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Blockworks · Investment

Empire

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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Cybersecurity Panic, Nationalizing AI, The Model Squeeze & Can't Own Anything

23 Oct 2026
1h 6m
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Which Businesses Will Survive AI? | Michael Dempsey

19 Oct 2026
1h 10m
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Is The AI Debt Bubble Finally Popping? | Weekly Roundup

16 Oct 2026
1h 4m
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Kamino's Plan To Make Tokenized Assets Actually Useful | Michael Weisz

12 Oct 2026
56m
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Jeff Yan On Hyperliquid’s Plan To Bring All Finance Onchain

07 Oct 2026
30m
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Compute Is A Trillion-Dollar Market Trading In Group Chats | Brett Harrison & Andrawes Bahou

05 Oct 2026
1h 5m
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Everyone Is Watching AI While Crypto’s Bull Market Builds | Weekly Roundup

02 Oct 2026
59m
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The current investment landscape faces a stark divergence between the cooling enthusiasm for AI infrastructure and a burgeoning bull market in crypto. While AI companies grapple with unsustainable unit economics and severe compute constraints—evidenced by Anthropic’s high capital expenditure relative to revenue—crypto ...

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Markets Sending, Just Buy Consensus, Meta's AI Moment & Who Wins Tokenization? | Weekly Roundup

25 Sep 2026
51m
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CLARITY Failed, Many Stablecoins Debate, Circle Launches Arc & Meta's AI Edge | Weekly Roundup

18 Sep 2026
1h 3m
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The crypto industry faces a shifting regulatory and institutional landscape following the Senate’s rejection of the CLARITY Act. Despite this legislative setback, proactive SEC and CFTC guidance on tokenized securities suggests a viable path forward for on-chain capital markets. A central debate persists regarding the ...

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The Six Tokens To Own This Cycle | Yan Liberman

14 Sep 2026
59m
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Memecoins Are Stress-Testing The Future Of Tokenized Stocks | Weekly Roundup

11 Sep 2026
43m
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Cloudflare CEO: The Man Deciding The Internet’s Next Business Model

09 Sep 2026
1h 11m
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The internet is undergoing a fundamental shift as automated, agentic traffic now surpasses human activity, necessitating a move away from the traditional ad-supported business model. This transition requires new infrastructure to handle massive volumes of micropayments, ensuring creators are compensated for the data po...

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Robinhood Is Proving Distribution Captures Crypto’s Value | Weekly Roundup

04 Sep 2026
1h 9m
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The rise of memecoins backed by tokenized stocks on the Robinhood chain signals a shift in market infrastructure, blending high-beta crypto speculation with traditional equity derivatives. While this activity drives significant fee growth and liquidity, it creates potential regulatory friction regarding market integrit...

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Beezie & Collector Crypt CEOs on Why Onchain Collectibles Are Exploding

31 Aug 2026
1h 0m
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Story vs Valuation, Hyperliquid TAM, Pump’s Problem & Ethena’s Token Reset

28 Aug 2026
1h 3m
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New SEC Crypto Proposal Could Finally Fix Tokens

20 Aug 2026
55m
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Uniswap Is Building The Liquidity Network For Everything | Hayden Adams

17 Aug 2026
1h 16m
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Crypto’s Speculation Problem, Regulation Without CLARITY & The Gambling Economy

14 Aug 2026
1h 0m
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Morpho Is Coming For The $200 Trillion Credit Market | Paul Frambot

10 Aug 2026
1h 8m
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DeFi credit markets are transitioning from speculative retail applications to foundational financial infrastructure. Morpho captures this shift by acting as a neutral, highly connected protocol that facilitates lending and borrowing across a $200 trillion global credit market. By modularizing risk management through a ...

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Venture Mandates, Cloudflare Wallets, Circle Earnings & Saddam Hussein Patek Philippe

07 Aug 2026
1h 13m
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