The FORUM

SpaceX is roadshowing this week at a $1.77 trillion valuation. Anthropic just raised at $965 billion. OpenAI at $852 billion.600 current and former OpenAI employees have already sold $6.6 billion in company stock through secondary markets ahead of the IPO. Bank of America is calling this a large-scale transfer of accumulated risk from early investors to the public market. Three companies. Over $24...

Communities across America are demanding moratoriums on data centers. Kevin O'Leary is backing a 40,000-acre project in drought-stricken Utah. When residents pushed back on water and environmental concerns, he said the protesters were "bused in" and suggested China was behind the opposition. Meanwhile, @nvidia just launched chips for orbital data centers in space. And is also helping...

Meta is tracking every click and keystroke its employees make to train the AI replacing them. While cutting 8,000 jobs during its fastest revenue growth in five years. Oracle made workers train their own replacements. Then clawed back their unvested stock on the way out. Coinbase fired people for not adopting AI fast enough. Then cancelled 6,000 open roles it planned to hire.882 tech jobs are disa...

The US vs Europe debate has taken over X.Wages, healthcare, work culture, quality of life, where to build a company. Everyone has a take and most of them are incomplete. We are bringing together founders, investors, and operators who have actually lived and built on both sides to work through the real question: where do you actually belong in 2026?

Bitcoin 2026 just wrapped in Las Vegas. The sitting FBI Director. The Acting Attorney General. White House crypto advisors. All on stage celebrating Bitcoin. Meanwhile, back home, the community is fighting over whether to freeze Satoshi's coins, fork the network, and rewrite the rules of a system that was built so nobody could rewrite the rules. Something has shifted. And not everyone thinks i...

Jensen Huang says AGI is here. Marc Andreessen says AGI is here. Dario Amodei says it's coming in months. None of them are using the same definition. And every single one of them has billions riding on you believing it. We're asking the question nobody wants to sit with: has AGI actually arrived, or has the finish line just been moved by the people closest to it?

Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin's encryption in minutes. A Nobel physicist just confirmed it. Google published the paper. And 33% of all Bitcoin in existence sits in vulnerable addresses right now. Q-Day is no longer a thought experiment. Join us live for ep. 47 of The FORUM this week as we get into what quantum computing actually means for crypto, global security, and the internet econo...

Arcanum Ventures is back with another live panel discussion. This week on The FORUM we are asking the question nobody in tech wants to answer honestly: What actually killed the metaverse? Meta spent $40B+ on Reality Labs, changed its name, and then quietly walked away. Billions in VC followed. Brands built virtual storefronts nobody visited. And then almost overnight, everyone pretended it never h...

Arcanum Ventures is back with our newly rebranded panel discussions, with some of the best and brightest builders in the tech startup realm. Social media may be becoming financial infrastructure. Meta and X are exploring stablecoin payments across apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and X. If money moves through the same platforms as messages, what does that mean for crypto adoption and the i...

Is the #internet becoming a landfill of low-effort #content? We discuss the "retarded genius" paradox of #AI, how hiring managers are using hidden text to catch lazy applicants, and why the next phase of the "#Agentic Economy" depends on human-in-the-loop quality control. Where do you personally draw the line between useful AI assistance and "AI slop"? ---------------...

The way we use the internet is changing fast. Search engines feel dated. Browsers are fading. AI is becoming the interface to the web. This Space is about what happens when we stop browsing and start asking. Who controls discovery? What gets lost? How will the internet itself evolve? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

AI agents are back, thanks in part to Clawdbot/Moltbot. Local models. Personal bots. Full delegation. This Space is about the return of agentic AI and why everyone suddenly wants software to act on their behalf, and why it may be dangerous. From running locally on a Mac mini to bots managing work, decisions, and attention. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------...

In Episode 41 of The Boom Room: Spaces , Melo and Izzy dive into the high-stakes world of #digital censorship and the concept of " Freedom of Reach ." From DIY radio stations and Bluetooth mesh networks to drones and satellite phones, our panel of experts explores how information survives when the grid goes dark. We discuss the tech behind staying connected—like Tor, VPNs, and #Bitchat—w...

