Convergence

John D'Agostino is Head of Strategy for Coinbase Institutional, where he works with the big institutions coming into crypto. Before that, as Head of Strategy at NYMEX, he led the launch of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, a story so wild it became Ben Mezrich's bestseller Rigged. What does Coinbase see coming that the rest of the market doesn't? We discuss the hidden signals that tell him crypto is healthier than it looks, why the Middle East is quietly becoming crypto's new capital, how sovereign wealth funds are really buying Bitcoin, why your stocks are about to trade 24/7 on-chain, what it was like inside Coinbase when Gensler's SEC cut them off, why public opinion matters more than any bill in Washington, how a boring Bitcoin could change the world, what meme coins and Hyperliquid proved about the future of markets, and why he thinks one exchange will soon trade everything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thank you for tuning in. If you can spare 5 seconds to leave a review/rating on iTunes or Spotify. It helps grow the show so I can continue to host great guests. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This episode is brought to you by Kraken by Payward. Get Kraken and use code CONVERGENCE1000 to unlock a $1,000 funded account once you pass the challenge at https://www.kraken.com/features/funded ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (00:00) Intro (00:35) What Coinbase Sees That You Don't (03:32) Why Crypto Is Moving to Abu Dhabi (05:27) Building the Middle East's First Exchange (06:35) The Middle East's Money Shift (09:26) How Nations Are Buying Bitcoin (10:52) The Gold Souq Moment (12:15) The Story Behind Rigged (13:18) Your Stocks Are Going On-Chain (18:09) Who Really Owns Tokenized Stocks? (19:23) When Stocks Escape to DeFi (21:52) Sponsored by Kraken (23:04) Why Wall Street Moves So Slow (25:25) Lessons From Polychain (29:36) Brian Armstrong's Biggest Bet (31:29) When the SEC Cut Off Coinbase (35:06) Answering Crypto's Biggest Critics (37:10) Why Public Opinion Beats Washington (39:34) Will Prices Go Up? (40:50) How a Boring Bitcoin Changes the World (43:56) The Exchange of the Future (45:09) What Meme Coins Proved (47:48) Hyperliquid vs. Coinbase (49:36) One Exchange for Everything ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This episode is brought to you by Kraken by Payward. Disclaimer: Terms apply. Not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss and is offered to US customers through Payward Interactive, Inc. View legal disclosures at kraken.com/legal/disclosures. Securities and brokerage services offered by Kraken Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Digital asset services offered by Payward Interactive Inc., (NMLS ID:1843762) a FINCEN registered money services business, not a member of FINRA/SIPC and not FDIC insured. Kraken Funded is an unregulated service. Funded traders onboard with Payward Oceanic Ltd. Evaluation fees apply and are non-refundable for each attempt once trading begins, regardless of outcome. Availability varies by jurisdiction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Convergence is produced by DELPHI MEDIA, LLC, a member of the DELPHI DIGITAL family of companies. This content is solely for educational and informational purposes and is not, and should not be construed as, legal, tax, investment, or financial advice. Delphi is not a financial, tax, or legal advisor. You are expressly advised to consult with a professional advisor before making any investment decisions. Also, the views expressed by Podcast guests do not necessarily reflect those of Delphi.

Ryan Watkins is co-founder of Syncracy Capital, a thesis-driven crypto hedge fund backed by Bain Capital Ventures and ParaFi that made one of the earliest big bets on Hyperliquid. He was previously a Senior Research Analyst at Messari. We discuss Ryan's top ideas for crypto bull market, the hidden alpha everyone missed at Hyperliquid launch, how to find big ideas early, why keeping a beginner's mind matters, building conviction and sizing into a trade, why Wall Street & Stanley Druckenmiller are finally catching on, crypto markets vs tradfi, assessing the real risks, Solana, who is the real winner in next era of finance, Pumpfun, memecoins, social trading, crypto projects earning real revenue, privacy meta w/ Zcash, and much more… ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thank you for tuning in. If you can spare 5 seconds to leave a review/rating on iTunes or Spotify. It helps grow the show so I can continue to host great guests. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This episode is brought to you by Kraken by Payward. Get Kraken and use code CONVERGENCE1000 to unlock a $1,000 funded account once you pass the challenge at https://www.kraken.com/features/funded ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (00:00) Intro (00:37) Hyperliquid (03:00) Finding Big Ideas (06:22) Hidden Alpha (09:16) Secret to Success (10:31) Keeping a Beginner's Mind (11:43) Writing & Conviction (13:31) Wall Street Discovers Hyperliquid (14:45) Druckenmiller's Hyperliquid Bet (16:30) Perpification of America (19:06) Why Categories Don't Matter (20:13) All of Finance (20:35) Sponsored by Kraken (21:40) Assessing Risks (26:02) Comparative Analysis (30:30) Downstream Effects (34:40) Who wins? (37:30) Finding Next Secular Trends (40:09) Social Trading & Memes (46:51) Weak vs. Strong Form (48:40) How Syncracy Finds Big Ideas (52:00) Revenue and Zcash (56:00) Respect the Pump (1:00:48) Frameworks & Timing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This episode is brought to you by Kraken by Payward. Disclaimer: Terms apply. Not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss and is offered to US customers through Payward Interactive, Inc. View legal disclosures at kraken.com/legal/disclosures. Securities and brokerage services offered by Kraken Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Digital asset services offered by Payward Interactive Inc., (NMLS ID:1843762) a FINCEN registered money services business, not a member of FINRA/SIPC and not FDIC insured. Kraken Funded is an unregulated service. Funded traders onboard with Payward Oceanic Ltd. Evaluation fees apply and are non-refundable for each attempt once trading begins, regardless of outcome. Availability varies by jurisdiction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Convergence is produced by DELPHI MEDIA, LLC, a member of the DELPHI DIGITAL family of companies. This content is solely for educational and informational purposes and is not, and should not be construed as, legal, tax, investment, or financial advice. Delphi is not a financial, tax, or legal advisor. You are expressly advised to consult with a professional advisor before making any investment decisions. Also, the views expressed by Podcast guests do not necessarily reflect those of Delphi.

