NBA champion Tristan Thompson breaks down the simple Bitcoin strategy he uses to build long-term wealth, and why he believes in Bitcoin going to $1 million. 

He opens up about growing up around government assistance, the memecoin trade where greed cost him most of a seven figure gain, and why so many rich people end up losing it all. 

Whether you’re new to crypto or already stacking, this is a rare look at how a pro athlete really thinks about money, risk, and getting rich.

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0:00 Intro

3:55 What Basketball Taught Tristan About Investing

4:41 Tristan’s Biggest Weakness

6:04 Growing Up With A Chip On His Shoulder

6:52 Why He Switched From Soccer To Basketball

8:58 Life After The NBA

11:20 Why Companies Want Former Athletes

12:46 Partnerships: @KASTxyz @Variational @BitwiseInvest

14:24 Why Sharks Target Athletes’ Money

16:49 Bitcoin To $1 Million?

19:37 Tristan’s Crypto Portfolio Beyond Bitcoin

21:08 His Biggest Miss & Best Investment

23:03 The Real Goal Behind Building Wealth

24:09 What Separates Talented From Great

24:49 Why He’s Betting On AI & Robotics

27:29 What Becomes Scarce When AI Makes Everything Abundant

28:44 Preparing Kids For An AI Future

29:51 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @Ethena

30:35 Where The Money In AI Actually Goes

33:16 Why Rich People Lose It All

35:02 The Memecoin Trade That Got Away

35:35 Does Tristan Make Money Leverage Trading?

37:39 Tristan’s Thoughts On Zcash

38:03 What He’s Trying To Win Now

39:25 Do Elite Degrees Still Matter?

41:57 If You Don’t Spend It, Someone Else Will

42:46 Closing Thoughts

Dan Tapiero, founder of $1.7 billion digital asset firm 10T Holdings, returns to reveal the boring secrets to getting rich in crypto that actually work, from why he passed on FTX to the selling rule that keeps you from giving it all back. 

After 35 years in investing, including working under legends Stan Druckenmiller, Julian Robertson and Steve Cohen, Dan explains why crypto is the easiest place in the world to make money and the hardest place to keep it.

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0:00 Intro

2:05 What Rich People Understand About Money

3:54 Why Dan Isn't On Instagram

5:18 The Biggest Myths About Getting Rich

6:43 Advice That Keeps People Poor

9:49 How FOMO Becomes The Wrecker Of Wealth

15:25 Partnerships: @Variational @BitwiseInvest

16:17 What People Shouldn't Optimize For In Crypto Today

18:20 Mistakes People Make In Their 20s & 30s

20:54 Knowing When To Sell Is A Skill All Should Learn

25:54 Skill vs Patience In Wealth Building

28:54 Why Do People Sell Their Winners Too Early?

30:46 Partnership: @KASTxyz

31:34 Where We're At Within The Crypto Wealth Cycle

37:20 Dan's Thoughts On Zcash's Progress

39:50 The Best Ways To Bet On Assets Going On Chain

43:01 How Bullish Is Dan On NFTs?

45:38 What Smart People In Crypto Get Wrong Today

48:26 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @Ethena

49:09 Why All Monetary Value Will Go On Chain

51:21 Where Should A 25-Year-Old Spend Their Energy?

52:57 The Secrets To Getting Rich In Crypto

58:04 What Does A Rich Life Look Like For Dan?

59:58 Closing Thoughts

Raoul Pal believes we have roughly four years to build wealth before AI fundamentally changes how the economy works. 

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🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ crypto investment products — ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum, offering a crypto-native, non-bank-dependent stablecoin called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/

♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com

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0:00 - Intro

03:31 - The BANANA ZONE that never happened

04:07 - How To Allocate Better In Crypto

04:52 - How Compounding Actually Works

09:25 - Early vs Wrong: How To Tell

12:54 - The Belief Raoul Totally Reversed

19:01 - Sponsor: Variational, Bitwise

22:12 - The Belief Raoul Wishes Was Wrong

29:46 - How Long Does This Bull Run Last?

34:23 - The Next Obvious Crypto Narrative

36:50 - Is Bitcoin Still Primarily Money?

40:19 - Are We Underestimating AI’s Speed?

