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The Starting Block

The Block

The Starting Block is The Block's new flagship daily live show — the breaking news, the context behind it, and the people shaping where crypto goes next. Each episode is a 45-minute live broadcast hosted by award-winning journalist and broadcaster Gareth Jenkinson and powered by The Block's newsroom and research desk.

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49 episodes

  1. Polygon eyes payment business shift beyond its own blockchain 34:56
  2. EXCLUSIVE - Chainlink deepens ties with S&P 21:41
  3. US midterms & crypto /w Anthony Scaramucci 37:55
  4. Starknet considers L1 transition - live with Eli Ben-Sasson 20:39
  5. Bond yields hitting highs & European backlash on stablecoin reward bans 39:02
  6. Unpacking Telegram’s evolving crypto ecosystem 26:51
  7. Bitcoin market update /w Bitfinex, Moca Network goes live 38:53
  8. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen Breaks Down $388M Hack 32:21
  9. Unpacking Bitget’s $350M hack, DoubleZero ships real-time Hyperliquid data service 34:08
  10. AI agents will score $4T in fees by 2035 - Sharplink 33:19
  11. Bitcoin to $100k? Feat. CoinMarketCap’s Research Lead Alice Liu 29:22
  12. The Block launches standalone AI website The Latent 29:17
  13. Will the SEC & CFTC steady crypto industry after the Clarity Act impasse? 22:45
  14. Hunter Biden $LAPTOP launch looms feat. Ran Neuner 36:38
  15. Breaking Down AI’s Threat to Cryptography /w Kostas Chalkias 51:50
  16. 1-on-1 with Aptos co-founder Avery Ching 42:51
  17. Exploring the origins of DeFi protocols with Andre Cronje 58:18
  18. Inside OranjeBTC’s New Bitcoin Equity ETF 21:39
  19. Will CLARITY Act pass in September? Ft. GSR 34:21
  20. DoubleZero infra to supercharge Kalshi - Ft. Austin Federa 21:22
  21. Why Bitcoin BIP-110 failed - ft Giacomo Zucco 32:10
  22. Bitcoin Uptober Loading? Live w/ Benjamin Cowen 46:48
  23. OKX's Lennix Lai: Retail Traders Are Already Executing Through AI Agents 29:49
  24. AI-armed attackers deepen crypto's 2026 hacking crisis 27:04
  25. Jesse Pollak reveals plans for Base as exchange competition heats up 34:30
  26. Alpaca’s $435M raise driven by Wall Street’s tokenization push 45:30
  27. Breaking down the Coldcard exploit & ramifications for self-custody 1:06:32
  28. Bitcoin rocked by Coldcard exploit w. Freddie New 26:53
  29. Fed holds interest rates – what does it mean for Bitcoin? 36:56
  30. 1inch Aqua unlocks shared liquidity with CEO Sergej Kunz 36:48
  31. Open source AI the new crypto? ft. Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik 46:32
  32. The Staking Race: Ethereum's Queue, Solana's Yield, and Where Institutional Money Is Going 28:04
  33. Charles Hoskinson on Cardano’s Future, the state of crypto & AI 1:06:56
  34. Is the Bitcoin bear market over? Ft. Cory Klippsten 56:48
  35. Can JTX dominate Solana trading? Ft. Lucas Bruder 47:26
  36. Crypto exchanges will take over Wall Street - ft. Bitget’s Gracy Chen 57:22
  37. The Privacy Renaissance ft. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin 58:23
  38. Debunking ZachXBT’s “garbage” hardware wallet post w/ Trezor 31:48
  39. Confidential DeFi? Why institutions need privacy to go all in on crypto 51:58
  40. EU DAC8 Regulation - Are Crypto Holders At Risk? 46:31
  41. Wall Street Surrenders To Crypto & AI, feat. David Pakman 43:40
  42. Ethereum Merge Cut Electricity Use by 99% - Cambridge Report 49:45
  43. EXCLUSIVE: AAVE Launches Stable Vaults w/ Stani Kulechov 30:21
  44. BitGo CEO Mike Belshe on Saylor, Stablecoins & the Crypto Wars 48:24
  45. Saylor’s Big Bitcoin Sale, Investigating $ANSEM 47:05
  46. Saylor Sells $216M Of Bitcoin, Joe Chalom Unpacks New Ethereum Orgs 44:45
  47. Yat Siu Predicts 100B AI Agents 59:56
  48. Breaking Down The Humanity Protocol Exploit with Founder Terence Kwok 53:22
  49. CZ: $500M in Elon's X, 4 Months in Prison & What's Coming Next 1:06:48