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Defensive Investing for an AI Bubble | Ruchir Sharma's Hedge Rules
America isn’t just leading the AI race; it’s increasingly built on it. Investor–author Ruchir Sharma joins Bankless to unpack why U.S. growth, stock gains, and even debt complacency are now tethered to a single story, and what a sensible hedge looks like. We trace how U.S. dominance happened, what could puncture the current euphoria, and where the real diversification lives: quality stocks that have lagged, broad ex-US exposure with currency tailwinds, and selective bets in India, China, and reform winners like Greece and Poland. We also tackle the “gold + stocks up together” puzzle, why that correlation can bite in a tightening cycle, and Ruchir’s “two cheers” case for Bitcoin as a portfolio asset whose utility still has room to grow. --- 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium --- BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAXNET | MINT, REDEEM, EARN https://bankless.cc/fraxnet 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR L2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 💤EIGHT SLEEP | IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP https://bankless.cc/eight-sleep 💠BIT DIGITAL ($BTBT) | ETH TREASURY https://bankless.cc/bit-digital We’re being compensated by Bit Digital (NASDAQ BTBT) for this segment promoting their company and BTBT. The compensation is paid in cash as a one time payment. You can find additional information about Bit Digital and BTBT on their Investor page at https://bit-digital.com/investors --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 The Contrarian Take: American Exceptionalism Peaks 4:06 Theme of the 2020s 6:42 “America Is One Big Bet on AI” 13:07 The Counterfactual 19:01 Is This an AI Bubble? 22:59 The Catalyst That Pops Bubbles 29:05 How U.S. Dominance Happened 34:41 Moral Hazard & Household Risk 37:24 Green Shoots Abroad 39:37 Practical Rebalance for U.S.-Heavy Investors 50:17 How to Start Outside the U.S. 1:00:58 Gold & Stocks: Partying Together 1:05:47 Real Hedges Now 1:09:39 Bitcoin: Two Cheers 1:13:08 Closing Thoughts --- RESOURCES Ruchir Sharma https://ruchirsharma.com Ruchir’s FT Articles https://www.ft.com/ruchir-sharma --- Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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Bryan Johnson: Don’t Die, Beating Entropy, AI Alignment & The Two-Species Future
Bryan Johnson lays out “Don’t Die,” a moral framework that puts existence first and turns longevity into a shared fight against entropy. We pressure-test the hard stuff: selfishness, inequality, stagnation, and the so-called two-species future. Bryan argues these are solvable with smart societal engineering if “don’t die” is for everyone. He breaks down Blueprint as a practical on-ramp with evidence-based health, behavior, and social habits. We finish on crypto, from his Braintree days with Coinbase to how web3 could power a broad “don’t die” commons. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAXNET | MINT, REDEEM, EARN https://bankless.cc/fraxnet 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR L2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 💤EIGHT SLEEP | IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP https://bankless.cc/eight-sleep 💠BIT DIGITAL ($BTBT) | ETH TREASURY https://bankless.cc/bit-digital We’re being compensated by Bit Digital (NASDAQ BTBT) for this segment promoting their company and BTBT. The compensation is paid in cash as a one time payment. You can find additional information about Bit Digital and BTBT on their Investor page at https://bit-digital.com/investors ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Don’t Die 8:18 Beating Entropy 18:35 Existence as The Highest Virtue 21:01 Isn’t Don’t Die Selfish? 27:12 AI Alignment 31:36 Collective Don’t Die 33:34 Don’t Die & AI 37:36 Longevity Escape Velocity 40:57 The Two-Species Future 47:07 A Path Without Creative Destruction? 52:40 Bryan’s 500-Year Lifespan 59:19 Blueprint 1:04:52 Crypto 1:06:23 Closing Thoughts ------ RESOURCES Bryan johnson https://x.com/bryan_johnson Bryan Johnson Links https://bryanjohnson.komi.io/ ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠
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ROLLUP: Market Uncertainty | Trump’s Bullish Plan? | Coinbase ICOs Return | Uniswap Fee Switch On | JPM Base Coin | Crypto Privacy Season?
