of The Desk to describe stablecoin adoption from a seat almost nobody else occupies: the infrastructure layer that banks, brokerages, and fintechs use to offer crypto trading, stablecoins, and tokenization. Stablecoins are now the majority of that business, which Interactive Brokers led a $104 million round into in September 2025 at a $1 billion valuation, alongside Morgan Stanley, Apollo-managed funds, and SoFi. Edward walks through what institutional flow actually looks like, [flow figure or growth rate], and which corridors and use cases produce volume rather than headlines. He explains why the hard part of this business is licensing and compliance rather than technology, which is why fintechs rent the stack instead of building it, what MiCAR authorization changed for operating across jurisdictions, and how the shift from holding a stablecoin balance to funding accounts, settling payments, and spending at the point of sale changes what platforms need underneath. A conversation about the plumbing that stablecoin adoption runs on, from the person building it for the institutions using it.

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  The Meme-ification of Equity with Robert Leshner

  Sep 24, 202618 min

  Robert Leshner, CEO of Superstate, returns to The Crypto Tape to join Frank Chaparro during the RWA Summit for a look at what has changed in tokenization since his last appearance on the podcast in February. Robert explains why the products gaining traction look retail native and even anti-institutional, why most tokenized stocks are wrappers on brokerage balances several steps removed from the issuer, and why Superstate is focused on the pipes underneath to put the primary security itself onchain. He also makes the case that value will accrue to trading venues rather than token issuers, predicts that three years from now there will be more ways to trade Tesla than at any point in history, and explains why agents or aggregation will have to tame all that choice over the long run.

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  Tokenization Is the Digitization of Value with Hayden Adams

  Sep 17, 202637 min

  Hayden Adams, founder of Uniswap, joins Frank Chaparro on The Crypto Tape, where Hayden lays out his core thesis that tokenization is the digitization of value, the same shift the internet brought to information. He explains why automated market makers win on cost of capital rather than raw efficiency, how "correlated pairs" decouple what traditional markets bundle together in dollars, and why that expands rather than replaces the role of market-making firms. He also gets into what Robinhood chain proved about RWAs and memes, the common misconception about impermanent loss, and why he now describes Uniswap as a liquidity network and distribution engine rather than a decentralized exchange.

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  The Remittance Myth and Why Banks Are the Endgame with Chris Maurice

  Sep 11, 202645 min

  Chris Maurice, CEO of Yellow Card, joins Frank Chaparro to cut through the hype on stablecoins and explain where they genuinely change payments and where they don't. Yellow Card builds stablecoin payment infrastructure across more than 50 countries, giving Chris a ground-level view most of the industry lacks. He argues the "stablecoins fix international payments" story is oversimplified, that the real unlock is in markets where rails and dollar access are broken rather than the US-to-Europe corridors that already work, and that the long-promised remittance revolution keeps stalling because the middlemen pocket the savings. He also makes the contrarian case that banks are allies rather than enemies, with native stablecoin acceptance as the endgame, and explains why the yield fight is really about protecting bank margins. Chris and Frank also discuss why stablecoin cards are taking off outside the US, and how stablecoins have finally broken away from crypto in the eyes of investors

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