BeaconLayer Podcast
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Accelerating Web3 builders, products, and networks. Podcasting the conviction, craft, and scale behind them.
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“What if the most important AI infrastructure isn’t the biggest model — but the one you can actually trust?” Sachi Miyasaki sits down with Karan Sirdesai Karan, Founder of Mira, to explore how Mira is approaching decentralized AI from a more focused angle: making machine intelligence reliable enough for real-world use. They discuss why Mira is not trying to become a full-stack AI protocol, how its approach differs from networks like Bittensor, Ritual, and Sahara, and why focusing on trust and verification could make Mira a stronger fit inside the wider AI infrastructure stack. The episode also breaks down Mira’s reliability architecture, from its core verification layer to node-level consensus, and why the next evolution of AI APIs may not be about simply accessing more models, but about knowing whether the answers you receive can actually be trusted.
BeaconLayer Podcast78,923 次观看 • 13 天前
“Gary Gensler was teaching a class while I was on campus. I skipped it—and I’ve regretted it ever since.” @kenzimori links up with Anna Kazlauskas, founder of vana, about those small early moments that quietly shape how you think—like brushing up against future regulators, and realizing way too late which conversations you should’ve been in the room for.
BeaconLayer Podcast97,452 次观看 • 17 天前
Before “crypto AI” became a category, David was already exploring the ideas behind it. @kenzimori catches up with David Minarsch ☴ on his early path into crypto x AI — from studying Bitcoin’s economics and computer science during his PhD, to witnessing the 2017 wave of crypto builders up close. The conversation traces how David’s work across game theory, machine learning, and agent systems eventually shaped his thinking around autonomous agents and open-source coordination infrastructure.
BeaconLayer Podcast78,971 次观看 • 21 天前
“What if AI gives us a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild the internet from the ground up?” @kenzimori sits down with Karan Sirdesai Karan, Founder of Mira, to unpack the founder journey behind Mira and the early conviction that AI would become far more than another tech cycle. They trace Karan’s path from teaching himself to build, sending cold DMs, experimenting with crypto arbitrage, and working alongside figures like Balaji Srinivasan and Sandeep Nailwal, to spotting the AI shift before it became obvious to the broader market. The conversation also explores why Karan has consistently chosen the unconventional route, how his time at Accel exposed him to frontier AI companies early, and why the pace of AI progress made one thing clear: this wouldn’t just change startups or software, it would reshape how humans work, think, create, and interact with the internet itself.
BeaconLayer Podcast47,158 次观看 • 13 天前
“What happens when AI stops being a tool and becomes the operating layer of the internet?” @dikshawells sits down with Karan Sirdesai Karan, Founder of Mira, to explore a future where AI is no longer just answering questions, but taking action, making decisions, and handling large parts of our cognitive workload. They discuss the upside of this shift: the rise of “infinite hires,” a world where most knowledge work can be automated or amplified, and a productivity wave that could completely reshape how companies, teams, and individuals operate. But the conversation also gets into the darker side of that future. As AI becomes more capable, the risks grow with it: blind dependence, high-stakes failures, malicious autonomous agents, and the possibility of humans sharing the world with a new kind of intelligence we are not fully prepared to control.
BeaconLayer Podcast36,176 次观看 • 13 天前
“Back then I was nerding out on central banking—then I showed up at MIT and ended up mining Ethereum from my dorm room.” @kenzimori catches up with Anna Kazlauskas (vana) about her early arc: how a straight-line interest in institutions and monetary policy flipped into crypto after she found the small, ideology-heavy MIT Bitcoin crowd—right as Ethereum was starting to take off.
BeaconLayer Podcast42,238 次观看 • 17 天前
The pace of decentralized AI is becoming a builder’s advantage — better tools, faster feedback loops, and entirely new capabilities emerging in real time. But that speed comes with a cost: it’s hard to ever be fully offline when the frontier moves this fast and yesterday’s assumptions can age out overnight. @dikshawells sits down with Anna Kazlauskas, founder of vana, to unpack the whiplash speed of decentralized AI.
BeaconLayer Podcast37,079 次观看 • 17 天前
What does it really mean to co-own AI? Sachi Miyasaki sits down with David Minarsch ☴, core contributor to OLAS, to unpack how users can move beyond simply using AI — and start participating in it. With OLAS, users can hold tokens, run agents, or even operate them as businesses. Across DeFi, prediction markets, and other onchain use cases, agents can generate value, while operators share in the upside.
BeaconLayer Podcast40,562 次观看 • 21 天前
“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 Podcast46,359 次观看 • 25 天前
Our host @kenzimori connects with David Minarsch ☴, Co-Founder of Valory, to explore what it really takes to build autonomous agents across crypto. After years at one lesson became clear: chains can create focus, but they also create friction. Instead of scaling agents, you often end up selling blockspace, ecosystems, and infrastructure narratives.
BeaconLayer Podcast33,379 次观看 • 21 天前
“I mined Bitcoin in 2011, but I completely missed why it was important.” @dikshawells 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 Podcast36,090 次观看 • 25 天前
“Honestly, I think we’re just a few months away.” @dikshawells sits down with David Minarsch ☴ to unpack how close AI agents really are to mainstream adoption — not just for builders, but for beginners and everyday DeFi users too. After years spent deep in technical papers on agent systems, and now building in the space full-time, David explains why the timeline is compressing so quickly. And why the biggest challenge may no longer be the tech itself, but getting people aligned around how to actually use it
BeaconLayer Podcast19,324 次观看 • 21 天前
AI doesn’t need another isolated model. It needs a network where intelligence can compound. @kenzimori in conversation with nick, Co-Founder of Allora, on breaking AI out of silos, turning fragmented models into collective intelligence, and building the coordination layer that could move AI beyond the control of a few monoliths.
BeaconLayer Podcast20,063 次观看 • 2 个月前
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