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AI Podcasts

March 21, 2025

Novelty Search march 20, 2025

taostats

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Rayon Labs’ suite of Bit Tensor subnets offers a powerful, integrated ecosystem for AI development, from model training to agent deployment.
  • 2. TEEs are a major focus across the subnets, positioning Bit Tensor to attract enterprise clients and accelerate market adoption.
  • 3. The integration of fiat payments streamlines access and broadens the appeal of these decentralized AI platforms.
  • 4. Gradients’ superior performance and ease of use position it to disrupt the AutoML market.
  • 5. Chutes’ scalability and focus on enterprise-grade security could make it the go-to platform for decentralized AI compute.
  • 6. Squad empowers anyone to build and deploy sophisticated AI agents, opening up exciting new possibilities for innovation.
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March 21, 2025

NVDA GTC, M&A Wiz / Goog $32 B Deal, April 2 Tariff Uncertainty; Huawei Belt & Road; ChatGPT | BG2

Bg2 Pod

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Tariff uncertainty remains a key market driver, with the potential for both positive and negative economic impacts depending on the administration's approach.
  • 2. The Wiz acquisition could signal a broader resurgence in M&A activity, particularly for strategically valuable assets in growing markets.
  • 3. Nvidia's dominance in the AI hardware space seems assured, but government regulation remains a key risk.
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March 21, 2025

Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents

a16z

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Agent Experience (AX) is the new frontier in developer tools, focusing on seamless integration and frictionless workflows for AI agents.
  • 2. MCP is poised to become the standard for agent interaction, but wider adoption is key to unlocking its full potential.
  • 3. Developers need to adapt their toolsets and prioritize use-case-driven development when building for the age of AI agents.
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March 20, 2025

Retail Vs Institutions | Who's Right About This Market?

Bankless

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. The crypto AI market is undergoing a correction, with macro factors and a shift towards utility playing significant roles.
  • 2. While frontier AI model development is competitive and potentially less lucrative for direct investment, decentralized compute platforms like Plurales Research offer a novel approach to model ownership and monetization.
  • 3. AI agents are transitioning from a hype cycle to a focus on practical applications, with projects like Subnet 53 demonstrating real-world profitability.
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March 19, 2025

Can AI Fix DeFi? The Rise of "DeFAI" and Crypto AI Agents

The People's AI

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. AI has the potential to unlock the true promise of DeFi by simplifying user experience and broadening access.
  • 2. The rise of AI agents may fundamentally reshape the DeFi ecosystem, with protocols adapting to automated interactions.
  • 3.  Balancing automation with security and user control is crucial for the responsible development of AI-powered DeFi.
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March 20, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 101 - Bittensor Fund I: Investing in Subnets

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. The Bittensor subnet ecosystem offers potentially asymmetric investment opportunities, similar to early Ethereum or DeFi Summer.
  • 2. Simplified user interfaces and cross-chain bridges are crucial for attracting mainstream capital.
  • 3. The convergence of new capital, increasing subnet adoption, and the rise of decentralized AI position Bittensor for potentially explosive growth.
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March 19, 2025

Illia Polosukhin on The Upcoming Explosion of User-Owned AI

The Rollup

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. User-owned AI offers a powerful alternative to centralized models, prioritizing user control, data privacy, and personalized experiences.
  • 2. Near Protocol is building the necessary infrastructure and protocols to support the development, deployment, and monetization of user-owned AI agents.
  • 3. The future of AI and crypto will see the rise of useful agents that can perform real-world tasks, creating new opportunities for developers and users alike.
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March 19, 2025

npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Cloudflare is leveraging its existing Durable Objects technology to create a compelling platform for developing and deploying AI agents.
  • 2. The future of AI agents hinges on solving challenges related to trust, practical applications, and accessibility for non-technical users.
  • 3. Cloudflare Agents is poised to address these challenges by offering a robust, scalable platform with features like human-in-the-loop, scheduling, and future support for multi-agent communication and enhanced workflows.
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March 18, 2025

The Gap Between Humans and Machines Is ___

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Robustness, not just accuracy, is crucial for LLMs to gain trust and widespread adoption.
  • 2. Human feedback should be used strategically and granularly to mitigate biases and optimize model behavior effectively.
  • 3. Dynamic, evolving benchmarks tailored to specific tasks are necessary to truly evaluate the evolving capabilities of increasingly sophisticated AI systems.
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Crypto Podcasts

