{"id":86936,"date":"2026-02-27T14:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/welcome-to-the-post-hype-crypto-market-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:45:20","slug":"welcome-to-the-post-hype-crypto-market-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/welcome-to-the-post-hype-crypto-market-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the post-hype crypto market | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETH Denver last week, the buzz was as much about <!--more--> Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as Tether and stablecoins face scrutiny, players like Stripe re-enter the conversation, and startups either find traction or flame out. The hype cycle is over, or at least taking a break. So what comes next? <\/p>\n<p>On this episode of TechCrunch&#8217;s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Jacquelyn Melinek, CEO of Token_Relations and host of the Talking Tokens and Crypto in America podcasts, to make sense of how the market has changed and what in the world of crypto is built to last. <\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:12 ETHDenver recap<br \/>\n03:25 Patrick Witt on the GENIUS stablecoin law<br \/>\n05:14 Not everything is a security anymore<br \/>\n06:40 Robinhood launches its own chain<br \/>\n09:10 Stripe&#8217;s vertical integration play<br \/>\n10:38 Simplifying crypto&#8217;s user experience<br \/>\n12:20 Stablecoins: Safe haven or payment rails?<br \/>\n17:03 Stablecoin infrastructure startups<br \/>\n18:59 Tether&#8217;s risky portfolio shift<br \/>\n27:02 Where funding is still flowing<br \/>\n28:31 Bitcoin&#8217;s price crash a sign of consumer winter or enterprise spring?<br \/>\n30:33 What happens if MicroStrategy liquidates?<br \/>\n31:08 Outro<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETH Denver last week, the buzz was as much about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}