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Lili Hellriegel is head of enterprise solutions at Cherry Servers, a Lithuania-based bare metal cloud provider that pitches itself as a sovereign, Web3-friendly alternative to the US hyperscalers. Before joining Cherry, Lili was head of infrastructure at staking firm Blockdaemon, where she built out data center partnerships, network architecture and the server specs behind validation workloads — work that left her unusually fluent in what crypto teams actually need from their infrastructure. Why you should listen The pitch for European infrastructure has rarely been louder, and Lili makes the case with the confidence of someone who has lived on both sides of it. Every major hyperscaler — AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, even Oracle — is a US company, and for a growing cohort of Web3 teams that is no longer a neutral fact. Cherry Servers sits under European jurisdiction, runs its own facility in Lithuania, and operates data centers across Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Chicago, Singapore and a newly opened site in Tokyo. Some of Cherry's customers come for hard compliance reasons; others, Lili says, come for ideological ones, wanting the chains they help secure to live beyond the reach of any single government. The conversation lands at a moment when data sovereignty and distrust of concentrated American cloud power have moved from fringe concern to boardroom agenda. The sharper argument is about economics, and here Lili thinks the industry is approaching an inflection point. She describes a shift from "cloud-first" to "workload-first" thinking: instead of defaulting to a hyperscaler and accepting whatever T-shirt-sized instance you're sold, teams running archival nodes, validators or other niche workloads are discovering they pay more and perform worse than they would on dedicated hardware tuned to the job. Cherry's answer is granular customization — choose your disks, your storage, your RAM, and pay only for what the workload demands — backed by account managers who architect the build rather than just sell a box, with human support that answers in well under a minute. For staking-heavy customers, the model is almost self-funding: a large share pay in crypto, drawing on staking rewards to cover their infrastructure across some thirty different chains. Her forecast for the next eighteen to twenty-four months is the part worth sitting with. Lili argues the era of free cloud credits is ending — she doubts AWS will keep handing startups six-figure credit grants for signing up to an accelerator — and that founders, newly disciplined about runway, will increasingly treat optimized bare metal as a way to extend it. In the closing hot-take round she plants her flag as a multi-chain "Solana maxi," names Bitcoin as the enduring store of value while backing the smaller chains' upside, and offers a builder's creed: the market ultimately rewards people who make useful things on-chain, not those treating tokens purely as speculation — which, she adds, is also why she thinks people should run nodes with smaller providers. The desert-island sci-fi pick, naturally, is Star Wars. https://www.cherryservers.com/

How do regulators actually write the rules for crypto? SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce and Taylor Lindman, Chief Counsel of the SEC's Crypto Task Force, take us inside the process, recorded at the SEC offices in Washington, D.C.We cover CLARITY Act rulemaking, lessons from Dodd-Frank, principles-based regulation and navigating the risks of decentralized projects. If you want to understand how an agency like the SEC actually works, this episode is for you.Timestamps:0:00 Intro1:20 Commissioner Peirce's philosophy on capital markets5:04 Rulemaking at the SEC6:48 The SEC's divisions, explained8:27 How the Crypto Task Force is staffed10:37 Lessons from Dodd-Frank13:10 Legal artisans15:15 The Clarity Act deadlines18:55 Decentralized intermediaries20:56 Principles-based vs prescriptive regulation24:49 Tackling difficult crypto questions26:23 Leveraging AI for data review29:46 "Come in and register" under this SEC33:50 SEC & CFTC collaboration35:52 Re-engaging the crypto industry40:00 Crypto Task Force & the Clarity Act45:54 The SEC's non-crypto priorities48:41 Avoiding another regulation-by-enforcement era57:14 Thank you to Sam Enzer, Lewis Cohen and Cahill, plus a shoutout to Day One Law and Nick PullmanNewsletter: I'm re-launching the Law of Code newsletter soon: you can ⁠⁠⁠stay updated on emerging tech law for free here⁠⁠⁠: https://www.lawofcode.fm/Any feedback on this episode? Or how to improve the podcast? ⁠⁠Click here: https://forms.gle/W4d2a5aHuLJjuNdn7Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute legal or investment advice. Views expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of their employers. Listening to this podcast does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Jake Brukman breaks down why a swarm of decentralized agents beat Google's quantum circuit research in a week, why decentralized training on consumer hardware is now provably cheaper than data centers, and why winning just 10% of AI training automatically locks in revenue from a $1 trillion inference market. He published this thesis in September 2022, before ChatGPT existed.Jake Brukman is Founder and CEO of CoinFund, an 11-year digital assets and decentralized AI investment firm.The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world.Timestamps00:00 AI Meets Decentralization Thesis02:44 Thesis Before ChatGPT Existed03:44 Consumer Devices Train Models04:29 100B Parameters Consumer Hardware06:45 Rise Of Authentic Swarms09:15 Swarms Outpaced Google Fast12:53 Inference Drives All Revenue13:13 $1T Inference Market 203114:53 Crypto Subsidizes AI Inference17:02 Win Training Win Inference20:47 Decentralized Training Now Cheaper22:49 Kirkland $500M Own Model28:39 Harnesses Collect Trace Data31:24 Co-Own Model Donate Traces33:10 Different From Past Web340:11 2.4B Monthly AI UsersGuest Socials:Jake Brukhman X: https://x.com/jbrukhCoinFund X: https://x.com/coinfundCoinFund Website: https://www.coinfund.io/Partners:Better than Banks. Transparent capital efficiency earning the highest yields in DeFi. Learn more here: https://infinifi.xyz/---Dinari - Over 230 1:1 backed tokenized stocks, ETFs & more with dividends. US-based SEC transfer agent. Available on 5+ chains & via API. https://dinari.com/---Relay is the fastest and most reliable way to swap any token on any chain. Learn more here: https://relay.link/bridge---Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.Learn more here: https://www.zama.org/---Trezor is the creator of the first-ever hardware wallet. Securing crypto for 2M+ users worldwide. 100% open source. Learn more here: https://affil.trezor.io/aff_c?offer_id=133&aff_id=36664---

 WORT 89.9FM Madison · In our modern society, we take the ability to reach into our pocket and instantly contact anyone in the world for granted.  But all those text messages, e-mails, social media posts and voice calls depend on a centralized, private network of cellular communication towers.  What would you do if that network ever goes down?  The Four Lakes Amateur Radio Club has been working on a project called MeshCore that provides a resilient, decentralized alternative texting technology that works over the public radio spectrum.  Jeff Fritsche, the 2026 Field Day Coordinator for Four Lakes Amateur Radio Club, and Chris Eade, one of the leads for the MeshCore project, joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on June 8, 2026. Pine Bluff MeshCore Repeater, linking western Dane County with Madison(Photo courtesy w9jz.org) Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post MeshCore Offers Resilient Decentralized Communication appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

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What does a recovering clinical research market actually look like in 2026?In this episode, Joel White, Owner of Market Cap Consulting, and Ryan Gifford, Vice President, Global Laboratory Services, Business Development & Client Management at CTI, join us to unpack the state of the industry—from the rebound in biotech funding to the growing importance of execution, site relationships, and smarter trial design.We explore how increasing complexity is shaping partnerships, how labs and decentralized models are evolving, and what it will take to keep trials on track. Looking ahead, the conversation offers a practical perspective on what the next 12–18 months could bring. 01:00 Guest backgrounds: Joel White (Market Cap Consulting) and Ryan Gifford (CTI) 02:45 Market recovery and funding trends05:15 Trial success: early collaboration and site relationships08:15 Funding challenges and execution impacts 10:30 Reducing site burden through lab operations and logistics 14:15 Decentralized trials and patient experience16:25 Regulatory shifts, AI, and growing data complexity19:30 Future outlook: partnerships and global trial expansion 23:30 Key takeaways and rapid-fire insights

