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Coffee with Captain: Crypto Markets, Products and Culture

Coffee with Captain

Coffee with Captain is a daily live crypto morning show hosted by Cap, live every weekday morning in real time. We cover crypto markets and catalysts, the products people actually use, and the builders behind the next wave. Each episode delivers what’s happening, why it matters, and what to watch next, with clear explanations you can use. Expect real-time conversation and guest segments with founders, analysts, and creators. Topics span Bitcoin, altcoins, DeFi, wallets, trading, and onchain apps you

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121:44

Block Cuts 40% in the AI Shift, Magic Eden Sunsets...

Coffee with Captain: Crypto Markets, Products and... ·

2026/02/27

Markets opened with some real tension in the air, as the room framed weekend risk and geopolitics before checking in on the latest print and what it could mean for the next move. The conversation then swung into the practical side of narrative shifts, from AI job displacement and layoffs to what that changes for builders and product teams. After that, the show hit a quick security reminder around backups and account protection. The back half turned into an NFT marketplace reset, with OpenSea’...

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122:20

ZachXBT's Axiom Investigation, Markets Continue...

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2026/02/26

Markets continue recovering as ZachXBT’s Axiom investigation lands mid show and becomes the main focus of the room. Cap reads through the core claims and what it would mean if internal tools were used to map users or KOLs to connected wallets, then the conversation widens into trust, platform risk and how traders adjust when they think the game is tilted. Before that, they unpack the GWEI token from ETHGas and why sentiment is split, from expectations around the claim to the reality of how it...

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120:02

Markets Wake Up, OpenSea Royalties with Otherside ERC-C

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2026/02/25

Markets finally woke up and the room tried to connect PayPal chatter to why the tape felt different. A long-running pattern of the late-morning sell-off stopping turns into a broader debate about whether the cycle rules still apply and what a real bottom signal looks like. Then the focus shifts to royalties, with Kodas and Otherdeeds moving to an ERC-C creator contract model and new listings showing a 5% creator royalty on OpenSea and Magic Eden. Call-ins push the argument into incentives and...

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138:38

OpenSea One Stop Shop Debate, Jane Street Terra Fallout

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2026/02/24

OpenSea splits the room, the new mobile beta feels closer to a one stop shop, but the original browser experience still leaves gaps for old users. Cap then moves into the Jane Street and Terra Luna thread as an example of how information edge narratives form in crypto. That leads into ZachXBT and whether AI agents can actually replace human onchain investigation, or just speed up parts of the process. Cap and the callers also detour into X badge economics and affiliate signaling, including wh...

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156:36

Markets Stay Risk Off, Unvault Rebuilds NFT Royalties

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2026/02/23

Royalties got the spotlight as Unvault and DIVIT joined the show to explain how they’re trying to make creator payments and long-term project funding work again, with contract migrations, enforcement, and incentives designed to pull liquidity back toward royalty-respecting paths. The conversation also hit why royalties fell apart in the first place, how marketplace behavior and farming warped the system, and why provenance and permanence still matter, including a quick Arweave and onchain art...

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140:30

Bitcoin Chops with Global Uncertainty, Xeet's Plan to...

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2026/02/20

Bitcoin trades choppy as macro uncertainty hangs over the market, setting the tone before the conversation swings into NFTs and a quick majors check. Around the one hour mark, Pons joins and the show locks in on Xeet and what it takes to build real creator incentives that do not collapse into spam. The group digs into creator payouts, royalty mechanics and why distribution has to be designed into the system from day one. The episode closes on the Supreme Court striking down tariffs and a quic...

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131:18

RODECaster Won My Business, AI Devices and Wearables

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2026/02/19

Audio gear talk turns into a real endorsement of the RODECaster and how great support creates brand ambassadors. NFTs creep back in as the room checks floors, mints and the mint meta, plus quick riffs on Vibestr and a VibeTown open edition. A brief Moonbirds token move sparks a wider point about why brand tokens whip around, with MegaETH momentum, Bad Bunz and Monad as reference points. The conversation gets more practical with tokenized ownership, including car rails and DeLorean build slots...

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127:44

Otherside AI Agents with Kodas, Abstract XP Points

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2026/02/18

Cap and the crew get into Abstract XP, Creator Cards and the bigger question of what actually earns points versus what just feels like busywork. They then hit OpenSea again, including the dragged out token tease and a quick check on the mobile app, perps and updated charts. Figge jumps on to walk through what he is building in Otherside, pairing OpenClaw agents with Kodas so they can roam, log interactions and start mapping who and what is in the world. The episode closes by zooming out to ag...

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120:36

Building With AI Without Getting Lost, MegaETH .mega...

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2026/02/17

Cap and the room spend most of the show on how to actually build with AI without getting stuck, using Outer Lumen’s vibe coding path and a Roblox game as the concrete example. The focus stays on shipping small, learning fast, and building real output instead of living in prompts and theory. Later, Bread jumps in to talk through .mega domains and building a MegaETH-style name service quickly with AI, plus why identity and onboarding matter for an ecosystem. The last stretch shifts to NFT tape,...

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126:41

Xeet Decks and Packs, Trading Creator Access

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2026/02/17

Xeet creator cards is the main segment, with a full breakdown of decks, packs, squads and tournaments and how the system tries to share royalties with creators. They compare the meta to Fantasy Top and talk about timing windows, Xeets points and what incentives might actually stick. Earlier they run a quick NFT board check and Death Star bout chatter around Moonbirds, Mutant Apes and Doodles. They also riff on AI headlines including OpenClaw and OpenAI. The close includes bullish ETH over Bit...

