Siwon Kim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Botanika, a hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage platform. Why you should listen In this conversation, Siwon Kim, co-founder and CEO of Botanica, discusses the importance of decentralized data storage and how Botanica aims to address the growing demand for data storage solutions. He explains the innovative AI-powered hardware nodes that differentiate Botanica from other providers, the tokenomics behind their native token Bonsai, and th...
Oct 29, 2024•29 min
Incubated by Nvidia Inception VC Alliance, Compute Labs leverages its self-developed Compute Tokenization Protocol to financialize AI, enable direct exposure to compute assets, and create compute derivates, empowering investors to effortlessly yield from compute, the currency of the future Why you should listen Compute Labs believes that compute will become the currency of the future, they are committed to democratizing access to this advanced AI infrastructure. Their mission is to establish the...
Oct 25, 2024•34 min
Fabian is the co-founder of Illuminodes, guiding the development of the SALUD Protocol, which aims to give individuals control over their health data. Fabian shares insights on the challenges of managing health data, the collaboration with local hospitals in El Salvador, and the integration of global standards in health data management. Why you should listen The SALUD Protocol is a groundbreaking initiative aimed at revolutionizing the way healthcare data is managed in El Salvador, using the NOS...
Oct 23, 2024•40 min
Sam Williams is the founder of Arweave. The Arweave network is like Bitcoin, but for data: A permanent and decentralized web inside an open ledger. The Arweave protocol is stable, mature and widely adopted. Why you should listen Permanent storage has many applications: from the preservation of humanity's most important data, to the hosting of truly decentralized and provably neutral web apps. In this conversation, Sam Williams, founder of Arweave, discusses the vision behind Arweave as a permane...
Oct 22, 2024•46 min
Michael Stroev is the CEO of Venga, a universal crypto app aimed at bridging decentralized finance and traditional banking. Why you should listen Venga is a versatile crypto app designed to simplify how users navigate the world of Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi). Launched with a mission to bring blockchain technologies closer to mainstream users, Venga offers an intuitive, user-friendly platform that helps people buy, sell, and swap cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and ...
Oct 21, 2024•30 min
Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is a Core Contributor at Sentient, a blockchain project enabling community-built open AGI He’s a researcher in information theory, applying its principles to solve real-world problems. Currently, he's a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Why you should listen Sentient is an AI research organization fostering a new Open AGI Economy for AI Builders and Creators. It is building platforms and protocols to enable open-source AI developers to (1) monetize their...
Oct 18, 2024•43 min
Leanid Palkhouski is the Head of Ecosystem at Network3, helping AI developers efficiently train and validate models using Network3’s AIoT Layer 2 technology. Why you should listen Network3 builds a dedicated AI Layer2, enabling AI developers worldwide to efficiently train, validate, and optimize models at scale through advanced techniques like AI model optimization, compression, federated learning, edge computing, and confidential computing. They recently secured $5M to build Edge AI infrastruct...
Oct 15, 2024•39 min
Roy Hui is the Co-Founder and CEO of LightLink, a Layer 2 blockchain company that lets dApps and enterprises offer users instant, gasless transactions. Roy also founded Pellar, a Web3 builder of blockchain solutions for government and enterprises. Why you should listen LightLink is an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain platform designed to offer fast, gasless transactions, primarily aimed at enterprises and decentralized applications (dApps). It was developed by Pellar Technology, a company that has be...
Oct 14, 2024•35 min
Tim Kravchunovsky is the founder and CEO of Chirp. Chirp is a DePIN network founded by a team of Telecommunications experts. Tim Kravchunovsky has over 20 years of experience as a network engineer, having held a position as a Consulting Engineer at the World Bank, Comacast and Chemonics International. Tim founded Chirp in January 2021 to connect the world through groundbreaking, accessible technology that has the potential to transform the way we live our daily lives. Why you should listen Chirp...
Oct 10, 2024•28 min
Curvance is a modular liquidity management protocol designed to optimize the use of yield-bearing assets and ERC-20 tokens. Curvance DeFi aims to be the “everything app” for lending and borrowing, designed to help address fragmentation across chains and protocols. Why you should listen Curvance is a chain-agnostic reward and utility layer for yield-bearing assets and other ERC-20 tokens. Initially to be launched on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Blast, Base, Optimism, and Polygon zkEVM, it aspires to estab...
