Metacasts: Blockchain & Digital Assets

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We listen to hundreds of expert podcasts so you don't have to find them yourself. Each weekly Metacast distils the most important blockchain, crypto and digital asset conversations into one short briefing — telling you what matters, who said it, and which episodes to hear next. A Personalised Intelligence production — www.pers-int.com

Publisher

Personalised Intelligence

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Feb 2026

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   The Compute Bottleneck: When AI Ambition Hits the Energy Wall

   This week's edition examines the intensifying struggle for physical infrastructure as the primary driver of digital value, focusing on the collision between massive AI compute demands and a fracturing global power grid. We analyze the structural shift toward vertical integration in energy, the rise of agentic finance, and the systemic implications of a global economy migrating onto blockchain-based ledgers. Read this edition in full at https://www.pers-int.com/?digest=Blockchain%20and%20Digital%20Assets%2FCompact_Digests%2Fdaily_digest_compact_2026-10-07_19-07-12.html&channel=Blockchain%20and%20Digital%20Assets&latest=1 0:00 - Introduction 0:42 - AI Agents and the Compute Bottleneck 9:34 - The Survival of the Fittest: Memecoins and L2s 14:15 - Macro Shifts and Digital Hard Assets 17:20 - The Great Tokenization Supercycle 19:38 - Banking on the Blockchain 22:05 - Conclusion Referenced sources: - "Is Ethereum Losing Its Last Edge" (0xResearch) - "$VVV Community Call September" (Bankless) - "ROLLUP Uptober Green Light Robinhood Goes All-In $400M Bitget Hack Prediction Markets to SCOTUS" (Bankless) - "Google Taps Constellation for 3.6 GW, Morgan Stanley is Bullish Bloom Energy, B. Riley's New AI Stock Valuation Model" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "the-datacenter-buildout-is-at-a-physical-tipping-point-morgan-stanley" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "TeraWulf Expands Muskie to 1 GW and SpaceX Mulls TSMC for Terafab" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "How SpaceX Hit $121B in AI Cloud Deals. Plus, Crusoe's Project Hyper Expansion" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "The Death and Life of the Average Memecoin" (Coin Metrics State of the Network) - "Compute Is A Trillion-Dollar Market Trading In Group Chats Brett Harrison & Andrawes Bahou" (Empire) - "Everyone Is Watching AI While Crypto's Bull Market Builds Weekly Roundup" (Empire) - "Weekly Roundup 100226 (Fat Model Hypothesis, Agentic bank runs, Hester Peirce retires from the SEC, ETH 2030) (EP.742)" (On The Brink with Castle Island) - "Dinari Confirming Asset-Settled Perps On U.S. Equities (The Full Story)" (The Rollup) - "Tom Zschach The Swift Ledger Is Live And Banks Are Already Using It (Faster Than Anyone Expected)" (The Rollup) - "Sergey Nazarov Why Hundreds Of Trillions Of Dollars Are Coming Onchain Right Now (Tokenization Supercycle)" (The Rollup) - "Rob Krugman This Is The Biggest Unlock In Finance Yet (2027)" (The Rollup) - "Vlad Tenev Trillions Of Assets Are Coming On Robinhood Chain (Tokenize The World)" (The Rollup) - "Beyond Ethereum Scaling Karl Floersch on Optimism's Push Into Enterprise" (The Smart Economy Podcast: Real-World Blockchain Applications with Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs) - "Banks Are Going Onchain on Weekends" (Tokenized) - "Paid Partnership How Nexo Wants You To Build Wealth Using Crypto" (Unchained) - "The Chopping Block Bitget's 387 Million Dollar Hack, Kalshi's Cooked Perps Volume, and Agentic Bank Runs" (Unchained) - "The Macro Shift That Could Send Bitcoin to $500K Matt Cole" (What Bitcoin Did) - "How AI Could Take Bitcoin to $1 Million Jordi Visser" (What Bitcoin Did) This episode is independent commentary and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the sources listed above.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   The Agentic Shift: Programmable Value in an Era of Autonomous Finance

