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Could talking to an AI agent become the normal way to manage an investment portfolio?

eToro CEO and co-founder Yoni Assia joins Graham Stone on Bitcoin.com's Live News Desk at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 to discuss the next phase of trading, where AI assistants can analyze markets, access portfolio information, and execute trades on behalf of investors

Assia expects agents to account for most of eToro's trading volume by the end of 2027, although he acknowledges that trust and safeguards remain major obstacles.

The conversation also explores his $250,000 Bitcoin prediction for 2030, the evolution of 24/7 tokenized financial markets, and eToro's expansion into self-custody through its acquisition of Zengo.

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Can decentralized AI help discover the next generation of medicines?

MetaNova Labs CEO Micaela Bazo joins Alex Richardson at Exploit Summit to explain how the company is using Bittensor subnet 68, NOVA, to accelerate AI-powered drug discovery.

Bazo explains how NOVA operates as a 24/7 decentralized competition, where miners search massive molecular spaces, build chemical search algorithms, and compete to identify promising therapeutic candidates.

She also shares early lab results from winning submissions, including compounds that matched the properties MetaNova was targeting at this stage of development.

The conversation explores how decentralized competition can bring unexpected ideas into biotech, why successful miners do not always need traditional pharmaceutical expertise, and how AI-generated predictions move from computational models into real-world laboratory testing.

They also discuss MetaNova's broader vision for "agency therapeutics" and what Bittensor could unlock for scientific research.

In this episode:

• How Bittensor subnet 68, NOVA, works
• Why MetaNova uses decentralized competition for drug discovery
• How miners search huge molecular spaces
• Turning AI predictions into lab-tested compounds
• Early results from NOVA's winning submissions
• Why outsiders can sometimes outperform domain experts
• Nanobodies and emerging therapeutic approaches
• MetaNova's vision for agency therapeutics

Can decentralized AI compete with traditional pharmaceutical research?

Chapters:

00:00 Highlights

00:51 Introducing MetaNova Labs and NOVA

01:21 Three drug-discovery competitions

03:00 First laboratory results

03:52 How decentralized miners drive innovation

05:48 AI agents, human guidance and miner expertise

07:11 Turning predictions into lab-tested compounds

09:05 Agency therapeutics and self-regulation

10:56 Bridging biotech and decentralized science

12:13 Licensing drugs and funding development

13:41 Clinical trials and reducing costs

14:39 Who owns the intellectual property?

16:03 Future research and other biotech companies

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What does it take for Wall Street to trust a crypto company?

Mike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, joins David Sencil at Korea Blockchain Week 2026 in Seoul. A Silicon Valley engineer by background, he now runs a crypto company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and regulated as a federally chartered bank.

Belshe explains why he still sees self custody as essential even while running a custodian, why BitGo chose the scrutiny of the public markets, and what institutions and investors want to know before they commit.

We cover:

• Why he's skeptical of Wall Street, and why regulation is still necessary
• Bitcoin maxis, stablecoins and the block size wars
• Self custody vs custody, and passing Bitcoin on to family
• Why BitGo went public, and what FTX taught Wall Street about diligence
• What an OCC federal charter means for BitGo
• Crypto IPOs under Gary Gensler, and quantum fears among investors
• AI and security

Filmed at Korea Blockchain Week 2026.
Host: David Sencil

Can crypto keep self custody alive while it goes mainstream?

Chapters:(00:00) Interview highlights(00:37) Introducing Mike Belshe(00:59) A day in the life of BitGo's CEO(02:30) From Silicon Valley to Bitcoin(04:35) Bitcoin.com ad break(05:28) Bitcoin maximalism, stablecoins and crypto innovation(07:08) Custody vs. self-custody(09:37) Bitcoin inheritance and keeping control of your money(11:36) Why BitGo went public(14:10) What changes when a crypto company goes public?(15:32) BitGo's federal bank charter explained(17:07) Institutional adoption and the quantum threat(20:22) AI-powered attacks and cybersecurity

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Can decentralized AI really compete with OpenAI and Anthropic?

Bittensor co-founder Const joins Alex Richardson at Exploit Summit in Montreal to explain why he believes the future of artificial intelligence should be open, permissionless, and owned by its users rather than controlled by a handful of powerful companies.

Const breaks down Bittensor’s vision as a Bitcoin-style network for intelligence, where people can contribute compute, mine subnets, participate in validation, and help shape a decentralized AI economy.

They also discuss the rapid evolution of Bittensor subnets, incentive computing, private versus public inference, access to global compute, AI-driven validation, and what Const means by “harnessing the exploit” and “fighting the cabal.”

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Binance just suffered an estimated $6.3 billion hack, potentially one of the biggest crypto heists ever.

But instead of crashing, Bitcoin and the broader crypto market barely reacted.

In this episode of Token Narratives, Graham Stone, Alex Richardson, and Bitcoin.com News Lead Jamie Redman unpack what the Binance hack reveals about how much the crypto industry has changed.

