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 financial infrastructure.Subscribe to stay close to the people and ideas moving markets forward.

The Crypto Tape is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  The Crypto Tape – The Fragmentation Myth and Onchain Prime Brokerage with Ian de Bode

  Aug 13, 202636 min

  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 traditional financial assets on crypto rails, with roughly $4 billion in total value locked across tokenized treasuries, stocks, and ETFs. Ian believes that tokenized stocks are fundamentally about giving a global audience access to US capital markets, the same way stablecoins gave the world access to the dollar. He argues that the fear that tokenized equities fragment liquidity is overblown, and walks through the collateral problem that still keeps perps from winning over institutions. A clear-eyed view on tokenization from one of the industry leaders building the infrastructure supporting it.

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  The Desk – How Banks Earn 5% On Your Cash and Pay You Zero with Nick van Eck

  Aug 4, 202629 min

  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 overhauling global finance and disrupting traditional banking. Nick makes the case that traditional banks have shortchanged depositors for decades by offering near-zero checking rates while capturing the Fed funds rate overnight—causing static checking accounts to lose 40% of their purchasing power over twenty years. He breaks down how Agora's AUSD and stablecoin APIs allow embedded finance platforms and enterprise corporates to earn yield backed directly by short-dated U.S. T-bills and overnight reverse repos, details their push for a federal banking charter, and explains why he expects total stablecoin market cap to jump from $300 billion to $1 trillion as institutional cross-border settlement takes off. A conversation about regulatory arbitrage, deposit friction, and the multi-decade transformation of enterprise finance, from a founder building the next generation of dollar infrastructure.

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  Why Nobody’s Talking About Price with Scott Melker

  Jul 30, 202642 min

  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 CLARITY Act at the finish line at what he calls coin-flip odds, why the fight has quietly narrowed to ethics and whether the president can participate in the crypto industry, and how Trump's meme coin reshaped the debate. Scott also discusses why price conversations have gone quiet at the institutional events and that "institutional adoption" so far has meant firms building products for retail rather than buying tokens for their own books. He also reflects on his own path from trading all day in public to building a more measured voice that bridges crypto and traditional finance. A candid read on the cycle, the narratives, and the gap between what's being built and what the market is paying for.

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  The Crypto Tape – Doing Treasuries Right with Joseph Chalom

  Jul 23, 202643 min

  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 one that blows up. Joseph makes the case that a productive, yield-bearing asset like ETH changes the entire treasury model, so the goal becomes growing ETH per share rather than accumulating at shareholders' expense. He argues the market has pigeonholed Ethereum, walks through the "scoreboard" of settlement, tokenization, and DeFi activity he says shows it winning, and details the newly announced ETH Labs, a stakeholder-funded home for Ethereum's institutional roadmap that its backers intentionally do not control. A conversation about market structure, treasuries, and Ethereum's long game, from someone who spent two decades inside the world's largest asset manager.

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  The Crypto Tape – Going All-In on Radical Transparency with Paul Erlanger

  Jul 16, 202640 min

  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 $75 million Series B, Paul makes the case that retail now sits in the driver's seat of markets, that transparency changes what it means to follow the smart money, and that giving people access to everything onchain from day one beats the old model of listing assets one at a time. A conversation about the interface for the next financial system, from a founder building it.

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