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AI Podcasts

February 11, 2026

The Autonomous Driving Race Is Already Over w/ Kyle Reidhead

Milk Road AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI-driven automation is creating a new economic reality where vertically integrated AI companies will dominate core industries like transportation and labor, leading to massive deflationary pressures and a re-evaluation of asset value.
  2. Investors should recognize Tesla's FSD and robotics as its primary value drivers, not its EV sales. Focus on its unique data moat and the impending regulatory approvals for unsupervised FSD as key catalysts for a significant market repricing.
  3. Tesla is poised to become a multi-trillion-dollar company by owning the future of autonomous transportation and labor. Understanding this shift is crucial for positioning your portfolio for the next wave of AI-driven wealth creation over the next 6-12 months.
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February 11, 2026

The Autonomous Driving Race Is Already Over w/ Kyle Reidhead

Milk Road AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tesla's core identity has shifted from an EV manufacturer to an AI and autonomous robotics company. This means its competitive advantage isn't in car sales, but in its proprietary neural network and data processing capabilities for self-driving.
  2. Tesla's upcoming robo-taxi network will compete directly with ride-sharing services, not traditional car manufacturers. This means a 10x cheaper service, potentially making car ownership obsolete for many.
  3. Elon Musk's early bet on neural networks over LiDAR for FSD gave Tesla a multi-year lead. This foresight allowed Tesla to build a data moat that competitors cannot replicate quickly.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI infrastructure buildout is moving from speculative intuition to financially engineered certainty, driven by the need to de-risk massive capital investments in volatile hardware markets.
  2. Evaluate your compute procurement and data center buildout strategies through the lens of financial hedging instruments to secure predictable costs and unlock cheaper capital.
  3. Financial products for compute are not just a nice-to-have; they are becoming essential for sustainable growth in AI infrastructure, directly impacting profitability and investment viability over the next 6-12 months.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI compute market is rapidly evolving from a speculative, opaque environment to a financially engineered commodity market, driven by the need for risk mitigation and capital efficiency.
  2. Integrate compute futures and residual value products into your financial planning to de-risk hardware investments and secure more favorable financing terms for AI infrastructure projects.
  3. Quantifying future compute demand and hardware value is no longer optional; it is the critical differentiator for profitable AI infrastructure investment and operation over the next 6-12 months.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI compute market is transitioning from an opaque, intuition-driven capital sink to a financially engineered commodity market. This transition will enable more efficient capital allocation and accelerate infrastructure buildout.
  2. Explore compute futures and residual value products to de-risk your AI infrastructure investments or operational costs. Engage with platforms like Ornn to gain transparency and hedging capabilities for GPUs and memory.
  3. The financialization of compute is not just about trading; it's about providing the certainty and transparency needed to build, finance, and operate the AI data centers of tomorrow, making the entire ecosystem more robust and predictable over the next 6-12 months.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI infrastructure buildout is transitioning from speculative capital to financially engineered, risk-managed investments, driven by predictable costs and asset values.
  2. Evaluate compute procurement and data center investment through a financial lens. Explore hedging instruments like Ornn's futures to lock in costs or secure future asset values.
  3. Financial tools for compute and memory are no longer optional; they are becoming foundational. Integrating these instruments will be critical for competitive advantage and sustainable growth.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI compute market is transitioning from an opaque, intuition-driven capital expenditure model to a commoditized, transparent, and financially engineered asset class. This shift de-risks infrastructure investments and optimizes resource allocation.
  2. Data center operators and large compute buyers should explore futures markets for GPUs and memory to lock in costs or revenues. Investigate residual value products to secure future hardware liquidity and reduce financing costs.
  3. Financial engineering of AI compute unlocks capital. Investors gain new opportunities in de-risked infrastructure. Builders get cheaper capital, clearer profitability, and faster scaling.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI infrastructure market is transitioning from speculative, intuition-driven investment to a financially engineered asset class, driven by the commodification of compute and memory.
  2. Evaluate your compute procurement and data center buildout strategies through a financial lens, leveraging futures and residual value products to hedge against price volatility and secure better financing terms.
  3. Quantifying future compute demand and hardware value is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity for sustainable growth and competitive advantage in the AI era.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Explore Ornn's futures and residual value products to hedge against volatile compute costs or secure future hardware value.
  2. Financial engineering for AI compute is no longer optional.
  3. It is a core component for efficient capital deployment and risk management, directly impacting the viability and growth of AI infrastructure over the next 6-12 months.
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Crypto Podcasts

