BlockLayer Podcast
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Accelerating Web3, documenting the builders. Podcast with top guests on conviction, craft, and scaling. 📧 [email protected]
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“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 Kenzi / 2569.eth 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.
BlockLayer Podcast124,140 views • 4 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 sachi.eth 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.
BlockLayer Podcast129,319 views • 5 months ago
“Bitcoin was the first distributed systems paper I read with an economic layer built into it — and that changed everything.” Kenzi / 2569.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.
BlockLayer Podcast90,718 views • 4 months 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 / 2569.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.
BlockLayer Podcast64,087 views • 5 months ago
“Bitcoin was the first distributed systems paper I read with an economic layer built into it — and that changed everything.” Kenzi / 2569.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.
BlockLayer Podcast47,056 views • 4 months ago
“Bitcoin was the first distributed systems paper I read with an economic layer built into it — and that changed everything.” Kenzi / 2569.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.
BlockLayer Podcast50,476 views • 5 months ago
“What does it take to build when nobody expects you to win?” Diksha Arden speaks with rushi, Co-Founder of Movement, to trace the story behind Movement Labs — from broke Vanderbilt dorm-room founders with $100 to their name, to building one of the most talked-about teams in crypto. They discuss the underdog mentality that shaped Movement from day one, why competing against polished researchers and established teams created a permanent chip on their shoulder, and how that scrappy internal drive still defines the company today. From go-to-market and ecosystem growth to the fight for attention, liquidity, projects, and blockspace, this episode explores what it means to wake up every day trying to be number one in one of the most competitive markets in Web3.
BlockLayer Podcast29,358 views • 3 months ago
“Back in 2016–17, crypto felt like a true idea factory — hundreds of experiments, zero gatekeeping, and pure creative energy.” Our host Diksha Arden sits down with Michael Heinrich (Ø,G), Founder of 0G Labs (Home of Infinite AI), to explore one of the most exciting parts of building in Web3: a culture shaped by experimentation first. They also dive into how tokenization creates new ways to fund and sustain projects — including open-source work — beyond the limits of the traditional Web2 business model.
BlockLayer Podcast36,991 views • 4 months ago
“Virtual machines are like cities — once they’re established, they become magnets.” Diksha Arden sits down with Jay ($/acc), Founder of Sei, to unpack Jay’s macro thesis: why legacy hubs — whether cities like New York and San Francisco or dominant virtual machines — tend to remain on top, even when their weaknesses are impossible to ignore. Drawing from his own experience living in both cities, Jay explains the intuition behind the analogy: congestion, safety concerns, homelessness, and other structural issues rarely drive people away on their own. The real force is gravity — activity, talent, networks, and opportunity compound where they already exist.
BlockLayer Podcast34,489 views • 4 months ago
“Responsibility means steering crypto + AI toward outcomes that benefit everyone — and giving the community real power to set the course.” Our host Diksha Arden 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.
BlockLayer Podcast37,264 views • 5 months ago
“Parallel execution isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s what makes on-chain apps usable for normal people.” Sachi Takahara / 0699.eth is joined by Jay ($/acc), Founder of Sei, to break down which Ethereum-native apps stand to benefit most from a parallelized stack — and why higher throughput is ultimately about usability, not benchmarks. Jay points to trading and DeFi as the clearest winners. If an 18-year-old wants to buy $20 worth of a meme coin but has to pay $15 in fees, the experience breaks immediately. In low-TPS environments, users are not just slowed down — they are priced out entirely.
BlockLayer Podcast28,906 views • 4 months ago
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