Goodnow revolutionaries—

Jared Blake—head of product at Krak, Kraken's global money app—joins the show to explain why a better bank shouldn't require crypto know-how.

The conversation covers what makes Krak genuinely different from Venmo and Zelle. Jared walks through onboarding step by step, and answers audience questions about how it works. He also shares his OpenClaw setup: an agent that scrapes his Substack and X bookmarks and turns them into a daily podcast he listens to while exercising.

Then: oil facilities responsible for 20% of global supply were struck overnight. Will flags oil heading toward $180 a barrel, Moody's putting US recession odds at 49%, and what that means for Bitcoin and stocks. Alex closes with a physical mail scam—a fake Trezor "authentication check" letter complete with a tamper-proof sticker, his home address from an old data breach, and a March 26 deadline designed to spook you into scanning a QR code. Don't scan it. Trezor has confirmed none of this is real.

Watch on YouTube → https://youtube.com/live/GFvDJ-54K1I

LINKS
Krak app: kraken.com/krak
Krak on X: x.com/krakapp J
ared Blake on X: x.com/jaredrblake
Trezor (verify communications): x.com/trezor
Abstract game night: portal.abs.xyz

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Goodnow revolutionaries—

Caulene McDonald—Stand With Crypto's Oklahoma chapter president, ZKP builder, and US/Canada underboss for Pizza DAO's Bitcoin Pizza Day—joins the show for a conversation that starts with pizza and ends with constitutional law. She explains what Stand With Crypto actually does (political advocacy and education, not lobbying), what it looks like to teach Bitcoin to Oklahoma state regulators, and how to find your local chapter president to get involved.

Will opens with bad news: PPI inflation missed again across the board, core PPI came in at 0.5% vs. 0.3% expected, and three consecutive bad reports means CPI pain is coming in about six months. Combined with the new moon data point that Bitcoin drops 71% of the time within three days, he flags Friday as a volatile day with triple witching.

Then Alex roasts the DC Blockchain Summit sponsor list before pulling up the Digital Asset Summit NYC lineup, which is where Coinbase, Circle, the Ethereum Foundation, Goldman, JP Morgan, NASDAQ, and everyone who actually matters is apparently gathered instead.

Also: the Katana $KAT token is live! If you participated in their pre-deposit program, check app.katana.network and the pinned tweet at x.com/KatanaDefi for contract addresses. Do not click links from tweets—scammers are out in force.

The SEC/CFTC joint memo: Alex and Caulene go deep. Caulene makes the case that DLT should be treated as press, not just code as speech, which would require strict scrutiny for any regulation touching it.

Watch on YouTube → https://youtube.com/live/TsNeLKWtwTg

LINKS
Stand With Crypto: standwithcrypto.org
Caulene McDonald on X: x.com/CauleneAmagi
Bitcoin Pizza Day: globalpizza.party
Katana: x.com/KatanaDefi | app.katana.network
DAS NYC side events: lu.ma

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Goodnow revolutionaries—

Casey Craig—co-founder of Euphoria Finance and one of the sharpest builders in DeFi—is back on the show. Euphoria is tap trading: a grid overlaid on a live price chart where you tap where you think the price is going, each square its own CLOB order book, built on MegaEth for real-time execution. Final audits are incoming and mainnet is imminent.

Casey breaks down MEV from first principles—sandwich attacks, Oracle front-running, and the salmonella strategy her co-founder Nathan pioneered to rug the ruggers. Then she explains how MegaEth's architecture eliminates most MEV risk through sheer speed, and what else builders can do: MEV-blocking RPCs, solver protocols like Cowswap, and intentional settlement delays. She also gives her honest take on the state of crypto building: payments and stablecoins are the real story, tokenized equities are quietly maturing, and the retail meme coin casino isn't what serious builders are focused on.

Alex walks through why almost every major crypto is still massively overvalued by traditional revenue multiples—and why Hyperliquid remains the one exception. Plus: how to read a fake pump vs. a real one, why "two hundred billion dollars flowed into crypto" is not how market cap works, and ETH's recent move likely tied to BlackRock's new ETHB ETF inflows.

Also: the $100M licensing problem keeping Euphoria out of the US, why no current legislation addresses front-end DeFi access, what "non-KYC" crypto cards are actually doing under the hood, and whether iTrustCapital makes sense for most people (short answer: probably not).

Watch on YouTube → https://youtube.com/live/gzD5ogZP1RA

LINKS
Euphoria: testnet.euphoria.finance | x.com/euphoria_fi
Casey Craig on X: x.com/caseycraig
MegaETH: x.com/megaeth_labs
Salmonella attack (GitHub): github.com/Defi-Cartel/salmonella

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