The $650M Bet on Crypto's AI Future with Haseeb Qureshi
The Rollup25 Feb

The $650M Bet on Crypto's AI Future with Haseeb Qureshi

Haseeb from Dragonfly explains why Visa and Mastercard aren't cooked yet, why most crypto x AI plays will fail, and where the real opportunity sits.


We cover:

- Stablecoins to $2.7 Trillion?

- Why AI Agents Won't Use Credit Cards

- The "Two Track" Future of Agent Payments

- Are Wallets & Front-Ends Cooked?

- Micropayments & The SaaS Apocalypse

- China Caught Distilling US AI Models

- Why Decentralized AI's Real Moment Is Still Ahead

- Where Dragonfly's $650M Fund Is Betting


Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:37 Stablecoin Growth to Multi-Trillion

02:24 The Viral Credit Card Crisis Article

03:42 Why Visa & Mastercard Aren't Cooked Yet

09:25 Agent Payments & KYC Guardrails

10:32 Just Give It $20 & See What Happens

12:51 Hibachi, Relay Ads

13:09 Wallets Get Disintermediated

15:10 Micropayments & The SaaS Apocalypse

18:15 Dragonfly's $650M Fund Allocation

18:50 infiniFi Ad

19:21 Flash-in-the-Pan AI Products

22:16 Where Crypto x AI Actually Converges

24:41 China Distilling US AI Models

26:58 The Case for Decentralized AI

29:06 Closing Thoughts


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