Episodes

Most crypto investors are still positioned outside the structure where real value is captured.While retail investors chase tokens and narratives, the real shift in the digital economy is happening in the financial infrastructure layers — exchanges, settlement networks, derivatives markets, and …

Crypto feels somewhat alive again. But we’re still in a gray zone — before the Clarity Act, before formal definitions, before the market fully reclassifies what Bitcoin and digital assets represent. A reader asked if this is ...

February 2026 marked a subtle but important shift in the crypto market. While headlines focused on short-term price moves, institutional capital and long-term investors were repositioning toward infrastructure, tokenization, and digital asset alignment. This wasn’t a hype cycle — it was a structura…

Will Base ever launch a token — or is Coinbase building something much bigger than a typical crypto ecosystem?In this episode of The Chip Mahoney Show, we break down one of the biggest questions in crypto today: whether Base will create a native token and what Coinbase’s long-term strategy sign…

What is the open system view of Bitcoin and crypto?The open system view explains why Bitcoin and crypto are increasingly being seen not just as speculative assets, but as part of a new global financial infrastructure. Unlike traditional closed systems controlled by institutions, open crypto net…

The shift to digital assets isn’t happening through headlines — it’s happening beneath the surface. In this episode, Chip Mahoney explains what’s changed across Bitcoin, XRP, stablecoins, and on-chain infrastructure following...

This episode expands on my latest Front Run The Week newsletter, where I explored a quiet but important idea: what actually matters when nothing looks urgent. I start with a small media moment — a TradFi discussion where Sola...

Bitcoin hasn’t been loud lately — and that’s exactly why this moment matters. In this episode of The Chip Mahoney Show , I explain why Bitcoin is no longer behaving like a speculative asset, but increasingly like capital — an...

Everyone keeps scrolling the same lists — prices, charts, headlines. There’s another list that matters far more. And it has nothing to do with hype. In this episode, I explain why alignment — not excitement — determines who e...

Markets are growing up. For years, value was assigned first — and proof was hoped for later. Stories, narratives, and projected upside drove prices while execution lagged behind. That era is ending. In this episode, I break d...

Altseason was supposed to be inevitable. Instead, it turned into an altered version of the Banana Zone — where traders slipped on hype and narratives replaced fundamentals. In this episode, I revisit my latest newsletter to e...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free — or upgrade for member rewards — at https://tokentrust.substack.com Crypto didn’t invent tokens. Nepotism did. Long before blockch...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free — or upgrade for member rewards — at https://tokentrust.substack.com Owning an asset used to be enough. You bought it, held it, and...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free — or upgrade for member rewards — at https://tokentrust.substack.com Texas just built a state Bitcoin reserve. Bank of America is g...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free — or upgrade for member rewards — at https://tokentrust.substack.com A tiny biotech nobody was watching just raised $540 million — ...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free — or upgrade for member rewards — at https://tokentrust.substack.com Bitcoin has pulled back hard from its $125K high, and fear is ...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free — or upgrade for member rewards — at https://tokentrust.substack.com Bitcoin didn’t fall 25% because of politics — it fell because ...

This week on The Chip Mahoney Show , we’re not talking about TVs or toasters — we’re talking about ETFs . With the U.S. government set to reopen and markets gearing up for a Q4 liquidity wave, a new kind of Black Friday is he...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free — or upgrade for member rewards — at https://tokentrust.substack.com Citadel’s $500M bet on Ripple just confirmed what I’ve been sa...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free — or upgrade for member rewards — at https://tokentrust.substack.com Every 18 months, crypto crowns a new narrative — DeFi, GameFi,...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free at tokentrust.substack.com — or tap here: tokentrust.substack.com Now that the NBA gambling scandal has come to light, I’m thinking...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free at tokentrust.substack.com — or tap here: tokentrust.substack.com Kadena is gone — another “revolutionary” chain built by ex-JPMorg...

Front Run The Week — Free Signals Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free at tokentrust.substack.com — or tap here: tokentrust.substack.com In this episode, I dissect the implosion of the Digital Asset Tre...

When tariffs return, power redistributes. From medieval tolls to modern trade wars, control has always taxed movement — and crypto was built to break that pattern. In this episode, I talk with Aly Madhavji, Managing Partner a...