Avi Felman

Avi Felman × Jonah Van Bourg

Avi’s GP dispute alleges holders publicly promised to hold while selling concealed inventory, making on-chain wallet behavior the key test of verifiable trust.Both hosts contrast meme-coin speculation with positive-sum crypto built on “good product, good revenues, good team,” citing Avi’s ZRO-versus-ETH trade and Robinhood’s perpetuals rollout through Bitstamp.They frame five-year mega trends, retail investors’ tolerance for volatility and AI-driven concentration as the durable signals, while leaving the best expression—broad exposure or concentrated winners—unresolved.

Avi Felman × Bryan Pellegrino

LayerZero now carries roughly $150 billion of assets and $10–15 billion monthly, positioning its messaging layer as institutional financial infrastructure.Zero and Atlas add finance-specific execution, with DTCC, ICE, Citadel, four or five major exchanges, and more than 20 front ends involved.ZRO’s proposed fee-and-buyback loop depends on launch and regulation, while faster transfers can shift rollback risk to solvers or counterparties.

Avi Felman × Scott Shay

Scott Shay argues Signature Bank had $34 billion in cash and liquidity against an $18 billion run, raised another $20 billion over the weekend, and was mark-to-market positive on March 1, 2023.The takeover’s cause and possible crypto-related regulatory hostility remain unresolved, while launched B2B venture N3XT holds deposits in very short Treasuries and uses a blockchain ledger instead of fractional banking.

Avi Felman × Jonah Van Bourg

Avi frames ten-year yields above 5% as distrust in the Fed, supporting his long-and-strong stance on Bitcoin, Intel, and Nasdaq.AI-driven copper demand may push copper toward $8, while lab-grown diamonds at $6 per carat expose monopoly economics.Cheaper AI could expand usage and GDP, but rising yields pressure real estate as Jonah watches early-to-mid-2027 for capitulation.

Avi Felman × Jonah Van Bourg

A sovereign-authorized USDT oil purchase, despite a failed $230M Venezuelan deal, signals stablecoins entering commodity settlement while the underlying failure reflected diligence, not crypto.AI-driven copper scarcity and Meta’s frontier push sharpen the competitive map, but model prices at 1–10% of frontier offerings and a roughly two-year superintelligence timeline leave unresolved disruption risk.

Avi Felman × GMoney

An in-line CPI print makes a next-meeting hike near-certain, but Avi says AI capex may mean the cycle will not last.Nvidia’s neocloud financing could become capital-light SaaS-like revenue after roughly two years of consolidation.Tokenized-stock pairings may create on-chain demand; Quotrons has roughly $10M market cap, and FWA depends on sustained top-of-funnel spins.

Avi Felman × Jonah Van Bourg

Bitcoin’s failure to clear $80K has Jonah turning short-term bearish, with a “quite high” probability of falling below $70K.Stocks migrating onchain through Lighter and Hyperliquid could leave Nasdaq behind, while $LAPTOP’s fall from $1.5B to about $630M highlights political-token extraction risk.

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.

Avi Felman × Jonah Van Bourg

MemeFi is rotating between stories rather than attracting a broad 2020–November 2021-style wave, while Robinhood Chain’s weekly volume rose from $500M to $1.5B.Jonah says value may accrue to FOMO, exchanges, Vlad Tenev, or underlying protocols rather than ordinary traders, leaving sub-1% sizing, multi-cycle durability, frontier-model productivity, and Iran’s Hormuz leverage as risks to monitor.

Avi Felman × Seth Ginns

Franklin Templeton’s acquisition of Seth Ginns’s CoinFund liquid-fund spinout expands its crypto team, advancing a 2026 convergence thesis while prices lag sell-side momentum.CLARITY’s vote could bring federal preemption if passed; failure would slow progress, leaving commercial adoption as the hedge against political pushback.