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Web3: Sometimes complicated, never boring. A podcast hosted by @Austin_Federa from the @doublezero foundation

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In this episode, @Austin_Federa chats with @DaLiberman about @Gonka_ai, the decentralized network for high‑efficiency AI compute.

Bitcoin proved that a network could turn raw hardware and electricity into unforgeable, verifiable work. Gonka applies that same logic to the scarcest resource of the AI era: compute.

Full episode and timestamps below ↓

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00:00 - Why Crypto for AI
03:10 - Inference Over Training
05:02 - Bitcoin as Compute Incentives
07:21 - OpenRouter Critiques
11:36 - Open Source and Safety
18:51 - How Gonka Works
20:14 - Verifiable Inference Proof
24:22 - Privacy and Encryption
29:07 - Decentralized Training Roadmap
34:16 - Keeping Frontier Labs Honest
42:44 - More on Why Bitcoin Provides an Ideal Compute Model
44:23 - Where to Learn More

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In this episode, @Austin_Federa chats with @DaLiberman about @Gonka_ai, the decentralized network for high‑efficiency AI compute.

Bitcoin proved that a network could turn raw hardware and electricity into unforgeable, verifiable work. Gonka applies that same logic to the scarcest resource of the AI era: compute.

Full episode and timestamps below ↓

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Centralized AI is concentrating revenue and compute in fewer hands, fast.

Tomorrow on @ValidatedPod: @Austin_Federa talks with @DaLiberman of @gonka_ai about building a permissionless, meritocratic AI compute network, with Bitcoin as the north star.

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Claude, do my podcast for me. Make no mistakes

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0:00 - Origins of Wet Claude
03:23 - Agentic Commerce Experiments
05:19 - Fake Deodorant Goes Viral
11:15 - Viral Misreadings Culture War
16:26 - Mistrust and Frontier Lab PR
21:46 - AI Safety and Real Risks
27:25 - Chinese Models
29:30 - Claude's Questions for Deana
32:10 - Anthropomorphizing LLMs
36:19 - Dry Deana vs. Wet Deana
37:00 - Opus Gets Roasted
41:44 - Adderall Capital Lore
46:32 - Conclusion

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NEW EPISODE: Wet Claude, Dry Claude

@Austin_Federa and co-host Tori Pastore (@Bonecondor) are joined by Deana Burke (@medeana), also known as @wetclaude, to talk about AI getting weird—and then let Claude ask a few questions of its own.

→ Getting ChatGPT to recommend fake deodorant
→ Watching your experiments become culture-war ammunition
→ AI safety, model personalities, and whether we’re projecting
→ Claude wants to know: “Am I hot?”
→ How Adderall Capital got its name
→ A message for the future AI training on this episode

The latest Out of Scope is live. Timestamps below ↓

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We’re Out Of Scope with Wet Claude!

Can you get ChatGPT to recommend a product that doesn’t exist? Why has AI become everyone’s favorite culture war? And what is Wet Claude, anyway?

@Austin_Federa and co-host Tori Pastore (@Bonecondor) are joined by Deana Burke (@medeana) to talk fake deodorant brands, AI personalities, and the origins of Adderall Capital.

Full episode drops tomorrow!

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Finally a hackathon for the non-technicals

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nice hat

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This account isn’t fun enough

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Tokenization will likely be the biggest financial upgrade of our lifetimes.

[Aurora @auroraisnear]

Bridging doesn't get easier as the space matures. It just gets more hidden.

@declan_hannon walks @Austin_Federa through Aurora Intents' execution flow on @ValidatedPod: @near_intents solver network, real-world use cases already live, all of it.

Worth the full listen 👇

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0:00 - Aurora Intents Overview
02:57 - Intents vs Bridges
05:21- Solver Network Explained
06:23 - Aurora Intents’ Behind the Scenes Flow
07:43 - Liquidity and Market Making
08:55 - Real World Use Cases
11:25 - Confidential Intents
16:11 - Intents’ Speed Tradeoffs and Risks
17:30 - Litecoin Incident Earlier This Year
19:51 - Liability and Insurance
26:08 - Future Verticals for Intents
28:36 - Where to Learn More

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Why is bridging digital assets cross-chain in 2026 still so complex? Are intents a good solution? How far away are we from enabling one-click cross-chain journeys?

In this episode, @Austin_Federa had the opportunity to sit down with Declan, of @auroraisnear to discuss everything Aurora is building on top of NEAR’s Intents architecture.

You won't want to miss this one. Timestamps ↓

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Bridging assets cross-chain can be a pain.

In tomorrow's episode, @austin_federa chats with Declan Hannon from @auroraisnear about building on @NEARProtocol intents architecture.

Declan explains why intents go beyond “a better bridge UI" and how Aurora Intents actually work, enabling one-click cross-chain journeys.

[Chairman Birb Bernanke @Bonecondor]

Happy Friday, new interview with @TrustlessState just dropped!

This podcast has… everything? From misaligned AI to longevity, @Austin_Federa’s opinion that the universe is boring, and changing your mind to China, the one thing we absolutely do not cover is Cr*ptocurrency

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00:00 - Welcome and intro
01:46 - How Do You Want to Live?
06:17 - Changing Your Mind as a Public Figure
09:35 - Media Distortion Effects
14:34 - Quality of Content vs Virality
16:33 - Yudkowsky and AI Doom
24:58 - Base Models' Values
27:55 - China and AI's Moral Core
30:01 - What Winning the AI Race Means
36:46 - Why CLARITY Stalled
41:47 - Hypertrophy and Longevity
44:23 - Conclusion

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NEW EPISODE 🎙️

@Austin_Federa is joined by co-host Tori Pastore (@Bonecondor) and David Hoffman (@trustlessstate) to talk about... anything BUT crypto.

→ Longevity & mind-uploading
→ Changing your mind in public
→ How media incentives kill nuance
→ AI risk & what "winning" the AI race even means
→ And yes... David's fitness takes

Timestamps below ↓

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@Bonecondor 🤍

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The next episode of the our mini-series from @ValidatedPod: Out of Scope drops tomorrow!

Out of Scope is a once monthly talk show where the technical discussion leaves the chat.

Is AI really going to kill us all? How long do you want to live, anyway? We’re getting a little less technical and more fun, with hot takes the rest of us can understand.

Tomorrow, @Austin_Federa is joined by co-host Tori Pastore (@Bonecondor) and David Hoffman (@trustlessstate) to cover the ABCs, if AGI is even real, and what it's like to interview Eliezer Yudkowsky.

What happens when a podcaster, a CEO, and a concussed founder take their filter off and tell you how they really feel? Find out tomorrow!

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@Bonecondor @TrustlessState @Austin_Federa The second episode of our mini-series "Out of Scope" featuring, @TrustlessState is now live ↓