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Jesse Pollak, creator of Base at Coinbase, joins Scott to explain how crypto is bringing Wall Street onchain, from JPMorgan and Citi to tokenized stocks, AI agents and Bitcoin.
Jesse walks through how he went from building Coinbase's consumer apps to creating Base, and why he thinks crypto has found product-market fit in trading, payments and lending. They get into Shopify payments, JPMorgan deposit tokens and Citi letting customers move USDC in and out of their bank accounts, why less than 1% of the world's dollars and stocks move on these rails today, tokenized stocks trading 24/7 and borrowing against them, why some companies are opting out, and what Base means for Ethereum and for Coinbase. Jesse also explains why he expects 2027 to be the year of agentic finance and how Base is making Bitcoin more useful.
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In this episode:00:00 Intro: crypto beyond speculation04:23 Jesse's path to Base and what it does today10:41 Shipping code with AI and Coinbase for Agents15:32 From meme coins to Wall Street adoption21:41 Why people will use Base without knowing it26:46 Tokenized stocks, 24/7 trading and borrowing33:30 Why some companies opt out of tokenization38:48 Base, Ethereum and Coinbase43:36 AI agents running your finances in 202751:50 How Base makes Bitcoin more useful
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From The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker, live weekdays at 12pm ET on Yahoo Finance.

Binance says hackers stole $6.3 billion, the largest exchange hack on record and about four times last year's Bybit theft. A compromised engineer's laptop opened the door, Tether and Circle have frozen roughly $3 billion of the funds, and Binance says it will cover the rest itself. Scott also covers Nasdaq's fight against a rival tokenized-stock venue, presses Michael Saylor on Strategy's own tokenization plans, and breaks down why Big Tech's earnings selloff rattled markets more than the hack did. Plus Coinbase's earnings and two more wallet-security scares.

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Timestamps0:00 Breaking down the $6.3 billion Binance hack2:52 Binance's reserves and how exposed it really is5:17 Who's really behind the hack7:01 Nasdaq's quiet war on tokenized stocks9:32 Scott presses Saylor on Strategy's own tokenization10:41 Why Wall Street's day was worse than Bitcoin's11:55 Coinbase's earnings mirage, and the hacks keep coming

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Dan Held, Bitcoin marketer and former head of marketing at Kraken, joins Scott after Bitcoin dropped as low as $76,000 and Binance confirmed the largest crypto hack in history, roughly $6.3 billion.
Scott and Dan break down how a single developer's laptop could lead to the Binance exploit, why it looks like social engineering rather than AI, how frozen funds and Binance's SAFU fund shrink the hole to about $2 billion, and the wider wave of attacks on Polymarket and hardware wallets. They cover self-custody and cold storage lessons, CZ's crisis communications, exchanges pushing back on tokenized stocks, Kraken and on-chain IPOs, and why institutions now agree Bitcoin was right. Dan shares what he's building with Perception, then Scott runs The Weekly Wreckoning: Strive's Bitcoin buying, Ripple's trust charter, the Fed holding rates, DTCC's tokenization service, Bitwise's $1.6 million target, ICE and Hyperliquid perps, and Coinbase earnings.
In this episode:00:00 Bitcoin hits $76,000 as Binance confirms $6.3B hack04:05 Why the Binance hack points to social engineering07:02 Frozen funds, the SAFU fund and Binance's $2B hole10:12 Polymarket, Trezor and the wave of wallet attacks21:17 Self-custody lessons and cold storage backups26:16 CZ's crisis communications after the hack32:10 Tokenized stocks, exchange pushback and on-chain IPOs38:19 Institutions finally agree Bitcoin was right41:29 Dan Held on Perception and agentic marketing44:22 The Weekly Wreckoning: Strive, Ripple, Fed, DTCC and Hyperliquid
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From The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker, live weekdays at 12pm ET on Yahoo Finance.

The DTCC's tokenization service went live with 34 securities and 20 Wall Street firms, among them J.P. Morgan, Citi, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Fidelity. Scott Melker asks whether this is adoption or whether Wall Street took the technology and turned it into plumbing.

The Fed held rates in a 10-2 vote, then GDP came in at 3.4% and PCE inflation at 3.6%. Utah filed 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its co-founders while the CFTC sued Utah to stop it. Westpac is capping crypto payments at A$10,000 a month, and Singapore police found tampered Ledger devices behind S$3.5 million in losses.

Timestamps0:00 The DTCC's blockchain service goes live with 20 Wall Street firms2:39 The Fed holds rates 10-2, and two officials wanted a hike6:13 Westpac caps crypto exchange payments at A$10,000 a month7:49 Utah files 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its co-founders10:14 Google previews a multi-party custody system for institutions11:28 Bitcoin Core patches weaknesses that AI helped uncover12:21 Singapore police warn about tampered Ledger devices13:37 ICE and Trade.xyz plan a US perpetual futures market on Hyperliquid

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Matt Cole, Chairman and CEO of Strive, joins Scott to break down Bitwise's new forecast of $1.6 million per bitcoin by 2036, why corporate Bitcoin buying outside Strategy has dried up, and how Strive keeps adding bitcoin through digital credit after a $511 million buy took its treasury to about 43,000 BTC.
Matt explains why Bitwise's base case is defensible, why superintelligence and dollar debasement favor scarce assets like Bitcoin, and how Strive's fixed-rate SATS differs from SATA for income investors. They cover Strategy shareholders approving daily dividends, which Bitcoin treasury companies are likely to survive, blending Bitcoin with real estate, and why AI-driven hacks and hardware wallet tampering are pushing some holders away from self-custody for now. Scott closes with AI-found Bitcoin node bugs, Google's crypto custody system, DTCC's tokenization service, Stan Druckenmiller's first tweet, Coinbase earnings and Kalshi Bitcoin odds.
In this episode:00:00 Bitwise's $1.6 million Bitcoin forecast for 203604:03 Superintelligence, abundance and the Calacanis debate07:36 Bitwise's bear, base and bull cases10:07 Bitcoin treasury buying outside Strategy17:10 Strive's SATS fixed rate versus SATA24:16 Strategy shareholders approve daily dividends26:19 Which Bitcoin treasury companies survive34:21 Ledger tampering, AI threats and self-custody42:26 Bitcoin node bugs, Google custody and DTCC tokenization45:01 Druckenmiller, Coinbase earnings and Kalshi Bitcoin odds
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