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For a while there, Adidas Web3 lead Erika Wykes-Sneyd worried her push to get the 74-year-old brand working with Web3 partners might not work out. "Like signing a deal with the Bored Ape Yacht Club when Gargamel and Gordon were not doxxed individuals—that got me nervous," she told Stacy Elliott and Andrew Hayward. "Approving the first ever ETH purchase on a public company. Like DAX organizations are pretty risk averse. I was like, definitely could get fired for this." Spoiler: She wasn't fired. Now, the company's crafting narratives for its new ALTS collection.For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Stacy ElliottTwitter: @stacyannjAndrew HaywardTwitter: @ahaywaErika Wykes-SneydTwitter: @shadows_ethPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster

Avenged Sevenfold lead singer Matt Sanders, a.k.a. M. Shadows, is rehearsing for the band's upcoming tour and also figuring out how to upend what it means to be a fan. The band launched a Deathbats Club NFT collection in 2021. That is to say, they were early. The lead singer said it was timed to give fans a chance to get comfortable with Web3 technology ahead of the group's 2023 tour, when the NFT holders can use their Deathbats for early access to tickets. M. Shadows also talks to hosts Andrew Hayward and Stephen Graves about AI and Web3 gaming.For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Andrew HaywardTwitter: @ahaywaStephen GravesTwitter: @stephengravesM. ShadowsTwitter: @shadows_ethPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster

When Web3 bug bounty platform Immunefi launched two years ago, CEO and founder Mitchell Amador says the bug bounties weren't great and adoption was slow. But the tides started to turn because even if exploiting a smart contract nets a bigger payday than a bounty, it comes with a huge drawback. "There's a ton of risk when you engage in this, you know, wantonly criminal behavior and steal $200 million from someone else," he said. "There's no way someone's not going to come looking."For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Stacy ElliottTwitter: @stacyannjLiam KellyTwitter: @Liam_GallasMitchell AmadorTwitter: @MitchellAmadorPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster

There's no doubt that the SEC dealt Kraken—and the outlook for crypto staking products in the U.S.—a big blow when it announced a $30 million settlement and ordered the company to stop offering the service to its customers in the states in February. Now Marco Santori, the company's chief legal officer, says the exchange is eager to move on from it. That means reckoning with a really challenging regulatory environment and growing its customer base overseas. And as Santori quips: "Kraken's master account application has not yet been rejected."For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Dan RobertsTwitter: @readDanwriteStacy ElliottTwitter: @stacyannjMarco SantoriTwitter: @msantoriESQPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster

Arthur Hayes says the speed at which projects like Terra grow and then implode is a feature of the crypto industry, not a bug. He founded crypto exchange Bitmex in 2014 and then became the original crypto bad boy. In 2021 the DOJ charged him in with violating the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act for not implementing an anti-money laundering program at Bitmex. He plead guilty and was sentenced to two years probation and six months of home detention. In fact, he was still sporting an ankle bracelet on a recent cover of New York Magazine. Now he's living in Singapore, offering up his views on the crypto industry with long form, meme-filled essays, and still thinks the crypto industry will save investors from what he calls a broken banking system. "I don't care if you're capitalist or you're a communist. Everybody put on a lot of debt. We've passed the point where that debt is becoming useful," he said. "And therefore everyone is going to take an L unless they get some crypto or some gold—some hard asset that's outside of the traditional banking system."For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Dan RobertsTwitter: @readDanwriteStacy ElliottTwitter: @stacyannjArthur HayesTwitter: @CryptoHayesPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster

Anthony Scaramucci of hedge fund SkyBridge Capital got burned by Sam Bankman-Fried: he co-hosted SALT conferences with FTX and sold a 30% stake in SkyBridge to FTX Ventures. And yet, "The Mooch" tells Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott "I'm more bullish now than I have ever been" on crypto as an investment case. He discusses his frustration with SBF, how wrong he thinks politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Gary Gensler are about crypto and how to regulate it, what he sees happening next with adoption, and we even talk a little Trump. For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Dan RobertsTwitter: @readDanwriteStacy ElliottTwitter: @stacyannjAnthony ScaramucciTwitter: @ScaramucciPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster

In our latest gm AMA, recent guest Friederike Ernst, Co-founer and COO of Gnosis, hopped into our listener Telegram room and answered questions via voice memo. Friederike talked about the Gnosis merge with xDai, how to decentralize a DAO, whether prediction markets should be considered a public good, why Gnosis chose not to have a single figurehead, and much more. Make sure you go back and listen to her full gm episode from March 22 before enjoying this bonus AMA. And make sure you join our Telegram room, open to all listeners, at t.me/gmpodcast.Hosts and guests:Dan RobertsTwitter: @readDanwriteFriederike ErnstTwitter: @tw_tterPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster

Grab your picks and shovels for a Bitcoin mining deep dive. Even as Texas aims to pass a bill limiting rewards for Bitcoin miners, Toronto-based Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 is bullish on growth across the U.S. That's why Hut 8 recently announced a merger of equals with U.S. Bitcoin Corp. Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton joined Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott to talk expanding into the U.S., dealing with regulatory pushback post-FTX, why Texas is such a hotspot, and where she'd like to expand globally down the road (the climates may surprise you). For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Dan RobertsTwitter: @readDanwriteStacy ElliottTwitter: @stacyannjJaime LevertonTwitter: @JaimeLevertonPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster