BeaconLayer Podcast
@BeaconLayerPod • 109,850 subscribers
Accelerating Web3 builders, products, and networks. Podcasting the conviction, craft, and scale behind them.
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“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 Podcast72,495 views • 2 days ago
“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 Podcast63,002 views • 5 days ago
“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 Podcast75,705 views • 8 days ago
“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 Podcast73,346 views • 11 days ago
“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 Podcast108,801 views • 21 days ago
“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 Podcast42,080 views • 8 days ago
“What if AI gives us a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild the internet from the ground up?” Kenzi Morikawa / 3061.eth 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 Podcast67,317 views • 17 days ago
“Bitcoin was the first distributed systems paper I read with an economic layer built into it — and that changed everything.” Kenzi Morikawa / 3061.eth catches up with avery.apt 🇺🇸, Co-Founder & CTO of Aptos, to trace his journey from high-performance computing and supercomputers, to scaling data infrastructure at Meta, to discovering Bitcoin and realizing that crypto was distributed systems with incentives natively embedded — the insight that ultimately led him to co-found Aptos Labs.
BeaconLayer Podcast59,211 views • 21 days ago
“What inspires you to get up and build every day? For me, it’s pushing Web3 forward — making blockchain a true public utility for everyone.” Diksha Wells sits down with avery.apt 🇺🇸 (Co-Founder & CTO of Aptos) to talk about what drives him: building the next era of the internet where blockchain brings ownership back to users and enables permissionless, trustless transactions that connect people globally.
BeaconLayer Podcast43,886 views • 21 days ago
“What happens when AI stops being a tool and becomes the operating layer of the internet?” Diksha Wells 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 Podcast35,254 views • 17 days ago
“Proof of Collaboration = how strong the swarm is. Proof of Contribution = what each agent actually moved, with permanent on-chain audit trails.” Ron Bodkin (Founder, Theoriq) joins Sachi Miyasaki to break down trusted performance in Theoriq: actions are committed on-chain as non-repudiable evidence, and evaluators use transparent scoring rules over the full history—while the system stays open for specialized eval agents.
BeaconLayer Podcast43,850 views • 1 month ago
In 2017, I stepped into Google Cloud’s CTO Office because I could feel the shift coming. AI wasn’t a feature — it was the next operating layer of the world. Google was leading that wave. Kenzi Morikawa / 3061.eth in conversation with Ron Bodkin (Founder, Theoriq) about the Google years that sharpened Theoriq’s vision — and the early signals that made the AI trajectory impossible to unsee.
BeaconLayer Podcast32,336 views • 1 month ago
Kenzi Morikawa / 3061.eth sits down with nick, Co-Founder of Allora, to unpack the early conviction that pulled him into crypto — not as a trend, but as a new way to rethink power, coordination, and how systems are built. Before founding Allora, Nick led blockchain development at a major asset manager and insurance firm across North America, during a time when most enterprises were still focused on private chains and consortiums. Instead, he pushed toward public Ethereum — building real enterprise use cases around decentralized insurance and trying to capture what actually made blockchain powerful. From those early experiments to the AI x crypto frontier, this conversation traces how Nick’s view of decentralized systems kept expanding.
BeaconLayer Podcast30,490 views • 1 month ago
AI doesn’t need another isolated model. It needs a network where intelligence can compound. Kenzi Morikawa / 3061.eth 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 Podcast19,676 views • 1 month ago
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