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Private practices — ever feel like you can't win against the DSOs? Kiera talks about what your practice can continue to produce that DSOs, with their multiple locations and bigger budgets, can't replicate. Episode resources: Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Schedule a Practice Assessment Leave us a review Transcript: Kiera Dent- Dental A Team (00:00) Hello, Dental A Team listeners. This is Kiera, and I am excited. Today's gonna be a fun rift of a podcast for you. It's gonna be like, can independent practices like private practice still beat DSOs if you want to? This isn't a rag on DSOs, it's not a rag on private practices. It's just can private practice, independent practices still win against the DSO? Because I think a lot of people are losing faith and confidence and feeling like if I'm not a part of a DSO, I can't win. So I wanna just tickle our brains today.   Think about it in a different way and let's have a fun rift because you remember this is the best place. Dental A Team is the place where we are obsessed about helping you have your best life. We call it the Yes Success Model, where we focus on you and your vision, earnings and profitability, and then systems scale and structure for you. So that way you've got the systems, the structure, and the scalability for long term. I'm obsessed with helping teams and doctors align. I'm obsessed with dentistry. My last name's Dent for crying out loud. I love this. So let's do a good rift. Let's talk about.   Can we really still win? It feels like DSOs, they got so much money over there and like they don't have to worry about margins. But I don't think that that's necessarily true. And I do believe last year, now I believe I know, DSOs had their first down year last year. So like I said, there is no I don't have a dog in the fight. My dog in the fight is which I don't even know where that phrase comes from. So if someone wants to pen pal me and tell me about this, I mean I could sure I could look it up. But like if you know, send me an email, Hello@TheDentalATeam.com. I'm Kiera. It's fun. It's fun to have a good pen pal over there.   But I I think my dog in the fight is what's gonna be the best for dentistry long term. That is my dog in the fight. I wanna make sure that we as a population, money talks. I don't blame you. Getting a good multiple for your practice, like, why not? You're in you're in the golden era of dental practices. Or so they make it put on paper. Make sure it really is the golden era for you if you choose to go that route. and a lot of people have been very happy. A lot of people have also had the shorts burned off them. Tell me why that's a thing too. Like,   How does someone get their shorts burned off them? I also want to know that phrase. I'm here for the phrases today, too, on the rift. And also, I'd love to know your opinion on this. So I'm gonna rift on my side and then shoot me an email. I'd love to hear. Hello@TheDentalATeam.com so okay, the rift today. DSOs are all like, okay, let me just go back, backing it up. Ultimately, I hope that we preserve the sanctity of great dentistry for patients forever.   That's my hope. I don't care if it's DSOs, I don't care if it's private practice, I don't care what it is. But I do not dental practices are businesses. I also work in dentistry as a clinician. And I'm not okay with us squeezing margins and compromising care to hit margins. To me, that's just unfair. It's unfair for patients. I look at a lot of things in our healthcare system and I don't love it. And so I think that dentistry has been kind of the wild, wild west, and we've stayed out of a lot of it. And so I just hope that while we make   Decisions financially and personally, I hope that we think about our long-term consequence. And that comes for a lot of new ones. I think that there's more senior doctors who have been in dentistry for a long time. Like they're not as worried about the multiples. I think a lot of our newer doctors who have a lot of debt on this, there's an easy cash payout. I would just say and a caution and an ask is let's just remember that we've had pioneers ahead of us who have paved the way.   Let's continue to be those pioneers that are able to preserve and sanctify dentistry, whether that's through DSOs or private practices. So that's Kiera's dog in the fight. And I hope that you agree. And maybe you have a different opinion. So like let's have a good conversation. This is what we talk about in our monthly masterminds. So come chat, hang out. I'd love to have you there. okay. So can we win? Here are some thoughts of how private practices can still win against DSOs. So like DSOs, they do have more locations. They got bigger budgets, they've got bigger teams.   But I do feel like there's still things in private practice that DSOs can't replicate. So I think the biggest threat is if you feel like you can't compete and you give up because there are ways and you can still win. you don't have to outspend a DSO. You don't need to out execute them. I do think that there's still competitive advantages. And so really leaning into whatever is going to be best for you. And again, remember, my my long term opinion is let's just make sure that we protect and sanctify dentistry for the health of our patients. And yes, I want you to be a profitable business owner.   I think you can have both. I don't think it has to be one or the other. DSO or non-DSO. Now, private equity. I do have my opinions about private equity and I don't believe that they're always there for ethical reasons. and so I just say like make sure that the decisions you're making with your practice and your patient is going to help long term, the greater good. So those are my two cents on it. So anyway, just we work with a lot of practices. So I think that there's still ways that you can still compete against large corps, corporations. So number one.   I think is independent practices, private practices, they have a connection that I think a lot of DSOs lack. DSOs tend to have a burn and churn model. So patients actually knowing their doctor, trusting their team, feeling remembered, feeling valued, and making sure that it's not a constant churn. Now I will have a call out. There are a lot of private practices that I know that are also on a burn and churn. They're churning associates left and right. They're turning team members. I get that it's hard right now, but I will say that if that's your practice, you are not competing against those corporate organizations that have.   run of the mill doctors. So I think that private practices can have a consistent provider relationship. I absolutely hate going to the dentist. I actually have transferred away. Like I can get multiple doctors across the road, guys. I don't know if you know what I do for a living, but I work with a lot of dentists. So if I want sporadic care, aka I go into one practice, but I see different providers all the time. And I know we have the whole phrase of they're provide their patients at the practice, which is not wrong.   But I'd say the more consistent you can have of team of providers that's going to help you win. I'm not saying to keep team members just because of longevity. I am here to say though, consistent provider relationships I do think will outshine. Just like I hate getting a new hair person, I hate getting a new nail person. People don't like to change that. So I think that that's going to be a zone for you. So personalized experience and long-term patient loyalty. Those are going to be   key places that I think private practices can win. Now, DSL is listening, guess what? This is your edge as well. Like this is how you can have an edge. And ultimately we're all here for it. But these things need to stay and maintain. so I do believe that patients who see the same doctor, the same team for years are much less likely to leave based on price or convenience. Like they're going to stick with you. Why why? They don't want to change that up. I don't want to go show someone else my mouth and have that awkward moment where I just   Don't like I don't have this, so just know that it's a space where like you gotta you gotta be connected, you've gotta help them feel seen and known. And I do believe that that's that is a zone. Daos are gonna scale systems, but like being able to scale genuine relationships, I do think is a harder thing. So in private practices, watch yourself. Look to see do you have those genuine connections? Are we scaling genuine relationships? Is that something that we're doing in those personalized pieces? You can stand out and still scale and still be profitable. So   I just think maybe like if you're looking at this, looking at your team, wanting to have a reflection, what's a way that we can connect and create more personalized patient experiences? How can we keep like, if we want to keep a patient for life, what's gonna make them want to choose us consistently? If there's a competitor of price, if there's a competitor of convenience, how do we make sure those patients stay loyal to us? another thing I think that private practice can win on is believe it or not, in private practice, you can typically move faster.   So I know a lot of people when they interview coming to Dental A Team coming from large organizations, like, I love that there's not as much red tape, Kiera. I love that you can move quicker, that we can make decisions faster, we're more nimble. And I think that that is a a huge selling point for private practices to be able to out outpace. You can have faster decision making, you can have faster implementation, you have less red tape, you've got greater flexibility. That can also create chaos. We gotta make sure that we don't we don't flex too much. But   If patients are wanting something, we can usually make those calls. We can have a more personalized experience. We can have like great water bottles. We can have different things that make patients have it. So, like you can change scheduling systems, you can change patient experience protocols, you can have like different pieces that your patients can recognize and see. Where in large organizations, a lot of times it does take like months to implement these items. So I do think agility does create opportunity. And so for you to just look at this and think like, all right, what ways can we be more flexible, more adaptable?   Like you don't have to have permission to improve things. So if you don't have to have permission to improve, what are we waiting to improve? What things could be improved upon? How can we make a better patient experience? How can we make a better team experience? there's a doctor that I was talking to the other day, and he said, Kiera, I have like a lifestyle practice and I want to attract team members for that lifestyle practice. And I just thought, like, how crazy cool is that? Because I think like that is the agility, that's the flexibility of a private practice that also makes it a great working place.   For team members. Like it's not just about patients, it's also about team and attracting those. So that's another zone where I think private practice can still outpace a DSO for sure. and then I do think that systems can win more than size in a lot of ways. So a lot of times we think bigger is better. And I know a lot of times I'm intimidated as a smaller business, if you will, smaller, medium sized business compared to large organizations. You're like, they just have all of it, but it's not true. So   I've seen in a lot of our practices very profitable independent practices, really strong leadership, great patient experiences, clear accountability. And you actually can have scheduling protocols and case acceptance systems and leadership systems and financial systems. Smaller scale practices can actually have great, incredible systems in place. So I do believe that a well-run single location or maybe two or three locations oftentimes will outperform on profitability than larger organizations because of.   execution is a lot stronger. So it's having those systems that are clear, having those and I know a lot of people are like, but what systems? And our team kind of boiled it down. There's about like 10 to 15 core systems that every practice that they'll implement and execute on, they're going to thrive. And it's scheduling case acceptance, leadership, like our billing protocols, things like that, morning huddles, very basic, non-sexy, but having those systems is going to be much grander than size.   And the larger you get, yes, they try to implement these, but I do still feel like those systems can create those predictable experiences. They can have a more customized experience. And then if we don't like it, we can pivot that system, we can refine that system, we can make it better. So I just think it's like, how do you have the best run practice? Not necessarily the biggest practice. And so I would look at your practice and what are the systems? What are the gaps? Where do we slip? Where do patients maybe fill that? Where does our team fill that? Let's fix that. Let's organize that. Let's let's have that. That way we're able to.   To be able to outpace. And so there's lots of ways. I think having those genuine connections, making sure that we've got systems that grow with us, having strong leadership teams, having a great, like, I don't know, community feel. There's just something different. Think about it. I have a fee-for-service chiropractor versus corporate chiropractor. I've gone to both. And one is like run of the mill. I come in, I'm out, checked in, checked out, it's cheaper. But they don't know me. They don't have an experience. They don't spend time with me. I do think time that doesn't mean like,   10 minutes, it means genuine connection time. Those things you still can win. And believe it or not, a lot of our practices are sitting at 20, 30, 40% profit margins. You can still be very profitable and not need to be in a DSO. They have a ton, they can scale a lot, but I also think there's an autonomy piece, there's a creativity piece, there's a branding piece of you being able to brand your location as you, to be able to give an experience that is very custom to you, to your audience. So I do believe that there's still a way that private practice can.   win against DSLs. I think there's space for both. I don't think one's right or wrong. But again, like I said, my dog in the fight is whatever we choose to do, whatever pieces we're doing, let's just remember to keep the sanctity of dentistry pure. Let's make sure that we're doing what's in the best interest of our patients. Let's make sure we're not cutting corners on dentistry. We're not trying to fit people in to hit production goals just to hit production goals. We're not compromising the the products that we use to be able to to hit the right profit margins. I believe that   being the best for our patients will always, always follow profitability. So with that, right now, let's remember, like relationships, you get it. You guys also have speed and flexibility and agility. And you also do have systems that you can put into place that will like beat size. They have other things. They've got billing, they've got it, but think about it, you're gonna sell to them anyway. You might as well get those things in place and you might as well try on your own. So   You think they're gonna take over all your problems? You can do this on your own and you don't have to sell your practice. I had a dentist who was wanting to sell his practice. He's like, Kiera, I'm gonna sell to a DSO. And I said, Great, like I'm here for it. Let's rally. And then he's like, I said, let's just think through. Like when they buy you, what are they going to do? He's like, they're gonna expand the practice and they're gonna put systems into place. And I said, Well, do you wanna do that? And he was like, Yeah, like I'm gonna sell to them and they're gonna make all the money on the things that I could just do. And I was like, I'm really proud of you because you're exactly right.   So if they're gonna do that anyway, why not do it yourself and reap the rewards? We're here to help you. I helped that practice. We went took them from eight eight ops to 15 ops. They're doing amazing. They're on track to be a five million dollar practice this year. All those things the DSO would have done. We were able to put the systems in place, build the leadership team, expand the practice. They're crushing it. They're doing incredible over there. So again, flexibility, agility, great patient care. And where they go, because people are like, well, a DSO is the only person who's gonna buy me. That's not true. Stop limiting yourself.   There's lots of people. There's lots of options. Do you know how many people come out of school wanting to buy? They come out and they do want to buy. So don't limit yourself, you guys. People are like, they can't afford homes. That's not true. There's a lot of people willing to there might now need to be two partners instead of just one partner. It's okay. It's gonna look a little different, but that doesn't mean that that's the only option. So I really do think that private practice dentistry can absolutely thrive. I do believe that the practice is winning today, DSO or private practice.   Aren't the ones with multiple the most locations? They're the ones with the strongest leadership, strongest systems, best connection, best patient care. Those are the ones that are winning. So look at it. Do we have the best leadership? Do we have the best systems? Do we have the best patient connection? Do we have the best experience? And if so, fantastic. Make sure that all your patients know it. Make sure that people are talking about it. You guys can do this. I love helping private practices. Whatever your dream is, whatever your goals, if it's DSO or not, I don't care. I just want you to have your best life. And like, hey, before you sell, maybe let's chat.   Let's talk about it. Let's see if there's a way that we could actually take that load and that stress and that annoyance off and you reap the rewards before you go and sell. there's so many ways that we can do this. So reach out. Hello@TheDentalATeam.com. And as always, thanks for listening. I'll catch you next time on the Dental A Team podcast.  

Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS's treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice's VVV token. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cape⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at cape.co/unchained (use code: UNCHAINED). ======================================================== Nick Johnson, the founder of ENS Labs, used his own tokens to kill a vote renewing ENS DAO's Security Council, potentially clearing the way for a foundation to take over a treasury worth more than $100 million. Nick Almond, head of governance at the Jito Foundation, and Proph3t, cofounder of MetaDAO, join Laura Shin to untangle what that move reveals about who should control a DAO's money, and whether voting was ever the right way to decide it. They trace ENS cofounder Jeff Lau's warning that the treasury became a honeypot with zero accountability, and the collapsing voter turnout that let a 3% token stake decide the DAO's fate. Proph3t makes the case for MetaDAO's decision markets over voting entirely, while Nick argues curated delegates solve the same capture problem without giving up the vote. They also cover the $20 million BonkDAO heist, pulled off with one proposal and seven votes, and the backlash over Dragonfly's investment in Venice's VVV token. Both guests agree DAOs are near a bottom. What comes next depends on whether anyone tries something new. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura Shin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Host / Unchained Guests: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nick Almond - Head of Governance at the Jito Foundation ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Proph3t - Co-founder of MetaDAO Timestamps

The feedback is officially in and the crowd has spoken: Pav is no longer allowed to do solo episodes. Fortunately, Calum is back in the co-pilot seat today, calling in from a high-tech fitness and wellness center in Bali to help Pav navigate a wild week of on-chain and off-chain market moves. This week, the boys break down how geopolitical oil shocks are hitting household budgets and bringing Bitcoin back down under the $63K mark. On the positive side, Bitcoin ETFs just saw their first green week of inflows after two straight months of net selling. Pav and Calum unpack the psychological shift behind Michael Saylor's Strategy as a major change in behavior that might signal where we actually are in this market cycle. Calum also shares an absolutely wild on-chain story who quietly walked away with $20 million from the Bonk DAO treasury.They also look at why the upcoming August recess deadline is putting massive pressure on the US Clarity Act. You'll hear:  00:00 Is Pav still allowed to do solo episodes? 03:36 Breaking down the first green week of ETF flows in two months 05:34 Why revenue-generating models are changing what investors expect from new infrastructure tokens and DAOs. 14:34 What it means for the market when crypto's biggest programmatic buyer decides to hold cash.  18:21 The Clarity Act Recess countdown and what happens if it fails to pass before the August recess.  22:56 The $20 Million Bonk DAO Heist … and much more! Want to see what we're looking at every episode? Watch the YouTube version of the podcast here. Ready to start? Get $10 of FREE Bitcoin on Swyftx when you sign up and verify:  https://trade.swyftx.com.au/register/?promoRef=tappingintocrypto10btc  To get the latest updates, hit subscribe and follow us over on the gram @tappingintocrypto or X @tappingintocrypto If you can't wait to learn more, check out these blogs from our friends over at Swyftx. This podcast provides general market commentary and is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is NOT financial advice. We are NOT licensed financial advisors. Investing in cryptocurrency carries risk. You should always conduct your own research and seek independent financial advice before making any investment decisions. Please read Swyftx's Terms and Conditions and Risk Disclosure statement before investing.

Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS's treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice's VVV token. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cape⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at cape.co/unchained (use code: UNCHAINED). ======================================================== Nick Johnson, the founder of ENS Labs, used his own tokens to kill a vote renewing ENS DAO's Security Council, potentially clearing the way for a foundation to take over a treasury worth more than $100 million. Nick Almond, head of governance at the Jito Foundation, and Proph3t, cofounder of MetaDAO, join Laura Shin to untangle what that move reveals about who should control a DAO's money, and whether voting was ever the right way to decide it. They trace ENS cofounder Jeff Lau's warning that the treasury became a honeypot with zero accountability, and the collapsing voter turnout that let a 3% token stake decide the DAO's fate. Proph3t makes the case for MetaDAO's decision markets over voting entirely, while Nick argues curated delegates solve the same capture problem without giving up the vote. They also cover the $20 million BonkDAO heist, pulled off with one proposal and seven votes, and the backlash over Dragonfly's investment in Venice's VVV token. Both guests agree DAOs are near a bottom. What comes next depends on whether anyone tries something new. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura Shin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Host / Unchained Guests: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nick Almond - Head of Governance at the Jito Foundation ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Proph3t - Co-founder of MetaDAO Timestamps

In this episode of Just DAO It!, host Adam Miller (CEO of MIDAO) sits down with Alex Soto (@alexsotodigital), a Mexico-based governance facilitator and author of "The Minimum Viable Institution: A Lightweight Coordination Model for DAOs and Purpose-Driven Networks."In the news report, they break down:The ENS DAO "2026 governance crisis" — treasury fights, resignations, and whether founder voting power amounts to a vetoThe Ethereum Foundation's major reorg, layoffs, and shift toward EthLabs and a multi-org ecosystemRegulatory updates: the U.S. CLARITY Act and its "ethics clause," Europe's MiCA deadline, USDT vs. USDC compliance, and evolving SEC decentralization rulesIn the interview, Alex shares his vision for the future of DAOs:Why good governance shouldn't require a benevolent founder — it should be designed to constrain powerThe critical difference between governance/meta-governance and day-to-day operationsSeparating capital from governance power ("raise money without giving power away")Role-based models, sociocracy, and holacracy as battle-tested alternatives to token votingWhy he doesn't believe in progressive decentralization — start small and decentralized, then growThe role of AI agents and smart contracts in maintaining coordination, accountability, and institutional memoryA wide-ranging conversation on coordination without subordination, capture resistance, and why "DAOs aren't dead — they haven't even arrived yet."Alex helps mission-driven organizations turn coordination challenges, disagreement, and distributed work into governance systems, shared practices, clearer decisions, and institutional learning loops.Find Alex: @alexsotodigital on all platforms | alexsotodigital.eth.limoFind MIDAO: @midaods | midao.orgDisclaimer: Not legal or tax advice.

Austin Griffith joins Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan to unpack  BonkDAO's $20M governance heist, and Kain's case for giving founders more control. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! ⁠⁠Cape⁠: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at ⁠https://cape.co/unchained⁠ (use code: UNCHAINED). ======================================================== A single wallet spent $4.4 million buying up Bonk tokens, then used that stake to push through a governance proposal that legally emptied BonkDAO's roughly $20 million treasury a week later, with almost no one watching the vote. Austin Griffith, Ethereum Foundation developer and creator of Scaffold-ETH and founder of BuidlGuidl, joins Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan to use the heist as a jumping-off point for Kain's real target: ENS. Kain argues founder Nick Johnson should retake control over building and product from the DAO, and makes the case that founder-led execution beats decentralized governance almost every time. They also cover Vitalik's Lean Ethereum overhaul and why Austin says it will barely change what he builds, the $1 AI audit he launched as a meme for x402 agent payments, Robinhood's new chain and the pay-to-play deals behind it, and why Kain now argues tokens are the wrong way to raise money. If a founder with total conviction can outperform a DAO built to stop exactly that, the DAO experiment may be further from finished than anyone wants to admit. Hosts: ⁠⁠Kain Warwick⁠⁠ - Host of Uneasy Money and Founder of Infinex and Synthetix ⁠⁠Taylor Monahan⁠⁠ - Co-host of Uneasy Money and Security Expert Guests: ⁠Austin Griffith - Ethereum Foundation developer and creator of Scaffold-ETH and SpeedRun Ethereum, and founder of BuidlGuidl Timestamps

Onchain analytics splits into two buckets: Research & Reporting (Dune dashboards, DeFi volume, DAO treasuries) and Risk & Compliance, which layers on attribution (naming wallet clusters) and risk scoring (sanctions, AML exposure) using tools like Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and Elliptic.This episode focuses on the Risk & Compliance side with Leopoldt Jansen Van Vuuren, Head of Onchain Analytics at Provenance, a compliance firm serving 400+ clients across 18 jurisdictions in VASPs, crypto funds, tokenised offerings, and DAOs.✅ OUR RESOURCES

Austin Griffith joins Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan to unpack  BonkDAO's $20M governance heist, and Kain's case for giving founders more control. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! ⁠⁠Cape⁠: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at ⁠https://cape.co/unchained⁠ (use code: UNCHAINED). ======================================================== A single wallet spent $4.4 million buying up Bonk tokens, then used that stake to push through a governance proposal that legally emptied BonkDAO's roughly $20 million treasury a week later, with almost no one watching the vote. Austin Griffith, Ethereum Foundation developer and creator of Scaffold-ETH and founder of BuidlGuidl, joins Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan to use the heist as a jumping-off point for Kain's real target: ENS. Kain argues founder Nick Johnson should retake control over building and product from the DAO, and makes the case that founder-led execution beats decentralized governance almost every time. They also cover Vitalik's Lean Ethereum overhaul and why Austin says it will barely change what he builds, the $1 AI audit he launched as a meme for x402 agent payments, Robinhood's new chain and the pay-to-play deals behind it, and why Kain now argues tokens are the wrong way to raise money. If a founder with total conviction can outperform a DAO built to stop exactly that, the DAO experiment may be further from finished than anyone wants to admit. Hosts: ⁠⁠Kain Warwick⁠⁠ - Host of Uneasy Money and Founder of Infinex and Synthetix ⁠⁠Taylor Monahan⁠⁠ - Co-host of Uneasy Money and Security Expert Guests: ⁠Austin Griffith - Ethereum Foundation developer and creator of Scaffold-ETH and SpeedRun Ethereum, and founder of BuidlGuidl Timestamps

The crew is joined by Selini Capital's Jordi Alexander to break down Open USD, the no-fee stablecoin from a 140-firm consortium spanning Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, all aimed at the Circle and Tether duopoly. Plus Saylor's new Digital Credit framework for MicroStrategy, the Ansem-fueled memecoin comeback, and ENS reigniting the “DAOs are fake” debate. Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. Joining the panel “at the moment of max pain” is Jordi Alexander, CIO of Selini Capital. First up: MicroStrategy in crisis, with MSTR down about 30% in five days and STRC hitting $71, and Saylor's answer, a new Digital Credit framework with an 18-month cash cushion and a jumbo dividend hike to 12%. Then the headline story, Open USD: a no-fee stablecoin from a 140-member consortium including Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, built to break the Circle and Tether duopoly. The back half covers the memecoin comeback around the Ansem coin, and ENS reigniting the “DAOs are fake” debate after Nick Johnson single-handedly blocked a governance vote, before the crew debates whether consortia are just DAOs in a suit. Let's get into it. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights

