A podcast from professional media brand WuBlockchain that discusses and analyzes important news in the crypto world, with a special focus on Asia. https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain
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A podcast from professional media brand WuBlockchain that discusses and analyzes important news in the crypto world, with a special focus on Asia. https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain
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May 18, 2026
Vitalik on Ethereum's Role in the AI Agent Era
<p>In this episode of Friends of OKX Wallet, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin discusses the long-term convergence of AI and crypto. He talks about the role Ethereum could play in the agent era: rather than serving as a traditional “operating system,” blockchain is better understood as a public data layer, an on-chain computation layer, and an economic layer for multi-party coordination.</p><p>As AI agents begin to interact on-chain at scale, Ethereum will need to offer more than lower costs and higher throughput. It will also need stronger privacy, verifiable security, minimal identity disclosure, and an L2 ecosystem tailored to different application needs.</p><p>Vitalik argues that humans will remain the users, while AI becomes a new interface and execution layer. Wallets may evolve from standalone products into secure software capability layers that AI can call and orchestrate. For identity, users should avoid revealing who they are in full, and instead prove only what is necessary, such as reputation or source of funds, through zero-knowledge proofs.</p><p>On scaling, Vitalik says L2s should not simply copy the EVM. Instead, they should start from application needs and provide specific functions such as order matching, low-cost execution, or privacy. For Agent product experience, he emphasizes local AI, privacy, security, formal verification, and alignment with user interests. He also points to ZK Payments and ZK API as promising foundations for Agent-native payments and interaction standards.</p><p></p><p>Timeline: </p><p><a class="timestamp">00:00</a> Opening: The long-term convergence of AI and crypto</p><p><a class="timestamp">00:51</a> Vitalik on Ethereum's two core functions in the Agent era</p><p><a class="timestamp">03:30</a> Why blockchain's economic layer is key to decentralized AI coordination</p><p><a class="timestamp">05:07</a> AI as the new interface, with humans still at the center</p><p><a class="timestamp">07:09</a> Wallets evolving into secure API / SDK capability layers</p><p><a class="timestamp">10:03</a> Why humans and agents can share the same underlying framework</p><p><a class="timestamp">12:04</a> Low-cost settlement for AI high-frequency transactions, and why L2s need a rethink</p><p><a class="timestamp">16:31</a> Using AI for Ethereum security verification and Agent wallet development</p><p><a class="timestamp">18:52</a> Why ZK Payments could be the next protocol-level Agent standard</p><p><a class="timestamp">20:25</a> Preventing abuse with security deposits without compromising privacy</p><p></p>
May 2, 2026
Arthur Hayes in Vegas: War & Credit May Push Bitcoin Higher
<p>Arthur Hayes updated his outlook on market liquidity and Bitcoin’s trajectory in his keynote, <strong>“21 Weeks Later,”</strong> delivered at the <strong>Bitcoin 2026 Vegas</strong> conference.</p><p>Hayes argued that the market had previously been driven by an “AI deflation” thesis: AI boosts efficiency and puts pressure on high-paid white-collar jobs, which could weaken bank credit quality and weigh on Bitcoin and other risk assets. But as geopolitical tensions rise and the US shifts more clearly toward a wartime fiscal stance, he believes the market is starting to price in fiscal expansion, higher bank leverage, and a fresh wave of credit creation.</p><p>He also argued that concerns over Kevin Warsh potentially becoming Fed chair and pursuing an aggressively hawkish balance-sheet reduction are overblown. In Hayes’s view, what is more likely is a structural reshuffling between the Fed’s balance sheet and those of commercial banks. With regulatory easing, commercial banks could take on more Treasuries and repo assets while expanding lending to defense, resource extraction, and AI infrastructure. Hayes believes this new credit creation could outweigh the drag AI has placed on jobs and legacy credit demand, allowing liquidity conditions to turn positive again. On that basis, he remains bullish on Bitcoin and expects further upside this year.</p><p>Timeline:</p><p><a class="timestamp">00:00</a> Opening remarks</p><p><a class="timestamp">00:35</a> Why markets may treat the conflict as temporary</p><p><a class="timestamp">01:45</a> How AI deflation and job losses weighed on risk assets</p><p><a class="timestamp">03:24</a> The shift toward a wartime inflation and fiscal expansion narrative</p><p><a class="timestamp">05:51</a> Why Hayes questions the “super hawkish” Warsh view</p><p><a class="timestamp">06:49</a> A possible balance-sheet shift from the Fed to commercial banks</p><p><a class="timestamp">08:26</a> How banks could absorb more Treasuries and expand lending</p><p><a class="timestamp">10:00</a> Why Washington still shows no real appetite for austerity</p><p><a class="timestamp">11:23</a> Why US banks may become major buyers of new Treasury supply</p><p><a class="timestamp">12:09</a> Why banks could gain more room to lend</p>
April 22, 2026
Vitalik in HK: Where Ethereum Is Headed in the Next 5 Years
<p>This episode is based on Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's keynote at Hong Kong Web3 Festival, centered on one question: what kind of chain Ethereum is ultimately trying to become. Vitalik framed Ethereum as infrastructure that serves both as a "public bulletin board" and a "shared computation layer," stressing that its core value is not about chasing maximum speed, but about long-term security, decentralization, verifiability, and fair participation.</p><p>In the talk, he laid out Ethereum's roadmap for the coming years. In the near term, the focus remains on scaling both data availability and execution, raising the gas limit, advancing zkEVM adoption, improving block building, and using account abstraction to strengthen smart contract wallets, privacy, and support for post-quantum signatures. Over the medium to long term, the priorities shift toward tackling state growth, expanding formal verification, achieving full post-quantum readiness, simplifying the protocol, and making it possible for ordinary devices — including phones and IoT devices — to verify chain state.</p><p>Vitalik also emphasized that Ethereum should not become a platform optimized for high-frequency trading. Instead, it should serve as a secure and durable base layer that developers and users can rely on for the long haul, providing a strong foundation for decentralized applications across finance, identity, social, prediction markets, and beyond.</p><p>Timeline: </p><p>0:00 Ethereum roadmap backdrop</p><p>01:20 Ethereum's two core roles: DA and execution</p><p>03:01 Core values: security, verifiability, fair access</p><p>03:50 dApps will remain hybrid onchain-offchain</p><p>05:21 L2s should not become bigger centralized Ethereums</p><p>06:01 Ethereum must scale data and execution together</p><p>06:31 The next five years: scaling, zkEVM, post-quantum, privacy</p><p>07:39 Next hard fork: parallelization, gas repricing, higher gas limit</p><p>08:13 Account abstraction: smarter wallets, gas sponsorship, privacy, post-quantum support</p><p>09:50 Mid-term bottleneck: state growth</p><p>10:12 Security, formal verification, and AI-assisted proofs</p><p>11:47 Ethereum must rely less on core dev teams</p><p>13:40 Ethereum's endgame: a global shared layer for rules and data commitments</p>
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