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Avi is back from two weeks on the road — Singapore, Istanbul, and Iraq — and Jonah has spent that time doing actual work on the credit problem nobody wants to look at.

They open on risk: the donut chain in Iraq pulling ten million a year because nobody else bothered to show up, Paul Tudor Jones’s “losers average losers,” why wealth is self-reinforcing, and the adverse selection problem that explains why the deal in your DMs is still open.

Then Jonah walks through CoreWeave. The bonds are in distressed territory...

Avi sits down with Arthur Hayes at Token2049 in Singapore — the co-founder of BitMEX, the man who invented the perpetual swap, and now the founder of FLOP Network.

Arthur traces the whole arc: growing up in Buffalo with parents who worked for General Motors, reading a book in high school that convinced him to learn Chinese and move to Asia, and starting his first day on a trading desk the morning Lehman Brothers failed. Then getting fired from Citibank in 2013, finding Bitcoin, and building the exchange that would go on to invent the product ev...

Avi opens with the story of the last week — the RuneScape Gold allegations, what actually happened onchain, and a promise to the people who scammed his audience. Then he and Jonah get into why memecoin culture is a tax on your attention, and what separates a scam from a trade.

From there it's markets. Jonah makes the case that Iran is a cornered animal with nothing left to escalate with, that the Strait of Hormuz is losing its relevance in real time, and that the deflation coming out of it is enormously bullish for ri...

Avi Felman sits down with Bryan Pellegrino, co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs, to talk about what happens when the largest institutions in finance start building on crypto rails.

Bryan traces LayerZero's path from an MEV shop and a shockingly bad bridge to a protocol that has moved over $300 billion lifetime across roughly 170 chains, with $150 billion in assets built on top and $10–15 billion moving every month. Then he gets into what's next: ZERO, a ZK-first chain built from the ground up at multiple millions of transactions per second, and Atlas, a trading environment with ro...

This week, Avi sits down with Scott Shay, co-founder and former chairman of Signature Bank and now founder of N3XT. Scott started at Salomon Brothers in the Liar's Poker era, taught the training class Michael Lewis was in, and went on to build Bank United of Texas from a distressed shell into a $20 billion bank alongside Lew Ranieri. He then founded Signature Bank, growing it to $110 billion in assets without ever making a single acquisition, and launched Signet in 2019, the first 24/7 blockchain-enabled payment system, which moved close to a trillion dollars. We discuss what Wall Street was actually...

This week, with Meta, Bitcoin, crude and the broader economy all ripping, we ask how long it can last? We discuss why diamond prices are collapsing. Jonah explains the anatomy of a bad commodity and why you should always trade demand squeezes rather than supply squeezes, why copper just hit all-time highs, and why higher rates are counterintuitively bullish for Bitcoin and gold. We get into Meta's Muse assistant finally making AI useful for normal people, why AI agents may be what actually saves crypto, the chart showing artificial intelligence depreciating faster than any frontier technology in history, why...

This week, we break down the Financial Times exposé on how Poland lost $230 million trying to buy Venezuelan oil with crypto, and why Avi thinks it's actually the most bullish crypto story in a long time. Jonah explains how oil scams really work from seven years at Vitol, why the minimum ticket size makes street-corner deals impossible, and the $100 million wired for Indonesian coal mines that didn't exist. We also discuss the new oil barons of Venezuela and whether there's room for an individual to get in, treasury yields at highs we haven't seen since 2008, Canada and the EU s...

This week, Avi is joined live by GMoney, a trader who ran a desk for over a decade before becoming one of the most recognized collectors and investors in crypto, and who now hosts Full Port. We discuss whether NFTs are ever coming back and why Pokemon cards are just physical NFTs, why the last month has been the most exciting stretch on-chain since DeFi summer, the rise of MemeFi and tokenized stocks, why there is no way to diligence a meme coin, why the PVP mentality would get you kicked off a real trading desk, the Luna trade...

This week, Intel rips 20% and Avi's $88 call pays off. We discuss Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP coin and why every political meme coin is explicitly telling you it exists to extract from you, why a bad first experience in crypto poisons the well for everyone, and where the actual trade is if you want to punt it anyway. Jonah then makes the case for putting commodities onchain — jet fuel perps, regional gasoline, Nigerian crude differentials — and why ICE and NYMEX are structurally incapable of launching anything new. We also get into why getting people invested in the market is a national secu...

This week, in a Friday solo stream, Avi breaks down a hot jobs report that has traders nervous about a September hike, and why crypto is ripping anyway. He's then joined by Se, co-founder of FOMO, for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of trading. We discuss why the entire market is really just attention, how onchain data gave FOMO an edge trading Robinhood, why you couldn't have built a social trading platform two years ago, why trading is inherently social and the stigma around posting positions is disappearing, the $4 million in creator rewards FOMO paid out in two...

