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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

April 23, 2025

The System Is Too Levered To Take Real Pain | Arthur Hayes

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Treasury is the New Fed: Forget obsessing over Powell; watch Treasury Secretary Bessent's moves (buybacks, SLR) for the real liquidity signals.
  2. Bitcoin Wins the Liquidity Game: Persistent global money printing, driven by systemic necessity, provides a structural tailwind for Bitcoin, potentially decoupling it from traditional risk assets like US tech.
  3. Gold Shines Amidst De-Dollarization: Central banks are diversifying reserves into gold, recognizing US Treasuries are no longer truly "risk-free" due to geopolitical weaponization, a trend reinforcing gold's value.
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April 23, 2025

"There is a Meaningful Vibe Change" - Ethereum's Pivot Has Begun & Community Reactions

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Ethereum leadership and community acknowledge the need to strengthen the L1, viewing it as essential for long-term value accrual and ecosystem health.
  2. Focus is moving from finding the perfect "ETH asset" narrative to demonstrating value through "Ethereum the product" – a robust, scalable L1 attracting users and developers.
  3. As the L1 potentially becomes more competitive, L2s will need stronger, unique value propositions beyond simply being cheaper/faster alternatives.
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April 23, 2025

How To Avoid Regulatory Capture In Crypto | Miller Whitehouse-Levine

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Capture Kills Innovation: Regulations creating excessive costs or complexity, even if providing "certainty," are failures if they price out new entrants and smaller players.
  2. Demand Tech-Neutrality: The only sustainable path for crypto regulation involves creating technology-agnostic rules that ensure a fair, level playing field for all participants.
  3. Focus on Macro Impact: Evaluate regulations not just on specifics but on their overall effect on market entry, competition, and innovation – avoid accidentally building impenetrable fortresses for incumbents.
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April 23, 2025

Are there too many tokens?

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Token quantity isn't the crisis: The market has always had more tokens than it can handle; this hasn't fundamentally changed.
  2. Macro calls the shots: Current market weakness and flight-to-quality (Bitcoin > Alts) are overwhelmingly driven by global economic downturn fears.
  3. Don't misinterpret signals: Resist attributing broad market moves solely to internal crypto factors like token supply when obvious external pressures exist.
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April 23, 2025

Why a Trump vs. Fed Showdown Would Crush the U.S. Dollar - Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Dollar Under Fire:** Expect continued US Dollar weakness (DXY potentially heading to 70) as policy uncertainty pushes investors towards alternatives.
  2. **Rotate, Rotate, Rotate:** US large-cap equities face headwinds; scarce assets like Gold, Copper, and notably Bitcoin are the favoured plays in this stagflationary environment.
  3. **Bitcoin: Digital Gold Rising:** Bitcoin's narrative as a non-sovereign store of value and hedge against institutional instability is gaining significant traction, potentially attracting sovereign buyers soon.
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April 22, 2025

How Does Circle Compete Against Other Stablecoins?

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Margin Compression is Real: High distribution payouts ($900M to Coinbase) severely impact profitability.
  2. Banks Are Coming: Impending regulation could unleash bank competition, challenging Circle's market share.
  3. Pivot or Perish: Circle must transition from interest-rate reliance towards transaction fees or B2B partnerships to survive and justify its valuation.
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