Laura Shin
Laura Shin is a crypto journalist, the founder and host of the Unchained podcast, and the author of "The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze" (PublicAffairs, 2022), a definitive account of Ethereum's early years. A former senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full time, and while researching her book she and her sources uncovered who they believe was behind the 2016 DAO attack on Ethereum. Launched in 2016, Unchained is one of the longest-running and most popular crypto podcasts, and her shows and videos have drawn tens of millions of downloads and views. A graduate of Stanford and Columbia's journalism school, she is now working on a book about the collapse of FTX.
427 talks by Laura Shin
- Can Hyperliquid Come Onshore Without Killing What Makes It Special?
- Why Arthur Hayes Thinks the AI Bubble Bursting Could Spark a Crypto Bull Market
- Now With a Stablecoin Yield Compromise in Hand, Could Ethics Hold Up the Clarity Act?
- Why Banks Failed to Kill Stablecoin Rewards in the Clarity Act
- Is a Fair DeFi Yield 12.5%? If So, Then Why Has the Market Settled on 3-8%
- How Morpho Survived a $300M DeFi Hack With Only $1M Exposure
- Why Onchain Options Are a Perfect Fit for AI Agents
- Why Did Circle Just Let North Korea Steal $232 Million in Crypto?
- Quantum Computers Could Steal Bitcoin in 9 Minutes
- Is Bitcoin Underperforming Because a Hedge Fund Blew Up? Here's the Theory
- Why Venezuela Likely Doesn't Have a $60 Billion Bitcoin Stash
- Coinbase Goes All In, JPMorgan Brings Funds Onchain: Weekly Recap
- Weekly Recap: Do Kwon Sentenced, Stablecoins Go Mainstream
- Why Bitcoin Is Having Its 'Facebook Moment' & What 2026 Holds for Prices
- How the x402 Standard Is Enabling AI Agents to Pay Each Other
- Weekly Recap: Uniswap Moves Toward Fee Switch, Coinbase Revives Token Sales
- Why the Privacy Coins Mania Is Much More Than Price Action
- Weekly Recap: Bitcoin Outlooks Diverge, Balancer Breach Rocks DeFi
- Bitcoin Crashed Below $100K, But Smart Money Is Buying the Dip
- Stablecoins Gain Momentum as Banks and Fintechs Deepen Crypto Ties: Weekly Recap
- Why All Financial Institutions Are 'All Systems Go' on Stablecoins
- How DATs Use Locked Tokens for Early Liquidity and Higher Valuations
- How Private Equity Is Coming to Crypto's Most Profitable Companies
- ‘Code Is Law:’ The Stories Behind Crypto’s Biggest Hacks