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AI Podcasts

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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March 28, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 103: 'It's AI' $TAO Subnet 32

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI

Key Takeaways:


1. Niche Focus Wins: Its AI demonstrates the power of specializing in one thing (AI text detection) within the BitTensor ecosystem, achieving leading accuracy and carving out a clear market position.


2. Ecosystem Arbitrage: There's a significant valuation gap between BitTensor AI projects (like Its AI or ReadyAI) and comparable VC-funded companies (GPTZero, Scale AI), suggesting potential upside once accessibility improves.


3. The Bridge is Coming: Easier access via wrapped tokens or user-friendly platforms bridging BitTensor to chains like Solana/Ethereum is the critical next step for unlocking subnet value and attracting mainstream capital.

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March 28, 2025

Subnet 3 Templar –World’s First Distributed, Permissionless, Incentivized Open Source AI Training

Opentensor Foundation

AI

Key Takeaways:


1.  Permissionless Works: Templar validates that truly open, decentralized AI training with economic incentives is not just theory—it's running, learning, and stabilizing *now*.
2.  Incentives Align: Token ownership fundamentally shifts dynamics, turning potential adversaries into collaborative builders invested in the network's success.
3.  The Future is Co-Owned: Templar paves the way for globally co-owned, state-of-the-art AI models, potentially outcompeting even the most well-funded centralized labs and offering a more equitable model for AI development.

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March 28, 2025

Novelty Search March 27, 2025

taostats

AI

Key Takeaways:


1.  Incentivized Decentralized Training Works: Templar demonstrates that coordinating anonymous miners globally via crypto-economic incentives to train a single AI model is feasible, moving beyond permissioned compute pools.
2.  Production is the Only True Test: Real-world deployment with adversarial miners is non-negotiable for building robust decentralized systems, revealing exploits impossible to find otherwise. Templar's rapid iteration (>200 runs) provides a significant edge.
3.  Community & Ownership are Superpowers: Openly sharing struggles and leveraging tokenomics to give miners ownership transformed Templar's development, aligning incentives and fostering collective problem-solving far exceeding a centralized team's capacity.

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March 24, 2025

Steffen Cruz and Will Squires: Macrocosmos, AI, APEX, Data, Bittensor Subnets 1 9 13 25 37 | Ep. 32

Ventura Labs

AI

Key Takeaways:

  1. The open-source AI landscape has rapidly evolved, with models like Deepseek and R1 significantly impacting the decentralized AI space.
  2. Macrocosmos focuses on building high-quality, feature-rich products that leverage the power of Bittensor's network and incentivize miner innovation.
  3. Long-term vision, community engagement, and sustainable monetization strategies are critical for success in the maturing Bittensor ecosystem.
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March 24, 2025

ARC Prize Version 2 Launch Video!

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI

Key Takeaways:

  1. ARC V2 represents a significant advancement in benchmarking AI reasoning capabilities, moving beyond the limitations of pre-trained language models.
  2. Efficiency, not just capability, is a critical aspect of intelligence, and ARC V2 effectively measures this efficiency gap between AI and humans.
  3. While O3 demonstrates early signs of fluid intelligence, it is not yet human-level and further breakthroughs are needed to achieve true AGI.
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March 24, 2025

Steffen Cruz and Will Squires: Macrocosmos, AI, APEX, Data, Bittensor Subnets 1 9 13 25 37 | Ep. 32

Ventura Labs

AI

Key Takeaways:

  1. Macrocosmos is building an interconnected suite of products (Constellation) that leverage different Bittensor subnets, aiming for a synergistic approach to decentralized AI.
  2. The focus on building high-quality, feature-rich products over simply competing on price highlights a maturing mindset within the Bittensor ecosystem.
  3. The emphasis on long-term vision, community engagement, and sustainable monetization strategies is crucial for navigating the rapidly evolving decentralized AI landscape.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 5, 2025

Could This Bearish Market Be the Setup Everyone Misses?

