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AI Podcasts

April 3, 2025

Mark Jeffrey: Bittensor, Crypto Investments, AI Innovation, Subnet Tokens, Market Trends | Ep. 35

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Invest in Access: The largest bottleneck—and opportunity—in Bittensor is user experience. Simple, intuitive interfaces for subnet discovery and investment are critical to unlocking value.
  2. Bet on Specialization: Decentralized, niche AI models on Bittensor subnets hold significant potential, mirroring historical tech shifts. Current low market caps may present a unique entry point.
  3. Follow Free AI to Physical Form: As AI software becomes increasingly powerful and commoditized (free), the most significant value capture will likely occur in its physical applications, particularly humanoid robots.
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April 3, 2025

AI & Robotics Stealing Crypto's Thunder? | EP 73

Good Game Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Hype is Real: AI & Robotics advancements are genuinely capturing attention and capital, fueled by tangible progress (FSD, coding tools, new models), while crypto seeks its next major narrative beyond incremental TradFi integration.
  2. Crypto Wars Turn Inward: The main crypto battleground is now internal: CEXs vs. DEXs vs. TradFi entrants like Robin Hood fighting over the same trading and stablecoin pie, leading to aggressive competitive tactics.
  3. AI Lowers Startup Barriers: AI tools drastically cut the cost and complexity of building software, enabling smaller, nimbler teams (even non-technical founders) to launch "micro-apps" and potentially "micro-unicorns," while disrupting traditional education and junior professional roles.
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April 3, 2025

ChatGPT's Viral Explosion: 1 Million Users In... 60 Minutes

Bankless

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hyper-Acceleration: AI adoption and feature deployment cycles are compressing dramatically, from days to minutes for millions of users.
  2. Infrastructure Resilience: Despite market fears, investment in core AI infrastructure like GPU compute (e.g., CoreWeave) remains exceptionally strong, signaling deep conviction in sustained AI demand.
  3. Crypto AI Finds Its Niche: While broad AI models battle for supremacy, crypto AI is carving out tangible use cases in areas like decentralized data (Vanna), DeFi abstraction (Banker), prediction markets, and specialized agents (Billy Bets, OLAS), attracting significant market attention.
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April 3, 2025

Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI isn't just improving BPO; it's unbundling and reinventing it, automating complex cognitive tasks and creating opportunities far beyond cost savings for incumbents.
  2. Target Measurable Wins: Focus AI disruption on BPO functions with clear, quantifiable KPIs (support tickets resolved, CSAT scores) for the most compelling enterprise value proposition.
  3. Leverage Voice AI Now, Prep for Agents: Deploy mature Voice AI for front-office gains; anticipate imminent breakthroughs in browser agents unlocking back-office automation.
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April 2, 2025

The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Architecture Beats Models (For Now): Augment hit #1 on SWE-Bench with off-the-shelf LLMs, proving intelligent agent design and context injection are paramount.
  2. Integrate, Don't Dictate: Winning developer adoption means embedding agents within existing IDEs and workflows, especially for navigating complex enterprise code.
  3. Context & Cost Shape the Future: Deep codebase understanding ("orientation," "memory") and tackling the escalating cost of agent operation are the next major frontiers in agent development.
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April 2, 2025

The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **#1 SWE-Bench Rank:** Augment's new agent tops the SWE-Bench verified charts using off-the-shelf models plus custom codebase understanding tech.
  2. **Enterprise & IDE Focus:** Augment targets developers in large, complex codebases, integrating directly into VS Code/JetBrains workflows rather than forcing new ones.
  3. **Pragmatic Model Strategy:** Leverages off-the-shelf models for rapid deployment now, anticipating potential custom model needs as agent usage and costs inevitably explode.
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March 31, 2025

Ep 37 — How AI Agents Will Reshape DeFi & Crypto Infrastructure with Ejaaz Ahamadeen

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Agents are the Interface: Expect autonomous agents, not traditional apps, to become the dominant way users interact with both AI and crypto, abstracting away underlying complexity.
  2. Money Talks: The most successful near-term crypto AI agents will likely focus relentlessly on generating financial returns for users, tapping into crypto's core speculative drive via sophisticated, proprietary trading strategies.
  3. Build Real Products: Sustainable value comes from solving user problems with excellent UX and viable business models (potentially subscription-based initially), not just tokenomics. AI necessitates a shift from infrastructure hype to product-led growth.
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March 31, 2025

Ben Fielding: Gensyn’s Fueling an AI-Native Internet, Open vs. Closed Source AI and RL Swarm

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI scaling hits physical limits: Centralized hyperscalers face diminishing returns; the future needs horizontally scalable, decentralized compute enabled by protocols like Gensyn.
  2. The Internet gets personal (and probabilistic): Expect a shift from static databases to dynamic, parameter-based experiences, requiring ubiquitous, verified ML execution.
  3. Open beats closed (eventually): Open-source models and decentralized learning (like RL Swarm) will likely outpace closed systems by leveraging global compute and diverse data, mitigating centralized bias risks.
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March 28, 2025

The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:


1. Agents Evolve into Teammates: Shift perspective from agents as mere tools to digital collaborators within hybrid teams, requiring platforms like Agent.ai for discovery and interaction.


