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.
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“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.
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“What happens when AI infrastructure stops chasing everything — and focuses on making intelligence actually reliable?” Sachi Takahara / 0699.eth joins Karan Sirdesai (Karan), Founder of Mira, for a deep dive into how Mira is taking a sharper path in decentralized AI: high-trust, reliable intelligence as the core product. They break down why Mira isn’t trying to be another full-stack AI protocol, how it differs from networks like Bittensor, Ritual, and Sahara, and why its narrow focus could make it easier to plug into the broader AI infra ecosystem instead of competing with every layer. The conversation also dives into Mira’s reliability model — from core tech to node-level consensus — and why the future of AI APIs may depend less on raw model access, and more on whether users can actually trust the intelligence they receive.
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“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.
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“Why does Web3 research feel more alive than any other industry?” Diksha Arden joins dcbuilder.eth ⚪️ for a conversation on what makes crypto research so unique: the open debates, the public forums, and the fact that anyone can go from reading an EIP to DMing the people shaping Ethereum’s future. They break down why Web3 research isn’t locked behind institutions or closed rooms — it happens in real time, across threads, forums, chats, and communities where ideas can move fast and still go deep. The conversation dives into how this openness changes the role of a researcher: not just observing the space, but actively entering the flow of proposals, technical debates, and protocol-level thinking before they become mainstream.
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Allora has now raised $35M in total — but the latest $3M round wasn’t just about capital. Sachi Takahara / 0699.eth speaks with nick about why this round was built around strategic alignment: bringing in AI-forward partners, funds, and individuals who understand where decentralized collective intelligence is heading. The goal isn’t only to grow the team or move faster. It’s to surround AlloraLabs with people who can help shape the next phase of AI coordination.
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“What happens when AI becomes the backbone of the internet?” Diksha Arden sits down with Karan Sirdesai (Karan) , Founder of Mira, to unpack the future where AI doesn’t just give us information, it starts thinking, acting, and making decisions for us. They break down the upside of “infinite hires,” 90% of our cognitive work moving beyond humans, and a productivity shift that could make today’s jobs look outdated. But the same thing that makes AI powerful also makes it dangerous: overreliance, catastrophic mistakes, malicious agents, and a new alpha species humans have never had to coexist with before.
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“What happens when the limitations of today’s rollup architectures become impossible to ignore?” Sachi Takahara / 0699.eth catches up with rushi, Co-Founder of Movement, to break down why current optimistic and validity rollups still struggle with slow withdrawals, fragmented state guarantees, and security bottlenecks — and how a new state-focused architecture aims to solve them. They discuss how economic security and validator-based slashing mechanisms can create near-instant settlement guarantees between rollups, why shared sequencing changes interoperability across L2s, and how native-token staking models could replace traditional fraud-proof assumptions. The conversation also dives deep into the Move language and Move Prover, exploring why formal verification matters, how tiny arithmetic mistakes in Solidity continue to cause massive exploits, and why runtime verification could fundamentally change smart contract security. From integer overflows to real-world attack vectors, they explain how Move was designed to act like an “auditor at runtime” for blockchain applications at scale.
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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.
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“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.
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“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.
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Web3 and AI are both hitting an inflection point at the same time. AI is redefining intelligence, automation, and how people interact with technology. Crypto is building the economic rails for that intelligence to coordinate, transact, and operate in open networks. Diksha Arden in conversation with nick (Co-Founder, Allora) on why the overlap between AI and crypto may become one of the biggest design spaces of the next decade — and why we’ve barely scratched the surface.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“Honestly, I think we’re just a few months away.” Diksha Arden catches up with David Minarsch ☴ on how close AI agents really are to mass adoption — even for beginners and DeFi users. From being deep in technical papers on agent systems to building in the space full-time, he breaks down why the timeline is compressing fast — and why the real challenge isn’t the tech, but aligning people around it.
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“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.
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