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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 11, 2025

Subnets Smashing ATHs, New Subnets We're Watching | TAO Talk

blocmates.

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Subnets Shine Independently: Subnet token prices are detaching from TAO/macro trends, signaling market recognition of their intrinsic value and utility.
  2. Utility & Tooling Drive Growth: Making it easier for miners/devs to participate (e.g., Ready AI's toolkit) and showcasing real-world applications (e.g., AI agents) are key strategies for subnet traction.
  3. Marketing Requires Substance & Transparency: In the dTAO world, public roadmaps, clear communication, and demonstrating tangible progress are crucial for attracting attention and investment.
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April 11, 2025

The Trump Put Is In The Bond Market | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Trump Put is Real:** 5% on the 30-year yield marks the pain threshold triggering policy intervention to prevent systemic collapse.
  2. **Fed Pivot Incoming:** Despite hawkish talk, falling inflation and market stress make Fed cuts and liquidity measures (like ending QT) highly probable by May.
  3. **Bitcoin Favored:** Anticipated global liquidity injections are expected to benefit Bitcoin more than traditional equities as the world adjusts to the new geopolitical and economic landscape.
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April 10, 2025

Market Crash. But at Least We Get a $200K Bitcoin? - The Chopping Block

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bitcoin's Identity Crisis: Bitcoin trades like a risk asset now, needing stimulus for upside, but the ultimate bull case hinges on it becoming a "chaos hedge" if traditional systems falter.
  2. Altcoins Need New Narrative: Alts bleed against Bitcoin as institutions find cleaner leverage elsewhere (BTC options, MSTR); their value proposition beyond speculation needs strengthening.
  3. Crypto Plumbing Gets Real: Major M&A (Ripple/Hidden Road) and stablecoin growth (despite Circle's IPO delay) show the industry is building robust, institutional-grade infrastructure, even amidst market chaos.
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April 10, 2025

Ethereum Co-Founder: How Do We Fix Crypto? | Gavin Wood

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hype Kills Efficiency: Crypto's obsession with hype leads to dramatic misallocation of capital and talent, hindering real innovation.
  2. Utility is Lacking: Many popular platforms primarily facilitate speculation and insider enrichment, falling short of the original Web3 vision.
  3. Refocus on Fundamentals: The industry needs a renewed emphasis on core engineering and building a "viable social operating system," not just marketing narratives.
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April 10, 2025

Can Blockchain Fix AI's "IP Problem"? With Story Protocol co-founder Jason Zhao

The People's AI

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Fix IP's Plumbing: Today's IP system is archaic; Story Protocol leverages blockchain for a transparent, programmable, global alternative.
  2. Monetize AI Training: Instead of fighting AI, creators can use Story to set terms and get paid for allowing their IP to be used in AI training or outputs.
  3. Tokenize Everything: IP is a $61T+ asset class (songs, data, brands); protocols like Story unlock its value through tokenization (IPRWAs) and new licensing models.
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April 9, 2025

Are We In A Bear Market? | Carlos Gonzalez Campo

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Fundamental Disconnect: Solana's network activity (DEX volume, stablecoins) is stronger now than when SOL last traded below $100, despite the recent price plunge.
  2. Diverging Narratives: Bitcoin is trading like non-sovereign money, reacting to macro news, while Solana's price is more closely tied to its Layer 1 competition with Ethereum.
  3. Leverage Alert: Near-record high Solana open interest (in SOL terms) indicates significant leverage, suggesting amplified volatility potential ahead.
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