The crew is joined by Selini Capital's Jordi Alexander to break down Open USD, the no-fee stablecoin from a 140-firm consortium spanning Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, all aimed at the Circle and Tether duopoly. Plus Saylor's new Digital Credit framework for MicroStrategy, the Ansem-fueled memecoin comeback, and ENS reigniting the “DAOs are fake” debate. Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. Joining the panel “at the moment of max pain” is Jordi Alexander, CIO of Selini Capital. First up: MicroStrategy in crisis, with MSTR down about 30% in five days and STRC hitting $71, and Saylor's answer, a new Digital Credit framework with an 18-month cash cushion and a jumbo dividend hike to 12%. Then the headline story, Open USD: a no-fee stablecoin from a 140-member consortium including Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, built to break the Circle and Tether duopoly. The back half covers the memecoin comeback around the Ansem coin, and ENS reigniting the “DAOs are fake” debate after Nick Johnson single-handedly blocked a governance vote, before the crew debates whether consortia are just DAOs in a suit. Let's get into it. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights

Just DAO It | Ep. 2 — Kenny from poidh.xyz on Bounties, DAOs & AI AgentsAdam Miller (CEO of MIDAO) sits down with Kenny, founder of Pics or It Didn't Happen (poidh) — a permissionless bounty protocol the enables "ephemeral DAOs.” They break down the biggest crypto hacks of the past few months, the state of crypto regulation in the US and Europe, the reality of AI agents transacting on-chain, and why Kenny thinks the DAO model has been wrong from the start.Chapters:0:00 — Intro & Welcome Back (first episode in over a year!)1:55 — News: Record-Breaking Crypto Hack Month ($600M+ lost in April)5:42 — The Kelp/LayerZero Attack Explained13:21 — The Trapdoor Campaign: AI Agents as Attack Vectors17:21 — US Crypto Regulation: Genius Act, Clarity Act & Open Source Immunity22:13 — MiCA in Europe: 85% of Firms Without a License28:04 — 400K AI Agents On-Chain: Impressive or Just Testing?37:16 — Interview: Kenny's Background & How He Got Into Crypto44:07 — Deep Dive: What Is POIDH and How Does It Work?48:05 — A Brief History of DAOs and Why They Failed56:00 — The "Atomic Unit" of a DAO: Objectives, Not Organizations1:03:24 — Progressive Decentralization & Token Strategy1:07:04 — Working With DAOs: The Haberdashery & Breaking a Kickflip World Record1:13:35 — Pump.fun Launches Bounties: What It Means for POIDH1:16:19 — The Big Vision: Online Communities Pooling Capital IRL1:16:47 — Where to Find Kenny & POIDHLinks:* poidh: poidh.xyz* MIDAO: midao.org* Beta Briefing (AI news agent): betabriefing.ai* Kenny on X/Twitter: @KennyIsTyping | Farcaster: @Kenny* Adam on X/Twitter: @0xThriller | Farcaster: @TheThrillerNot legal or financial advice.

Today we're excited to kick off a brand new series: Building for Good with G$, where we will explore the people, projects, and communities powering the GoodDollar Ecosystem. We're thankful to our friends at GoodDollar for partnering on this series, and in the coming episodes, we're going to take you deep inside one of the most interesting ecosystems in the Web3 for good space, exploring everything from universal basic income to public goods funding, and the builders and communities creating real value on the ground.So let me start with a quick introduction for anyone who's new to GoodDollar. It is a protocol delivering digital universal basic income to people all over the world. Since launching, it's distributed its G$ token to about 1M people across the globe, many of them in underserved and emerging markets, simply for being part of the network. The vision has always been about using crypto to redistribute opportunity and give people access to the financial system.GoodDollar is also in the middle of an evolution. What started purely as a UBI project is growing into something bigger: a full ecosystem where G$ doesn't just get distributed, it circulates. It flows through builders, communities, and public goods, creating value and opportunity along the way. It's a shift from simply giving people a token, to building an entire economy around it.At the heart of that shift is a program called GoodBuilders, which funds the builders expanding the GoodDollar ecosystem. What's particularly interesting is how GoodBuilders is funded. Rather than the traditional grant model, where you apply, wait, and hope for a one-time check, GoodBuilders uses streaming funding through a platform called FlowState, where money flows to builders continuously over time.For Episode 1 in this new series, I'm super excited to be joined by Meri Fernández Sancho and Rael Kilonzo of  GoodDollar, and Graven Prest of FlowState to introduce the partnership, walk through the outcomes of GoodBuilders Season 3, highlight some of the most exciting projects in the ecosystem, and explore why this streaming funding model can be a blueprint that other ecosystems and communities adopt for themselves.In today's discussion you'll discover

Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and prominent AI investor, joins the Consensus mainstage for a wide-ranging conversation on where crypto, AI, and identity are headed. Hoffman argues that as agents outnumber people on the internet, crypto becomes the only viable solution for trust, provenance, and identity at scale. From his 2014 Bitcoin purchase to his recent CryptoPunk buy, Hoffman explains why the age of AI has brought him back to crypto with fresh conviction. - Timecodes: 00:00 - Reid Hoffman at Consensus Miami 2026 01:11 - What Reid Is Focused on Today 04:13 - Deepfakes, Provenance, and Crypto as Identity Infrastructure 09:00 - Stablecoins, the GENIUS Act, and Keeping Crypto Bipartisan 10:51 - The Cognitive Industrial Revolution and Working with AI 13:28 - AI in the Workforce: Superpowers, Not Layoffs 15:32 - Where Reid Is Investing: NFTs, DAOs, and Agent Identity

In this episode of Ecosystem Project Demo 33 on the ECH Institute channel, we dive deep into the evolving landscape of Web3 security with Indranil Roy from CredShields. As AI continues to transform the tech industry, it also introduces new vulnerabilities and sophisticated "AI attacks" targeting smart contracts.Indranil shares expert insights on the proactive measures developers and organizations can take to secure their blockchain applications. We explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, discussing how to leverage advanced tooling and rigorous auditing to safeguard assets in an increasingly complex digital environment.

Can Aavegotchi DAO takeover the project, the State of Pixels, and the rise of open source in the agentic era. [00:35] Aavegotchi dev Pixelcraft is one of the OG web3 gaming studios.[05:16] It's looking to hand over control of Aavegotchi to the DAO.[06:28] DAOs haven't been successful for reasons like coordination and authority.[07:25] It's a nice vision, but the reality is Pixelcraft ran out of money. [08:01] By 1st September, the DAO has to have decided what's happening going forward. [09:16] Why “gamey games” are harder to hand over to communities or DAOs.[09:55] State of Pixels. It's sustainable but not growing.11:30 Pixels is now considering adding open-source elements. [12:05] AI significantly changes what community developers can build in blockchain games.[13:50] The emerging pattern is surviving web3 games are moving to APIs, MCPs and agent access.[15:15] Why blockchain and AI fit together culturally and technically.[19:05] Define “game games” versus “non-game games”.[20:49] Why blockchain games should focus less on moment-to-moment fun and more on meta. [23:30] EVE Frontier, MapleStory and Soccerverse as examples of meta-focused web3 games. [25:25] These games have emergent experiences. They don't require constant content updates. [28:30] Don't put things onchain to create value. Put existing value onchain so it can be realized.[32:40] Community-built Soccerverse fantasy football as a sign of where this goes next.[35:05] The first 10 years of blockchain gaming were about discovering what didn't work.[35:40] AI plus blockchain will enable things the traditional games industry won't build.[37:06] Why agents will become native players for blockchain games. [38:20] The future split: Mario-like gameplay games versus agent-filled systemic web3 worlds.