In this episode of Treasury Leaders, host Philip Costa Hibberd, Founder of Automation Boutique, speaks with Matthias Depoorter, Group Treasury Manager at Euroports, about the realities of bringing treasury control into a highly decentralised organisation.Matthias shares how he is transforming treasury at Euroports by focusing on three key pillars: visibility, centralisation, and optimisation. With more than 100 entities, 180+ bank accounts, joint ventures, local banking relationships, and financing structure constraints, Matthias explains why traditional treasury models do not always fit real-world organisations.The conversation dives deep into practical treasury architecture, including overlay cash management structures, notional pooling, MT940 and MT101 messaging, local bank relationships, API connectivity, and the role of AI in cash forecasting and treasury analytics. Matthias also shares lessons learned from implementing a global treasury visibility project while balancing operational realities and change management.Whether you are building treasury infrastructure, improving cash visibility, or navigating decentralised banking environments, this episode provides practical insights into designing treasury structures that work in the real world.What You'll Learn in This Episode:Treasury Visibility First: Why daily cash visibility is the foundation for better treasury decisions.Centralisation in Decentralised Organisations: How to improve liquidity management without disrupting local banking relationships.Overlay Treasury Structures: How notional pooling and overlay banking can solve intercompany constraints.Treasury Technology & APIs: The practical realities of APIs, MT messaging, and treasury connectivity.AI in Treasury: How AI can support cash forecasting, bank fee analysis, and transaction insights.Treasury Change Management: Why treasury transformation requires balancing operational needs with strategic goals.Episode Breakdown with Timestamps: [00:00] – Introduction[02:23] – Building Daily Cash Visibility Across 100+ Entities[07:54] – The Limits of Traditional Cash Pooling Structures[12:22] – Implementing an Overlay Treasury Structure[18:50] – Improving Liquidity Through Multi-Currency Notional Pooling[38:03] – Prioritising Overlay Banking Over a Traditional TMS[47:00] – Designing Treasury Around Business RealityFollow our guest Matthias Depoorter: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthiasdepoorter/Euroports: https://www.linkedin.com/company/euroports/Follow Treasury Leaders:Website: https://corporate-treasury-101.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/treasury-leaders/Follow Our Hosts:Hussam Ali on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hussam-r-ali/Guillaume Jouvencel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-jouvencel/Jan-Willem Attevelt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/attevelt/Philip Costa Hibberd on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-costa-hibberd/GHA Marketing Website: https://ghapodcast.com/Automation Boutique Website: https://automationboutique.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Get $100 off any AFP product, including their CTP Exam Prep Platform, using our discount code! Find this and More on our partner's pagehttps://corporate-treasury-101.com/partners-page/

Hay muchísimas formas de hacer investigación, pero la mayoría solo conocemos una: la del laboratorio académico clásico. Es el agua en la que nadamos sin darnos cuenta de que es agua.Una sola pregunta desmonta el sistema entero: ¿cuándo y cómo entran los datos en tu proyecto? Esa decisión condiciona quién manda, cuándo termina el proyecto y qué cuenta como éxito.En este episodio recorro una línea con 10 modelos ordenados por cuándo entra el dato, desde el dato congelado hasta el dato que pide un algoritmo.Laboratorio académico clásico: el dato entra una vez y se congela.Bell Labs: "correa larga, valla estrecha". Dato continuo dentro de una empresa.Institutos independientes (Arc Institute, etc.): financiación a varios años, poca presión por publicar.Ciencia ciudadana: el público recoge datos de forma distribuida y constante.Big Science (CERN, Hubble): datos en chorro permanente, papers con miles de autores.FRO: 15 a 30 personas, 5 años, dinero filantrópico, sin obligación de publicar.DARPA: un Program Manager con poder real marca hitos. Así nació Internet.DeSci: financiación y propiedad intelectual en blockchain entre holders de tokens.Self-Driving Lab: bucle DMTA. El dato entra a demanda; cada vuelta decide el siguiente experimento.Radial: rediseñar el proceso científico como ingeniería, en ciclos, a nivel de sistema.El laboratorio autónomo es el extremo más radical: no tiene final, sigue optimizando mientras lo dejes encendido. Eso es justo lo que el sistema científico actual no sabe gestionar.Lo más profundo: ¿quién decide qué dato pedir? En el modelo clásico, el investigador. En Big Science, un comité. En DARPA, el Program Manager. En DeSci, una comunidad. En el laboratorio autónomo, un algoritmo. No estamos automatizando el pipeteo: estamos delegando la autoría intelectual del siguiente paso.La razón por la que casi ninguno nace en la academia es sencilla: la academia solo sabe puntuar papers. No es un problema de calidad, es un problema de contabilidad del mérito.¿Tu problema pide un bucle? Porque si lo estás forzando dentro del molde del paper, estás remando contra tu propio problema.Comunidad de investigadores: https://horacio-ps.com/comunidadNewsletter: https://horacio-ps.com/newsletterSi el episodio te ha resultado útil, dale like, suscríbete o compártelo en Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iVoox o YouTube.Enlaces y referenciasTony Blair Institute, "A New Model for Science": https://institute.global/insights/tech-and-digitalisation/new-model-scienceFuture Blind (Max Olson), "The new wave of science and research models": https://futureblind.com/p/the-new-wave-of-science-and-research-modelsConstruction Physics (Brian Potter), "The Influence of Bell Labs": https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-influence-of-bell-labsArc Institute, "The Arc Model": https://arcinstitute.org/modelFranzoni y Sauermann (2014), Research Policy 43(1), pp. 1-20: https://ideas.repec.org/r/eee/respol/v43y2014i1p1-20.htmlBritannica, "Big Science": https://www.britannica.com/science/Big-Science-scienceFederation of American Scientists, "FROs: A New Model": https://fas.org/publication/focused-research-organizations-a-new-model-for-scientific-research/Ethereum.org, "Decentralized science (DeSci)": https://ethereum.org/desci/Tom et al. (2024), Chemical Reviews 124(16), pp. 9633-9732: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00055Autonomous Chemical Experiments, Acc. Chem. Res. (2022): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9454899/Astera, "Announcing Radial": https://astera.org/announcing-radial/Seemay Chou, "Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough": https://astera.org/scientific-publishing-enough-is-enough/STAT News sobre Radial: https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/11/radial-ai-science-astera-nonprofit/Nature, "Inside the self-driving lab revolution": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00974-2Nature, "Will self-driving robot labs replace biologists?": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00453-8

#SecurityConfidential #DarkRhiinoSecurityMurphy John is the Chief Growth Officer at StorX Network, where he focuses on scaling decentralized data storage solutions and building strategic partnerships. Passionate about data security and privacy, Murphy works at the intersection of decentralization and distributed ledger technology (DLT), helping organizations rethink how data is stored, protected, and accessed globally. His work centers on enabling more secure, resilient, and privacy-first data infrastructure for the future.00:00 Intro01:17 Our Guest02:50 Shifting from On-premise to Cloud Computing09:30 Compliance and Data Privacy in Decentralized systems11:22 Data Recovery13:10 Ransomware and Data security15:31 AI on Cybersecurity19:25 Mindset Challenges in adopting technology26:01 Egress Cost Awareness33:15 Budgeting for Data backup Solutions35:00 More about John

The following article of the Infrastructure industry is: “Mexico's Next Competitive Edge: Decentralized Water” by Juan Pablo Rivero, CEO, Hydrous Management Group.