They explore whether a major exchange surviving an attack of this scale could actually strengthen the case for centralized platforms, why smaller exchanges may face greater risks, and whether self-custody is always the safer option.

The conversation also dives into crypto privacy, Thorchain, FBI pressure on decentralized protocols, AI-powered cyberattacks, and the growing security threat facing both crypto and traditional financial infrastructure.

Does Bitcoin’s muted reaction prove the market is becoming more resilient, or are investors underestimating the risk?

What happens when one of Wall Street's biggest banks goes all in on digital assets?

Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Morgan Stanley, joins Bitcoin.com News' Live News Desk at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026. She explains how the bank passed $1 billion across its crypto ETPs in under six months, why some clients want an ETP while others insist on self-custody, and how its advisor models approach Bitcoin allocations.

She also explains why digital assets change the economics of hacking, what Morgan Stanley's new Digital Asset Lab is testing, and why she expects AI agents and digital assets to converge.

They discuss:

• Why crypto hacks pay off instantly
• Is Morgan Stanley already the everything app?
• ETPs vs self-custody
• How advisor models treat Bitcoin
• The Digital Asset Lab
• Tokenized assets beyond stocks and bonds
• AI agents and the end of web browsers

A Bitcoin.com Live News Desk interview recorded at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026. Not investment advice.

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What happens when agentic AI produces more work than anyone can check?

Will O'Brien, Founder & CEO of Provenonce and a co-founder of BitGo, joins Alex Richardson at Exploit Summit in Montreal. He explains the assurance gap, how a 2014 essay on machine-to-machine commerce became Subnet 87's Proof of Assurance (on testnet), and why he thinks the greater risk with AI is ignorance, not dystopia.

Topics covered:

• From BitGo multi-sig to Proof of Assurance on Bittensor
• The Zappos / Gmail analogy for agent customer-service decisions
• Why enterprise will "come in droves" once assurance is solved
• Bittensor as Bitcoin circa 2013–2014
• Promethean fire, Elysium, and the 300 Spartans

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What does it take for a crypto company to earn trust when things go wrong?

Tim Stanyakin, Head of Growth at ChangeNOW, joins Matthew Owens at TOKEN2049. He traces ChangeNOW from a 2017 swap service to a crypto super app, and explains why crypto and traditional finance will collaborate rather than compete, and how compliance and security build user confidence.

Topics covered:

• Building a crypto super app around what users ask for
• On- and off-ramps under tighter regulation
• TradFi on crypto rails, US policy and MiCA in Europe
• KYB/KYC, address scoring, AML partners and licensed custody
• Crisis response, Bybit, and ChangeNOW's nine-year no-hack claim
• Tokenized real-world assets and privacy vs compliance

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Could autonomous AI agents become major users of blockchain payments?

TRON founder Justin Sun believes machine-to-machine transactions could become a significant source of crypto adoption.

In this interview at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, Sun joins David Sencil to discuss TRON's position in stablecoin settlement and its plans to introduce tokenized U.S. stocks.

They also examine TRON's U.S. expansion through the Canary Staked TRX ETF and a publicly traded TRX treasury company, alongside blockchain transparency, illicit finance investigations, and cybersecurity.

Sun explains how B.AI connects users and developers with AI models and why cryptocurrency could become an important payment mechanism for autonomous agents.

Chapters:

(00:00) Interview highlights
(00:33) Justin Sun at TOKEN2049 Singapore
(00:59) Tokenized stocks and AI as crypto growth drivers
(02:00) TRON’s stablecoin adoption and real-world use
(05:29) Expanding global access to tokenized U.S. stocks
(07:21) OrangeRock sponsor break
(07:46) Blockchain transparency and tracing illicit funds
(10:46) Cybersecurity and protecting crypto assets
(12:37) TRON’s account growth and machine-to-machine payments
(14:57) TRON’s U.S. strategy and institutional expansion
(16:54) Why institutions choose crypto ETFs
(17:35) AI agents, crypto payments and B.AI
(20:01) B.AI explained: the toy-and-battery analogy
(21:14) AI coding and the future of work

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Is "crypto" about to disappear into finance?

Robbie Klages, co-founder of fintech media channel The Rollup, joins Graham Stone at TOKEN2049 Singapore. He found Bitcoin through online poker, traded altcoins, and now hosts conversations at the point where TradFi and DeFi meet.

Klages explains why he thinks the meme coin grift is dying while the useful parts of the industry become everyday finance, how he thinks about Bitcoin and Zcash as hard money, and why he's bullish on on-chain businesses that generate real revenue.

We cover:

• Why the word "crypto" may not survive, and what will
• Patience, cash flow and time horizons in investing
• The Bitcoin thesis in a money-printing world
• Zcash, privacy, and the gold-and-silver framework
• The revenue meta and the token-versus-equity problem
• Tokenization at a scale of trillions
• How to think about quantum risk

Filmed at TOKEN2049 Singapore. Host: Graham Stone

Is crypto dying, or just becoming finance?

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