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Korea's Largest Crypto Exchange Is Done Playing Domestic Jul 01, 2026

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Upbit's next move: from Korea's #1 to global contender.

SeonJoo Yoon, Chief Brand & Impact Officer at Upbit, joins CoinDesk’s Sam Ewen to break down why Korea is one of the most fascinating crypto markets on the planet and how Upbit, the country's dominant exchange with 13 million KYC'd users and $1.5 trillion in cumulative trading volume, is now setting its sights far beyond its home turf. - Timecodes: 00:00 - Upbit’s SJ Yoon Joins CoinDesk’s Spotlight

01:50 - SJ's Early Career Path

05:35 - What Led SJ Yoon Into Web3 and Crypto

14:17 - Korean Tech Culture: Adoption, Connectivity, and Retail Trading Appetite

20:19 - Upbit's Stablecoin Project and Why Stablecoins Matter in Korea's Mobile-First Economy

23:58 - AI-Era payments, CBDC vs. Stablecoin Debate, and Upbit's Layer 2 (with Optimism)

26:03 - Bridging Korean Users to Global Institutions

28:51 - GIWA Web3 Infrastructure, AI Agent Wallets, GASOK accelerator

30:29 - Upbit’s Global Expansion

32:52 - Korea's Regulatory Landscape and the Digital Asset Act

34:42 - Upbit’s Presence at Korea Blockchain Week

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"Spotlight" features host Sam Ewen.

White House to Speak with Law Enforcement Groups to Push the Clarity Act | CoinDesk Daily Jun 30, 2026

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The White House pushes for CLARITY.

The White House is meeting with law enforcement groups to resolve objections to the crypto market structure bill. At issue is a provision shielding software developers from money-transmitter rules, which sheriffs argue would exempt mixers and tumblers from anti-money-laundering law. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

BTC ETFs Bled $4B in Worst Month Ever, Strategy's Plan Forward and an Institutional Super Cycle for ETH? Jun 29, 2026

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On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by CoinDesk Indices and Data to break down nearly $1.8 billion in weekly Bitcoin ETF outflows, Strategy's new capital plan, and whether the digital asset treasury narrative is back.

SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom joins to unpack the Ethereum Foundation's funding crisis, the launch of ETHlabs, and the company's $75 million raise, as he makes the case for an institutional supercycle in ETH. In this week's 10X, Kaizen founder Brian Jung breaks down his MicroStrategy short.

Moody's Ratings Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Economy Fabian Astic explains how the firm is embedding credit ratings into tokenized securities on Solana and unveils the first-ever credit rating methodology for stablecoins.

Plus, Midnight Foundation President Fahmi Syed details the partnership with Bank of England-regulated Monument Bank and why privacy is becoming the missing piece for institutional adoption.

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Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to Public Keys

00:52 BTC ETFs See $1.8B in Weekly Outflows

02:57 Strategy's Capital Plan and Bitcoin's Week

04:12 Is the Digital Asset Treasury Narrative Back?

06:37 Ethereum Foundation Departures and ETHlabs

07:06 SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom Joins

08:15 Ethereum's Funding Crisis and the ETH Bull Case

10:25 Inside SharpLink's $75M Raise

13:36 ETH's Institutional Super Cycle and Price Outlook

15:19 Will the Clarity Act Pass This Year?

17:45 10X: Brian Jung's Strategy Short

19:16 Moody's Ratings Brings Credit Ratings On-Chain

19:46 Fabian Astic on the First Stablecoin Credit Rating

21:36 Do Stablecoins Need Ratings After the Genius Act?

23:17 Why launch token ratings on Solana and Canton first?

25:36 Collateral Mobility and $255T in Trapped Liquidity

28:46 Is Privacy the Missing Piece for Institutions?

29:02 Midnight's Fahmi Syed on the Monument Bank Deal

33:46 The Collateral Warehouse and Global Expansion

36:38 Thanks for Watching

Strategy Opens the Door to Selling Bitcoin | CoinDesk Daily Jun 29, 2026

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Strategy's new capital framework clears the way for selling BTC.

Michael Saylor's Strategy unveiled a new capital framework that clears the way to sell bitcoin for the first time, authorize up to $2 billion in buybacks, and raise its STRC preferred dividend to 12%. CoinDesk's Sam Ewen hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

This episode was hosted by Sam Ewen. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Strategy's Bitcoin Bet Is Now a $13B Paper Loss | CoinDesk Daily Jun 26, 2026

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Strategy's $13B unrealized loss.

Strategy is sitting on a $13 billion unrealized loss on its bitcoin holdings, with its STRC preferred stock down 25% from par. The company still has about 10 months of reserves to cover dividends but the bigger question is whether investor confidence holds if bitcoin doesn't bounce back. CoinDesk's Sam Ewen hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

This episode was hosted by Sam Ewen. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Does the Clarity Act Have a Human Trafficking Blind Spot? Jun 26, 2026

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CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti open with two hot topics: Coinbase's SEC-registered AI agentic trading launch and tribal gaming operators' letter to Senators Thune and Schumer demanding that the CLARITY Act include a prohibition on prediction markets.

