Empire
Jason Yanowitz and Santiago Roel Santos host Empire, Blockworks' interviews with crypto founders and industry figures on the business behind the industry. Running since 2021, it pairs long-form guest conversations with a weekly markets roundup.
556 episodes
- Timing Cycle Tops, AI Narrative Trade, and Bitcoin's Nation-State Adoption | Qiao Wang
- Did Memecoins Ruin This Cycle? | Haseeb & Avichal
- Tornado Cash's Victory, PumpFun Content Moderation, and Geopolitical BTC Demand | Roundup
- ParaFi's 10 Crypto Predictions for 2030 | Ben Forman & Kevin Yedid-Botton
- Hivemind: Saylor's MSTR Premium Playbook & Financializing AI Agents
- Crypto's Euphoria, Mass Stablecoin Adoption, and Continued Memecoin Dominance | Roundup
- What Institutions are Actually Buying this Cycle | Eric Peters, One River-Coinbase Asset Management
- Coinbase’s Listing Frenzy, Massive ETF Flows, and Bull Market Phases | Roundup
- Inside Baseball of Building a Crypto Brand | Austin Federa & Ekram Ahmed
- Inside Crypto's First Breakout Game: Off The Grid | Theodore Agranat, Gunzilla
- Hivemind: Trump's Clean Sweep, the Bitcoin Reserve, and Finding the Fastest Horse
- Trump's Win, Portfolio Positioning, and Crypto's Return to the US | Roundup
- Bridge Founder on Their $1.1B Stripe Acquisition | Zach Abrams
- Bridge's $1.1b Exit, Crypto's Voting Power, and a Token Unlock Playbook | Roundup
- The Real Reason Kraken Built an L2 | Andrew Koller & Hilmar Orth
- Hivemind: The AI Memecoin Meta, ETH vs SOL & Stripe's Bridge Acquisition
- Santi's Favorite Memecoins and What Kraken's L2 Means | Roundup
- The Founder’s Journey (And Return) | Antonio Juliano, dYdX
- Behind Crypto Conferences, Taking More Risks, and Crypto's Private Equity Frontier | Roundup
- Hivemind: What UniChain Means, Return of Memecoins, and Crypto’s AAA Gaming Moment
- Why Bandwidth is Still Undervalued in Crypto | Logan Jastremski
- A Founder’s Mindset, DePIN’s Breakthrough, and Stablecoin Models | Roundup
- Why Crypto's Capital Allocation is Broken | Jordi Alexander
- Hivemind: Conference Circuit, VC Coin Comebacks, and Crypto's Next Narrative