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AI Podcasts

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

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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December 5, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 147 - @dippy_ai $TAO Subnet 11

Hash Rate Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Experiential AI is exploding. User-driven interactive experiences are the future of entertainment and will rival traditional media consumption.
  2. BitTensor is now a competitive platform. The integration of subnets like Targon for inference showcases real-world enterprise use cases and cost-effective solutions, providing a compelling alternative to centralized providers.
  3. Community-Driven AI: User-generated content and interactive AI companions are creating new forms of social connection and entertainment, particularly for younger demographics.
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December 4, 2025

Akshat Jagga: Dippy AI Companions, Image/Video/Voice Inference, Embedded Ads, World Models | Ep. 73

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Media Inference: Dippy's strategic shift to media inference underscores the rising demand for multimodal AI experiences, presenting significant opportunities for innovation and monetization beyond text-based interactions.
  2. Prioritize Specialized Models: Focus on developing specialized AI models tailored to specific use cases, leveraging proprietary data to create unique value propositions that outperform generic, multimodal solutions.
  3. Monetize with Embedded Ads: Explore embedding personalized, context-aware advertisements within AI interactions as a viable and scalable monetization strategy, acknowledging the limitations of subscription-based models for mass consumer adoption.
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December 4, 2025

Real On-Chain Agents? How Talus Solves What Crypto-AI Got Wrong

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. On-Chain Execution is Crucial: True crypto AI requires AI agents that operate entirely on-chain to maintain decentralization, verifiability, and auditability.
  2. Monetization is Key: For sustainable AI adoption, clear and viable business models are essential to drive value back to the creators and incentivize participation.
  3. Entertainment as a Catalyst: Leveraging entertainment through agent-versus-agent competitions can drive adoption and demonstrate the earning potential of AI agents, fostering a new AI entertainment economy.
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December 3, 2025

A Rosetta Stone for AI Benchmarks

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Current AI benchmarks are limited due to rapid saturation. The presented statistical framework addresses this by stitching together multiple benchmarks to provide a more comprehensive evaluation.
  2. The framework enables the tracking of model capabilities over time, offering insights into algorithmic improvements and forecasting potential AI advancements.
  3. Software improvements are rapidly accelerating AI development, requiring significantly fewer computational resources each year to achieve the same level of capability.
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December 1, 2025

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Measure Usage, Not Just Spend. The biggest failure in enterprise AI is tracking software purchases as a proxy for progress. The focus must shift to measuring actual tool usage correlated with output.
  2. Solve for Fear, Not Features. Employee adoption hinges on psychological safety. The most powerful tools will fail if users are afraid of looking incompetent or getting fired for making a mistake.
  3. Competition Drives Augmentation, Not Unemployment. The "AI will take our jobs" narrative is a red herring. Companies will reinvest AI-driven productivity gains to crush competitors, not just to cut headcount.
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November 28, 2025

How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The "One Model" Thesis Is Dead.** The future belongs to a portfolio of specialized models. This creates distinct opportunities for both foundational labs and companies that can leverage proprietary data to build best-in-class models for niche applications.
  2. **Data Is the Ultimate Differentiator.** Reinforcement learning fine-tuning elevates proprietary data from a simple input for RAG systems to the core ingredient for building a defensible, state-of-the-art product.
  3. **Agents Will Specialize.** The agent ecosystem is bifurcating into two primary types: open-ended, creative agents for knowledge work and deterministic, procedural agents designed for enterprise automation where reliability and adherence to standard operating procedures are critical.
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November 27, 2025

The AI Economy Is Leaving Labor Behind | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Politics Will Trump Tech. Expect a policy pivot ahead of the 2024 election. The administration’s singular focus on AI stimulus is creating populist backlash, forcing a shift toward policies that support the broader labor market to secure votes.
  2. The AI Trade Is Evolving. The "Mag 7" may soon become regulated utilities. The next wave of winners will be legacy companies that successfully integrate AI to boost margins and the overlooked players in the AI supply chain, such as power and commodity providers.
  3. Prepare for a New Monetary Regime. The era of "QE Infinity" is ending. A post-Powell Fed is expected to move credit creation from its own balance sheet back to commercial banks, using deep rate cuts and deregulation to stimulate the economy.
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Crypto Podcasts

