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The Crypto Tape
The Crypto Tape from GSR brings you inside crypto’s capital markets, where topics like credit and liquidity converge with actually interesting stories and perspectives. As one of the world’s leading crypto investment firms, GSR has traded trillions in digital assets. Now, we’re opening the door to the people shaping this market. Hosted by Frank Chaparro, The Crypto Tape features candid conversations with investors, traders, exchange operators, and founders building the next generation of…
Episodes
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Liquid Private Markets with Jonathan Shaffer
Jonathan Shaffer, co-founder and CEO of Fission, joins Frank Chaparro to talk about the missing piece in tokenization: liquidity. Asset managers are lining up…
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Perps, Patience and a Quiet Market with Alex Taaffe and Andy Baehr
Frank Chaparro takes The Crypto Tape to SALT Wyoming in Jackson Hole for two conversations with his GSR colleagues. First, Alex Taaffe, GSR’s Chief Revenue…
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The Risk of Not Being in Crypto with Chris Perkins
Chris Perkins joins Frank Chaparro in his return to The Crypto Tape to talk about building Franklin Crypto inside Franklin Templeton, a firm that has been…
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Tokenized Equities for the Other 80% with Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick joins Frank Chaparro for a conversation on The Crypto Tape and shares more on his role leading Chainlink's institutional business after stints…
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TradFi Took Over the Room with Bhaji Illuminati
Bhaji Illuminati, CEO and co-founder of Centrifuge, joins Frank Chaparro in studio at RWA Summit in Brooklyn, the tokenization conference Centrifuge launched…
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The Desk – What Institutional Stablecoin Flow Actually Looks Like with Edward Woodford
Edward Woodford, founder and CEO of zerohash, joins Frank Chaparro and Slater Santer for episode five of The Desk to describe stablecoin adoption from a seat…
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The Meme-ification of Equity with Robert Leshner
Robert Leshner, CEO of Superstate, returns to The Crypto Tape to join Frank Chaparro during the RWA Summit for a look at what has changed in tokenization since…
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Tokenization Is the Digitization of Value with Hayden Adams
Hayden Adams, founder of Uniswap, joins Frank Chaparro on The Crypto Tape, where Hayden lays out his core thesis that tokenization is the digitization of…
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The Remittance Myth and Why Banks Are the Endgame with Chris Maurice
Chris Maurice, CEO of Yellow Card, joins Frank Chaparro to cut through the hype on stablecoins and explain where they genuinely change payments and where they…
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The Crypto Tape – The Parallel Track the SEC Is Building for Crypto with Kristin Smith
Kristin Smith, President of the Solana Policy Institute, joins Frank Chaparro on The Crypto Tape for a clear-eyed read on the crypto policy journey. Kristin…
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The Crypto Tape – Why Institutions See Bitcoin as a Discounted Asset with Laura Vidiella
Laura Vidiella of VanEck joins Frank Chaparro to share what she's hearing from institutional allocators, and why their read on this market looks nothing like…
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The Crypto Tape – The Fragmentation Myth and Onchain Prime Brokerage with Ian de Bode
Ian de Bode, CEO and President of Ondo Finance, joins Frank Chaparro to explain what tokenization unlocks and where the space needs to improve. Ondo puts…
The Crypto TapeThe Desk – How Banks Earn 5% On Your Cash and Pay You Zero with Nick van Eck
Nick van Eck, co-founder and CEO of Agora, joins Frank Chaparro and Slater Santer for the inaugural episode of The Desk to unpack how stablecoins are quietly…
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Why Nobody’s Talking About Price with Scott Melker
Scott Melker, host of The Wolf of All Streets, joins Frank Chaparro for a conversation about where the crypto market currently stands. Scott breaks down the…
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The Crypto Tape – Doing Treasuries Right with Joseph Chalom
Joseph Chalom, co-CEO of SharpLink and a 20-year BlackRock veteran, joins Frank Chaparro to explain what separates a digital asset treasury that survives from…
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The Crypto Tape – Going All-In on Radical Transparency with Paul Erlanger
Paul Erlanger, co-founder of FOMO, joins Frank Chaparro to talk about building a social trading app where every position, win or loss, is public. Fresh off a…
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The Crypto Tape – Why Crypto is Panicked with John D’Agostino
