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Dr. Ben Goertzel is a highly influential figure in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, and computational finance. Born in 1966, he has been a pioneering force in multiple scientific and technological domains. With a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Temple University, Goertzel has dedicated his career to both the theoretical and practical applications of AI, striving to bridge the gap between machine intelligence and human-like cognition. He helped popularize the term “artificial general intelligence” and he has been a strong advocate for moving the field of AGI.Dr. Goertzel leads the SingularityNET Foundation, the enterprise AI firm TrueAGI, the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society. Additionally, he is the facilitator of the Artificial General Intelligence conference, held annually for more than fifteen years.In this conversation, we discuss:- The future of AI & Blockchain- The history and future of AI- How AI and blockchain work together- Artificial General Intelligence- Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI) merger- $ASI- The killer use case for blockchain-based AI- AI product lifecycle- How AI agents can make our lives easier- AI-based fraud detection is more efficient on the blockchainSingularityNET FoundationWebsite: singularitynet.ioX: @SingularityNETTelegram: t.me/singularitynetBen GoertzelX: @bengoertzelLinkedIn: Ben Goertzel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Gabriele Giancola, council member of qiibee Foundation, is a prominent Swiss entrepreneur known for his contributions to the Web3 and blockchain space. After graduating with a Master’s in Business Management from the University of St. Gallen, Gabriele co-founded qiibee, where he is CEO, a blockchain-based loyalty ecosystem that helps brands run and connect loyalty programs.Gabriele has worked with brands such as Miles & More, Etihad Guest, Renault, and Coca-Cola. Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of how blockchain can be applied to solve real-world problems, Gabriele envisions rewards as one of the top three payment methods that will drive blockchain’s growth and societal impact.Gabriele’s areas of expertise include blockchain innovation and business enterprise loyalty programs.In this conversation, we discuss:- The next iteration of loyalty programs- Consumer brands and sports clubs are now adopting blockchain- How Web3 has continuously evolved its incentivisation processes- Offering greater transparency and flexibility- Calculating the value of points programs- Creating liquidity in points programs- The importance of partnerships for loyalty programs- Using web3 to unlock the next frontier of loyalty programs- The future of rewards programsqiibeeWebsite: www.qiibee.comX: @qiibeeLinkedIn: qiibeeGabriele GiancolaX: @gabriele_qbxLinkedIn: Gabriele Giancola ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Chris Yin is CEO/Co-Founder of Plume, which he founded in 2024 to redefine how people use and think about RWAs. He is leading the team realizing the vision to simplify how users bring any kind of asset including collectibles and alternative assets in addition to traditional financial instruments onchain. Chris has an accomplished track record as a product lead and investor, with prior positions at Beluga, Scale Venture Partners, and Rainforest QA. In this conversation, we discuss:- RWAs- RWA-Fi- Advantages of tokenizing assets- Biggest challenges in RWA deployment- Plume’s unique offerings in the RWA space- Which collectibles and alternative assets that will be most valuable to bring onchain- Alternative assets for retail investors- Crypto evolving to serve institutional partners-RWA based loans and looping- Understanding the crypto product life cycle- Knowing your audiencePlume NetworkWebsite: www.plumenetwork.xyzX: @plumenetworkTelegram: t.me/plumenetwork_communityChris YinX: @chriseyinBlog: www.chrisyin.xyz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Cooper Scanlon, Co-founder of Movement Labs, dropped out of Vanderbilt after his journey led to the blockchain space and he realized that formal education wasn’t the key to his success and he enjoyed building a SPACDAO Vehicle more. This decision led to him pioneering the first yield aggregator leveraging Move and eventually envisioning and creating Movement Labs.Fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations, championing Web3 initiatives, and drawing from his experiences, Cooper brings a unique blend of financial & technical expertise and economic system insights to Movement Labs, steering and leading its strategic and cultural direction.In this conversation, we discuss:- The Move programming language- Using web3 tech to create your own change- "Building The Parthenon"- Battle of Olympus Hackathon- Rewarding community engagement in web3- Launching testnet and securing $160M in Total Value Locked (TVL)- Raising $38M from Binance Labs- Writing cheques for new teams in the Move / Movement Labs ecosystem- Incubating a community from scratch- Living in NYC vs. SFMovement LabsWebsite: movementlabs.xyzX: @movementlabsxyzTelegram: t.me/movementlabsxyzCooper ScanlonX: @coopsmoves  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