50:53 - Sponsor: Kast

51:41 - Will Crypto Ever Be Exciting Again?

59:49 - Is Success Being Smart Or Pain Tolerance?

1:03:27 - KR1: A Raoul Crypto Bet That didn't work

1:11:02 - When will The SUI Thesis Pay Off?

1:13:20 - What Brought Raoul Back To ETH

1:20:24 - Is Zcash A Trade Or A ZODL?

1:21:44 - How Big Can ZEC Get?

1:22:53 - Sponsor: Jupiter, Ethena

1:25:16 - What Is Money For?

1:26:45 - Optimizing For More Than Wealth

1:29:35 - The Most Asked Question To His Palvatar

1:33:31 - The Secret to Raoul's Great Looks

1:35:03 - Looksmaxxing: How Deep Is Raoul In?

1:37:46 - Was Telling Everyone About SUI a Wise Idea?

1:42:53 - Was the 70% SUI Position Sizing Wrong?

1:44:13 - Does Raoul Still Believe In Hold And Do Nothing?

1:44:48 - The One Major Shift Left To Witness

1:48:46 - How Good Is AI Today?

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder of Binance, sits down with Kevin live on stage at Bitcoin Asia 2026 in Hong Kong and explains why right now is the best point in history to build wealth in crypto. 

He breaks down why $1 million Bitcoin is coming faster than anyone expects, why Bitcoin will overtake gold in the next bull run, the exact crypto allocation he tells governments to hold, and what the biggest AI companies are telling him about launching their own tokens. Where the next decade of crypto is going, from the man who built the biggest exchange in the world.

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🔓 Trezor offers the safest cold-storage wallets for crypto and true financial independence.

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🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ crypto investment products — ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum, offering a crypto-native, non-bank-dependent stablecoin called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/

💧 Sui is a next-gen Layer 1 making digital asset ownership fast, private, and secure.

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♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. 

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0:00 Intro

0:37 Do We Need 25 Years For Bitcoin To Hit $1M

1:36 What’s Needed For This Century To Be Bitcoin Century

3:26 How Tokenization Links To Bitcoin’s Success

5:08 Will Bitcoin Weaken Or Strengthen Governments

8:47 Are Governments Serious About Bitcoin Today

11:14 What Most Governments Aren’t Doing With Bitcoin

12:56 Which Countries Are Doing The Best With Bitcoin

15:36 Will Bitcoin Become More Valuable Than Gold

16:33 Could We Be Wrong About Bitcoin Being Better Than Gold

17:17 How Much Should Countries Go In On Bitcoin

20:37 What’s Driving The Next Bitcoin Cycle

21:49 How AI Agents Will Trade Crypto

25:21 Stablecoins vs Bitcoin’s Future

26:54 What Will CZ Contribute To The Bitcoin Century

Jordi Alexander, founder and CEO of crypto trading firm Selini Capital, explains why retirement is a 20th century dream and why no amount of money will ever be "enough" in a world being rebuilt by AI. 

He also shares the skill AI can't replace, where he sees Bitcoin and Zcash heading next, and why health, not wealth, will be the biggest divide of the next 20 years.

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🚀 Jupiter is the most used Decentralized Exchange in Crypto and the largest DEX by volume on Solana: https://jup.ag/

💳 KAST lets you manage and spend stablecoins or crypto with a Visa Card or Apple Pay. Live in 100+ countries - Get $20 Signup Bonus - https://go.kast.xyz/VqVO/SHIFT - promo code: SHIFT

🔓 Trezor offers the safest cold-storage wallets for crypto and true financial independence.

 Buy with 10% off - promo code: WSH10 - https://affil.trezor.io/SH12h

🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ crypto investment products — ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum, offering a crypto-native, non-bank-dependent stablecoin called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/

♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com

🚀 Kalshi is a US regulated financial exchange that allows users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events : https://kalshi.com/category/crypto

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00:00 Intro

03:23 How Do You Not Break The Streak?

05:56 Who Are You?

09:24 When Did You Know You'd Made It?

12:15 How Do You Get Into The Inner Circle?

14:23 Are Billionaires Actually Special?

18:55 Early Or Just Wrong On AGI?

24:00 Sponsor: Variational, Bitwise

24:57 How Do You Not Go Crazy?