John D'Agostino, Head of Strategy at Coinbase, joins Frank Chaparro to unpack the next phase of market structure: tokenized equities, pre-IPO perpetuals…
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The Crypto Tape – Where Crypto’s Market Structure Comes Up Short with Denis Dariotis
GoQuant Founder and CEO Denis Dariotis joins Frank Chaparro on The Crypto Tape to unpack the plumbing behind crypto's markets. They cover why fragmentation…
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The Crypto Tape – Why Crypto is Stuck Despite the Headlines with Andy Baehr
Crypto is in the headlines almost every week, yet the price keeps going nowhere. GSR's Managing Director of Asset Management Andy Baehr joins Frank Chaparro to…
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The Crypto Tape – Why Tech is Only 25% of Crypto’s Future with Asheesh Birla
Asheesh Birla has been building in crypto since 2013, back when there were just a handful of blockchains and Vitalik was still working out of Ripple's offices…
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The Crypto Tape – How Onchain Markets Are Rewriting the $100B Data Business with Michael Cahill
Michael Cahill, CEO of Pyth, joins Frank Chaparro to unpack one of finance's most valuable and least understood businesses: market data. A former HFT insider…
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The Crypto Tape – Why Walled-Garden DeFi Never Works, and the Policy Fights That Actually Matter with Rebecca Retting
Rebecca Rettig, Chief Legal Officer of Jito Labs, joins Frank Chaparro to talk through the policy fights that will define DeFi's next chapter. Rebecca argues…
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The Crypto Tape – Why There's No Moat in the Model, and the Coming AI Data Center Hangover with Ben Fielding
Ben Fielding, co-founder of Gensyn, joins Frank Chaparro on The Crypto Tape fresh off Gensyn's mainnet launch and the debut of Delphi, its AI-settled…
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The Crypto Tape – Privacy is the Next Meta, and the Old Token Playbook is Closed with Azeem Khan
Azeem Khan, co-founder of Miden, joins Frank Chaparro on The Crypto Tape to make the case that privacy is the next institutional unlock, and that without it…
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The Crypto Tape – Why Most Oracles Are Brittle, and What Comes After Private Credit with Nik Kunkel
Chronicle co-founder Nik Kunkel joins Frank Chaparro to break down the convergence of traditional finance and DeFi into what some are calling "neo finance,"…
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The Crypto Tape – Tokenized Stocks, Dollar Hegemony, and Why APIs Are the New UI with Yoshi Yokokawa
Alpaca co-founder and CEO Yoshi Yokokawa joins Frank Chaparro to unpack the tokenized equity market that just crossed $1 billion in custody and tripled in six…
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The Crypto Tape – Aave v4, the DeFi Liquidity Surplus, and Why AI Changes Credit with Stani Kulechov
Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov joins Frank Chaparro for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of DeFi credit, what Aave v4 unlocks, and how AI agents…
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The Crypto Tape – Tokenization, Spot Crypto, and Wall Street’s Next Step with Amy Oldenburg
Frank Chaparro sits down with Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Morgan Stanley, just after the firm went live with its bitcoin trust ETP. Amy…
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The Crypto Tape – Launching a Token Into an Imperfect Market and Why Borrowers Disappeared with Matthew Fisher
Matthew Fisher, CEO of Katana, sat down with Frank Chaparro following Katana's token generation event. Katana is a DeFi chain incubated by Polygon and GSR…
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The Crypto Tape – DeFi, Prediction Markets, and the Wallet Problem with Mike Cagney
Mike Cagney is the Chairman of Figure, a company that has originated more than $25 billion of assets on-chain and built what may be the only liquid non-agency…
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The Crypto Tape – AI and Humanity's Day of Judgment with Jamyn Edis
Jamyn Edis has spent over 15 years teaching at NYU's Stern School of Business, led data science and AI practices at companies like Take-Two Interactive and…
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The Crypto Tape – Cross-Asset Trading with Kaledora Fontana Kiernan-Linn of Ostium
Kaledora Fontana Kiernan-Linn co-founded Ostium in 2022 with a thesis that crypto-native traders would eventually want to trade traditional assets, on-chain…
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The Crypto Tape – RWA Perps with Alvin Hsia of Ventuals
Alvin Hsia, co-founder and CEO of Ventuals, joins Frank Chaparro for a conversation about building perpetual markets for real-world assets and bringing…
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The Crypto Tape – Stablecoin Outlook with Nick van Eck