Market uncertainty? On this week’s Weekly Rollup, Ryan and guest co-host Tom Schmidt dig into a jittery crypto market, Trump’s new economic ideas aimed at boosting sentiment, and whether the four-year cycle prophecy is finally catching up with Bitcoin. They also cover Coinbase bringing ICOs back to U.S. retail, Uniswap’s long-awaited fee switch moment, and JPMorgan launching a deposit token on Base. Plus: Zcash’s 4,000 percent surge, Ethereum’s renewed privacy push, Binance tightening rules on shielded coins, and a privacy-wallet developer receiving a five-year prison sentence. ------ 📣BANKLESS SUMMIT 2025 | SPONSORED BY M0 https://bankless.cc/devconnet-2025 https://bankless.cc/m0 ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAXNET | MINT, REDEEM, EARN https://bankless.cc/fraxnet 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR L2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 💤EIGHT SLEEP | IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP https://bankless.cc/eight-sleep 💠BIT DIGITAL ($BTBT) | ETH TREASURY https://bankless.cc/bit-digital We’re being compensated by Bit Digital (NASDAQ BTBT) for this segment promoting their company and BTBT. The compensation is paid in cash as a one time payment. You can find additional information about Bit Digital and BTBT on their Investor page at https://bit-digital.com/investors ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 3:05 Markets https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1988811150402916672 https://x.com/intocryptoverse/status/1987681686218228125 https://x.com/QwQiao/status/1988769174005698675 https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1987276536584818914 https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1987537420263338275 https://x.com/ts_hodl/status/1987279165041545634 https://x.com/kianejatian/status/1987373998087270424 https://x.com/pro__trading/status/1987343377718038585 https://x.com/biancoresearch/status/1988035796490694949 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/business/trump-dividend-payment-tariff-stimulus https://polymarket.com/event/will-trump-create-a-tariff-dividend-in-2025 20:08 Privacy season in crypto? https://x.com/damskotrades/status/1986772019854160184 https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash https://x.com/CryptoHayes/status/1973733637582708971 https://x.com/AvgJoesCrypto/status/1986822768667525347 https://x.com/hasufl/status/1985288958603927788 https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1988035181127626810 https://x.com/MisterMonero/status/1986520956333170844 https://x.com/tyler/status/1988609730646778061 https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/11/06/samourai-wallet-developer-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-for-unlicensed-money-transmitting https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.615997/gov.uscourts.nysd.615997.154.1_1.pdf https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1986845985088168271 35:00 Uniswap turning on the fee switch! https://x.com/haydenzadams/status/1987990314997739625 https://x.com/PaulFrambot/status/1988075691359748317 https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1988266505096536085 https://imgur.com/a/OuSZTXk https://imgur.com/a/AxKHIMi https://dune.com/kunallegendd/uniswap-revenue-estimates https://x.com/EffortCapital/status/1988263477593440611 https://x.com/DefiIgnas/status/1988245763957125539 https://x.com/DefiIgnas/status/1988188661578449219 https://x.com/lemiscate/status/1988204573400723544 https://x.com/jchervinsky/status/1988333836611011037 https://x.com/milesjennings/status/1988628499087736998 https://x.com/haydenzadams/status/1988846923080421878 https://x.com/haydenzadams/status/1988044454939279379 49:59 Coinbase is launching an ICO platform & Monad ICO https://x.com/coinbase/status/1987883986924843073 https://x.com/BillHughesDC/status/1987969709711458584 https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1987884634789556488 https://x.com/monad/status/1987884528724017167 https://x.com/confugen/status/1987886741689454708 https://x.com/onchainmo/status/1987889262893945022 https://x.com/marggaarin/status/1987884981683642725 https://x.com/0xkydo/status/1988111486418661546 55:23 Bank Adoption https://x.com/WhaleInsider/status/1988468697980129350 https://x.com/sytaylor/status/1988543985049116942 https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1988246045222912207 https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1987882958234218601 1:01:44 Crypto Geopolitics https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1988341005431828918 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/china-accuses-us-of-orchestrating-13-billion-bitcoin-hack?srnd=homepage-americas https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1988627943107490112 1:07:35 Closing & Disclaimers ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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Ethereum Beast Mode - Scaling L1 to 10k and Beyond | Justin Drake