29:10 When Did Your Intuition Cost You?

31:30 The Skill AI Can't Replace

41:25 Are Book Smarts Dead?

43:03 When To Stop Grinding And Recharge

47:17 How Do You Protect Your Peace Of Mind?

51:03 Is "No Retirement" Bad Advice For Normal People?

54:45 Sponsor: Kast

1:01:13 Are Health Shortcuts Worth It?

1:06:52 Has Your Hourly Rate Changed? 50K For A Coffee

1:09:41 Where Is The Puck Going?

1:16:07 Which Platforms Win?

1:20:18 Is Qiao Wang Serious About Zcash?

1:23:19 Where Could Zcash Be In 2 Years?

1:24:50 What's In Your Macro Portfolio?

1:25:50 Why Nobody Teaches Allocation

1:29:08 Sponsor: Jupiter, Ethena

1:29:48 How Wealth Turns Into Unhappiness

1:34:56 When Does More Money Stop Mattering?

1:36:07 Why Spend Millions To Impress Strangers?

1:40:37 At 90, What Would Make Your Money Worth It?

1:42:47 Health Inequality Vs Wealth Inequality

1:44:10 What To Do When You're Spiraling

1:49:16 Can Normal People Access Psychedelic Therapy?

1:51:15 The One Thing To Remember

1:53:01 Thank You Jordi

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder of Binance, opens up on why he's always bullish on Twitter, how a single tweet lined up with Bitcoin's 20% pump right before Trump's crypto speech, and why he believes crypto is still nowhere near saturated with less than 1% global penetration. 

He also gets candid about growing up a second-generation immigrant in Canada, surviving the FTX collapse and a Binance hack, and his contrarian take on why the traditional education system is broken.

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🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ digital asset investment products - ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar system built on Ethereum's network, offering a digitally-native, non-bank-dependent price-stable digital currency called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/

♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com

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0:00 Introduction

2:01 Life on the Road

3:33 Who Are You?

4:07 Becoming a Top-20 Billionaire

5:14 Growing Up Poor in Canada

6:45 His Sister's Career

7:35 Avoiding "Third Gen Degenerate"

8:07 Binance's First Day

10:05 Sponsor: Variational & Bitwise

10:58 The Early Team

12:32 What Hardworking Means

13:35 Misconceptions About Binance

14:24 Why Listed Projects Disappoint

16:54 Can Retail Ever Win?

18:58 Origin of the "4" Meme

20:55 Tweeting "4" and Meaning It

21:29 The FTX Tweet, Full Story

25:13 Hardest Period of His Life

26:05 Prison, Not Knowing When

27:48 Did Anyone Disappear?

28:31 Sponsor: Kast

29:18 The Pardon Process

32:20 Pardon: Politics or Justice?

34:32 Advice for Elon

35:44 Bybit Hack: Was Ben Right?

36:42 2019 Hack and the Red Button

41:18 Hyperliquid as a Threat?

45:07 Why Hype Isn't on Binance

46:31 The 10/10 Crash Villain

50:47 Tweeting "4" on the Crash?

51:31 Sponsor: Jupiter & Ethena

52:14 His Crypto Legacy

53:56 Giggle Academy

1:00:56 Can CZ Move the Market?

1:03:30 Outro

Lucas Schuermann is the founder and CEO of Variational, a peer-to-peer derivatives protocol built on Arbitrum. Former Genesis executive, former quant, and someone who went to Columbia at 12 and started a hedge fund at 20.

Today we get into why variational charges zero trading fees, how it's aggregating liquidity from traditional finance to list hundreds of assets on chain, why perps have a funding rate problem most traders don't understand until it costs them, and what happens to old-school brokers once this liquidity actually moves.

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💳 KAST lets you manage and spend stablecoins or crypto with a Visa Card or Apple Pay. Live in 100+ countries - Get $20 Signup Bonus - https://go.kast.xyz/VqVO/SHIFT - promo code: SHIFT 

🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ crypto investment products — ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/ 

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum, offering a crypto-native, non-bank-dependent stablecoin called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/ 

♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com 

🚀 Kalshi is a US regulated financial exchange that allows users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events : https://kalshi.com/category/crypto

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Timestamps 

0:00 Intro

2:20 Merch, Travel & Being Back in Singapore

5:13 Who Is Lucas Sherman?

