Frank Chaparro
Head of Content and Special Projects at GSR
Frank Chaparro is the Head of Content and Special Projects at GSR and was previously the Exclusives Host and Director of Special Projects at The Block. Formerly: finance reporter in BusinessInsider, politics at WFUV Radio, comms at Nasdaq. Chaparro started his career at Business Insider, where he specialized in the intersection of digital assets and Wall Street, market structure, and financial technology. He has received numerous accolades for his work and maintained the position as one of the most well-read fintech reporter through his time there, breaking stories on firms such as Fidelity, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Nasdaq.
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I was heavily involved in the Zcash community discussions about donating the block fee a few years ago as well as involved in discussions that @owocki and @ameensol were having even further back about a block reward redirection to public goods funding. My view is that a block reward funding mechani
Big news: GSR is joining a group of market makers, venture funds, exchanges, and other crypto firms to launch @Blockworks' Transparency Alliance. The Alliance is built around the Token Transparency Framework, the open-source disclosure standard Blockworks launched last year for digital assets. One
Machine learning needs 3 core resources. Gensyn’s @benfielding broke down each of them with me on GSR’s podcast, The Crypto Tape — and why decentralized infrastructure could reshape how AI gets built. Listen here:
Blockworks Launches Transparency Alliance with Major Crypto Firms for Token Disclosure Standards
Big problem with current tokenized asset vaults? Run risk. Chronicle's Nik Kunkel (@nomos_paradox) broke down how protocols can reduce that risk on GSR’s podcast, The Crypto Tape.
Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala is seeking to raise ~$1.91B through a block sale of 22M GlobalFoundries $GFS shares, per Bloomberg. The block is being marketed at $86.30 to $86.80 per share, up to a 4.1% discount to Tuesday’s close. Mubadala still held ~423M shares as of March 31, repr
My counterpoint is that we have been in an NFT bear market for going on three years now. During this time there have been a significant amount of fun creative projects launched with niche communities formed around the artists and collections. Alongside this we have seen innovative use of the block
BlackRock IBIT Sees Massive $1.29B Dark Pool Trade A huge $1.29 billion dark pool trade tied to BlackRock’s IBIT Bitcoin $BTC ETF crossed Nasdaq on Tuesday. The block transaction involved nearly 29 million shares and briefly exceeded the fund’s typical daily trading volume. Galaxy Research’s Alex
Machine learning needs 3 core resources. Gensyn’s @benfielding broke down each of them with me on GSR’s podcast, The Crypto Tape — and why decentralized infrastructure could reshape how AI gets built. Listen here:
Ethereum’s dominance is slipping. ETH is down ~30% YTD, the ETH/BTC ratio just hit its lowest level since mid-2025, and blockchain revenue is steadily shifting toward Solana, Tron, and Hyperliquid. The competitive landscape is changing fast. via GSR Research