1000x
1000x
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1000x is a crypto markets podcast hosted by professional traders Avi Felman and Jonah Van Bourg. We bring on experts to dive deep into the macro and micro factors that represent the lifeblood of digital money and web3. As an increasing share of economic activity and attention migrates online, tokenomics and price action is increasingly relevant to everyone. If you’re interested in the future of markets and crypto, this show is for you.
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The podcast focuses on a variety of content themes including macro and micro market analysis, crypto trading strategies, and emerging trends in blockchain technology, with episodes covering topics such as the impact of political events on crypto markets, the potential of Bitcoin ETFs, and the outlook for Layer 1 solutions.
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
Avi 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. Illia starts with his grandparents’ Sberbank savings book going worthless overnight and bread going up a hundredfold in a year in post-Soviet Ukraine, then walks through how transformers actually work: why recurrent models were too slow, what the attention mechanism really does, and why the aliens in Arrival are the right analogy. He left Google while the paper was being written to build a company that would let computers write code. What stopped him wasn’t the compute — it was that he couldn’t pay the students labeling his training data. That detour became NEAR.
From there: the consensus protocols they broke on camera, a standing bounty for fixing Solana, how NEAR went from blockchain to fintech app running four billion a month, why Illia says you should not give your AI agent a private key, the twenty trillion dollar agent commerce thesis, and the full story of the $3.8M exploit — including how they found the attacker, got all the money back, and got an apology on chain.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Coming Up on 1000x…
01:01 Ukraine, Hyperinflation, And Science Fiction
02:59 “A Machine Should Write This Code”
07:30 Joining Google, And Inventing The Transformer
16:07 Leaving Google, And Stumbling Into Crypto
20:35 The Protocols They Broke On A Whiteboard
23:29 Chain Abstraction, And Building NEAR.com
33:15 What AI x Blockchain Actually Means
39:42 The $3.8M Exploit, And The Apology
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Disclaimer: Nothing said on 1000x is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Avi, Jonah and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.
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