5:24 How Lucas Thinks About Building Trust

6:03 Starting College at Age 12

8:26 How Do You Actually Skip That Many Grades?

9:45 Making Friends Six Years Younger Than Everyone Else

10:40 Are You Still a "Weirdo" at 30?

11:40 Starting a Hedge Fund at 20 - "Hubris of the Young"

14:09 From Paper-Reading Group to a Real Fund

16:50 Acquired by Digital Currency Group at 21

18:59 Why Sell the Fund to DCG?

19:54 Sponsors: Variational & Bitwise

20:47 Did You Regret Selling That Early?

21:51 The Money DCG Made Off Their Work

22:38 Starting a Market Making Firm

24:46 Explain Variational Protocol to Your Mom

26:49 Biggest Mistake Building Variational

28:13 The "Holy Sh*t, We Built Something Massive" Moment

29:54 Reason #1: Zero Fees

32:59 How Do You Trust the Price With Only One Market Maker?

34:33 Are Trading Fees a Scam?

35:29 How Much Do Fees Actually Cost Traders?

36:33 Reason #2: Asset Selection & What "Liquidity" Really Means

40:20 Why Hasn't Crypto Solved This Already?

42:39 Where On-Chain Order Books Break at Scale

46:04 Sponsor: KAST

1:07:30 Sponsor: Jupiterexchange & Ethena

Guy Young built Ethena from zero to billions in under two years. 

In this conversation, we talk about the one crypto product he believes can reach 100 million users: a yield-bearing dollar in a mobile app. 

The goal is for it to feel like a normal fintech app where users don't even know crypto is powering it underneath. Just save, spend, and send to anyone in the world. 

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⚖️ Variational aggregates liquidity to offer industry-leading depth on crypto, equities, commodities, and more: https://www.variational.io/ 

🚀 Jupiter is the most used Decentralized Exchange in Crypto and the largest DEX by volume on Solana: https://jup.ag/ 

💳 KAST lets you manage and spend stablecoins or crypto with a Visa Card or Apple Pay. Live in 100+ countries - Get $20 Signup Bonus - https://go.kast.xyz/VqVO/SHIFT - promo code: SHIFT 

🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ crypto investment products — ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/ 

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum, offering a crypto-native, non-bank-dependent stablecoin called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/ 

♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com 

🚀 Kalshi is a US regulated financial exchange that allows users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events : https://kalshi.com/category/crypto

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0:00 Introduction

2:37 Which Of Guy’s Plans Didn’t Work Out

5:37 Where Are The Users People Are Trying To Obtain

7:10 What Excited Guy About Crypto

9:20 Differences Between PayPal, Revolut, & Neo Banks

12:43 Partnerships: @Variational @BitwiseInvest

13:36 Revolut vs Stable Coin Neo Banks 

15:58 Is Swapping To Neo Banks A 10x Improvement

18:00 Ethena Pay Explained Simply

21:21 Why Another Crypto Neo Bank

23:53 Will A Fight For The Pie Happen With Crypto Banks 

25:55 How Ethena Gets Users When It Can Help Everyone

32:47 What Makes Ethena Different

36:51 Ethena’s Cashback System Revealed

38:32 Guy’s Thoughts On How Ethena Reduces Fees 

39:39 How Ethena Gets The Best Yield 

45:16 Guy’s Opinion On Dealing With FUD

48:35 Why Guy Doesn’t Communicate A Lot

49:29 Partnership: @KASTxyz

50:17 What KPI Is Ethena Looking To Hit In 2026

51:55 The Holy Grail For A Stable Coin Neo Bank

52:31 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @Ethena

53:14 If Everyone’s Doing The Same Thing, Who Wins

55:23 The Next Big Thing For Ethena After Ethena Pay

56:36 Is Ethena Pay Like USDE

58:04 Closing Thoughts

Trezor's CTO, Tomáš Sušánka, breaks down how AI is changing the scam landscape and why even security experts are getting fooled. 

From AI deepfake Microsoft Teams calls to voice cloning and phishing sites that nearly caught the CTO himself, this conversation covers the modern security playbook everyone needs for 2026.

