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PERSON DIRECTORY

Jason Yanowitz

Host of Empire. Jason Yanowitz appears in 33 indexed conversations across Empire, 1000x. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.

33 EPISODES2 SHOWS
33 episodes
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EmpireEN · 60 min

Everyone Is Watching AI While Crypto’s Bull Market Builds | Weekly Roundup

Jason YanowitzSantiago Roel Santos

AI’s narrative dominance masks a possible crypto bull market, as Yano reports revived interest after 18 barren months and tokens that have increased 50 times.Anthropic’s reported $1 of revenue per $60 of compute, possible ARR stabilization, and customer switching leave frontier-model economics unresolved, while 1 gigawatt of AI capacity costs $50–60 billion.Falling inference costs could strand capacity or trigger Jevons’ paradox, as LPs seek crypto’s growth-stage fintech opportunity as a countercyclical alternative to crowded AI.

EmpireEN · 44 min

Memecoins Are Stress-Testing The Future Of Tokenized Stocks | Weekly Roundup

Jason YanowitzSantiago Roel Santos

Memecoin–stock-token pools are forcing tokenized equities to confront real liquidity and infrastructure constraints.In the BONER/HIMS pool, roughly 60,000 HIMS tokens and limited weekend minting drove the wrapper to an implied $132, or three-to-four-times Friday’s close, without squeezing HIMS itself.The experiment could accelerate 24/7 markets, but custody, backing, redemption, and token-holder rights remain unresolved.

EmpireEN · 71 min

Cloudflare CEO: The Man Deciding The Internet’s Next Business Model

Jason YanowitzMatthew 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.

EmpireEN · 76 min

Uniswap Is Building The Liquidity Network For Everything | Hayden Adams

Jason YanowitzHayden Adams

Uniswap is repositioning as a liquidity network, handling 60–70% of EVM stablecoin swaps while Robinhood Chain delivers its highest volumes anywhere.Hayden Adams argues AMMs can compete through lower capital costs, while correlated base pairs and V4 hooks could extend efficient liquidity to volatile and tokenized assets.That B2B flywheel now ties partner distribution and volume to roughly $100M annualized UNI burn, with payment-network adoption and execution still worth monitoring.

EmpireEN · 61 min

Crypto’s Speculation Problem, Regulation Without CLARITY & The Gambling Economy

Jason YanowitzSantiago Roel Santos

Blockworks logged more sales calls than in any recent period, while inbound leads rose as fintechs and brokerages rolled out crypto.CLARITY remains uncertain; SEC and CFTC rulemaking could catalyze innovation, but unclear token value accrual and falling CEX volume leave institutional adoption unresolved.

EmpireEN · 69 min

Morpho Is Coming For The $200 Trillion Credit Market | Paul Frambot

Jason YanowitzPaul Frambot

Morpho raised $175M in roughly two-to-three weeks by positioning its network, not code, against a global credit market.Connectivity, enterprise integration, and neutral rails used by Robinhood, Coinbase, and Kraken support the network thesis, while Morpho Midnight tests curator-driven rate control; zero protocol revenue and a deliberately inactive switch leave adoption and monetization timing as key watchpoints.

EmpireEN · 43 min

Robinhood's Plan to Bring Global Finance Onchain | Johann Kerbrat

Jason YanowitzJohann Kerbrat

Three weeks after launch, Robinhood Chain reported $750M market cap, roughly half a billion in TVL, 105M+ transactions, 2M addresses, and over $560M in 24-hour DEX volume, with DAU comparisons dependent on measurement.Its Arbitrum stack atop Ethereum prioritizes adoption over chain-fee revenue, while Robinhood’s 27M funded accounts distribute crypto products; tokenized equities offer a global-access wedge whose catalyst remains regulatory clarity, not technology.

EmpireEN · 45 min

The Bill That Could Reshape Crypto In America with Greg Xethalis from Multicoin

Jason YanowitzGreg Xethalis

The Clarity Act would shift spot-market crypto oversight to the CFTC, preempt state digital-commodity rules, and place crypto intermediaries under a federal framework.Passage remains uncertain: Polymarket prices a 37% chance of a 2026 signature, while ethics language, developer protections, illicit-finance negotiations, and later SEC/CFTC/Treasury rulemaking remain unresolved.

EmpireEN · 74 min

Fomo Co-Founders on Building the Social Network for Finance

Jason YanowitzPaulSe

FOMO is building a pseudonymous, self-custodied trading social graph, with roughly 700,000 lifetime users and 30% deposit conversion.Sponsored fees, USDC balances, 5-bps major-asset pricing, and creator distribution support adoption, while crypto-native users drive 30–50% of volume.Whether the graph compounds before Coinbase, Binance, and Robinhood move more trading onchain remains the key test.

EmpireEN · 73 min

Crypto's Value Capture Problem & Why Robinhood Built Its Own Blockchain

Jason YanowitzSantiago Roel Santos

After eight months across 20-plus sectors, Santos says Inversion’s crypto-embedding thesis failed to clear the return hurdle, shifting focus to quality, cash-flowing businesses.On-chain B2B borrowing costs 8–12%, while crypto FX quotes sit 20–50 basis points above mid-market; Robinhood Chain’s more than $500 million in Uniswap volume and roughly 150,000 new active wallets show verticalization, though P&L value remains disputed.