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The BOOM ROOM by Arcanum Ventures
by Arcanum Ventures
The BOOM ROOM is the venture capital podcast for founders, funders, and deep tech enthusiasts building the future. Hosted by Arcanum Ventures — a pre-seed and seed stage VC fund focused on Europe — we go deep on AI, deep tech, robotics, space, blockchain, and what it really takes to build and fund frontier companies. Each week we sit down with the investors, founders, and operators shaping the next wave of European and global innovation. If you're raising a round, deploying capital, or just obsessed with where technology is going, this is your show. Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Yo
Episodes
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ROUNDUP: A $5,000 Bribe, a Folding iPhone, and AI Solving Math We Couldn't
If the GOP wins the midterms, Donald Trump proposes a $5,000 adult stimulus totaling $1.35 trillion, arriving as the US adds 162,000 jobs in August with 4.1% unemployment. Trump told a Republican convention in Dallas that every American adult would get a $5,000 "dividend" if Republicans hold both...
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ROUNDUP: America Is Alienating Everyone, and Canada Is Next
The U.S. is entering a new economic war, and the fallout is reshaping global markets. Trade relations between the U.S. and Canada collapsed with 50% tariffs slapped on $20B of Canadian goods.Nvidia delivered a staggering $96.2B in quarterly revenue (+106% YoY), with $89B coming strictly from data...
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ROUNDUP: Is the US AI Ultimatum Changing Everything?
The United States drafted a letter to 35 countries telling them they may have to choose between the American AI ecosystem and China's, and not both.The initiative is called Pax Silica, built around cooperation on AI models, semiconductors, and critical minerals. Roughly two dozen countries have...
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INTERVIEW: Designing Trust: Thomas Malone On Building The Brand Behind USDC
Thomas Malone joined Circle as employee number 60. The company had a logo and a landing page. Six years later he'd co-founded the brand behind USDC and watched it through an IPO.He's now brand and design lead at Veda, building the identity for a company doing for vaults what Circle did for...
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ROUNDUP: Musk Is Building a $119 Billion Chip Fortress in Texas
Tesla and SpaceX are building a $119 billion semiconductor complex in Texas so Musk never has to depend on Nvidia again, Nvidia is building its own trillion-parameter model to compete with its own customers, and China's Unitree robot IPO got oversubscribed 8,000 times over. Carmelo and Sasha get...
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ROUNDUP: The Stock Market Stopped Making Sense
The physical, financial, and digital compute layers are colliding under extreme market volatility. Capital allocation in 2026 is enforcing a brutal divide: revenue-generating, hard-compute infrastructure is pulling away, while legacy model safety narratives are unraveling under operational…
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INTERVIEW: Benzinga's Andrew Lebos On Becoming The Data Layer For 400 Brokerages
In this Boom Room interview, Andrew Lebbos, SVP of Data Licensing at Benzinga, reveals how proprietary financial data, prediction markets, and AI training models are redefining retail trading and institutional crypto asset tokenization. Andrew Lebbos scaled the company's licensing operations…
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ROUNDUP: Rogue AI, Flying Burritos, and the Robot Cold War
An AI agent breaks containment and hacks companies, Claude Opus 5 lies and colludes to dominate economic benchmarks, the FCC bans Chinese humanoid robots, and BNY tokenizes $8.6 Trillion in Wall Street fund assets. We are rapidly moving from software assisting human decision-making to autonomous...
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ROUNDUP: The First Real Skynet Moment Just Happened | BOOM ROOM Weekly Roundup
Anthropic files for a $1T IPO, an OpenAI agent escapes containment to launch a live attack, and Citadel drops $400M into Crypto.com. US Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese open-source models (like Kimi K3) over IP theft, endangering the 45% of US enterprise token usage...
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ROUNDUP: Apple Is Suing OpenAI and It's Getting Ugly
Apple sues OpenAI over 400 defected engineers, SWIFT launches a massive 17-bank blockchain rail, and Meta deploys custom AI silicon. The US-Iran ceasefire is long gone, with Central Command executing its fifth consecutive day of strikes across 80+ targets, including Greater Tunb Island and Kharg...
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ROUNDUP: The Stock Market Is Lying to You
The Dow just hit an all-time high. Michael Burry is shorting AI. Capital is rotating out of tech at the fastest pace since March. Carmelo and Sasha break down the disconnect between what markets are saying and what the economy is actually doing, plus the biggest stories across AI, robotics…
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ROUNDUP: The US Just Made Quantum Computing a National Priority
The Department of Energy just committed to delivering the world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2028. The talent gap makes the timeline almost impossible. Carmelo and Sasha break down what it means and why quantum is suddenly a national priority. Also covered: US-Iran ceasefire…
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ROUNDUP: Nvidia's Banned Chips Selling for 3X Price on China's Black Market
The global AI chip market just faced its first violent divergence. While South Korea’s KOSPI index suffered a brutal 10% single-day crash on fears of peak semiconductor demand, Micron smashed historic records, printing a 346% revenue increase that completely flipped the script.OpenAI and Broadcom...