2. Engineer Pragmatically, Vibe Code: Lean towards under-engineering; AI reduces refactoring costs, making it cheaper to pay down tech debt later than to over-invest in unused abstractions now.


3. Unlock Networks with Standards & Memory: Prioritize building blocks like the mCP standard and tackle the critical challenge of secure, shared, cross-agent memory to enable true agent collaboration.

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Crypto Podcasts

October 8, 2025

Steady Lads Live From TOKEN2049 in Singapore! w/ Dim Selk

Steady Lads Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Profit, Don't HODL. The current market is a trader’s paradise, not an investor’s dream. The strategy is to ride the seasonal Q4 pump and exit by January, refusing to get caught in another brutal bear cycle.
  2. Fade the Old, Farm the New. Capital is mercenary, flowing from established tokens to the next hot airdrop farm or launch. The relentless hunt for volatility means older coins are treated as exit liquidity for the next shiny object.
  3. Unlocks Are the Silent Killer. Before investing, map out the token unlock schedule. Even fundamentally sound projects with strong revenue face a massive gravitational pull on their price from insider and team unlocks.
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September 17, 2025

FinTech Meets Crypto: The Future of Global Payments

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stablecoins Are Rebranding Crypto.** The FinTech industry is adopting stablecoin technology not as a niche crypto asset, but as the foundational layer for "FinTech 3.0," poised to overhaul global payments.
  2. **The EVM Is The New COBOL.** Specialized payments chains are standardizing the EVM as the backend for modern finance, creating high-throughput, compliant on-ramps that will bring trillions in TradFi volume on-chain.
  3. **Payments Are Just The Beginning.** Once the world rebuilds its payments infrastructure on stablecoins, the floodgates will open for the complete tokenization of all financial assets, forever blurring the line between crypto and finance.
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September 16, 2025

Collector Crypt: Onchain Capital Markets On Solana | Tuomas Holmberg

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Onchain Rails Create New Economies. By digitizing physical assets on high-performance chains like Solana, you eliminate friction around custody, settlement, and global access, unlocking novel business models like the Gotcha Machine.
  2. Real-World Logistics Are the Ultimate Moat. While anyone can build a smart contract, Collector Crypt’s defensibility comes from its physical supply chain—dealer relationships and automated acquisition tools that secure inventory below market price.
  3. Novel Oracles Unlock the Next Wave of DeFi. The future of onchain finance depends on reliably pricing illiquid, real-world assets. Developing proprietary oracles, like Collector Crypt’s, is the first step to building DeFi for everything.
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September 15, 2025

Is It Time to Rotate Out of Crypto?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **De-Risk Your Alts.** Crypto is showing significant weakness by failing to rally with equities. Ethereum's lower high is a major red flag for the altcoin market; it's time to reduce leverage and concentrate into Bitcoin or cash.
  2. **Hunt for Value in TradFi.** Traditional markets are offering powerful narrative-driven plays with crypto-like upside. Focus on assets like Tesla (robotics), Robinhood (gambling culture), and commodities like uranium (energy independence).
  3. **Fade the ETF Narrative.** The institutional "sugar high" from ETFs is wearing off as the front-running trade becomes crowded and inflows wane. The market needs a new, more durable catalyst to move higher.
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September 15, 2025

Bittensor TAO :: Community Q+A :: Sub-Subnets, Deregistration, Yuma Consensus + more

The Opentensor Foundation | Bittensor TAO

Crypto
Key Takeaways
  1. Subnets are becoming more complex. The introduction of sub-subnets will allow for more sophisticated, multi-faceted incentive mechanisms within a single subnet, effectively turning them into "mixtures of experts."
  2. Performance is now paramount. Subnet deregistration creates a "perform or perish" dynamic. Underperforming subnets risk being automatically removed, with their assets returned to token holders as TAO.
  3. Decentralization is on the horizon. The shift to Proof-of-Stake and a formal on-chain governance structure are actively being developed, marking a deliberate move toward placing control in the hands of the community.
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September 15, 2025

How to Invest in The Debasement Era

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Recessions Are Canceled, Inflation Is Not: Perpetual government stimulus will prevent deep downturns, but it locks in higher inflation. Plan for a ~3% floor and a market that swings between boom and stagflation.
  2. The US Super Cycle Is Over: After a historic 15-year run, US market dominance has peaked. The next decade’s alpha will be found in undervalued international markets benefiting from a weakening dollar.
  3. Build a Debasement-Proof Portfolio: Ditch long-duration bonds. Hold cash for opportunity, stay invested in global equities, and overweight hard assets like gold and crypto to preserve purchasing power.
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