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Lucas Schuermann is the founder and CEO of Variational, a peer-to-peer derivatives protocol built on Arbitrum. Former Genesis executive, former quant, and someone who went to Columbia at 12 and started a hedge fund at 20.Today we get into why variational charges zero trading fees, how it's aggregating liquidity from traditional finance to list hundreds of assets on chain, why perps have a funding rate problem most traders don't understand until it costs them, and what happens to old-school brokers once this liquidity actually moves.___________THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Guy Young built Ethena from zero to billions in under two years. In this conversation, we talk about the one crypto product he believes can reach 100 million users: a yield-bearing dollar in a mobile app. The goal is for it to feel like a normal fintech app where users don't even know crypto is powering it underneath. Just save, spend, and send to anyone in the world. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Trezor's CTO, Tomáš Sušánka, breaks down how AI is changing the scam landscape and why even security experts are getting fooled. From AI deepfake Microsoft Teams calls to voice cloning and phishing sites that nearly caught the CTO himself, this conversation covers the modern security playbook everyone needs for 2026.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Jupiter COO, Kash Dhanda, breaks down the real playbook for building wealth in crypto without luck, memecoins, or moonshots. He explains why we're still in the early majority phase of crypto adoption, why Solana is becoming the everything chain, and why he personally keeps over 50 percent of his portfolio in stablecoins earning yield.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Jordi Visser, macro strategist at 22V Research and former Weiss Multi-Strategy CIO, breaks down why Bitcoin is his hedge against a coming age of AI-driven abundance and why he holds no interest in ever selling. He also dives into longevity, heart rate variability, and why chasing money and status like buying a house may be the wrong game to play.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Scott Melker, host of The Wolf of All Streets, explains why most people chasing quick wins in crypto never make it, and why his own strategy is deliberately boring: mostly Bitcoin, bought on a schedule and left alone. He also opens up about being a top creditor in the Voyager collapse, his first interview with Michael Saylor, and why he thinks crypto Twitter is actively hurting mainstream adoption.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Raags, founder of Kast, breaks down the massive crypto opportunity he bet his career on, why he scrapped Kast's token for tokenized equity, and what really happens to your money if a crypto bank collapses.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Mert Mumtaz, co-founder and CEO of Helius, breaks down why he sees Solana and Zcash as two of crypto's most undervalued bets heading into 2026, using his "physics and incentives" framework to separate real conviction from trader noise. He also debunks the recent Zcash security scare, explains why AI is forcing crypto toward "spaceflight-level" security standards, and weighs in on Near's high-upside, low-conviction potential.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Tushar Jain, Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, breaks down why he believes the crypto market has already bottomed and is entering a new turning point, walking through his conviction plays on Solana, Hyperliquid, and Zcash. He also opens up on Multicoin's biggest shakeup yet: co-founder Kyle Samani's exit from the firm and the industry.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, breaks down the one rule that separates investors who actually get rich from those who don't: staying in the market when everything says to get out. A former professional poker player turned VC, he shares how he survived 2018 and FTX without selling, and why he defended Ethereum and Solana when nobody else would.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Eric Larchevêque, co-founder of Ledger, shares why everything you've been told about owning money is wrong - and how losing his savings to a corrupt bank, having his gold seized, and watching his co-founder get kidnapped for €10 million in Bitcoin proved it.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Dan Tapiero is the Founder of 50T Funds, a growth-stage equity fund exclusively focused on the digital asset ecosystem, and one of the few Wall Street veterans who has been publicly bullish on crypto since 2019.In this episode, Dan reveals why crypto is the greatest macro investment of all time, why most investors will lose money despite being right, and why his $50 trillion thesis may actually be conservative.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Tarek Mansour is the co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, the largest federally regulated prediction market exchange in the US - valued at $2 billion and backed by some of the world's top investors.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Raoul Pal, co-founder of Real Vision, returns to break down why the AI race is the biggest capital event in human history and why crypto holders are positioned to win. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Michael Saylor is the Founder and Chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin with roughly 818,000 BTC and over $65 billion in capital. After surviving a 99.8% stock collapse that left his company three days from bankruptcy, he rebuilt it into a "reserve bank for Bitcoin" - issuing products like STRC that pay an 11.5% monthly dividend, tax-deferred. In this episode, he breaks down how to build lasting, passive wealth with Bitcoin, why he believes there's no second best in crypto, and why working hard may be the worst financial advice you can follow.