August 25, 2025

Commissioner Peirce On SEC’s Next Moves

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Frameworks, Not Fights: The SEC is shifting from broad prohibitions to creating specific, workable rules for token launches. The goal is to bring this crucial capital formation activity back to the U.S. under a clear and compliant regime.
  2. Decentralization Changes the Game: True decentralization isn't just a buzzword; it fundamentally challenges the existing regulatory model. For truly peer-to-peer protocols, the old playbook of licensing intermediaries may no longer apply.
  3. The Best Defense is Utility: The crypto industry's greatest protection against future regulatory hostility is to build things with real, lasting value. Use this period of clearer skies to create products and services that prove the technology's worth beyond speculation.
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August 24, 2025

Will LINK Flip XRP? with Zach Rynes

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bet on the Ecosystem, Not the Silo: Chainlink’s value is tied to the growth of the entire blockchain space, making it a diversified bet on institutional adoption. XRP’s success is a narrow wager on its own ledger and asset gaining dominance.
  2. Follow the Proof, Not the Promises: Chainlink’s public partnerships with firms like Swift and JP Morgan provide concrete evidence of traction. This stands in sharp contrast to XRP's long-unfulfilled, NDA-shrouded narrative.
  3. Infrastructure is the Ultimate Power Play: By providing a comprehensive suite of essential services (data, cross-chain, compliance), Chainlink is building a defensible moat as the go-to infrastructure platform for Web3, with no direct all-in-one competitor in sight.
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August 23, 2025

Former Yahoo Music Executive on Crypto's Inevitable Centralization Points with Ian Rogers

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Value is a Function of Time:** Bitcoin's greatest asset is its 15-year track record. Lasting value isn't about technology alone; it's about a powerful story that withstands the test of time, creating an insulated brand.
  2. **Self-Custody is the Premise:** The entire value proposition of crypto hinges on eliminating counterparty risk. Compromising on self-custody and security for the sake of convenience is a recurring mistake that "always blows up."
  3. **Adoption Will Be Abstracted:** The future of crypto for the masses is one where the complexity is hidden. Centralized user experiences will run on decentralized rails, delivering the benefits of crypto (lower fees, faster settlement) without the unforgiving user experience.
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August 22, 2025

Making $5M in Unconventional Trades w/ 0xLaw

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stop Gambling, Start Engineering.** The biggest edge isn’t in predicting price but in finding and exploiting structural market inefficiencies. Focus on trades where you can control or heavily influence the outcome, like RFV plays or creating self-fulfilling prophecies in prediction markets.
  2. **Become the Casino.** The crypto market is filled with speculation. By providing liquidity, farming yields, and taking the other side of gamblers (e.g., selling Pendle PTs), you can generate consistent, lower-risk returns. Farmers, on average, outperform directional traders over the long term.
  3. **Alpha Lives in the Weeds.** The most significant opportunities aren’t on the front page of Twitter. They’re buried in obscure Discord servers, complex protocol mechanics (like Aerodrome’s bribes), and emerging platforms with low capital efficiency like Polymarket.
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August 22, 2025

Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev Claps Back: From Memecoins to Real Assets – The Chopping Block

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Private Markets Are the New Public: The real unlock for tokenization isn't just 24/7 stock trading—it's bringing high-growth private companies to retail investors, with or without the company's blessing.
  2. The Great Convergence Is Here: The line between a crypto exchange and a stock brokerage is disappearing. Robinhood and its competitors are converging on a single "financial super app" model where all assets live in one place.
  3. Regulation Has Created a Paradox: The current system allows unlimited speculation on assets with zero fundamental value (memecoins) but blocks access to premier private equity. Robinhood is betting this logic won't hold.
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August 22, 2025

Bittensor Brief #5: $TAO = The Early Internet?

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace the Friction: The current difficulty of investing in Bittensor subnets is a feature, not a bug. It’s the moat that has suppressed valuations, creating an opportunity akin to buying Bitcoin on Mt. Gox before Coinbase existed.
  2. A 3-6 Month Catalyst Window: The development of bridges and institutional infrastructure is the primary catalyst. This window represents the final moments to gain exposure before capital can flow in easily, likely re-rating the entire ecosystem.
  3. Think Startups, Not Just Tokens: Evaluate subnets like early-stage companies. Use resources like the *Revenue Search* podcast to analyze financials and projects like Shush (AI inference), Score (AI vision), and Quantum (public quantum computing) as real, venture-style bets.
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