Episode 15
John D'Agostino from Coinbase reveals why cryptocurrency and Bitcoin are reshaping institutional adoption, hedge funds, and bitcoin trade strategy. Is crypto risky? Here's the truth. John shares his personal journey from a catastrophic hedge fund failure to becoming a senior leader at Coinbase, one of the most trusted names in digital assets. He explains why Bitcoin is a proven long-term inflation hedge, how stablecoins are growing at a pace rivaling the smartphone, and why blockchain is the next evolution of financial infrastructure. Whether you're exploring your first bitcoin trade or managing institutional portfolios, this episode will change how you think about money, risk, and the future of finance. Produced by GLORION MEDIA.
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About The Money Signal: From Main Street to Wall Street
Hosted by consumer intelligence expert Tsvetta Kaleynska and veteran NYSE trader Peter Tuchman, The Money Signal explores how consumer sentiment, market psychology, and real-time cultural trends shape business and investing. Each episode connects Main Street behavior with Wall Street insight through conversations with leading founders, investors, and global thinkers.
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John Dagostino
John D'Agostino is Head of Strategy for Coinbase Institutional. He is the Former Head of Strategy of the New York Mercantile Exchange. John is the subject of two NY Times bestselling books, and lectures in Fintech at Oxford, MIT and Columbia Universities. John is Chair of the UK Consulate Financial Services Working Group, an AIF Global Financial Innovation Institute Fellow, Research Affiliate at MIT CSAIL, and the co-founder of the AIMA Digital Asset Working Group.
We show you what people are really doing with their money and how those shifts hit the markets. No noise, no jargon, just the insights Tsvetta and Einstein track every day on Main Street and Wall Street.

Inside the Business of NCAA Basketball: How Sponsors Actually Make Money
One of Jennifer Raulli's NCAA partner brands skipped the star athlete and signed a team manager to an NIL deal instead, and it became one of their most talked about wins of the year. Why did a school employee end up outperforming a marquee athlete deal? In this episode of The Money Signal: From Main Street to Wall Street, Jennifer Raulli, Senior Director of NCAA Partnerships at Warner Bros. Discovery, explains what NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) actually means for brands working with student athletes, why that team manager campaign generated a bigger return than most player deals, and how NCAA sponsors quietly plan their marketing around a full academic year rather than just March Madness. Raulli also breaks down the difference between measurable media ROI and the harder to quantify halo effect that brands get from associating with the NCAA tournament, why sponsors increasingly care more about conversion than plain brand awareness, and how AI is already changing sports content production inside Warner Bros. Discovery's Atlanta studios. Produced by GLORION MEDIA