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Seize the Opportunity:** Bitcoin's undervaluation relative to gold presents a strategic entry point for investors who believe in its long-term potential.
  2. **Explore Layer 1 Potential:** Ethereum's enhanced scalability post-Fusaka makes it increasingly viable for developers to build directly on layer 1, unlocking new possibilities.
  3. **Monitor Regulatory Developments:** The evolving regulatory landscape for prediction markets requires careful attention, as state-level challenges could impact their accessibility and operation.
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December 2, 2025

Behind the Scenes of Solana’s First DAT with DFDV | Parker White

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Active DATs are high-fee ETFs in disguise. The only DATs that will survive are those actively using on-chain strategies and unique financing structures to generate yield beyond simple staking, providing value that a passive ETF cannot.
  2. The crypto market is no longer its own island. The four-year cycle is dead. Treat major crypto assets as a leveraged play on the NASDAQ and global liquidity; macro trends now dictate the market's direction.
  3. The Solana vs. Ethereum trade is a conviction play. DFDV's core bet is that Solana's superior fundamentals will inevitably close the massive valuation gap with Ethereum, making it the highest-upside L1 asset.
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December 2, 2025

Behind the Scenes of Solana’s First DAT with DFDV | Parker White

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. DATs Must Be More Than ETFs. The DATs that survive won't be passive holders charging high fees. They will be active managers using unique tools like convertible bonds and on-chain yield farming to grow assets per share.
  2. The Solana Flippening Thesis is Real. DFDV's core bet is on a fundamental mismatch: Solana's superior tech and user growth versus Ethereum's legacy valuation. They believe the gap will close, driving massive upside.
  3. Crypto is a Macro Play. The four-year cycle is obsolete. Crypto now acts as a high-beta instrument tied to global liquidity, meaning its performance hinges on macro trends, not just internal events like the halving.
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December 2, 2025

Aztec: The Private World Computer for Ethereum Privacy

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Privacy Intents Beat Liquidity Fragmentation: Aztec’s architecture blankets existing Ethereum DeFi with privacy, bypassing the need to bootstrap a siloed ecosystem and turning it into a universal privacy utility layer.
  2. ZK Passport Is Web3's Answer to AI Deepfakes: By leveraging hardware-level passport verification, ZK Passport offers a cryptographically secure solution to identity verification, enabling compliant privacy without trusting intermediaries.
  3. Decentralization Is a Baseline Requirement: Aztec is launching as a fully decentralized L2, arguing that for a privacy network, neutrality and censorship resistance are not future goals but non-negotiable starting conditions.
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December 2, 2025

Crypto Dumps on BOJ Pivot Signal as Tether, Strategy Turmoil Hit Markets: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Leverage is the Real Trigger. The BOJ pivot was just the spark. The crypto market’s bonfire was fueled by excessive leverage, turning a macro ripple into a tidal wave and signaling a broader rotation from high-beta assets to value.
  2. Narrative Trumps Fundamentals (For Now). MicroStrategy’s CEO stated a basic corporate finance reality—they’d sell BTC if required to service debt—and the market tanked. This proves that in retail-driven markets, violating the "diamond hands" story is more damaging than a weak balance sheet.
  3. TradFi's Glass House. While legacy finance lobbies against crypto’s perceived risks, its own critical infrastructure is failing due to mundane issues like a broken air conditioner, making a powerful, real-time case for decentralized resilience.
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December 2, 2025

Crypto Dumps on BOJ Pivot Signal as Tether, Strategy Turmoil Hit Markets: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Leverage is the Accelerant: The market's violent reaction to predictable macro news reveals a system still prone to painful, cascading deleveraging events driven by over-leveraged players.
  2. Narratives are Fragile Assets: MicroStrategy’s stumble shows that in crypto, narrative integrity is as critical as financial solvency. A violation can trigger sell-offs regardless of underlying fundamentals.
  3. Old Systems Break While New Ones are Built: The CME outage is a powerful, real-time advertisement for decentralized alternatives, underscoring TradFi's fragility even as its gatekeepers resist change.
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