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**On The Brink with Castle Island**

Hosts Matt Walsh and Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures explore news and deals in the public blockchain space and talk to some of the leading experts in the industry. Learn more and stay up to date at CastleIsland.vc and follow on twitter @CastleIslandVC

Latest Episodes:

Weekly Roundup 08/29/25 (Stablecoins in CDMX, DAT issues, GDP on the blockchain) (EP.661) Aug 29, 2025

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Nic and Matt return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:

Nic reviews the stablecoin conference in Mexico City
Will the banks obsolete stablecoins?
Some DATs are having trouble
The government is putting GDP on the blockchain
The CFTC opens the door to US customers trading on non-US exchanges
Trump fires Lisa Cook
Can the Fed be considered "independent"
Google is developing a blockchain
A BNB DAT gets delisted
Tether is building on Bitcoin via RGB
How does insider trading work in prediction markets?

Sandy Kaul (Franklin Templeton) on Onchain Asset Management (EP.660) Aug 25, 2025

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Wyatt sits down with Sandy Kaul, head of digital assets at Franklin Templeton, to cover Sandy's work with the CFTC and DTCC and creating sandboxes for onchain financial markets. In this episode:

How wallets stand to become the hub of asset management
Lasting policy for crypto
Protecting consumers in an open financial system

Weekly Roundup 08/22/25 (SALT Jackson Hole, Wyoming Stable Token, Fed drama) (EP.659) Aug 22, 2025

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

Wyoming releases a stabletoken "FRNT"
Matt's bear encounter
Bowman and Waller's speeches at Jackson Hole
Eric Trump's Bitcoin prediction
Is there an example of a DAT that makes sense?
Should DATs trade at a persistent premium?
Figure is going public
Bullish goes public
Is Saylor cornered?
Quintenz' nomination
The DoJ decriminalizes writing open source code
Is Polymarket cooked?
Does a trial by a jury of your peers make sense?

Content mentioned:

Reducible Errors, Predicting our own demise

Cupid & Hercules (Groom Lake) on Preventing and Responding to Cybercrime (EP.658) Aug 21, 2025

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Wyatt sits down with the founders of Groom Lake. In this episode:

How social engineering attacks are being used to exploit companies in crypto and beyond
How companies can better protect themselves and be vigilant of these exploit attempts
The future of cybersecurity software for crypto

Luke Xie (SatLayer) on The Next Generation of Bitcoin Yield (EP.657) Aug 18, 2025

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Wyatt sits down with Luke Xie, cofounder of SatLayer for a conversation about Bitcoin yield. In this episode:

What makes financial markets for BTC unique
How BTC DeFi will evolve, in the backdrop of the broader macro environment
DeFi vs CeFi financial systems for BTC

Weekly Roundup 08/15/25 (DAT fine print, stablecoin L1s, banks vs stables) (EP.656) Aug 15, 2025

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Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:

We review the DAT fine print
Why being in power is sometimes the hardest part
Stripe and Circle announce their own L1s
We make the case for stablecoin L1s
The irony in Stripe's L1
What about a DAT of DATs?
Bullish goes public
Breakfast cereals
Do Kwon pleads guilty
BPI sends a letter to Congress complaining about stablecoin interest
Can you prohibit stablecoin yield?
Bo Hines steps down
Bessent says the USG will not be buying Bitcoin
Is monero being 51% attacked?

Content mentioned:

BitMEX Research, Treasury Company Advisory Agreements
Julie Hill, Governmental Debanking

Huf Haus (Pear Protocol) on Trading Strategies Across Crypto Cycles (EP.655) Aug 13, 2025

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We sit down with Huf Haus, founder of Pear Protocol. In this episode:

What pair trading is, the benefits of Pear trading, and different strategies
How to approach different market regimes from a trader's perspective
Applying trading strategies to other asset classes

Nathan McCauley on Anchorage Digital Prime and Stablecoin White-Label (EP.654) Aug 11, 2025

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Nathan McCauley, the founder and CEO of Anchorage joins the show. In this episode we discuss:

The passage of The Genius Act and the impact it will have on the digital asset industry.
The launch of Anchorage's white label stablecoin issuance platform.
Anchorage Digital Prime and how the company is working with its customers on trade execution, lending and custody.
The status of the market structure bill.
The Roman Storm case.

To learn more about Anchorage visit their website. Follow Nathan on X.

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