The cancellation and retest of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) 2026 has exposed deep cracks in India's examination system. Allegations of paper leaks, corruption and repeated lapses by the National Testing Agency (NTA) has pushed lakhs of aspirants into uncertainty, stress and emotional exhaustion, raising urgent questions about transparency, accountability and the credibility of national competitive exams. The Hindu looks at whether this high-stake, single day, single shift, all- India exam for admission to all medical courses in India should be decentralized. Guests: Dr. G.R. Ravindranath, founder and general secretary, Doctors' Association for Social Equality & Balaji Sampath, founder, AhaGuru, prepares students for NEET, JEE and Board exam through online courses. Host: Bindu Shajan Perappadan Producer: Jude Francis Weston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the People-First Builders Podcast, Fletcher Wimbush sits down with Richard Douglass, President of TruMark Homes and Communities, to explore how decentralized leadership creates stronger teams, better projects, and thriving company cultures in the homebuilding industry. Richard shares lessons from decades of navigating California's complex building environment, why construction is the ultimate "team sport," and how empowering people at every level leads to better decision-making and stronger communities. From hiring strategies and leadership development to trust, mission alignment, and creating opportunities for growth, this conversation dives deep into what it takes to build organizations where people truly flourish. Richard also explains how TruMark approaches collaboration with trades, develops future leaders, and maintains a culture where teammates support each other both professionally and personally. If you're interested in leadership, culture, hiring, or the future of construction and development, this episode delivers practical insights from a seasoned industry leader who believes that great communities start with great people.

In this episode, Lex chats with Evan Malanga — Chief Revenue Officer of Yuma, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group focused on growing the Bittensor ecosystem. They discuss how Bittensor's $6 billion protocol incentivises AI builders worldwide through token emissions across 128 competing subnets, and why the network has produced real commercial outputs — including a 72 billion parameter model trained on-chain and a coding agent rivalling Claude at a fraction of the cost. Evan explains Yuma's role as the institutional gateway to Bittensor through its validator, accelerator, and asset management products, and they explore why the concentration of AI in OpenAI and Anthropic is a systemic risk, and whether Bittensor's future extends beyond AI into a broader coordination engine for decentralised work. NOTABLE DISCUSSION POINTS: Bittensor has crossed from experimentation into shipping benchmark-competitive work at a fraction of centralized cost. Three recent proof points: Templar (subnet 3) completed the largest decentralized pre-training run of a 72B parameter model using only the network's token incentives. Ridges, an AI agent platform, is hitting 88–90% on software engineering benchmarks, on par with Claude-class agents at ~5x cheaper, built by a 3-to-5-person team under $10M of token emissions. Score (subnet 44) is doing computer vision 200x faster than centralized counterparts. Small distributed teams are producing outputs competitive with frontier labs without raising venture capital or hiring staff. Dynamic TAO restructured emissions from validator-curated to market-curated, making each subnet its own tradeable asset. Previously, dominant validators assigned weights that determined how the 7,200 daily TAO emission flowed across subnets. Under Dynamic TAO, each of the 128 subnets has its own token denominated in TAO, and any holder can buy or sell into specific subnets, pricing them like a market rather than a committee vote. Subnet owners, miners, and validators earn fees in the respective subnet token. Distribution has settled into a power law: the top ten subnets hold ~80% of market cap. This is the move that turned Bittensor from “decentralized AI protocol” into a financial hyperstructure with hundreds of tokenized work markets layered on top. The economics for subnet owners are genuinely unusual — hundreds of millions in annual incentives, fully subsidized labor, no fundraising. A subnet owner gets access to up to ~256 miners globally competing to satisfy their problem statement, with miner compensation paid by protocol emissions rather than the subnet owner. At current TAO prices, annual incentives across the network run into hundreds of millions; at higher prices, this approaches $1B/year up for grabs. No hiring, no benefits, no recruiting, the network runs as a continuous adversarial competition where validators rank miner outputs. This is the mechanical answer to “why would an AI researcher choose Bittensor over Silicon Valley”, and explains why researchers at Meta and Google reportedly mine Bittensor on nights and weekends, with top miners on subnets like Ridges earning ~$30,000/day. TOPICS Yuma, Bittensor, Digital Currency Group, DCG, OpenAI, Anthropic, Foundry, Templar, Ridges, Bitcoin, Meta, Google, BlackRock, JPMorgan, Decentralized AI, Crypto, Blockchain, AI, Tokenomics, Decentralized Science, DeSci, AI Agents, Computer Vision, Proof of Work, Tokenization, Real World Assets, RWA, Machine Economy   ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT

Nicolas Alejandro Bogliolo is the AI PM at Despegar, the largest online travel agency in Latin America, and the engineer-product-hybrid behind Sofia, the GenAI travel concierge that beat most of the OTA world to a working multi-agent system. Before MCP was a standard and before LangChain was widely adopted, his team had already shipped their own orchestration layer and tool protocol in production. This conversation is a rare look at what it takes to build an agentic system that actually books trips, runs on WhatsApp, and keeps adding capabilities without falling over.What we cover:- Chappi, the brain of Sofia: how Despegar built an internal orchestration layer when there was nothing off the shelf- Building "MCP before MCP": the custom tool-calling protocol that predated the Anthropic standard- Multi-agent architecture by vertical: flights, hotels, activities, and cars each own their own flow- Decentralized agent ownership: how any squad in the company can build a flow with central supervision- Sofia on WhatsApp: making messaging the consumer control center, the way Slack became it for the enterprise- The five-phase travel arc Sofia covers: dreaming, planning, anticipation, in-trip, and post-trip- KPI evolution: why "in-scope conversation rate" topped out near 96 percent and what they measure now- The flight-delay-claim use case and why filing claims through a chatbot is a perfect agent task- Group trip planning in WhatsApp groups: the next frontier for travel agents- Sofia as channel of choice: the WeChat-style vision for an agent that handles your entire trip- Why Despegar held off on giving Sofia the ability to bargain with customers, for now. Whether you are building production agents, running an OTA, or just curious about how an AI travel concierge actually works under the hood, this episode is full of grounded, in-production lessons from a team that had to invent the patterns the rest of us are now adopting.Links and Resources:- Despegar: https://www.despegar.com- Sofia announcement: https://investor.despegar.com/news-presentations/news-releases/news-details/2024/Despegar-revolutionizes-the-tourism-industry-introducing-the-regions-first-Generative-AI-Travel-Assistant- Sofia coverage on PhocusWire: https://www.phocuswire.com/despegar-debuts-genai-travel-assistant-remembers-previous-interactions- MLOps Community: https://mlops.community- Subscribe for more agent and AI infra deep divesTimestamps 00:00 - Intro: Nicolas, Sofia, and Despegar in LatAm01:30 - Chappi as the brain of Sofia and the squad model04:00 - Anyone in the company can build a flow07:00 - Why airline check-in still exists and what agents could replace09:30 - The flight-delay refund story and the chatbot gap13:00 - File-the-claim-for-me as a perfect agent use case16:00 - The dreaming phase: helping users who do not know where to go yet19:00 - In-scope conversation KPI hitting 96 percent and what comes next22:00 - Beating the traditional flight search UI with conversation25:00 - WhatsApp group trip planning and the ski trip example28:00 - Personalization at scale and the new gateway to the internet31:00 - WhatsApp as the consumer control center, like WeChat in China34:00 - Sofia as gateway: complaints, customer service, and verticalized agents37:00 - Building MCP before MCP and the custom orchestration layer40:00 - Why Sofia does not negotiate prices, yet#AIAgents #MCP #AgenticAI