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Fighters Were Paid in Trump's Cryptocurrency on the White House Lawn | BOOM ROOM Weekly Roundup
Global macro frameworks are shattering. This week, an unexpected US-Iran peace deal triggers a 5% drop in oil.Meanwhile, tech is moving at a blistering speed: SpaceX went public, jumped 56%, and immediately scooped up Cursor for $60B.But the biggest shockwave? The US government forcibly shutting...
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The Strait of Hormuz Is Open and Closed at the Same Time | BOOM ROOM Weekly Roundup
The Iran war escalated again overnight. The US struck Iranian military and surveillance sites for the second consecutive night, in response to a downed American helicopter in the Gulf days earlier. Iran fired back at US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan with 12 ballistic missiles. Iran now…
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INTERVIEW: The Man Who Named AGI Says We're Doing AI Wrong [ft. Peter Voss @ AIGO.ai]
Episode 36 of the BOOM ROOM is here with special guest Peter Voss of AIGO.ai.Peter Voss co-coined the term AGI in 2001. He has spent over 20 years building toward it. And his assessment of where the industry is today is blunt: virtually nobody working on AI is actually working on AGI, and the…
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Hedge Funds Bought $86 Billion in Stocks While Iran Bombed an Airport | BOOM ROOM Weekly Roundup
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, but it cannot override the laws of physics or thermodynamics.If you are treating the modern macroeconomic landscape as separate isolated verticals, geopolitics here, AI capital expenditures there, energy infrastructure over there,...
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Kevin Warsh Called For Regime Change at the Fed. Now He Runs It. | BOOM ROOM Weekly Roundup
In Episode 20 of the Weekly Recap, Sasha and Melo break down a hyper-volatile week across macro finance, geopolitics, and frontier technology.We kick off with a historic changing of the guard as Kevin Warsh is officially sworn in as Fed Chair by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the White...
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The Investment You Were Never Allowed to Make [ft. Cathal Donnellan @ NexStox]
For decades, the best-yielding assets were reserved for institutions, accredited investors, and high-net-worth individuals. Retail investors were locked out. Tokenized real world assets are changing that and NexStox is building the platform to make it happen.Cathal Donnellan, President of…
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Google Just Launched a 24/7 AI Agent. Apple Has Six Weeks to Respond. | BOOM ROOM Weekly Roundup
The next phase of the AI boom isn’t an algorithmic problem. It’s a physical infrastructure crisis.While a massive 71% of Americans oppose local data centers due to grid strains and extreme environmental footprints, China has fully commercialised a $226 million, offshore wind-powered underwater…
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The Summit About Who Controls AI, Robots, and Oil for the Next Decade | BOOM ROOM Roundup
The global power map is being redrawn in Beijing.In Episode 18, Sasha and Melo break down Trump’s high-stakes arrival in China alongside Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Larry Fink.Plus, we cover the explosive updates from the Musk vs. Altman trial, where Sam Altman alleges Elon wanted 90% of OpenAI...
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Elon Helped His Enemy. Iran Bombed a Data Center. Apple Lied About Siri. | BOOM ROOM Roundup
This week Elon Musk gave Anthropic access to his Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis — 300 megawatts of compute capacity and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. The same man who called Anthropic a company that "hates Western civilization" in February. The same supercomputer built to power Grok, his direct...
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Robot Soldiers in Ukraine? Drone Attacks on AWS? Here's What You Missed
Elon Musk took the stand in Oakland this week to sue OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft for $130 billion — accusing them of stealing a charity he helped found in 2015. The same day, the Wall Street Journal reported OpenAI missed its own revenue targets and the CFO warned the company...
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SpaceX Spent $10 Billion on a Coding Tool and Anthropic Can't Keep Its Secrets | BOOM ROOM Roundup
The Strait of Hormuz opened for 48 hours this week. Markets hit all-time highs. Then the US seized an Iranian cargo ship and Iran closed it again.Same week: Trump's Fed chair nominee told the Senate he won't be anyone's sock puppet — and still got blocked by his own party. SpaceX struck a deal...
