Best Intelligent Infinity Podcasts (2025)

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Why is the SEC Concerned about Privacy now? 1:02:58

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At DevConnect 2025, Sebastian and Friederike speak with Peter Van Valkenburgh about the rapidly evolving battle for digital rights. Peter challenges the industry's comfort with transparency, arguing that "transparency will destroy neutrality." He uses the history of SWIFT to illustrate how a once-neutral messaging system was captured by geopolitica…

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Notable Events In Los Angeles: On-Road Evaluation of Active Driving Assistance Systems 9:10

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Although ADAS features can be beneficial in certain situations, drivers must remain diligent and engaged behind the wheel. In a comprehensive study, AAA researchers evaluated five passenger vehicles with low-speed-capable active driving assistance systems across the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Two primary objectives were established for the stud…

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Cosmos: The Linux of Blockchains? 55:06

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Captured live at Cosmoverse 2025, this episode brings host Sebastian in conversation with Michael (better known as Cryptocito, Cosmos investor via Cito Ventures) and Magnus (@0xMagmar, Co-CEO Cosmos Labs). Against a backdrop of institutional gravitas, central banks mingling alongside Revolut executives, the conversation traces Cosmos' arc across fi…

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Yield Basis: Disrupting Defi & Bitcoin Yield 1:00:05

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Brian Fabian Crain and Michael Egorov, Curve Finance founder, discuss Curve's origins: solving inefficient DAI/USDC swaps after MakerDAO borrows by creating a DeFi AMM for stablecoins and LSTs. It hit 1M TVL with a bonding curve concentrating liquidity at 1:1, more effective for pegged assets than Uniswap. Features grew to include BTC wrappers, stE…

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Curate People 52:04

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The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 0:00 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 3:49 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 6:45 It Just Takes a Small Group of People to Create Something Great 10:19 Find Undiscovered Talent Before Everyone Else 14:56 Great People Have Taste in Other People 19:04 Every Great Engineer Is Also an A…

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Lamina1: Building The Future of The Creator Economy 59:47

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Sci-fi titan Neal Stephenson, whose Snow Crash coined the term 'metaverse' and Cryptonomicon, which foreshadowed crypto in 1999, joins Friederike to discuss his "hard sci-fi" method: building immersive, consistent worlds, not prophecy. He's now co-founder of Lamina1, aiming to restore Web1's ethos and give creators IP sovereignty with direct microp…

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Is Blockchain Still a Revolution or Becoming Another Upgrade? Ep.621 1:15:34

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As blockchain tech gets co-opted by legacy players for efficiency gains, has the revolution lost its edge? Crypto philosopher Paul Dylan-Ennis and Jito's Head of Governance, Dr. Nick Almond, join Friederike to probe this shift from 2017's visionary DAOs to today's Telegram-negotiated votes and whale capture. Rooted in philosophy and complex systems…

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Brave: Building the Private User-Friendly Internet - Kyle Den Hartog 1:07:04

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Brave has spent a decade building a privacy-first browser that empowers users with tools like ad-blocking and fingerprinting protection, now serving 100 million monthly active users. Security engineer Kyle Den Hartog joins Friederike to unpack the centralization traps in digital identity from email's spam-driven dominance to one-size-fits-all DeFi …

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Noble: Solving Crypto's Liquidity Problem, One Chain at a Time - Jelena Djuric 41:26

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In this episode, Sebastien is joined by Jelena Djuric, co-founder of Noble, a generic asset issuance chain built for the Cosmos ecosystem. Jelena shares her journey into crypto, which began with an interest in political science, leading her to discover Bitcoin's potential. She describes the origins of Noble, created to solve a critical need within …

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In the Arena 41:45

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Inspiration All the Way Down 0:00 Life is Lived in the Arena 2:40 If You Want to Learn, Do 4:51 In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect 6:15 When You Truly Work for Yourself 7:30 Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action 10:12 You Have to Enjoy It a Lot 12:06 Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did 14:45 Blame Yourself for Everythi…

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Benjamin Sarquis Peillard: Cap Labs – Insured Yield & the Future of Stablecoins 58:02

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In this episode, Sebastien Couture is joined by Benjamin, the founder of CAP, a stablecoin protocol designed to provide insured yield. The protocol features two main products: CUSD, a digital dollar, and stCUSD, its staked, yield-bearing version. Yield is generated through an "allocation engine" where third-party operators borrow from the protocol'…

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Find the Simplest Thing That Works 6:18

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http://nav.al/simplestBy Naval

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Good Products Are Hard to Vary 3:27

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http://nav.al/good-productsBy Naval

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Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured 3:43

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Transcript: http://nav.al/devourBy Naval

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The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time 3:03

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Transcript: http://nav.al/densityBy Naval

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Mento: Onchain FX Markets - Decentralising World Currencies - Markus Franke 1:06:14

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TradFi FX markets are slow, expensive and often lack liquidity for direct swaps between different world currencies, having to route through USD pairs. While crypto could technically solve pairing through AMM pools, those needed to be arbitraged in order to reflect TradFi rates. With 15 fully-backed stablecoins, Mento is building the largest FX infr…

