Empire

Updated: 26 May 2025 • 508 episodes
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Empire features interviews with top crypto founders to get the real stories that aren’t shared elsewhere. Empire is your look behind the curtain of the crypto industry. We release two episodes per week: guest interviews on Monday and a weekly roundup on Friday.

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Gm! This week we're joined by Tyler Evans & Josh Solesbury to discuss the Bitcoin treasury playbook. We deep dive into Michael's Saylor's Bitcoin strategy, NAV/premium, how to structure a treasury company, is this a BTC only strategy or do other assets work as well & more. Enjoy! -- Start your day with crypto news, ana

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Gm! Unfortunately no roundup this week as Yano & Santi are travelling. Instead we're bringing you this episode of Bell Curve with Tomasz Stańczak, Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation, to discuss Ethereum’s evolving culture, and product focus. We also dive into Ethereum’s DeFi and RWA dominance, scaling the

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Gm! This week we're joined by Tom Dunleavy & Ryan Berckmans to discuss the bull case for Ethereum. We deep dive into Ethereum's big pivot, how to value the L1, should L2 tokens exist, the role of Etherealize, what's next for ETH & more. Enjoy! -- Start your day with crypto news, analysis and data from Katherine Ross. S

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Gm! This week we're back with another weekly roundup. We discuss the state of the market, what to own this cycle, has BTC dominance topped, why you need to pay attention to crypto M&A in 2025 & much more. Enjoy! -- Start your day with crypto news, analysis and data from Katherine Ross. Subscribe to the Empire newslette

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This week, the Hivemind team discuss ETH's sudden outperformance and whether it's driven by genuine flows or just positioning, Solana's strength as the launchpad for "Internet Capital Markets," and the evolving narratives around RWA tokens, L1 rotation, and meme coin mania. They also touch on Celestia’s roadmap struggl

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Gm! This week we're joined by Christine Moy, Carlos Domingo & Tarun Chitra to discuss the launch of crypto largest onchain credit fund. We deep dive into what is private credit, the future of tokenization, onchain vs tradfi risk management, finding product market fit & more. Enjoy! -- Start your day with crypto news, a

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