Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:

• Should we revisit Basel rules on Bitcoin?
• Jay Powell evolves on banks serving crypto
• Are banks going to offer crypto custody post SAB121?
• Gensler joins MIT Sloan
• Should crypto firms boycott MIT?
• The Senate will hold a hearing on debanking next week
• Choke Point 2.0 is getting caught up in conservative debanking
• Where are we on DeSci?
• Is tokenization finally going to happen?
• X is adding payments to the platform with Visa
• Truth Social is launching Truth.Fi
• Christine Lagarde says the ECB will not buy Bitcoin
• Is the Czech Republic buying bitcoin?
• Kraken turns back on staking
• Apollo is launching a tokenized credit fund on Ethereum and Solana
• Fairshake raises another $116m for the midterms
• SBF is asking Trump for a pardon
• Elliott says crypto is in a bubble

Content mentioned:

• Blockchain Association Unveils Digital Asset Market Structure Principles

The episode where we logged on and won forever. Probably the biggest week in crypto history...

In this episode:

• Ross Ulbricht is granted a full pardon
• Did Ross Ulbricht deserve a life sentence?
• SAB121 is finally gone
• Why SAB121 was bad
• Crypto ball review
• Trump launches a memecoin
• Trump is inaugurated
• OCP2.0 is over
• CBDCs are banned
• We review Trump's Executive Order
• No Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, but a stockpile instead
• Larry Fink calls for 600-700k BTC
• Mark Uyeda, announces the formation of a new task force: SEC Crypto 2.0
• Senator Cynthia Lummis announces the formation of the Senate Banking Committee on Digital Assets
• A US court in Texas overturnes the sanctions placed on Tornado Cash

Matt and Nic are back for more news and deals. In this episode:

• Lummis instructs FDIC staff to not destroy evidence of Chokepoint
• Did the FDIC call Nic poor?
• Coinbase wins a partial victory against the SEC
• Canary Capital files for a Litecoin ETF
• Tether is moving to El Salvador and building an HQ there
• Atlanta Fed gets stablecoins
• The case for non-USD stablecoins
• Is there a case for other assets in a Strategic Reserve?