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The Starting Block
The Starting Block is The Block's new flagship daily live show — the breaking news, the context behind it, and the people shaping where crypto goes next. Each episode is a 45-minute live broadcast hosted by award-winning journalist and broadcaster Gareth Jenkinson and powered by The Block's newsroom and research desk.
Episodes
The Starting BlockThe US Midterms - And What It Means For Crypto
Episode 51 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with BasedAI & Kōhai CEO Teana Baker-Taylor. BasedAI & Kōhai CEO…
The Starting BlockBinance Hack Latest With Chainalysis
Episode 51 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was aired live on November 3rd with Chainalysis Head of Research Eric Jardine. Eric…
The Starting BlockPolygon eyes payment business shift beyond its own blockchain
The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Polygon CEO Marc Boiron. Polygon CEO Marc Boiron joins Gareth Jenkinson…
The Starting BlockEXCLUSIVE - Chainlink deepens ties with S&P
Episode 48 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Andrew McCormick, The Head of Institutional and Market…
The Starting BlockUS midterms & crypto /w Anthony Scaramucci
Episode 47 of The Starting Block was hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, and joined live with SkyBridge Founder Anthony Scaramucci. SkyBridge Founder…
The Starting BlockStarknet considers L1 transition - live with Eli Ben-Sasson
Episode 46 of The Starting Block, hosted by Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with StarkWare Founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson. StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson…
The Starting BlockBond yields hitting highs & European backlash on stablecoin reward bans
Episode 45 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Coinbase Head of Policy for Europe Katie Harries. Coinbase…
The Starting BlockUnpacking Telegram’s evolving crypto ecosystem
Episode 44 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Walt CCO Alex Kruglov. Walt (formerly Wallet in Telegram)…
The Starting BlockBitcoin market update /w Bitfinex, Moca Network goes live
Episode 43 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Moca Network CEO Kenneth Shek and the Head of Operations at…
The Starting BlockBitget CEO Gracy Chen Breaks Down $388M Hack
Episode 42 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Bitget CEO Gracy Chen. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen joins Gareth…
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Unpacking Bitget’s $350M hack, DoubleZero ships real-time Hyperliquid data service
Episode 41 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with DoubleZero Co-Founder Austin Federa. Key topics •…
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AI agents will score $4T in fees by 2035 - Sharplink
Episode 40 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom. Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom…
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Bitcoin to $100k? Feat. CoinMarketCap’s Research Lead Alice Liu
Episode 39 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Coinmarketcap Head of Research Alice Liu. CoinMarketCap…
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The Block launches standalone AI website The Latent
Episode 38 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with The Block's Publisher, Adam James, and Bitwise's Head of…
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Will the SEC & CFTC steady crypto industry after the Clarity Act impasse?
Episode 37 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Injective Labs Head of Public Policy John Medel. Injective…
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Hunter Biden $LAPTOP launch looms feat. Ran Neuner
Episode 36 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Crypto Banter Founder & CEO Ran Neuner. Crypto Banter…
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Breaking Down AI’s Threat to Cryptography /w Kostas Chalkias
Episode 35 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Mysten Labs Co-Founder Kostas Chalkias. Mysten Labs…
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1-on-1 with Aptos co-founder Avery Ching
Episode 34 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Aptos Co-Founder & CEO Avery Ching. Aptos Co-Founder & CEO…
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Exploring the origins of DeFi protocols with Andre Cronje
Episode 33 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Flying Tulip Founder Andre Cronje. Flying Tulip Founder…
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Inside OranjeBTC’s New Bitcoin Equity ETF
Sam Callahan, OranjeBTC's Director of Bitcoin Strategy & Research, joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block where the duo discussed the launch of Digi11 –…
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Will CLARITY Act pass in September? Ft. GSR
GSR's Chief Legal and Strategy Officer Joshua Riezman joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the Clarity Act being pushed to September, the…
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DoubleZero infra to supercharge Kalshi - Ft. Austin Federa
DoubleZero Co-Founder Austin Federa joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the DoubleZero recently announced integration with Kalshi and how…
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Why Bitcoin BIP-110 failed - ft Giacomo Zucco
Plan B Forum Director Giacomo Zucco joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the BIP 110 activation and chain stall over the weekend, the Cold…
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Bitcoin Uptober Loading? Live w/ Benjamin Cowen
ITC Founder & CEO Benjamin Cowen joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss why Bitcoin's current cycle mirrors 2018, the likelihood of an October…
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OKX's Lennix Lai: Retail Traders Are Already Executing Through AI Agents
OKX General Manager Lennix Lai joined Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the impact of institutional ETF flows on crypto markets, the rise of…
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AI-armed attackers deepen crypto's 2026 hacking crisis
Blockaid Co-Founder & CEO Ido Ben-Natan joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the record-breaking surge in crypto hack incidents in 2026, how…
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Jesse Pollak reveals plans for Base as exchange competition heats up
Coinbase Head of Base Jesse Pollak joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss handing the Base app to Jordan Fish, widely known as Cobie, while…
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Alpaca’s $435M raise driven by Wall Street’s tokenization push
Alpaca Co-Founder & CEO Yoshi Yokokawa joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss building the "AWS of financial infrastructure" for tokenized US…
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Breaking down the Coldcard exploit & ramifications for self-custody
Casa CTO Jameson Lopp joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss how the Coldcard entropy exploit unfolded, why multi-vendor multisig is the gold…
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Bitcoin rocked by Coldcard exploit w. Freddie New
B HODL CEO Freddie New joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the Coldcard hardware wallet exploit that drained roughly 594 Bitcoin from…
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Fed holds interest rates – what does it mean for Bitcoin?
