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Bankless

The Ultimate Guide to Crypto Finance. DeFi, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies. Level up. Go bankless.

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 320 posts collected by Sputnik

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“It turns out you can transform this problem into just a big matrix vector multiplication. And it turns out that our friends in the AI world have made big matrix vector multiplications very cheap and usable for us. Go have someone buy an H100 and go service for all of us. So these two things have come together: the cryptography side invented this, and AI land has really optimized GPUs to make this a viable world.” — Dev Ojha, Bankless
Dev Ojha · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“We were attacking our own protocol very early on and eagerly with frontier AI models in order to find these really difficult to discover bugs that had eluded auditors and cryptographers and hackers for years. And there turned out to only be one of them, and it was very, very subtle, that only an AI could really find, apparently.” — Sean Bowe, Bankless
Sean Bowe · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“It used to be that when you used a transparent blockchain ledger, if you're just a normal person, you weren't really worried about chain analytics firms who could track everything that you do. … But now with AI, obviously, a teenager just with access to an LLM basically can identify and track everybody using these things. So when you use a transparent ledger now, even if you're not a thief or a hacker or a criminal, you should be actually really nervous.” — Sean Bowe, Bankless
Sean Bowe · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“If we saw 7,500 ransomware attacks last year, now we don't need humans. We don't need affiliates. We can have agentic affiliates. Why isn't that 75,000 or 7.5 million? And that's a civilization-level threat when North Korea has that level of capability to take down entire hospital systems, entire giant exchanges.” — Ari Redbord, Bankless
Ari Redbord · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“My base case is that tokens are free in the future. And so the investment you want to make is, okay, if tokens are free, then what captures value? And Anthropic and ChatGPT and OpenAI and DeepSeek, they're going to have to answer that question. And right now, if you are selling tokens, it's a great business model. I don't know if that's going to be a great business model in 2030.” — David Hoffman, Bankless
David Hoffman · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“AI is going to transform the world economy. There's no question about that… But that's very different from saying that financial markets will benefit from that… Within five years, Global Crossing was in chapter 11. And the reason being is that fiber optic prices collapsed by 80%… But the fiber optic cable is still there on the ground. We're still great beneficiaries of that. And I think the same with AI.” — Michael Howell, Bankless
Michael Howell · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The market doesn't want a whitelisted tokenized stock. It wants a permissionless tokenized economic rights. No one cares about voting.” — David Hoffman, Bankless
David Hoffman · 18 Sep 2026 Listen →
“…So I generally take issue with the notion of we're building a robot that's going to perform all tasks because I think it'll be very difficult for a robot that performs all tasks to be better than a robot that's specialized to a certain task.” — Shahin Farshchi, Bankless
Shahin Farshchi · 31 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Bankless is hosted by David Hoffman , Ryan Sean Adams and Michael Ippolito .

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