Then Katie Boller Gosewisch, Executive Director of the Alliance to End Human Trafficking, joins to challenge CLARITY's Section 604, arguing that shielding DeFi developers from money-transmitter liability creates a "duty of care" gap that traffickers can exploit.

Plus, Rebecca and Renato close by naming Meta as their Person of the Week for its reported move into points-based prediction markets.

Check out CoinDesk's latest episode of Public Keys from the NYSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75LrBmSScvY&list=PLZWrc_gWChqnim-9ZbIKZTOrPA7IgFKVR&pp=sAgC

Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to The Policy Protocol

00:51 This Week: AI Trading, Prediction Markets, Human Trafficking

01:15 Coinbase Launches AI Agentic Trading

02:22 SEC-Registered AI Agents and the Hallucination Problem

03:43 Tribes Concerns Over Clarity Act

05:30 Rebuttals to the Tribes' Clarity Concerns

06:23 Katie Boller Gosewisch Joins the Show

07:31 Section 604: The Liability Shield Traffickers Could Exploit

08:59 Are DeFi Developers Money Transmitters?

09:52 What Section 604 Actually Says, and What It Doesn't

10:54 Should We Reinstate a Human Trafficking Coordinator?

11:30 Duty of Care and the 'Turning a Blind Eye' Problem

13:07 The Roman Storm/Tornado Cash Case as the Test

14:37 Future Loopholes and the Reasonable Doubt Risk

15:28 Cryptocurrency, Anonymity, and Rising Online Trafficking

16:02 Blockchain Is Transparent, and That Helps Law Enforcement

17:39 Person of the Week: Meta

19:58 The Points-Based Prediction Market and What Meta Could Unlock

Ethereum Is Facing A Critical Funding Gap, Says Ex-EF Member | Markets Outlook Jun 25, 2026

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Does Ethereum have a funding crisis?

On today's Markets Outlook, Protocol Guild Organizer Trent Van Epps tells CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie why the Ethereum Foundation's subtraction philosophy is creating a critical funding gap for core developers, what it will take to fill it, and why he's still optimistic about ETH's future.

Timecodes:

00:00 - Trent Van Epps Joins Markets Outlook

00:57 - Why Trent Left the Ethereum Foundation

01:55 - What Is Subtraction and Why It Matters

02:31 - 20% Workforce Cuts and the Funding Gap Explained

05:09 - Options for Solving the Funding Crisis

07:06 - Will Ethereum Lose Its First Mover Advantage?

08:40 - What Happens If the Funding Doesn't Come?

10:47 - What Institutions Should Replace the EF?

12:24 - Ethereum’s Future

14:37 - ETH the Asset: The Misconceptions and the Opportunity

Check out CoinDesk's latest episode of Public Keys from the NYSE: https://youtu.be/mePmjknvBVc

To get market moving news delivered daily, download CoinDesk’s mobile app: https://linktr.ee/coindeskapp.

This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

Kalshi Targets $40B Valuation, Doubling in One Round | CoinDesk Daily Jun 25, 2026

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Kalshi seeks funding at $40B.

Prediction-market platform Kalshi is raising fresh capital at a roughly $40 billion valuation, nearly double the $22 billion it hit just one round ago. CEO Tarek Mansour says an IPO is on the table, but not before 2027. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Wallets? Jun 24, 2026

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The impact of giving synthetic beings a wallet, an identity, and eventually a body.

Jansen Teng, Co-Founder of Virtuals Protocol, joins Sam to lay out one of the most ambitious visions in crypto right now, a parallel society of AI agents that can trade, hire, earn, and eventually inhabit physical bodies. Jansen digs into what it actually takes to build an agentic economy from the ground up, from escrow mechanisms that prevent agents from stealing each other's funds, to real-world robotics deployments at hotels and malls in Southeast Asia. Links mentioned from the podcast: Jansen’s Twitter: https://x.com/ethermage Virtuals Website: https://www.virtuals.io/ Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 1:52 Virtuals Protocol Origin Story 3:58 The Pivot to Economy OS 4:24 The Experiment That Changed Everything 5:11 Defining the Agentic Economy 6:43 Agents Beyond Crypto: Real World Use Cases 7:33 Accountability & Agent Failures 14:05 Agent Identities, KYC & Economy OS Toolkit 17:05 Self-Sustaining Autonomous Agents 19:22 The Pareto Rule: Which Agents Will Succeed? 21:59 Embodied AI & Robotics 29:04 Do Agents Deserve Rights?

"Gen C" features host Sam Ewen. Executive produced by Uyen Truong.

Ethereum Foundation to Cut Budget by 40% and Slash 20% of Workforce | CoinDesk Daily Jun 24, 2026

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The Ethereum Foundation announced a 40% budget cut after layoff news.

The Ethereum Foundation will slash its budget by roughly 40% this year as part of a shift toward a leaner, endowment-style operating model. This comes on the same day the EF confirmed a 20% reduction in headcount. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

This episode was hosted by Uyen Truong. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

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