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Will The Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) Rebuild $ETH Dominance? | Gnosis Martin Koppelman & Friederike Ernst

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The Largest Securities Exchange in the World is Coming Onchain | Michael Blaugrund of NYSE and Carlos Domingo of Securitize

103

Bitcoin Has 3 Years to Survive | Nic Carter on Bitcoin’s Quantum Vulnerability

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ROLLUP: Google’s Quantum Warning | Trump’s Iran Speech | Ethereum Economic Zones | Drift Hack

105

3 Megatrends Every Investor Needs to Know: Demographics, Wealth Inequality, & the End of Labor (with Jeff Park)

106

ROLLUP: The World is On the Clock | The Clarity Act | Crypto Mortgages | Bitmine Staking

107

The Economics of AGI: Why Verification Is the New Scarcity w/ Christian Catalini

108

Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

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Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake

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ROLLUP: Crypto Momentum | Regime Shift? | Payments War | Prediction Boom | SBF on Netflix

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Tempo Mainnet: The Race to Agentic Commerce

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Trump's Grand Strategy: Iran, China & The New World Order | Kamran Bokhari

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Ethereum Foundation's New Mandate Has The Community Divided | Bankless Takes

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Robinhood CEO: "Gen Z Is the Most Retirement-Savvy Generation Ever" | Vlad Tenev

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ROLLUP: Chaotic Era | Oil, Jobs, Credit | Nasdaq x Kraken | BlackRock Staked ETH | Roman Storm Retrial

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Where is ETH in the cycle? | Michael Nadeau

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Making America the Crypto Capital of the World | New CFTC Chairman Michael Selig

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ROLLUP: Wartime Markets | Kraken Gets Fedwire | Trump vs Banks | AI vs Pentagon | NYT Says Crypto Is Dead

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AI Finds 70% of Smart Contract Exploits | Alpin Yukseloglu

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Building a Million Dollar Zero Human Company with OpenClaw | Nat Eliason

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Haseeb Quereshi: Crypto’s Not Made for Humans—It’s for AI

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ROLLUP: Extreme Fear | Tariff Whiplash | Citrini AI Crash | Jane Street vs Terra | Pentagon vs Anthropic

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Zero Crypto at Home: Bankless in the Age of Wrench Attacks and Phishing | Jameson Lopp and Beau

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

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ROLLUP: Prediction Market War | Base Leaves Optimism | Tomasz Exits EF | Clarity Act Lives | Harvard Buys ETH

126

Lyn Alden: How to Survive The Gradual Print Era — Fed Chair Warsh, Gold & Bitcoin

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ROLLUP: Crypto Pain Market | Coinbase Super Bowl Rug Pull | IBIT Liquidation Cascade | Prediction Markets Explode | BlackRock x Uniswap

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What’s the Story? AI Stocks, Crypto Downturn, Metals Selloff, SaaSpocalypse | Jim Bianco

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Robinhood Chain Takes on NYSE/Nasdaq | Robinhood Crypto GM Johann Kerbrat

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MegaETH Mainnet is Live! — The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

131

Vitalik Signals the End of the Rollup-Centric Roadmap: What's Next?

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ROLLUP: Crypto in Free Fall | Vitalik’s L2 Pivot | Warsh Fed Pick | Clarity Act Showdown

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AI on Ethereum: ERC-8004, x402, OpenClaw and the Botconomy | Austin Griffith & Davide Crapis

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Where Do We Go From Here? | Michael Nadeau

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Capitalism’s Endgame: The Last Companies That Will Ever Exist

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ROLLUP: Gold & Silver ATHs | Fidelity’s Stablecoin | Ethereum’s Quantum Pivot | Tether Buys Gold

137

The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

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Iran Unchained: How the Islamic Republic Holds Power and Why Protests Keep Returning | Sana Ebrahimi & Ameen Soleimani

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Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' | Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

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ROLLUP: Trump Eyes Greenland | Davos Goes Crypto | NYSE Goes Onchain | Quantum Spooks Bitcoin | Farcaster + Lens Acquired

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The Duopolies of 2026: Ethereum & Solana, Coinbase & Robinhood, Polymarket & Kalshi | Ryan, David & Arnav Pagidyala

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ROLLUP: Clarity Bill Stalls | Powell vs. Trump | NYC Meme Rug | Silver Explodes | X Adds Crypto

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Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

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Is Canton a Real Blockchain? | Canton Founder Yuval Rooz

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ROLLUP: Prediction Market Bill | Solana DEX ATH | ETH Stablecoins ATH | Zcash Implodes | Vitalik “Trilemma Solved”

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How the Stablecoin Milkshake will Redollarize the World | Brent Johnson

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ROLLUP: Silver Parabolic | Aave Civil War | Uniswap Unifies | New CFTC Chair | Bitcoin vs. Quantum

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27 Crypto Predictions for 2026 | Mike Ippolito

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Investing Trends for 2026: DeFi, Tokenization, Capital Formation, Speculation & AI | Ben Lakoff & Arnav from Bankless Ventures

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12 Big Crypto Predictions for 2026 | Ryan & David

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Where is Crypto Going in 2026? | Ben Cowen

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Is the Crypto-Native Era Coming to an End? - Lessons from 10 Years in Crypto with Joey Krug, Founders Fund Partner

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ROLLUP: Coinbase Ships | JPMorgan Onchain | Solana Firedancer | Aave Civil War | DTCC Tokenizes

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Why Gen Z Will Turn Everything Into a Market | Threadguy

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The DeFi Report Podcast | Was the Fed Rate Cut a False Signal for Crypto?