Michaël van de Poppe joins The Rollup to cover how AI IPOs are about to mint billions and how smart money is rotating into digital assets next. Michaël van de Poppe runs a multi-strategy hybrid digital assets fund based in the Netherlands.The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world.Timestamps:00:00 Intro00:40 The Fund Explained01:03 Fund Thesis Overview02:02 What Fundamentals Matter03:05 2017 vs. Now04:28 The Barbell Approach05:25 Next Unlock: DeFi + AI06:39 Decentralized Compute Thesis08:42 Decentralized vs. Centralized11:04 Zcash Hot Take11:36 Michael Saylor Strategy12:23 Four Year Cycle Dead?14:00 Bitcoin Levels to Watch15:24 Bitcoin vs. Gold Correlation16:09 Does Nasdaq Need to Lead?17:22 AI IPOs & Crypto Rotation18:23 Where AI Money Goes NextWebsite: https://therollup.co/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P6ZeYd...Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcastFollow us on X: https://www.x.com/therollupcoFollow Rob on X: https://x.com/robbieklagesFollow Andy on X: https://x.com/andyyyJoin our TG group: https://t.me/+TsM1CRpWFgk1NGZhThe Rollup Disclosures: https://goodidea.ventures

The decentralization of digital media has arrived for TV. The TV advertising system is being remade in the image of the data-focused, automated ad systems that came to dominate the internet. TV was always the holdout, thanks to scarcity. That's changed...

XRP Las Vegas 2026 runs April 30 to May 1 and draws Ripple executives, regulators, and institutional investors, coinciding with the listing of Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin on OKX and a formal Ripple-OKX partnership announced April 29.~This episode is sponsored by Tangem~Tangem ➜ https://bit.ly/TangemPBNUse Code: "PBN" for Additional Discounts!Guest: Ayo Akinyele - Head of Engineering RippleX Dev00:00 Intro00:30 Quantum threat possibility02:30 Devs vs Quantum04:30 Timeline05:50 Will you be ready by 2030?07:00 A.I. on Ripple08:00 A.I. in a year09:20 Institutional Defi10:30 Decentralized identity11:30 Confidential RLUSD12:40 RWAs#XRP #Crypto #xrpnews ~XRP Quantum Resistance

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with former Suriname presidential candidate Maya Parbhoe. They discuss this small South American country and Maya's radical ideas to completely transform it, her backstory, recent controversy related to her presidential run, and where Bitcoin fits in to her ideas.   GUEST → https://x.com/MayaPar25  → https://x.com/srdecentralized     WATCHMAN'S TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com    ESCAPE THE TECHNOCRACY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com  (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com  (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy    SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html    TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:00 – Suriname 8:00 – About Maya Parhoe 20:55 – Running for president of Suriname 32:20 – How to transform a country like Suriname 51:40 – Maya Parbhoe recent controversy 1:06:20 – Future endeavors for Maya Parbhoe 1:13:15 – Final thoughts   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

A prediction market trades on outcomes. An information market trades on knowledge. Fielding makes the case for the latter. --- Heads up! If you haven't yet, be sure to subscribe to Bits + Bips, since the show will migrate there in a few weeks. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Unchained⁠⁠⁠⁠ and wherever you get your podcasts. ---- What if the biggest constraint on AI is not compute or data, but trust? Ben Fielding, CEO and co-founder of Gensys, spent years as a machine learning researcher before concluding that decentralized hardware was the only path to true scale, and that blockchain was the only technology that could make machines trust each other without human intermediaries. With the launch of Delphi, Gensys's onchain information market built on an OP stack L2, Fielding puts his theory to the test while making the case that prediction markets have been asking the wrong question all along, and that the long tail of markets no one has thought to create yet is where the real opportunity lies. Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Steve Ehrlich, Head of Research at SharpLink and Host of Bits + Bips: The Interview - https://x.com/Steven_Ehrlich Guest: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ben Fielding, CEO & Co-Founder, Gensys @BenFielding Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 For episode 249 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're excited to welcome Alinagwe Mwaselela, Director of JUKUMU TZ, and Coleen Chase, Co-Founder of The Solar Foundation. This is a continuation of our recent conversation exploring the work of The Solar Foundation and their partners in Tanzania. In part one, we looked at the partnership from a higher level, and today, we're going to the ground level, hearing directly from the team that works with close to 300 savings groups across Tanzania.In today's discussion you'll learn:

Join Dr. Chad Spensky, Founder and CEO of Allthenticate, for a deep dive into the persistent "stupidity" of modern security. Despite billions spent on cybersecurity, 86% of breaches still involve simple credential theft—essentially, hackers just walking through the front door. A former researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and a veteran of world-class hacking competitions, Chad is on a mission to prove that as long as we have passwords and centralized "secrets," we will always have phishing. In this episode, we strip away the marketing fluff to discuss the only permanent fix: a decentralized authentication ecosystem where credentials never leave your hardware.

For episode 718 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Peter Anthony, Co-founder of Perceptron, a decentralized data infrastructure for AI. While VCs have poured over $170 million into AI data infrastructure this past year, nearly all of it has gone to centralized models. Perceptron is the decentralized alternative, with over 700,000 real users sharing idle bandwidth to collect, structure, and verify data in real time across 150 countries. 

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

In this episode, Chad and Denny focus on a permissionless and decentralized ethos after the KelpDAO hack, but also spill some alpha about partner fee motivation.Swap now on THORChain https://swap.thorchain.org/ without KYC or limits!THORChain is a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol that lets users swap assets directly between blockchains without wrapping or using centralized exchanges. Its app layer ecosystem means developers can build decentralized apps that tap directly into liquidity across chains. Unlike most platforms, it offers real ownership of your assets, deep liquidity, and fast swaps in one seamless network.To learn more about THORChain, check out more videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMbeCjNJ5Eohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M_4N9-3ZUohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzHXrsaWT-whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5v9XiXAJ7gSwap now on THORChain https://swap.thorchain.org/ without KYC or limits!

