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00:47:21

DePIN Growth, Trade XYZ Explosion & BitTensor Updates...

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2026/02/05

The Shoot the Sh*t Podcast #19 dives deep into DePIN's real state in 2026. While token prices are down dramatically, revenue is surging and networks are becoming genuinely profitable. InfraFi emerges as the most exciting DePIN development, offering stablecoin holders 10-15% yields by financing off-chain infrastructure like GPU compute and energy projects. USDAI is leading this charge and could spark a major narrative shift when it launches its token.Trade XYZ's equity perps are seeing

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00:26:49

The Secret to Tron’s Rapid Adoption in Emerging Markets

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2026/02/05

Sam Elfarra, Community Spokesperson at TronDAO, reveals how Tron’s first-mover advantage on USDT has created a liquidity revolution in emerging markets, making crypto accessible to the unbanked and transforming cross-border payments. With annualized settlement volumes nearing $8 trillion and stablecoins accounting for over 42% of USDT circulation, Tron’s influence on world finance is unprecedented. This episode dives into how Tron balances decentralization with high-speed performance, how it’s

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00:28:54

How Dabba Scaled from 1K to 75K WiFi Hotspots in 18...

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2026/02/02

Dabba is building the future of connectivity in India through decentralized physical infrastructure on the Solana blockchain. This episode of Fully Diluted features founder Karam Lakshman discussing how Dabba has become one of the fastest-growing DePIN networks globally, expanding from 1,000 to 75,000 WiFi hotspots in just 18 months with nearly 500,000 daily active users. The project taps into India's unique market structure, where 100,000 small cable operators need capital and technology to

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00:39:49

State of DePIN 2025 | Fully Diluted

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2026/01/28

In this episode of Fully Diluted, Messari’s Dylan Bane sits down with Sal Gala, co-founder and managing partner at Escape Velocity Ventures, and Connor Lovely, founder at Proof of Coverage Media, to explore the current state of DePIN in 2025. They delve into the evolution of DePIN, its revenue growth, and the challenges faced by the sector.They cover:• The impressive revenue growth of GeoNet and Helium• The challenges and setbacks in the decentralized compute sector• The role of buybacks and growth

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00:32:30

Drones x DePIN: Spexi and LayerDrone Are Building a...

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2026/01/22

Drones, not satellites, might power the next generation of maps and spatial AI. In this episode of Fully Diluted, Messari’s Dylan Bane sits down with Alec Wilson, COO of Spexi and founding contributor to LayerDrone, to break down how their DePIN-powered drone network is creating a standardized, ultra–high-resolution imagery layer of the Earth.They cover:- Why drone imagery (1–3 cm per pixel) can beat both satellites and planes- How Spexi software and LayerDrone’s web3 incentives coordinate thousands

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00:49:28

Exploring Railgun: The Future of Crypto Privacy |...

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2026/01/15

Join us for another episode of Fully Diluted with Messari Analysts Matthew Nay, Sam Ruskin, Qorban Ferrell, and Jake Koch-Gallup.This week, we explore Jake's insightful analysis of RAILGUN, a cutting-edge ZK privacy tool for EVM networks, and discuss its valuation and market impact. We also cover the resurgence of meme coins, the rise of equity perps, and the macro trends driving the metals market. Tune in for a deep dive into the world of privacy tech, market dynamics, and the future of

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00:52:37

Consumer Crypto 2026: Prediction Markets, Wallet Wars...

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2025/12/31

Prediction markets may be the first real breakout product for consumer crypto—and they’re only getting started.In this episode of Messari’s 2026 Theses consumer series, we’re joined by Tulip King and Baba, two former Messari analysts, to unpack where consumer crypto actually goes next. The conversation spans prediction markets as base infrastructure, why memecoins and NFTs needed a reset, how wallets become the new distribution layer, and whether crypto social finally has a real unlock.We connect

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00:49:04

Theses 2026 on DeFi: Perps & Equity Perps, Prediction...

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2025/12/22

Perps are leveling up from a crypto-native niche into a global trading primitive—and equity perps may be the breakout narrative of 2026. In this year-in-review episode of Messari: Unqualified Opinions, Messari Research Analysts Sam and Qorban are joined by Messari alumni Sunny and Kunal to unpack 2025’s biggest DeFi themes: Hyperliquid’s rise, the equity perp inflection, the maturation (and looming skepticism) around prediction markets, how political markets could evolve, and why yield-bearing

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00:45:55

Theses 2026: Crypto x AI – Why BitTensor Could Be the...

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2025/12/22

In this episode, Dylan, Sami and Seth break down why crypto + AI isn’t just a moral counterweight to Big Tech—it’s a faster innovation engine. They explain how BitTensor’s subnet model turns AI development into an open, incentive-driven competition (similar to how Bitcoin relentlessly optimized SHA-256), and why 2025’s biggest shifts—open-source catching up, reinforcement learning’s rise, and massive data center capex—set the stage for decentralized AI to find real product-market fit. The

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00:45:55

Theses 2026: Crypto x AI – Why BitTensor Could Be the...

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2025/12/19

In this episode, Sami and Seth break down why crypto + AI isn’t just a moral counterweight to Big Tech—it’s a faster innovation engine. They explain how BitTensor’s subnet model turns AI development into an open, incentive-driven competition (similar to how Bitcoin relentlessly optimized SHA-256), and why 2025’s biggest shifts—open-source catching up, reinforcement learning’s rise, and massive data center capex—set the stage for decentralized AI to find real product-market fit. The conversation also

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00:52:07

Theses 2026: Ethereum, L2s, and the Battle for the...

