Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction

174 Episodes Last Episode: Mar 29, 2024
Chain Reaction was TechCrunch’s podcast about the big news in crypto as told by insiders. It was hosted by former TechCrunch reporters Jacquelyn Melinek, Lucas Matney and Anita Ramaswamy.

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Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Looking at the first half of 2023, funding for crypto startups continued to grow more scarce.

Maybe the second half of 2023 will have greater capital flowing into crypto, but maybe not

Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast that unpacks and dives deep into the latest trends, drama and news in crypto with some of the…

Magic Eden CEO talks multichain expansion and what’s next for the NFT platform

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. As if the pessimism around crypto weren’t enough, the industry is facing yet another quarter of hackers and scammers looking…

Say goodbye to Q2 and the crypto hacks, scams and rug pulls that came with it

Earlier this week, EDX Markets launched its digital asset platform. But what made this launch catch a lot of attention? Its founding investors.

Fidelity, Schwab, Citadel backing new crypto exchange EDX signals TradFi’s deeper dive into digital assets

Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Earlier this week, I took a look at…

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s a crypto whale

Unless you live under a rock, you know that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission came out guns blazing on Monday and Tuesday, by suing…

The SEC’s situationship with Binance and Coinbase keeps getting messier

Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast that unpacks and dives deep into the latest trends, drama and news with some of the biggest names…

Gary Vaynerchuk expects NFTs to expand beyond digital collectibles long term

Although there are a lot of builders in the crypto space, the total money being invested into the crypto market has hit 32-month lows in…

Monthly crypto exchange volume tumbled in May, hitting 32-month low

Got coin? No? Well, Worldcoin did. Tools for Humanity, the team building Worldcoin, raised $115 million in a Series C round led by Blockchain Capital.

Sam Altman’s crypto project Worldcoin got more coin in latest $115M raise

This week’s podcast was with Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, a protocol that provides an oracle network to power smart contracts.

Chainlink co-founder wants web3 to provide cryptographic guarantees to the world