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December 11, 2025

Solana's Onchain Nasdaq Thesis | Carlos Gonzalez Campo

Lightspeed

DeFi
Key Takeaways:
  1. Application-layer investments on Solana are becoming increasingly attractive due to their growing value capture relative to the network layer.
  2. Solana's push to be the hub for onchain price discovery could drive substantial volume and revenue, but requires strategic focus and innovation.
  3. Teams like Jupiter and Pump need to improve communication and refine strategies to maintain market share and address community concerns.
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December 11, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 149 - Yanez MIID: Bittensor Subnet 54

Hash Rate Podcast

Infrastructure
Key Takeaways:
  1. Yanez MIID is pioneering a novel approach to fraud prevention by harnessing Bittensor’s decentralized network to generate adversarial data at scale. It offers a unique advantage over traditional security measures.
  2. The company is actively refining its business model to better align with Bittensor's TFlow mechanism, ensuring sustainability and growth within the ecosystem.
  3. Enterprises should consider adversarial data testing as a critical component of their security infrastructure.
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December 10, 2025

Nav Kumar: Trishool, AI Alignment, Subnet 23, Mechanistic Interpretability, Rogue LLMs | Ep. 75

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Prioritize AI Safety Research:** Invest aggressively in understanding and mitigating AI risks to safeguard humanity against potential rogue LLMs.
  2. **Support Decentralized AI Alignment:** Champion decentralized platforms like Bit Tensor and initiatives like Trishool that promote open and transparent AI alignment research.
  3. **Embrace Mechanistic Interpretability:** Drive the development of tools that enable us to understand and control the internal workings of AI models, ensuring alignment with human values.
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December 10, 2025

Everyone Needs an Assistant. Here’s Why.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Delegation as a Foundational Skill: Whether you leverage AI or human support, mastering delegation is paramount for unlocking personal and professional potential.
  2. Prioritize Time Ownership: Recognize time as your most valuable asset and design your life and calendar around your highest goals.
  3. Start Small, Scale Intentionally: Begin with affordable AI tools and gradually incorporate human assistance as your budget and needs evolve, building trust and compounding leverage over time.
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December 10, 2025

Ethereum's New Era of Internet Capital Formation! The Return of the ICO

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **ICOs are evolving:** The return of ICOs marks a shift from hype-driven raises to more sustainable models focused on established projects and fair price discovery.
  2. **Ethereum is primed for capital formation:** With its stablecoin liquidity, auction mechanisms, and tokenization narrative, Ethereum is positioned to become a central hub for internet capital markets.
  3. **Regulatory clarity is crucial:** The industry must continue to pursue regulatory clarity to foster innovation and attract institutional investment in tokenized assets.
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December 10, 2025

The Global Economy Runs on Perpetual Stimulus | Keith Dicker

Forward Guidance

Others
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Active Stimulus Tracking: Abandon traditional value investing and focus on identifying and capitalizing on liquidity impulses and stimulus injections driving market trends.
  2. Prioritize Capital Preservation: Re-evaluate traditional asset allocations. Reduce exposure to long-duration fixed income and diversify into cash, gold, and commodities to mitigate bond market risks.
  3. Prepare for Bond Market Volatility: Position portfolios to benefit from a potentially strengthening US dollar amidst global economic turmoil and anticipate opportunities to acquire distressed assets at significantly reduced prices.
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December 9, 2025

Will Dune Analytics Ever Launch a Token?

The DCo Podcast

Infrastructure
Key Takeaways:
  1. Dune Analytics is strategically prioritizing product development and infrastructure growth over launching a token to focus on core business challenges first.
  2. The decision to avoid tokenization simplifies the business model, allowing concentrated efforts on providing data analytics services.
  3. Dune Analytics’ approach contrasts with other crypto projects that attempt to innovate simultaneously on both product and tokenomics, acknowledging the increased complexity.
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December 9, 2025

How MetaDAO Became Solana's Breakout Token Launchpad | Kollan House

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Futarchy: Explore and implement market-driven governance mechanisms to enhance decision-making in decentralized organizations, reducing reliance on traditional, potentially biased, governance models.
  2. Prioritize Investor Protection: Adopt capital formation models, such as MetaDAO's, that offer robust investor protections through market-based checks and balances, mitigating risks associated with centralized control and poorly informed token allocation.
  3. Prepare for Crypto-Native Solutions: Build cryptonative primitives that can compete with traditional financial systems. This can prevent tradFi from dominating the blockchain space.
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December 8, 2025

Siam Kidd: Liquidity Cycles & Bitcoin, $100M Astrid PLC, Bittensor Governance, TaoFlow, TradFi | 74

