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Dialectic Ep. 48: Henri Stern Modern technologists--especially in crypto--are often deeply principled or impressively pragmatic. Henri Stern Ꙫ is both. I talked to Henri about digital privacy, the moral weight of building technology, the painful reality of realizing the market doesn't want what you're selling, and crypto's 'boring' era....

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NEW POD | EP 71 Where Does Crypto Go From Here? ft. qw & Imran Timestamps: 0:46 $LIBRA 6:23 4 Use Cases of Crypto 8:17 The End Goal for Payments 9:54 DePIN and Energy 12:12 Simplicity of Crypto 13:18 Crypto is Finance 14:43 “Web 3.0” is a Lie? 15:43 The Biggest Risk for Ethereum 16:16 Qiao on DeFi 18:19 Crypto AI Builders Pivoting Straight to AI 19:47 AI in Education 27:25 AI for Ad Creation 29:32 AI for Building dApps 31:51 Personalized Apps 32:49 "The Future is Personalization" 34:07 "Lazy People Will Get F**ked by AI" 35:08 AI in Gaming and Video Generation 36:54 NFTs Comeback with AI? 42:21 Verticalized Science AI 48:52 Startups Solving Capital Markets Problem 54:59 Criticizing Trump's Token Launch 59:19 "Crypto Twitter is imploding" 1:00:51 Reminiscing Good Times in Crypto 1:02:27 Promising Crypto Startups 1:04:15 AI Arms Race 1:06:26 Impact of AI on Startups 1:12:11 AI in B2B 1:15:52 Are Memecoins Dead? 1:16:11 Market Analysis 1:18:48 End of the Cycle or 1 More Pump? 1:20:13 Reflection on Early Crypto Ideals 1:21:05 Cypherpunk Ideologies Link ↓
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NEW POD | EP 71 Where Does Crypto Go From Here? ft. qw & Imran Timestamps: 0:46 $LIBRA 6:23 4 Use Cases of Crypto 8:17 The End Goal for Payments 9:54 DePIN and Energy 12:12 Simplicity of Crypto 13:18 Crypto is Finance 14:43 “Web 3.0” is a Lie? 15:43 The Biggest Risk for Ethereum 16:16 Qiao on DeFi 18:19 Crypto AI Builders Pivoting Straight to AI 19:47 AI in Education 27:25 AI for Ad Creation 29:32 AI for Building dApps 31:51 Personalized Apps 32:49 "The Future is Personalization" 34:07 "Lazy People Will Get F**ked by AI" 35:08 AI in Gaming and Video Generation 36:54 NFTs Comeback with AI? 42:21 Verticalized Science AI 48:52 Startups Solving Capital Markets Problem 54:59 Criticizing Trump's Token Launch 59:19 "Crypto Twitter is imploding" 1:00:51 Reminiscing Good Times in Crypto 1:02:27 Promising Crypto Startups 1:04:15 AI Arms Race 1:06:26 Impact of AI on Startups 1:12:11 AI in B2B 1:15:52 Are Memecoins Dead? 1:16:11 Market Analysis 1:18:48 End of the Cycle or 1 More Pump? 1:20:13 Reflection on Early Crypto Ideals 1:21:05 Cypherpunk Ideologies Link ↓

Good Game

29,494 views • 1 year ago

We sat down for the first time with Joseph Lubin, Founder and CEO of Consensys and Co-Founder of Ethereum, and Keone Hon, Co-Founder and GM of Monad Foundation. A conversation about where the future of money is headed, AI, and the new MetaMask 🦊 Money Account. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:46 What Joe thought the internet would do to money 7:00 Why a 16-year-old skips the bank entirely 12:52 Has crypto only helped people already doing fine? 15:47 How AI changed the way they build 19:47 Is traditional finance moving onto crypto, or is crypto redefining it? 22:47 What do TradFi institutions actually want? 26:51 What is the MetaMask Money Account? 29:43 Who is it for? 30:14 What does it take at the chain level? 31:48 Why did MetaMask chose Monad? 33:37 When will stablecoins go mainstream? 38:09 AI agents that move money on their own 43:35 The story that says it all
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We sat down for the first time with Joseph Lubin, Founder and CEO of Consensys and Co-Founder of Ethereum, and Keone Hon, Co-Founder and GM of Monad Foundation. A conversation about where the future of money is headed, AI, and the new MetaMask 🦊 Money Account. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:46 What Joe thought the internet would do to money 7:00 Why a 16-year-old skips the bank entirely 12:52 Has crypto only helped people already doing fine? 15:47 How AI changed the way they build 19:47 Is traditional finance moving onto crypto, or is crypto redefining it? 22:47 What do TradFi institutions actually want? 26:51 What is the MetaMask Money Account? 29:43 Who is it for? 30:14 What does it take at the chain level? 31:48 Why did MetaMask chose Monad? 33:37 When will stablecoins go mainstream? 38:09 AI agents that move money on their own 43:35 The story that says it all

Monad

121,959 views • 23 days ago