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Empire

Blockworks

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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682 episodes

  1. Will Druck Kick Off The Next Phase of Crypto's Bull Market? 58:17
  2. Cybersecurity Panic, Nationalizing AI, The Model Squeeze & Can't Own Anything 1:06:23
  3. Which Businesses Will Survive AI? | Michael Dempsey 1:10:38
  4. Is The AI Debt Bubble Finally Popping? | Weekly Roundup 1:04:01
  5. Kamino's Plan To Make Tokenized Assets Actually Useful | Michael Weisz 56:28
  6. Jeff Yan On Hyperliquid’s Plan To Bring All Finance Onchain 30:35
  7. Compute Is A Trillion-Dollar Market Trading In Group Chats | Brett Harrison & Andrawes Bahou 1:05:37
  8. Everyone Is Watching AI While Crypto’s Bull Market Builds | Weekly Roundup 59:59
  9. Markets Sending, Just Buy Consensus, Meta's AI Moment & Who Wins Tokenization? | Weekly Roundup 51:03
  10. CLARITY Failed, Many Stablecoins Debate, Circle Launches Arc & Meta's AI Edge | Weekly Roundup 1:03:27
  11. The Six Tokens To Own This Cycle | Yan Liberman 59:28
  12. Memecoins Are Stress-Testing The Future Of Tokenized Stocks | Weekly Roundup 43:57
  13. Cloudflare CEO: The Man Deciding The Internet’s Next Business Model 1:11:26
  14. Robinhood Is Proving Distribution Captures Crypto’s Value | Weekly Roundup 1:09:44
  15. Beezie & Collector Crypt CEOs on Why Onchain Collectibles Are Exploding 1:00:16
  16. Story vs Valuation, Hyperliquid TAM, Pump’s Problem & Ethena’s Token Reset 1:03:40
  17. New SEC Crypto Proposal Could Finally Fix Tokens 55:28
  18. Uniswap Is Building The Liquidity Network For Everything | Hayden Adams 1:16:01
  19. Crypto’s Speculation Problem, Regulation Without CLARITY & The Gambling Economy 1:00:55
  20. Morpho Is Coming For The $200 Trillion Credit Market | Paul Frambot 1:08:59
  21. Venture Mandates, Cloudflare Wallets, Circle Earnings & Saddam Hussein Patek Philippe 1:13:58
  22. AI Fatigue, Robinhood & Every Market Becoming Crypto | Weekly Roundup 1:02:07
  23. Robinhood's Plan to Bring Global Finance Onchain | Johann Kerbrat 42:33
  24. The Bill That Could Reshape Crypto In America with Greg Xethalis from Multicoin 45:16
  25. Clarity Window Closing, Robinhood Eating Ethereum Value & Coinbase's Base Reset 1:14:32
  26. Fomo Co-Founders on Building the Social Network for Finance 1:14:27
  27. Crypto's Value Capture Problem & Why Robinhood Built Its Own Blockchain 1:13:13
  28. What’s Circle’s End Game, Robinhood Launches A Chain & Venice Raises $65M 1:17:34
  29. Can You Really Buy A House Without Selling Your Crypto? | Vishal Garg 48:47
  30. State of The Market, The Prediction Market Wars & Kraken Pursues Aave 53:36
  31. Optimism Co-Founders: What Happened to the L2s? Ben Jones & Karl Floersch 1:09:20
  32. Anthropic's Fable Banned, Will Microstrategy Blow Up & Structuring A Portfolio in 2026 1:10:54
  33. The Bull Case For Hyperliquid | Ryan Watkins 1:08:42
  34. Blockworks Acquires Messari 28:59
  35. CFTC Chair Michael Selig On Perps, Prediction Markets & Crypto In The U.S 1:02:58
  36. SpaceX’s $1.75T IPO, Strategy Sells Bitcoin & Crypto’s Hard Reset 1:16:42
  37. Avichal Garg On Investing in Crypto, AI and Ethereum’s Path Forward 1:01:23
  38. Why’s Everyone So Bearish, Robinhood's AI Agent and SoFi's Stablecoin Launch 1:02:15
  39. Hyperliquid Just Had It's Breakout Moment 58:26
  40. Figure Co-Founder: How Figure Became A $10B Business | Mike Cagney 1:14:38
  41. AI Feels Like Crypto In 2017, Circle Raises $222M and Anthropic Cracks Down On SPVs 1:16:07
  42. How KelpDAO's $290M Exploit Nearly Killed DeFi | Stani Kulechov & Mike Silagadze 59:24
  43. Big Tech Earnings, DeFi United and Pump Fun’s Token Burn 1:02:31
  44. A Quantum Fork is Coming to Bitcoin | Alex Pruden & Philip Martin 1:05:25
  45. DeFi’s Latest $290M Hack, Kalshi vs Polymarket & Will the Clarity Act Pass? 1:13:00
  46. The Blockworks Vision 45:01
  47. Solana vs Hyperliquid, Why Ethereum Is Overvalued & Crypto In 2026 | Logan Jastremski 1:08:57
  48. Markets Bounce Back, The Hyperliquid Thesis and Kraken Raises $200M 58:11
  49. How To Make DeFi Great Again | Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic & Luca Prosperi 1:26:45
  50. Why DeFi Is Unattractive, Claude Mythos and Cryptos's Biggest Winners 1:16:23