TOKEN2049
@token2049
#TOKEN2049#: The World’s Largest Crypto Event.
🌍 Dubai: 21-22 April 2027
🌍 New York: 16-17 June 2027
🌏 Singapore: 6-7 October 2027
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“Cash is centralized but private. Bitcoin, decentralized, public. Zcash, decentralized, private.”
@balajis, @tyler, @cameron and @mert on The @Zcash Moment, at TOKEN2049 Singapore.
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There isnt enough excess liquidity to fund the AI build out and push crypto at the same time... so it rotates.
Weve seen it recently. The AI trade slowed down and Bitcoin went up.
This is why tech stocks have had such a big run while crypto has been struggling.
From my talk at @token2049 Singapore.
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“We’re not here to compete with banks. We try to make them work harder for you.”
@StaniKulechov (@aave) with @gdog97_(@ethena) , @kain (@infinex) and @robbiepetersen_(@a16z) on DeFi’s Institutional Breakthrough, at TOKEN2049 Singapore.
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“Agents don’t click ads. And agents work for you. They don’t work for Google. At least that’s what we’re told.”
@iohk_Charles (@IOGroup) on privacy, AI agents and Midnight City at TOKEN2049 Singapore.
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In June 2020, @shayne_coplan (@Polymarket) was DMing @balajis, hoping for a reply.
Balaji ended up in the seed round. Six years later, they shared the OKX Main Stage at TOKEN2049 Singapore.
“It takes some broke kid that is sitting on his computer all day.”
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Every market in history had the same ceiling: 8.5 billion people.
@RaoulGMI's argument at TOKEN2049 Singapore: AI agents just removed it.
“The TAM has gone to infinity.”
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Memecoins: dead or just getting started?
@MustStopMurad “I think we’re going to see a memecoin at a trillion eventually.”
@blknoiz06 “Now there’s 30,000 plus new meme coins launching every day... it makes it difficult for things to go as high.”
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“Some asset that’s only tradable by a few people for the many orders of magnitude of its growth, and then ultimately being tradable by the public only after all the growth has been realized... that model just isn’t sustainable.”
@chameleon_jeff on why private markets need fixing
@HyperliquidX at TOKEN2049 Singapore:
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“What do agents eat?”
@CryptoHayes's answer: compute. And right now, agents don’t have a currency for it.
His full keynote from the OKX Main Stage at TOKEN2049 Singapore:
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I was wrong.
Agents don't need crypto. It's us humans who do.
I break down what the industry got wrong in my @token2049 talk, Agents + Crypto: What's Real and What's Cope 👇
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Sharing my keynote from @token2049 Singapore: "Making AI and Finance Private By Default."
I outlined the @NEARProtocol privacy vision across near(.)com with confidential @near_intents, @near_ai with confidential inference, plus NEAR MPC & post-quantum.
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“This may be the biggest bull market we’ve ever seen.”
@fundstrat’s message from the OKX Main Stage at TOKEN2049 Singapore: you’re not bullish enough.
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Crypto's largest startup competition - NEXUS. US$250,000 prize powered by @awscloud.
10 Founders pitched live at TOKEN2049 Singapore to judges from @dragonfly, @multicoin and @MaelstromFund.
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Thank you to lifestyle partners, from Marina Bay Sands to Aston Martin, Grab, Tatler and more, you made the week.
Here's what 200 builders got up to for 36 hours at the ORIGINS hackathon, powered by @awscloud @Cardano @solana @NOWNodes @chainlink
Congrats to all who built and shipped.
The CEOs of @Nasdaq and @FranklnTempletn, on the same stage as @HyperliquidX, @krakenfx and @solana.
TOKEN2049 Institutional. Invite only. Around 250 senior leaders from finance and digital assets took the stage on Day 2. @adenatfriedman @arjunsethi @fundstrat @calilyliu and more
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Congratulations @Max33Verstappen!
Thanks for coming to TOKEN2049, we’ll see you next year.
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@Balajis says Kazakhstan is Singapore with space to build and claims they will put up a statue of @CryptoHayes.
Plus, Justin Drake wants crypto in “bunker mode” after the OpenAI drop.
Blast, Abstract, and the L2 shutdowns correlate with night clubs going from fully booked to zero bookings.
Timestamps
00:00 Cold open
00:31 Live at TOKEN2049 with Balaji and Arthur Hayes
02:35 Why Network School moved to Kazakhstan
06:55 How to shop for a country
15:45 OpenAI's math drop and crypto bunker mode
21:47 What crypto does if the cryptography breaks
32:13 Blockchains that hack themselves + Arthur's Flop Network
34:28 Blast, Abstract, and the L2 shutdowns
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Thank you @token2049 for having @HHorsley on stage yesterday alongside leaders from some of the largest financial institutions.
Incredible to see the industry’s bullishness on tokenization.
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