July 7, 2025

Is Crypto Still The Best Trade?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Altcoin Graveyard Is Bitcoin's Tailwind. Capital is fleeing "useless" tokens and the defunct VC model, creating steady inflows for Bitcoin. The primary trade is now long BTC, short everything else.
  2. From HODL to Tactical Alpha. The days of 100x returns on random tokens are gone. Generating alpha now requires sophisticated strategies like pairs trading, selling options volatility against spot holdings, and capitalizing on short-term macro events.
  3. S&P is the New Dollar, Bitcoin is the New S&P. As the dollar loses its luster, the S&P 500 has become the default savings vehicle. Bitcoin has cemented its role as the premier risk-on asset within that new paradigm—a bet that “probably won’t” fail.
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July 7, 2025

Permissionless: The Next Generation of Consumer Crypto Apps

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Wallets are Dead, Long Live Wallets: The future isn't a separate wallet app. It's an embedded, invisible experience inside the consumer apps themselves, just like friend.tech demonstrated.
  2. From Gatekeepers to Curators: Centralized exchanges are becoming obsolete as gatekeepers. The new frontier is building sophisticated curation engines to help users discover signal in a sea of noise.
  3. AI Agents are the Next Big User Base: The most forward-thinking founders aren't just building for humans; they're building for a future where AI agents drive the majority of on-chain trading volume.
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July 5, 2025

How To Improve Solana's Market Structure | Eugene Chen

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stop Chasing Max Decentralization.** The market has voted with its volume. Users prioritize performance over ideological purity. "Verifiable Finance"—with centralized sequencers but guaranteed withdrawals—is the pragmatic path forward.
  2. **Market Structure Is Destiny.** Inefficient L1s with toxic MEV force sophisticated teams to build workarounds (like the proprietary AMM Sulfi) or entirely new, controlled environments (like Atlas). The base layer's design dictates the quality of applications built on top.
  3. **The Real Game Is Efficient Markets, Not Memecoins.** The long-term vision for crypto finance depends on building infrastructure that can attract institutional capital with fair, reliable, and highly efficient execution. The current system that incentivizes "bad fills" is a dead end.
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July 4, 2025

0xResearch Cross-Post: Crypto Regulation, Breakout Apps, and TradFi’s Impact | Jon Charbonneau

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Go-to-Market > Tech Specs: In the race between new chains, attracting a single breakout app is more critical than marginal performance gains. Value accrues to whoever owns the user relationship.
  2. Bet on Improvable Niches: The biggest startup opportunities are in high-demand but clunky sectors like prediction markets and memecoin launchpads, where superior UX can create a dominant new player.
  3. Look Forward, Not Sideways: Don't get trapped by the "revenue meta." Successful investing requires a forward-looking view of a project’s potential to capture future value, a lesson exemplified by the early thesis for Solana.
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July 4, 2025

It’s A Bull Market But Not The One You Wanted With Rob Hadick & Santiago Santos | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Real Bull Case is Boring.** The most significant trend isn't the next memecoin, but the "boring" migration of real-world finance onto blockchains via stablecoins. The winners will be those who solve for on-chain credit and build seamless user experiences, not just hype.
  2. **Tokenization is a Double-Edged Sword.** While providing access to new assets, current tokenized stocks are riddled with counterparty risk, thin liquidity, and opaque structures. They are a step forward but risk backfiring if not communicated with radical transparency.
  3. **The Altcoin Shakeout is Here.** Institutional interest is hyper-focused, leaving most altcoins without a bid. Protocols must now justify their existence with real revenue and utility, as the era of "liquidity-as-a-product" is over.
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July 4, 2025

Robinhood's Announcement Sets off Stock Tokens Frenzy (Weekly Crypto News)

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tokenized Stocks Are Here, But Imperfect. Major players are live, but the current products are IOUs, not direct equity. The real test will be liquidity, price tracking, and regulatory endurance.
  2. Tom Lee Is Creating the "MicroStrategy for ETH." He's pitching ETH to Wall Street not on decentralist ideals, but as the indispensable settlement layer for the coming stablecoin boom, front-running demand from major banks.
  3. The US Is Pumping Crypto Bags. A massive deficit bill combined with an expected dovish Fed creates a perfect storm for liquidity, positioning assets like BTC and ETH as a necessary hedge against currency debasement.
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