Protocol
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Protocol

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Protocol is a weekly crypto news podcast for people who already know the space.

Each episode picks one story and explains how it actually worked. Not what happened. How. The technical, legal, or financial mechanism that the normal coverage usually skips. It could be a freeze, a hack, a fraud, a regulatory move, a market structural shift, or a protocol on the move.

Hosted by Ryan Moon, an AI host with no portfolio, no projects to shill, and no interest in pretending the obvious frauds aren't obvious. Sharp, fast, occasionally funny. New episodes weekly.

Protocol is for information and entertainment only. Nothing on this show is investment advice. Don't trust. Verify. Always do your own research.

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Winklevoss bought $100M of his own stock at 14 dollars. It's trading at 6.
15 May 2026

Winklevoss bought $100M of his own stock at 14 dollars. It's trading at 6.

The Winklevoss twins just invested $100 million in their own public company at $14 a share when the stock was trading at $4.92, paid entirely in bitcoin instead of cash, then quietly rewrote the rules to make it easier to sell those shares back later. Gemini lost $109 million last quarter while spending $144 million to make $50 million in revenue, but the stock still jumped 15% after hours...
Justin Sun Sues After Four Billion Tokens Frozen
23 April 2026

Justin Sun Sues After Four Billion Tokens Frozen

Justin Sun invested forty-five million dollars in Trump's crypto company World Liberty Financial, and they just froze all four billion of his tokens—worth potentially up to a billion dollars—after he wouldn't dump another two hundred million into their failing stablecoin. The company literally marketed itself saying "no one's ever going to tell you that your account is shut down" and then...
North Korea Lazarus Group Drained 292M From DeFi
20 April 2026

North Korea Lazarus Group Drained 292M From DeFi

North Korea's Lazarus Group just walked away with 292 million dollars in crypto by poisoning the infrastructure behind a bridge so badly configured it had one single security verifier—despite repeated warnings to add more. They didn't hack the code, they cut the phone lines and forced the system to use compromised backup nodes, then minted tokens out of thin air and used them as collateral across...
NYT AI Claims Adam Back Could Be Satoshi
09 April 2026

NYT AI Claims Adam Back Could Be Satoshi

A New York Times reporter just spent eighteen months using AI to analyze thousands of emails and claims Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Adam Back—a British cryptographer sitting on potentially seventy-eight billion dollars who keeps saying "not me" while sharing sixty-seven of Satoshi's exact hyphenation mistakes and being the only person cited in the original Bitcoin white paper. The...
Regulators Admit Their Rules Sent Crypto Abroad
18 March 2026

Regulators Admit Their Rules Sent Crypto Abroad

The SEC and CFTC just admitted they screwed up so badly on crypto regulation that innovation literally fled the country, and now they're trying to fix it with joint roundtables and a principle called technology neutrality—basically, a security on blockchain is still just a security, not some radioactive mystery asset. They're targeting the exact friction points that made U.S. markets...
Justin Sun Pays 10M And Walks Free
06 March 2026

Justin Sun Pays 10M And Walks Free

Justin Sun just settled an SEC fraud case accusing him of thirty-one million in illegal proceeds from over six hundred thousand wash trades by having his company pay ten million and getting all personal charges dropped—no admission of wrongdoing, case dismissed forever. Here's the timeline that should make you uncomfortable: he invested seventy-five million in Trump's family crypto venture...
Tether Froze Four Point Two Billion Overnight
27 February 2026

Tether Froze Four Point Two Billion Overnight

Tether just announced they've frozen four point two billion dollars in criminal funds—with three point five billion of that happening in just the last three years, right as regulators started circling. The timing is absolutely wild because this massive PR push comes right after they helped seize 61 million tied to pig butchering scams in North Carolina, launched their first US-regulated...
Saudi Invests 3 Billion As Europe Probes Musk
18 February 2026

Saudi Invests 3 Billion As Europe Probes Musk

Saudi Arabia just dropped three billion dollars into Elon Musk's xAI literally the same day Spain ordered criminal investigations into X over AI-generated content—including an estimated 23,000 images that appeared to show minors. The timing is absolutely unhinged: this investment landed right as xAI got absorbed into SpaceX, diluting Saudi Arabia's stake to 0.24 percent of a 1.25 trillion dollar...
Insider Bet 30K Before Classified Raid Cashed 436K
06 January 2026

Insider Bet 30K Before Classified Raid Cashed 436K

Someone with a brand new Polymarket account bet over thirty grand that Maduro would be out of office by January when the odds were at five percent—and they placed that bet within twenty-four hours of U.S. special forces actually raiding his palace in Caracas. They walked away with four hundred thirty-six thousand dollars on an operation so classified that top members of Congress weren't even...
40 Billion Vanished And Kwon Gets 15 Years
01 January 2026

40 Billion Vanished And Kwon Gets 15 Years

Do Kwon just got fifteen years for vaporizing forty billion dollars through his TerraUSD stablecoin scam that he propped up with secret cash injections while telling investors the algorithm fixed itself. A million people lost everything—retirement savings, college funds, decades of work—while prosecutors literally said determining restitution would be too complicated, so victims aren't getting...