Illia Polosukhin, founder of NEAR and co-author of 'Attention Is All You Need,' on why confidentiality will let crypto become daily commerce — plus, some Near lore. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! ⁠⁠Multichain Advisors⁠⁠: Get help navigating TGEs, go‑to‑market, BD and partnerships, capital markets advisory, PR, media placements, KOL activations and more at ⁠⁠multichainadv.com⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Coinbase One⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Get 20% off the first year of your Coinbase One annual plan at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠coinbase.com/unchained⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ======================================================== Before co-founding NEAR Protocol, Illia Polosukhin was on the eight-person Google Brain team that wrote the transformer paper — the architecture behind every large language model running today. He never mentioned it. When Kain Warwick found out two weeks ago, via a crypto AI chatbot, his reaction was: you have to be kidding me. That backstory sets the tone for a conversation that moves from how transformers actually came together, to why confidentiality is what unlocks on-chain commerce for real businesses, and what NEAR is doing to keep criminals off its network without becoming a surveillance layer. The hosts also get into the Ethereum Foundation's identity crisis, why Illia thinks decentralization is a tool and not a goal, and what the economy looks like when AI handles execution and blockchain handles coordination. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kain Warwick⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Founder of Infinex and Synthetix ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Taylor Monahan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Security Expert ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Luca Netz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, CEO of Pudgy Penguins Guest: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Illia Polosukhin — Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol - https://x.com/ilblackdragon Timestamps

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.comIn this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores a provocative question at the intersection of artificial intelligence, law, business, and society: can an AI agent legally own a company? Through real-world incidents involving AI in the boardroom, chatbot liability, DAOs, and emerging agentic AI systems, Bidemi examines where today's law draws the line between automation, control, and accountability. If an AI agent can negotiate, decide, spend, and manage, who is responsible when something goes wrong? Could future companies be legally owned by machines, or will humans always remain the accountable parties behind the code? And how can society embrace powerful AI tools while preserving healthy, transparent, and responsible uses of technology?

In this episode, I sit down with Vitali, co-founder of EasyStaff.io, a freelance payroll and marketplace platform processing over 20 million euro per month across its ecosystem. Vitali shares his journey from mining Bitcoin in Russia back in 2012 to building a multi-product fintech platform with a real, functioning DAO at its heart. We dig into why most DAOs fail to get participation, how EasyStaff Connect DAO distributes 90% of tokens to users based purely on business activity, and how the community is already voting on real product decisions. Vitali also opens up about the challenges of launching without venture capital, his plans to go fully open source, and why he sees blockchain-based legal token recognition as the natural next step for the platform. DisclaimerNothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/Connect:EasyStaff Website: https://easystaff.ioEasyStaff Connect DAO: https://connect.easystaff.ioLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/easystaffKEY POINTS WITH TIMESTAMPS• [00:00] Introduction to Vitali and EasyStaff.io and the focus on DAOs• [01:00] Vitali's crypto origin story — mining Bitcoin in 2012 with an ASIC device, selling at $300 per coin• [03:40] Clarifying that EasyStaff Connect DAO tokens are currently centralised — blockchain integration is a future stage pending legal jurisdiction decisions• [04:49] Overview of the two core products: EasyStaff Payroll (B2B) and EasyStaff Invoice (B2C), and how the DAO marketplace bridges the gap• [07:03] How EasyStaff handles remote payments across multiple currencies, entities, and compliance requirements including sanctions• [09:14] The core DAO problem: low participation and how EasyStaff tackles it with a 20% quorum, public backlogs, and personalised outreach• [11:35] Tokens are earned through business activity only — no token sale, no secondary market, purely rewarding real transactions• [12:44] Token holders receive monthly fiat dividends from platform profits, with the platform retaining only 3% of transaction fees• [13:40] Community governance in practice — token holders collectively hold 90% voting power versus the founders' 10%• [19:10] Real example of community governance: users voted to add PayPal to fast payment options• [20:40] EasyStaff ecosystem now processes around 20 million euro per month, with one entity alone clearing 140 million euro in 2025• [22:32] EasyStaff Connect focuses on design and graphics freelancers historically but is expanding broadly, including AI professionals• [23:42] Upcoming addition of a recruiter network to expand the platform through intermediaries• [25:05] Marketing strategies: AI-powered cold outreach on LinkedIn, rebranding, YouTube integrations, Forbes articles, and this podcast• [28:43] If starting again — the biggest challenge was lack of capital, which forced a bootstrapped, revenue-first approach• [30:36] Roadmap: completing hard-voting mechanics, moving to open source, separating DAO from the operating company, then going on-chain via a legally recognised jurisdiction such as Liechtenstein, UAE, or Singapore• [34:37] AI adoption internally — using Claude for development and exploring Gemini for internal compliance and treasury processes, with a freeze on new linear hires

No fence sitting. No hedging. No "it depends."Jimbo is joined by Tagerd & Bruce for one of the most opinionated episodes the WenDirk Cast has ever recorded. Every topic gets a strong take — and nothing is off limits.We cover:Should MFL prioritise entertainment over realism?Expanding goalkeeper attributes, referee personalities & player psychologyMass retirements — crisis or opportunity?DAOs & conglomerates — asset or threat to fair competition?Farm clubs & tanking — should there be a best effort rule?Cup stacking via the mid-season transfer windowDiamond club sales — should they require human approval?Flipping & market mechanics — healthy or harmful?If MFL booms again — what's next for the platform?Plus the usual weekly updates — Moment of the Week, Dev Updates, Diamond Roundup and Marketplace Overview.

Circle proposes a USDC rate hike on Aave. The EF announces the Road To Devcon 8 Academic Program. Fluid extends aWETH redemptions to L2. And Shutter outlines a new sustainable funding model for DAOs. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/931 Sponsor: EarnUSD is a stablecoin vault by Lido for earning transparent, onchain USD-denominated rewards. Get started today at stake.lido.fi/earn Disclaimer: Content is for informational purposes only, not endorsement or investment advice. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed.

Key Takeaways: Rethink Traditional Retirement Plans: Plans like 401(k)s and pensions were built for a different time. They may not always provide the financial freedom people expect today. Build Real, Valuable Skills: Skills that create value and income are more important than just having credentials. What you can do matters more than what you're labeled as. Focus on Strong Assets and Control: Saving in assets that hold value over time can be more effective than holding only cash.It's also important to understand your own financial accounts even if you are not managing the investments yourself. New Forms of Community Investing: Decentralized groups, like DAOs, are modern ways for people to pool money and invest together, similar to how communities worked in the past. Take Back Financial Control: People have the ability to take charge of their finances. Building systems that support long-term stability can help not just individuals, but future generations as well. Chapters: Timestamp Summary 0:00 Rethinking Wealth: Ancient Strategies Versus Modern Systems 8:46 Building Generational Independence Through Real Skills Over Credentials 11:33 Building Wealth Through Hard Assets and Independent Investments 15:43 Building Community Wealth Through Trust and Reciprocity 18:15 Shifting Global Power Dynamics and America's Softness 22:21 Building Wealth Through New Financial Structures and Old Principles 26:38 Resilience and Legacy in the Face of Adversity Powered by Stone Hill Wealth Management   Social Media Handles    Follow Phillip Washington, Jr. on Instagram (@askphillip)   Subscribe to Wealth Building Made Simple newsletter https://www.wealthbuildingmadesimple.us/   Ready to turn your investing dreams into reality? Our "Wealth Building Made Simple" premium newsletter is your secret weapon. We break down investing in a way that's easy to understand, even if you're just starting out. Learn the tricks the wealthy use, discover exciting opportunities, and start building the future YOU want. Sign up now, and let's make those dreams happen!   WBMS Premium Subscription   Phillip Washington, Jr. is a registered investment adviser. Information presented is for educational purposes only and does not intend to make an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of any specific securities, investments, or investment strategies. Investments involve risk and, unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed. Be sure to first consult with a qualified financial adviser and/or tax professional before implementing any strategy discussed herein. Past performance is not indicative of future performance.

