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AI Podcasts

June 3, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 115 - SYNTH Subnet 50 - Bittensor TAO

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Probabilistic Power: Synth’s value lies in modeling uncertainty through probability distributions, not just hitting price targets, making its data highly versatile for sophisticated risk management and AI training.
  2. Incentives Drive Innovation: The high root TAO APY may be stifling subnet growth; reducing it faster could catalyze more capital and innovation across the Bittensor network.
  3. Competition is King: A competitive environment, including potential deregistration for underperforming subnets, is crucial for Bittensor's evolution and for ensuring that TAO emissions reward genuine value creation.
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May 31, 2025

Varimo: Bittensor Subnets, TaoHash, Dynamic Tao, Privacy Coins, Crypto Investing, AI | Ep. 45

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Profit-Taking is Paramount: When you've made life-changing money, change your life – don't let paper gains evaporate.
  2. Bet on Bittensor's Talent: The concentration of high-caliber individuals in the Bittensor ecosystem signals immense potential for disruptive innovation.
  3. Follow the AI Capital: AI is poised for significant capital inflow; identify projects with strong fundamentals and teams within this narrative.
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May 30, 2025

OpenAI, Hyperliquid, and the Internet's Next Growth Phase | Roundup

Bell Curve

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI is the primary internet growth driver; crypto will largely be downstream.
  2. Hyperliquid's app-first L1 strategy and strong fee generation make it a formidable, closely-watched player.
  3. The era of "free money" airdrops is fading, replaced by "skin-in-the-game" token launches and significant institutional capital via treasury vehicles.
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May 30, 2025

Novelty Search May 29, 2025

taostats

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Democratization Unleashed: Subnet 17 radically lowers barriers to 3D content creation, empowering indie developers and non-artists.
  2. Gaussian Splats are Hot: This representation is emerging as a key technology for fast, high-fidelity 3D AI, and Subnet 17 is at the forefront.
  3. Web2 Validation is Key: Partnerships like the Unity "verified solution" status signal BitTensor's growing real-world utility and credibility, presenting opportunities for miners and the TAO ecosystem.
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May 30, 2025

SN17 - 404GEN :: Decentralized AI generated 3D assets

Opentensor Foundation

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Unlocking Creative Potential: 404GEN radically lowers barriers to 3D content creation, enabling faster iteration and new forms of interactive media previously unfeasible for smaller teams or individuals.
  2. Gaussian Splats are Ascendant: This representation is emerging as a powerful alternative for 3D AI, and 404GEN is at the forefront of its practical application and tooling.
  3. BitTensor's Competitive Edge Shines: The subnet's rapid quality improvement and the innovative ELO validation system highlight BitTensor's power to incentivize and coordinate decentralized intelligence towards state-of-the-art results.
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May 30, 2025

Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Build for Behavior Change:** The biggest wins will come from engaging consumers and enabling sustainable health behaviors, an area where tech excels.
  2. **AI is the Leapfrog:** Healthcare can jump directly to AI-driven solutions, bypassing clunky legacy software, especially for service-oriented tasks.
  3. **The Trillion-Dollar Prize is Real:** Whether through full-stack "payvider" models or horizontal platforms, the path to becoming the world's largest company runs through transforming the consumer healthcare experience.
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May 29, 2025

Building a DePIN-powered Shazam for Media with Rumi | Niko Cunningham and Mateusz Poreda

Proof of Coverage Media

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Decentralized Analytics:** Rumi’s DePIN model democratizes media intelligence, offering far richer and more granular data than traditional players like Nielsen.
  2. **Context is King:** The "Shazam for media" capability will fuel a new generation of AI agents and interactive experiences, making media deeply engaging.
  3. **Investor Signal:** The $5M pre-seed (EV3, A16Z CSX) and early traction with industry players like Tivision validate Rumi's approach and market potential.
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May 29, 2025

Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Reliability Demands Real-Time, Human-Centric Testing: Static benchmarks are dead. AI reliability for complex tasks requires continuous evaluation based on diverse, subjective human preferences in real-world scenarios.
  2. Crowd-Sourced Evaluation Outperforms Insular Expertise: The "wisdom of the crowd," as captured by LMArena, provides a more robust and representative measure of AI performance than siloed expert opinions, preventing narrow value-encoding.
  3. Personalized Evaluation is the Next Frontier: Technologies like "Prompt to Leaderboard" show the potential for highly granular, cost-effective, and personalized AI model selection, maximizing utility for individual users and specific tasks.
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May 28, 2025

Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace AI as a Co-Creator: Leverage AI to democratize creation and rapidly iterate, but remember the unique human element—your distinct point of view and intuition—is irreplaceable.
  2. Authenticity Over Algorithm: Whether you're an artist or an entrepreneur, genuine connection comes from unwavering commitment to your core vision, not by chasing fleeting trends or assumed audience desires.
  3. Question Everything, Especially "Answers": Cultivate a mindset of curiosity and critical thinking. AI can provide answers, but true insight comes from deeply engaging with questions and understanding that knowledge is ever-evolving.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 26, 2025

How To Fix Crypto's Token Dilemma

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The transition from passive liquidity to proactive, infrastructure-integrated market making.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize protocols that control the issuance layer rather than those just providing a venue for existing assets.
  3. The Bottom Line: Liquidity is a commodity, but distribution and issuance are the only durable moats in a high-speed SVM environment.
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December 26, 2025

Where Solana is Better Than Bitcoin & Ethereum

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "Store of Value" to "Medium of Utility." As networks mature, the market will value throughput and censorship resistance over simple supply caps.
  2. Allocate capital toward ecosystems with the highest developer activity and transaction density. Focus on chains building hardware-level censorship resistance rather than those just tweaking economic parameters.
  3. The next three years will prove that the most useful tool wins the money war. If Solana achieves its roadmap, its asset becomes the default unit of account for the digital economy.
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December 24, 2025

12 Big Crypto Predictions for 2026

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The movement from "Crypto as an Asset" to "Crypto as Infrastructure" where public ledgers settle everything from payroll to global equities.
  2. Prioritize protocols with explicit fee-sharing or buy-and-burn mechanisms that capture on-chain revenue as value moves to the application layer.
  3. 2026 is the year the "DeFi Mullet" (Fintech in the front, DeFi in the back) becomes the standard operating procedure for the global economy.
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December 24, 2025

Why This Isn’t A Bubble & Early 2026 Looks Like Goldilocks | Warren Pies

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The migration from cyclical to software-driven earnings creates a higher floor for valuations that traditional bears ignore.
  2. Accumulate industrial and precious metals before the market prices in the late 2026 overheating phase.
  3. The path to S&P 8,000 is paved with high margins and a Fed that cannot afford to stop easing.
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December 24, 2025

Why It Matters That Crypto Is Not Purely for Degens Anymore: DEX in the City

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Crypto is adapting to the real world rather than forcing the world to adapt to it.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Build for institutional compatibility by integrating modular compliance tools before they become mandatory.
  3. The Bottom Line: The death of "crypto" as a niche category is the birth of crypto as a global standard.
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December 23, 2025

Is Now a Good Time to Buy BTC? Or Should You Wait for THIS Setup? - Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Deregulation is the new meta-theme. As the "Empire Strikes Back," traditional giants like Visa and Stripe will integrate crypto rails and turn the tech into invisible "TCP/IP" for finance.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor M&A activity during holiday periods. Look for "quality supply" consolidation where winners absorb the IP of failing projects.
  3. The Bottom Line: 2026 is the target for a high-quality rally. The current shakeout is a feature designed to filter out the "nonsense supply" before the $40 trillion RIA channel arrives.
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