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This Week in Startups

$625M Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge hack, $TWLO insider trading, Subject's learning platform, $HOOD extends trading hours | E1421

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

First we explain the $625M hack of Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge (1:34), then we discuss the engineers at Twilio who allegedly insider traded (17:30). Next we discuss Robinhood extending its trading window by four hours a day (29:50) and wrap with our startup of the day is Subject, a company providing high school courses for credit online (37:39).


00:00 Molly tees up today's topics
01:34 Axie Infinity’s Ronin blockchain was hacked for over $600M
13:31 Wealthfront - Get your first $5,000 managed for free, for life at https://wealthfront.com/TWIST15:00 Regulation and Axie Infinity hacks
17:30 SEC has charged three Twilio employees for insider trading
28:39 iTrust Capital - Visit https://itrust.capital/twist to create your Crypto IRA today
29:50 Robinhood extends trading window by 4 hours
36:22 Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at https://Squarespace.com/TWIST
37:39 Startup of the Day: Subject.com (accredited learning platform)
48:22 Final thoughts on the 2022 Oscars moment

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. It's a news Tuesday. We're going to start this show with details of the $600

0:06.2

million hack out that impacted Axi Infinity's Ronin Bridge. I think we can all agree.

0:12.8

Web 3 is going just great.

0:15.5

Then we discussed the genius engineers at Twilio who allegedly thought insider trading

0:19.4

was a great use of their time in a group chat. And we talk about Robinhood extending its

0:24.0

trading window by four hours a day on the path to 24-7 trading. We also have a startup

0:28.7

of the day, subject.com, a company providing high school courses or credit online in between

0:34.5

the Robinhood and the subject.com stories. We're going to just end up at education. It's

0:39.6

a great show. It's quite a journey. Stick with us.

0:43.2

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0:48.8

your savings with a diversified portfolio that balances your other riskier beds. To start

0:55.1

building your wealth and get your first $5,000 managed for free, go to Wealthfront.com-twist.

1:02.9

ITrust Capital. Did you know that you can invest in crypto through your retirement account

1:08.1

and still get the same tax advantages as a traditional IRA? Visit ITrust.Capital-twist

1:15.5

to start investing today and Squarespace. Turn your idea into a new website. Go to

1:23.3

Squarespace.com-twist for a free trial. When you're ready to launch, use Offercode

1:29.4

Twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.

1:34.0

Hey everybody, welcome to Tuesdays. This week in startup, it's been a crazy week. Yesterday

1:39.0

we had to cover the insanity at the Oscars today. We're going to do part two. It's just

1:43.5

going to take 35 minutes today, not 40. Maybe 40. Maybe 40 minutes. We're not at the

1:47.6

end. We're going to do a little stinger. I have just a little stinger opinion to just

1:52.7

put a bow on the mean time to moving on with these memes. At the end of the show, I'm

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