1000x
by 1KX Media
Illia Polosukhin On The Future Of AI, Crypto, And How Near Is Going…
About this podcast
1000x is a show about the new age of finance, hosted by Avi Felman and Jonah Van Bourg two former hedge fund investors. We go everywhere the money is moving: crypto, macro, equities, AI, and the alternative assets most people only hear about after the trade is gone.
The difference is that we've actually sat on trading desks and run real risk, so this isn't theory or hype. It's two people with genuine markets experience thinking out loud, taking real positions, and helpi
Episodes
The newest 20 of 153 episodes
- Illia Polosukhin On The Future Of AI, Crypto, And How Near Is Going To Win · 50 minAvi sits down with Illia Polosukhin at Token2049 in Singapore — co-author of “Attention Is All You Need,” the paper every modern AI model is built on, and co-founder of NEAR…
- MARKET UPDATE: Anthropic S-1, Market Bottoms, What’s Next? · 49 minThe whole market de-risked into the Anthropic S-1. Then it bottomed the day the filing dropped. Avi is back in New York after a month that ran from Token2049 in Singapore to a…
- MARKET UPDATE: What Breaks First — Bitcoin, AI, or the Bond Market? · 45 minAvi is back from two weeks on the road — Singapore, Istanbul, and Iraq — and Jonah has spent that time doing actual work on the credit problem nobody wants to look at. They open…
- Arthur Hayes On The Early Days Of BitMEX, Where Bitcoin Is Going, And Why We Are Over-Indexing On AI · 49 minAvi sits down with Arthur Hayes at Token2049 in Singapore — the co-founder of BitMEX, the man who invented the perpetual swap, and now the founder of FLOP Network. Arthur traces…
- MARKET UPDATE: Alts Ripping, Economy Crushing, Scammers Scamming — What’s Next? · 1 h 3 minAvi opens with the story of the last week — the RuneScape Gold allegations, what actually happened onchain, and a promise to the people who scammed his audience. Then he and…
- Crypto Is Rebuilding The Financial System — And Opportunities Abound · 59 minAvi Felman sits down with Bryan Pellegrino, co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs, to talk about what happens when the largest institutions in finance start building on crypto…
- Inside The Government Seizure Of Signature Bank · 28 minThis week, Avi sits down with Scott Shay, co-founder and former chairman of Signature Bank and now founder of N3XT. Scott started at Salomon Brothers in the Liar's Poker era…
- MARKET UPDATE: Meta, Bitcoin, Crude And The Economy Are All Ripping. How Long Can It Last? · 1 h 1 minThis week, with Meta, Bitcoin, crude and the broader economy all ripping, we ask how long it can last? We discuss why diamond prices are collapsing. Jonah explains the anatomy of…
- MARKET UPDATE: Crypto Is Used To Buy Oil?! FED Meeting, And Economy Ripping · 1 h 4 minThis week, we break down the Financial Times exposé on how Poland lost $230 million trying to buy Venezuelan oil with crypto, and why Avi thinks it's actually the most bullish…
- MARKET UPDATE: Live With GMoney, Inflation Is In, Is This The Crypto Top? · 41 minThis week, Avi is joined live by GMoney, a trader who ran a desk for over a decade before becoming one of the most recognized collectors and investors in crypto, and who now…
- MARKET UPDATE: Hunter Biden Scams Us, $INTC Rips, Commodities Onchain, Anthropic's Skynet Risk · 55 minThis week, Intel rips 20% and Avi's $88 call pays off. We discuss Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP coin and why every political meme coin is explicitly telling you it exists to extract…
- MARKET UPDATE: Hot Payrolls, Hotter Memecoins, And Se From FOMO Talks The Future Of Trading · 1 h 6 minThis week, in a Friday solo stream, Avi breaks down a hot jobs report that has traders nervous about a September hike, and why crypto is ripping anyway. He's then joined by Se…
- MARKET UPDATE: What Is MemeFi, WAR With Iran, & The Fed Not Backing Down — What You Need To Know · 1 h 23 minThis week, we break down the MemeFi mania taking over Robinhood chain, where meme coins are tying themselves to tokenized stocks and pumping microcaps on the NASDAQ. We discuss…
- Why The $30B Asset Manager Franklin Templeton Is Betting Big On Crypto · 31 minRecorded live at the Out East Conference, Avi sits down with Seth Ginns, CIO of Franklin Crypto and formerly of CoinFund and Jennison Associates. Seth spent eighteen years in…
- MARKET UPDATE: Bitcoin Rally, Zcash ETF, Bessent Humbled, NVDA Earnings · 57 minThis week, with Bitcoin ripping 25% off the lows and NVIDIA earnings on deck, we break down why the market has flipped from fundamentals back to macro. We discuss the lockout…
- What It’s Like Running A Billion-Dollar Market-Neutral Fund In Crypto · 35 minRecorded live at the Out East Summit, Avi sits down with Evgeny Gokhberg, founder and CIO of Re7 Capital, one of the last market-neutral funds still managing serious capital in…
- The ETF Pioneer Who Calls Narratives Before Wall Street · 48 minThis week, Avi sits down with Andrew Chanin, CEO of ProcureAM and founder of PureFunds, one of the best in the business at spotting narratives before the market catches on. We…
- MARKET UPDATE: FED Backstops The Yen, Metals Rip, And Neoclouds Rebound · 53 minThis week, we break down why the Fed and Treasury just moved to backstop the yen and what it signals about an increasingly state-controlled market. We discuss why you should only…
- Psychology, Value, and Data: How Santiago Santos Navigates The Markets · 56 minRecorded live at the Selini Summit, Avi sits down with Santiago Santos, founder of Inversion and one of the best-performing managers in crypto, who famously sold the top in 2021…
- MARKET UPDATE: How Situational Awareness Blew Up, Will Rates Nuke Us, What’s Next? · 58 minThis week, we break down the biggest story in markets: the blowup of Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund. We discuss whether Ken Griffin killed him or just showed…







