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Protocol

Grep News | Ryan Moon

Protocol podcast demystifies the world of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance. Each episode delivers the latest breaking crypto news with fast-paced analysis and expert insights. From Bitcoin and Ethereum to emerging altcoins & memecoins and DeFi protocols. Learn about wallet security, exchange platforms, and blockchain technology. Perfect for crypto investors, blockchain developers, fintech pros, and anyone curious about digital assets. Follow Protocol on your favorite podcast platform to stay

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00:14:02

Justin Sun Sues After Four Billion Tokens Frozen

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2026/04/23

Justin Sun invested forty-five million dollars in Trump's crypto company World Liberty Financial, and they just froze all four billion of his tokens—worth potentially up to a billion dollars—after he wouldn't dump another two hundred million into their failing stablecoin. The company literally marketed itself saying "no one's ever going to tell you that your account is shut down" and then secretly upgraded their smart contract to give themselves blacklisting power. Now Sun's suing for fraud because

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00:16:49

North Korea Lazarus Group Drained 292M From DeFi

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2026/04/20

North Korea's Lazarus Group just walked away with 292 million dollars in crypto by poisoning the infrastructure behind a bridge so badly configured it had one single security verifier—despite repeated warnings to add more. They didn't hack the code, they cut the phone lines and forced the system to use compromised backup nodes, then minted tokens out of thin air and used them as collateral across nine major DeFi protocols before anyone could blink. Aave is staring down 177 million in bad debt, their

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00:09:10

NYT AI Claims Adam Back Could Be Satoshi

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2026/04/09

A New York Times reporter just spent eighteen months using AI to analyze thousands of emails and claims Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Adam Back—a British cryptographer sitting on potentially seventy-eight billion dollars who keeps saying "not me" while sharing sixty-seven of Satoshi's exact hyphenation mistakes and being the only person cited in the original Bitcoin white paper. The evidence is wild but circumstantial: Back allegedly emailed himself to create distance from the Satoshi

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00:11:34

Regulators Admit Their Rules Sent Crypto Abroad

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2026/03/18

The SEC and CFTC just admitted they screwed up so badly on crypto regulation that innovation literally fled the country, and now they're trying to fix it with joint roundtables and a principle called technology neutrality—basically, a security on blockchain is still just a security, not some radioactive mystery asset. They're targeting the exact friction points that made U.S. markets uncompetitive: portfolio margining, perpetual contracts, 24/7 trading, all the stuff that works fine offshore but

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00:10:30

Justin Sun Pays 10M And Walks Free

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2026/03/06

Justin Sun just settled an SEC fraud case accusing him of thirty-one million in illegal proceeds from over six hundred thousand wash trades by having his company pay ten million and getting all personal charges dropped—no admission of wrongdoing, case dismissed forever. Here's the timeline that should make you uncomfortable: he invested seventy-five million in Trump's family crypto venture starting last November, Trump takes office, and suddenly the SEC that spent years building this case under

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00:14:01

Tether Froze Four Point Two Billion Overnight

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2026/02/27

Tether just announced they've frozen four point two billion dollars in criminal funds—with three point five billion of that happening in just the last three years, right as regulators started circling. The timing is absolutely wild because this massive PR push comes right after they helped seize 61 million tied to pig butchering scams in North Carolina, launched their first US-regulated stablecoin, and their CEO went on a media blitz while their reserve manager just became Commerce Secretary

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00:12:14

Saudi Invests 3 Billion As Europe Probes Musk

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2026/02/18

Saudi Arabia just dropped three billion dollars into Elon Musk's xAI literally the same day Spain ordered criminal investigations into X over AI-generated content—including an estimated 23,000 images that appeared to show minors. The timing is absolutely unhinged: this investment landed right as xAI got absorbed into SpaceX, diluting Saudi Arabia's stake to 0.24 percent of a 1.25 trillion dollar mega-entity that's now under investigation by Ireland, the UK, France, and the EU. Multiple European

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00:09:36

Insider Bet 30K Before Classified Raid Cashed 436K

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2026/01/06

Someone with a brand new Polymarket account bet over thirty grand that Maduro would be out of office by January when the odds were at five percent—and they placed that bet within twenty-four hours of U.S. special forces actually raiding his palace in Caracas. They walked away with four hundred thirty-six thousand dollars on an operation so classified that top members of Congress weren't even briefed beforehand. The account only made bets on Maduro's exit and potential war with Venezuela, which means

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00:09:50

40 Billion Vanished And Kwon Gets 15 Years

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2026/01/01

Do Kwon just got fifteen years for vaporizing forty billion dollars through his TerraUSD stablecoin scam that he propped up with secret cash injections while telling investors the algorithm fixed itself. A million people lost everything—retirement savings, college funds, decades of work—while prosecutors literally said determining restitution would be too complicated, so victims aren't getting their money back. His co-founder Daniel Shin isn't even mentioned in charging documents and regulators are

