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Is Bitcoin on the Verge of Its Biggest Bull Run? | Markets Outlook Sep 10, 2026

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Ran Neuner, Founder of Crypto Banter, joins Coindesk’s Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook with charts in hand to explain why Bitcoin's pullback from $82K is textbook post-golden-cross behavior, and why he thinks the real story is what comes next. Neuner breaks down Scott Bessent's Treasury buybacks as the engine of the rally, why ETH just broke a nine-year downtrend against Bitcoin, and why he's rotating out of layer ones and into apps with real users and revenue.

Plus, Energy Substantiation Co-Founder Wil Harris joins Brand New Rails to explain why hard-to-custody assets, like oil, are tokenization's real frontier.

This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment platform. Grayscale's mission is to make digital asset investing simple and open to every investor. Learn more at grayscale.com.

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Timecodes:

00:00 - Ran Neuner Joins Markets Outlook

00:45 - The Golden Cross and Bitcoin's Pullback

02:31 - Bessent's Buybacks and Why $6B Disappointed the Market

03:56 - Oil, the War, and Trump's $1.4T Stimulus Promise

06:47 - Brand New Rails: Tokenized WTI Crude Oil

09:37 - "Crypto's Biggest Bull Market Ever"

11:33 - ETH Breaks a Nine-Year Downtrend Against Bitcoin

14:03 - Altcoins to 7X Bitcoin? Crypto's Product Market Fit

18:02 - Why AI Agents Are Crypto's Real Use Case

19:54 - What Makes an Altcoin Win: Users, Revenue, Buybacks

Nasdaq Invests $100M in Kraken Parent Payward Sep 10, 2026

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Nasdaq's Ventures invested $100 million in Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken. Payward Chief Commercial Officer Mark Greenberg joins Jennifer Sanasie to explain what the deal unlocks: from bringing Nasdaq's traditional equities on-chain as permissioned tokens, to new collaborations on market surveillance, data, and expanding xStocks to more markets. Plus, insights into Kraken's shift from a crypto-only exchange to a multi-asset platform and the company's 2027 IPO timeline.

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AMC Slams Robinhood's Approach To Tokenized Stocks: Why Kraken and Bullish Are Betting Big Anyway Sep 09, 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 special guest co-host Ophelia Snyder, Co-Founder of 21Shares.

Payward Chief Commercial Officer Mark Greenberg breaks down Kraken parent Payward's new partnerships with SoFi and the London Stock Exchange, and how xStocks is bringing tokenized equities and 24/7 markets to investors around the world.

Bullish Exchange President Chris Tyrer unpacks Bullish's $4.2 billion acquisition of transfer agent Equiniti, its first tokenized-share trades on a GFSC-regulated venue, and the competing models shaping the future of tokenized stocks.

Plus, Sanasie and Snyder break down another billion-dollar week for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs and what shifting macro conditions could mean for crypto.

Learn more at bullish.com.

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Chapters/Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to Public Keys

00:40 Has the Mood Shifted on the Clarity Act?

03:32 The ColdCard Hack and the Case for Intermediaries

05:26 Payward's Mark Greenberg Joins

05:47 Inside the London Stock Exchange xStocks Deal

07:11 Will xStocks Come to the US?

08:41 The AMC-Robinhood Tokenized Stock Spat

09:57 Why Issuers Should Embrace Tokenized Equities

11:13 Nasdaq Equity Tokens and Yield on xStocks

13:20 Bullish's Chris Tyrer on the $4.2B Equiniti Deal

14:23 The Three Models of Tokenized Equity

15:10 Who Owns Your Stock? Cede & Co. and Issuer Visibility

17:51 Tokenization as the Next Mega Trend

19:31 Turning Shareholders Into Members

21:31 Tokenization, NFTs, and the Governance Problem

24:28 Another $1.2B Week for BTC and ETH ETFs

25:04 Reading the Flows: Macro and a Bitcoin Regime

27:47 Alt Flows and the First US Staked TRON ETF

Anthropic Researcher Warns AI Could Kill Us All After Quitting | CoinDesk Daily Sep 09, 2026

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An Anthropic researcher warns AI could kill us all.

