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THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?
October 7, 2026
Chad Barraford (0:00)
Laundering would be blocked.
Like, anybody can become a validator. You don't have to go through me or any special process. All you have to do is buy a rune and then spin up a node and churn in, and you have a voice, right, on this protocol. You get a two-thirds majority agreeing that we should censor transactions, then sure, that would be the…
Taylor Monahan (0:22)
And it's not necessarily like the...
I think there's like this idea that for like say Bybit or Bitget, they lost so much money, and if you're only going to be able to return six figures of it, like who cares? And it does make a difference though, because it shows that, you know, it shows that you give a shit and that you don't want to be profiting from…
Laura Shin (0:43)
Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your know-how resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin. Thanks for joining this live stream. And first, we'll take a quick word from the sponsors who make the show possible. This episode is brought to you by Oneinch Aqua, the shared liquidity layer from Oneinch…
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- THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?
- Paid Partnership: How Nexo Wants You To Build Wealth Using Crypto
- The Chopping Block: Bitget's 387 Million Dollar Hack, Kalshi's Cooked Perps Volume, and Agentic Bank Runs
- Uneasy Money: The $388M Bitget Hack Started With a Security Vendor
- Is Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP Coin a Scam? He Says the Wallets Prove It Isn't
- DEX in the City: The Hosts Sign Off With Their Best Advice for Women in Crypto
- How Bitget Is Chasing $388 Million in Stolen Funds After a Zero-Day Hack
- Why the Crypto Market Cap Could Reach $50 Trillion This Cycle
- Why Kalshi's Timeline Fight Put Its ETH Perp Volume Under a Microscope: Uneasy Money
- Bits + Bips: Is Bitcoin Finally Being Priced on Fundamentals?
- How Zcash and NEAR Are Driving This Crypto Bull Run
- Crypto's Clarity Act Collapses. Two Days Later, the SEC Introduces Its Innovation Exemption
- Uneasy Money: What Crypto's Gensler Years Say About the AI Slowdown Debate
- The Chopping Block: CLARITY Dies on the Senate Floor, Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Rug, & the AI Pause Pact
- Bits + Bips: Would AI Rules Box Out Everyone but the Frontier Labs?
- Guy Young on Why Ethena Launched a Neobank on Top of Its Stablecoin
- Should Stock Tokens Be Limited to KYC'd Users? Or Be Tradeable by Anyone?
- Uneasy Money: Is OpenAI Training on Your Private Chats to Win the AI Race?
- The Chopping Block: FOMO's Co-Founder Defends the Memecoin Trenches, Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP, and AMC vs Robinhood
- Bits + Bips: AMC's CEO Calls Robinhood's Stock Tokens 'Vile.'
- The Chopping Block: ColdCard's $100M RNG Hack, AI-Powered Security & Ethereum's Staking Yield Taper
- DEX in the City: How Claude's Red-Teaming Agents Escaped a Test Without Realizing It
- Bits + Bips: Is Any Cold Wallet Safe? Inside the Coldcard Hack's Wave Three
- Bits + Bips: Meta Fell 10%. Microsoft Didn't Blink.
- Zcash, Ethereum, Aztec, Canton and More: Which Chain Will Win the Privacy Race?
- Has Control Replaced Decentralization as DeFi's Legal Test? - DEX in the City
- The Chopping Block: Wind Downs, YC's Nemil Dalal, & Will Every Failed Crypto Idea Eventually Work?
- Paid Partnership: How Can DeFi Fix Its Liquidity Problem? 1inch's Aqua Offers a Solution
- Bits + Bips: Why Bitcoin Has the Least to Gain From the Clarity Act
- How Jesse Pollak Is Mapping Out Base's Next Chapter After the App Pivot
- Cobie Taking Over Base App? He's 'the Respectable Trencher': Uneasy Money
- The Chopping Block: The CLARITY Act Endgame with Patrick Witt + Gauntlet's $125M SBI Raise + Balaji's Malaysia Exodus
- DEX in the City: How Kalshi’s Rough Week Became a Federal Fight for Prediction Markets
- Bits + Bips: Why You Can't Opt Out of the AI Guardrails Race
- How Lyn Alden Will Take on Bitcoin DATs and Private Equity With Orange Juice
- Bits + Bips: How a Surprise Clarity Act Vote Could Move Crypto Prices
- Why Cap Cuts Its Stabledrop Rewards From $11M to $4M: Uneasy Money
- Why Robinhood Chain Saw Memecoins Take Off Before Real World Assets
- Crypto Has Seen Drama Over ENS, BonkDAO and VVV. What Does DeFi's Future Look Like?
