(00:00) Intro and Major Headlines
(00:57) Texas Treats Bitcoin Like Gold: A State-Level Reserve
(02:41) Bitcoin as Mortgage Collateral
(04:33) Robinhood’s Big Bet: Tokenized Stocks, Staking, and a Blockchain of Its Own
(07:32) Stablecoins Get Serious: Circle and Ripple Chase Bank Charters
(08:55) Fiserv’s FIUSD: A Payments Giant Joins the Stablecoin Party
(10:29) Betting on the Future: Polymarket and Kalshi Raise Millions
(12:07) Fold Buys Lolli to Supercharge Bitcoin Rewards
(13:46) Weekly Recap, Hot Take, and Closing Thought
(00:00) Intro and Major Headlines
(00:47) Senate Says "Genius" to Stablecoins
(03:44) Stablecoins in E-commerce: Shopify's Big Move
(06:59) Walmart and Amazon’s Stablecoin Ambitions
(09:52) Coinbase Card: AMEX with up to 4% Bitcoin Rewards
(12:48) Bitcoin’s Supply Squeeze Heats Up
(16:49) Weekly Recap, Hot Take, and Closing Thought
(00:00) Intro and Major Headlines
(01:00) Circle's Explosive IPO and Its Implications
(04:46) Tether's Astonishing Profits and Market Position
(07:39) The Great IPO Rush: Gemini and Beyond
(10:40) X Bets on Polymarket
(13:51) Stripe as AWS of Internet Money
(16:35) The Fight for Wallet Freedom in Congress
(19:53) Conclusion: The Future of Money
(00:00) Intro and Major Headlines
(00:49) VP Vance: Stablecoins Supercharge the Dollar
(03:36) GameStop’s $513M Bitcoin Bet: Meme Stock Goes Full Saylor
(06:16) Square Makes Bitcoin Payments Easy as Pie
(08:32) Tether's Dominance and Global Impact
(11:10) Russia’s Largest Bank Bets on Bitcoin Bonds
(12:59) Circle’s IPO: Stablecoins Go Wall Street
(15:01) SEC Drops Binance Suit: Regulation by Enforcement Dies
(16:55) Conclusion: The Great Normalization
(00:00) Introduction and Overview
(00:50) Bitcoin Outmuscles Amazon: The $2 Trillion Milestone
(05:47) Kraken’s xStocks: Wall Street Meets Blockchain
(09:46) The GENIUS Act: Stablecoins Get a Rulebook
(14:14) Major Banks Entering the Stablecoin Arena
(18:26) Weekly Recap and Final Thoughts
(0:23) Coinbase Joins the S&P 500
(3:03) Coinbase Hackers Demand $20M Ransom
(5:09) Robinhood Acquiring WonderFi for $179M
(6:43) Steak 'n Shake Accepts Bitcoin
(8:24) Gemini's Bitcoin Credit Card
(10:12) AI Meets Shopping: Perplexity and PayPal Team Up
(11:41) The GENIUS Act and Stablecoin Regulation
(14:46) Weekly Recap and Closing Thoughts
(0:29) Bitcoin crosses $103K
(1:53) Coinbase buys Deribit for $2.9B
(3:23) Bitcoin-backed loans go live on Coinbase
(4:34) New Hampshire passes Bitcoin reserve bill
(5:34) Stripe launching stablecoin accounts globally
(6:39) Meta eyes USDC payouts on Instagram
(7:34) Lightning powers 15% of Coinbase BTC transactions
(8:29) Robinhood building tokenized stock platform in Europe
(9:23) Celsius CEO Mashinsky sentenced to 12 years
(10:12) Visa backs stablecoin fintech BVNK
(11:05) Stablecoin stack is the new banking stack