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Can AI be a better portfolio manager than you? Why Ulys CEO Hugo Renaudin is betting on Yes
What if investing was as simple as saying what you believe in? Hugo Renaudin, CEO of Ulys, joins The Defiant right after the app's public launch to explain how it turns a plain-language idea, like "DeFi will be huge in 10 years" or "AI needs more data centers," into a basket of crypto, tokenized stocks and ETFs that you own in your own wallet. Ulys runs on crypto rails: a self-custodial, multi-chain wallet built on Privy, across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Base, Solana and Robinhood Chain, with no seed phrase and fiat on- and off-ramps. The AI proposes and you approve every trade. Hugo covers how Ulys handles hallucinations and scams, who's responsible when a trade goes wrong, why he thinks the next big financial app has to be onchain, and what's next: smarter AI, prediction markets, payments and expansion to 160 countries. 🔗 Learn more: https://ulys.ai
The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Ethereum (and How Optimum Fixed It) | MIT's Muriel Médard
In TradFi, speed is money. Onchain, it's becoming the same — but you can't just co-locate a decentralized network. So how do you make Ethereum faster without centralizing it? Muriel Médard, CEO and Co-Founder of Optimum and MIT professor, has spent 20 years proving that decentralized networks can be as fast — and actually faster — than centralized ones. Now that research is live on Ethereum through mump2p, used by node operators like Everstake and P2P.org. Camila and Muriel break down the "paperwork" validators do on the consensus layer, how better propagation translates into higher APY, Optimum's free-for-validators model and upcoming trader products (pre-confirmation visibility and faster trade landing), the expansion to other chains, and — yes — the token question. 🔗 Explore the network dashboard and research: https://getoptimum.xyz
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