Crypto audiences seek more elaborate podcasts to explain complex topics, which are hard to describe in brief market updates. Long-form podcasts in Bitcoin, decentralized finance, trading, regulation, and macroeconomic policies on digital assets are popular enough to develop communities among their listeners.
Taking this into account, Top 10 Crypto Podcasts of 2026 brings attention to podcasts that are popular enough and are regularly active. According to the rating, The Pomp Podcast comes first, followed by What Bitcoin Did, Bankless, and Unchained.
Rating does not take into account marketing statements but looks at publicly available data such as YouTube subscribers, podcast ratings and reviews, number of listeners, and publishing frequency.
However, comparing podcasts by the audiences is rather a difficult process due to the fact that there is no single database for the counting of how many downloads come from various podcast providers (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube).
Top 10 Crypto Podcasts by Audience and Focus
The Pomp Podcast comes top among all other podcasts due to its vast coverage and publication rate, along with a vast number of episodes produced.
Source: Pomp Podcast
The wide audience of Anthony Pompliano is also a factor that affects the ranking. According to SocialCounts, he had roughly 648,500 subscribers on YouTube in September 2026, while ProCap Financial stated that his total audience on all the platforms exceeds 2.5 million. The show is about Bitcoin, market and macroeconomics, technology, and business in general.
What Bitcoin Did is ranked second and specializes in particular topics. Feedspot estimated roughly 313,000 YouTube subscribers in 2026, and Apple Podcasts provided the show with the rating 4.7 based on 277 U.S. ratings.
Source: What Bitcoin Did
The program publishes twice weekly and covers subjects including inflation, global debt, quantum computing, and monetary policy.
The Bankless channel is in 3rd place because of the major impact it has had on the Ethereum and DeFi areas. According to a YouTube analysis in August 2026, the number of subscribers is approximately 280,000, and the total number of video views is 32 million. The videos include such subjects as Ethereum, DeFi, stablecoins, tokenization, Bitcoin, regulations, and market structure, to name a few.
The Unchained podcast is fourth, with a podcast show and successful crypto journalism business. Laura Shin’s podcast was launched in 2016 and is estimated to have over 20 million podcast downloads/views. The show airs twice a week and provides content on regulation, infrastructure, and markets to DeFi and blockchain technology.
The Coin Bureau Podcast occupies fifth place. YouTube analytics, independent from any other source, indicated that there were 211,000 subscribers and over 45 million total video views in August 2026.
Source: CoinBureau
Moreover, it covers issues related to crypto education, analysis of the market, and regulation, as well as specific blockchain ecosystems.
| Rank | Podcast | Key audience or editorial focus |
| 1 | The Pomp Podcast | Bitcoin, markets, macroeconomics and business |
| 2 | What Bitcoin Did | Bitcoin, economics, finance and policy |
| 3 | Bankless | Ethereum and DeFi |
| 4 | Unchained | Crypto journalism, regulation and markets |
| 5 | Coin Bureau Podcast | Crypto education and market analysis |
| 6 | The Wolf of All Streets | Trading, markets and interviews |
| 7 | The Defiant | DeFi and Ethereum applications |
| 8 | Empire | Crypto industry and institutional topics |
| 9 | Coin Stories | Bitcoin and monetary policy |
| 10 | CRYPTO 101 | Beginner-focused crypto education |
Trading, DeFi, and institutional coverage
The Wolf of All Streets ranks sixth, with Social Blade reporting approximately 194,000 YouTube subscribers and more than 30 million views in early September 2026. Hosted by Scott Melker, the program focuses on trading, markets, and crypto interviews, while also connecting digital assets with broader financial markets.
Defiant comes seventh and continues to concentrate on decentralized finance, Ethereum, and decentralized apps. According to the podcast channel, the subscriber number for the YouTube channel stood at 130,000 and 7.9 million views in June 2026. Due to its specialized nature, the audience is quite distinctive in relation to the entire podcasting industry.
Empire, produced by Blockworks, ranks eighth. It has about 20,100 subscribers on its YouTube channel independently tracked, even though its viewership extends to podcasts and beyond to Blockworks’ other media network as well.
Bitcoin and beginner podcasts round off the list.
Coin Stories is the ninth most popular podcast on the list and revolves around Bitcoin, money, monetary policy, inflation, and financial history. This podcast has been featured in 2026 lists of popular crypto podcasts and takes a more focused editorial approach than other popular podcasts like The Pomp Podcast and Coin Bureau.
CRYTPO 101 is the 10th most popular crypto podcast. It is stated on its website to be a popular podcast and community, with ongoing episodes being published even in September 2026.
Recent issues considered included agency financing, the use of blockchain technology by banks, and trading trends related to artificial intelligence.
Key notes in the article
- The Pomp Podcast leads the ranking because of broad audience coverage, frequency of publications, and a large archive of podcasts.
- What Bitcoin Did and Coin Stories have specialized audiences regarding Bitcoin, whereas Bankless concentrates on Ethereum and DeFi.
- Listener numbers are different from one platform to another, hence subscribers and podcast ratings cannot be compared directly.
Conclusion
The Top 10 Crypto Podcasts in 2026 represent different segments of the digital asset audience. Various topics attract different types of people who have different experience levels. In order to estimate their success, we need to use a number of publicly available factors.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What is a Bitcoin podcast?
What Bitcoin Did is one of the top Bitcoin podcasts that includes interviews with Bitcoin developers and other important figures in the field. Coin Stories podcast is another crypto podcast which is related to Bitcoin and focuses on monetary policy.
How is the audience of crypto podcasts counted?
The audience is estimated in various ways, such as by YouTube subscribers, ratings, reviews, listener estimates, and publications. There is no publicly available database with exact figures of podcast downloads.
