Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode:

• What Dario Amodei and SBF have in common • Trump wades in to the market structure debate and asks the banks to come to the table • Why stablecoins are not like banks • Kraken Financial gets a skinny Fed master account • Visa and Bridge are rolling out stablecoin-linked cards • The FBI arrests a suspect accused of stealing $46m in BTC from the US marshalls • Morgan Stanley is coming out with their own Bitcoin ETF • The Aave token governance controversy rumbles on • Kalshi’s traders are upset about their “death market” policy

Content mentioned in this episode:

• The CIV Youtube Channel • Alpen Labs, Size Matters: Architecting BTC Credit Markets