J.D. Seraphine founded Vision Tree with the sole purpose of transforming our culture and changing the world for the better through Media and Technology. With over 16 Years experience in the entertainment industry, he started in television working in production on the hit show 24 and went on to finance and produce a number of projects: including Hesher, starring Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon Levitt, the viral documentary sensation Sirius, and the Tony-nominated hit Broadway Play, Rock of Ages.J.D. directed the groundbreaking documentary series, Open Source Money, about the rise of Disney-incubated blockchain company, Dragonchain, and the global evolution of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The series premiered on Discovery Science Channel on the 4th of July 2020 and reached 1 million viewers in the U.S. He co-founded Raiinmaker, one the fastest growing Web 3.0 powered apps designed for the social creator economy. J.D. is committed to growing Vision Tree & Raiinmaker into powerful forces for change in the world that will have a major positive impact on the future of the global cultural landscape.In this conversation, we discuss:- Merging Crypto & AI- DePIN- Simplifying the process of setting up nodes- Empowering everyone to train AI models- Democratizing data creation and collection- Importance of “Know Your Customer” (KYC) compliance- Deploying code directly from your smartphones to tap into decentralized computing power- Stories from working in the entertainment industry- Blockchain’s influence and distribution on the entertainment industry- Harnessing the power of community and removing the middlemanRaiinmakerWebsite: www.raiinmaker.comX: @RaiinmakerappTelegram: t.me/raiinmakernetworkJ.D. SeraphineX: @commodorgonzoLinkedIn: J.D. Seraphine ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

William E. Quigley is a cryptocurrency and blockchain investor. He has incubated and invested in more than 30 bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency-related investments and co-developed the first crypto derivative used to trade pre-release Ethereum. He co-founded Tether, the first fiat-backed stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency to date, GoCoin, a pioneering crypto payments processor, and co-founded WAX, a leading NFT blockchain platform. In 2013, Mr. Quigley co-founded Crypto Currency Partners, a blockchain equity investment fund with early notable investments in Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfury, Authy, ChangeTip, and Circle.Prior to his involvement in blockchain, William was a venture capitalist, co-founding Clearstone Venture Partners, a $700M early-stage focused venture capital firm where he concentrated on communications and consumer technology companies. Before Clearstone, William was a managing director at Idealab! Capital Partners (ICP), the world’s first consumer Internet venture capital firm. ICP was an early investor in some of the leading Web 1.0 era companies, including Paypal, Netzero, MP3.com, and Goto.com.In this conversation, we discuss:- Overall market moves and SEC approvals- Maturation of the crypto market- Unique value of where we are in crypto adoption era- Why Tether has no peg- The future of Stablecoins and De-Fi- De-Fi’s impact on the global commerce- The spread and use of blockchain technology across other industries- Why countries will adopt CBDCs- The history of banking- RWAs- Digitization vs TokenizationWAXWebsite: www.wax.ioTwitter: @WAX_ioTelegram: t.me/wax_ioWilliam E. QuigleyTwitter: @WilliamEQuigleyLinkedIn: William E. Quigley ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Amitt Mahajan is the Founder of Proof of Play, the creators of Pirate Nation, the fully onchain free-to-play pirate-themed roleplaying game (RPG). Prior to founding Proof of Play, Amitt was the founder and CTO of MyMiniLife (acquired by Zynga), founder and CEO of Toro (acquired by Google), and the co-founder and CTO of Rare Bits, an NFT marketplace launched in 2018 the same week as OpenSea. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille (300M players, $1B+ in revenue) and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.In this conversation, we discuss:- Building FarmVille and working at Zynga, a top 3 gaming studio of all time- The importance of distribution in gaming- Distribution in FB vs Telegram vs Discord- Social gaming- Creating games = giving multiple choices and giving high player agency- “Finding the fun”- Building decentralized games and gaming infrastructure- Crypto is ethical neutral technology- Importance of streaming in today’s games- Building community- Dev cycle speedPirate NationWebsite: piratenation.gameX: @PirateNationDiscord: discord.gg/piratenationAmitt MahajanX: @amittmLinkedIn: Amitt Mahajan  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Evan Weiss, Chief Operating Officer at Alluvial, is a seasoned expert in the crypto industry.  Prior to Alluvial, he served as the Business Development Lead for Coinbase Cloud at Coinbase, where played a crucial role in leading business teams for the launch of Coinbase's Wallet-as-a-Service. