Ansem × FaZe Banks

CFTC’s DeFi software no-action letter and the SEC’s five-year exemption for tokenized U.S. stocks reduce regulatory uncertainty, while stablecoin growth could strengthen the dollar.Robinhood is on pace for roughly $1B of chain revenue atop Banks’ estimated $4.5B traditional business, with 7% USDG/Morpho yield supporting user retention.CLARITY Act’s denial barely moved prices, leaving Zcash’s durability and Robinhood execution as key tests.

Brian Armstrong × Elad Gil

Coinbase says roughly 76% of agentic transactions are below 30 cents, making card rails uneconomic and supporting self-custodial wallets plus the X42 protocol.With 88% of revenue now non-Bitcoin trading, prediction markets reaching a $100M revenue run rate and tokenized stocks could broaden the exchange, while the SEC path for U.S. availability remains unresolved.

DeFi Dad × Nick Forster

Derive V3 collapses execution and settlement into one ZK application, with testnet live and launch expected within the next month to month and a half.Few-lines-of-code integration, correlated Bitcoin-and-ETH margin, and verifiable collateral target institutions in a 15 billion-contract U.S. options market.Ethereum L1 remains undecided, while qualified custody and regulatory fit are key adoption milestones.

Jason Yanowitz × Matthew Prince

Automated traffic has already surpassed human traffic, and Prince says agentic traffic could reach 1,000 times human traffic in five years, challenging ad-funded models.Cloudflare is pursuing a micropayments rail targeting roughly 10 million transactions per second, but regulation, capacity and preserving free access remain unresolved.

Avi Felman × Se

Crypto is rallying on debasement, social trading, and RWA theses, while FOMO’s on-chain HOOD trade suggests attention can precede revenue recognition.FOMO’s 5–10% daily growth and $4 million creator payouts support an organic network thesis, but 94.4% of users lost money and scale remains unproven; monitor Bitcoin’s six-month-to-one-year catalyst and whether meme markets get solved.

Ansem × FaZe Banks

Robinhood Chain’s up to $4M in daily revenue, $34B cumulative DEX volume and 190-plus tokenized stocks provide crypto-native visibility before traditional models, with revenue reportedly not appearing in reports until November 10.That data underpins HOOD’s move from roughly $111 premarket to about $124 and a Coinbase-like wrapper thesis, but the catalyst is whether reported economics validate it amid regulatory execution and sharp social-trading unwinds.

Robinhood Chain activity is turning distribution into measurable fees, with $4.7M in one day and a stock repricing near a $100B valuation, though the 90% margin extrapolation is disputed.Tokenized-stock memecoins expose weekend inventory risk because authorized participants cannot mint shares off-hours; Robinhood’s expected 24/5 rollout within nine months and unresolved manipulation, KYC/AML, and Ethereum fee-capture questions are the catalysts to watch.

Erik Torenberg × Alex Rampell × Max Levchin

Visa and Mastercard still impose a roughly 2.5-second transaction window, a roughly 60-year-old standard that limits room for antifraud and payment innovation even as agents could reopen the interface.Affirm shows where the economics are strongest: Beautylish installments lifted conversion 30%, merchants fund negative CAC, and products up to 3½ years require machine-learning underwriting, while whether consumers will delegate purchase choices remains unresolved.

Beezie × Andrea Miele × Tuomas (Tuom) Holmberg

On-chain collectibles are accelerating: Collector Crypt reached roughly $400M in June and $300M in July versus $20M the prior July, while Beezie surpassed $200M.Discounted sourcing, sub-10% take rates and roughly 55 turns for lower-tier assets support liquidity, while Beezie’s Web2 partnership and unresolved token-ownership and regulatory questions frame the opportunity and risk.

Jordi Alexander × Justin Bram × Taiki Maeda × Dim Selk × Thiccy × Se × Qiao Wang

Jordi Alexander is “97% confident” Bitcoin bottomed at $60k, while Justin Bram’s diminishing-returns math sees roughly $185k and questions entering at $82k for potentially 2x.FOMO’s 40,000 daily App Store users—mostly mobile—support a mobile distribution thesis and IPO endgame, while Zcash’s supply case gains price confirmation amid unresolved crypto-native inflows and financial-rails catalysts.