Everyone Is Watching AI While Crypto’s Bull Market Builds | Weekly Roundup
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Everyone Is Watching AI While Crypto’s Bull Market Builds | Weekly Roundup

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202659 min
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  • Business & money

AI is absorbing investor attention while crypto fundamentals keep improving and fueling growing signs of the long-awaiting bull market. This week, we debate the economics behind AI’s boom and whether crypto’s recovery deserves more attention. We also explore data center financing, why Yano is buying Backpack, overlooked fintech growth, and whether AI agents will disrupt financial services. Enjoy! TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:58 Silicon Valley’s AI Drama 02:52 What Could Pop AI’s Bubble? 08:49 AI’s Boom Vs The Deb...

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Welcome to Token 2049. Token 2049 is back October 7 and 8, bringing together 25,000 attendees, 300 speakers, and 500 exhibitors for the world's largest crypto event. Token 2049 is happening alongside and in partnership with our own Digital Asset Summit Asia, so you can experience both conferences in Singapore during the same week. Across token, 2049 week, there'll be more than 1,000 side events,

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culminating with after 2049 and Formula One weekend. And the speaker lineup is stacked. Shane Copland of Polymarket, Jeff Yahn of Hyperliquid,

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Arthur Hayes, NASDAQ CEO, Adina Friedman, and many more. Join us in Singapore October 7th and 8th for token 2049 and digital asset summit Asia. Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell any investments or products.

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