RECENT EPISODES
Wed 4 NovWhy AI Alongside Crypto Will Dominate the Next Decade - NEAR Founder | E193NEAR founder Ilya Polosukhin argues that AI will become computing’s main interface, making user control over data, assets, and choices essential. He sees blockchain markets enabling AI agents to coordinate and pay one another, while private, verifiable AI can protect sensitive information. The episode examines his warning that a single company controlling AI could also centralize money—and his case for pairing AI with blockchain ownership.Thu 29 OctE192: Tristan Thompson: Why This NBA Champion Is Betting on Crypto (and why you should too)Tristan Thompson views Bitcoin as long-term savings and digital gold, says it represents 10–15% of his personal wealth, and believes it will reach $1 million. He discusses using Solana liquidity pools and staking, while warning investors to diversify, take profits and be careful with leverage. The NBA champion also shares his enthusiasm for physical AI, including warehouse robots.Thu 22 OctE191: Dan Tapiero: After 35 Years, I Figured Out The Secrets To Getting Rich In CryptoAfter 35 years investing, Dan Tapiero says crypto’s challenge is often keeping gains through bear markets, which return every three or four years. He discusses avoiding FOMO, investing against a clear view over a five- to ten-year horizon, and setting profit-taking rules in advance. He also explains why he favors disciplined risk management and warns against expecting another 100x from assets that have already risen dramatically.Thu 15 OctE190: Raoul Pal: How to Get Rich in Crypto Before AI Changes EverythingRaoul Pal sees crypto as part of a technology supercycle that could run through 2030, with smart-contract networks such as Ethereum and Solana providing rails for stablecoins, tokenized assets and AI-agent payments. He explains why he sees Ethereum as undervalued against the activity it supports, while warning that AI’s rapid progress won’t guarantee matching investment returns. His strategy favors holding core positions and buying deep dips, but requires enduring losses of 50% or more.Thu 8 OctE189: Binance Founder: This Is The Best Time In History To Get Rich In CryptoCZ says Bitcoin could reach $1 million in substantially less than 25 years, but its long-term success depends on utility for payments and as a retirement reserve. He calls this the best time in history to pursue crypto opportunities and sees Bitcoin potentially overtaking gold. He also expects AI agents to transact first with stablecoins, while urging governments to build clear crypto rules and reserves.Thu 1 OctE188: Crypto Trading Expert: Why No Amount of Crypto Is Enough (even millions)Jordy Alexander argues that no fixed crypto balance—or even tens of millions—guarantees lifelong financial independence, and that staying wealthy takes different skills from getting rich. He explains how crypto trading follows liquidity, flows and attention rather than conventional valuation, with most participants losing in FOMO-driven markets. Though bullish on Bitcoin, he warns against treating it as a universal solution and favors continued work and disciplined asset allocation.Fri 25 SeptE187: Binance Founder: Nobody Realizes How Big The Next 10 Years Of Crypto Will BeCZ says crypto could become far larger over the next decade as blockchain moves money across networks and AI drives efficiency, noting that 5–15% of people own crypto but it remains less than 1% of net worth by value. He expects decentralization to gain importance, says Binance will invest heavily in decentralized projects, and discusses why early leadership does not guarantee lasting success.Thu 10 SeptE186: Variational CEO: This Hidden Fee Is Quietly Draining Your Crypto AccountIn this episode, Lucas Sherman reveals how hidden fees in crypto trading can silently deplete accounts, urging traders to be aware of these costs. He discusses Variational's innovative approach to zero-fee trading and its potential to transform on-chain liquidity, positioning it as a competitor to traditional brokerages. Sherman also highlights the challenges of funding rate variability in perpetual contracts and emphasizes the importance of transparency and education in building trust within the crypto market.Thu 10 SeptE185: Variational CEO: This Hidden Fee Is Quietly Draining Your Crypto AccountIn this episode, Lucas Sherman reveals how hidden fees are quietly draining crypto accounts, particularly impacting retail traders. He discusses Variational's innovative approach to on-chain trading, which aims to eliminate these fees while enhancing trading efficiency through a unique request-for-quote model. Sherman also highlights the platform's rapid growth, with over a billion dollars in open interest, and its mission to democratize access to global markets while navigating the complexities of the crypto landscape.Wed 2 SeptE185: Ethena CEO: This $7B Crypto Company Just Launched An App That Pays You To Spend MoneyIn this episode, Guy Young, CEO of Ethena, discusses the launch of Ethena Pay, a super app designed to simplify financial management and attract over 100 million users by offering a unique cashback program. He emphasizes the importance of integrating cryptocurrency into user experiences and highlights the efficiency of stablecoins in enhancing fintech applications.Thu 27 AugE184 | Trezor CTO | How Quantum Computers Could Empty Every Bitcoin WalletTrezor CTO Tomas Sushanka says a quantum computer capable of threatening Bitcoin is unlikely within five years, and probably not ten, but the potential damage makes preparation important. Trezor’s Safe 7 can receive post-quantum firmware updates, though neither it nor Bitcoin is quantum-proof. Sushanka also discusses self-custody’s responsibilities and how AI-enabled deepfakes are making crypto scams more convincing.Thu 27 AugSeriously, Please Watch This Before AI Deepfakes Steal Your Crypto - Trezor CTO | E184Trezor CTO Tomas Sushanka explains how AI voice impersonation, phishing and trust-building can make crypto scams convincing; he says about two minutes of recorded speech may be enough to recreate a voice. He urges verifying urgent requests through a separate channel and treating unexpected downloads with suspicion. The conversation also covers recovery scams that target people seeking lost crypto and the trade-offs of holding funds in self-custody rather than on an exchange.Thu 20 AugE183: Jupiter COO: Getting Rich In Crypto Has Nothing To Do With LuckJupiter COO Kash Dhanda argues that building crypto wealth takes discipline: form a thesis, set entry and exit points, and resist chasing meme-coin winners. He explains why Solana’s builders and fast, low-cost user experience shaped his investment case, and why he sees its adaptability and growing tokenized-asset activity as strengths. He also discusses institutional adoption and Jupiter’s plans for cross-chain trading.Thu 13 AugE182: Jordi Visser: Wall Street Is All In On AI, But He's Buying Bitcoin InsteadJordi Visser, who holds Bitcoin as the largest share of his net worth and has never sold any since buying around 2020, argues that a minimum 5 percent personal allocation to Bitcoin is essential insurance, disputing that prices between 60,000 and 120,000 dollars are expensive and saying he can guarantee it will be higher in ten years with more certainty than any other asset.Thu 6 AugE181 : Scott Melker: How To Get Rich In Crypto In 2026 (Without Getting Lucky)Scott Melker makes the case that buying and holding Bitcoin is the single most reliable path to crypto wealth in 2026, arguing that his own active trading from 2016 onward would have been outperformed by simply holding.Thu 23 JulE180: Kast Founder: The Biggest Crypto Opportunity Of Our Lifetime Is Happening Right NowKast founder Rags left Circle convinced that building a global stablecoin neobank on crypto rails was the greatest financial opportunity of his lifetime, arguing that two-thirds of the world cannot move money easily and that stablecoins solve that gap where traditional banking has failed.Thu 16 JulE179: Helius CEO: These 3 Crypto Coins Are MASSIVELY Underpriced (2026 Cycle)Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius, the largest RPC and trading infrastructure platform on Solana, identifies Solana, Zcash, and NEAR as massively underpriced heading into the 2026 cycle. His investment framework tests whether a project has the right incentive physics, is distressed and slept-on, and offers asymmetric upside.Thu 9 JulE178: Tushar Jain, Multicoin CoFounder: The 3 Coins His Multi-Billion Dollar Fund Is Bullish On This CycleTushar Jain, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, joins the show to lay out the fund's three highest-conviction positions for this cycle: Solana, Hyperliquid, and Zcash. Jain argues Solana is the natural destination for institutional capital markets because credibly neutral infrastructure prevents Goldman Sachs from settling on a competitor's chain.Thu 2 JulIf You Want To Get Rich, Hold Bitcoin - Haseeb Qureshi, Dragonfly Managing Partner | E177Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly, makes the case that Bitcoin's long-term return profile remains intact and that the primary reason most investors failed to capture its twenty to forty times gains over the past five or six years was an inability to hold through drawdowns rather than any flaw in the asset itself.Thu 25 JunE176: Eric Larchevêque: Why Bitcoin Is the Only Money You Actually OwnEric Larchevêque, a French microelectronics engineer who built Ledger in 2014 and holds 100 percent of his liquid net worth in Bitcoin, makes the case that any asset held by a third-party custodian is an IOU rather than true property, a conviction shaped by losing his entire net worth in a failed Latvian bank and having a Luxembourg bank sell his physical gold bars without consent.Thu 18 JunE175: Dan Tapiero: This Crypto Strategy is Boring, But It Will Make You RichDan Tapiero explains why his firm rebranded from 10T Funds to 50T Funds, arguing that a 50 trillion dollar digital asset ecosystem by 2035 is intentionally conservative, with Bitcoin alone reaching one million dollars implying a 20 trillion dollar market cap equal to roughly 2 percent of total global assets.Mon 1 JunE174: Tarek Mansour, Kalshi CEO: Why Prediction Markets Are the Future of InvestingTarek Mansour, CEO and co-founder of Kalshi, joins the show to explain why prediction markets represent a structurally superior forecasting mechanism, with participants financially rewarded for accuracy and punished for error in a way traditional media and expert opinion never are. A recent Fed