Nick van Eck, co-founder of Agora, joins Frank Chaparro for a candid conversation about where stablecoins are headed Nick spent years backing crypto companies…
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The Crypto Tape – Crypto Venture Outlook with Mike Dudas
Mike Dudas, founding partner of Six Man Ventures, joins Frank Chaparro for an unfiltered look at crypto venture in 2026. Mike has been in crypto since 2013. He…
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The Crypto Tape – 24/7 Equity Markets with Michael Blaugrund
Michael Blaugrund, VP of Strategic Initiatives at ICE, joins Frank Chaparro to discuss the NYSE's plan to launch a new venue for trading tokenized equities…
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The Crypto Tape – The State of Crypto Venture with Rob Hadick
Rob Hadick, General Partner at Dragonfly, joins Frank Chaparro to dissect why 2025 was one of the most value-destructive years in crypto history despite all…
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The Crypto Tape – Leveraged ETFs and the TradFi Blockchain Buildout with Sal Gilbertie
Sal Gilbertie has spent 17 years navigating the ETF approval process. As CEO of Teucrium, he built his reputation launching agricultural commodity products…
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The Crypto Tape – Why the UK Might Find the Middle Ground on Crypto with Lord James Wharton
Lord James Wharton joins Frank Chaparro to discuss how crypto policy actually gets made in the UK. Lord James Wharton served as MP for Stockton South and later…
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The Crypto Tape – Bitcoin's Leverage Reset and the Equity Rotation with Matt Sigel
VanEck’s Head of Digital Assets Research Matt Sigel joins Frank Chaparro to discuss Bitcoin's Q4 correction, why miners are structural sellers, where value is…
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The Crypto Tape – The Market Structure Shift No One's Talking About with Anton Katz
Anton Katz, co-founder and CEO of Talos, joins Frank Chaparro to discuss the institutional infrastructure that's quietly transforming crypto markets. In this…
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The Crypto Tape – Tokenization, Stablecoins, and Why Crypto Fundamentals Don't Matter (Yet) with Robert Leshner
Robert Leshner, co- founder of Superstate and creator of Compound, joins Frank Chaparro to discuss why institutional interest in tokenization hasn't translated…
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The Crypto Tape – Building Infrastructure with Tom Warner
Tom Warner from Double Zero joins Frank Chaparro to explain why blockchain protocols are being held back by the public internet and what it takes to build a…
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The Crypto Tape – Cutting Through the Noise with Tom Lee
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee joins Frank Chaparro to dissect why crypto markets feel darker than fundamentals suggest, even as stablecoins, RWAs, and institutional…
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The Crypto Tape – The Capital Markets Transition with Chris Perkins
Frank Chaparro sits down with Chris Perkins, the President of CoinFund, to learn about his unique perspective on how crypto markets have evolved through…
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The Crypto Tape – Inside the Go-To-Market Strategy of Monad
Frank Chaparro sits down with Kevin McCordic, the Director of Growth at Monad Foundation, to dive into building what might become crypto’s most developed…
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Crypto's Policy Shift: Greg Greg Xathalis, Kristin Smith and Jonathan Jachym on Washington’s Next Chapter
In this episode of The Crypto Tape, Frank Chaparro sits down with three leaders shaping crypto’s policy future: Greg Xethalis, General Counsel, Multicoin…
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The Crypto Tape — Dmitry Tokarev on Bron & the Future of Crypto Security
Frank Chaparro sits down with Dmitry Tokarev — founder of Bron and former CEO of Copper — to explore how he’s bringing institutional-grade crypto security to…
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How the Institutional Playbook for Crypto Is Being Rewritten by DATs and RWAs
Crypto’s institutional playbook is being rewritten. From Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) inspired by the MicroStrategy model to the explosive rise of tokenized…
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Everything Humans Do Is Speculative — Meltem Demirors on Crypto, Culture, and Capital
Crypto just went through a $19 billion liquidation blowout — but despite the chaos, Wall Street is starting to look more like crypto. Meltem Demirors, one of…
The Crypto TapeEx-NYSE President Sees Future IPOs on Solana, Ethereum
Tom Farley, former president of the New York Stock Exchange and now CEO of Bullish, joins The Crypto Tape to unpack the capital markets boom sweeping crypto…