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00:11:45

Silver Surges Past Nvidia Then Nosedives Eight Percent

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2025/12/30

Silver's total value hit 4.65 trillion dollars Monday morning and briefly overtook Nvidia at 4.60 trillion, making a shiny metal more valuable than the company powering the AI revolution. Then it immediately nosedived 8 percent in the biggest one-day crash in nearly five years after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange raised margin requirements, forcing leveraged traders to dump their positions. The metal went from 30 bucks an ounce in January to touching 84 dollars before eating pavement—and nobody can

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00:03:42

Crypto Czar David Sacks Calls NYT Article Nothingburger

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2025/12/02

David Sacks, America’s new AI and Crypto Czar, still holds stakes in 449 AI companies—while shaping national AI policy. Plus, he kept shares in Anduril, which just scored a big Pentagon contract, and is brokering chip deals with the UAE, a country tied to China. Washington’s ethics loopholes are basically letting him play both sides, and honestly, it feels like insider trading disguised as public service.

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00:04:11

Stablecoin Blowup Could Spark Global Money Panic

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2025/11/27

Bitcoin just crashed from $126K to $81K, dragging stablecoins like Tether and Circle—and their $250 billion in Treasury-backed assets—into a full-on financial mess. Meanwhile, a tiny Singapore exchange with 11 employees just liquidated $10 billion, proving crypto’s wild ride is shaking traditional markets harder than anyone expected. Retail investors are fleeing crypto ETFs, and honestly, it looks like crypto’s “disruption” might just be turning it into another volatile tech stock.

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00:11:55

Satoshi Loses 40 Billion in Bitcoin Crash, Bill Gates...

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2025/11/24

Bitcoin just plunged 30% in a month, wiping out $41 billion from Satoshi Nakamoto’s untouched stash and knocking him from the 11th to 20th richest person alive. Meanwhile, crypto’s crash is causing Wall Street algorithms to freak out, syncing Bitcoin’s chaos with stock market swings—and experts are now freaking out about quantum computers possibly breaking Bitcoin’s encryption, which could force Satoshi to finally reveal themselves or risk losing everything forever.

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00:03:47

Vitalik Claims Ethereum The Polar Opposite Of FTX

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2025/11/18

Vitalik Buterin just delivered a savage, fact-packed clapback at FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried without naming names, proving Ethereum’s transparency crushes sketchy centralized crypto. Meanwhile, Bitcoin's crashing hard below key support levels, making Ethereum’s steady, open-source resilience look like the smart play while others freak out.

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00:03:51

Cash App Unleashes Instant Bitcoin Lightning And...

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2025/11/14

Cash App just unleashed instant, fee-free Bitcoin payments using the Lightning Network—no need to hold Bitcoin, you can pay right from USD. Meanwhile, Circle’s teaming up with giants like BlackRock to build a stablecoin empire as the U.S. officially crowns itself crypto’s global HQ. This isn’t the future anymore; it’s happening now, and the big players are all in.

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00:03:44

SEC Drops Mind Blowing Four Tier Crypto Taxonomy

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2025/11/13

The SEC just dropped a game-changing four-tier crypto framework that could finally stop treating every token like a scam. New chair Paul Atkins wants to sort crypto into categories like Bitcoin-level commodities, NFTs, and actual utility tokens—meaning less legal chaos and more clarity. It sounds way too good to be true until real rules hit, but this might be the regulatory reboot crypto’s been begging for.

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00:03:13

Gemini Bleeds 159M As Super App Plans Unfold

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2025/11/12

Gemini just burned $159 million in three months while crypto trading dries up, tanking their stock 70%. Instead of folding, the Winklevoss twins are doubling down with a risky super app pivot that’s more chaos than comeback. Meanwhile, competitors like Coinbase are pulling way ahead, making Gemini’s cash burn look even crazier.

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00:03:17

Accidental Bitcoin Fee Costs One Hundred Thousand...

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2025/11/11

A Bitcoin user just accidentally paid a $105,000 fee trying to send a $10 transfer to Kraken because they set the fee at 0.99 BTC instead of using the calculator. No refunds, no customer service — just a brutal lesson in how crypto’s “freedom” can wipe out your Tesla down payment in seconds. Pro tip: always double-check those fees or you'll be tipping miners more than a Lamborghini costs.

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00:03:56

Banks Unite To Crush Coinbase Trust Charter Dream

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2025/11/10

Coinbase just threw down, asking for a national trust charter to become the first federally supervised crypto bank—and traditional community banks are not having it. They slammed Coinbase for botched risk controls and regulatory drama, calling the whole move sketchy and warning it could rewrite crypto rules in the U.S. Now the OCC’s decision could make or break the future of crypto—and it's anyone’s guess which way it’ll swing.

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00:04:06

Bankman Frieds Mom Hijacks His Substack

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2025/11/07

Sam Bankman-Fried’s mom, Stanford prof Barbara Fried, just took over his Substack to fight his fraud case while he’s locked up. Meanwhile, his lawyers are throwing wild appeals claiming judicial misconduct and insisting FTX would've been worth $136 billion if not for “clean-up” mistakes. It’s like a legal soap opera meets helicopter parenting, but the justice system isn’t buying the excuses.

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