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10 Crypto Predictions for 2026: $1M BTC, Wall Street Onchain & ETF Takeover | Matt Hougan & Ryan Rasmussen from Bitwise

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Is Privacy A Winnable Battle? | Andy Yen, Founder of Proton

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ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

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The Return of the ICO | Ryan & David

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Inside Gary Gensler’s SEC: A Conversation with Former Crypto Policy Advisor Corey Frayer

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Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks | Lincoln, Shea, Michael, & Luca

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ROLLUP: Buy Signal? | Fusaka Launch | Polymarket Mainstream | Trump’s Fed Chair | SEC Crypto Shift

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Ethereum’s Next Decade | Tomasz K. Stańczak, Ansgar Dietrichs, Dankrad Feist, & Danny Ryan

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Why Prices Are Crashing & What's Next—How Mike Nadeau Called the Cycle

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The Private World Computer | Aztec Co-Founders Zac Williamson & Joe Andrews

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The Holy Grail of Crypto Privacy: Encrypted Ethereum, FHE & Living Forever | Rand Hindi, Zama Co-Founder

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ROLLUP: Ethereum’s Big Week | Supercycle Debate | Monad Mainnet | Bitcoin’s Quantum Problem

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Do We Need Another L1? - Inside Monad’s Parallel EVM with Co-Founder Keone Hon

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The Real Crypto Cycle: What Happens When Global Liquidity Peaks | Michael Howell

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Is It All Over? What The Markets Are Saying For 2026

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Defensive Investing for an AI Bubble | Ruchir Sharma's Hedge Rules

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Bryan Johnson: Don’t Die, Beating Entropy, AI Alignment & The Two-Species Future

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ROLLUP: Market Uncertainty | Trump’s Bullish Plan? | Coinbase ICOs Return | Uniswap Fee Switch On | JPM Base Coin | Crypto Privacy Season?

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Ethereum Beast Mode - Scaling L1 to 10k and Beyond | Justin Drake

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Inside BlackRock’s Crypto Strategy: Tokenization, Stablecoins & The Next Trillion | Robbie Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets

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ROLLUP: Bull Market Over? | BTC 50W Breakdown | Balancer Hack | Stream Finance Collapse | Brian Armstrong’s Prediction Market Drama

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The Stablecoin Chain Wars: Codex’s Bet on On-Chain FX | Cofounder Haonan Li

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x402: The Key to Internet Money, Micropayments & The AI Agent Economy | Sam Ragsdale

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Land: The $180 Trillion Asset That Runs the World | Mike Bird, The Economist

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“The Debasement Trade” - Luke Gromen on Gold, Bitcoin & The 100 Year Reset

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ROLLUP: Markets Spooked? | MegaETH & Monad Mania | New CFTC Chair | Base & Polymarket Tokens? | Circle Arc Backlash

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How Crypto Neobanks Work: Frax, Cards, and Visa’s Role | Sam Kazemian

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Why Pro Athletes Are Betting on Bitcoin, Crypto & Prediction Markets | Tristan Thompson & Paul Grewal

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ROLLUP: Downtober Drags | Tempo Poaches Dankrad | Coinbase Buys Echo | Gold Surge! | Fed Access

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State Of Crypto 2025 | a16z Crypto — Eddy Lazzarin & Daren Matsuoka

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Why This Crypto Cycle is Over | Michael Nadeau's DeFi Report #7

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How Futarchy Ends the Rug Pull Era | Felipe Montealegre & Proph3t

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ROLLUP: $19B Flash Crash | Binance Fee Leak | China L2 on ETH | $14B BTC Reserve

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Is Lighter Ethereum's L2 Perp DEX? | Founder Vlad Novakovski

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Tom Lee & Arthur Hayes: How Crypto Flips Wall Street

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ROLLUP: Gold & BTC ATH | AI Bubble or Debasement Trade? | BNB Surge | $2B Polymarket Deal

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The Bull Case For Prediction Markets | Ryan & David

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Why China Builds Faster Than America & The Rest of the World | Dan Wang

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LIMITLESS: We Interviewed The Team Behind ChatGPT's #1 Feature

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The Art of Spending Money: How to Get Rich and STAY Rich | Morgan Housel

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ROLLUP: Uptober Rally | Tom Lee $1B ETH Buy | Vanguard Flips to Crypto | Stripe Stablecoin Play

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The State of Authoritarian Tech | Steven Feldstein

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Was That the Top? Bitcoin, ETH, & Q4 Setup | Michael Nadeau's DeFi Report #6

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Crypto vs. Banks: Who Controls America’s Money? | Summer Mersinger