paper validated that Kalshi forecasts on jobs, GDP, inflation, and Fed rates outperform all available alternatives.Fri 29 MayE173: Raoul Pal: The AI Race Will Make Crypto Holders RichRaoul Pal joins the show to argue that the AI race between the US and China is the most consequential capital allocation event in human history, one driven by game theory that makes it impossible for either side to stop.Thu 28 MayE173: Raoul Pal: The AI Race Will Make Crypto Holders RichRaoul Pal makes the case that the global race to dominate AI will drive massive capital flows into crypto, positioning holders to capture disproportionate value because the assets are globally liquid, accessible through derivatives, and uncorrelated to traditional asset classes. He insists on a minimum four-year holding period, calling anyone operating shorter a trader rather than an investor, and frames Bitcoin's volatility as a feature of the world's most liquid free capital market rather than a flaw.Thu 21 MayE172: Michael Saylor: How To Get Rich With Crypto (Without Working Hard)Michael Saylor, founder of Strategy and architect of its roughly 818,000 Bitcoin treasury worth approximately 65 to 70 billion dollars, explains why he views Bitcoin as the only absolutely scarce commodity in history, hard-capped at 21 million units with zero inflation leakage. He contrasts this with gold inflating at 2 percent annually and the US dollar losing purchasing power at roughly 7 percent per year, arguing any return below that threshold makes investors poorer in real terms.Thu 14 MayE171: Coinsilium CEO: How AI Agents Will Reshape Crypto (And Replace Millions Of Jobs)Eddie Travia, co-founder and CEO of Coinsilium Group, joins the show to discuss the convergence of AI agents and blockchain infrastructure, arguing that AI agents cannot function optimally without the security, payment rails, and smart contract capabilities that crypto provides.Thu 7 MayE170: Ethereum Co-Founder: How Big Tech Will Use AI To Control You (And How Crypto Stops It)Joseph Lubin, Ethereum co-founder, emphasizes how decentralized systems and cryptocurrencies can counter Big Tech's influence over individuals. He advocates for decentralized protocols, like MetaMask, to enhance user sovereignty and manage interactions with financial systems. Additionally, he discusses the transformative potential of AI in navigating complex financial landscapes while urging caution against central control of AI technologies, suggesting that decentralization may restore trust and redefine societal structures.Thu 30 AprE169: Bitwise Founder: Why Every Major Bank Is Racing Into Crypto Right NowThe discussion with Hunter Horsley of Bitwise Asset Management highlights the urgent shift of major banks towards crypto, forecasting its dominance in capital markets by 2026, driven by emerging regulatory frameworks and institutional engagement. Trust and relationships are critical in this transition, paralleling the cultural dynamics of Silicon Valley with crypto's rise. The growing acceptance of Bitcoin and the emergence of new wealth through blockchain technologies signal a generational shift, emphasizing the importance of strategic investment in this evolving landscape.Thu 23 AprByBit Founder: I Survived the Biggest Crypto Hack and Still Had My Best Year | E168Bybit is transforming into an all-in-one financial platform, emphasizing transparency and compliance after past challenges, including a major hack which they overcame, achieving record revenue. The integration of AI has enhanced data analysis capabilities, facilitating real-time insights while maintaining security. As Bybit navigates regulatory landscapes and the rise of decentralized exchanges, it aims to balance traditional infrastructure with innovations in AI and blockchain technology, reflecting the industry's evolving dynamics.Thu 16 AprE167: Bitwise Advisor: Why Buying a House Is the Worst Investment You Can MakeThe discussion critiques real estate as a poor investment compared to Bitcoin, especially for younger generations facing economic challenges. It underscores Bitcoin's potential for wealth preservation amidst declining trust in traditional assets and highlights the need for diversification beyond conventional markets. Additionally, concerns about AI's impact on employment and wealth distribution are raised, noting its potential to deepen economic divides, while advocating for decentralized assets like cryptocurrencies to foster financial resilience.Thu 9 AprE166: Bitget CEO From Divorced Single Mom to Running a $20B/Day Crypto ExchangeGracie Chen, CEO of BitGet, navigates the dual challenges of leading a $20 billion daily trading volume crypto exchange and being a single mother, advocating for greater female representation in the male-dominated crypto industry. BitGet aims to enhance stablecoin adoption and enter U.S. markets, leveraging blockchain's potential to innovate finance. Chen also highlights the importance of AI tools for young professionals while discussing the future of commodities investment amidst geopolitical stability and economic shifts.Thu 2 AprE165: Backpack CEO: How I Survived Crypto's Biggest Collapse, Then Built a $420B ExchangeHarmony Feronte recounts how Backpack faced near-death after the FTX collapse, with $14.5 million—about 88–90% of its balance sheet—on the exchange, and