On The Brink with Castle Island Podcast
1) Weekly Roundup 02/27/26 (Insider Predicting, OCC implements GENIUS, ZachXTB fingers Axiom, Jane St vs Terra) (EP.704)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:Â Kalshi has detected and banned two accounts for insider trading Is Polymarket going to have to add KYC? Is there a tradeof...Show More
2) Weekly Roundup 02/20/26 (CFTC claims Prediction Markets, rogue AI agents, ETH's existential crisis) (EP.703)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:Â Crypto VC funds have some dry powder CFTC chair Mike Selig asserts jurisdiction over prediction markets relative to the St...Show More
3) Raj Parekh (Monad Foundation) on Stablecoins and The Next Era of Fintech (EP.702)
Wyatt sits down with Raj Parekh, Head of Stablecoins and Payments at Monad. In this episode: Will enterprises build out their own stablecoin solutions? Will card payments continue to grow, or be chal...Show More
4) Weekly Roundup 02/13/26 (SBF wants a retrial, taking stock of Web3, Clarity deadlocked) (EP.701)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:Â Matt reflects on the Patriots season We review the Superbowl Ads Looking forward to the OpenAI wearable Is "something big ...Show More
5) Bhavin Vaid (Birch Hill) on Better Markets for Tokenized Assets (EP.700)
Wyatt sits down with Bhavin, co-founder of Birch Hill to chat about the tokenized asset and DeFi market broadly. In this episode: Who is assessing whether cryptoassets are safe in DeFi today? Who is ...Show More
6) Weekly Roundup 02/06/26 (Bitcoin bloodbath, Digesting Epstein's Emails, Ethereum rethinks L2s) (EP.699)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:Â Bitcoin grapples with the fallout of the Epstein Emails Did Jeffrey Epstein influence Bitcoin development? Is Bhutan selli...Show More
7) Weekly Roundup 01/30/26 (Fidelity's FIDD, Gold rally, Worldcoin and AI bots, digital alibis) (EP. 698)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:Â Matt is heated about the Belichick HoF vote Fidelity launches a stablecoin FIDD on Ethereum Market structure passes Senate...Show More
8) Weekly Roundup 01/23/26 (CLARITY stalls, Iran's USDT reserves, Is Web3 Social over?) (EP.697)
Nic and Matt are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:Â There's a big storm coming Matt's playoff picks Farcaster sells to Neynar Is this the nail in the coffin for Web3Social? Wh...Show More
9) Weekly Roundup 01/16/26 (CLARITY problems, InfoFi Dead, CA Wealth Tax, Kontigo) (EP.696)
Matt and Nic are back after a week off. In this episode: The Clarity market structure bill markup is delayed for now Coinbase backs out of supporting Clarity The bank lobby is trying to torpedo Clari...Show More
10) Wyatt & Jake Lynch on Onchain Financial Markets (EP.695)
Wyatt, Henry, and Jake recently put out a report called "Total Value Lost", exploring how best to assess the value of various DeFi markets - starting with lending markets. This episode is a continuati...Show More