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Cybersecurity Panic, Nationalizing AI, The Model Squeeze & Can't Own Anything

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Which Businesses Will Survive AI? | Michael Dempsey

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Is The AI Debt Bubble Finally Popping? | Weekly Roundup

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Kamino's Plan To Make Tokenized Assets Actually Useful | Michael Weisz

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Jeff Yan On Hyperliquid’s Plan To Bring All Finance Onchain

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Compute Is A Trillion-Dollar Market Trading In Group Chats | Brett Harrison & Andrawes Bahou

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Everyone Is Watching AI While Crypto’s Bull Market Builds | Weekly Roundup

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Markets Sending, Just Buy Consensus, Meta's AI Moment & Who Wins Tokenization? | Weekly Roundup

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CLARITY Failed, Many Stablecoins Debate, Circle Launches Arc & Meta's AI Edge | Weekly Roundup

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The Six Tokens To Own This Cycle | Yan Liberman

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Memecoins Are Stress-Testing The Future Of Tokenized Stocks | Weekly Roundup

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Cloudflare CEO: The Man Deciding The Internet’s Next Business Model

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Robinhood Is Proving Distribution Captures Crypto’s Value | Weekly Roundup

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Beezie & Collector Crypt CEOs on Why Onchain Collectibles Are Exploding

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Story vs Valuation, Hyperliquid TAM, Pump’s Problem & Ethena’s Token Reset

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New SEC Crypto Proposal Could Finally Fix Tokens

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Uniswap Is Building The Liquidity Network For Everything | Hayden Adams

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Crypto’s Speculation Problem, Regulation Without CLARITY & The Gambling Economy

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Morpho Is Coming For The $200 Trillion Credit Market | Paul Frambot

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Venture Mandates, Cloudflare Wallets, Circle Earnings & Saddam Hussein Patek Philippe

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AI Fatigue, Robinhood & Every Market Becoming Crypto | Weekly Roundup

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Robinhood's Plan to Bring Global Finance Onchain | Johann Kerbrat

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The Bill That Could Reshape Crypto In America with Greg Xethalis from Multicoin

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Clarity Window Closing, Robinhood Eating Ethereum Value & Coinbase's Base Reset

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Fomo Co-Founders on Building the Social Network for Finance

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Crypto's Value Capture Problem & Why Robinhood Built Its Own Blockchain

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What’s Circle’s End Game, Robinhood Launches A Chain & Venice Raises $65M

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Can You Really Buy A House Without Selling Your Crypto? | Vishal Garg

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State of The Market, The Prediction Market Wars & Kraken Pursues Aave

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Optimism Co-Founders: What Happened to the L2s? Ben Jones & Karl Floersch

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Anthropic's Fable Banned, Will Microstrategy Blow Up & Structuring A Portfolio in 2026

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The Bull Case For Hyperliquid | Ryan Watkins

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Blockworks Acquires Messari

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CFTC Chair Michael Selig On Perps, Prediction Markets & Crypto In The U.S

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SpaceX’s $1.75T IPO, Strategy Sells Bitcoin & Crypto’s Hard Reset

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Avichal Garg On Investing in Crypto, AI and Ethereum’s Path Forward

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Why’s Everyone So Bearish, Robinhood's AI Agent and SoFi's Stablecoin Launch

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Hyperliquid Just Had It's Breakout Moment

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Figure Co-Founder: How Figure Became A $10B Business | Mike Cagney

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AI Feels Like Crypto In 2017, Circle Raises $222M and Anthropic Cracks Down On SPVs

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How KelpDAO's $290M Exploit Nearly Killed DeFi | Stani Kulechov & Mike Silagadze

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Big Tech Earnings, DeFi United and Pump Fun’s Token Burn

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A Quantum Fork is Coming to Bitcoin | Alex Pruden & Philip Martin

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DeFi’s Latest $290M Hack, Kalshi vs Polymarket & Will the Clarity Act Pass?