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137:06

Agentic Trading in Practice, Pengu Card KAST Rollout

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2026/02/13

Pengu Card and KAST lead the show with a practical walkthrough of what it would feel like to use plus the KYC reality and why the card mechanics matter. The core idea is swiping from stables or crypto without going through a CEX. The waitlist and referral leaderboard tie into Standard, Black and Gold tiers. The conversation then moves into stablecoin payroll and SMB adoption, and how “Genius” style compliance could reshape yield and rewards programs. A quick check on Pudgy and Igloo plus the ...

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150:41

Crypto Pays Creators, Xeet Creator Cards

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2026/02/12

Creator incentives are the core of this one, using InfoFi and Xeet creator cards to unpack how payouts, XP loops and tournament design actually work. The crew debates whether these systems create real product value or just shift speculation into a new format. From there it moves into sponsor philosophy and what “good” crypto UX looks like when it hits real users, from referral loops to crypto cards and borrowing against BTC. Markets sit in the background, with uncertainty pushing risk off and...

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122:33

Stablecoin Payroll Arrives, AI Agents Rewrite...

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2026/02/11

Stablecoins are becoming default money rails. Yield matters, but so does how real businesses hold cash and move money day to day. The MoonPay x Deel payroll angle shows why this is accelerating and what “mainstream” adoption actually looks like. The back half shifts hard into AI. It focuses on onchain agents, discovery standards like “8004” and how distribution changes when people get answers from generative engines instead of search. It also gets into what AI does to company structure. Fewer...

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165:59

MegaETH Mainnet Launches Quietly, Where Is the...

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2026/02/10

MegaETH dominated the back half of the show as the crew and speakers mapped what the ecosystem needs to feel real, from standout apps to stablecoin depth and the KPIs that could gate a future TGE. Before that, they unpacked CyberKongz launching Death Star, why the bot and arbitrage meta blunted the intended Moonbirds buy pressure and what the early target voting suggested about where attention is heading next. There was a detour into AI at work, where the takeaway was that better tools can in...

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130:46

CyberKongz Death Star Strategy Token, Bitcoin Pullback

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2026/02/09

Markets were shaky again with Fear and Greed rebounding off extreme lows while BTC slid back toward $69K and ETH hovered near $2K. NFTs moved the other way, with Apes up and Pudgies lagging, setting up a quick conversation on why collectible value is built over years, not attention cycles. The show then shifted to crypto art, royalties, and what it takes to rebuild trust and consistent support for artists. Henry from CyberKongz joined to break down Death Star, a strategy token launching with ...

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130:28

Bitcoin Selloff and IBIT Options, CyberKongz Death...

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2026/02/06

A long CyberKongz segment breaks down the “Death Star” mechanic. It also digs into why Moonbirds became the target, who benefits, who gets drained, and what changes if more collections get added. From there the show pivots into the market sell-off, tracking the BTC drawdown and bounce through the lens of leverage and positioning. The conversation zooms in on ETF plumbing and IBIT options as part of the volatility story, plus how “margin call” narratives get misread when people do not understa...

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134:29

AI Eats Enterprise Software, CyberKongz Death Star...

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2026/02/05

Crypto opened in a rough mood, with a quick fear and greed gut check and how the selloff is shaking conviction across majors. The show then locked into the AI narrative shift, from Anthropic vs OpenAI positioning to who controls access and where subscription pricing heads next. From there it turned into enterprise software bloat through the CRM lens, why AI reshuffles spend, and how a new consultant layer forms around implementation and career leverage. Late in the show, it moved back onchain...

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128:16

Vitalik Says Ethereum L2s Need a Real Thesis, Base vs...

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2026/02/04

Beezie’s recent traction and multi-chain momentum sets the table before the show pivots into Vitalik’s L2 framing, arguing that “slightly faster ETH” is not a durable thesis in a low-fee environment and that real differentiation matters. From there, the conversation shifts to what retail onboarding actually requires, contrasting Base’s distribution edge with MegaETH’s speed narrative and the gap between performance claims and real user experience. They also touch on how AI interfaces could ch...

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125:56

Claynosaurz and Cross-Chain NFT Friction, Delusional...

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2026/02/03

Delusional optimism set the tone as they checked the market, scanned NFT floors, and kept coming back to how much friction still exists when trying to buy NFTs across chains, from wallet connections to where liquidity actually lives on marketplaces like OpenSea. The main focus was NFTStrategy and the Vibestr flywheel logic, how supply, burns, liquidity, and sell pressure shape the trade now that the token is already live. From there they shifted into Moonbirds under Orange Cap Games, $BIRB pr...

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108:29

Brand Coin Shakeout, ETH Treasury Reserve Playbook

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2026/02/02

Moonbirds’ BIRB claim day felt messy, with low participation and a flow that confused holders around nesting and the Birb Game. The conversation dug into what post-2021 NFT tokens are actually worth, with comparisons to projects like Doodles and Azuki. IP and distribution came next, using Pudgy Penguins, Vibes TCG and Orange Cap Games as examples of what can outlast a token chart. The timeline’s ClawdBot frenzy brought AI agents back into focus and how people are reacting to them in real time...

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