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The hosts reflect on their 2023 predictions in the crypto industry, highlighting the growth of self custody and competition faced by MetaMask. They discuss the best founders like Luca Nett and breakout stars such as Jeremy Allaire and Brian Armstrong. The speakers also express their negative views on the real estate industry and discuss the challenges of being open about investments on social media. They emphasize the excitement around founders and sectors in the crypto industry, and offer a discount code for an upcoming digital asset summit in London.

Richard Wu and Ilja Moisejevs, co-founders of Tensor, discuss building Solana's leading NFT marketplace. They cover topics like enhancing developer experience, decentralizing their protocol, user behavior, and their vision for NFTs. They also talk about the rise of NFT trading, inscriptions, company growth, team size, and productivity.

In this episode, the hosts discuss market price action, meme coin mania, defining success as a trader, and the upcoming Bitcoin ETF approvals. They also explore the risks and challenges of trading and investing in crypto, the performance of Bitcoin, the differences between meme coins and NFT media on Solana, and the misconceptions around retirement savings.

Kevin Sekniqi, Co-Founder of Avalanche, and Patrick O'Grady, VP of Engineering at Avalanche, join the show to discuss the future of Avalanche with thousands of highly optimized specialized blockchains. They explain the concept of subnets and their economics, and compare them with rollups. They also discuss the implementation of the Warp protocol for cross-chain communication, the value accrual of AVACs, and the excitement for Avalanche and Ava Labs in 2024.

The podcast covers topics such as the FASB fair value ruling for Bitcoin, the Ledger exploit, and the controversy surrounding Rainbow's new points system. They discuss the impact of Bitcoin on corporate balance sheets, lessons in security measures from recent exploits, and the upcoming Block Works conference. They also explore distributed systems, privacy-focused L2 technology, and yield capture protocols. The speakers have a casual conversation and mention a digital asset summit in London.

Mike Cahill, CEO of Duro Labs and contributor at Pyth Network, discusses how Pyth Network addresses failings in both the current Oracle system in crypto and the traditional capital markets. Topics include the monopolization of data in traditional capital markets, the Oracle problem in crypto, collaboration and competition in the financial market data industry, revenue projections in DFI and crypto markets, upcoming institutional conference, the role of token in the PIF network, and the importance of open-source projects.

In this podcast, the hosts discuss Societe Generale's Euro stablecoin launch, the implications of meme coin culture, Coinbase's easy crypto payments feature, the future of gaming in the crypto space, and upcoming content. They also explore the power of memes, the London crypto industry and emerging DeFi scene, the Bitcoin price, reactions to Solana video, and navigating the crypto cycle. Additionally, they cover the introduction of a new feature in the coin-based wallet app, stablecoin demand, Coinbase's success, and discussions on predictions, gaming, and promotions.

The podcast discusses bullish price action in crypto markets, the BTC/Alt rotation trade, Ethereum as the most hated trade in crypto, and Solana's NFTs. They also touch on crypto's cycle top, its biggest movers, and the reasons to own crypto.

Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable, discusses how they enable true digital asset ownership for gamers through their Ethereum gaming protocol. They explore the intersection of blockchains and games, Ethereum's role, and the need for scalable solutions. They also discuss challenges and exciting collaborations in the future landscape of Web3 gaming.

Ethan Buchman, Cosmos co-founder, and Sam Hart, head of product & strategy at Skip Protocol, join the hosts to revisit the Cosmos appchain thesis. They discuss the ideal protocol for launching an App Chain, IBC enabling multi-chain flows, shared security models, and key learnings from governance processes in Cosmos. The speakers also explore the lack of marketing and business development efforts in Cosmos and the future plans in building applications on the front end. Exciting developments in the Cosmos ecosystem, such as integration with a Bitcoin restaking project and collaborations with the eigenlayer team, are also highlighted.