Ventura Labs

Infrastructure
Key Takeaways:
  1. Benevolent dictatorship is optimal for young networks: Embrace strong leadership and decisive action to guide early development and growth.
  2. Combat short-termism in subnets: Prioritize mission-driven development over immediate revenue to foster long-term innovation and impact.
  3. Exploit financial engineering: Leverage innovative models like Astrid PLC to unlock TradFi capital and inject it into the BitTensor ecosystem.
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December 8, 2025

Building The Chip That Could Unlock AGI | Naveen Rao

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Embrace Analog:** Explore and invest in analog computing solutions to overcome the energy limitations of current digital AI systems.
  2. **Prioritize Causality:** Shift focus towards AI models that incorporate time and causality, potentially unlocking more advanced and human-like intelligence.
  3. **Support Hardware Innovation:** Invest in and foster startups like Unconventional AI that are tackling fundamental challenges in AI hardware.
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December 8, 2025

Inside Gary Gensler’s SEC: A Conversation with Former Crypto Policy Advisor

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Regulation is inevitable:** Crypto's foray into traditional financial activities necessitates regulatory oversight to protect investors and maintain market integrity.
  2. **Compliance is key:** Crypto firms seeking legitimacy and long-term sustainability must prioritize regulatory compliance and address inherent conflicts of interest.
  3. **Philosophical divide persists:** Fundamental disagreements regarding decentralization, code as speech, and the role of intermediaries continue to fuel tensions between the SEC and the crypto industry.
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December 8, 2025

Why AI Will Have To Run On Blockchains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Blockchain is essential for AI to ensure censorship resistance and uninterrupted accessibility.
  2. Trustworthy AI agents require on-chain governance to manage assets securely and transparently.
  3. AI agents can drastically accelerate blockchain adoption and optimize corporate processes.
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December 8, 2025

Institutional Flows Will Overpower the 4-Year Cycle

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The traditional four-year crypto cycle is dead; institutional adoption and regulatory tailwinds will drive the next phase.
  2. Focus on easy-to-understand narratives; financial advisors allocate minimal time to crypto, so simple concepts are crucial.
  3. The increasing convergence of equity and tokens will lead to a new era of ICOs, revolutionizing fundraising and investment.
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December 7, 2025

Tensor Logic "Unifies" AI Paradigms [Pedro Domingos]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tensor Logic provides a unified framework for AI, bridging the gap between symbolic AI and deep learning, offering improved reasoning, transparency, and efficiency.
  2. The language addresses the limitations of current AI systems, enabling reliable deduction and facilitating structure learning through gradient descent, paving the way for more interpretable and controllable AI.
  3. Tensor Logic has the potential to advance AI education by providing a single language for teaching the entire gamut of AI. Its gradual adoption path allows developers to integrate it into existing workflows.
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December 6, 2025

Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks at Bankless Summit

Bankless

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace X42 for Mass Adoption: Leverage the X42 standard to facilitate stablecoin adoption by integrating it into AI agent workflows, making crypto payments seamless and incentivizing business adoption.
  2. Design Bot-Friendly Markets with Auctions: Implement orderflow auctions and programmable privacy to create efficient and equitable markets, preventing front-running and spam while promoting transparency.
  3. Build with ZK for Scalable Computation: Utilize zero-knowledge technology to offload complex computations and enhance application privacy, unlocking new possibilities in DeFi and beyond.
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December 5, 2025

Platforms in Crypto: The Next Phase of Crypto Growth | Roundup

Bell Curve

Others
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Focus on Product-Led Growth:** New platforms should prioritize building compelling products to attract users before trying to incentivize developers, thus solving the cold start problem.
  2. **Embrace Differentiation:** New entrants need to offer distinct capabilities that can't be easily replicated on existing platforms like Ethereum or Solana to attract developers and users.
  3. **Acknowledge Higher Barriers to Entry:** The competitive landscape for platforms has become increasingly difficult, making it more challenging for new platforms to gain traction.
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December 5, 2025

Could This Bearish Market Be the Setup Everyone Misses?

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Seize the Opportunity:** Bitcoin's undervaluation relative to gold presents a strategic entry point for investors who believe in its long-term potential.
  2. **Explore Layer 1 Potential:** Ethereum's enhanced scalability post-Fusaka makes it increasingly viable for developers to build directly on layer 1, unlocking new possibilities.
  3. **Monitor Regulatory Developments:** The evolving regulatory landscape for prediction markets requires careful attention, as state-level challenges could impact their accessibility and operation.
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December 5, 2025

AI & Central Planning Are Propping Up the Economy | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bet on sectors backed by government policy and secular themes like metals and mining to lower internal volatility and stay ahead of potential inflation.
  2. Be wary of the market structure, especially with highly concentrated assets like MAG7, as high-frequency trading can amplify price abnormalities and systemic risks.
  3. Watch for policy shifts and potential bottlenecks in capacity build-out, commodities, and labor in the AI and energy sectors, which could catalyze significant market changes.
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