Two crypto-native hosts interview the founders, researchers and regulators building onchain finance, with a weekly news roundup wedged in between.
Roughly one episode a week is a ROLLUP, a news roundup keyed to that week's prices and headlines, and those make up a large share of the archive. They are the fastest-expiring thing in the feed. The interviews are where the show explains how something works, and each one stands alone.
In order. If you only listen to one, make it the first.
The best on-ramp if you already understand stocks and not crypto. It explains what a transfer agent does, why the shares in your brokerage account are not recorded in your name, and why there are six different tokenized versions of Coinbase in circulation, none of which is actual Coinbase equity.
A journalist and a private investigator spent four years on Bitcoin's origin question. The method is what makes it a good entry point: analysis of the original C++ client, linguistic patterns, timezone data from forum posts, and years spent earning the trust of 1990s cypherpunks who had no interest in talking.
Self-custody security from a hardware wallet founder and a former CIA officer. Their argument is that phishing is far more likely than the physical attacks that get headlines, that trusting a third party remains the largest exposure, and that privacy is the outermost security layer rather than a separate topic.
Paul Frambot's complaint is that DeFi lending pools set interest rates from a utilization curve somebody chose, which is a formula rather than a price. His alternative is a zero-coupon obligation issued at a discount and maturing at par, where the rate is whatever the discount turns out to be. The framing is useful whether or not you ever touch the protocol.
A philosopher of games on what happens when a score quietly stands in for the thing it was meant to measure, working through Rotten Tomatoes, GPA and follower counts. Nothing in it is about prices, and it is the episode that shows how far the show ranges when it wants to.
Which is the real problem with "where do I start" lists. Each episode above links to its summary on this site, free and without an account, so you can find out which of the five is worth your evening before committing to any of them.
The weekly ROLLUPs, and anything framed as a cycle call or a prediction list. They date within weeks, and they take up enough of the feed that a newcomer sorting by most recent will mostly land on them.
The back-catalog problem is the same problem as the queue problem. Listening to summaries instead of full episodes and fitting long shows into a commute cover two other pieces of it.