For episode 245 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Heenal, Marv, and rathermercurial of SuperBenefit, a decentralized collective on a mission to develop the social and financial flywheels that enable the invention and acceleration of a better world. We discuss their Reimagining Power series, a body of research exploring how Web3 can transform power dynamics in philanthropy, governance, and social impact.You'll discover:

In this episode, I sit down with Renee Davis from OpenMatter to explore the intersection of AI agents and blockchain infrastructure. We discuss why 51% of internet traffic is already agents, the critical security vulnerabilities in tools like OpenClaw, and how multi-party computation (MPC) enables privacy-preserving machine learning. Renee explains why crypto is essential for the agent economy—hint: credit cards can't handle micro-transactions like a two-cent payment. We also dive into OpenMatter's three pillars: masked computing, MatterML, and DataVisor, plus what's coming in the next 12 months. If you're building with AI agents or curious about the convergence of Web3 and AI, this conversation is packed with insights. --- CONNECT ---OpenMatter: https://onboard.openmatter.network--- KEY POINTS WITH TIMESTAMPS ---• [01:42] Renee's journey from enterprise analytics to DAOs and AI• [03:11] AI and NLP have been around for decades—longer than most realize• [04:42] OpenMatter solves agent hosting, ZK safety checks, and output compliance• [08:17] Multi-party computation (MPC) explained: collaborative computing without sharing raw data• [10:08] 51% of internet traffic is already agents or bots• [14:42] Why agents need crypto: credit cards can't do micro-transactions like X402 can• [16:29] DataVisor: one-click agent deployment with OpenClaw, IronClaw, ZeroClaw templates• [19:17] Security guardrails for agents are still underdeveloped• [21:52] OpenMatter is built on lattice-based cryptography—post-quantum safe• [24:35] AI startups are in a bubble; many hinge on token prices from Claude or OpenAI• [28:03] Roadmap: mainnet launch, MPC updates, MatterML SDK release, and hackathons---DISCLAIMER---Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/

Sid Powell and Paul Frambot on why Apollo, Cantor, and Coinbase are quietly building their financial products on DeFi rails, and what it means for lending.  Nexo is the premier digital wealth platform. Receive interest on your crypto, borrow against it without selling, and trade a range of assets. Now available in the U.S with 30 days of exclusive privileges.  Get started at nexo.com/unchained Onchain lending used to be a crypto-native curiosity. Now Cantor Fitzgerald is extending credit facilities through it, Apollo Global Management is acquiring governance tokens, and Coinbase users are borrowing against Bitcoin to buy houses, all running on DeFi protocols operating in the background. Maple Finance CEO Sid Powell and Morpho co-founder Paul Frambot sit at the center of this shift, and they have very different reads on what it takes to make institutional adoption real.  What are the actual limits to onchain lending growth right now? Does the DeFi mullet model work for everyone, or only for specific use cases? And as DAOs across the industry stumble under the weight of public governance, what structures actually let a protocol move fast without losing trust?  This conversation gets into the mechanics, the trade-offs, and the deals that are quietly redrawing the lines between DeFi and traditional finance. Guests: ⁠Paul Frambot, Co-Founder & CEO at Morpho Labs ⁠Sid Powell, CEO & Co-Founder of Maple Finance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Winning a contract isn't the same as deploying capability.This week, Andrew Vanderhoof (Director of DAF CLOUDworks at AFRL) joins Tyler to talk about what actually happens between “award” and “operational.”They cover:Getting commercial software into classified environmentsWhy OTAs and zero-dollar agreements matterThe real weight carried by DAOs and AOsScaling innovation without breaking trustAnd why the timeline is now weeks to months — not yearsIf you care about commercial-first actually meaning something, this one's for you.Connect with AndrewLinkedIn: Andrew VanderhoofConnect with TylerLinkedIn: Tyler Sweatt

Crypto and fintech are converging. But who captures the value? Nick Almond on stablecoins, DAOs, and the future of capital formation. As always, remember this podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely their opinions, not financial advice. – Follow Blockworks Research: https://x.com/blockworksres Follow Nick: https://x.com/DrNickA Follow David: https://x.com/dcanellis — Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ —-- Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (01:07) FinTech vs Crypto Today (03:28) Banks Onramps and Walled Gardens (07:53) Where Value Accrues Onchain (16:47) DAS PROMO (17:39) Where Value Accrues Onchain (Con't) (25:02) Tokens Culture and Market Outlook - - Disclaimer: Nothing said on The Breakdown is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Host and guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

In this episode we sit down with Griff Green, one of the earliest DAO builders and a core figure in Ethereum's governance history — from the original DAO era through today's next-generation coordination experiments.Griff was closely involved around the first DAO and helped lead white-hat recovery efforts during the 2016 DAO crisis. Since then, he has gone on to co-found and support multiple ecosystem projects focused on decentralized funding, public goods, and governance design, including Giveth, the Commons Stack, and several token engineering and coordination initiatives.This is not a surface-level DAO hype conversation. This is a rebuild conversation.We go deep on what actually failed in early DAO designs, what people misunderstood about decentralized governance, and what it will realistically take to redo the DAO model in a way that works — socially, economically, and technically.We cover:What really went wrong (and right) with the first DAOLessons learned from DAO governance failures and exploitsWhy most DAOs struggle with participation and decision qualityIncentive design vs voting designFunding public goods without governance captureToken engineering, bonding curves, and coordination mechanismsWhat a “DAO 2.0” architecture needs to includeWhether truly decentralized governance can scaleIf you care about DAOs, crypto governance, public goods funding, or coordination at scale — this conversation is required context from someone who was there at the beginning and is still building forward.Subscribe for more deep crypto conversations — no price talk, no hype cycles, just signal.Drop your question in the comments:

Join us as we dissect the evolving landscape of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), moving beyond the "chat room with a bank account" stereotype. We dive into Vitalik Buterin's vision for better DAOs, exploring critical functions like improved oracles and dispute resolution, and debate the role of human politics versus programmatic efficiency. Discover how concepts like "problem geometry" and "sequenced governance" offer a path to more mature, robust, and effective DAOs, leveraging cutting-edge tools like AI and Zero-Knowledge proofs to overcome decision fatigue and human vulnerabilities.

AI agents are no longer just tools, they're becoming autonomous economic actors. In this episode of Bitcoin Policy Hour, we explore how AI agents are already using bitcoin to transact and coordinate inside emerging bot-run economies, including early experiments like Moltbook, an AI-driven social network where autonomous agents interact with each other and, in some cases, create wallets and move value without direct human control. The discussion breaks down why bitcoin, especially when paired with Lightning is uniquely suited for machine-to-machine payments, permissionless settlement, and autonomous economic activity, and what this shift means for policy, regulation, and the future of money as machines begin to participate in real economies.

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Continuing the publication of interviews from DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sat down with Theo Beutel (academic secretariat at the Ethereum Foundation, researcher at Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich) to reflect on attempts at democracy with DAOs. As someone who has worked as the governance lead at several DAOs, Theo had a lot of insight to share.We discussed his recent paper Digital Democracy in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations, the role of academia in Ethereum and why plutocracy has largely dominated the DAO space. By and large it seems that innovation in governance in crypto has followed the needs of investors and not other classes of people. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit. Support the showICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who's work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi speak with Santiago Siri, founder of Democracy Earth, DemocracyOS, and Proof of Humanity, to explore a central question of the digital age: Can we escape politics with protocols or do protocols simply create new political arenas? Santiago shares his journey from building Argentina's internet political party Partido de la Red, to creating open-source democratic infrastructure, to running one of the most ambitious on-chain identity and governance experiments in Web3. They discuss identity as the core bottleneck of digital democracy, governance failures inside protocols, DAOs as political systems, AI as both promise and threat, and what Network Nations must learn from a decade of real-world experimentation. A deep, honest conversation about legitimacy, power, and why politics never disappears  it just moves layers.

