CoinDesk Podcast Network

DoubleZero Edge is partnering with Kalshi to deliver Wall Street-grade market data to the world's largest CFTC-regulated prediction market. Co-Founder Austin Federa joins Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook to unpack why professional infrastructure took so long to reach crypto, what the 10/10 flash crash revealed about new finance's weaknesses, and why faster data could level the playing field for every trader, not just the big firms. Plus, in today's Brand New Rails, we meet the ship captain working to bring the $2 trillion commercial shipping industry on-chain.

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Timecodes:

00:00 - Austin Federa Joins Markets Outlook

00:43 - DoubleZero x Kalshi: Inside the Announcement

02:30 - Why Wall Street Infrastructure Took So Long to Reach Crypto

04:36 - Brand New Rails: Tokenizing the $2 Trillion Shipping Industry

07:13 - Does Faster Data Hurt Retail Traders?

08:16 - Prediction Markets: More Than a Narrative

10:31 - Access, Disruption, and Federa's 2017 Thesis

12:13 - The Catalyst to Watch

13:11 - New Finance's Biggest Challenge

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

Robinhood CFO and Robinhood Ventures President Shiv Verma joins CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on the day Robinhood Ventures Fund II began trading. Verma breaks down how the fund gives everyday investors access to early-stage Y Combinator companies at the ground floor.

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Timecodes:

00:00 Robinhood Ventures Fund II Begins Trading on NYSE

00:42 Partnering With Y Combinator for Startup Access

01:11 How Robinhood Values Private Companies Using SAFEs

02:25 Fee Structure, Daily Liquidity, and No Accreditation Required

04:16 Why the Best Companies Are Staying Private Longer

06:13 Robinhood Chain, Tokenization, and the Next Bull Cycle

Kalshi in talks to raise $750M at a $40B valuation.

Prediction market Kalshi is in talks to raise $750 million at a $40 billion valuation, with Sequoia and Wellington eyeing the round. The company's annualized revenue hit $4 billion in July, nearly four times rival Polymarket. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

XRP's slip below $1.

XRP briefly fell below a dollar for the first time since November 2024, stalling just above $1 as an attacker drained nearly 200,000 XRP from a cross-chain bridge. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Paul Frambot, co-founder and CEO of Morpho, has spent years making the case that crypto was never supposed to be a product, it was always supposed to be the pipes. In this episode of Spotlight, he breaks down how Morpho's open credit network connects borrowers with tens of thousands of lenders globally to deliver better terms, deeper liquidity, and access to credit for people the traditional system has long ignored.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - "The infrastructure is the blockchain"
1:20 - What is Morpho's "open credit network"?
2:41 - How Morpho differs from Aave and Compound
4:24 - Building infrastructure vs. speculation
7:23 - Morpho Blue vs. Morpho Midnight explained
10:03 - Tokenization and expanding borrowing assets
13:26 - Apollo's 9% stake in Morpho's governance token
15:29 - What's still keeping banks off-chain
17:02 - Vision for success 18 months from now
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