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The US Blockaded Iran, Threatened the Fed, and Stocks Hit an All-Time High | BOOM ROOM Roundup
While the geopolitical floor burns, the AI ceiling is reaching the stratosphere.In Episode 14, Sasha and Melo break down the fallout of the collapsed peace talks that sent oil surging 8.5% to $104.82.Plus, we cover the dark side of the boom: the federal lawsuit against xAI for methane pollution…
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BOOM ROOM: Interview with Ben Nadareski and Ryan Day @ Solstice Finance (Ep. 32)
Ben Nadareski is the Co-Founder and CEO of Solstice Finance, an institutional-grade yield protocol built natively on Solana. Before founding Solstice, Ben led the first crypto-derivative trades with global banks as VP of Global Trading at Galaxy Digital, advanced strategic investments in digital...
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Iran Wants Bitcoin. OpenAI Bought a Podcast. Anthropic Just Hiked Prices 50x. | BOOM ROOM Roundup
This week the world changed in ways most people haven't fully processed yet.A sovereign nation-state built a Bitcoin payment system to control one of the world's most critical oil shipping lanes. The US and Iran declared a ceasefire on Tuesday night and markets exploded. By Wednesday morning it…
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BOOM ROOM: Interview with Ryan "Phunky" Haczynski @ GlobalStake (Ep. 31)
Sasha and Carmelo of Arcanum Ventures sit down with Ryan Haczynski, better known in the Web3 space as "Phunky."Ryan Haczynski spent 20 years as an IB educator before making one of the more unlikely pivots in Web3 -- from the classroom to blockchain infrastructure. Today he is Head of Protocol...
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The AGI admission that spooked the entire industry | BOOM ROOM Weekly Roundup
This week: Anthropic wins a First Amendment case against the Pentagon, their most powerful AI model leaks before launch, Jensen Huang declares AGI is here, Oracle fires 30,000 people by email at 6am the same quarter they posted record profits, and humans head to the moon for the first time in 54...
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The $73B Metaverse Collapse Nobody's Talking About
We just witnessed a complete macro regime change in 30 days.While the "Metaverse" is being quietly unplugged after a $73B loss, the physical world is being rebuilt. We cover NASA’s $20B Ignition plan for a permanent moon base, Elon Musk’s $20B "Terafab" semiconductor bet in Austin, and Peter...
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NVIDIA's $1 Trillion Bet on Orbital AI
The "Inference Inflection Point" has arrived, and it’s moving from our pockets to the stars.In Episode 10, Sasha and Melo break down the massive shifts at NVIDIA GTC 2026, where Jensen Huang projected a $1 trillion revenue boom and unveiled Vera Rubin Space-1—solar-powered AI compute modules...
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Why Companies Are Fighting Back Against Military AI
Welcome back to the BOOM ROOM Weekly Recap, where we break down the biggest stories shaping technology, markets, AI, crypto, and the startup world.This week’s episode covers a wild mix of macro shocks and technological breakthroughs.We discuss how the expanding Iran conflict rattled global…
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Why Markets Are About To Get Much Worse
The Strait of Hormuz is closed, oil is pushing $85, and OpenAI just raised more money than the GDP of several nations.Global markets, #AI, and #geopolitics all collided this week.In Episode 9 of the Arcanum Ventures Weekly Recap, Sasha and Carmelo break down one of the most chaotic weeks across...
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The Most Important Week of 2026 So Far
In this week’s Arcanum Ventures Recap, we break down the moment #AI officially entered its deployment era.The Pentagon issued an ultimatum to #Anthropic over its safety red lines. NVIDIA printed $68.1B in Q4 revenue and continues to carry the AI trade. Tesla is shifting Fremont toward Optimus…
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Disney Just Went to War With AI
AI just ran into Hollywood.In this episode, we break down the escalating conflict between #Disney and ByteDance’s #seedance the legal pressure mounting around generative #artificialintelligence video tools, and what it means for the future of intellectual property.We explore:Why this copyright...
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$2 Trillion Wiped Out + AI Expert's Dire Warning | Tech & Markets Feb 6-13
Record-breaking layoffs meeting a desperate pivot to nuclear-powered scale. In Episode 5 of Weekly Recap, Sasha and Melo dive into the structural shift defining the Q1 2026 markets. While the U.S. labor market added 130,000 jobs, U.S. firms simultaneously announced 108,435 layoffs in January...
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INTERVIEW: Anna Mikeda @ Glass Umbrella, Inc. (Ep. 30)
In this fascinating Boom Room episode, Sasha and Carmelo of Arcanum Ventures sit down with Anna Mikeda, a pioneering psychologist and AI psychology engineer.With over a decade of experience blending Eastern mindfulness (meditation, qigong) with Western therapy, Anna is now at the forefront of...
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Is This The Top For the AI Hype Cycle
The week when everything broke at once.Markets whiplashed on Fed uncertainty, Trump’s new chair nominee, and a historic flush across gold, silver, and crypto. At the same time, Elon quietly stitched together a trillion dollar space and AI empire, and Washington walked straight into a fight over...
