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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 17, 2025

Bryan Pellegrino on Building the Crypto Rails for AI Agents

The People's AI

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Agent Volume Tsunami:** AI agents will perform vastly more blockchain operations (especially payments) than humans very soon, demanding scalable infrastructure.
  2. **Crypto is the Payment Layer:** Forget decentralized compute (for now); crypto's killer app for AI is providing seamless, low-cost global payment rails.
  3. **Build Generalizable Rails:** Success requires building adaptable, fundamental infrastructure (like Layer Zero aims to be) rather than solving fleeting, specific problems in this fast-changing landscape.
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April 17, 2025

Is Bitcoin A Safe Haven?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Watch IBIT/SPY:** A breakout above 0.1 in the IBIT/SPY ratio could signal Bitcoin decoupling and trigger major capital inflows.
  2. **Bitcoin > Gold (Long Term):** Bitcoin offers a superior potential upside (5-10x) compared to gold (2x) over the next decade, though its path will be far more volatile.
  3. **Diversify with Gold:** Adding gold can stabilize a portfolio (higher Sharpe), enabling investors to potentially hold larger, more volatile Bitcoin positions for long-term gains.
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April 17, 2025

Building the Future of Payments: Plasma Chain’s Global Go-To-Market Strategy

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Dual Strategy is Key: Plasma Chain attacks the market from both the crypto-native angle (liquidity, devs) and a targeted "ground game" (local payment integration).
  2. Targeted Regional Rollout: Specific markets like South America (El Salvador, Argentina) and Turkey are prioritized for initial real-world integration efforts.
  3. Quality Beats Quantity: Ecosystem success is measured by the value of a few core protocols, not the sheer number of deployed applications day one.
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April 16, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 105 - SONIC $S ))) ) ) ) )

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **User Experience Trumps TPS:** Sonic prioritizes smooth, responsive interactions and sub-second finality over chasing headline transaction-per-second numbers.
  2. **Solving Onboarding is the Killer App:** Native account and gas abstraction aim to eliminate the wallet/gas friction that plagues crypto adoption, combined with 90% fee share making Sonic attractive for builders.
  3. **The Future is Invisible:** Sonic's 2026 goal is to make the underlying blockchain utterly seamless and invisible to the end user, enabling the next wave of Web3 applications in gaming, social, and beyond.
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April 16, 2025

Will We Bottom Soon?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Trade the Edges, Hold the Cash: In this high-volatility chop-fest, avoid the middle ground. Take profits (20-50%) and keep powder dry for inevitable dislocations and extreme lows.
  2. Bet on Real Yield & Value Accrual: Prioritize projects like Hyperliquid that generate revenue and return value to tokens. Consider pair trades (long RWA/short ETH) to bet on promising sectors without full market exposure.
  3. Macro Shift Fuels Long-Term Bull: Geopolitical realignment (US/China, multipolarity) creates short-term chaos but potentially fuels a decade-long run for alternative reserve assets like Gold and especially Bitcoin. Brace for volatility, but position for the long game.
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April 16, 2025

How Bankless is Robinhood? - CEO Vlad Tenev #crypto #robinhood #stocks #investing #markets

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. No Charter, Still Connected: Robinhood operates without a banking charter but strategically uses bank partnerships, highlighting a hybrid approach.
  2. Fiat Bridge: Crypto's mainstream adoption currently depends heavily on traditional banks acting as the crucial fiat-to-crypto gateway.
  3. Converging Future: Expect greater integration between TradFi and crypto, spurred by regulatory clarity and the potential emergence of specialized "crypto banks."
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