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This is the third edition of Unchained’s regulatory newsletter Unregulated, your go-to source for the latest insights, breaking scoops, and in-depth analysis on all things crypto regulation—one of the most critical topics in the industry today. Note: If you prefer to keep receiving only our daily newsletter and to opt out of the regulatory updates, simply head to your Substack settings and uncheck the regulatory newsletter box. Hey! I’m Veronica Irwin, Unchained’s regulatory reporter.

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Laura Brookover: If our lawsuit is successful, my expectation is that a lot of this regulatory uncertainty that's really been detrimental, I think, to crypto companies in the US would be cleared. And I think there would be potentially more activity, more businesses opening in the US, more development, more experimentation.

In this episode of Unchained Premium, Laura spoke with Bidhan Roy, founder and CEO of Bagel. Bidhan discusses his company's protocol that allows humans and autonomous AI agents to build, trade, and license machine learning datasets. Bagel is a two-sided marketplace where data providers can supply data and data consumers can use it in a privacy-safe manner. The protocol can handle any machine learning-compatible data, including images, videos, and audio.

In this episode of Unchained Premium, Laura spoke with Brian Retford, CEO and co-founder of Risc Zero, a company aiming to create infrastructure and tooling for Web3 developers to build zero-knowledge software. The discussion delves into the intricacies of Zero Knowledge (ZK) proofs and their applications in the blockchain space, highlighting Risc Zero's approach and the potential implications for Bitcoin's development.

In this episode of Unchained Premium, Laura spoke with John Paller, the founder and executive steward of ETH Denver and Opolis. ETH Denver is one of crypto’s biggest conferences and is set to happen on Feb. 29 - March 3. Unchained is a media partner of ETH Denver and will cover the conference. Stay tuned! The origins and evolution of ETH Denver as a major event in crypto. How John aims to have the most amount of talent possible in the conference.

In this episode of Unchained Premium, Laura spoke with Willem Schroe of Botanix Labs, to discuss the company's innovative Layer 2 built on Bitcoin and its implications for the ecosystem. Willem’s explanation of Botanix, a second-layer Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) built on Bitcoin, aimed at enabling smart contract capabilities on the Bitcoin network.

In this episode of Unchained Premium, Laura spoke with Murat Karademir, and Orkun Mahir Kılıç, cofounders of Chainway Labs. Orkun and Murat are developing a zero-knowledge rollup on Bitcoin, Citrea, which just launched yesterday. They aim to make Bitcoin the foundation for global finance, believing it to be the most decentralized, secure, and censorship-resistant blockchain. The rollup could allow developers to build applications on top of Bitcoin, offering privacy and efficiency.

In this episode of Unchained Premium, Laura Shin spoke with Rebecca Liao and Jin Kwon, cofounders of Saga, a protocol that’s gaining ground among Web3 gaming projects and is set to launch its mainnet in March.

In this episode of Unchained Premium, Unchained editor Jeanhee Kim spoke with Colin Myers and Oisín Kyne from Obol Labs to dive into the world of Ethereum staking and distributed validator technology (DVT), an innovative primitive that has the potential to reshape Ethereum and PoS blockchains.