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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 Nanduri 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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“What if a Web3 identity starts less as a brand — and more as a challenge to yourself?” Kenzi Morikawa / 3061.eth catches up with dcbuilder.eth ⚪️ for a deep dive into the origin of the DC Builder name, pseudonymous identity, and why crypto culture made merit feel more important than background. They break down how the 2021 analyst wave, DeFi Twitter, and the ability to be judged by ideas alone shaped the way DC entered the space — first as a researcher and writer, then as someone who wanted to become a builder. The conversation also explores why “Builder” became a social forcing function, how pseudonyms create contrast and memorability, and why in Web3, what you think and what you build can matter more than who you are offline.
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“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.
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“Gary Gensler was teaching a class while I was on campus. I skipped it—and I’ve regretted it ever since.” Kenzi Morikawa / 3061.eth 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.
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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.
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“High-performance infrastructure only matters if it expands what users can actually do onchain — and makes that experience accessible at scale.” Sachi Takamura / 0699.eth 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.
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“Back then I was nerding out on central banking—then I showed up at MIT and ended up mining Ethereum from my dorm room.” Kenzi Morikawa / 3061.eth 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.
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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. Diksha Nanduri sits down with Anna Kazlauskas, founder of vana, to unpack the whiplash speed of decentralized AI.
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“Why does Web3 research feel more alive than any other industry?” Diksha Nanduri 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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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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@kenzimori 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.
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“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
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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.
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