why he chose to keep building. He traces Backpack’s evolution from a Solana-focused project into a regulated global crypto exchange with more than $420 billion in trading volume, and discusses unified margin and blockchain settlement as practical applications of crypto in finance.Thu 26 MarE164: GSR CEO: The New Era of Crypto Is About to BeginIn E164: GSR CEO: The New Era of Crypto Is About to Begin, Xin, CEO of GSR Markets, discusses the transformative potential of tokenization, projecting market growth between $15 to $30 trillion while emphasizing the need for a two-sided market. He addresses reputational concerns about crypto market makers due to under-regulation and advocates for improved regulations. Additionally, Xin highlights the importance of programmable assets to support AI agents, recognizing the necessity for genuinely useful solutions amid a shifting market landscape.Thu 19 MarE163: Jupiter President: How Crypto Will Replace Your Bank (And Why Wall Street Knows It)Xiao Xiaojie Zhu from Jupiter discusses the transformative potential of cryptocurrencies, emphasizing their integration into traditional finance and the role of tokenization in enhancing financial services. He highlights the development of Jupiter's on-chain QR payment system for merchants in Vietnam and the aspiration to create a financial super app for the underbanked. The conversation also addresses institutional adoption of crypto and the need for infrastructure improvements to unlock broader participation in on-chain finance.Thu 12 MarE162: CoinGecko CEO: The Truth About Getting Rich in Crypto (you won't like it)In the discussion with Bobby Ong, key insights highlight the importance of a long-term perspective in the cryptocurrency market, focusing on building sustainable businesses despite the allure of quick profits. Ong emphasizes integrity and ethical practices, particularly against the backdrop of increasing regulatory clarity and institutional participation in crypto. The conversation also touches on the evolution of decentralized finance and NFTs, underscoring the need for trust and critical thinking in navigating the challenges of the industry.Thu 5 MarE161: Sui Founder Explains Why Ethereum & Solana Will Be Left BehindEvan Cheng, CEO of Mist & Labs, argues that Sui's innovative approach to blockchain infrastructure may surpass Ethereum and Solana by better addressing complex real-world needs. He emphasizes the importance of product market fit in DeFi, the role of institutional interest in stablecoins, and the potential of AI to enhance cryptocurrency transactions. Cheng critiques traditional models for their rigidity, advocating for adaptable systems that prioritize privacy and composability in an evolving blockchain landscape.Thu 26 FebE160: Paradex CEO: A Crypto Founder Exposes How Token Launches Really WorkIn the episode featuring Anand Gomes, CEO of Paradex, he highlights the importance of decentralized exchanges (DEXs) like Paradex for user privacy and the potential of perpetual exchanges as financial supercenters. The discussion also clarifies Token Generation Events (TGEs) as akin to IPOs, stressing the need for transparency and mission-driven goals in the crypto space. Additionally, the overall resilience and determination of crypto teams amidst market volatility are emphasized as keys to success in the industry.Thu 19 FebE159: Jeff Yan, Hyperliquid CEO: Why Crypto Must Fix Finance Before AI Takes OverIn the discussion with Jeff Yan, CEO of Hyperliquid, he outlines the urgency for cryptocurrencies to reform finance before AI becomes prevalent, advocating for a decentralized financial ecosystem that enhances user trust and promotes collaboration among developers. Hyperliquid’s layer one blockchain aims to integrate advanced technologies like Ethereum-compatible contracts while addressing misinformation in crypto. Yan envisions a future where a programmable financial system, bolstered by a native token and innovative trading mechanisms, empowers users and prepares the groundwork for AI integration.Thu 12 FebE158: Avichal Garg, Electrical Capital CoFounder: Why Bitcoin Hitting $10 Million Is Less Crazy Than You ThinkAvichal Garg discusses the potential for Bitcoin to reach values between $5-$10 million, drawing parallels with gold's market share and emphasizing its role as a hedge against currency debasement. He highlights the shifting attitudes towards cryptocurrencies and privacy technology, suggesting that as mainstream acceptance grows, investment opportunities will broaden. Garg also anticipates advancements in blockchain technology, with new Layer 1 blockchains emerging, reinforcing the importance of long-term commitment in developing effective solutions.Thu 5 FebE157:Anthony Pompliano: This is what happens when you go all-in on Bitcoin (you get rich?)Anthony Pompliano advocates for ethical investing and holds 95% of his net worth in Bitcoin, emphasizing its potential for long-term value despite market volatility. He believes Bitcoin acts as a safeguard for purchasing power and stresses the importance of investing in genuine businesses for societal impact. Looking ahead, he identifies growth areas in AI and other technologies, promoting the pursuit of asymmetrical investment opportunities while maintaining a focus on responsible financial decision-making.