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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?” @kenzixbt 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.

“What happens when someone inside one of the most iconic retail platforms of the last cycle sees its limits up close?” @kenzixbt 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.

176,383 views • 2 months ago

“We focused on four core areas: finance, gaming, social, and entertainment — but DeFi on Aptos has seen the strongest traction.” @sachitakahara 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.

“We focused on four core areas: finance, gaming, social, and entertainment — but DeFi on Aptos has seen the strongest traction.” @sachitakahara 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.

110,704 views • 2 months ago

“If researchers join because of incentives, you're already losing.” @sachitakahara 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.

“If researchers join because of incentives, you're already losing.” @sachitakahara 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.

65,424 views • 3 months 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 @sachitakahara 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.

“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 @sachitakahara 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.

71,858 views • 3 months ago

“High-performance infrastructure only matters if it expands what users can actually do onchain — and makes that experience accessible at scale.” @sachitakahara 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.

“High-performance infrastructure only matters if it expands what users can actually do onchain — and makes that experience accessible at scale.” @sachitakahara 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.

49,338 views • 2 months ago

“If researchers join because of incentives, you're already losing.” Sachi Takahara / 0699.eth 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.

“If researchers join because of incentives, you're already losing.” Sachi Takahara / 0699.eth 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.

BlockLayer Podcast

63,487 views • 4 months ago

“After moving from Berlin to Silicon Valley, I found myself bored at a new school — so I started spending time at my dad’s SAP Lab: fast internet, endless reading, and the beginning of my love for technology.” Our host @kenzixbt sits down with Michael Heinrich (Ø,G) (0G Labs (Home of Infinite AI)) to trace his origin story — from early curiosity and a growing obsession with tech to his path into Web3, and ultimately, the founding of his company.

“After moving from Berlin to Silicon Valley, I found myself bored at a new school — so I started spending time at my dad’s SAP Lab: fast internet, endless reading, and the beginning of my love for technology.” Our host @kenzixbt sits down with Michael Heinrich (Ø,G) (0G Labs (Home of Infinite AI)) to trace his origin story — from early curiosity and a growing obsession with tech to his path into Web3, and ultimately, the founding of his company.

50,070 views • 3 months ago

“Bitcoin was the first distributed systems paper I read with an economic layer built into it — and that changed everything.” @kenzixbt 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.

“Bitcoin was the first distributed systems paper I read with an economic layer built into it — and that changed everything.” @kenzixbt 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.

39,138 views • 2 months ago

“Virtual machines are like cities — once they reach critical mass, they become magnets that are incredibly hard to displace.” @dikshaarden 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.

“Virtual machines are like cities — once they reach critical mass, they become magnets that are incredibly hard to displace.” @dikshaarden 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.

36,950 views • 2 months ago

“Oxford, computer vision, VR, gaming, crypto, AI — one founder arc across every major tech wave.” @kenzixbt catches up with Ethan | MyShell, Founder & CEO of MyShell.AI, to unpack how skipping classes at Oxford led him from frontier research into consumer products and eventually AI x crypto: why researchers often miss mass adoption, why consumer instinct matters more than ever, and how the next generation of crypto AI products can break out beyond the niche.

“Oxford, computer vision, VR, gaming, crypto, AI — one founder arc across every major tech wave.” @kenzixbt catches up with Ethan | MyShell, Founder & CEO of MyShell.AI, to unpack how skipping classes at Oxford led him from frontier research into consumer products and eventually AI x crypto: why researchers often miss mass adoption, why consumer instinct matters more than ever, and how the next generation of crypto AI products can break out beyond the niche.

38,808 views • 3 months 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.” @sachitakahara 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.

“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.” @sachitakahara 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.

37,126 views • 3 months ago

“Responsibility means steering crypto + AI toward outcomes that benefit everyone — and giving the community real power to set the course.” Our host @dikshaarden in conversation with Ron Bodkin (Founder, Theoriq) on why responsibility in crypto + AI starts with governance from day one — so the future isn’t dictated by monopolies or closed-door incentives.

“Responsibility means steering crypto + AI toward outcomes that benefit everyone — and giving the community real power to set the course.” Our host @dikshaarden in conversation with Ron Bodkin (Founder, Theoriq) on why responsibility in crypto + AI starts with governance from day one — so the future isn’t dictated by monopolies or closed-door incentives.

36,826 views • 3 months 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.” @dikshaarden 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.

“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.” @dikshaarden 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.

29,355 views • 2 months ago

“Back in 2016–17, crypto felt like a true idea factory — hundreds of experiments, zero gatekeeping, and pure creative energy.” Our host @dikshaarden 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.

“Back in 2016–17, crypto felt like a true idea factory — hundreds of experiments, zero gatekeeping, and pure creative energy.” Our host @dikshaarden 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.

28,479 views • 3 months ago

@sachitakahara sits down with David Minarsch ☴, core contributor to OLAS, to break down what it really means to co-own AI. Instead of just using AI, OLAS lets users participate — through tokens, running agents, or even operating them as businesses. From DeFi to prediction markets, agents generate yield, and operators share in the upside. It’s a shift from passive users to active participants in an AI economy. But ownership is only half the story — alignment matters. Through staking contracts, OLAS defines clear KPIs for agents, similar to roles in a workplace. Agents act autonomously, but incentives keep them aligned with the system’s goals. And at the infrastructure level, reliability is handled through decentralized agent architecture — combining multiple models and consensus mechanisms to reduce errors and improve decision-making. The result: AI that isn’t just decentralized — but coordinated, incentivized, and owned by the community.

@sachitakahara sits down with David Minarsch ☴, core contributor to OLAS, to break down what it really means to co-own AI. Instead of just using AI, OLAS lets users participate — through tokens, running agents, or even operating them as businesses. From DeFi to prediction markets, agents generate yield, and operators share in the upside. It’s a shift from passive users to active participants in an AI economy. But ownership is only half the story — alignment matters. Through staking contracts, OLAS defines clear KPIs for agents, similar to roles in a workplace. Agents act autonomously, but incentives keep them aligned with the system’s goals. And at the infrastructure level, reliability is handled through decentralized agent architecture — combining multiple models and consensus mechanisms to reduce errors and improve decision-making. The result: AI that isn’t just decentralized — but coordinated, incentivized, and owned by the community.

38,608 views • 5 months ago

“I mined Bitcoin in 2011, but I completely missed why it was important.” @dikshaarden 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.

“I mined Bitcoin in 2011, but I completely missed why it was important.” @dikshaarden 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.

25,269 views • 3 months ago

“I mined Bitcoin in 2011, but I completely missed why it was important.” Diksha Arden 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.

“I mined Bitcoin in 2011, but I completely missed why it was important.” Diksha Arden 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.

BlockLayer Podcast

29,346 views • 4 months ago

“Back then I was nerding out on central banking—then I showed up at MIT and ended up mining Ethereum from my dorm room.” @kenzixbt 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.

“Back then I was nerding out on central banking—then I showed up at MIT and ended up mining Ethereum from my dorm room.” @kenzixbt 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.

22,417 views • 7 months ago

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