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It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature 4:15

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Transcript: http://nav.al/foolBy Naval

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f(x) Protocol: Decentralized Yield-Bearing Stablecoin & 0-Liquidation Perp - Cyrille Brière 1:00:22

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Without a doubt, the introduction of stablecoins has vastly increased overall crypto liquidity, adoption and real-world use cases as they offered a safe haven against the industry’s volatility, especially during bearmarkets. However, despite being extremely efficient, the main stablecoin actors (i.e. Circle & Tether) are centralised entities. Many …

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Euler: The DeFi Super App - Michael Bentley 1:00:01

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Euler is a DeFi lending protocol built around the idea of permissionless modularity, enabling users to lend and borrow almost any crypto asset with flexible, permissionless pools, tailored to individual risk profiles. Moreover, Euler Vault Kit (EVK) and Ethereum Vault Connector (EVC) enable the creation of custom lending vaults which, in turn, can …

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Zama: FHE and The Holy Grail of Blockchain Privacy 56:12

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Blockchains operate as a public ledger, ‘disclosing’ the entire transaction history and associated data to everyone. While verifiability and traceability are key traits, as blockchains gain global adoption, those very features hinder the process. Self custody, on-chain identities, corporate strategies, transaction history, private deals, all repres…

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Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency 4:40

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Transcript: http://nav.al/agency

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Pareto: Customizable On-Chain Private Credit Marketplace - Matteo Pandolfi 1:08:21

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Built primarily for institutional-grade clients, Pareto delivers customizable on-chain credit markets designed to expand DeFi liquidity and TradFi tokenization through structured yield strategies tailored to diverse risk profiles. Pareto allows its users to construct individualized credit lines in specific risk-ajusted tranches, with custom: intere…

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School Safety Checklist 4:37

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Although these safety tips are perfect for the "Back to School" season, they can be used all year by parents and guardians. AV Radio host Carl Anthony provides a summary of the School Safety Checklist from the National Safety Council, which includes tips for children who walk, bike, or ride the bus to school. More Resources: School Safety Checklist…

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Lagrange: ZK-Proving AI Alignment - Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh 56:51

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In an age when AI models are becoming exponentially more sophisticated and powerful, how does one ensure that proper results are being generated and that the AI model functions in desired parameters? This pressing concern of AI alignment could be solved through cryptographic verification, using zero knowledge proofs. ZKPs not only allow for verifyi…

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Inside The InCabin Space ft. Sara Sargent of Sense Media Group 21:53

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From biometric sensing, connectivity, and audio innovations on the technology side, to DMS/OMS, health and wellness, and personalization on the application side, the in-cabin ecosystem is expanding, fueled by rapid demand in China, new regulations, and even the implementation of AI and synthetic data. As vehicles increasingly become our "third spac…

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Zorp: Nockchain's ZK Proof-of-Useful-Work Consensus - Logan Allen 1:12:47

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Inspired by Urbit’s minimal assembly language, Nockchain fuses Urbit’s vision of sovereign computing with a novel proof-of-useful-work consensus mechanism, creating a blockchain where every computation fuels progress and scaling. The crypto-economics behind Nockchain’s zkVM incentivise competition between zero knowledge provers, ultimately bootstra…

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Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did 1:39

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Transcript: http://nav.al/reflect

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Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval's Chief of Staff 2:35

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Transcript: http://nav.al/hiring

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An Interoperable Ecosystem at The Silicon Level ft. Daniel Shwartzberg of Valens Semiconductor 22:10

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Valens Semiconductor continues to be a key contributor to and champion for the MIPI A-PHY standard, the first such standard in automotive developed for high-speed sensor and display connectivity. MIPI A-PHY is designed to meet next-generation ADAS requirements, enabling high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity to ensure passenger safety throughout …

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UMA & Across: Optimistic Oracles & Intent-Based Bridges for Unifying Ethereum - Hart Lambur 1:11:16

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Universal Market Access (UMA) was founded by 2 ex Goldman Sachs traders that wanted to make global markets universally accessible through financial smart contracts that used synthetic assets on Ethereum. However, this was taking place long before the massive boom of DeFi summer of 2020. As a result, UMA shifted to building an optimistic oracle to p…

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You Have to Enjoy It a Lot 2:48

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Transcript: http://nav.al/enjoy

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Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action 1:55

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Transcript: http://nav.al/action

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When You Truly Work for Yourself 2:44

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Transcript: http://nav.al/yourselfBy Naval

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In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect 1:16

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Transcript: http://nav.al/indirect

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Dragonfly: The Secrets of a Top-Tier Crypto VC - Haseeb Qureshi 1:29:13

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Founded in 2018, Dragonfly has quickly become one of the most prestigious crypto VCs. Dragonfly was one of the first to adopt a global approach to backing founders and disruptive tech, all while building a strong brand that allowed them to secure top-tier deals. Join us for a fascinating discussion with Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly…

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If You Want to Learn, Do 1:25