September 12, 2025

The Biggest Winner from Hyperliquid’s USDH | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Distribution is the New Kingmaker. Protocols with significant user bases and transaction volume (like Hyperliquid) now have the leverage to command value from stablecoin issuers and other service providers, not the other way around.
  2. The Stablecoin Revenue Model is Broken. The era of stablecoin issuers keeping 100% of the yield from reserves is over. Expect a race to the bottom on revenue sharing, forcing issuers to innovate on product rather than just collecting yield.
  3. The Crypto IPO Window is Wide Open. With Figure’s successful public offering and Gemini’s upcoming listing, public markets are showing a strong appetite for crypto-native businesses, likely triggering a wave of IPOs from companies like Kraken, BitGo, and others.
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September 12, 2025

Sanctum Founder: Solana's Liquid Staking Future | FP Lee

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. LSTs Are a Distribution Play: For protocols, launching an LST is less about staking yield and more about attracting SOL to gain a strategic advantage in securing blockspace and landing transactions.
  2. Infrastructure Follows the User: Sanctum's pivot to transaction services was not a top-down mandate but a direct response to the needs of its largest partners, proving that the most durable infrastructure is built by solving the immediate, pressing problems of your customers.
  3. Aggregation Is King: Just as Jupiter won by aggregating DEXs for users, Sanctum’s Gateway aims to win by aggregating fragmented transaction delivery networks for developers, creating a simpler and more efficient experience.
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September 12, 2025

Bittensor Novelty Search :: Sub-Subnets + Subnet Deregistration core updates :: + Open Q+A

The Opentensor Foundation | Bittensor TAO

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Consolidate or Compete.** Sub-subnets allow teams to build diversified businesses under a single token, while deregistration means underperforming projects will be pruned. The message is clear: innovate and perform, or be replaced.
  2. **Investment Thesis Evolves.** Subnet tokens are no longer "eternal." Deregistration fundamentally changes the risk profile, making active development and market traction paramount for long-term viability.
  3. **Governance is Coming.** The network is on a clear path to decentralization. The planned shift to Proof-of-Stake and a more democratic governance structure will steadily transfer power to subnet owners and stakers, making community participation more critical than ever.
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September 12, 2025

One Chart Determines if We're in a Bull or Bear Market

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Global liquidity is the ultimate macro signal. As long as the global liquidity chart goes up and to the right, the crypto bull market has the fuel it needs to continue its run.
  2. Ethereum isn't losing; it's quietly winning the RWA war. With 93% market share, Ethereum has become the de facto settlement layer for tokenized real-world assets, a lead that continues to grow as institutions like Fidelity build directly on its L1.
  3. The new blockchain business model is asset management. Chains like Hyperliquid and Mega ETH are pioneering a shift away from relying solely on blockspace fees. By integrating native stablecoins, they are capturing a percentage of the yield from assets on-chain, effectively turning the protocol itself into a revenue-generating asset manager.
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September 10, 2025

Still Time To Be Bullish?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Patience is Your Superpower. This cycle rewards thesis-driven investing over hyperactive trading. Identify assets with strong value, momentum, and fundamentals, and give them time to play out.
  2. Bet on the On-Chain Casino. The gambling economy is real, profitable, and growing. Look for platforms that facilitate high-asymmetry games (memecoins, raffles) as they capture a powerful cultural trend.
  3. Find Alpha in the Illiquid. The next frontier is tokenizing real-world value. Platforms creating liquid markets for previously stuck assets—from collectibles to crime—are building foundational infrastructure for a much larger on-chain world.
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September 10, 2025

Hyperliquid: The Fastest Growing Exchange in Crypto?

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Revenue Accrual is King. Hyperliquid's model of directing nearly all top-line revenue to token buybacks creates an aggressive and constant bid for the HYPE token, a feature most crypto projects can only dream of.
  2. Product-First Beats VC-First. Its explosive growth comes from building a superior product that attracted a loyal user base first, then leveraging that traction to build an L1 ecosystem—a stark contrast to the typical VC-funded playbook.
  3. A Bet on the Middle Ground. Investing in HYPE is a bet that CEX-level performance and on-chain transparency can outweigh significant centralization and regulatory risks. It’s a category-defining play that sits squarely between DeFi and CeFi.
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