Bitwise Europe Head of Research Andre Dragosch joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block, where he discussed the Fed's split decision to hold rates and its…
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1inch Aqua unlocks shared liquidity with CEO Sergej Kunz
1inch Co-Founder Sergej Kunz joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to announce the launch of 1inch Aqua, a unified shared liquidity protocol for DeFi…
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Open source AI the new crypto? ft. Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik
Nansen Co-Founder & CEO Alex Svanevik joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the evolution of Nansen from on-chain analytics to agentic…
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The Staking Race: Ethereum's Queue, Solana's Yield, and Where Institutional Money Is Going
Bitwise Head of Onchain Research Kam Benbrik joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss Bitwise's inaugural quarterly staking report, the…
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Charles Hoskinson on Cardano’s Future, the state of crypto & AI
Input Output Global Founder Charles Hoskinson joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss Cardano's decentralized governance and on-chain treasury…
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Is the Bitcoin bear market over? Ft. Cory Klippsten
Swan Bitcoin Founder & CEO Cory Klippsten joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the current state of the Bitcoin treasury company landscape…
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Can JTX dominate Solana trading? Ft. Lucas Bruder
Jito Labs Founder Lucas Bruder joins Gareth Jenkinson on episode 15 of The Starting Block to discuss the launch of JTX, Jito's new on-chain trading platform on…
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Crypto exchanges will take over Wall Street - ft. Bitget’s Gracy Chen
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the "universal exchange" thesis and Bitget's push into tokenized stocks, how…
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The Privacy Renaissance ft. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin
NEAR Protocol Co-Founder Illia Poloshukhin joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the mainnet launch of quantum resistance and dynamic…
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Debunking ZachXBT’s “garbage” hardware wallet post w/ Trezor
Trezor CCO Danny Sanders joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss and debunk ZachXBT's viral claim that hardware wallets are "absolute garbage,"…
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Confidential DeFi? Why institutions need privacy to go all in on crypto
Zama Co-Founder & CEO Rand Hindi joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss how confidential DeFi works, the launch of a confidential USDC vault…
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EU DAC8 Regulation - Are Crypto Holders At Risk?
Bull Bitcoin Founder Francis Pouliout joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss Bull Bitcoin's landmark legal challenge against the EU DAC8…
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Wall Street Surrenders To Crypto & AI, feat. David Pakman
Coinfund Managing Partner and Head of Venture Investments David Pakman joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss Wall Street's surrender to…
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Ethereum Merge Cut Electricity Use by 99% - Cambridge Report
Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance Research Lead Alexander Neumüller joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the recent Cambridge report…
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EXCLUSIVE: AAVE Launches Stable Vaults w/ Stani Kulechov
AAVE Founder & CEO Stani Kulechov joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to announce the launch of Aave Stable Vaults, a new vault architecture enabling…
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BitGo CEO Mike Belshe on Saylor, Stablecoins & the Crypto Wars
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss Michael Saylor's Bitcoin sales and concentration risk, the prospects of the…
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Saylor’s Big Bitcoin Sale, Investigating $ANSEM
Smarter Web UK's Head of Bitcoin Strategy Jesse Myers joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss why Strategy's $260 million Bitcoin sale is a…
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Saylor Sells $216M Of Bitcoin, Joe Chalom Unpacks New Ethereum Orgs
Sharplink CEO Joe Chalom sits down with Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to talk about ETH Labs and Ethereum Institutional launches, SharpLink's bear…
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Yat Siu Predicts 100B AI Agents
Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss the 100 billion AI agent prediction, digital asset treasury companies…
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Breaking Down The Humanity Protocol Exploit with Founder Terence Kwok
Episode 2 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Humanity Protocol Founder Terence Kwok. Humanity Protocol…
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CZ: $500M in Elon's X, 4 Months in Prison & What's Coming Next
Episode 1 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live from Abu Dhabi with Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ). For the…
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The State of Bitcoin Treasuries with Jack Mallers
In Episode 4 of The Starting Block, Head of Multimedia at The Block Gareth Jenkinson is joined by Strike and Twenty One CEO Jack Mallers at BTC Prague…
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Ethereum cofounder explains why ETH DATs are built to last
In Episode 3 of The Starting Block, Head of Multimedia at The Block Gareth Jenkinson is joined by Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of ConsenSys at…
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The Truth About Satoshi’s Identity and Why It Might Never Be Revealed
In 2 of The Starting Block, Head of Multimedia at The Block Gareth Jenkinson is joined by Blockstream Co-Founder and CEO, Adam Back, at Paris Blockchain Week…
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Aave Just Changed DeFi Forever — Here's What You Need to Know
In 1 of The Starting Block, Head of Multimedia at The Block Gareth Jenkinson is joined by Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave at ETHCC in Cannes. Stani…