   This week's edition explores the fundamental transition from speculative trading to a structural era of tokenized utility and machine-native settlement. We analyze the collision between the rising demand for AI-driven compute and the expanding footprint of real-world asset integration within the global financial plumbing. Read this edition in full at https://www.pers-int.com/?digest=Blockchain%20and%20Digital%20Assets%2FCompact_Digests%2Fdaily_digest_compact_2026-09-30_10-00-38.html&channel=Blockchain%20and%20Digital%20Assets&latest=1 0:00 - Introduction 0:34 - The Tokenization Super Cycle 7:38 - Market Dynamics and the New Bull Case 14:14 - The Frontier of Autonomous Intelligence 19:10 - The Great Compute Arms Race 21:43 - Macro Headwinds and Debt Debasement 24:08 - Conclusion Referenced sources: - "Ben Cowen Says You Have Permission to be Bullish" (Bankless) - "ROLLUP The Bull Market is On Zcash & NEAR Kalshi Wash Trading BlackRock Goes Onchain" (Bankless) - "Cipher Digital's $5.2B Fluidstack Extension, Nscale's $35B IPO, Oracle's Hell or High Water Project Jupiter" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "Oracle's $165B Project Jupiter Delay, SemiAnalysis' ClusterMAX Ratings, a Drone's Eye View of CIFR's Black Pearl, Luxor's AI Suite" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "TLSA is SPCX's Key to the AI Race, Another Look at Data Center Noise, GPU Rates Hit ATH" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "Hot Sectors Leading Altcoin Rally" (Coin Metrics State of the Network) - "Markets Sending, Just Buy Consensus, Meta's AI Moment & Who Wins Tokenization Weekly Roundup" (Empire) - "Bitcoin Consolidates While Rates Rise with Beimnet Abebe" (Galaxy Brains) - "Weekly Roundup 092526 (Post Clarity rulemaking, Sherrod Brown is back, RIP BitMEX, Coldcard white hats, is EA a cult) (EP.741)" (On The Brink with Castle Island) - "Robots! (15) Meet NEO, your robot butler in training Bernt Børnich" (TED Tech) - "Robots! (25) How you could see inside your body - with a micro-robot Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari" (TED Tech) - "Robots! (35) Next up for AI Dancing robots Catie Cuan" (TED Tech) - "Robots! (55) Self-assembling robots and the potential of artificial evolution Emma Hart" (TED Tech) - "Tokenized Stocks Get an SEC Sandbox. Who's Left Out" (The Defiant - DeFi Podcast) - "Joseph Chalom Ethereum Is The Toll Road To Everything (Larry Fink's Words)" (The Rollup) - "Eric Conner The 52 Month DeFi Bear Market Is Over (Full Thesis)" (The Rollup) - "Nathan McCauley Tokenized Deposits Are The Real Trojan Horse For Banks (Insider Take)" (The Rollup) - "Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi The Biggest Digital Assets Bull Market Has Started (Here's How I'm Positioned)" (The Rollup) - "OCC Bank Charters Will Usher Stablecoin Adoption Wave" (Tokenized) - "Market Update Innovations at Jelly C" (Unblocking The Chain) - "Why the Crypto Market Cap Could Reach $50 Trillion This Cycle" (Unchained) - "Why Kalshi's Timeline Fight Put Its ETH Perp Volume Under a Microscope Uneasy Money" (Unchained) - "Bits + Bips Is Bitcoin Finally Being Priced on Fundamentals" (Unchained) - "America's Debt Problem Is Bitcoin's Bull Case Andy Constan" (What Bitcoin Did) - "The Biggest Lie in Economics Peter St Onge" (What Bitcoin Did) - "Auto Research on Yukon with Soubhik Deb" (Zero Knowledge) This episode is independent commentary and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the sources listed above.

