On The Brink with Castle Island

On The Brink with Castle Island

Hosts Matt Walsh and Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures explore news and deals in the public blockchain space and talk to some of the leading experts in the industry. Learn more and stay up to date at CastleIsland.vc and follow on twitter @CastleIslandVC

794 episodes On The Brink with Castle Island Updated 2026-05-25
794 episodes in On The Brink with Castle Island
2021-09-17

Weekly Roundup 09/17/21 (Fidelity's spot ETF plea, Solana goes down, Are…

Matt and Nic return to recap a tumultuous week. In this episode:  Matt'…
2021-09-10

Weekly Roundup 09/10/21 (Bukele buys the dip, oil majors are mining, SEC…

Matt and Nic are back for another week. In this episode:  El Salvador's…
2021-09-06

Alex Svanevik (Nansen) on extracting signal from on-chain noise (EP.240)

We welcome Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen.ai to On the Brink to provide co…
2021-09-03

Weekly Roundup 09/03/21 (Two years of OTB, Matt's NFT strategy, Square's…

Nic and Matt are back for another week.  Patriots choose Mac Jones Kany…
2021-08-27

Weekly Roundup 08/27/21 (Celeb NFT buys, Visa's cryptopunk, Choke Point …

Matt and Nic return for another week. In this episode:  Nic sells an NF…
2021-08-20

Weekly Roundup 08/20/21 (Uniswap governance wars, Bitcoin adoption in EM…

Nic and Matt are back for news and deals. In this episode:  Our current…
2021-08-13

Weekly Roundup 08/13/21 (More Infra Bill Chaos, an emerging Bitcoin Bloc…

Nic and Matt return for more deals and news of the week. In this episode…
2021-08-06

Weekly Roundup 08/06/21 (Infra Bill Chaos, Gensler's Speech, BSV 51% att…

Nic and Matt return for another week. In this episode: Gensler makes a …
2021-08-02

George Selgin (Cato Institute) on Stablecoins, Bitcoin, and Free Banking…

George Selgin, director of the Center of Monetary Alternatives at the Ca…
2021-07-30

Weekly Roundup 07/30/21 (Shadowy super coders, Goldman's DeFi ETF, is TV…

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:…
2021-07-26

Michel Rauchs (Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance) on quantifying …

We welcome Michel Rauchs, research affiliate and longtime contributor to…
2021-07-23

Weekly Roundup 07/22/21 (The B Word, SpaceX owns Bitcoin, Stablecoins an…

Nic and Matt are back for another week of news and deals. In this episod…
2021-07-16

Weekly Roundup 07/16/21 (New mining data, Shapeshift decentralizes, are …

Nic and Matt are back for a sideways week. In this episode:  BlockFi's …
2021-07-09

Weekly Roundup 07/09/21 (Circle is going public, SEC targets exchanges, …

Nic and Matt are back. In this episode:  Circle's SPAC filing Circle's …
2021-07-05

Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman on Trading Infrastructure in Cryptoassets (…

Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman, the cofounders of Talos join the show. In …
2021-07-02

Weekly Roundup 07/02/21 (Eyeball based coins, why airdrops don't work, t…

Nic and Matt return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:…
2021-06-28

Kinjal Shah (Blockchain Capital) and Manasi Vora (Skynet Labs) on DAOs a…

Kinjal Shah of Blockchain Capital and Manasi Vora of Skynet Labs join us…
2021-06-25

Weekly Roundup 06/25/21 (China's Hashrate Migration, holding BTC in your…

Matt and Nic are back for another rocky week in the markets. In this epi…
2021-06-21

Hunter Horsley (Bitwise) on the State of Crypto Asset Management (EP.224…

Hunter Horsley, the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management joins…
2021-06-18

Weekly Roundup 06/18/21 (Bukele's Bitcoin ambitions, the World Bank spur…

Nic and Matt return for deals and news of the week. In this episode:  W…
2021-06-14

Ask Me Anything 2.0 with Matt, Nic, and Ria (EP.222)

In our second OTB AMA, we field questions from Brink Nation. In this epi…
2021-06-11

Weekly Roundup 06/11/21 (Bitcoinización in LatAm, volcano mining, El Sal…

Nic and Matt are back and recovered from an insane Bitcoin 2021 conferen…
2021-06-07

Chris Blec (DeFi Watch) on the Pursuit of Transparency in DeFi (EP.220)

Chris Blec is a researcher and the founder of DeFi Watch, a project dedi…
2021-06-02

Jeff Kirt and Ted Rogers on the Story Behind the Greenidge Plant (EP.219…

Jeff Kirt and Ted Rogers, CEO and board director of Greenidge Generation…