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🚀 Jupiter is the most used Decentralized Exchange in Crypto and the largest DEX by volume on Solana: https://jup.ag/

💳 KAST lets you manage and spend stablecoins or crypto with a Visa Card or Apple Pay. Live in 100+ countries - Get $20 Signup Bonus - https://go.kast.xyz/VqVO/SHIFT - promo code: SHIFT

🔓 Trezor offers the safest cold-storage wallets for crypto and true financial independence.

 Buy with 10% off - promo code: WSH10 - https://affil.trezor.io/SH12h

🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ crypto investment products — ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum, offering a crypto-native, non-bank-dependent stablecoin called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/

♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com

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0:00 Introduction

2:07 Does Tomas Like To Talk

4:15 What Does Tomas Do & Why

5:15 How Much Does Bitcoin Matter To Tomas

6:28 Why Should People Still Care About Bitcoin

8:25 Who Is Tomas Sushanka

10:10 Why Humans Are So Bad With Security

12:58 Tomas’s Thoughts On People Downplaying Risk

14:27 How Should One Think About Risk

15:25 Does Intelligence Play A Role In Risk

16:54 Why Do Smart People Fall For Scams

23:39 How Do We Fix This Scam Problem

25:12 Partnerships: @Variational @BitwiseInvest

26:05 Which Security Mistake Would Tomas Remove

28:57 How Tomas Protects His Assets 

29:49 What’s The Craziest Hack Tomas Has Seen

31:24 A Security Habit That Makes Tomas Look Crazy

32:27 Why Someone Should Care About Self-Custody

36:05 When Should People Look Into A Hardware Wallet

37:48 A Strategy For Hardware Risk Management

44:16 How Does One Manage The Inheritance Problem

46:29 Should People Keep Assets On An Exchange

47:32 Partnership: @KASTxyz

48:20 What Security Setup Should Kevin’s Grandma Use

50:08 Things To Can Do To Prevent Hacks & Scams

1:01:57 Should People Upgrade Their Trezor Wallets

1:05:28 How Self-Custody Will Evolve & Not Be Archaic

1:08:07 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @Ethena

1:08:50 The Biggest Problem With Self-Custody

1:09:52 Is Quantum Computing A Worry For Crypto

1:14:48 Who’s Taking Quantum Computing Seriously

1:20:41 Who’s Securing Bitcoin Against Quantum Risk

1:23:58 A Crypto Belief That Tomas Disagrees With

1:26:12 Is There A Future For Digital Identity 

1:27:56 Could Self-Custody Become Too Complicated

1:28:42 Dangerous Advice Tomas Had Heard Before

1:29:43 Does AI Make You Safer Or Vulnerable

1:31:25 Closing Thoughts

Jupiter COO, Kash Dhanda, breaks down the real playbook for building wealth in crypto without luck, memecoins, or moonshots. 

He explains why we're still in the early majority phase of crypto adoption, why Solana is becoming the everything chain, and why he personally keeps over 50 percent of his portfolio in stablecoins earning yield.

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⚖️ Variational aggregates liquidity to offer industry-leading depth on crypto, equities, commodities, and more: https://www.variational.io/

🚀 Jupiter is the most used Decentralized Exchange in Crypto and the largest DEX by volume on Solana: https://jup.ag/

💳 KAST lets you manage and spend stablecoins or crypto with a Visa Card or Apple Pay. Live in 100+ countries - Get $20 Signup Bonus - https://go.kast.xyz/VqVO/SHIFT - promo code: SHIFT

🔓 Trezor offers the safest cold-storage wallets for crypto and true financial independence.

 Buy with 10% off - promo code: WSH10 - https://affil.trezor.io/SH12h

🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ crypto investment products — ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum, offering a crypto-native, non-bank-dependent stablecoin called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/

♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com

🚀 Kalshi is a US regulated financial exchange that allows users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events : https://kalshi.com/category/crypto

