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AI Podcasts

June 18, 2025

subnet tokens on bittenor are the next ethereum ico boom

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Asymmetric Opportunity: BitTensor subnets provide exposure to AI innovation comparable to billion-dollar startups but at a fraction of their market caps.
  2. Volatility is a Feature, Not a Bug: Expect significant price swings, reminiscent of early crypto. The long-term potential can dwarf initial entry points.
  3. The Access Arbitrage: The current complexity of the BitTensor ecosystem creates an "early bird" advantage for those who can navigate it, potentially leading to outsized returns.
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June 17, 2025

Oxford Professor: "AIs are strange new minds"

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Reality Hack: Supervised learning allows AIs to understand the world via language alone, a game-changer forcing us to rethink intelligence beyond sensory input.
  2. The Autonomy Trap: The rise of agentic, personalized AIs that act for us threatens unforeseen systemic chaos and could amplify individuals' most dangerous beliefs.
  3. Our Faustian Pact with AI: We're trading authenticity and control for AI-driven convenience, risking a "gradual disempowerment" where human agency is systematically diminished.
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June 17, 2025

Harry Dewhirst: What If the Physical World Had an API? — 375ai, DePIN, and Real-Time Data for AI

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. 375AI’s targeted deployment in high-value zones yields monetizable data from the outset, sidestepping the "build it and they will come" pitfall common in DePIN.
  2. For real-world sensor networks, processing data locally on devices is paramount for user privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency.
  3. AI models, especially LLMs, are hungry for real-time, high-fidelity data about the physical environment, creating a massive opportunity for networks like 375AI.
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June 16, 2025

AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Nuance: AI traffic isn't monolithic. Develop granular controls to allow beneficial AI while blocking malicious actors, understanding that AI can be a customer.
  2. Layer Your Defenses: Combine traditional methods with modern fingerprinting and identity verification, preparing for a future where AI analyzes traffic in real time.
  3. Context is King: Security decisions must be deeply integrated with application logic to avoid harming user experience or revenue.
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June 16, 2025

AI Model's Adaptability & Real World Potential

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Adaptability is King:** The model’s capacity to "course correct" and "power through" challenges is a pivotal advancement, promising more robust AI.
  2. **Real-World Agents Incoming:** This enhanced model is poised to accelerate the development of AI agents capable of practical, impactful tasks.
  3. **Hands-On for Breakthroughs:** The true potential will be realized as developers dive in, experiment, and translate these new capabilities into innovative applications.
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June 16, 2025

AI Will Bring Billions of Capital On-Chain — Here's How

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Web2 Leads the Charge: Anticipate major Web2 companies leveraging their user base and trust to be the primary drivers bringing AI-powered capital on-chain initially.
  2. Agents are the Future: AI agents will be the killer app for crypto, finally delivering applications with mainstream utility and revenue potential.
  3. Parallel Evolution: The growth of AI in crypto will see Web2 institutional adoption and native crypto AI agent development advance simultaneously, creating a compounding effect on innovation and capital inflow.
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June 14, 2025

The Unwinding Of The Global U.S Dollar Trade | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The U.S. Dollar's Dominance is Fraying: Decades of capital recycling into U.S. assets may reverse, boosting non-U.S. markets, gold, and Bitcoin while pressuring the dollar.
  2. AI is the New Geopolitical Battleground: The U.S.-China AI race will likely drive continued market support and investment into related infrastructure like nuclear and space tech.
  3. "Ponzanomics" Prevails: Expect continued fiscal expansion and market interventions (like Treasury buybacks) globally as governments prioritize economic stability and strategic goals over austerity.
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June 13, 2025

Gareth Howells: Bittensor Video Upscaling & Compression, VOD, AI, Crypto, Subnet 85 Vidaio | Ep. 48

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Compression is Cash: Vidaio’s bespoke AI compression offers enterprises 50%+ savings on video storage/bandwidth without sacrificing visual quality, targeting the 80% of internet traffic that is video.
  2. Bittensor’s Velocity: The decentralized Bittensor network acts as a powerful R&D engine, enabling Vidaio to out-innovate and outpace traditional development, turning concepts into market-ready solutions in months, not years.
  3. Token Tied to Utility: The success of Vidaio's alpha token hinges on securing enterprise clients and reinvesting revenues, making its value a direct reflection of its real-world utility and market penetration.
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June 13, 2025

Why the Robotics Revolution will be Powered by Decentralized AI, w/ the Founder of PrismaX

The People's AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hardware Isn't the Holdup: Robot bodies are capable; their brains (AI) need smarter, real-world training.
  2. Data is the New Differentiator: Access to diverse, large-scale, real-world interaction data will determine the winners in robotics AI.
  3. Decentralization Unlocks Scale: PrismaX bets that a community-driven approach to data collection and teleoperation can overcome the biases and bottlenecks of centralized efforts, fueling the next wave of robotic intelligence.
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Crypto Podcasts

January 9, 2026

Stablecoin Deep Dive with Frax and Transak

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from DeFi to Neo-Finance where on-chain liquidity meets institutional payment rails.
  2. Prioritize assets that are integrated with payment processors like Stripe or Bridge.
  3. 2026 is the year of the exponential. The winners won't be the high-float L1s but the protocols that function as the economic engine for both lenders and shoppers.
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January 9, 2026

How China Is Quietly Dominating Crypto | Shuyao Kong

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The next cycle favors teams that combine Western storytelling with Eastern operational intensity.
  2. Monitor the tools and platforms used by high-volume Chinese retail clusters to identify emerging liquidity trends on Solana.
  3. Ignoring the Chinese ecosystem is a choice to remain blind to the market's most active participants.
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January 8, 2026

Why 2026 is The Year of Unification with Sam Kazemian

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Neo Finance is replacing legacy banking as stablecoins become the TCP/IP packet for all value transfer.
  2. Position in protocols that own their distribution and payment rails rather than those relying on third party liquidity.
  3. The next six months will separate synthetic products from real money as the market rewards end to end utility over isolated DeFi yields.
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January 8, 2026

Hivemind: Will 2026 Be Bullish & Crypto's Token vs Equity Problem

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "governance" to "on-chain equity" is the defining trend for 2025. As regulatory clarity improves, capital will migrate to assets with legally enforceable rights.
  2. Monitor MetaDAO ICOs like Ranger Finance to gauge if retail appetite for "ownership coins" can sustain high valuations. Watch for the first "home run" success story to validate the model.
  3. The next cycle belongs to applications with legally enforceable revenue rights, not L1s with vague utility. Founders who prioritize investor protections will trade at a permanent premium.
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January 8, 2026

Do Buybacks Make Sense? | Lucas Bruder

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from opaque block production to verifiable sequencing via tools like BAM and Multiple Concurrent Proposers.
  2. Monitor validator IBRL scores to ensure your transactions aren't being sidelined by yield-chasing leaders.
  3. Solana is maturing into a professional-grade financial layer where execution efficiency is the only sustainable moat for the next 12 months.
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January 7, 2026

Generation Generative: AI Companions, Teen Mental Health, and Missing Guardrails

The People's AI

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: From Utility to Persuasion. We are moving from tools that answer questions to entities that form personality through constant sycophantic interaction.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit your stack. Prioritize decentralized data protocols to ensure user ownership over intimate conversational data.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next decade is about the "Right to Play" and data sovereignty. If we do not build guardrails now, we risk raising a generation that cannot handle human friction.
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