Laura Shin

Journalist and host of the “Unchained” podcast

Journalist and host of the “Unchained” podcast, Shin covers cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

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In today’s Unchained Daily: 🪓 ETHZilla sells $40M ETH to buy back stock 📊 Bitcoin traders go all in before rate cut 🏛️ IBM goes full crypto with new custody platform 💸 Citi and Coinbase build stablecoin rails 🧾 Solana, Litecoin, Hedera ETFs launch in U.S. 🌎 Read today’s must-know crypto news… and subscribe!

Mentioned on : 10/28/2025

Listing fees, token kickbacks, and dumping on retail — @NTmoney says this is antithetical to crypto’s ethos. 👀

Mentioned on : 10/17/2025

🚨New hosts alert! 🚨 Big welcome to Zero Knowledge Consulting’s @CampbellJAustin and CoinFund’s @perkinscr97, the newest crew members of Bits + Bips! 👏 🧑🏻‍✈️ Tune in LIVE at 4:30pm ET as Austin, Chris, and @ramahluwalia are joined by Equity Management Associates’ @LawrenceLepard to discuss gold vs BTC, continuing fallout from the Black Friday flash crash, Tempo, and more. 📺 Watch on YouTube, X, PumpFun, or Twitch!

Mentioned on : 10/20/2025

Manta Network was one of the first L2s. Now it’s pivoting away from infrastructure. I spoke with co‑founder @superanonymousk about: ⚙️ Why “just being an L2” isn’t enough 📲 The race for real users 🏦 What’s next for Manta Timestamps: 🎬 0:00 Introduction and ads: Aptos and Mantle 🔍 1:16 Why Manta is shifting away from being just another L2 📱 4:58 Why the team is betting on applications over infrastructure 🌐 6:30 Will the future of #Layer2s be app-specific or general-purpose? 🏦 16:02 Why #Stripe and #Circle chose to build L1s while #Robinhood went with an L2 🧭 17:28 How the crowded L2 landscape should navigate the next phase 🏛️ 26:15 What growing institutional interest means for Manta’s strategy

Mentioned on : 10/01/2025

🚨 Tune in: Black Friday Breakdown livestream 🚨 @diogenes is joining me today at 5pm ET / 2pm PT to talk about what happened yesterday... 🫠 😳 Join us here on X or on YouTube or PumpFun!

Mentioned on : 10/11/2025

Crypto’s Black Friday Crash: What the Hell Happened? @diogenes on @unchained_pod: 🧨 How the crash really started ⚙️ Why market structure failed ⚠️ Why another crash could be even bigger 😦 Did Jump lose $1B? Timestamps: 💥 Introduction and ads: @Aptos ⏱️ What markets looked like in the hours before the crash 🕵️‍♂️ Whether traders on #Hyperliquid knew the tariff tweet was coming 📉 Why altcoins plunged up to 95% and how market makers amplified the move ⚙️ How auto-deleveraging kicked in—and why it mattered 💣 How DATs created hidden leverage that made the system fragile 🏦 How perps DEXes and CEXes responded differently to the meltdown 🧩 Was it a coordinated attack—or just market mania? 🤯 What happened to smaller market makers when liquidity vanished 💥 How the USDe depeg on #Binance triggered cascading liquidations 📊 Why #Ethena “managed it well” and why exchanges don’t ADL their positions ⚠️ What caused the #USDe “depeg” 🔧 How infrastructure failures made price feeds unreliable 🚨 What perps exchanges need to change going forward ⏳ Why Diogenes thinks this kind of crash will happen again—and worse 📜 The “extraordinary rights” LPs hold on exchanges 💱 How traders should decide where to trade after this 👀 A rumor about how much Jump lost

Mentioned on : 10/12/2025

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