Peter Anthony is the co-founder of Perceptron Network, a decentralised data infrastructure purpose-built for AI. A crypto native since 2019, Peter also runs The House of Crypto — one of the fastest-growing crypto YouTube channels — where years of speaking with founders convinced him that the next wave of blockchain projects would be defined by real revenues, real users, and real-world utility. Perceptron, which merged with the 700,000-node BlockMesh network in mid-2025, is his bet on what he sees as AI's biggest unsolved bottleneck: access to high-quality, affordable, real-time data. Why you should listen Data, not compute, is the real AI bottleneck. Peter opens by arguing that while the market has spent the last few years obsessing over GPUs and compute networks like Aethir and Akash, the harder problem sits upstream — the high-quality training data AI models actually need is locked behind paywalls. OpenAI reportedly pays Reddit around $70 million a year, with similar eye-watering cheques going to X, and that pay-to-play economy effectively freezes out smaller AI startups. Research groups like Epoch AI project the stock of public text data will be fully exhausted somewhere between 2026 and 2032, and even Sam Altman now concedes data — not compute — is the binding constraint. Perceptron's pitch is that a decentralised network can fix this by turning users' idle bandwidth into a globally distributed vantage point on the live web, at roughly a 90% cost advantage to traditional centralised data providers. A thousand eyes, one vision. Perceptron's architecture combines Perceptron Nodes — a software client that sits quietly in the background of a user's browser or Android device and lends out unused bandwidth — with Perceptron Agents embedded in Discord, Telegram and WeChat communities, plus a human-in-the-loop Questing app where contributors annotate datasets. The point isn't to harvest anyone's personal data; it's to aggregate geographically diverse viewpoints of the public web. Peter walks through the use cases this unlocks: an e-commerce operator seeing how their products rank simultaneously in New Zealand, the UK and the US; a quant desk arbitraging cross-border discrepancies in gold, oil or crypto prices in real time; a crypto trader spotting a sentiment shift across thousands of Telegram groups before it shows up on price. Perceptron is already supplying data to Everlyn AI, a text-to-image and text-to-video platform that would have been priced out through traditional suppliers. Freshness, sovereignty and a universal basic data income. Peter makes the case that data freshness is becoming the decisive edge for frontier models, because a ChatGPT or Claude answering questions about a fast-moving crypto market on four-month-old data is flying blind. He also makes a pointed argument about annotation bias — that when a narrow set of labellers with their own agendas decide what a dataset "means," the models downstream inherit those opinions — and contends that decentralised annotation is the counter. In the hot-take round Peter calls himself a multi-chain opportunist who still holds Bitcoin as the anchor, argues we're in a 2020-style bull market (not a 2022 bear), and reckons the real 10-year story of AI is that it will displace a lot of jobs but open up far more opportunity for anyone willing to pick up the tools now — pointing to Claude Code as a live example of a non-developer being able to ship working software in minutes. His sci-fi pick: Avatar — fittingly, recorded the day before a trip to Zhangjiajie, the real-world mountain range that inspired Pandora. Supporting links Stabull Finance Perceptron Andy on Twitter  Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin   If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

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"Focus on what you can control."In this episode, Vincent A. Lanci discusses managing mental health amidst global chaos, the decentralized identity crisis, and practical strategies for maintaining authenticity and purpose.As You Listen: 00:00 Embracing Vulnerability and Growth 01:39 Navigating World Weariness and Compassion Fatigue 04:50 Reclaiming Identity and Purpose 07:16 The Decentralized Identity Crisis 11:11 Performance Tax and Authenticity 14:22 Identity Audit and Personal Growth"It's not just in your head.""Be authentic, be yourself."Takeaways: -Forgive yourself for numbness to big news, it's a natural response. -Focus on your sphere of influence to regain control. -Use psychological frameworks like positive self-talk to boost resilience. -Pivot and grow through creative outlets and new pursuits. -Conduct an identity audit to reconnect with your core values.Send us Fan MailSupport the showThank you for being here. Don't forget to subscribe to stay current!Have a question for the host or guest? Want their freebee? Are you looking to become a guest or show partner? Email Danica at PodcastsByLanci@gmail.com.This show is brought to you by Living Proof TBI Coaching specializing in recovery for Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors, Families, and CaregiversCRISIS LINE: DIAL 988

Professor Richard Epstein critiques Senator Bernie Sanders' proposed moratorium on AI data centers, arguing that Sanders fundamentally misunderstands innovation and that his socialist rhetoric ignores the economic benefits of decentralized, small-scale technological development and startups. (3)942 B-17F

 Discover how a bold new approach to evaluating performance could revolutionize your organization. Jacob Chase shares groundbreaking insights on moving away from traditional systems to fully leverage collective intelligence, fairness, and meritocracy.   Main Topics Covered:  Why current centralized performance reviews are broken and how decentralization offers a solution  How stock market principles apply to internal organizational valuation  Building a culture of transparency through peer-to-peer feedback systems  Transforming pay equity via contribution-based assessments  Practical steps for leaders to pilot decentralized evaluation methods    Timestamps:  00:31 - Introduction to Jacob Chase and his background 01:34 - The story behind Infin and its purpose 02:23 - Fun fact: Jacob's chaotic car and the humor of parenthood 03:34 - The core topic: valuing organizational contribution beyond traditional pay structures 04:33 - What is pay equity in modern terms? 05:29 - The problem with centralized evaluation systems and the benefit of decentralized approaches 06:45 - How individual perspectives enrich performance assessment 08:27 - Learning from stock markets: decentralized valuation models applied internally 09:32 - Creating internal markets for credit attribution within organizations 10:00 - How collective intelligence can self-assess performance 10:46 - Safeguards and motivations in decentralized data collection 12:01 - Peer feedback, confidentiality, and fostering a feedback culture 13:21 - Cultural shift required for decentralized evaluation to succeed 14:01 - How performance data can shape careers and future growth 14:37 - Quantifying contributions versus narrative assessments 15:06 - Replacing traditional evaluations with real-time performance insights 16:20 - Using data to improve workforce decisions and recognition 17:05 - The econometrics of contribution and how it enables meritocracy 17:58 - The importance of true merit-based rewards and reducing bias 18:52 - Moving beyond incremental changes—wholesale transformation needed 19:12 - Practical steps for HR and leadership to pilot decentralized systems 22:01 - Starting with the executive team to build credibility 23:08 - Overcoming the fear of transparency and trust issues 24:06 - Long-term benefits: Fairness, transparency, and organizational excellence 24:44 - The power of fairness in motivating exceptional contribution 26:01 - Final thoughts: embracing decentralized performance for competitive advantage   Resources & Links:  Infin Platform  Stock Market as a Model for Internal Valuation  Performance Management Systems: Why They Fail  Build a Culture of Feedback    Connect with Jacob Chase:  LinkedIn  Twitter    Unlock the Future of Performance Management Today!  This isn't just a reset, it's a revolution. If you're ready to empower your team, eliminate bias, and create truly fair compensation, start with a bold step: decentralized, contribution-based evaluation. The future is fair, transparent, and driven by collective intelligence. Will you lead the change? 

Freedom is a minimalist browser for Swarm and IPFS. No centralized gateways. You connect directly to peers and become part of the network.GUEST: Meinhard Benn - Founder, Freedom BrowserDownload Freedom Browser Beta ➜ https://bit.ly/FreedomBrowser00:00 intro00:16 What is Freedom Browser?03:09 Censorship Resistance04:13 Browser Tradeoffs & Features06:27 ENS Demo07:52 Publishing Demo09:25 Cloudflare outage solution10:45 Social Media & DDOS Attacks12:08 Web3 Plugins15:12 Google Kills Our Interview16:33 Importance of Open-Source17:39 outro#Crypto #ethereum #tech ~Ethereum Launches War-Proof Browser To Kill Chrome?

