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The Starting Block

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The Starting Block is The Block's new flagship daily live show — the breaking news, the context behind it, and the people shaping where crypto goes next. Each episode is a 45-minute live broadcast hosted by award-winning journalist and broadcaster Gareth Jenkinson and powered by The Block's newsroom and research desk.

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Breaking Down AI’s Threat to Cryptography /w Kostas Chalkias

Season 1 · Episode 35

Friday, August 21, 2026 • Duration 51:50

Episode 35 of The Starting Block, hosted by The Block's Gareth Jenkinson, was broadcasted live with Mysten Labs Co-Founder Kostas Chalkias.

Mysten Labs Co-Founder Kostas Chalkias joins Gareth Jenkinson on The Starting Block to discuss AI as a growing threat to cryptographic security, the case for continuous automated auditing of blockchain code, and how Walrus Memory enables decentralized AI data portability across LLMs.

OUTLINE
00:11 - Show Open & Markets
02:43 - The Block Briefing
08:00 - Hot Seat: AI vs. Cryptography
12:54 - Cold Card & Continuous Auditing
17:24 - Hardware Wallets & Multi-Sig
24:37 - Sam Blackshear & Anthropic
29:29 - Walrus Memory & LLM Portability
37:57 - Decentralized AI: Can It Scale?

Guest links:
Kostas Chalkias - https://x.com/kostascrypto
Mysten Labs - https://x.com/Mysten_Labs

Host links:
Gareth Jenkinson - https://x.com/gazza_jenks
The Block - https://x.com/TheBlockCo
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