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1KX Media 121 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

1000x is a crypto markets podcast hosted by professional traders Avi Felman and Jonah Van Bourg. They 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.

Episodes

Arthur Hayes On The Early Days Of BitMEX, Where Bitcoin Is Going, And Why We Are Over-Indexing On AI
Arthur Hayes On The Early Days Of BitMEX, Where Bitcoin Is Going, And Why We Are Over-Indexing On AI Oct 14, 2026 00:48:47 Avi sits down with Arthur Hayes at Token2049 in Singapore — the co-founder of BitMEX, the man who invented the perpetual swap, and now the founder of FLOP Network.Arthur traces the whole arc: growing up in Buffalo with parents who worked for General Motors, reading a book in high school that convinced him to learn Chinese and move to Asia, and starting his first day on a trading desk the morning L
MARKET UPDATE: Alts Ripping, Economy Crushing, Scammers Scamming — What’s Next?
MARKET UPDATE: Alts Ripping, Economy Crushing, Scammers Scamming — What’s Next? Sep 30, 2026 01:03:31 Avi opens with the story of the last week — the RuneScape Gold allegations, what actually happened onchain, and a promise to the people who scammed his audience. Then he and Jonah get into why memecoin culture is a tax on your attention, and what separates a scam from a trade.From there it's markets. Jonah makes the case that Iran is a cornered animal with nothing left to escalate with, that t
Crypto Is Rebuilding The Financial System — And Opportunities Abound
Crypto Is Rebuilding The Financial System — And Opportunities Abound Sep 28, 2026 00:58:47 Avi Felman sits down with Bryan Pellegrino, co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs, to talk about what happens when the largest institutions in finance start building on crypto rails.Bryan traces LayerZero's path from an MEV shop and a shockingly bad bridge to a protocol that has moved over $300 billion lifetime across roughly 170 chains, with $150 billion in assets built on top and $10–15 billi
Inside The Government Seizure Of Signature Bank
Inside The Government Seizure Of Signature Bank Sep 25, 2026 00:27:40 This week, Avi sits down with Scott Shay, co-founder and former chairman of Signature Bank and now founder of N3XT. Scott started at Salomon Brothers in the Liar's Poker era, taught the training class Michael Lewis was in, and went on to build Bank United of Texas from a distressed shell into a $20 billion bank alongside Lew Ranieri. He then founded Signature Bank, growing it to $110 billion i
MARKET UPDATE: Meta, Bitcoin, Crude And The Economy Are All Ripping. How Long Can It Last?
MARKET UPDATE: Meta, Bitcoin, Crude And The Economy Are All Ripping. How Long Can It Last? Sep 23, 2026 01:01:26 This week, with Meta, Bitcoin, crude and the broader economy all ripping, we ask how long it can last? We discuss why diamond prices are collapsing. Jonah explains the anatomy of a bad commodity and why you should always trade demand squeezes rather than supply squeezes, why copper just hit all-time highs, and why higher rates are counterintuitively bullish for Bitcoin and gold. We get into Meta&#
MARKET UPDATE: Crypto Is Used To Buy Oil?! FED Meeting, And Economy Ripping
MARKET UPDATE: Crypto Is Used To Buy Oil?! FED Meeting, And Economy Ripping Sep 16, 2026 01:04:45 This week, we break down the Financial Times exposé on how Poland lost $230 million trying to buy Venezuelan oil with crypto, and why Avi thinks it's actually the most bullish crypto story in a long time. Jonah explains how oil scams really work from seven years at Vitol, why the minimum ticket size makes street-corner deals impossible, and the $100 million wired for Indonesian coal mines that
MARKET UPDATE: Live With GMoney, Inflation Is In, Is This The Crypto Top?
MARKET UPDATE: Live With GMoney, Inflation Is In, Is This The Crypto Top? Sep 11, 2026 00:40:55 This week, Avi is joined live by GMoney, a trader who ran a desk for over a decade before becoming one of the most recognized collectors and investors in crypto, and who now hosts Full Port. We discuss whether NFTs are ever coming back and why Pokemon cards are just physical NFTs, why the last month has been the most exciting stretch on-chain since DeFi summer, the rise of MemeFi and tokenized sto
MARKET UPDATE: Hunter Biden Scams Us, $INTC Rips, Commodities Onchain, Anthropic's Skynet Risk
MARKET UPDATE: Hunter Biden Scams Us, $INTC Rips, Commodities Onchain, Anthropic's Skynet Risk Sep 10, 2026 00:54:54 This week, Intel rips 20% and Avi's $88 call pays off. We discuss Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP coin and why every political meme coin is explicitly telling you it exists to extract from you, why a bad first experience in crypto poisons the well for everyone, and where the actual trade is if you want to punt it anyway. Jonah then makes the case for putting commodities onchain — jet fuel perps, re
MARKET UPDATE: Hot Payrolls, Hotter Memecoins, And Se From FOMO Talks The Future Of Trading
MARKET UPDATE: Hot Payrolls, Hotter Memecoins, And Se From FOMO Talks The Future Of Trading Sep 4, 2026 01:06:06 This week, in a Friday solo stream, Avi breaks down a hot jobs report that has traders nervous about a September hike, and why crypto is ripping anyway. He's then joined by Se, co-founder of FOMO, for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of trading. We discuss why the entire market is really just attention, how onchain data gave FOMO an edge trading Robinhood, why you couldn't have bu
MARKET UPDATE: What Is MemeFi, WAR With Iran, & The Fed Not Backing Down — What You Need To Know
MARKET UPDATE: What Is MemeFi, WAR With Iran, & The Fed Not Backing Down — What You Need To Know Sep 2, 2026 01:23:43 This week, we break down the MemeFi mania taking over Robinhood chain, where meme coins are tying themselves to tokenized stocks and pumping microcaps on the NASDAQ. We discuss what's actually happening with tokens and why hope is the most powerful drug in trading, where the value in all of this actually accrues, and Avi's rules if you're going to gamble anyway. We also get into how Wa
Why The $30B Asset Manager Franklin Templeton Is Betting Big On Crypto
Why The $30B Asset Manager Franklin Templeton Is Betting Big On Crypto Sep 1, 2026 00:30:44 Recorded live at the Out East Conference, Avi sits down with Seth Ginns, CIO of Franklin Crypto and formerly of CoinFund and Jennison Associates. Seth spent eighteen years in public equities before becoming a seed investor in Coinbase in 2012 and building one of the largest liquid crypto funds in the market. We discuss how the Global Financial Crisis is what pushed him into crypto, why he waited y
MARKET UPDATE: Bitcoin Rally, Zcash ETF, Bessent Humbled, NVDA Earnings
MARKET UPDATE: Bitcoin Rally, Zcash ETF, Bessent Humbled, NVDA Earnings Aug 26, 2026 00:56:41 This week, with Bitcoin ripping 25% off the lows and NVIDIA earnings on deck, we break down why the market has flipped from fundamentals back to macro. We discuss the lockout rally and the two conditions that turned Avi bullish on Bitcoin and gold, why all roads lead to debasement, whether the Druckenmiller op-ed against Scott Bessent was actually an op, the history of the Bank of England trade an

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