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2025/12/18

Messari’s Theses 2026 multi-chain roundtable breaks down who’s really winning the L1 / L2 wars and what that means for the next cycle.The Enterprise team dives into:- How Ethereum clawed back from peak despair in 2025- Why Arbitrum and Base are pulling away from the L2 pack- What a Robinhood L2 could mean for every existing rollup- MegaETH’s token + native stablecoin experiments- Jeremy’s new Disruption Factor framework for ranking L2s- Solana’s push to become the “onchain NASDAQ”- Hot takes for

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00:45:31

State of Crypto 2026: Winners, Losers, and Big Bets...

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2025/12/17

In this episode of the Messari Thesis Podcast, the Enterprise research team recaps the wild year that was 2025 and lays out their highest-conviction bets for 2026. We dig into why Bitcoin has clearly separated from the rest of the market, how Hyperliquid and a handful of standout apps stole the spotlight, and why long-tail L1s are running out of room. The team debates whether institutions really break the four-year cycle, how the stablecoin and yield meta evolves as rates fall, and where DeFi banks,

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00:58:30

State of Crypto AI, Monad & L1s: Where We Really Are...

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2025/12/08

How much of “crypto AI” is still just narrative—and how much is finally real?In this episode, Messari’s Enterprise team unpacks findings from Messari’s newly released State of AI Report and what they mean for decentralized AI, infra, and the broader market. Chris walks through why post-training, reinforcement learning, and test-time compute are pushing us into a new decentralized AI paradigm, from swarm-style inference networks like 42 Network to open source models that are finally seeing real, paid

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00:57:01

Swarm Intelligence & Crypto AI: Inside Fortytwo’s...

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2025/12/05

What if the smartest AI didn’t live in a hyperscale data center—but across millions of everyday devices?In this episode, Chris Davis sits down with Ivan Nikitin, co-founder of Fortytwo, an AI network built on crypto rails that turns idle consumer hardware into a global swarm of specialized models. After a decade in traditional AI—training agents, conversational systems, and even a spatial reasoning foundation model—Ivan hit the hard wall of AI scalability: not enough compute, endlessly bigger data

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00:58:45

Crypto as Capital Formation: DePIN, AI &...

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2025/12/03

In this episode, Messari's Chris Davis sits down with Shayon Sengupta, Partner at Multicoin Capital, to unpack how crypto-native markets are reshaping everything from wireless networks and AI compute to data collection and talent markets. They trace the lineage from Bitcoin mining to Helium and today’s DePIN / “internet labor markets,” dig into why verification is the hardest (and most under-rated) problem, and explore how crypto can fund the massive resource aggregation AI requires.We also connect

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00:32:30

Rewiring Crypto: How DoubleZero Builds a High-Speed...

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2025/11/20

The public internet wasn’t built for high-performance blockchains.In this episode of Fully Diluted, Messari’s Dylan Bane and Matthew Nay sit down with Austin Federa, co-founder of DoubleZero, to unpack how a global mesh of privately contributed fiber links is becoming the low-latency “private internet” for Solana and other high-throughput chains.Austin explains why 20–30 hops over the public internet introduce jitter, slow block propagation, and widen trading spreads—and how DoubleZero’s 70+ fiber

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00:48:01

Monad Mainnet Is Here: The Fastest EVM Chain Goes...

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2025/11/10

Monad is gearing up for one of crypto’s most anticipated launches — a high-speed, censorship-resistant L1 built to merge scalability with true decentralization. In this episode of Fully Diluted, Dylan Bane and Matthew Nay sit down with Monad’s Kevin and Jack to discuss the tech behind Monad’s 10,000 TPS architecture, how decentralization fits into the next phase of crypto, and what users can expect from day one of mainnet.We cover the team’s origin story, the challenges of building from zero to a

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00:32:23

Can You Launch a New Telco in 2025? Dabba’s Plan to...

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2025/10/30

Messari CTO Diran Lee sits down with Karam Lakshman, CEO & co-founder of Dabba, to unpack how a DePIN marketplace, local cable operators, and crypto incentives could build a new Telco in the world’s toughest market—India. We cover broadband vs. mobile realities, Dabba’s business model and token system, the choice of Solana & BONK, incentives, and the growth roadmap.0:00 Introductions 1:33 Tech Journey 7:04 Internet in India 13:29 Business Model 21:17 Token System 24:46 Solana & BONK

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00:52:17

ETH’s Q3 Surge: DATs Grab 3.8% of Supply, ETH ETFs...

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2025/10/24

Q3 was ETH’s quarter. Messari Research digs into why ETH ETFs saw more inflows than BTC, how ETH-focused DATs amassed ~3.8% of ETH supply in one quarter, and what MNAV convergence means for future buy pressure. We also cover stablecoin growth (and USDe’s breakout), the slow-but-real maturation of tokenized equities/commodities, the rise of “corporate chains” (Stripe/Tempo, Circle/Arc, JPMorgan/Kinexys, Google Cloud), and the debate around next-gen EVMs (Monad, MegaETH). We wrap with Internet Capital

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00:43:05

Helius on Privacy’s Next Wave: Zcash, Solana, &...

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2025/10/23

In this episode of Fully Diluted, Messari’s Dylan Bane and the Messari Research team sit down with Mert Mumtaz, Co-founder and CEO of Helius, to unpack the evolving privacy landscape in crypto. They dive deep into Zcash’s resurgence, Solana’s growing DeFi ecosystem, and the regulatory and technical hurdles shaping the next generation of privacy-preserving systems.Mert discusses why privacy is fundamental to crypto’s future, how advancements in ZK proofs, FHE, and MPC are transforming usability, and

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