This week, we break down the MemeFi mania taking over Robinhood chain, where meme coins are tying themselves to tokenized stocks and pumping microcaps on the NASDAQ. We discuss what's actually happening with tokens and why hope is the most powerful drug in trading, where the value in all of this actually accrues, and Avi's rules if you're going to gamble anyway. We also get into how Wall Street manufactures fake alpha, survivorship bias and why length of time is the best disinfectant, why Kevin Warsh's jawboning is toothless and there's no rate hike coming, why AI is the...

Recorded live at the Out East Conference, Avi sits down with Seth Ginns, CIO of Franklin Crypto and formerly of CoinFund and Jennison Associates. Seth spent eighteen years in public equities before becoming a seed investor in Coinbase in 2012 and building one of the largest liquid crypto funds in the market. We discuss how the Global Financial Crisis is what pushed him into crypto, why he waited years for institutional custody before launching a fund, why he believes 2026 is the year crypto and traditional finance finally converge, what Tesla and Amazon taught him about betting on founders instead of...

This week, with Bitcoin ripping 25% off the lows and NVIDIA earnings on deck, we break down why the market has flipped from fundamentals back to macro. We discuss the lockout rally and the two conditions that turned Avi bullish on Bitcoin and gold, why all roads lead to debasement, whether the Druckenmiller op-ed against Scott Bessent was actually an op, the history of the Bank of England trade and why intervention almost never works, the Zcash ETF launch and why the chart is setting up, why you should never take advice from someone who's never traded, how to pick...

Recorded live at the Out East Summit, Avi sits down with Evgeny Gokhberg, founder and CIO of Re7 Capital, one of the last market-neutral funds still managing serious capital in crypto. We discuss his decade in TradFi trading emerging markets — shorting Chinese real estate through Australian iron ore, trading Egyptian stocks after the Arab Spring, why he left a comfortable seat to "1000x" his career, the DeFi "aha" moment when crypto finally had real businesses to value, how Re7 earns yield by doing what banks do (market-making and lending, now on tokenized stocks like Nvidia), what a DeFi vault ac...

This week, Avi sits down with Andrew Chanin, CEO of ProcureAM and founder of PureFunds, one of the best in the business at spotting narratives before the market catches on. We discuss how he launched HACK, the first cybersecurity ETF, just two weeks before the Sony breach, what it was really like market-making ETFs on the floor of the American Stock Exchange during the 2008 crisis, why the real edge is reading the documents nobody wants to read, the story behind the UFO space ETF, whether SpaceX is the only game in town after its IPO, the militarization of space...

This week, we break down why the Fed and Treasury just moved to backstop the yen and what it signals about an increasingly state-controlled market. We discuss why you should only hold what the administration has "anointed," the quiet power grab away from the Fed and the end of forward guidance, why gold, silver, copper and palladium are ripping, why Druckenmiller says the single best trade is copper, whether crypto is finally worth buying again and why Robinhood is the best way to express it, why private wealth management is a scam, why the stock market now trades exactly...

Recorded live at the Selini Summit, Avi sits down with Santiago Santos, founder of Inversion and one of the best-performing managers in crypto, who famously sold the top in 2021. We discuss how growing up in Mexico and consciously erasing his accent shaped his high-agency approach, why crypto matters far more outside the first world than inside it, why being "marginally delusional" is how outsiders win, the investor letter he just sent shutting down his own crypto thesis, why he pivoted to buying boring cash-flow businesses and treating technology as orthogonal, why he may be the only fund manager who...

This week, we break down the biggest story in markets: the blowup of Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund. We discuss whether Ken Griffin killed him or just showed up with the best bid, how an eleven-figure liquidation actually works behind the scenes, why going to the street to meet a margin call is like walking into a lion's den (and the Terra Luna call that proved it), whether the rate-hike comments were an orchestrated hit, why Avi is stepping into the memory dip now with Micron, Intel and SanDisk, the Korean "Squid Game" liquidation that wiped out millions of...

This week, Avi sits down with Alexander Good, founder of Post Fiat, former Palantir and essayist, for one of the most wide-ranging conversations we've had. We discuss how he built a trading edge by reading stocks through advertising data, the EA vs Booking pair trade, the "goldfish theory" of why attention is more predictable than the future, where the model breaks (and why it's happening to Michael Saylor right now), why he's bearish on Palantir as ontologies become less necessary, why AI won't make people useless but will take their jobs, his call that unemployment starts kicking in within...