Oct 06, 2024•44 min
Albert Castellana is the Co-Founder and CEO at Yeager AI, building GenLayer, a decentralized blockchain platform designed to integrate artificial intelligence directly into smart contracts. By combining blockchain and AI, GenLayer opens up a range of use cases, such as intelligent oracles, prediction markets, decentralized governance, parametric insurance, and more. Why you should listen GenLayer is a decentralized blockchain platform designed to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) direct...
Oct 03, 2024•33 min
Tyler Sloan is a Product Manager at ANKR, the leading Web3 infrastructure company. It has a set of different products for building, earning, gaming, and more — all on blockchain. Why you should listen Ankr is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to simplify access to Web3 services, making it easier for developers and enterprises to build, deploy, and manage blockchain applications. By leveraging a global network of nodes, Ankr aims to provide a cost-effective and efficient solution f...
Oct 01, 2024•34 min
Mathias Beke is Co-Founder and CTO at Kairon Labs, an advisor and crypto market maker for digital asset issuers. Why you should listen Kairon Labs is a player in digital asset trading and liquidity provision, offering a wide range of services designed to optimize liquidity management for crypto projects and exchanges. Established as a leading market maker in the cryptocurrency space, Kairon Labs specializes in ensuring that digital assets have sufficient liquidity across centralized exchanges (C...
Sep 28, 2024•39 min
Aaron Krowne is Partner & Practice Group Lead Blockchain & Corporate, at Industria Business Lawyers (IBL Partners) a technology-forward distributed law firm. Why you should listen Since its founding in 2018, IBL Partners has leveraged versatility and technology to deliver professional and sophisticated legal services for innovators in the twenty-first century technology sector. Advances in technology, including AI, Blockchain and DLT, fintech, "DeFi", and "Web3", continue to revolutioniz...
Sep 24, 2024•49 min
Mario F. Pazos is the marketing lead at the memorably named GOAT Network, the first BTC L2 to offer a sustainable yield. Why you should listen BTC serves as a store of value, offering fewer opportunities for yield generation compared to other cryptocurrencies, like Ethereum or stablecoins. This limited utility in DeFi applications has resulted in lower returns for BTC holders. BTC holders have serious concerns when their BTC moves to another chain. The security of Bridges and BTC Layer2 needs to...
Sep 23, 2024•36 min
Jesse Beller is the co-founder and CEO at Terrace, the all-in-one trading terminal and portfolio management system for everything and everyone. Why you should listen Terrace is a multi-wallet, non-custodial crypto trading terminal designed for both institutional traders and crypto enthusiasts. We offer best price routing, advanced order types, synthetic pairs, token screening, and portfolio management across 13 different blockchain networks. Users can choose between a DeFi-only (no KYC) platform...
Sep 20, 2024•38 min
Fran Stranar is the founder of Techemy Group and a core contributor to Stabull Labs, shepherding Stabull Fiance, the capital-efficient Web3 Money Market. Stabull’s mission is to democratizē the multi-trillion dollar FX and Commodities markets on-chain. Why you should listen Stabull Finance is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that specializes in facilitating low-slippage, capital-efficient swaps between fiat-backed stablecoins, particularly non-USD stablecoins. It operates as an automated money mar...
Sep 18, 2024•32 min
Grant Robertson is the founder of Three Protocol, creating a series of decentralised marketplaces to open digital commerce to the world, including the unbanked, debanked, and those who value privacy. Why you should listen Three Protocol aims to establish a network of autonomous marketplaces using blockchain technology. These marketplaces aim to facilitate Product, service and Real World Asset financial inclusion for individuals lacking traditional banking facilities. Three Protocol uses the late...
Sep 18, 2024•42 min
Mitchell Weijerman is the founder of Epic Mining. Epic Mining makes Bitcoin mining easy, accessible, and profitable for investors worldwide. Utilizing green energy and cutting-edge technology, Epic Mining provides a seamless, automated mining experience with real-time performance tracking and daily payouts. Why you should listen Epic Mining offers an automated, turnkey solution for Bitcoin mining, designed to make the process accessible to both beginners and experienced investors. The company ma...
Sep 15, 2024•42 min
Uri Ferruccio is co-founder of Concordia, the first Adaptive Risk Layer that mitigates market risk for all of DeFi, and Tabiya Capital, a VC fund for next-gen data technologies. Why you should listen Concordia aims to improve blockchain technology by infusing it with artificial intelligence, and the mission is to create an intelligent layer that acts as the “brain” for blockchain infrastructure. Concordia delivers a scalable modular Adaptive Risk Layer that mitigates market risk and paves the wa...
