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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

July 28, 2025

Charles Hoskinson: ADA Is A Better Investment Than BTC

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Cycle is Dead, Long Live the Cycle: The old four-year, retail-driven crypto cycle is over. We're in an institutionally-led "gigachad bull run" that will last through 2026 and push the market cap above $10 trillion, pending regulatory clarity.
  2. Narrative is the Ultimate Metric: Chains that focus on philosophical purity and solving real-world problems (Bitcoin, Cardano) build more resilient communities and long-term value than those chasing fleeting metrics like TPS and TVL.
  3. Bitcoin's Next Chapter will be Written on Cardano: As Bitcoin matures into a yield-bearing asset, its massive capital base will seek returns elsewhere. Cardano’s UTXO model and upcoming interoperability features are designed to capture this flow, positioning it as Bitcoin’s de facto yield layer.
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July 27, 2025

Liberation Day Broke The Dollar

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Dollar's "Gold Moment" is Here. The dollar is decoupling from its traditional anchor (rate differentials) just as gold decoupled from real yields, signaling a permanent regime shift driven by geopolitics, not just economics.
  2. The "Dollar Smile" Has Inverted. The dollar is no longer a reliable risk-off hedge. Its positive correlation with equities means it now falls during market stress—a fundamental rewiring for asset allocators.
  3. The Devaluation Trade is a Trap (For Now). While the long-term bearish case for the dollar is clear, the trade is dangerously crowded. Expect markets to test this one-sided positioning with a painful bounce before the ultimate decline resumes.
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July 26, 2025

Hivemind: Ethena Founder, the GENIUS Act & Overvalued L1s

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Real Cycle Indicator:** Forget price targets. The bull market's health is directly tied to the premium-to-NAV on crypto treasury vehicles. When those premiums collapse, the party is over.
  2. **L1s Are Dead Money:** The dominant thesis is a massive market re-rating where capital flees overvalued L1 infrastructure and concentrates into Bitcoin and a handful of cash-flow-positive applications.
  3. **Stablecoins Aren't a Commodity:** The moats are deep. New issuers will struggle to compete with Tether's liquidity network effects and Ethena's structural yield advantage, making it a bear market for new stablecoin startups.
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July 26, 2025

Base Just Launched Crypto's Everything App | Jesse Pollak

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Content is the New Capital: The Base App transforms every post into a tradable asset. This makes content creation a direct form of capital formation, rewarding creators for attention in a way that’s native to the internet of value.
  2. The Rise of the Native Creator: The biggest winners on Base won't be Web2 transplants, but new creators who master the platform's unique blend of content and commerce. The strategy is to find and elevate undiscovered talent from every vertical.
  3. From Algorithm to Free Market: Base is trading the black box of social media algorithms for the transparent chaos of a free market. The central experiment is whether market-based incentives can build a healthier, more aligned social network.
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July 25, 2025

Crypto Hits Record $4 Trillion Marketcap BUT We're Just Getting Started

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **ETH is the New Institutional Primitive.** The "ETH Treasury" model is a new unlock, leveraging ETH's native yield to create a self-financing acquisition engine that is attracting billions in institutional capital.
  2. **The Floodgates Are Open.** The Genius Bill and explosive ETF inflows are not just bullish signals; they are structural shifts that are unleashing a torrent of capital and legitimizing the asset class for mainstream finance.
  3. **Risk is Ramping.** The excitement is palpable, but so is the risk. The treasury meta feels like a potential bubble, and legal threats against core DeFi and infrastructure remain a significant overhang. Buyer beware.
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July 24, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 123 - YUMA's Big Bittensor Bet

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Playbook is Proven. YUMA is running DCG's time-tested Bitcoin strategy on Bittensor—solving access, building infrastructure, and investing to catalyze the entire ecosystem.
  2. The Arbitrage is Complexity. Subnets are wildly undervalued compared to Web2 counterparts. The friction to invest creates a massive opportunity for sophisticated players and platforms (like YUMA and Sturdy) that can simplify it.
  3. The Moat is More Than Code. Bittensor's defense isn't just its protocol. It’s the flywheel of token incentives, a deeply committed community, and a decade-long head start on solving hard problems—a combination that capital alone can't easily replicate.
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