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RECAP: Nobody Is Ready for How Fast AI Is Moving
The Doomsday Clock is ticking, and the markets are rotating into "Hard Truths."In Episode 3 of Weekly Recap, Sasha and Carmelo break down a week where Gold smashed a historic $5,296/oz and the "Clarity Act" face-off between Brian Armstrong and the US Senate reached a breaking point. We dive into...
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Tech Narratives That Will Dominate This Year
2025 was the year of the experiment. 2026 is the year of the endpoint.In this definitive Arcanum Ventures 2026 Thesis, Sasha and Carmelo break down the high-conviction narratives that are moving from "speculative" to "mission-critical."We’re moving past the "Real Estate tokenization" pipe dreams…
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RECAP: THIS IS WAR, AI Chips, Compute, and Global Power Are Colliding
This week, power escalated.From Greenland becoming a geopolitical flashpoint to AI chip supply chains under threat, ads entering ChatGPT, and the race to control compute and infrastructure, Episode 2 of our Weekly Recap breaks down how geopolitics, AI, and markets are colliding faster than most...
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RECAP: What Actually Mattered in Tech, AI, Crypto, and Markets
The world of #finance, #tech, and #investing just had its most chaotic week of 2026 so far. From Jerome Powell claiming political intimidation from the #trump administration to #Google essentially "buying" the future of #Apple Intelligence, Sasha and Carmelo break down the signals amidst the…
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INTERVIEW: Zack Shapiro - Managing Partner @ Rains Law (Ep. 29)
In this Boom Room episode, Sasha and Carmelo of Arcanum Ventures speak with Zack Shapiro, Managing Partner at Rains Law and Head of Policy at the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI). Zack, a Yale Law Alumnus, brings a rare blend of deep legal expertise and technical understanding of crypto to the...
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INTERVIEW: Mitchell Amador - Founder @ Immunefi (Ep. 28)
Mitchell Amador has spent the last 6 years on the front line of crypto security. As founder and CEO of Immunefi, he has helped secure more than 100 billion dollars of #digitalassets, prevented over 25 billion dollars in hacks, and enabled white hat hackers to earn more than $116 million in...
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INTERVIEW: Jeffrey Tchui - Hedera Foundation
In this deep-dive Boom Room interview, we sit down with Jeffrey Tchui, Vice President and APAC Head of Ecosystem at the Hedera Foundation. Hedera is the enterprise-grade public distributed ledger, powered by the unique hashgraph consensus and governed by a rotating council of global giants like...
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INTERVIEW: Jeff Cafolla - Earned Network
In this episode of the Boom Room by Arcanum Ventures, we sit down with Jeff Cafolla, founder of Earn Network, to unpack the state of DeFi yield infrastructure and the gap between what’s promised and what’s actually delivered.Jeff shares his crypto origin story, lessons learned through cycles, and...
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INTERVIEW: Mohamed Ezeldin - President of Open Campus
In this thought-provoking Boom Room episode, Sasha and Carmelo of Arcanum Ventures welcome Mohamed Ezeldin, Head of Tokenomics at Animoca Brands and President of Open Campus. Dive into the mind of a mathematician turned economist who has been a driving force behind token strategies for giants…
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INTERVIEW: Fabrizio Giabardo - Founder at Legion
In this Boom Room episode, Sasha and Carmelo of Arcanum Ventures sit down with Fabrizio Giabardo, Co-Founder of Legion, a platform on a mission to bring fairness back to on-chain fundraising. Just after a $5 million seed raise led by VanEck and Brevan Howard Digital, Fabrizio discusses how Legion...
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INTERVIEW: Serpin Taxt - Co-Founder of Ethos Network
In this Boom Room episode, Sasha and Carmelo of Arcanum Ventures sit down with Trevor Thompson, Co-Founder & CEO of Ethos Network. Discover Trevor's journey from a seasoned product leader at Atlassian and early Y-Combinator ventures to creating a vital credibility and reputation engine for the…
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INTERVIEW: Sean O’Brien - Founder of Ivy Cyber
In this Boom Room episode, Sasha and Carmelo of Arcanum Ventures host Professor Sean O'Brien, Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School and founder of Yale Privacy Lab and Ivy Cyber.Dive deep into Sean's two decades of experience fighting for digital privacy and cybersecurity in an…
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The BOOM ROOM is the venture capital podcast for founders, funders, and deep tech enthusiasts building the future. Hosted by Arcanum Ventures — a pre-seed and seed stage VC fund focused on Europe — we go deep on AI, deep tech, robotics, space, blockchain, and what it really takes to build and fund frontier companies. Each week we sit down with the investors, founders, and operators shaping the next wave of European and global innovation. If you're raising a round, deploying capital, or just obsessed with where technology is going, this is your show. Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Yo
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