Alex Colville, PhD, is co-founder and General Partner of age1, the first longevity-focused venture fund, which he started with Laura Deming. He studied the biology of aging for his PhD in Genetics at Stanford and previously managed more than $100 million in longevity investments and philanthropy. Why the ChatGPT moment for aging is closer than you think. Alex explains why longevity is exploding now, most exciting areas to invest for biotech, stem cells, epigenetic reprogramming, reversible cryopreservation, NewLimit's big bet, whether one cure exists, peptides, AI in biotech, zero-person biotechs, why AI labs are becoming biotechs, open source vs. secrecy, crypto founders' longevity bets, the story behind age1, moonshots, helping dogs live longer, a Manhattan Project for aging, and the one bet he'd make today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thank you for tuning in. If you can spare 5 seconds to leave a review/rating on iTunes or Spotify. It helps grow the show so I can continue to host great guests. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This episode is brought to you by Kraken by Payward. Get Kraken and use code CONVERGENCE1000 to unlock a $1,000 funded account once you pass the challenge at https://www.kraken.com/features/funded Disclaimer: Terms apply. Not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss and is offered to US customers through Payward Interactive, Inc. View legal disclosures at kraken.com/legal/disclosures. Securities and brokerage services offered by Kraken Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Digital asset services offered by Payward Interactive Inc., (NMLS ID:1843762) a FINCEN registered money services business, not a member of FINRA/SIPC and not FDIC insured. Kraken Funded is an unregulated service. Funded traders onboard with Payward Oceanic Ltd. Evaluation fees apply and are non-refundable for each attempt once trading begins, regardless of outcome. Availability varies by jurisdiction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (00:00) Intro (01:45) Chatgpt Moment for Biotech (03:57) Why Longevity Is Exploding Now (07:33) Delay, Replace, Pause, Reverse (11:09) Growing Fresh Cells From Stem Cells (16:07) Epigenetic Reprogramming (19:50) Sponsored by Kraken (20:56) Reversible Cryopreservation (22:56) NewLimit's Big Bet (28:15) Is There One Cure? (30:10) Peptides Real or Hype? (34:30) What AI Is Unlocking in Biotech (36:54) Zero-Person Biotech? (40:35) Ai Labs Becoming Biotechs (44:06) Open Source vs Secrecy (47:18) Crypto Founders Longevity Bets (50:05) The Story Behind Age1 (55:30) Moonshots (1:00:55) Dogs Living Forever (1:03:31) Manhattan Project for Aging (1:06:38) Contrarian Biotech (1:09:07) Holy Grail Bet ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Convergence is produced by DELPHI MEDIA, LLC, a member of the DELPHI DIGITAL family of companies. This content is solely for educational and informational purposes and is not, and should not be construed as, legal, tax, investment, or financial advice. Delphi is not a financial, tax, or legal advisor. You are expressly advised to consult with a professional advisor before making any investment decisions. Also, the views expressed by Podcast guests do not necessarily reflect those of Delphi.

