Empire
Blockworks interviews crypto founders on liquidity, stablecoins and market structure
1:05:37Trillion-Dollar Compute Trading Still Matched Over Text and Phone Calls
Compute contracts hit $10 billion per deal, yet the market lacks unified pricing and hedging tools—buyers and sellers still negotiate privately through relationships, phone calls, and text messages.
1:03:27Stablecoins Are Not a Duopoly: Big Companies Want Their Own Coin
The multi-stablecoin debate returns: Rob says he knows of multinationals issuing their own stablecoins, Circle's USDC network effect is underrated, but if rates fall to 2-3% its revenue gets cut in half.
59:28After AI Steals the Talent, Only Six Tokens Are Left to Own
Delphi's Yan Liberman says crypto VCs make one deal a year because AI has sucked up all the smart people; the only things that can still make money are a handful of tokens with real revenue that don't depend on the crypto market.
1:16:01Uniswap's Ambition Isn't a DEX — It's Replacing Market Makers and the IPO
Uniswap's long-term goal is not to be a DEX but to become the world's liquidity network; a negative cost of capital for long-tail assets, plus v4 hooks, lets it replace traditional market makers and even the IPO step.