Sep 12, 2024•37 min
Greg Osuri is the co-founder and CEO of Akash Network, an open network that lets users buy and sell computing resources securely and efficiently. The network is purpose-built for public utility. Why you should listen Akash Network is a decentralized cloud computing platform that provides an open-source and decentralized marketplace for computing resources. It uses a blockchain-based system to facilitate secure and efficient buying and selling of computing power, which is offered by providers who...
Sep 10, 2024•41 min
Tory Green is the co-founder & CEO at IO.net, the Internet of GPUs for large-scale AI startups. Why you should listen io.Net is a decentralized GPU network designed to give unlimited computing power to ML applications by making computing more scalable, accessible, and efficient. Their mission is to unlock fair access to computing power by assembling 1 million + GPUs from independent data centers, crypto miners, and crypto projects such as Filecoin or Render. io.net offers a fundamentally dif...
Sep 09, 2024•39 min
Jon Hargreaves is the Global Head of growth at Elastos, a public blockchain project building modern Internet infrastructure that provides protection for privacy and digital asset ownership. Why you should listen ELA (Elastos) is a digital asset and part of a broader ecosystem aimed at creating a secure, decentralised internet. It benefits from merged mining with Bitcoin, meaning it leverages Bitcoin’s Proof of Work (PoW) security without additional energy consumption. Smarter Bitcoin, powered by...
Sep 05, 2024•34 min
Vincent Gramoli is the founder and CTO of the Redbelly Network, a public purpose-built Real-World Asset Tokenisation Network. Why you should listen Redbelly was born at the University of Sydney when Prof. Vincent Gramoli set out to see if he could build a fork-proof blockchain. Through a rigorous scientific development process and in partnership with CSIRO, the Redbelly Network was commercialised in 2021 with Mainnet launch scheduled for late 2024. Redbelly's Compliant Asset Tokenisation solutio...
Sep 04, 2024•24 min
Felipe Argento is co-founder at Cartesi and an advisor at the Cartesi Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Cartesi technology and the decentralization of the Cartesi ecosystem. Why you should listen Cartesi is a blockchain platform designed to bridge the gap between traditional software development and blockchain technology. It introduces a Linux runtime environment directly on the blockchain, which allows developers to utilize a vast array of mainstream software s...
Sep 03, 2024•31 min
Nikita Ovchinnik is the co-founder of Barter DeFi, a prominent swap system handling on-chain volume of over 5 billion. Why you should listen Barter is a decentralized protocol and solver system that provides transparent trade routes across liquidity providers like CoW Swap and UniswapX, minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency. Barter has over $5 billion processed on Ethereum. Nikita Ovchinnik, co-founder of Bater DeFi, discusses the importance of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the role of i...
Sep 01, 2024•33 min
Reagan Cook is an Accounting Subject Matter Expert at TaxBit, the leading enterprise provider for digital assets tax and accounting technology. Why you should listen TaxBit is a premium end-to-end compliance and reporting solution for the Digital Economy. Their single API-powered platform for tax and accounting reduces manual work improving operational efficiency and more. Reagan Cook, an accounting subject matter expert at Taxbit, discusses the company's tax and accounting solutions for the dig...
Aug 30, 2024•32 min
Chris Feng is a co-founder and COO of Chainbase, the world’s largest omnichain data network designed to integrate all blockchain data into a unified ecosystem. Chainbase is building a decentralized data economy with advanced AI capabilities where anyone can participate, contribute, and be incentivized. Why you should listen Chris Feng, co-founder and COO of Chainbase, discusses the importance of data in the blockchain era and the role of Chainbase as a data protocol. He explains that Chainbase a...
Aug 29, 2024•31 min
Ezra Strauss, the Head of Partnerships at Portal, has a background in technology and gaming, previously working at Immutable and focusing on partnerships and business development. He joins Andy to discuss Portal, Portal Coin and the new Portal Pay payment solution. Why you should listen Portal Pay, developed by Portal, is a new payment solution aimed at enhancing the blockchain gaming experience, empowering developers, and impacting the broader Web3 ecosystem. It is part of a broader product roa...
Aug 28, 2024•34 min
James Bayly is COO and a cofounder at SubQuery, building fast, flexible, and scalable web3 infrastructure. Subquery is an infrastructure company that started as a data index and has now expanded to include RPCs and AI inference hosting. Why you should listen Subquery is expanding its infrastructure services to include AI inference hosting, aiming to bring decentralization to the AI space. The Subquery network incentivizes node operators and delegators to participate in hosting AI models. In 10 y...
Aug 27, 2024•30 min