Melo and Izzy host a heavy-hitting panel to tackle the growing dominance of Big Tech and its "scary" convergence with government surveillance. From the disappearance of the open web to the "necessary evil" of social media platforms, our guests from IvyCyber , GlobalStake , and BitMart Exchange discuss how algorithms now shape our news, #politics, and daily survival. We explore...

Melo and Sasha are back to ring in the new year with a powerhouse panel of founders and consultants to forecast the 2026 landscape. In this kickoff episode, we dive deep into the narratives that will define the next 12 months: the evolution of # prediction markets , the critical need for # data authenticity in an AI-driven world, and the institutional shift toward Real World Asset (#RWA) tokenizat...

In our final "Boom Room" session of the year, Melo, Sasha, and Izzy host a deep dive into the "wild" and "opportunistic" landscape of 2025. From the controversial #Trump-Melania #memecoin launch and the "crime season" of political grifting to the sobering fallout of the 10/10 flash crash , our panel reflects on the lessons learned from a tumultuous year. We...

Is the AI craze a revolution or a financial ticking time bomb? This week on X Spaces, we tackle the "billion-dollar valuation with zero product" phenomenon and the creative accounting practices keeping tech giants afloat. We break down the "Too Big to Fail" status of #Nvidia, the rise of inefficient "prompt wrapper" startups, and the surprising geopolitical push for #...

Is privacy the next major narrative in crypto, or has it always been an underlying necessity? We tackle the biggest misconceptions surrounding digital privacy, from the belief that encryption automatically equals security to the dangerous myth of having "nothing to hide." Our experts debunk the idea that most commercial VPNs truly protect your data and expose the reality of industrial-sc...

The rise of generative AI has fueled the "Dead Internet Theory," sparking concerns over media quality, information authenticity, and the very nature of what we consume online. We explore how AI is fundamentally changing our media diet, from deeply curated feeds to the proliferation of AI-generated content that blurs the lines between fact and fiction . Hear from experts on their personal...

October, traditionally seen as "#Uptober" in crypto, delivered a disappointing month of sideways price action. We dissect why the expected rally didn't happen, focusing on key shifts in the market. Is it due to retail investors finally tiring of being exit #liquidity for institutional players and flawed yield-generating protocols ? Or is the market now so intertwined with traditional...

The recent # AWS outage exposed the Internet's fragility and raised tough questions for the Web3 community . With a third of the internet relying on Amazon Web Services (and over half on a few major providers), why are projects aiming for # decentralization still dependent on these very centralized #cloud giants ? We analyze the DNS issue that caused the crash, discuss Big Tech's efforts t...

The idea of the # NetworkState is gaining traction as a solution to failing 20th-century institutions, but what exactly is it? It's more than just a #DAO or a co-living community. We dive into how these new societies move from online communities to securing legal #autonomy and even sovereignty with physical land across the globe (the "archipelago" model). Hear from founders and build...

Welcome to The Arcanum Ventures Spaces! We're diving deep into the plumbing of crypto trading: Centralized Exchanges (CEX), #Decentralized Exchanges (#DEX), and the mechanics of Perpetual Futures (#Perps) and Indices. Our panel breaks down the actual difference between CEX and DEX, why decentralized trading is on the rise, and how new non-custodial models are blurring the lines. As centralized...

Our panel debates which bureaucratic nightmares—from border patrol and slow permitting to reducing government corruption in procurement—should be the first to be replaced by #AI for maximum efficiency. We discuss countries actively leading the way (like the UAE and the US tech giants) versus the critical need for robust ethical frameworks and regulation to prevent social harm. Should governments s...

Our panel dives into the high-stakes world of #stablecoin infrastructure and drama. We dissect the battle between #USDC and #Tether , the rise of yield-bearing models challenging centralized ' glorified transfer fees ,' and the growing convergence of #TradFi and #DeFi . The discussion covers everything from the massive market opportunity for stability to the strangest collateral backing a...