This week, with memory stocks down 30-40% from the highs, we ask whether memory has bottomed. We discuss why AI bailed out the everything bubble and why this bubble is different, the George Soros model of why a bubble comes back bigger the second time, why only 2.2% of US households pay for AI and why that means we're in inning one, the $26 billion Korean margin-call wipeout and what it tells you about sentiment, why nobody wins the US-China AI arms race except the components makers, the Saudi nuclear deal and looking where nobody else is looking, why the latest...

This week, Avi sits down with Vlad Novakovski, founder and CEO of Lighter, the on-chain exchange partnered with Robinhood. Vlad went to high school with Robinhood's Vlad Tenev, competed in the Physics and Informatics Olympiads alongside future Anthropic co-founders and Facebook's first CTO, finished Harvard at 19, and was recruited to Citadel by Ken Griffin himself. We discuss the Olympiad pipeline that produced half of Silicon Valley, what Ken Griffin told him about Bernie Madoff in 2004, why Madoff couldn't have happened on-chain, why he left Wall Street for Silicon Valley and then came back, how he pivoted his company and...

This week, we go deep on how careers and capital actually get made. We discuss how Jordi Alexander built Selini from a poker table, why table selection is the single most important decision you'll make, an insider's account of how Goldman Sachs anoints its "Illuminati" and what it takes to get there, why Jonah took a shot at the king and missed, why Ken Griffin says the alpha has been squeezed out of short-term trading and megatrends are what's left, the complete flows framework for Bitcoin and why there may be nobody left to sell, the Avi vs Jonah...

Recorded live at the Selini Summit in Cannes, Avi sits down with Jordi Alexander — founder and CIO of Selini Capital, former professional poker player, and one of the sharpest minds in trading. We discuss why crypto's "great filter" washout is actually healthy, why retail has disappeared from crypto, how Selini is now trading SpaceX and equity IPOs using the exact same playbook they learned in crypto, why passive flows always end up holding the bag, the leverage lessons from the October 10th liquidation cascade, where a crypto market maker still has edge over the Jane Streets of the world, th...

Avi sits down with Ari Paul. His former boss, founder of BlockTower Capital, and one of the sharpest minds in crypto, for a wide-ranging conversation on what's next. We discuss why crypto was the easiest table in finance and why that edge is gone, why the best people left crypto for AI, why Ari believes "Mythos is a military project" and the labs are heading for a Los Alamos-style lockdown, why the AI data center boom rhymes with the 1990s fiber bubble, where AI value actually accrues (why you might short Accenture but not Visa), why one person with...

This week, with portfolios sitting at all-time highs after the best NASDAQ quarter since 2020, we ask who's coming for the market in Q3? We deep dive into why that gut feeling means it's time to rotate not sell, the fundamentals vs flows debate and why sell-side analysts are structurally guaranteed to keep underpricing AI demand, why Micron at 7.5x forward earnings still isn't a bubble, why a strengthening dollar is the real threat to your assets, why Bitcoin has been co-opted by Wall Street and how to walk out of the crypto cage, the HOOD trade and taking profits...

This week, with NASDAQ down 3% and the AI trade showing cracks, we discuss where you actually hide. We deep dive into when technical analysis actually works, why you have to ask "how did you make your money" to understand the AI trade, why the answer is hiding downstream where AI changes the real economy, the 13-year-old's portfolio and whether the top is in, why the memory trade still isn't saturated, the socialism trade and what a 2028 blue wave means for your assets, why Bitcoin and everything without revenue is cooked, why the coming Saylor blowup will be the trade...

In a short solo Juneteenth stream, Avi breaks down what's next now that the SpaceX IPO and the Fed meeting are behind us. We discuss why the market shrugged off a hawkish Warsh presser, why Mag 7 is lagging the semis it's funding, why layoffs are actually bullish, why inflation is showing up everywhere from a $14 smoothie to the struggling bottom half, why Michael Saylor using ChatGPT to structure STRC is a problem, why the Iran deal was a win for Iran, and the two megatrends to spend your weekend researching: AI-powered biotech and the coming nuclear revolution. Enjoy!

This week, recorded live in the 30 minutes before the Fed decision, we discuss whether rate cuts are dead and what to watch from Kevin Warsh. We deep dive into why a full-blown war with Iran barely dented the market and what could actually tank it, Jonah's journey from Berkeley communist to Republican, why you should collect the gold coins before the level ends, the idea journal and how billionaires actually trade, why SpaceX is a low-float meme coin and you have to play the game of flows over fundamentals, why an ocean of oil is bearish for inflation, why...