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Business Operations at Bison Trails, where he successfully managed sales, business operations, and customer success teams. Under Evan's leadership, these teams built the largest staking provider in the industry, overseeing assets staked totaling over $30 billion by November 2021.Evan is also the founder of the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), a nonprofit industry alliance established in 2019. POSA has been a driving force in advocating for forward-thinking public policies to foster innovation in proof-of-stake ecosystems. Evan's work with POSA includes contributions to legal frameworks for staking, industry principles for staking-as-a-service, and fair taxation of staking rewards. His efforts have resulted in the publication of the first legal research addressing staking regulation and tax considerations, particularly in the context of liquid staking in the United States.In this conversation, we discuss:- ETH ETF- What is “liquid staking”- The difference between staking, liquid staking, and re-staking?- The future of DeFi- What is Alluvial and Liquid Collective?- Future of ETH ecosystem and staking industry- The current staking narrative for institutions and normies- What will be the killer consumer crypto app?AlluvialWebsite: alluvial.financeX: @alluvialfinanceEvan WeissX: @evweiss1LinkedIn: Evan Weiss  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

As Gaianet's CEO, Matt spearheads the mission to reshape the AI landscape. With his adept leadership and 8 years of experience in community development, developer evangelism, and strategic partnership, Matt is dedicated to driving Gaianet toward a future where AI technologies are transparent, accessible, and beneficial to all – facilitating innovation and progress across industries.Matt previously served as the Director at Consensys and endeavored to contribute to the evolution of the web (web3) and build the future of community development in the Ethereum ecosystem. With Matt being the leader, Consensys launched a dynamic virtual pre-accelerator program in collaboration with Tachyon, MetaMask, and Linea. Through mentorship, Matt helped numerous promising founders grow their businesses as members of the Consensys community.During his time at J.P. Morgan, Matt built a developer community around Quorum, an open-source private/permissioned enterprise blockchain platform based on Ethereum. He established a 50+ member global Ambassador program, tripled the size of the community, and garnered substantial support from the enterprise Ethereum ecosystem.Matt's contributions extended to organizing 150+ hackathons for renowned Fortune 500 companies, including Mastercard, Motorola, ABInBev, RBC, Barclays, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and UBS. Collaborating closely with local tech partners, NGOs, universities, accelerators, and government agencies, Matt facilitated impactful events that embraced startup culture on a global scale.In this conversation, we discuss:- Ethereum ETF- The current and future state of decentralized AI- The technical and philosophical benefits of AI- Real world applications of decentralized AI- Navigating the challenges in decentralized AI implementation- The role of community in decentralized AI ecosystems- Overcoming centralization in AI- The future of AI innovation- The relation of AI and crypto- What is Gaianet?- Why do people shit on the Ethereum ecosystem?- AI agentsGaianetWebsite: www.gaianet.aiX: @Gaianet_AITelegram: t.me/Gaianet_AIMatt WrightX: @mateo_venturesLinkedIn: Matt Wright  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Bobby Lee is the Founder and CEO of Ballet, the cryptocurrency company behind the innovative REAL Series Cold Storage. This physical cold storage was launched in 2019 as the world’s first-ever non-electronic cold storage card with multicurrency support that requires zero setup to use. Ballet aims to bring true global adoption to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency by making it easy, safe, and reliable for everyday people to store and manage their digital assets.Bobby Lee has been a leading entrepreneur and expert in the crypto industry since 2011. He is also the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller “The Promise of Bitcoin.” Prior to founding Ballet, Lee was the CEO and co-founder of the first Bitcoin exchange established in China, BTC China (later renamed BTCC), which was acquired by a Hong Kong-based investment firm in January 2018.In this conversation, we discuss:- Mining and buying Bitcoin back in 2011- The relation between gold and bitcoin- Bitcoin ETF- Bitcoin regulatory landscape in USA and China- Future of Bitcoin- What is Ballet? The easiest and most efficient cold storage crypto solution- BIP38 private key encryption- Bitcoin ownership and custody- The importance of self-custody + cold storage- Trump + JD Vance being pro-cryptoBalletWebsite: www.ballet.comX: @BalletCryptoTelegram: t.me/BalletCryptoBobby LeeX: @bobbycleeLinkedIn: Bobby Lee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50