Justin Sun has had enough with Trump-connected World Liberty Financial, and Blackrock has filed for a fund that pays income from IBIT options.

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Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Zack Pokorny from Galaxy Digital joins us to talk about AI crypto trading agents – specifically, why they aren’t ready for the big time just yet. We also dive into the evolving beef between World Liberty Financial and Tron’s Justin Sun following WLFI’s $75 million loan from a Dolomite lending pool. Plus, we cover Blackrock’s new bitcoin income ETF, discuss Circle’s refusal to freeze $270 million from the Lazarus Group Drift hack, and analyze last week’s $1.1 billion ETF inflow, the largest for crypto since January.

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Notes:

• WLFI treasury borrows $75M on Dolomite.

• Blackrock files for Bitcoin Income ETF.

• Trump family scrubbed from WLFI team member page.

• ETF inflows clock largest volume since January.

• Circle refuses to freeze Drift hack funds.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

04:03 WLFI... umm WFT?

19:11 BITA covered call income

27:19 AI Agent & blockchains: a reality check

42:05 Circle & teken freezing

55:13 Coinshares high inflows

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