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Eddie Travia is the co-founder and CEO of Coinsilium Group, the first blockchain company to complete an IPO, and a pioneering crypto investor since 2013.In this episode, Eddie breaks down how AI agents and crypto are converging into a $15 trillion shift that will reshape investing, fundraising, and entrepreneurship - and explains why millions of jobs won't survive the transition.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of Consensys, warns that big tech is racing to build centralized AI systems that could control humans and every system on the planet - and explains why decentralized protocols are the only architecture standing in the way.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Hunter Horsley, co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management, makes the case that this is the most bullish moment in crypto's entire history - with major banks scrambling to catch up and every structural tailwind pointing in the same direction.From the $400 trillion in global assets beginning to shift toward crypto, to institutions going "zero to 500 miles an hour" on adoption, Hunter breaks down why the new era of crypto is already underway and why it's not too late to be early.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Ben Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Bybit, reveals how he led the company back from the biggest crypto theft in history - filling the $1.5 billion hole in just 8 months while still paying bonuses and dividends.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Jeff Park is a macro strategist and Bitwise advisor who believes the financial system is broken beyond repair for young people - from unaffordable housing to AI displacing an entire generation's jobs. He breaks down why real estate is actually a depreciating asset, why Bitcoin is the ultimate escape, and how AI will ignite the biggest wave of Bitcoin adoption the world has ever seen.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Gracy Chen went from a divorced single mom to CEO of Bitget, a top 5 crypto exchange doing $20B in daily volume with 25 million users. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Armani Ferrante is the Founder and CEO of Backpack, a regulated global crypto exchange with over $420 billion in trading volume and one of the leading builders in the Solana ecosystem.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Xin is the Group CEO of GSR Markets, one of crypto's oldest market-making firms - bootstrapped with $20K over twelve years ago and still independently funded today. In this episode, he breaks down why crypto's market structure is fundamentally broken, how misaligned incentives are holding the industry back, and why GSR is transforming into crypto's first full-service investment bank modeled after Goldman Sachs. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Xiao-Xiao is the President of Jupiter, the leading DeFi super app on Solana, and former digital assets lead at KKR, one of the world's top private equity firms. In this episode, he reveals why he left Wall Street to go all-in on crypto - and how Jupiter is building zero-fee global payments that could disrupt a $5 trillion market. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Bobby Ong is the co-founder and CEO of CoinGecko, the crypto data platform he bootstrapped with $200 over 12 years - no VC money, no shortcuts.In this episode, Bobby reveals why most crypto founders are destined to fail, how he caught employees taking bribes for listings, and what it really takes to survive in an industry designed to destroy you.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Evan Cheng co-founded SUI after leading Facebook's Libra project -  then threw away everything they built because it wasn't good enough. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Anand Gomes, CEO of Paradex, exposes how most crypto token launches really work, reveals the red flags that separate serious builders from teams that cash out and disappear, and explains why Paradex locked 80% of its own team tokens to public performance milestones.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Jeff Yan, founder of Hyperliquid Labs, returns after one of crypto's most extraordinary moments - a $1 billion community airdrop that grew to $10 billion, built by a team of just 11 people who didn't stop to celebrate.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Avichal Garg is co-founder of Electric Capital, one of crypto's most respected early-stage funds, and an early backer of Solana, Kraken, Figma, and Bitwise.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

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Anthony Pompliano, founder and CEO of Professional Capital Management, reveals how he put 95% of his net worth into Bitcoin and why extreme concentration backed by deep research isn't gambling - it's conviction.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Matt Hougan, CIO at Bitwise, explains why Bitcoin could reach $6.5 million and why Solana has "the best setup I've ever seen" for a 10x to $1 trillion.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Kostas Chalkias, co-founded Sui after leaving Facebook's Libra - and named his son Kryptos.While other blockchains compete on speed, Sui built what nobody else prioritized: quantum-safe cryptography, AI-ready infrastructure, and blocks large enough for robots. Governments and developers are quietly choosing Sui over Ethereum and Solana.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Andrej Majcen, CEO of Bitcoin Swiss, built a $6 billion crypto empire from $500 Bitcoin without VC funding.In this conversation, Andrej explains why we have a 5-year window to build generational wealth - and why Bitcoin, not crypto, is the answer.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Raags, CEO of Kast, lost a $100M company and spent 8 years paying back debt. Now he's building what he believes will be a trillion-dollar stablecoin bank serving 150+ countries. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Raoul Pal shares his framework for making it in crypto in 2026 without getting lucky: hold the right assets and do absolutely nothing. