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Digital asset treasury companies are sitting on tens of billions in crypto, but it's mostly idle. That's changing fast. In today's episode, were joined by Mike Silagadze, CEO of Ether. Fi & Avichal Garg, GP at Electric Capital, to discuss: - Why DATs Will Send DeFi Into a Growth Mode Frenzy - What Assets Avichal Is Positioning In - Will There Be 5,000 New Crypto Billionaires by 203...

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We sit down with Tarek Mansour, co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, to cover: - From Goldman & Citadel to Building Kalshi - Why Every Question About the Future Deserves a Market - The $2B Vision: Becoming the Largest Financial Market - How Crypto Enables Permissionless Innovation - Prediction Markets x Streaming: The Future of Media - Kalshi Echo: 600+ Devs Building on Their Platform --- Website: ht...

Today we chat with Emad Mostaque to cover: -Why Open Source AI Is Non-Negotiable -Private Portable AI vs. Corporate Data Harvesting -Foundation Coin: A New Economic Model for AI -Organic Datasets & Cultural Bias in Training -His 50% P(doom) on AI Existential Risk -The Revenue Evil Curve Hitting ChatGPT -Post-Scarcity Economics: Who Gets Left Behind? The Rollup --- Website: https://therollup.co...

Today we sit down with Paul Faecks to cover: -Why Plasma's Launch Avoided All the FUD -280M Binance Users Getting On-Chain Yields -The $SPL Token Economics Strategy -Plasma One: Neo-Banking for the Unbanked -Competing With Visa at $50B+ Market Cap -Why "At Scale" Will Look Different in 5 Years -Tether Partnership & USDt Dominance The Rollup --- Website: https://therollup.co/ Spot...

In today's episode, we sit down with Carl Vogel of 6thMan Ventures and Bhau Kotecha of Paxos Labs to explore: -Tether's $500B Valuation: Bullish or Bearish? -AI Agents & Stablecoin Payment Rails -Stablecoins as US Derivatives Collateral -The Path to $1 Trillion Stablecoin Supply -Private Credit & On-Chain Lending Boom -Plasma Mainnet & The Stablecoin Chain Wars -Why Regulatory...

Today we sit down with Jesse Pollak to cover: -How Base Flips the 95% Platform Tax on Creators -Control the Stream: Viewers as Remote Controllers -Creator Coins Done Right vs. Wrong -Why Mini-Apps Are the Future of Interactive Media -Building Creator Capital Markets from Scratch -The Emergence of Onchain Streaming Economies --- Website: https://therollup.co/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/...

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We chat with Carlos Domingo to cover: -RLUSD Partnership: Instant Liquidity for BlackRock & VanEck -Why T+2 Settlement Is Becoming Obsolete -Tokenized Treasuries as High-Quality Collateral -Multi-Chain Strategy vs Payment Chain Wars -How 24/7 Markets Will Replace Traditional Hours -The Future of Atomic Settlement Let's dive in. The Rollup --- Website: https://therollup.co/ Spotify: https:/...

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In today's episode, we sit down with Daniel Matuszewski of CMS Capital to cover: -Why 2022's Credit Crunch Changed Everything -DATs: The New Market Drivers (And Their Risks) -The "Revenue Meta" vs Meme Coin Madness -Hyper Liquid's Threat to Binance -Coming Altcoin ETF Flood -Stablecoin Infrastructure Plays -Why Macro Matters Less Than Internal Flows Website: https://therollup...

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In today's episode, we chat with Tim Beiko, Josh Stark, and Dankrad Feist to cover: -Why Ethereum Is Refocusing on L1 After Years of L2 Emphasis -The Coordination Challenge That Could Make or Break Ethereum -Balancing DeFi Experimentation with Institutional Requirements -What ZK Really Solves (Spoiler: Not Everything) -How TradFi Entry Changes Development Priorities -Can Neutrality Survive When Co...

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In today's first episode of AI Supercycle, our premiere AI show, Illia Polosukhin, a co-creator of transformers at Google and NEAR co-founder, joins us to unveil the biggest trend in AI over the next 5 years: - Why OpenAI Reading Your Chats Is Just The Beginning - The AOL Monopoly Problem Coming to AI - How "Sleeper Agents" Hide in Your LLMs - NEAR's Private, Verifiable AI Soluti...

For the first episode of Stabled Up, we are joined by Sam Kazemian, CEO of Frax, to discuss: - The Two Types of Stablecoins That Will Persist - Stable vs. Arc. vs. Tempo vs. Plasma - Why Tether's USAT Changes The Playing Field - How Lower Interest Rates Will Crush Most Issuers - Inside The Hyperliquid USDH Battle - Frax's Dual-Token Strategy (frxUSD + sfrxUSD) - How Stablecoins Could Help...

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Payments are becoming crypto's most important use case. In today's episode, we sit down with Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, to explore how Polygon is positioning itself as the default payment network with subsecond finality. Marc reveals an unannounced integration with one of the world's largest payment processors and explains why specialized chains will dominate over general-purpos...

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What happens when crypto's biggest stablecoin issuer faces competition on crypto's hottest trading platform? Today we sit down with Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, right after the USDH proposal drama. Jeremy explains why Circle chose native USDC over creating a new ticker, their plans to become true stakeholders through HYPE purchases and validator participation, and why the platform play s...

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ZK-SNARKs are moving from experimental tech to Ethereum's core infrastructure faster than most realize. Today we sit down with Justin Drake from the Ethereum Foundation to explore the "Giga Gas Frontier", his vision for 1 billion gas per second on L1, privacy wormholes bringing anonymity directly to Ethereum, and why collaborative proving networks unlock massive throughput. We cover...

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The biggest capital in the world needs guardrails to come onchain. Today we sit down with Sean Li from Magic Labs to explore Newton Protocol's policy engine - the infrastructure that could unlock institutional adoption. We cover how Web3 policies lag behind Web2's dynamic systems and Sean's vision for autonomous agents operating within expressive guardrails. Let's jump into it. The...