Arthur Hayes is a crypto trading pioneer who co-founded BitMEX exchange, creator of the perpetual futures contract that now drives trillions in crypto volume, and is now CIO of the investment firm Maelstrom. His new project Ai project Flop Network is a decentralized marketplace where Ai agents buy computing power using a new form of cryptocurrency. What happens to Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies if artificial intelligence continues to accelerate and is able to solve quantum computing or public cryptography? Nic discusses the potential scenarios for the crypto market, Bitcoin forks, doomsday scenarios, market signals to watch for, whether China or North Korea could be involved, and what he expects to happen. Thank you for tuning in. If you can spare 5 seconds to leave a review/rating on iTunes or Spotify. It helps grow the show so I can continue to host great guests. This episode is brought to you by Kraken by Payward. Get Kraken and use code CONVERGENCE1000 to unlock a $1,000 funded account once you pass the challenge at https://www.kraken.com/features/funded Disclaimer: Terms apply. Not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss and is offered to US customers through Payward Interactive, Inc. View legal disclosures at kraken.com/legal/disclosures. Securities and brokerage services offered by Kraken Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Digital asset services offered by Payward Interactive Inc., (NMLS ID:1843762) a FINCEN registered money services business, not a member of FINRA/SIPC and not FDIC insured. Kraken Funded is an unregulated service. Funded traders onboard with Payward Oceanic Ltd. Evaluation fees apply and are non-refundable for each attempt once trading begins, regardless of outcome. Availability varies by jurisdiction. (00:00) Intro (00:27) Bitcoin to 1 Million (00:57) Why Governments Always Print Money (03:31) Is AI Stealing Bitcoin's Liquidity? (04:30) AI Is a Waste of Money (06:11) Zcash vs. Ethereum (07:29) Why Only a Few Coins Win (10:38) China's Coming Money Printing (11:51) Stablecoins vs. Local Currencies (14:03) AI Model Companies Are Worthless (15:17) What Is the Flop Network? (16:29) Sponsored by Kraken (17:28) Why Agents Won't Use Stablecoins (18:56) Agent Poetry and Trading Competitions (21:17) Why Flop Could Outgrow Bitcoin (22:52) Is Tokenization the Supercycle? (24:43) Is Saylor Still Relevant? (26:12) Will Central Banks Buy Bitcoin? (27:29) Is Quantum Risk Overhyped? (27:54) The Most Dangerous Consensus Trade (29:35) Arthur's Picks: Ethena and Uniswap (30:20) Why ETH Will Outperform Convergence is produced by DELPHI MEDIA, LLC, a member of the DELPHI DIGITAL family of companies. This content is solely for educational and informational purposes and is not, and should not be construed as, legal, tax, investment, or financial advice. Delphi is not a financial, tax, or legal advisor. You are expressly advised to consult with a professional advisor before making any investment decisions. Also, the views expressed by Podcast guests do not necessarily reflect those of Delphi.  

Nic Carter is an investor, Founding Partner at Castle Island Ventures, previously founded Coin Metrics, and researcher.  What happens to Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies if artificial intelligence continues to accelerate and is able to solve quantum computing or public cryptography? Nic discusses the potential scenarios for the crypto market, Bitcoin forks, doomsday scenarios, market signals to watch for, whether China or North Korea could be involved, and what he expects to happen.     Thank you for tuning in. If you can spare 5 seconds to leave a review/rating on iTunes or Spotify. It helps grow the show so I can continue to host great guests.   This episode is brought to you by Kraken by Payward. Get Kraken and use code CONVERGENCE1000 to unlock a $1,000 funded account once you pass the challenge at https://www.kraken.com/features/funded Disclaimer: Terms apply. Not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss and is offered to US customers through Payward Interactive, Inc. View legal disclosures at kraken.com/legal/disclosures. Securities and brokerage services offered by Kraken Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Digital asset services offered by Payward Interactive Inc., (NMLS ID:1843762) a FINCEN registered money services business, not a member of FINRA/SIPC and not FDIC insured. Kraken Funded is an unregulated service. Funded traders onboard with Payward Oceanic Ltd. Evaluation fees apply and are non-refundable for each attempt once trading begins, regardless of outcome. Availability varies by jurisdiction.     (00:00) Intro  (00:50) Bitcoin Investor Unrest (02:08) Finding Risks and Ideas Early (05:36) Why Bitcoin Needs Upgrade (07:10) Satoshi Warning About Quantum (10:06) What Quantum Computers Can Break (11:46) Sponsored by Kraken (12:41) Crypto Market Examples (16:14) Lessons from the Bitcoin Cash Fork (17:49) The Unavoidable Risk for Bitcoin (19:54) Race Between China and US (22:01) The Base Case: Who Gets the BTC (25:21) Why BlackRock or Coinbase Can't Help (29:48) Michael Saylor Opinion of Quantum (34:29) Warning from Google (36:01) Are Altcoins like ZEC or ETH Safe? (38:20) How Markets Could React (41:22) Could This Boost Price (44:01) The Scariest Part About Quantum Risk (47:16) Is it Already Too Late? (48:41) How Ai is Accelerating Risk (50:08) What Happens Next   Convergence is produced by DELPHI MEDIA, LLC, a member of the DELPHI DIGITAL family of companies. This content is solely for educational and informational purposes and is not, and should not be construed as, legal, tax, investment, or financial advice. Delphi is not a financial, tax, or legal advisor. You are expressly advised to consult with a professional advisor before making any investment decisions. Also, the views expressed by Podcast guests do not necessarily reflect those of Delphi.