This episode, Avi flies solo on the biggest IPO in history before Jonah stream-bombs him. We discuss why SpaceX's $1.77 trillion debut might be a low-float meme coin and not the megabubble starter that everyone is calling it, why bears die in markets like this, the actual trade setup if SpaceX dumps back to $135, why every other space stock crashed 30% the same day, why the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs will likely crash the indexes too, why Avi is "slowly becoming a communist," and a wide-ranging solo Q&A covering the Aptos grift, the XMR/ZEC close, why Hood is a 10...

This week, we discuss why AI is breaking the social contract between public markets and the American people. We deep dive into why only the self-motivated will win the AI era, the $60 trillion wealth transfer from boomers to millennials and Gen Z, the rise of scarce asset trades (Ferraris, Birkins, dinosaur bones), why the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs at multi-trillion valuations might break markets, why May CPI hitting a 3-year high pushes December hike odds to 70%, why Mythos and quantum risk are overhyped, and where we're putting cash to work in gold, uranium, and pipeline MLPs. Enjoy!

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Today, Avi sits down with Andrew Kang (@Rewkang), founder and CEO of RoboStrategy (Nasdaq: BOT), to discuss why robotics and physical AI are the next $10 trillion mega bubble. We deep dive into why the entire private robotics market is smaller than Pokémon trading cards, why VCs are pivoting from software to physical AI, the GPT-3 moment for robotics and why GPT-5-level capabilities are less than two years away, why you can't just hook Claude up to a robot, how Andrew built the "MicroStrategy of Robotics," and rapid fire pitches on companies in the RoboStrategy portfolio: Figure AI, A...

This week, we discuss why the market is splitting in two and how to navigate the dispersion regime. We deep dive into rally warning signs and alt season at the top, the memory supercycle and the DRAM leading indicator, the Saylor unwind and the tax-loss harvesting trade, the pair trade playbook, why you should delete the word "crypto" and apply your skills to equities, Jonah's leading indicator framework for the AI bubble, the hawkish Warsh trade, and the resurfacing Iran/Hormuz tail risk. Enjoy!

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This week, we discuss whether this is the end of crypto as we know it. We deep dive into Michael Saylor's "Egg Man" problem and why his Bitcoin position has become untenable, why decentralization lost and Solana and Hyperliquid won, how to spot the top of the AI bubble, the memory supercycle and why the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs might mark the top, the framework of the Iran deal and what it means for oil, and why a deal could actually be bearish for markets. Enjoy!

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This week, we discuss whether the rally is over or just pausing as markets sit near all time highs. We deep dive into sticky inflation and high energy prices, the Strait of Hormuz and the risk of operational tank bottoms, the Powell vs Warsh Fed regime change, why BTC is struggling while ZEC and Hyperliquid roar, the explore/exploit framework for compounding your skill set, and the launch of the 1000x Terminal. Enjoy!

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This week, we discuss whether inflation is officially back and what it means for the AI megatrend. We deep dive into Micron crossing $900B, the memory supercycle, the Fed regime change under Kevin Warsh, the Trump-Xi summit and chip export deal probability, the Clarity Act markup, and why the soft landing might officially be dead. Enjoy!

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In this episode, Avi and Jonah react to markets ripping to all-time highs in a classic lockout rally (fade everything except socialism), break down trader psychology around buying strength and all-time highs, and dive into the insane moves in semiconductors/AI (Intel, AMD earnings, Korean memory stocks like Samsung & SK Hynix going parabolic), Bitcoin pushing above $81k, and alts ripping (Zcash, TON with Pavel Durov back in the driver’s seat, privacy narrative heating up).

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This week, we discuss what's next for markets as we reach new all time highs. We deep dive into is the market rally broadening out, what's driving BTC higher, what stops this bull market, the future of 1000x and more. Enjoy!

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This week, we discuss how to position your portfolio during an energy price shock due to the ongoing conflict in Iran. We deep dive into what's driving oil volatility, is gold a dip to buy, how to get long stablecoins, why crypto might be best positioned to outperform once markets settle and more. Enjoy!

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This week, Kaledora Kiernan-Linn joins the show to discuss the growth of Ostium. We deep dive into Kaledora's background as a ballet dancer before launching one of the fastest growing trading platforms in crypto, why perps will continue to grow market share, lessons as a founder, how DeFi will be successful and more. Enjoy!

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This week, we discuss why 2026 signals Hyperliquid's breakout moment as crypto and traditional finance continue to merge. We deep dive into why the era of riding beta in crypto is over, where to allocate in 2026, trading geopolitical conflict & more. Enjoy!

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