Ethereum hasn’t reached full speed yet. Now it might. Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation outlines Lean Ethereum, a plan to optimise the stack so validators stop executing and start verifying. With zk proofs in under 12 seconds and on-prem provers around 10 kW, the base layer can reach gigagas capacity and roughly 10,000 TPS while getting more decentralized. Add Fossil, seconds-level finality, and post-quantum signatures, and the changes stick. We unpack the EthProofs race, the four-phase path to mandatory proofs, the three-times-a-year gas target in EIP-7938, and why native rollups could remove gas ceilings for L2s. If you’re wondering whether Ethereum can scale without turning into a data center chain, this is the roadmap. --- 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium --- BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAXNET | MINT, REDEEM, EARN https://bankless.cc/fraxnet 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR L2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 💤EIGHT SLEEP | IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP https://bankless.cc/eight-sleep 💠BIT DIGITAL ($BTBT) | ETH TREASURY https://bankless.cc/bit-digital We’re being compensated by Bit Digital (NASDAQ BTBT) for this segment promoting their company and BTBT. The compensation is paid in cash as a one time payment. You can find additional information about Bit Digital and BTBT on their Investor page at https://bit-digital.com/investors --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro: What is Lean Ethereum? 3:32 Beast Mode? Gas & Blocks 5:39 GigaGas, TeraGas, Gap to Target 9:32 Why Scale L1: Decentralization Tradeoffs 20:22 Provability, Power, Real-Time, Decentralization 24:43 L1 Security: Money, Key Uses 28:59 Lean Ethereum: SNARKs, Beast, Fort 36:32 SNARKs & zkVMs: What, Why 48:50 Execute→Verify: Validators & Lean Client 56:08 Builders, Provers, PBS, Fossil 1:08:49 Devconnect Demo, EthProofs, Roadmap Phases 1:31:06 Rollout, Gas Limits, Slots, Hardware 1:44:33 Home Provers: Power, Costs, Incentives/Penalties 1:54:38 Data Availability, Lean Consensus, Upgrades 2:04:22 Talent, Competition, Community, Closing --- RESOURCES Justin Drake https://x.com/drakefjustin Lean Ethereum https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/07/31/lean-ethereum --- Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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Inside BlackRock’s Crypto Strategy: Tokenization, Stablecoins & The Next Trillion | Robbie Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets
BlackRock’s Head of Crypto Robbie Mitchnick joins Ryan to unpack how institutions are actually allocating (and why correlation to “digital gold” matters), what the ETF data says about demand for BTC and ETH, and why the October leverage flush didn’t dent long-term adoption. We dig into BlackRock’s tokenization roadmap, from the BUIDL-style tokenized money market funds and the Genius Act angle to the stablecoin flywheel, plus what’s still missing: secondary liquidity and pragmatic regulatory clarity. Robbie lays out a realistic 24–36 month path, a 2026 “show-me” phase for real utility, and candid advice for allocators on sizing and asset selection. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAXNET | MINT, REDEEM, EARN https://bankless.cc/fraxnet 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR L2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 💤EIGHT SLEEP | IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP https://bankless.cc/eight-sleep 💠BIT DIGITAL ($BTBT) | ETH TREASURY https://bankless.cc/bit-digital We’re being compensated by Bit Digital (NASDAQ BTBT) for this segment promoting their company and BTBT. The compensation is paid in cash as a one time payment. You can find additional information about Bit Digital and BTBT on their Investor page at https://bit-digital.com/investors ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Is It Over? 11:54 Institutional Response to Liquidations 13:57 Bitcoin vs Gold 16:36 Bitcoin’s IPO Moment? 19:29 Next Catalyst 24:23 Institutional Growth 26:41 Central Bank Adoption 28:25 BlackRock ETFs 30:21 Ethereum ETFs 32:38 Tokenization Roadmap 35:33 GENIUS-Aligned Money Market Fund 38:08 Progress in Tokenization 43:04 Regulatory Clarity 46:30 Bull Case for Tokenization 48:08 Is Wall Street Convinced? 49:59 Bear Case for Tokenization 52:01 Restructuring Banks 54:16 How Many Stablecoins? 55:10 1-Year Goals 57:37 Advice to Institutional Investors 59:47 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Robbie Mitchnick https://x.com/robbiemitchnick Blackrock Digital Assets https://www.blackrock.com/us/financial-professionals/investments/products/bitcoin-investing “Bitcoin’s Silent IPO” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoins-silent-ipo-analyst-addresses-144047837.html ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠
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