In this episode of the Shift AI Podcast, Ajay Patel, Head of World ID at Tools for Humanity, joins host Boaz Ashkenazy for a timely and wide-ranging conversation on the identity crisis facing the internet in the age of AI agents.Ajay shares his career journey from hardware engineering to product and sales, through years at Google leading payments identity infrastructure managing how legal identity, verification, and payment data move across the entire company globally and ultimately to Tools for Humanity, where he saw the chance to tackle the root-level problem that his work at Google kept circling: if you don't know who you're dealing with, everything downstream breaks.The conversation digs into why the entire internet was built with the assumption that users are human and why that assumption is now collapsing as AI agents multiply. Ajay walks through the founding principles of World ID: privacy-preserving proof of humanity, uniqueness without revealing identity, and an open-source, decentralized architecture designed to have no single point of failure. He covers the challenge of making this system easy enough for non-technical users while still being cryptographically robust, and why inclusivity ensuring the billion people without legal identity can still participate is a core design constraint, not an afterthought.Boaz and Ajay explore the partnership with Coinbase and Cloudflare, how agent delegation will work in practice, what agentic commerce means for coupon fraud and chargebacks, and what a world with a hundred agents acting on your behalf could actually look like. The episode closes with a forward-looking discussion on new builders, mobile-first parallels, and why the certainty World ID brings to online interaction will unlock things we can't yet imagine.This episode is essential listening for anyone thinking about identity, trust, agentic systems, and what the infrastructure of the next internet needs to look like.Chapters[00:00] Introduction: Ajay's Journey from Hardware Engineer to World ID[02:02] The Identity Problem at the Heart of Google Payments[05:15] What Led Ajay to Tools for Humanity[07:33] The World ID Origin Story and Sam Altman's Vision[08:17] Why Every Internet System Assumes You're Human and Why That's Breaking[10:46] What World ID Is and How the Real Human Network Works[12:18] Open Source, Decentralized, and the Principles Behind the Architecture[13:37] Privacy, Security, Performance, and Inclusivity as Design Constraints[14:08] The Billion People Without Legal Identity[15:03] The Aadhaar and UPI Example: What Identity Unlocks at Scale[16:11] World ID 4.0 and the New Architecture for Key Management[17:56] Coupon Fraud, Free Trial Abuse, and Why This Is the Baseline Problem[19:50] How Agents Should Interface Differently Than Humans[21:00] The Coinbase and Cloudflare Partnership: Micro-Payments and Bot Rate-Limiting[21:48] Agent Delegation: Which Human Is Behind These Hundred Bots?[24:37] Government Use Cases, Polling, and Community Verification[25:13] Tinder, Gaming, Dating, and the Places Certainty Changes Everything[27:18] Painting the Picture: What Life Looks Like with 100 Agents Working for You[29:17] Mobile-First Parallels and What AI Natives Will Look Like[31:14] The Downside Is Real But the Upside Is Bigger[33:36] The Future in Two Words: Builders and Abundance[35:20] How to Learn More and Connect with AjayConnect with Ajay PatelLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajayppatel/Wesite: https://www.world.orgConnect with Boaz AshkenazyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boazashkenazy/Email: info@shiftai.fm

In this episode of the Live Free Now Show, I'm joined by Mike Winner and Jason Crowe, the founders of Qortal. We dive into what Qortal actually is, how it works, and why it's one of the most ambitious decentralized projects out there. Qortal is a fully custom-built, community-driven network designed to support a truly decentralized internet — from communication to commerce and beyond. We also talk about their collaboration with the Freedom Cell Network and how Qortal is helping build out new ways for freedom-minded people to connect, organize, and operate outside centralized platforms. We get into: • What makes Qortal different from traditional blockchain projects • How their unique consensus model works • Decentralized apps, communication, and data storage • Building parallel systems outside Big Tech • The future of the Freedom Cell Network on decentralized infrastructure If you're interested in sovereignty, decentralization, and building real alternatives — this is a conversation worth tuning into. Learn more about the project here: https://qortal.org/  

GFA 486. Irv Taylor shares how a Stripe chargeback freeze nearly wiped him out after pre-paying a Yiwu factory for the year — and why he pivoted to building Unified AI, a decentralized marketplace for specialized AI agents modeled after Yiwu's wholesale market.

In this episode David and Bill discuss what makes them angry, the importance of hard conversations and answers your questions about what is "decentralized" ministry. For more information please visit. RevolveChurchNJ.com

13. THE TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN DRONE WARFAREGUEST: Henry Sokolski Henry Sokolski explores the evolution of warfare in Ukraine, highlighting the strategic use of Starlink and decentralized drone procurement. He also notes how AI-powered targeting from Palantir has significantly increased combat effectiveness. (13)AUGUST 1931

Gerald Peters pauses his chapter series to deliver a passionate, plainspoken case for Bitcoin as a tool of human freedom and financial empowerment. He explains how Bitcoin is decentralized, how people can borrow against their holdings without selling, and shares real-world examples of helping everyday people get started with small investments. Peters encourages listeners to learn, secure their assets, and consider Bitcoin as part of a broader wealth-building strategy while promising to return to the Science of Getting Rich series soon.

-Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand, has acquired Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumes. -The famous fan fiction website Archive of Our Own or AO3 has finally exited open beta, 17 years after it launched way back in 2009. -Flipboard is rolling out its latest experiment, "social websites." The project offers publishers and creators an easier path into what's often called the "open social web," which includes the fediverse, as well as other protocol-based platforms like Bluesky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this lively April 1 episode of POD256, we cut through the April Fools noise to share real updates from the open-source Bitcoin mining front. We preview the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, celebrate renewed grants for the 256 Foundation's four core projects (Mujina firmware, Libre Board, Ember One hashboard, and Hydra Pool), and discuss our all-Bitcoin treasury experiment paying developer grants in sats based on cost basis. We dive deep on unlocking Bitmain control boards, porting Mujina to Amlogic-based Antminers, model guardrails, and running AI-assisted development workflows. We also highlight the power and resilience of open source—from LLM client code leaks to community forks like Ashigaru/Whirlpool—and give shoutouts to our Hydra Pool hashers and the slick new Bitaxe Touch. For show-and-tell, Skot unveils the Bitaxe Bonanza: an open-source miner built around Intel BMZ2 chips donated to the 256 Foundation, targeting ~1.2 TH/s with a robust heatsink, 12V fan, and a clever sidecar for Intel's 9-bit serial protocol. We discuss why accessible, non-Bitmain chips matter for home miners and heat-reuse projects, how UTXOracle can provide price data without third-party APIs, and why open tools and community collaboration are accelerating the dismantling of the proprietary mining empire. Join us next week—same time, same channel.

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:

The surge in renewables and decentralized power is reshaping grids—and exposing them to new operational and cyber risks. In this episode, Rafael Narezzi, Co-Founder & CEO of Centrii, explains how rising connectivity widens the attack surface, leaving energy infrastructure increasingly vulnerable.

