BeaconLayer Podcast
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Accelerating Web3 builders, products, and networks. Podcasting the conviction, craft, and scale behind them.
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“We focused on four core areas: finance, gaming, social, and entertainment — but DeFi on Aptos has seen the strongest traction.” Sachi Miyasaki sits down with avery.apt 🇺🇸 to unpack Aptos’ real-world use cases and why DeFi has emerged as the breakout category: the safety of Move, the composability that allows products to plug into larger protocols, and an ecosystem that is now beginning to hit meaningful momentum.
BeaconLayer Podcast48,048 görüntüleme • 7 gün önce
“What happens when someone inside one of the most iconic retail platforms of the last cycle sees its limits up close?” Kenzi Morikawa / 3061.eth speaks with Jay, Co-Founder of Sei, to trace the path that took him from the early days of Robinhood in Palo Alto — through hypergrowth, the IPO era, and the shock of the GameStop moment — to building in crypto. They discuss how witnessing the mechanics and constraints of traditional financial infrastructure firsthand reshaped his thinking, why the suspension of buys during one of retail’s most defining episodes left such a lasting impression, and how that experience ultimately pushed him toward systems designed to be more open, more resilient, and less dependent on centralized control.
BeaconLayer Podcast74,045 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
“High-performance infrastructure only matters if it expands what users can actually do onchain — and makes that experience accessible at scale.” Sachi Miyasaki sits down with Jay, Co-Founder of Sei, to examine why parallelized execution is becoming increasingly important for the next generation of onchain applications. From trading and DeFi to high-frequency user activity that simply breaks in low-throughput environments, they discuss how lower fees and greater execution capacity can fundamentally reshape the user experience — especially for smaller participants who are otherwise priced out. They also explore how this plays out in practice through projects like Bancor’s Carbon DeFi, where Sei has emerged as the ecosystem driving the strongest activity and volume, underscoring how performance advantages translate into real adoption.
BeaconLayer Podcast62,023 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
“If researchers join because of incentives, you're already losing.” Sachi Miyasaki talks with Ethan | MyShell, Founder & CEO of MyShell.AI, about the AI talent crisis in crypto, why many researchers view the industry as speculative, and how open-source releases, real product-market fit, and world-class audio models helped build a community focused on technology rather than tokens.
BeaconLayer Podcast63,791 görüntüleme • 14 gün önce
“DA layers really differ across three dimensions: performance, programmability, and AI-native design — because on-chain AI can’t operate in a world measured in mere megabytes per second.” Sachi Miyasaki catches up with Michael Heinrich (Ø,G), Founder of 0G Labs (Home of Infinite AI), to break down how 0G compares with Celestia, Avail, and EigenDA: why throughput needs to increase by orders of magnitude, how to move beyond the broadcast bottleneck, and why a decentralized storage network is essential for ultra-fast data ingestion and retrieval.
BeaconLayer Podcast76,212 görüntüleme • 17 gün önce
“Virtual machines are like cities — once they reach critical mass, they become magnets that are incredibly hard to displace.” Diksha Wells catches up with Jay, Co-Founder of Sei, to unpack this idea at a deeper level — why systems with flaws can still dominate simply because that’s where the activity, liquidity, and people already are. From New York and San Francisco to onchain environments like the EVM, they explore how network effects compound over time, why newer ecosystems struggle to pull users away even with better tech, and what it actually takes to break that inertia.
BeaconLayer Podcast45,219 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce
“What if the real unlock for AI x crypto is not speculation — but proving intelligence can be trusted?” Sachi Miyasaki sits down with dcbuilder.eth ⚪️ for a deep dive into the intersection of AI and crypto, from DC’s work building the ZKML community to why zero-knowledge machine learning could become a core trust layer for AI on the internet. They break down how ZKML makes it possible to prove that a machine learning model produced a specific output from specific inputs — without forcing everyone to rerun the full computation themselves. The conversation also explores why this matters for model accountability, transparency, and verifiable AI at scale, plus the projects pushing the space forward, from Modulus Labs and Giza to EZKL and new research around proof of inference.
BeaconLayer Podcast73,696 görüntüleme • 20 gün önce
“I mined Bitcoin in 2011, but I completely missed why it was important.” Diksha Wells sits down with Ethan | MyShell, Founder & CEO of MyShell.AI, to unpack why AI and crypto may finally be converging: Ethereum's shift from static ledgers to programmable applications, the infrastructure breakthroughs behind account abstraction and social login, and why years of progress in AI, machine learning, and robotics are now colliding with a crypto ecosystem that may finally be ready for real-world products.
BeaconLayer Podcast43,617 görüntüleme • 14 gün önce
“Back in 2016–17, crypto felt like a true idea factory — hundreds of experiments, zero gatekeeping, and pure creative energy.” Our host Diksha Wells sits down with Michael Heinrich (Ø,G), Founder of 0G Labs (Home of Infinite AI), to explore one of the most exciting parts of building in Web3: a culture shaped by experimentation first. They also dive into how tokenization creates new ways to fund and sustain projects — including open-source work — beyond the limits of the traditional Web2 business model.
BeaconLayer Podcast42,394 görüntüleme • 17 gün önce
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