Welcome Bankless Nation to the AI rollup where we stay up to speed with the emerging trends and developments in the AI crypto space.

I'm David Hoffman here with my co-host, Ajaz. How's your week?

Week's been good, David. I'm kind of living a paradox of my life at the moment.

Like on one side, I'm like taken aback by the rate of innovation in AI.

Like, literally, it's becoming a weekly thing where a new model drops or a new app that I use just kind of blows my mind.

It's incredible how consistent it's been.

Yeah, yeah.

It's crazy consistent.

But then, on the other hand, markets are crushed. That includes

like macro markets, so stock markets as well as crypto markets. And within the crypto, especially

the AI coins, right? So it seems like for now we're at like the whim of wider macro markets,

or in other words, whatever Trump says or whatever the federal reserve says

it's funny whilst we're recording this there is currently the foam sea meeting happening so we'll

see where the market turns by the end of this episode um and the other paradox i'm living is

uh all the suits and government people that kind of like crypto was burst on kind of opposing or doing

the opposite of is more bullish on crypto now than the actual crypto people. So it's a super

weird state of affairs that I'm living. Yeah. Yeah. I think this has been the big cloud that has

overhung everyone in crypto and even not just in crypto but in markets broadly.

I actually heard a really good take that I'm starting to really integrate into my knowledge

about why this is the case. Like why does retail feel bad and institutions feel good about

crypto when it's usually the complete opposite? And even not just not just that, but in addition to that,

if you ask general consumers or general, the general population about their opinion of crypto,

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