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Transcript: http://nav.al/do

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At The Intelligent Edge ft. Javed Khan of Aptiv 20:08

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The phrase "living on the edge" is commonly associated with risky and potentially dangerous behavior. However, in an automotive context, living at the "intelligent edge" might be a catalyst for a safer vehicle, one equipped with next-generation ADAS features that make quicker and more intuitive decisions. Likewise, the intelligence edge can provide…

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Life is Lived in the Arena 2:09

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Transcript: http://nav.al/arenaBy Naval

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Near One: Scaling the Agentic Internet. AI X Crypto - Bowen Wang 1:01:40

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‘Attention Is All You Need’, co-wrote by Illia Polosukhin in 2017, laid the foundation for arguably one of the most consequential tech breakthroughs in our recent history. 1 year later, Illia founded Near AI, which later became Near Protocol. They were visionaries ahead of their time and, although AI took several more years before becoming a viable…

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Inspiration all the way down 2:57

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Transcript: http://nav.al/inspirationBy Naval

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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, The [LAST] Steward of Decentralisation 39:19

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The tradition of Epicenter x Vitalik Buterin continued this year as well at EthCC[8], where we got the chance of picking his brain about recent research, interests and Ethereum Foundation’s direction going forward. Join us for a fascinating discussion on biotech and how Vitalik’s Shiba ended up funding it, the utility of blockchains in nowadays soc…

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Stripe: The Stablecoin (R)Evolution - John Egan 1:05:36

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Stripe has established itself as a leading payment solution for both enterprises as well as startups and individual sellers. By abstracting away all the complexities of traditional payment rails through simple plug-and-play APIs, Stripe created a facile route for cross-border payments, simplifying e-commerce. Similarly, Stripe’s recent integration …

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t1 Protocol: Unifying Ethereum's L2 Liquidity Through Real-Time Proving - Can Kisagun 1:01:41

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While L2 rollups did help scale Ethereum, they also created siloed ecosystems, all fighting over the same liquidity, users and devs. t1 Protocol is building layer-2 infrastructure to achieve seamless cross-rollup interoperability through real-time proving, powered by TEEs. t1's low-latency with 1-second block times provides faster preconfirmations,…

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Inverters, S Curves & Curiosity ft. Matt Hortop of AVL 13:20

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This episode is sponsored by AVL, a leading mobility technology company recognized globally for its engineering, simulation, and testing solutions in the automotive industry. Matt Hortop, Electrified Vehicle Research Scientist at AVL Test Systems, joined Carl Anthony at the 2025 Reimagine Mobility Conference. During their reception fireside chat, M…

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Artistry In Motion: Inside The 2026 Infiniti QX60 20:27

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On a carefree summer evening in the early 1990s, AV Radio host Carl Anthony and his childhood friends "discovered" a sporty black car in the neighbor's driveway up the street. In a rural Iowa town where trucks and minivans dominated, this mysterious machine halted 10-speed bikes, grounded all flying footballs, and shut down the nightly water gun fi…

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DappCon 25: The Ticker Is $ETH - Jerome de Tychey, Joshua Dávila & Nixorokish 1:12:32

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As the summer tour of European crypto conferences landed in Berlin, one of crypto’s cradles, we couldn’t miss DappCon 25, where we got to sit with Jerome de Tychey, Nixorokish & Joshua Dávila to discuss Ethereum’s restructure and whether its culture is still relevant to the wider crypto community. Join us for a fascinating discussion on the impact …

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Fast Look at The BMW Concept Speedtop 4:11

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The BMW Concept Speedtop made a lasting impression at the 2025 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, set against the picturesque backdrop of Lake Como. Never has a shooting brake looked so desirable yet so intent in its sport-touring aspirations. As a stellar follow-up to the Concept Skytop unveiled in 2024, the Speedtop will feature BMW's most powerfu…

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Lombard: Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi Through Liquid, Yield-Bearing LBTC - Jacob Phillips 1:11:09

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Bitcoin remains an untapped source of net-new liquidity that could be injected into DeFi. This would completely reshape Bitcoin’s utilization from a mere store of value to a liquid asset that can be ported cross-chain and traded like a liquid staking derivative. Lombard’s LBTC builds upon Babylon’s Bitcoin staking primitive and aims to unlock new y…

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Staking Rewards: Is Crypto Staking Killing Decentralisation? - Mirko Schmiedl & Tobias Jung 54:55

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Apart from incentivising market participants to secure the network through inflationary rewards, many consider staking as an equivalent of stock dividend yield. As a result, although Bitcoin is regarded as digital gold, protocols are looking for ways to increase its utilisation in DeFi and, ultimately, generate yield. Nowadays, while newer networks…

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The Problem with Infinity 41:13

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This episode identifies the source of confusion in modern physics today. Thanks to the amazing firepower of the James Webb Telescope launched in 2021 and Nobel Prize winning research on Quantum Physics, INFINITY is suddenly rearing its indiscernible head with calculations related the properties of INFORMATION as well as the widely popular Big Bang …