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Sandeep Nailwal, founder of Polygon, went from living in a storage room where his grandfathers were servants to building a $30 billion blockchain company. THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Meow, founder of Jupiter, reveals how his team built crypto's largest DEX aggregator with over $2 trillion in volume and $300M annual revenue - and why their token still failed.While other protocols obsess over technology, Jupiter focused on making crypto accessible to everyone by building the "Google of finance." But despite massive product success, communication failures and community mismanagement tanked the token.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Matej  Zak, CEO of Trezor, reveals why 98% of crypto users are vulnerable to hacks - and what the $1.5 billion exchange hack proves about crypto security.From inventing the first hardware wallet to discovering security flaws in competitor devices, Matej  explains why only 2% actually control their crypto and what happens when you trust exchanges.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Brian Armstrong built Coinbase from when Bitcoin was $6 to a $100 billion public company -  surviving government attacks, multiple 90% market crashes, and 13 years of chaos.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Anand Gomes, CEO of Paradex, reveals why decentralized exchanges are becoming the new Wall Street - combining banks, brokerages, and clearing houses into one platform with zero fees.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Mert Mumtaz, CEO and co-founder of Helius, reveals why he's betting everything on privacy, Solana infrastructure, and long-term conviction plays like Zcash and Hyperliquid.While most crypto investors chase short-term gains, Mert operates on 3-5 year time horizons, building core infrastructure for Solana and defending privacy as crypto's most unsolved problem. From explaining how connectivity and reflexivity drive extreme price movements to sharing how a Slavic girlfriend changed his approach to capturing value, this conversation goes deep.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

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Seung Yoon Lee, CEO and co-founder of Story Protocol, is building crypto infrastructure to unlock the $80 trillion creative asset class.After selling his previous company Radish Fiction to Kakao for $440 million, Seung saw a bigger problem: streaming platforms like Netflix make billions while creators who make the content get almost nothing. Story Protocol lets creators own and trade their work like stocks, while enabling anyone to legally remix content with automatic royalty payments.THE SHIFT NEWSLETTER

Sales of Apple devices spike heavily as tariffs and potential price hikes drive customers to a shopping frenzy for Apple goods. Apple, alongside Google, is given permission to keep TikTok in its App Store until the US deal is finalized. Could the iPhone's auto-suggested contact be to blame for the Signal scandal? And even though Severance is a big hit, it isn't enough to give Apple TV+ a boost in subscribers. Apple stock bloodbath continues after China applies retaliatory tariffs. How Apple 'flew' 5 flights full of iPhones from India and China in 3 days to beat Trump tariffs. Apple customers dash to stores to buy iPhones ahead of tariffs. Tarriff-related iPhone price increases estimated to be lower than feared. From Kuo: Apple can reduce impact of Trump's massive tariffs in five ways. Secret court rules against Yvette Cooper over Apple encryption. White House reportedly blames auto-suggested iPhone contact for Signal scandal. EU to issue Apple's Digital Markets Act antitrust ruling within weeks. Visa offers Apple roughly $100 million to take over credit card from Mastercard. Apple launches new Mac and Vision Pro app for managing Immersive content. Apple's canceled Federation Square store lives on in Apple Vision Pro. New "Immersive VIP Yankee Stadium" immersive video. Apple TV+ brings Lumon Industries to life. Even Severance isn't enough to give Apple TV+ a big boost in subscribers. Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence. CalDigit's new Thunderbolt 5 docks bring plenty of ports. Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: icloudpd 1.27.2 Jason's Picks: Insta360 2-in-1 Invisible Selfie Stick + Tripod & Neewer Mini Desk tripod. Andy's Pick: Kindle Comic Converter Mikah's Pick: puffies. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: 1password.com/macbreak spaceship.com/twit

Sales of Apple devices spike heavily as tariffs and potential price hikes drive customers to a shopping frenzy for Apple goods. Apple, alongside Google, is given permission to keep TikTok in its App Store until the US deal is finalized. Could the iPhone's auto-suggested contact be to blame for the Signal scandal? And even though Severance is a big hit, it isn't enough to give Apple TV+ a boost in subscribers. Apple stock bloodbath continues after China applies retaliatory tariffs. How Apple 'flew' 5 flights full of iPhones from India and China in 3 days to beat Trump tariffs. Apple customers dash to stores to buy iPhones ahead of tariffs. Tarriff-related iPhone price increases estimated to be lower than feared. From Kuo: Apple can reduce impact of Trump's massive tariffs in five ways. Secret court rules against Yvette Cooper over Apple encryption. White House reportedly blames auto-suggested iPhone contact for Signal scandal. EU to issue Apple's Digital Markets Act antitrust ruling within weeks. Visa offers Apple roughly $100 million to take over credit card from Mastercard. Apple launches new Mac and Vision Pro app for managing Immersive content. Apple's canceled Federation Square store lives on in Apple Vision Pro. New "Immersive VIP Yankee Stadium" immersive video. Apple TV+ brings Lumon Industries to life. Even Severance isn't enough to give Apple TV+ a big boost in subscribers. Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence. CalDigit's new Thunderbolt 5 docks bring plenty of ports. Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: icloudpd 1.27.2 Jason's Picks: Insta360 2-in-1 Invisible Selfie Stick + Tripod & Neewer Mini Desk tripod. Andy's Pick: Kindle Comic Converter Mikah's Pick: puffies. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: 1password.com/macbreak spaceship.com/twit