Weekly Highlights | AI bubble debate intensifies, Base social experiment fails, SK Hynix ADR surges 27% in a single day then plunges
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Spurred by the AI Craze
Anthropic and OpenAI race toward trillion-dollar valuations, but Chamath warns that AI’s actual return on investment is extremely low and advises companies to go public before the bubble bursts.
AI and Careers Over Three Years: Shocks, Patterns, and the Professional Landscape
From 2023 to 2026, AI’s profound impact on the workplace hits programmers first, deepening the generational divide between novices and veterans. Task models reveal the laws of future career differentiation.
Nvidia accelerates its physical AI deployment in Japan, partnering with Fanuc, Yaskawa, and Toyota to drive robotics and autonomous driving innovation. Japan becomes a core pillar of its global AI strategy.
Circle CEO’s 10,000-Word Essay: When AI Meets Blockchain, the “Company” as We Know It Will Dissolve
The convergence of blockchain and AI reshapes global finance; an agentic economy spawns on-chain companies, and stablecoins become the foundation for money at machine speed.
Several top luminaries joined Anthropic this year, including legend Andrej Karpathy and Nobel laureate John Jumper, betting that AI will become the public foundation for the next decade.
Macro Insights
Are traditional banks the biggest money laundering channel? Uncovering how giants like Wachovia and HSBC laundered drug money, and comparing with USDT on-chain transactions — who really defines “clean” money.
U.S. Stocks as National Destiny: Trump Is Turning America into a Fund
As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, Trump is transforming the country into a fund, deeply tying policy and the market together.
Mirror of the 2000 dot-com bubble: Nortel’s bankruptcy, Cisco’s stumble — which company should Nvidia look to today?
PPI confirms cooling inflation, Warsh says AI price hikes don’t necessarily cause inflation, Apple’s market cap nears $5 trillion, SpaceX falls below its offering price.
Warsh Wraps Up Capitol Hill Trip! A Roundup: What Did He Say Over the Past Two Days?
Warsh passes his debut with hawkish remarks; he must now deliver a convincing track record on fighting inflation and resisting political interference.
Big Ideas from Institutions and Celebrities
Robinhood CEO believes U.S. stock market participation could reach 90%, asset tokenization is the future, and AI won’t replace human trading.
a16z: “DeFi and TradFi Convergence” Is a False Narrative
Traditional finance hasn’t embraced DeFi but selectively adopts blockchain components; a16z argues convergence is a false narrative.
Zcash shows anti-fragility after a crash; bullish on growth for RWA perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid and Lighter; Bitcoin faces Saylor’s share reduction and quantum computing threats.
A 15,000-word essay by a big short seller claims the AI bubble is essentially an “OpenAI bubble,” and if it bursts, global stock markets could face a reckoning.
Seizing the Edge
Stablecoins are evolving from crypto trading tools into digital financial infrastructure, with savings, yield-bearing products, payments, and on-chain foreign exchange all exploding.
Investment Signposts for the AI Era: Variant’s 10 Core Hypotheses
Variant Fund raises $222 million and releases ten investment hypotheses: AI agents will dominate traffic, compute shortage will persist.
Bridging AI and the Physical World: Three Machine Economy Directions Wintermute Is Bullish On
The crypto infrastructure war is over; the machine economy becomes the new battleground, with AI agents and robots as economic actors.
CXMT’s STAR Market IPO priced at 8.66 yuan; Trade.xyz deploys CXMT perpetual contract on Hyperliquid, on-chain price $7.2 USDC (~52 yuan), 24-hour volume $1.32 million. This is the first on-chain pre-market contract targeting China’s STAR Market, allowing overseas investors to tap into the China storage substitution narrative via DeFi.
Web3 Happenings
NOXA Closes, Will Uniswap CCA Fill the Gap? Robinhood Chain Launchpad in Turmoil
NOXA made a fortune in fees for a week then shut down its token issuance; where do Robinhood Chain memes go from here.
Robinhood Chain Crashes Into Global Top Five, but Founder’s Wallet Couldn’t Be “Saved”
What Robinhood Chain really wants to solve is bringing the entry barrier of U.S. capital markets to the world, but the founder’s wallet was compromised.
After Propping Up Half of Hyperliquid’s Empire, Trade.XYZ Token Rumors Have the Community on Edge…
Hyperliquid defies the cycle with growth, Trade.XYZ contributes nearly half of trading volume, and the market worries that the latter’s token issuance will siphon liquidity from HYPE.
Coinbase CEO publicly admits that Base’s content token strategy has failed, with ZORA’s market cap crashing 95%.
Uniswap’s fee revenue is staggering, so why does UNI’s token value fall so far short of Hyperliquid’s? A deep dive into the fundamental logic of passive AMMs.