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   The Infrastructure Paradox: When Programmable Finance Hits the Power Wall

   This week's edition examines the structural migration of global assets onto distributed ledgers, focusing on the convergence of tokenized real-world assets and the rise of the agentic economy. We analyze how the success of this digital transformation increasingly depends on solving the critical 72-gigawatt energy shortfall facing the global compute and data center sectors. Read this edition in full at https://www.pers-int.com/?digest=Blockchain%20and%20Digital%20Assets%2FCompact_Digests%2Fdaily_digest_compact_2026-09-23_23-57-16.html&channel=Blockchain%20and%20Digital%20Assets&latest=1 0:00 - Introduction 0:43 - The Tokenization Revolution: Bringing Real-World Assets On-Chain 7:56 - The Regulatory Pivot: From Clarity to Agency Rulemaking 13:15 - The AI-Crypto Convergence: Powering the Agentic Economy 16:27 - Infrastructure Wars: The Race for Energy and Data Centers 19:26 - Network Dynamics: Governance, Liquidity, and Market Volatility 21:29 - Conclusion Referenced sources: - "Why Reinsurance Could Become DeFi's Best Collateral Ryan Connor & Ayyan Rahman" (0xResearch) - "FOMO, Meme Stocks and Robinhood Chain Andy8052 & Eric Conner" (Bankless) - "How Robinhood is using the SEC's New Innovation Exemption Johann Kerbrat" (Bankless) - "ROLLUP The Bull Market Test Clarity Dies SEC Opens the Door Hyperliquid Comes Onshore" (Bankless) - "Rothschild Rates IREN Above CRWVNBIS, Texas Freezes Data Center Permits, CLSK Closes $2.276B Note" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "Hut 8 Stock Price Update, Morgan Stanley Sees 72 GW Deficit in 2029, AWS Block's Meta's Muse, New Era Up 30% on Vista Deal" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "IREN and CIFR Price Targets, Anthropic and OpenAI Seek 20-30MW Sites, Data Centers Take Collateral Damage in Middle East and Ukraine" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "CleanSpark's $6.6B Meta Deal, Rune Raises $40M for Solar Farm Data Centers, Moratoriums Haven't Killed the AI Trade (Yet)" (Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast) - "The Race for Tokenized Stocks and the Path Ahead" (Coin Metrics State of the Network) - "Is the Clarity Act Dead with Tyler Williams" (Galaxy Brains) - "Weekly Roundup 091826 (Clarity fails to advance, Caroline Ellison's new job, AI leaking MNPI, Poland's oil snafu) (EP.740)" (On The Brink with Castle Island) - "Solana's Historic Governance Vote - While Robinhood Invades Its Meme Coin Turf" (The Defiant - DeFi Podcast) - "Carlos Domingo Why Tokenization Goes From Billions To Trillions (Full Thesis)" (The Rollup) - "Ethena CEO The Market Just Got 60x Bigger (Everything Changes)" (The Rollup) - "Kevin O'Leary Crypto Becomes The 12th Sector Of The S&P (Full Thesis)" (The Rollup) - "Circle CEO The Entire Financial System Is Coming Onchain (We're Still Early)" (The Rollup) - "Building On-Chain Alternatives to Fiat Currency with Nevin Freeman of Reserve" (The Smart Economy Podcast: Real-World Blockchain Applications with Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs) - "SEC Unlocked Tokenized Stocks" (Tokenized) - "How Zcash and NEAR Are Driving This Crypto Bull Run" (Unchained) - "Crypto's Clarity Act Collapses. Two Days Later, the SEC Introduces Its Innovation Exemption" (Unchained) - "Uneasy Money What Crypto's Gensler Years Say About the AI Slowdown Debate" (Unchained) - "The Chopping Block CLARITY Dies on the Senate Floor, Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Rug, & the AI Pause Pact" (Unchained) This episode is independent commentary and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the sources listed above.

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