Aerodrome’s new MEV-resistant ETH pool pays LPs significantly more than other pools, demonstrating its efficiency in mitigating MEV extractable value.
Circle Research introduces Arc Multi-Proposer Protocol (AMP), a new block-building approach for predictable transaction handling in financial applications.
Uniswap now hosts pools for Fidelity’s FIDD, further integrating tokenized assets into DeFi liquidity infrastructure.
Steakhouse’s Prime and High Yield USDC vaults, powered by Morpho, are now available on Coinbase, offering users curated risk profiles.
L2BEAT’s interoperability dashboard now tracks cross-chain flows for MegaETH, World Chain, and Unichain, expanding visibility into emerging L2 ecosystems.
Fidelity’s tokenized money market fund (FIDD) is now available on Curve, expanding onchain access to TradFi yield products.
Hyperlid Strategies (led by David Schamis) holds ~26.2M HYPE tokens (~10% of circulating supply) and $199M cash, with aggressive buybacks funded by a 90% USDC revenue-sharing deal with Circle/Coinbase. Hyperliquid’s pre-IPO derivatives (e.g., SpaceX, Anthropic) and USDH stablecoin are driving ecosystem growth, with regulatory tailwinds for perpetuals in the US.
The episode covers Hyperliquid's rapid growth (HYPE token, PER ETF, and pre-IPO trading like SpaceX), Monad’s chain strategy, and macro themes like AI-driven economic shifts, RWA tokenization, and US regulatory risks ahead of the 2024 midterms. Institutional adoption and onchain asset consolidation are key narratives.
The episode explores how 99% of users underutilize AI by treating it like a search engine, while advanced methods like 'Loops' enable autonomous, long-duration task completion. It dives into the evolution of AI agents, their enterprise adoption, cost constraints, and the shift toward recursive self-improvement (RSI) as a path to AGI.
Luke Gromen analyzes how a potential Fed chair Kevin Warsh would face a binary choice between defending the US dollar or the Treasury bond market amid soaring deficits, geopolitical oil shocks, and a shifting global monetary order led by China’s yuan/gold strategies.
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