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Guest: Travis Kling is the CIO at Ikigai Asset Management, a crypto hedge fund. In this episode we discuss his 3 part thesis for 2024 which went viral after it accurately predicted how strange crypto would behave this cycle. We explore financial nihilism, the rise of memecoins, billions of dollars in FTX redemptions hitting the market, Bitcoin seperating itself from everything else, how the presidential election will impact prices, which sectors could emerge as the new meta, quiet quitting, and more.   Thank you for tuning in. If you can spare 5 seconds to leave a review/rating on iTunes, I appreciate it. If you share the show on Twitter I'll reply everytime!  🔥 This episode is brought to you by Mantle Network, an Ethereum L2 backed by a $4.4 billion treasury, one of the largest in the industry. Recently, Mantle has emerged as one of the most popular L2 who offering the most rewarding opportunities. Go checkout the Mantle Rewards Station today to start earning airdrop rewards from top projects, INSTANTLY. Visit the Mantle Rewards Station here: https://www.mantle.xyz/rewards-station    This episode is brought to you by Polkadot, a Layer-0 blockchain that brings a multi-chain vision creating an ecosystem for boundless innovation. Join the Polkadot community and learn about Polkadot 2.0 here: https://polkadot.network/

Crash (@CrashiusClay69) is one of most successful memecoin traders this bull cycle & has gained a loyal following of over 120k people who follow his analysis for new coins, trades, or themes to watch. We discuss how he finds big wins early, making his first million, the mental battle of trading, knowing when to sell, Base vs Solana, his personal strategy, top picks, and more.   Thank you for tuning in. If you can spare 5 seconds to leave a review/rating on iTunes, I appreciate it. If you share the show on Twitter I'll reply everytime!  🔥 This episode is brought to you by Mantle Network, an Ethereum L2 backed by a $4.4 billion treasury, one of the largest in the industry. Recently, Mantle has emerged as one of the most popular L2 who offering the most rewarding opportunities. Go checkout the Mantle Rewards Station today to start earning airdrop rewards from top projects, INSTANTLY. Visit the Mantle Rewards Station here: https://www.mantle.xyz/rewards-station    This episode is brought to you by Polkadot, a Layer-0 blockchain that brings a multi-chain vision creating an ecosystem for boundless innovation. Join the Polkadot community and learn about Polkadot 2.0 here: https://polkadot.network/

Weekly wrap of the most important trends in the crypto market covering Bitcoin seasonality, should you sell in May?, one sector of altcoins still performing well, the social-fi apps earning highest revenues of all crypto projects, and large funds taking memecoins seriously.   Thank you for tuning in. If you can spare 5 seconds to leave a review/rating on iTunes, I appreciate it. If you share the show on Twitter I'll reply everytime!  🔥 This episode is brought to you by Mantle Network, an Ethereum L2 backed by a $4.4 billion treasury, one of the largest in the industry. Recently, Mantle has emerged as one of the most popular L2 who offering the most rewarding opportunities. Go checkout the Mantle Rewards Station today to start earning airdrop rewards from top projects, INSTANTLY. Visit the Mantle Rewards Station here: https://www.mantle.xyz/rewards-station    This episode is brought to you by Polkadot, a Layer-0 blockchain that brings a multi-chain vision creating an ecosystem for boundless innovation. Join the Polkadot community and learn about Polkadot 2.0 here: https://polkadot.network/

Martin Shkreli entrepreneur, former hedge fund manager, and notoriously named the "Pharma Bro" who the media labeled as "Most Hated Man in America."   We cover his crypto Ai investigation, a potential $1Billion scam, trading crypto from prison, SBF & CZ prison life, why he believes Bitcoin will reach $1Million dollars this year, nation-states buying Bitcoin, SEC targeting Ethereum, why he's bullish on Solana, Neuralink and Elon Musk, shorting the market, early hedge fund days, and more...   Thank you for tuning in. If you can spare 5 seconds to leave a review/rating on iTunes, I appreciate it. If you share the show on Twitter I'll reply everytime!  🔥 This episode is brought to you by Mantle Network, an Ethereum L2 backed by a $4.4 billion treasury, one of the largest in the industry. Recently, Mantle has emerged as one of the most popular L2 who offering the most rewarding opportunities. Go checkout the Mantle Rewards Station today to start earning airdrop rewards from top projects, INSTANTLY. Visit the Mantle Rewards Station here: https://www.mantle.xyz/rewards-station