Raoul Pal: The Journey Man

Raoul welcomes back Emad Mostaque, Founder & CEO, Intelligent Internet, to explore how rapidly improving AI agents are crossing from impressive tools into genuinely useful, economically disruptive workers capable of transforming productivity, businesses, and entire industries. Raoul and Emad also discuss collapsing intelligence costs, robotics, labor displacement, energy and compute constraints, and what the acceleration of AI could mean for markets and the global economy. Today's episode is supported by Pyth Network, the fastest-growing name in market data, and probably the only one you can check out for free. They’ve developed a new model for financial data distribution and they’ve already partnered with Fidelity, Revolut, Kalshi, Jane Street, Coinbase, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Three thousand-plus instruments across equities, commodities, FX, rates and crypto, plus the largest set of 24/7 financial indices out there. When modern markets require modern data solutions, Pyth Network is quickly becoming the answer. Head over to pyth.network to take advantage of their free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Raoul Pal welcomes Armani Ferrante, founder of Backpack and Mad Lads, for a conversation on Solana, tokenized stocks, prediction markets, AI agents, and the future of global finance. Armani explains how Backpack is working to bring regulated financial markets onchain, why tokenized equities could open access to U.S. stocks around the world, and how crypto rails may become the global API for finance. Today's episode is supported by Pyth Network, the fastest-growing name in market data, packed with over three thousand instruments covering equities, commodities, FX, rates, and crypto, plus the largest set of 24/7 financial indices out there. Pyth has already partnered with Fidelity, Revolut, Kalshi, Jane Street, Coinbase, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, and has recently developed a new model for financial data distribution. When modern markets require modern data solutions, Pyth Network is quickly becoming the answer. And it’s probably the only name in market data you can check out for free. Head over to pyth.network to take advantage of their free trial. TOKEN2049 Singapore, the world's largest crypto event, returns to Marina Bay Sands on 7–8 October. 25,000 attendees, 500 exhibitors, 300 speakers and 1,000 side events take over the city during TOKEN2049 Week. On stage: Raoul Pal (Real Vision), Jeff Yan (Hyperliquid) and Shayne Coplan (Polymarket). The Real Vision community gets 10% off tickets, claim yours. URL: https://checkout.token2049.com/events/asia?promo=realvision10&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=realvision&utm_id=realvision 🔥 *Download Raoul Pal's 4-year investing roadmap for free:* https://rvtv.io/41fVHWF Timestamps: 00:00 - The Future of Crypto: Bringing the Global Economy On-Chain 02:49 - Armani Ferrante’s Journey Into Crypto and Solana 06:26 - Surviving FTX and Betting on Solana’s Comeback 10:10 - How Backpack Plans to Build the Future of Finance 11:51 - Why Crypto’s Next 100x Will Come From Mainstream Adoption 16:03 - Regulation, Tokenized Stocks, and Bringing Finance On-Chain 20:59 - Why Tokenized Stocks Could Change Global Markets 23:39 - Pre-IPO Tokens and the Future of Capital Formation 25:29 - Why Finance Is Becoming a Global API 28:33 - AI Agents Are Coming to Financial Markets 33:00 - The AI Agent Economy and Tokenized Data 35:00 - What Happens When AI Agents Get Bank Accounts? 40:22 - Backpack’s Plan to Bring the Entire Stock Market to Solana 44:28 - Solving Liquidity for 24/7 Tokenized Stocks 47:06 - Prediction Markets Are Bigger Than Gambling 49:51 - Markets as Intelligence: The Future of Price Discovery 51:47 - Why Crypto Keeps Reinventing Finance #raoulpal #crypto #armaniferrante #realvision #solana #backpack #madlads #tokenization #tokenizedstocks #stocks #stablecoins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Raoul Pal welcomes back Jordi Visser for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, Bitcoin, tokenization, bonds, productivity, and the future of markets. The guys explore why the panic around bond yields may be overdone, and how AI-driven productivity is already showing up in corporate profits. Then they break down how tokenization could disrupt asset management, why 24/7 markets may favor bots over humans,  and why the next phase of crypto may be about far more than just price. Today's episode is supported by Pyth Network, the fastest-growing name in market data, and probably the only one you can check out for free. They’ve developed a new model for financial data distribution and they’ve already partnered with Fidelity, Revolut, Kalshi, Jane Street, Coinbase, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Three thousand-plus instruments across equities, commodities, FX, rates and crypto, plus the largest set of 24/7 financial indices out there. When modern markets require modern data solutions, Pyth Network is quickly becoming the answer. Head over to pyth.network to take advantage of their free trial. TOKEN2049 Singapore, the world's largest crypto event, returns to Marina Bay Sands on 7–8 October. 25,000 attendees, 500 exhibitors, 300 speakers and 1,000 side events take over the city during TOKEN2049 Week. On stage: Raoul Pal (Real Vision), Jeff Yan (Hyperliquid) and Shayne Coplan (Polymarket). The Real Vision community gets 10% off tickets, claim yours. URL: https://checkout.token2049.com/events/asia?promo=realvision10&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=realvision&utm_id=realvision= 🔥 *Download Raoul Pal's 4-year investing roadmap for free:* https://rvtv.io/41fVHWF Timestamps: 00:00 - AI Is Creating Infinite Demand 02:51 - Why the Bond Market Panic Is Overblown 05:05 - Bessent, the Dollar, and the Yield Curve 08:14 - AI Productivity Is Transforming the Economy 13:35 - AI Agents and the Explosion in Compute Demand 15:20 - Why Tokenization Could Transform Global Markets 17:06 - How AI Will Disrupt Asset Management 22:17 - Why Everything Is Going On-Chain 27:20 - AI, Humanoid Robots, and the Compute Bottleneck 32:29 - The Energy Bottleneck and AI Supercycle 35:30 - Bitcoin, Tokenization, and the Future of Crypto 38:22 - What Tokenization Means for the U.S. Dollar 43:14 - How AI Is Collapsing the Cost of Building Businesses 53:17 - Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Tokenization Boom 56:48 - Raoul Pal’s Simple Crypto Portfolio Strategy 59:04 - Why Investors Make Investing Too Complicated 01:05:54 - Could Digital Assets Reach $100 Trillion? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices