
Episode #1091 | April 14, 2026
How Onchain Options Could Replace the Basis Trade as Crypto’s Yield Strategy
The basis trade paid 15–30% near risk-free for years. Options couldn’t compete. Then 10/10 happened.
Launched in 2016, Unchained is one of the longest-running and most popular crypto podcasts. Tune in twice a week to hear host Laura Shin, author of “The Cryptopians,” conduct interviews or discussions with the most interesting thinkers and doers in the space.
Laura Shin is a crypto journalist, host of the Unchained podcast, and author of “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (PublicAffairs, 2022). During the course of writing her book, she and her sources uncovered who they believe was behind the biggest whodunnit in crypto — the 2016 DAO attack on Ethereum.
Formerly a senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full-time, and her podcasts and videos have had 20 million downloads and views. Shin has spoken about cryptocurrency at places such as TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, Singularity University and the Oslo Freedom Forum.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Stanford University and has a master of arts from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. She lives in New York City.
Read more about her at laurashin.com and follow her on Twitter at @laurashin and on Facebook.
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