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0:00 Introduction

2:10 Crypto Middleman Discussion

4:46 Where Crypto Currently Sits Within TradFi

7:59 Who Is Kash Dhanda

9:26 What Was Kash’s Role On SuperTeam

11:42 Why Kevin Became So Bullish On Solana & ZCash

13:02 What Is The Concept Of Infinite Capitalism

16:07 Partnerships: @Variational @BitwiseInvest

19:15 Kash’s Opinion On Memecoins

21:27 Why Even Hold 10% For Random Investing

24:15 How Can People Get Rich In Crypto Without Luck

27:25 The One Way To Compound Wealth In Crypto

28:33 Isn’t Yield Not Worth It For Crypto Investing

31:14 Why Go All In On Stablecoins

40:10 Partnership: @KASTxyz

43:21 Is Solana Rising From The Ashes

47:09 What’s Solana Bad At Toda

51:01 Solana’s Thesis In 2026

52:23 Is SOL Becoming Future-Proof

54:07 What Is Jupiter Today

56:13 Why JUP Token Is Powered By Ethena

57:19 Why Does Jupiter Need A Stable Coin 

1:00:05 How JUP Is Able To Give Yield

1:03:20 What Is Jupiter Spend

1:04:58 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @Ethena

1:05:42 The Advantages Of Using Jupiter Spend

1:07:39 Gum Global Unified Markets Explained Simply

1:10:20 What Other Things Will Gum Help With

1:12:30 Does Solana Doing Well Benefit Jupiter Heavily

1:14:45 Why JUP Didn’t Do Well Last Cycle

1:17:21 The Changes Jupiter Is Making To Stand Out

1:19:23 Should We Be Bullish On JUP Token

1:23:28 One Takeaway From This Conversation 

1:24:15 Closing Thoughts

Jordi Visser, macro strategist at 22V Research and former Weiss Multi-Strategy CIO, breaks down why Bitcoin is his hedge against a coming age of AI-driven abundance and why he holds no interest in ever selling. 

He also dives into longevity, heart rate variability, and why chasing money and status like buying a house may be the wrong game to play.

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⚖️ Variational aggregates liquidity to offer industry-leading depth on crypto, equities, commodities, and more: https://www.variational.io/

🚀 Jupiter is the most used Decentralized Exchange in Crypto and the largest DEX by volume on Solana: https://jup.ag/

💳 KAST lets you manage and spend stablecoins or crypto with a Visa Card or Apple Pay. Live in 100+ countries - Get $20 Signup Bonus - https://go.kast.xyz/VqVO/SHIFT - promo code: SHIFT

🔓 Trezor offers the safest cold-storage wallets for crypto and true financial independence.

 Buy with 10% off - promo code: WSH10 - https://affil.trezor.io/SH12h

🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ crypto investment products — ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum, offering a crypto-native, non-bank-dependent stablecoin called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/

♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com

🚀 Kalshi is a US regulated financial exchange that allows users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events : https://kalshi.com/category/crypto

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0:00 Introduction

2:10 Was Jordi Happy With His Weekend & Activities

3:49 How Does One Live Until 100 Years Old

4:31 Why Jordi Is Fascinated With Longevity

5:44 What Kills The Habit Of Living Healthy

7:20 Jordi’s Thoughts On Supplements & Meds

9:51 Partnerships: @Variational @BitwiseInvest

12:17 How Distribution Of Wealth Affects Longevity

14:03 Jordi’s Opinion On Peptides & Hormones

17:47 What Is Heart-Rate Variability

21:21 How Can You Track Heart-Rate Variability

25:12 Jordi’s Findings Within The Finance World

29:10 When Jordi Learned The Concept Of Money

31:58 Partnership: @KASTxyz

32:47 What’s The Point Of Making More Mone

38:20 Does Abundance = More Affordable 

38:54 Why Would We Still Need To Build Wealth

41:22 How Jordi Became Fascinated With Bitcoin

47:44 Jordi’s Thesis On Bitcoin Explained Simply

50:10 How Much Of Jordi’s Portfolio Is Bitcoin

50:48 Would Jordi Ever Sell His Bitcoin

51:52 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @Ethena

52:38 How Big Does Bitcoin Get

54:00 Jordi’s Thoughts On “Bitcoin Is Too Expensive”

55:28 Why Have A Channel About Crypto & Not Bitcoin

56:25 Does Jordi Invest In Other Crypto Assets

57:24 Other Scarce Assets Jordi’s Invested In

58:41 Should 20 Year Olds Work Towards Buying A House

1:02:00 The Difference Between Routine & Unique

1:03:57 Why You Should Prioritize Longevity

1:07:02 Closing Thoughts