Imran and Qiao sat down to discuss the current state and direction of crypto.
No BS crypto insights for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00:00) Intro
(00:00:46) $LIBRA
(00:06:23) 4 Use Cases of Crypto
(00:08:17) The End Goal for Payments
(00:09:54) DePIN and Energy
(00:12:12) Simplicity of Crypto
(00:13:18) Crypto is Finance
(00:14:43) “Web 3.0” is a Lie?
(00:15:43) The Biggest Risk for Ethereum
(00:16:16) Qiao on DeFi
(00:18:19) Crypto AI Builders Pivoting Straight to AI
(00:19:47) AI in Education
(00:27:25) AI for Ad Creation
(00:29:32) AI for Building dApps
(00:31:51) Personalized Apps
(00:32:49) "The Future is Personalization"
(00:34:07) "Lazy People Will Get F**ked by AI"
(00:35:08) AI in Gaming and Video Generation
(00:36:54) NFTs Comeback with AI?
(00:42:21) Verticalized Science AI
(00:47:23) Builders Outside of Crypto are Welcome in Alliance
(00:48:52) Startups Solving Capital Markets Problem
(00:54:59) Criticizing Trump's Token Launch
(00:59:19) "Crypto Twitter is imploding"
(01:00:51) Reminiscing Good Times in Crypto
(01:02:27) Promising Crypto Startups
(01:04:15) AI Arms Race
(01:06:26) Impact of AI on Startups
(01:12:11) AI in B2B
(01:15:52) Are Memecoins Dead?
(01:16:11) Market Analysis
(01:18:48) End of the Cycle or 1 More Pump?
(01:20:13) Reflection on Early Crypto Ideals
(01:21:05) Cypherpunk Ideologies

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