- DEX in the City: Why the Supreme Court's FTC Ruling Could Rewire Crypto Regulation
- Bits + Bips: Sam Lyman Puts 70% Odds on Clarity Passing Before Recess
- Bits + Bips: Why CLOs Are Suddenly DeFi's Hottest Yield Play
- How Lighter Powers Robinhood Perps With USDG as the Quote Asset
- Austin Griffith on the $1 AI Audit and the Case for Founders Over DAOs: Uneasy Money
- The Chopping Block: Tokens vs Equity, Lighter's Robinhood Perps Deal, and Trump's $2.4B Crypto Windfall
- Bits + Bips: Why Strategy Dumped Its Biggest Bitcoin Tranche Yet
- Strategy Sold More Bitcoin. Is This a Betrayal of the Bitcoin Ethos?
- Ari Redbord Sits Down With the Hosts of DEX in the City
- How Ethereum Institutional Intends to Grow Ethereum's Market Share
- How One ENS Vote Reignited the DAO Governance Debate: Uneasy Money
- Bits + Bips: Why Bitcoin's Lack of Yield Keeps Straining Its Treasury Companies
- Why Authorities Can't Freeze Crypto Fast Enough: DEX in the City
- The Chopping Block: Visa, Mastercard & 140 Firms Take On Circle, Saylor’s Digital Credit Reset & the DAO Reckoning
- Bits + Bips: How a Fake Podcast Invite Nearly Hacked Laura Shin
- How the New Ethlabs Plans to Make Ethereum More Intentional in Designing ETH
- Bits + Bips: A Perp Venue Asked Her to Trade Her Own Benchmark. She Said No
- Why CME Sued the CFTC Over the Kalshi Bitcoin Perp Approval
- Ex-Ethereum Foundation Researchers Launched Their Own Lab: Uneasy Money
- The Chopping Block: Is Strategy the Luna for Suits?, ETH Labs Shakeup & CME vs Perps
- Bits + Bips: Are Perpetuals Swaps or Futures? The CME Picks a Fight
- How Digital Credit Assets like STRC and SATA Differ from Bitcoin or DAT Stocks
- Why Kalshi's John Wang Says Perps Are 'the Most Pure Trading Instrument'
- Why Fable's Shutdown Is a Warning for Every AI Lab: Uneasy Money
- Bits + Bips: Why Pandl Calls Gold and Bitcoin Buys Here
- Why AI Censorship and Reg NMS Repeal Matter for Crypto Markets: DEX in the City
- The Chopping Block: SpaceX IPO Mania, Fable 5 Export Controls & The AI Privacy Fight
- Unchained Celebrates 10 Years! Laura and Haseeb Cover Highs, Lows and New Directions
- Bits + Bips: Why Sam Enzer Says the Fable 5 Ban Should Worry Crypto
- Why the AI Business Model Is Cracking and How Crypto Could Help Fix It
- Claude Found a 4-Year Zcash Bug. Now It Won't Audit DeFi: Uneasy Money
- The Chopping Block: Zcash Infinite Mint Bug + AI Hackers vs Formal Verification + NEAR's Agent Vision
- Bits + Bips: How Claude Found Zcash's Counterfeiting Bug
- Why Saylor's 'Inoculate' Comment May Be a Signal He'll Sell More Bitcoin
- Why Mike Dudas Has Zero Exposure to ETH, but Is Bullish on Hyperliquid
- What Two DOJ Cases Reveal About the Legal Risks of Prediction Markets: Bits + Bips
- The Chopping Block: Ethereum's Inflection Point w/ Joe Lubin on DATs, CROPS, AI-Driven Exploits, Quantum Threats, and CFTC's Perps
- Is Polymarket's Oracle Problem Getting Out of Hand? - Uneasy Money
- CFTC Approves True Perps and Agentic Finance Gets Real: DEX in the City
- Why MSTR Should Have Sold $2 Billion Instead of $2 Million of Bitcoin
- Bits + Bips: How the Dimon vs. Armstrong Clash Reveals Crypto at Peak Political Power
- Is Canton Permissionless? CEO Says Yes, but SuperValidators Need Approval
- Strategy's Preferred Stock Is Now a Stablecoin. And DeFi Has a Security Problem.
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