Stablecoin proliferation is shifting toward corporate treasury, as banks and multinationals may issue white-label coins to capture float.CLARITY’s 49–50 failure hit Coinbase roughly 10% and Circle 12%, while the SEC’s five-year exemption may accelerate tokenized-securities innovation but remains reversible.Arc’s more than 190 partners showed Circle’s reach, but its memecoin-heavy debut obscured a payments strategy designed to offset lower rates.

Jason Yanowitz × Santiago Roel Santos

Hyperliquid is emerging as Wall Street’s crypto entry point, as one hedge fund bought its DAT after being unable to hold HYPE, seeking an uncorrelated position.Weekend commodities trading gives TradeXYZ a price-discovery role, while US approval could rerate the asset and Kraken’s Deutsche Börse investment and possible SpaceX-linked IPO add catalysts.

李翔 × 李丰

2026年主线或是以金融开放促改革，人民币国际化与资本项目逐渐放开将取决于制度和法制配套。港币2026年脱钩美元改挂含人民币的一篮子货币是大胆预测，但李翔认为未来三到五年都可能不会发生。美股的降息、AI泡沫和中期选举构成变量，中国资产关注存款搬家与险资长钱，上海公域数据试点则是AI长期分化的看点。

Harry Stebbings × Zach Lloyd

A Thinking Machines co-founder reportedly left a $10B-post company for Meta’s $3.5B offer, exposing how extreme liquidity can turn founder loyalty into a one-and-done game that investors must price.Six-year vesting, cliffs, repurchase rights, diversification, and staged follow-ons become more important as AI demand drives capital intensity, seed windows compress, and IPO thresholds rise from $200M to $400M ARR.

Erik Torenberg × Mark Cuban

Cuban’s clearest business thesis pairs transparent pricing and AI-native operators with broad employee equity, arguing that ESOP workers earn dramatically more and turn over less while small firms gain immediate productivity tools.He would replace opaque insurers and PBMs with patient shopping, catastrophic reinsurance, and government-guaranteed financing, while NBA media rights and second-apron constraints make subscription growth and patient team-building the next tests.

Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Sacks × David Friedberg

“AI psychosis” may scale an older loneliness crisis by replacing fragile social ties with infinitely responsive synthetic companions, while marathon chats can reinforce errors through feedback loops and “context poisoning.”Falling marriage and homeownership among 30-year-olds, student debt and housing inflation create a connected social and balance-sheet problem, making education reform, housing supply and D.C.’s crime intervention important tests of policy execution.

Harry Stebbings × Julia Hoggett

Julia Hoggett argues Britain can rebuild its risk-capital flywheel by consolidating pensions, restoring research coverage, modernizing listing rules, and committing 11 large default DC schemes to 5% private-company allocation by 2030.Her data challenges automatic US listings: only 20 UK companies raised more than $100 million there over ten years, nine delisted, and stamp duty remains a genuine liquidity handicap as London competes for Revolut, Monzo, and future IPOs.