Word on the Block | Forkast.News
A weekly, 30-minute podcast interviewing leading CEOs, policymakers, and thought leaders in the world of blockchain. Produced from Asia by Forkast.News, and hosted by award-winning anchor Angie Lau, Word on the Block goes beyond the headlines in providing in-depth, 1:1 interviews with the newsmakers shaping the rapid innovation and impact of blockchain, crypto, and emerging technology on business, politics, and the global economy.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 218
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
Why Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson says DeFi is ‘up for grabs’
Cardano’s much-anticipated Alonzo hard fork finally kicked off a new era of smart contracts on the blockchain. Because of that new capability, the proof-of-stake platform can now host decentralized a…
Searching for Asia’s ‘hidden treasures’ in NFTs and GameFi
How aggrieved traders are legally uniting against Binance after the crypto crash (ft. David Kay)
Highlights
- Binance’s user agreement: “So in their user agreement, when you sign up, you are not permitted to sue them in any jurisdiction around the world. The only place that you are allowed to sue B…
How a Hong Kong newspaper is remaking history with NFTs (ft. Gary Liu)
Highlights
- SCMP’s foray into NFTs: “ARTIFACT is our attempt to create a new standard for historical NFTs. For us, anything that is as an account of a historical moment, so new stories, or potentially …
Why an open metaverse economy might be coming soon (ft. Jamie Burke)
Highlights
- Facebook’s foray into the metaverse: “Facebook is now saying they are transitioning into becoming a metaverse company, away from being a social media company. But this isn’t anything new. T…
Are DAOs a new way for companies to go public? (ft. Erik Voorhees)
Highlights
- Separating money from the government: “A good way to frame this is like, as most people understand, that back in the 1500s, 1600s, this concept of separating church and state. It was a stru…
Polygon makes the case for scaling solutions after ETH 2.0 (ft. Sandeep Nailwal)
Highlights
- Polygon’s early struggles: “We all know that Ethereum is very decentralized, secure but has scalability issues. So what Polygon started to do is that we wanted to provide this entire Ethere…
How Wall Street’s ‘best-kept secret’ now fuels high cryptocurrency yields (ft. Alex Mashinski)
Bitcoin ETF applicant not surprised by delays (ft. Leah Wald)
Valkyrie’s application to open a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been delayed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). But Valkyrie’s chief executive is not surprised. She says a cauti…
Derivatives will be crypto’s “next big thing” says 100x CEO (ft. Alexander Hötpner)
As Huobi winds down in China, Binance gets put in the regulatory doghouse in the U.K., and Bybit is slapped with enforcement action by, Canadian authorities — cryptocurrency exchanges around the worl…
Bitcoin not ideal for cyber crime, says Filecoin Foundation chair (ft. Marta Belcher)
Back in early May, a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline forced the company to pay the hackers US$5 million in cryptocurrencies. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that t…
WazirX CEO: India’s crypto industry keeps “clean” for regulators (ft. Nischal Shetty)
In India, the legal status of crypto and cryptocurrency trading remains a hot and murky topic.
India’s divisions, differences in opinion and all-out tug-of-war over the legality of crypto have been o…
How the layer 2 race is scaling Ethereum before ETH 2.0 (ft. Alan Chiu)
In the blockchain world, all eyes are on Ethereum and the roll-out of ETH 2.0 — which is expected to solve Ethereum’s scalability issues. But others, like Alan Chiu are trying to do the same sooner i…
Criticisms Tether’s reserves are unfounded, says Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino (ft. Paolo Ardoino)
After settling a 22-month investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office, Tether growth has exploded – dispelling trust concerns says Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino.
How FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried navigates the new normal of trading (ft. Sam Bankman-Fried
What really happened on crypto’s so-called “Black Wednesday” earlier this month — and what can we learn from it?
On May 19, a day when tweets and headlines criticized Bitcoin’s environmental impact, …
Digital dollar’s values to fortify USD hegemony(ft. David Treat & Christopher Giancarlo)
The Digital Dollar Project — a private sector initiative by the Digital Dollar Foundation and Accenture — recently became a late entrant to the central bank digital currency (CBDC) testing grounds, a…
India’s crypto investing ‘growing like crazy’ since ban attempt (ft. Neeraj Khandelwal)
During the Indian Parliament’s Budget Session two months ago, all eyes were on a proposed bill to ban cryptocurrency trading in the world’s second-most populous country. The well-publicized bill spar…
How R3 is growing Corda’s reach with China’s Blockchain Services Network (ft Yifan He & Todd McDonald)
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are shaking up traditional finance and shifting the tectonic plates of investing, but the technology underlying digital assets — blockchain — may eventually have a bigge…
Why more big investors are now seeking interest and yields in DeFi (ft. Alessio Quaglini)
As corporations plow billions in Bitcoin, a new business model involving DeFi is attracting more investors, says Alessio Quaglini of Hex Trust.
R3 Corda helping Thailand’s case for international trade dark horse (ft. Amit Ghosh)
Thailand’s crypto adoption is often overlooked, but one of its largest commercial banks has been leveraging permissioned blockchain Corda of R3 to digitize trade finance in the Fourth Industrial Revo…