In this episode, Frank La Vigne and Candice Gillhoolley are joined by Geoff Anders, CEO of Leverage and co-founder of the Quantum Biology DAO, to explore how quantum physics is rewriting what we know about everything from photosynthesis to animal migration, and even human health. From the way birds might sense the Earth's magnetic field, to the evolving research around how weak magnetic effects could impact growth and development, we'll unpack real-world experiments and the fascinating theories behind them.But it's not just about the science—the conversation also tackles how scientific funding is being disrupted through decentralized organizations like DAOs, empowering new voices and opening up fresh possibilities for investigative research.Whether you're a curious mind or a science enthusiast, this episode promises eye-opening insights into how quantum effects could be hidden in plain sight in everyday biology—and what that could mean for the future of medicine, technology, and our understanding of life itself.So get ready to challenge your perceptions and join us as we explore quantum biology's promise, puzzles, and potential breakthroughs on this episode of Impact Quantum!Time Stamps00:00 Decentralized Science and DAOs05:16 "QBIO Governance Tokens Explained"09:35 "Quantum Biology and Photosynthesis"12:55 "Magnetism's Biological Puzzle"16:05 "Quantum's Role in Biology"17:47 "Quantum Effects in Biology"20:35 Exploring Unseen Connections25:34 "Exploring Unconventional Hypotheses"28:32 "Mesmerism and Franklin's Investigation"33:16 "Science, Tradition, and Healing"34:44 "Ball Lightning: Unverified Encounter"38:42 "Bird Navigation: Magnetic Field vs. Memory"43:13 "Electromagnetic Fields and Biology"45:01 "Magnetic Fields and Evolution"48:18 "Challenges in Quantum Biology"52:00 "Quantum Biology and Radiation Reduction"57:52 "Advancing Science with Leverage"58:52 "Quantum Podcast: Bold & Gold"

In this episode recorded at DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sit down with Eugene Leventhal (researcher at Metagov, podcaster at Governance Futures, new head of governance at Octant) to discuss the current crisis in crypto governance. The general feeling is that governance has been declared dead, foundations are being pushed aside, and the decentralization theater is being abandoned now that Trump's election has lifted compliance pressure.Eugene unpacks what he calls the "original sin of DAOs" (most were created purely for regulatory cover) and why most failed. But it's not all doom, we discuss the few projects still genuinely committed to decentralization, institutional interest in deliberative tooling, and why work on transparency and democratic innovation still matters, even as the industry pivots toward unregulated founder worship.Links:Bread Cooperative's Democratic Multisig webinarGuide book can be downloaded hereIf you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit. Support the showICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who's work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

Welcome to this special episode of The Edge of Show, recorded live at the Future of Money, Governance & the Law Summit in Washington, D.C. This conversation brings together leaders from Web3, finance, policy, and infrastructure to tackle a critical question: how do we fund innovation while building long-term trust, inclusion, and resilience?Moderated by Nadya Rousseau, this panel features Vincent Kadar, Kevin Jackson, Andrew Durgee, and Terry Culver, offering rare insight into how capital formation is evolving through tokenization, public-private collaboration, decentralized infrastructure, and access to private markets.The discussion explores real-world asset tokenization, the role of regulation, the limits of first-mover advantage, and why collaboration, not isolation, is becoming the defining strategy for sustainable innovation. From retail access to pre-IPO assets to DAOs, grants, and hybrid funding models, this episode breaks down how Web3 is reshaping who gets to participate in the global economy.If you're building, investing, shaping policy, or trying to understand where finance and innovation are heading next, this episode delivers clear perspectives from leaders actively building the future not theorizing about it.Support us through our Sponsors! ☕

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In this episode I talk with Ryan from Toroa Group, a New Zealand-based founder building across tokenised funds and vault strategies, title-backed property tokens, and NZD/AUD stablecoins.We cover why stablecoins are still the clearest product-market fit, why non-USD stablecoins matter for smaller countries, how to tokenize title instead of fund units, and how they work with existing funds to offer tokenized fund access to DAOs, foundations and on-chain natives.Ryan also shares his “follow the demand, don't force education” philosophy and how tokenised assets are now able to provide utility over and above the legacy versions which is supercharging mainstream adoption. Key Timestamps[00:00:00] Tokenization reality: Tokens don't create liquidity by magic – the product still has to solve a real problem.[00:02:00] Ryan's background: From med tech and audiology into educating NZ on Web3 and then full-time tokenization.[00:05:00] Toroa's focus: On-chain financial products, NZD/AUD stablecoins, property tokens and tokenized funds.[00:07:00] Non-USD stablecoins: Why NZD/AUD stables matter for cross-border flows and monetary sovereignty.[00:10:00] Title-based property: Tokens tied to property title, not shares, avoiding financial-product status and paying rent in stablecoins.[00:17:00] Tokenized feeders: Letting funds offer regulated exposure in token form to DAOs, foundations and family offices.[00:20:00] Demand > preaching: They focus on inbound demand from funds already being asked for tokenized access.[00:26:00] Roadmap & raise: Moving group structure to the UK, aiming for a future listing, and raising a £500k pre-Series A.Connecthttps://www.toroa.xyz/https://www.linkedin.com/company/toroagroup/https://x.com/toroagrouphttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanjohnsonhunt/DisclaimerNothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend.Get featuredBe a guest on the podcast or contact us – https://www.web3pod.xyz/

In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, I—Stewart Alsop—sit down with Garrett Dailey to explore a wide-ranging conversation that moves from the mechanics of persuasion and why the best pitches work by attraction rather than pressure, to the nature of AI as a pattern tool rather than a mind, to power cycles, meaning-making, and the fracturing of modern culture. Garrett draws on philosophy, psychology, strategy, and his own background in storytelling to unpack ideas around narrative collapse, the chaos–order split in human cognition, the risk of “AI one-shotting,” and how political and technological incentives shape the world we're living through. You can find the tweet Stewart mentions in this episode here. Also, follow Garrett Dailey on Twitter at @GarrettCDailey, or find more of his pitch-related work on LinkedIn.Check out this GPT we trained on the conversationTimestamps00:00 Garrett opens with persuasion by attraction, storytelling, and why pitches fail with force. 05:00 We explore gravity as metaphor, the opposite of force, and the “ring effect” of a compelling idea. 10:00 AI as tool not mind; creativity, pattern prediction, hype cycles, and valuation delusions. 15:00 Limits of LLMs, slopification, recursive language drift, and cultural mimicry. 20:00 One-shotting, psychosis risk, validation-seeking, consciousness vs prediction. 25:00 Order mind vs chaos mind, solipsism, autism–schizophrenia mapping, epistemology. 30:00 Meaning, presence, Zen, cultural fragmentation, shared models breaking down. 35:00 U.S. regional culture, impossibility of national unity, incentives shaping politics. 40:00 Fragmentation vs reconciliation, markets, narratives, multipolarity, Dune archetypes. 45:00 Patchwork age, decentralization myths, political fracturing, libertarian limits. 50:00 Power as zero-sum, tech-right emergence, incentives, Vance, Yarvin, empire vs republic. 55:00 Cycles of power, kyklos, democracy's decay, design-by-committee, institutional failure.Key InsightsPersuasion works best through attraction, not pressure. Garrett explains that effective pitching isn't about forcing someone to believe you—it's about creating a narrative gravity so strong that people move toward the idea on their own. This reframes persuasion from objection-handling into desire-shaping, a shift that echoes through sales, storytelling, and leadership.AI is powerful precisely because it's not a mind. Garrett rejects the “machine consciousness” framing and instead treats AI as a pattern amplifier—extraordinarily capable when used as a tool, but fundamentally limited in generating novel knowledge. The danger arises when humans project consciousness onto it and let it validate their insecurities.Recursive language drift is reshaping human communication. As people unconsciously mimic LLM-style phrasing, AI-generated patterns feed back into training data, accelerating a cultural “slopification.” This becomes a self-reinforcing loop where originality erodes, and the machine's voice slowly colonizes the human one.The human psyche operates as a tension between order mind and chaos mind. Garrett's framework maps autism and schizophrenia as pathological extremes of this duality, showing how prediction and perception interact inside consciousness—and why AI, which only simulates chaos-mind prediction, can never fully replicate human knowing.Meaning arises from presence, not abstraction. Instead of obsessing over politics, geopolitics, or distant hypotheticals, Garrett argues for a Zen-like orientation: do what you're doing, avoid what you're not doing. Meaning doesn't live in narratives about the future—it lives in the task at hand.Power follows predictable cycles—and America is deep in one. Borrowing from the Greek kyklos, Garrett frames the U.S. as moving from aristocracy toward democracy's late-stage dysfunction: populism, fragmentation, and institutional decay. The question ahead is whether we're heading toward empire or collapse.Decentralization is entropy, not salvation. Crypto dreams of DAOs and patchwork societies ignore the gravitational pull of power. Systems fragment as they weaken, but eventually a new center of order emerges. The real contest isn't decentralization vs. centralization—it's who will have the coherence and narrative strength to recentralize the pieces.