A researcher who spent three years on pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic resigned with a warning that the labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence that could kill everyone by the end of the decade. Anthropic's own alignment lead put the odds above 10%. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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

Hunter Biden Is Launching a Memecoin | CoinDesk Daily Sep 08, 2026

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Hunter Biden is launching a LAPTOP memecoin.

Hunter Biden is launching a memecoin called LAPTOP on Base, named after the laptop he left at a Delaware repair shop in 2019. Founders get 30% of the 1 billion supply, and part of the airdrop targets wallets underwater on the TRUMP token. 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.

Zcash Hits $1,000 as Short Sellers Lose $34 Million | CoinDesk Daily Sep 04, 2026

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Zcash jumps above $1,000.

Zcash surged around 20% to $1,000, nearly doubling in a month and liquidating $34.5 million in short positions. A new Grayscale spot ETF is helping fuel the privacy coin's run. 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.

$1.3 Million Bitcoin Will Be “Relatively Easy,” Says Bitwise’s Matt Hougan | Markets Outlook Sep 03, 2026

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Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise Asset Management, joins Jennifer Sanasie for a special edition of Markets Outlook from the New York Stock Exchange to unpack the market's overnight flip from despair to euphoria. Hougan explains why a traditional 60/40 portfolio is "100% fiat currency," why holding 0% Bitcoin has become a misallocation, and where he's allocating now. Plus, why he gives Bitcoin a good chance of reclaiming $100K this year and sees $1.3 million by 2035.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon also joins to unpack Stellar crossing $4 billion in tokenized real-world assets, a 400% jump since January.

Timecodes:

00:00 - Matt Hougan Joins Markets Outlook

00:45 - Despair to Euphoria: What Flipped the Market

03:20 - AI Stocks vs. Bitcoin

05:49 - Brand New Rails: Stellar Crosses $4B in Tokenized RWAs

08:05 - Bitcoin, Zcash, and the Tokenization Trade

14:15 - Matt's Bitcoin Price Prediction This Year and By 2035

This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. Join the Testnet now at realfi.co.

This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

The Malware That Hijacked Crypto Payments for 8 Years | CoinDesk Daily Sep 03, 2026

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The copy-paste hack that stole $150K.

CrowdStrike and federal authorities dismantled Sality, a botnet that spent eight years swapping copied wallet addresses for the attacker's, so victims unknowingly sent crypto to a stranger. The fix is simple: check the first and last characters of any address after you paste it. 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.

Tether Sued for Allegedly Freezing $42M Before a Warrant Sep 02, 2026

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Tether faces lawsuit for allegedly freezing $42M USDT before a warrant.

Two Thai businessmen are suing Tether, alleging it froze 42.4 million USDT months before U.S. authorities obtained a seizure warrant. Tether calls the lawsuit baseless, but it raises the question of whether the issuer can freeze tokens in private wallets before any legal process. 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.

Coinbase Tokenized Stocks Hit $100M in Volume; First Zcash ETF and Strategy Yield Goes DeFi Sep 02, 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 Ben Spiegelman, Head of Institutional at Base, to break down Coinbase's newly launched tokenized stocks. Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale, unpacks the debut of the first-ever Zcash ETF. Plus, Solstice CEO Ben Nadareski explains strcUSX, a Solana-based product that splits the economics of Strategy's STRC preferred into senior and junior tranches.

Learn more at bullish.com.

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

Chapters/Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to Public Keys

00:24 Coinbase Brings Tokenized Stocks to Base

00:44 Base's Ben Spiegelman Joins Public Keys

01:02 What Makes Coinbase's Tokenized Stocks Different

03:26 The Killer DeFi Use Case: Borrowing Against Your Stocks

04:11 The CLARITY Act and a Future US Launch

05:24 Trading, Financing, and Payments on Base

07:04 What Still Gives Institutions Pause On-Chain

09:15 ETF Flows: Bitcoin and Ether Cool After a Record August