MasterCard’s $1.8B Bitcoin Play, OpenAI Promises 17.5% Yield, & Bezos Bets $100B

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00:00 - Geopolitics, oil, and market volatility

11:09 - Crypto market structure: CFTC/SEC clarity and the Clarity Act

22:19 - Stablecoin surge: Stripe MPP, and MasterCard/BVNK

37:12 - Kraken's frozen IPO and the crypto exchange landscape

43:41 - Institutional digital asset adoption: EY/Coinbase survey

49:44 - Building Bitcoin-native financial companies

53:44 - AI meets capital: OpenAI/Anthropic PE deals and robotics investment

1:00:58 - AI agents, Walmart dynamic pricing, and surveillance risk

1:05:57 - Building in the new economy and The Stables

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