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In this episode, I sit down with Giel from kpk (formerly karpatkey) live at Devconnect Buenos Aires. KPK has quietly managed billions for major DAOs such as ENS, DYDX, Arbitrum, and Balancer — operating with an institutional-grade risk framework while staying fully non-custodial.We talk about institutional adoption heading into 2025–2026, why traditional funds and family offices now want safer access to DeFi yields, how risk curation actually works, and what institutions should look for when evaluating partners. Giel also breaks down KPK's new vault + curator system and how automation allows them to adjust positions in under 30 seconds.Key Timestamps[00:00] What KPK Actually Does — managing billions for top DAOs with non-custodial infrastructure. [00:02] Institutional Demand — family offices & funds looking for safe DeFi exposure. [00:04] Banks & DeFi — how banks may adopt on-chain yield directly. [00:06] The Curator Model — risk frameworks, due diligence, and automated vaults. [00:09] What Institutions Should Look For — track record, risk discipline, zero loss history. [00:12] Roadmap — becoming a leading risk curator with focused, low-risk vaults. [00:14] Biggest Challenges — moving from behind the scenes to public institutional visibility. [00:16] The Ask — connecting with funds, aggregators, and institutions seeking safe, automated yield.Connecthttps://kpk.io/https://www.linkedin.com/company/kpk-io/https://www.linkedin.com/in/giel-detienne/https://x.com/kpk_iohttps://x.com/deepcryptodiveDisclaimerIf you enjoyed this, I'd love you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and share the episode with a friend.Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/

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Join us for an insightful episode of The Edge of Show as we dive deep into the world of blockchain technology with Fahmi Syed, the president of Midnight Foundation. Recorded live at Creative Blockchain Week, Fahmi shares his journey from traditional finance to the innovative realm of blockchain, discussing the importance of privacy, governance, and the future of digital systems.In this episode, we explore:The role of token holders and DAOs in holding foundations accountable.How Midnight is leveraging zero-knowledge technology to create a permissionless public blockchain that prioritizes privacy.Real-world use cases in healthcare, finance, and GovTech that demonstrate the potential of Midnight's solutions.The evolving regulatory landscape and its impact on blockchain adoption.Ambitious goals for the future, including partnerships with major corporations and governments.Whether you're a blockchain enthusiast, a developer, or just curious about the future of digital systems, this episode is packed with valuable insights and forward-thinking ideas.Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay updated on our latest episodes!Support us through our Sponsors! ☕

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As blockchain tech gets co-opted by legacy players for efficiency gains, has the revolution lost its edge? Crypto philosopher Paul Dylan-Ennis and Gitcoin's Head of Governance Dr. Nick Almond join Friederike to probe this shift from 2017's visionary DAOs to today's Telegram-negotiated votes and whale capture. Rooted in philosophy and complex systems, they unpack mind-hacking risks via data micro-targeting, the polycentric bulwarks (full nodes, prediction markets) shielding against cultural flips, and why epistemic tools could fortify crypto against real-world censorship. Their call: Reclaim the ethos through event evangelism and normie outreach for grassroots empowerment.Chapters:(00:00) Introduction to the Blockchain Revolution(07:22) Governance as the Soul of Crypto(14:26) The Challenges of Decentralized Governance19:02) The Nature of Organizations: DAOs vs Corporations(23:24) Cultural Shifts in the Crypto Space(30:26) Decentralization: A Means to an End(36:27) The Future of Decentralization and Governance(38:23) The Importance of User Privacy and Data Sovereignty(39:35) The Challenge of User Awareness in Data Privacy(41:32) The Rise of Surveillance and Control(42:44) The Threat of Digital IDs and Centralized Control(45:12) The Dangers of Corporate Influence in Web3(50:42) The Need for Authentic Decentralization(52:35 The Role of Institutional Players in Crypto(56:18) The Future of Governance in Decentralized Systems(01:01:19) The Challenge of Leadership in a Decentralized World(01:04:08) Cultural Hacking and the Influence of Governance(01:10:50) Outreach and Engagement in the Crypto CommunityLinks mentioned in this episode:Dr. Nick Almond, Head of Governance at JitoPaul Dylan-Ennis, Crypto PhilosopherSponsors: - Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst.

Send us a textWhat happens when you stop treating crypto like a lottery ticket and start treating it like money? We sit down with Joël Valenzuela – core member of DashDAO and creator of Digital Cash Network – who has lived entirely on cryptocurrency since 2015, closed his bank account, and built a daily routine on digital cash.Joel takes us from childhood memories of currency devaluation in Mexico to the first time he split a dinner bill with Bitcoin before payment apps were mainstream. He explains why speculation can't sustain an ecosystem, how real-world utility creates lasting value, and what investors learn by actually using the product. We explore the bumpy parts too: 2016 fee spikes, network congestion, and the practical decision to move day-to-day spending to Dash for instant settlement, optional privacy, and on-chain scaling that aims to keep payments fast and affordable.We also dive into decentralization that works in practice. Joel outlines the limits of leaderless governance on major networks and why DAOs matter for transparent, network-wide decision-making and funding. Then we zoom out to the Free State Project in New Hampshire, the unlikely incubator where early crypto pioneers swapped ideas, launched tools, and helped shape a payments-first culture long before it trended. Along the way, Joel shares how legacy projects stay relevant through integrations, liquidity, and partnerships that compound over time.If you've wondered whether crypto can move beyond charts and narratives to something you can actually live on, this conversation delivers hard-won lessons from the checkout line. Subscribe, share with a friend who still thinks crypto is only an investment, and leave a review to help more people find the show.This episode was recorded through a Descript call on October 22, 2025. Read the blog article and show notes here: https://webdrie.net/living-on-crypto-since-2015/..........................................................................

In the 2nd Weekly Rollup of Flat-tember, we discuss whether the crypto bull market is over amid rising unemployment and market uncertainty. We cover stablecoin competition for Hyperliquid partnerships, Justin Sun's frozen WFLI tokens, and Nasdaq's tokenized equities. With Ethereum leading in asset tokenization, they also reflect on lost SEC Chair Gensler's texts and the rise of DAOs, alongside major moves from Fidelity and Robinhood. —-

The drama is heating up in crypto M&A. LayerZero, the omnichain interoperability protocol, shocked the market with a $110 million bid to acquire Stargate DAO — the very bridge it originally launched. Then Wormhole jumped in, asking the DAO to pause the vote so it could make a counter-offer. This episode unpacks the first-ever so-called onchain bidding war: how to value DAOs like real businesses, why LayerZero and Wormhole are fighting over Stargate, and whether this deal marks the beginning of a consolidation wave across crypto. Guests David Nage of Arca and M&A advisor Lawson Bae of Relayzero break down the numbers, the strategy, and what this turning point means for the industry. Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Sui Xapo Bank Guests: David Nage, VC Portfolio Manager at Arca Lawson Bae, Founder of Relayzero Links: Unchained:  Wormhole Foundation to Counter LayerZero's Bid for Stargate LayerZero Foundation Proposes $110 Million Stargate Acquisition, Retiring STG for ZRO Tokens  Timestamps:

Live from EthCC Cannes, this sponsored Edge of Show by Ammalgam brings together three trailblazers building the infrastructure for Web3's next leap forward. First, Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, shares how Polygon is tackling scalability, interoperability, and the drive toward a unified Web3 ecosystem. Next, Rebecca Liao From, Head of Ecosystem at Saga, reveals how Saga's chainlets are unlocking customizable, high-performance blockchain environments for developers worldwide. Finally, Jordan Jefferson, Founder of DogeOS, takes us inside the playful yet powerful vision for a meme-driven operating system that merges community culture with serious blockchain innovation.From cross-chain solutions to developer empowerment and the rise of niche blockchain platforms, this conversation offers a clear view of how the next internet is being built—right now.Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more insights from the cutting edge of technology!Support us through our Sponsors! ☕