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Empire · April 22, 2026 · 45m

The Blockworks Vision

Jason Yanowitz, Mike Ippolito
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Jason Yanowitz and Mike Ippolito (Blockworks founders) discuss the company's rebrand and evolution. The conversation covers crypto's persistent trust problem, how onchain capital markets could solve it, the role of disclosure frameworks in legitimizing the industry, and Blockworks' shift from media to infrastructure as institutional adoption accelerates.

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Curious

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Disclosure Frameworks as Prerequisite for Institutional Adoption12:02
Standardized disclosure requirements for onchain assets are essential before institutions can meaningfully participate in crypto capital markets.
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Novel

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Onchain Capital Markets as Solution to Traditional Finance Opacity09:12
Blockworks proposes that fully onchain capital markets with transparent settlement could solve problems of opacity and counterparty risk that plague traditional finance.
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Editorial

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Trust Problem Is Structural, Not Just Reputational07:08
Crypto's trust crisis stems from systemic opacity—lack of disclosure frameworks and regulatory clarity—rather than simply bad actors or hype.
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Industry Consolidation as Inevitable in Crypto Infrastructure17:11
As crypto matures, infrastructure providers (like Blockworks) will consolidate, similar to how traditional finance infrastructure consolidated over decades.
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Tokens as Tools, Not Speculative Assets25:00
The episode discusses shifting how crypto industry talks about tokens—moving from speculative hype to functional utility and data representation.
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Misc

✧Blockworks moving from pure media/journalism into infrastructure—signal of crypto maturing beyond hype cycle
✧Trust problem in crypto framed as structural, not just reputation—suggests need for systemic solutions
✧Onchain capital markets as answer to traditional finance's opacity problems
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