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The Blockworks Vision

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Solana vs Hyperliquid, Why Ethereum Is Overvalued & Crypto In 2026 | Logan Jastremski

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Markets Bounce Back, The Hyperliquid Thesis and Kraken Raises $200M

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How To Make DeFi Great Again | Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic & Luca Prosperi

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Why DeFi Is Unattractive, Claude Mythos and Cryptos's Biggest Winners

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Hivemind: Ceasefire In Iran, Is AI a Bubble & Drift Exploited For $280M

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Paxos CEO on Crypto Today & Why Stablecoins Are Exploding | Charles Cascarilla

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Making Tokenization a Reality: Bringing Assets Onchain | Samara Cohen

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Western Union CEO: Western Union's Stablecoin Future

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The Two Biggest Issues In Crypto Today | Weekly Roundup

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Copper Founder: Building a Billion Dollar Company & Fixing Crypto Custody

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It's Still a Bull Market, But Not The One You Wanted

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Hivemind: State of The Market, Saylor’s End Game & AI Growth in China

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Investor Relations in the Onchain Era

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State of The Market, How to Value Hyperliquid & Tempo Launches Mainnet

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How To Fix Crypto's Token Problem | Weekly Roundup

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How Hyperliquid Unlocks 24/7 Markets | Jake Chervinsky & MC Lader

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State of The Market, Polymarket Insider Trading & a16z Raising $2B | Weekly Roundup

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Hivemind: Can Bitcoin Reclaim $80k, State of The Market & The AI Trade

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Introducing: Inflection Point | The Crypto-TradFi Convergence

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Building The Perfect Portfolio In 2026 | Tushar Jain & Pranav Kanade

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Terra vs Jane Street, Circle Earnings & Robinhood’s Venture Fund | Weekly Roundup

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Zero Just Made Blockchains 100x Better | Bryan Pellegrino & Raz Zarick

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Inside Dragonfly’s $650M Raise | Weekly Roundup

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Hivemind: Surviving Market Chop, Is Crypto Bottoming & Reasons to Be Optimistic in 2026

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Quadrillions: The New Wall Street | Nick Shalek & Mathew McDermott

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MegaETH in 2026 & Ethereum's L2 End Game | Brett DiNovi & Lei Yang

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The Clarity Act, State of Crypto VC & LayerZero Launches Zero | Weekly Roundup

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How Rain Grew To A $2B Company | Charles Yoo-Naut

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Why Is Crypto Crashing? | Weekly Roundup

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Hivemind: Are L1s Still Overvalued, Hyperliquid’s End Game & State of The Market

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Quadrillions: Stablecoins: We’ve Only Just Begun | Mohamed Afifi

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Why BitGo Went Public | Mike Belshe

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The Bull Case For DePIN, RWAs on Hyperliquid & The Onchain Endgame | Weekly Roundup

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Why Kraken Is Betting Big on Onchain Vaults | John Zettler & Sun Raghupathi

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AI Breaking Software Economics, CLARITY Bill, & Debating BitGo’s IPO | Weekly Roundup

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Hivemind: Bitcoin Volatility, Perp DEX Trends, and Crypto Market Cycles

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Quadrillions: How to Win the World | Chris Maurice

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Inside Lighter’s Plan to Overtake Hyperliquid | Vladimir Novakovski

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Claude Code, Stablecoin Adoption, and 2026 Trends | Weekly Roundup

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Claude Opus 4.5’s Breakout Moment & Investing in 2026 with Qiao Wang

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Lighter’s Token Launch, Erebor Raises $350M & Walmart's Crypto Strategy

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Hivemind: Will 2026 Be Bullish & Crypto's Token vs Equity Problem

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Quadrillions: The Crypto Capital of the World | Acting Chairman Pham

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Our 2026 Predictions

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The State of Crypto, 2026 Predictions & Espresso's Token Launch | Jill Gunter

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Is 2025 Crypto's Dot-com Moment? | Weekly Roundup

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Hivemind: Crypto Is Dead with Dougie DeLuca

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Fundamentals Are The New King of Crypto | Smac & Noah Goldberg

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Tempo Testnet Goes Live, Burnout In Crypto, and Farcaster’s Pivot | Weekly Roundup

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Institutional Flows Will Overpower the 4-Year Cycle | Matt Hougan

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Ethereum’s Valuation, Saylor’s Next Move, and Prediction Markets | Weekly Roundup

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Hivemind: Have We Bottomed, Bitcoin's Quantum Threat & Hyperliquid Unlocks

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Quadrillions: Privacy or Perish | Eli Ben-Sasson, Shaul Kfir, & Eric Saraniecki

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Monad Founder: The Next Chapter For Monad | Keone Hon

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Klarna Launches A Stablecoin, Hyperliquid Perps & The Prediction Market Wars | Weekly Roundup