High-growth founders are leaving Dubai to build a sovereign AI stack in El Salvador. In this episode, we chat about how the Bitcoin Standard is attracting elite builders who are abandoning fiat luxury for true proof of work. Amir Starks (@starks_arq) explains the strategic transition from the Middle East to the volcanic energy of El Zonte to secure his agency's future.The disruption of legacy entertainment is accelerating as independent creators move to fire Hollywood with 21 million sats and generative AI. By leveraging open-source models and narrative consistency, small teams now out-compete the massive budgets of Disney. This shift represents a total liquidation of the old gatekeeper model through decentralized film production and a new content strategy for the digital age.El Salvador is positioning itself as a future tech hub by integrating Nvidia Blackwell into its national infrastructure. This technical evolution goes beyond simple Bitcoin adoption, creating a physical base for compute-heavy industries to thrive without IMF or state-level interference. The collision of sound money and computing power is turning the country into a digital fortress for the sovereign individual.Building a sovereign creative agency requires a radical departure from standard visual arts and fiat-based business models. Amir shares how ARQ uses Bitcoin to maintain a low time preference strategy while mastering creative direction outside the master's house. This approach allows builders to operate beyond the censorship risks inherent in legacy platforms.The future of storytelling allows authors to turn a book into a short film using AI for a fraction of traditional costs. As El Salvador proves the viability of the Bitcoin Standard, the rest of the world must choose between stagnation and the frontier. This conversation is the blueprint for anyone ready to stop building on rented land and join the decentralized media revolution.—Bitcoin Beach TeamConnect and Learn more about Amir Diba:X: https://x.com/starks_arqIG: https://www.instagram.com/starks_arqWeb (Company): https://arq.live/YT: @ARQ.StudiosSupport and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com Browse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro01:59 Moving a tech startup from Dubai to El Salvador06:46 How Generative AI is disrupting Hollywood studios11:17 Building a Sovereign AI business with Bitcoin18:19 Marketing a Sovereign Nation using AI film25:13 Decentralized media and AI narrative consistency37:07 Bitcoin Beach grit vs Dubai fiat luxury culture44:41 How independent AI creators out-compete Disney54:04 Nvidia Blackwell: El Salvador as a global AI hub1:03:44 Turning books into movies with AI storytellingLive From Bitcoin Beach

In this Episode Greg and Scott explore the concept of resiliency through both human behavior and regenerative farming systems. Scott Murray shares practical strategies for adapting to stress, uncertainty, and environmental challenges while building stronger personal and agricultural systems. The conversation connects biological resilience, seen in ecosystems and farms, to everyday preparedness, food security, and mindset. Listeners walk away with six actionable ways to improve resilience in their homes, gardens, and lives.Our Guest: Scott Murray has over 50 years of experience in organic agriculture across the U.S. and Mexico and has served as a California conservation official for 33 years. He specializes in farm creation, farmland preservation, and regenerative polyculture systems. Scott now leads pioneering research and consulting on California-grown coffee, managing multi-variety trials and agroforestry-based plantations.Key TopicsResiliency (human and ecological definitions)Carrying capacity in biological systemsRegenerative farming principlesPolyculture vs monoculture systemsWater management and irrigation strategiesSoil health and biological farmingOrganic vs chemical agriculture debateFood security and home food productionCut-and-come-again gardening methodEmergency preparedness (food, water, go-bags)Decentralized food systems and local resilienceMindset and mental preparednessWhat is resiliency and how does it apply to daily life?Resiliency is the ability to adapt and recover from stress, adversity, or disruption. Like a rubber band returning to its original shape, humans can build emotional, mental, and behavioral flexibility to regain balance after challenges.How does resiliency show up in farming systems?In agriculture, resiliency comes from designing balanced ecosystems with diversity, proper water management, and healthy soil biology. Farms that mimic natural systems are better able to withstand environmental and economic shocks.Why is polyculture more resilient than monoculture?Polyculture systems grow multiple crops together, creating layered ecosystems that reduce risk, improve soil health, and increase productivity. If one crop fails, others can still thrive, ensuring more stable yields.Can organic systems produce enough food?Yes. The belief that organic farming cannot feed the world is a misconception. With proper design and soil management, organic systems can be highly productive and sustainable.What is “cut and come again” gardening?It's a harvesting method where you remove outer leaves from plants like lettuce, kale, or chard, allowing them to regrow and produce continuously over months instead of a single harvest.How can families increase food resilience at home?By growing even a small portion of their food, storing shelf-stable items, and building relationships with neighbors or local growers, families can buffer against disruptions in the food system.Why is water management critical for resilient farming?Efficient irrigation—such as shorter, more frequent watering—prevents waste, improves plant health, and reduces stress on crops, especially in drought-prone regions.What role does mindset play in resilience?Mental preparedness is foundational. When individuals are prepared and confident, they respond to crises with clarity rather than panic, enabling better decision-making.Episode HighlightsResiliency is like a rubber band—stretch, recover, return to balanceFarms of the future rely on biodiversity and natural systemsOverwatering and poor design can silently destroy farm productivityCutting water use in half can actually improve plant healthOne ounce of wheat seed can yield a five-gallon bucket of grain“Cut and come again” gardening extends harvests for monthsFood is more valuable than gold in times of crisisPreparedness reduces stress and increases adaptabilityResourcesUrban Farm Podcast - https://www.urbanfarm.orgEdge of Urban Farm - http://edgeofurbanfarm.comJohn Jeavons Urban Farm Podcast Episodes https://www.urbanfarm.org/2019/02/16/423-john-jeavons/ https://www.urbanfarm.org/2019/02/19/424-john-jeavons/Visit https://www.urbanfarm.org/futurefarms for the show notes on this episode, and access to our full podcast library! Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges. You can chat with Greg or choose one of the senior members of our Urban Farm team to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!*Disclosure: Some of the links in our podcast show notes and blog posts are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase, we will earn a nominal commission at no cost to you. We offer links to items recommended by our podcast guests and guest writers as a service to our audience and these items are not selected because of the commission we receive from your purchases. We know the decision is yours, and whether you decide to buy something is completely up to you.

