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Protocol

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by Grep News | Ryan Moon

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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. Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/protocol

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Recent Episodes

July 3, 2026

TRUMP Memecoin Fee Structure Made $635M While Token Fell 98%

Trump's mandatory financial disclosure revealed $635 million from the TRUMP memecoin — even as the token lost roughly 98% of its value. Ryan Moon breaks down the fee structure that made a collapsing price irrelevant to operator revenue, and why the timing of the launch matters as much as the money.

June 8, 2026

ZEC crashed 50% but the team never proved coins weren't already minted

A four-year-old bug in Zcash's Orchard ZK-proof circuit let a prover substitute a free constant for the real elliptic curve base point, meaning a crafted proof could verify as valid while encoding a fraudulent scalar multiplication — and because the Orchard pool is shielded by design, there's no way to prove from the outside whether anyone used it. The emergency patch, completed via a two-stage hard fork in four days, fixes future exploitation but can't retroactively audit what's already inside the pool, which is exactly why the proposed Ironwood upgrade matters: by deprecating old Orchard as a payment destination and routing all transactions through a fresh pool, it forces any hypothetical counterfeit ZEC through the turnstile's public accounting before it can be spent — an economic chokepoint, not a new cryptographic proof. That's the Zcash story right now: not just a bug patched, but whether a supply-audit-by-forced-migration can do what cryptography alone structurally cannot.

June 5, 2026

Bitcoin price drops to $60,000 & DATs shed $62B

Bitcoin fell below $60,000 this week for the first time since October, and the $62 billion erasure in Digital Asset Treasury market caps isn't just a number — it's the flywheel breaking in reverse. DATs were built on a self-reinforcing loop: issue equity at a premium to NAV, buy Bitcoin, watch NAV rise, repeat. When Strategy made its first Bitcoin sale since 2022, it didn't just add sell pressure — it destroyed the market's assumption that DATs were permanent buyers, collapsing the premium that made the whole machine work, and leaving smaller DATs holding debt they now have to service by selling the asset that's already falling.

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What is Protocol?: 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.

Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/protocol
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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