🆙 ETH Surpasses $2,600 Amid Days-Long Price Pump. The asset has exploded in recent days after an aggressive months-long slide.
🟠 Strategy, Metaplanet Announce Significant BTC Buys. Strategy's latest purchase adds $1.3 billion of the asset to the firm's coffers, while Japan's Metaplanet added $126M in bitcoin.
👔 Bitcoin Magazine Founder Forms Strategy-Like Bitcoin Holding Company. The long-time BTC advocate has taken the new company public via SPAC merger with $710 million in financing for its Bitcoin treasury.
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Daily Market Snapshot: ETH continued its pump over the weekend into Monday, before investors sold the news of tariff agreements with China. ETH climbed as high as $2,620 Monday morning before falling back just below $2,500 in the afternoon.
For years, Bankless has lived on the bleeding edge of crypto’s evolution. We've been right here, watching and propelling a niche technology sector and internet culture onto the global stage.
Following that adventure has dragged us down plenty of other rabbit holes that kept expanding in scope: decentralized finance led to smart contracts, which led to autonomous organizations, and most recently to the all-encompassing vortex of AI.
When Bankless launched in 2020, we were squinting at the earliest pixels of an exponential growth curve for digital money. Today, thanks to AI, that same curve is erupting across every industry at once! Energy, robotics, manufacturing, synthetic biology, space exploration, you name it. The pattern is unmistakable.
If you're a loyal listener, you've heard us explore some of these topics – from AI alignment conversations between David, Ryan, and Eliezer Yudkowsky; to updates on the advances in LLMs from Ejaaz; to my own deep dives into the second- and third-order effects of the race to create AGI.
To date, we've been sending these AI-centric episodes to our central Bankless feed and to our crypto-native listeners, but as the Bankless team, and myself specifically, continue to triple down on AI, we want a dedicated feed for AI pioneers.
Today, we're launching Limitless – a new podcast feed and a new media vertical for Bankless to zero in on the future of frontier technologies.
Here’s the thesis: knowledge is the ultimate bottleneck on progress. The moment we create an abundance of it, second-order effects multiply so fast they’re hard to comprehend. That dizzying acceleration is exactly what Limitless is built to explore.
Think of it as a first-class seat with panoramic windows facing toward a future that actually looks and feels like the sci-fi reality in books and movies.
What to expect:
Weekly interviews with the founders inventing tomorrow
The AI Rollup: our rapid-fire breakdown of the week’s hottest breakthroughs in AI and frontier tech
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Your support has meant the world to the team at Bankless and is the driving motivation behind everything we do. We're so grateful to have you along for this journey and are stoked for the opportunity to explore brand new frontiers together.
The Fraxtal ecosystem is expanding at lightning speed—this month’s biggest highlight is IQAI.com, the newest Agent Tokenization platform from IQ and Frax. IQ is building autonomous, intelligent, tokenized agents launching on Fraxtal in Q1. Empower on-chain agents with built-in wallets, tokenized ownership, and decentralized governance—all within a fast-growing Fraxtal ecosystem.
Shaun Maguire, partner at Sequoia and former physicist, joins the Limitless Podcast to explore why we’re on the verge of a technological renaissance.
From AI and silicon photonics to humanoid robots and space infrastructure, Shaun makes the case that the next 20 years will make the internet boom look tame. We dive deep into why America needs ten SpaceX-level companies, the return of hardware innovation, the energy constraints of the future, and how frontier technologies like Neuralink and Mars colonization might reshape civilization.
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