Why did Bittensor's TAO token price double in the past month? Bittensor's native token TAO has more than doubled this month as staking activity surges across the network's AI subnets. The decentralized machine learning marketplace is drawing fresh attention from builders and investors betting on the intersection of crypto and AI. Jennifer Sanasie breaks down what's driving the rally on CoinDesk Daily. - 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 https://nexo.com/coindesk. - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with David Lachmish, co-founder of Ika, to explore the cutting-edge world of decentralized cryptography and its real-world applications. They cover the foundational problem of zero-trust custody and interoperability in crypto, breaking down why most people end up relying on centralized custodians despite crypto's original promise of removing third-party trust, and how Ika's novel 2PC-MPC cryptographic protocol addresses this with decentralized wallets (d-wallets) that require both the user and the Ika network to generate a signature. The conversation also touches on AI agents and the critical need for access control guardrails when agents handle real financial transactions, the philosophical parallels between crypto's growing pains and the early internet, decentralized governance and its potential to reshape how societies make decisions, and a surprising look at how decentralized certificate authorities could dramatically improve everyday internet security. David also gives a first public mention of an upcoming privacy-focused project called Encrypt.Links mentioned:- Ika website: https://ika.xyz- Ika on X: https://x.com/iкаdotxyz- David Lachmish on X: https://x.com/d3h3d_- Encrypt (upcoming project): https://encrypt.xyzTimestamps00:00 - David Lachmish introduces Ika and DWallet Labs, explaining their cybersecurity and cryptography background led them to solve zero trust custody and interoperability.05:00 - The d wallet concept is revealed as a decentralized signing mechanism controlled jointly by user and network, requiring new cryptography breakthroughs.10:00 - Crypto's philosophical parallels to early Internet are drawn, framing scams and misuse as inevitable growing pains of transformative infrastructure.15:00 - Wallet abstraction and agent constraints are explored, comparing future seamless crypto interaction to modern WiFi versus early modem connections.20:00 - Public key cryptography's binary ownership problem is explained, leading into MPC secret shares and Fireblocks' centralized access control tradeoffs.25:00 - 2PC MPC protocol is introduced as Ika's breakthrough, enabling decentralized policy enforcement without trusting any single entity.30:00 - Decentralized governance via token staking and code as law is discussed, contrasting corporate representative governance with crypto's direct decision-making.35:00 - Futarchy prediction markets and decision trees are connected to knowledge graphs, tracing humanity's accelerating governance transition.40:00 - Automation's historical parallels are examined, arguing AI's displacement of lawyers and developers mirrors every prior technological revolution.45:00 - Bitcoin and Ethereum's uncertain futures are assessed alongside Ika's positioning in custody and interoperability infrastructure.50:00 - Zero trust interoperability is explained, revealing how bridges create dangerous honeypots that Ika eliminates through native cryptographic control.55:00 - MetaMask's limitations for agents are detailed, contrasting stored private keys against Ika's policy-enforced guardrails for agentic transactions.60:00 - HumanTech's Wallet as a Protocol is presented as a practical way to give agents spending policies while maintaining user cryptographic control.65:00 - Decentralized certificate authorities emerge as Ika's broader cybersecurity vision, eliminating single points of failure across the entire Internet.Key Insights1. Zero Trust Custody and Interoperability: David and his cofounders at DWallet Labs identified that most cryptocurrency is held by centralized custodians, which contradicts crypto's core purpose of removing third-party trust. They set out to create "zero trust custody and zero trust interoperability" — systems where users maintain cryptographic control without sacrificing usability or relying on any single entity.2. The D-Wallet Primitive: Ika is built around a new cryptographic concept called a "d-wallet" — a decentralized wallet controlled jointly by the user and a decentralized network. A signature cannot be generated without the user's participation, meaning even if all network operators are compromised, they cannot act unilaterally. This required inventing new cryptography called 2PC-MPC.3. Access Control as the Missing Layer: Traditional crypto wallets operate on binary ownership — you either have full control or none. The d-wallet model introduces programmable access control policies enforced by a decentralized network, enabling features like spending limits and whitelisted addresses without trusting a centralized company like Fireblocks.4. Bridges Are Crypto's Biggest Security Vulnerability: Interoperability across blockchains typically requires trusting a bridge, which creates a honeypot for hackers. Ika eliminates this by allowing users to natively control assets on multiple chains simultaneously, maintaining cryptographic guarantees without a trusted intermediary.5. AI Agents Need Cryptographic Guardrails: Giving AI agents control over crypto wallets like MetaMask is dangerous due to hallucination and prompt injection risks. Ika enables agents to operate within strict, code-enforced policies — they can transact autonomously but cannot exceed boundaries set by the user, combining automation with genuine security.6. Decentralized Governance as a Structural Advantage: Ika operates as a permissionless network where two-thirds of token-staking operators control the protocol's direction. Even the founding team cannot unilaterally change the network, making governance transparent and resistant to capture — a meaningful contrast to closed, corporate-controlled systems.7. Decentralized Certificate Authorities as a Future Application: Beyond crypto, David envisions d-wallets solving broader cybersecurity problems. Today's internet relies on a handful of certificate authorities whose compromise would break global web security. A decentralized certificate authority built on Ika's infrastructure would require attacking hundreds of operators simultaneously, representing a fundamental upgrade to how trust is managed across the internet.

For episode 694 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Trevor Harries-Jones, Board Director for Render Network, a decentralized GPU network powering some of the world's biggest visual and entertainment projects, including Las Vegas Sphere visuals, Super Bowl trailers, and Coachella stage shows. They are emerging as a counterweight to GPU consolidation and an alternative compute layer for AI and real-time rendering. 

In this Special Africa Edition of the Edge of Show, In this episode, host Josh Krieger and co-host Nefertiti Strong are joined by Mercy Fordwoo and Megan Hess from WADA Global, who are at the forefront of blockchain adaptation and community-driven economic growth across sub-Saharan Africa.Join us as we explore:The unique opportunities and challenges of Web3 adoption in Africa.Inspiring use cases, including innovative solutions for medical records and financial transactions.The impact of the recent Cardano African Tech Summit and how it has empowered local developers and communities.Insights into the future of decentralized intelligence and the role of local voices in shaping the tech landscape.Discover how WADA Global is creating access points for local communities and pushing for inclusion in the tech space. This episode is packed with valuable insights for dreamers, disruptors, and doers passionate about innovation and culture.Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay updated on our latest episodes!Support us through our Sponsors! ☕ Want to make content like ours? Sign up with Castmagic to make your creative process easy: https://bit.ly/CastmagicReferral Work smarter, grow faster. Automate your SEO, get AI insights, and manage all your clients in one place with Helm. Start today at helmseo.comAre you a content creator, podcaster or interested in your business getting its voice out there? Then reserve a .podcast domain by paying just one-time as little as $10 for a lifetime of benefits! Check out the details and snag your .podcast domain today! https://get.unstoppabledomains.com/podcast/

After the US and Israel attacked Iran, Tehran's strategy of asymmetric warfare is clear: it closed the Strait of Hormuz and is attacking energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, causing global oil and natural gas prices to skyrocket, crashing stock markets, fueling inflation, and provoking an economic crisis that will hurt the USA and its allies. The conflict has also become a battle of attrition. Iran is using cheap missiles and drones to deplete the defense interceptors of neighboring countries, which will be very difficult to replace, due to deindustrialization, despite Trump administration efforts to boost production. Ben Norton explains. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAc9mgZrE6E Topics 0:00 Iran conflict becomes war of attrition 1:10 US strategy: "punch them while they're down" 1:45 US military vs Iranian military 2:25 Asymmetric warfare 3:30 Decentralized mosaic defense doctrine 4:13 Guerrilla economic warfare 5:08 Oil price skyrockets to over $100 5:30 Strait of Hormuz closed 6:00 Energy infrastructure hit in Persian Gulf 7:19 Economic crisis on horizon 7:54 Trump: it's a "small price to pay" 8:46 Inflation fuels inequality 9:47 US midterm election coming soon 10:46 Donald Trump's approval rating 11:08 Fertilizer supply chain breakdown 11:28 Food price shock 12:33 Dubai airport shut down 12:54 Gulf monarchy reputation crisis 14:06 Iranian drones vs expensive missiles 15:15 Iran's Shahed 136 drone 16:56 Missile math in asymmetric war 18:47 Military-industrial complex profits 19:24 Gulf runs out of interceptor missiles 20:29 USA prioritizes Israel over GCC 23:26 What does victory look like? 25:25 US allies need more munitions 26:25 Deindustrialization 28:08 Trump meets with weapons CEOs 29:16 Corruption in Pentagon 30:49 Wall Street wins 31:45 US empire underestimates rivals 32:28 Iran destroys radar system 33:07 Iran hits energy infrastructure 33:32 Hotels hosting US military officials 34:54 US military uses civilian ports 36:10 Gulf monarchies are not neutral 37:08 Top oil producers, by country 37:35 Top oil exporters, by country 38:24 Top natural gas producers 38:39 Top LNG exporters 39:11 Strait of Hormuz alternatives 40:10 Saudi alternative oil pipeline 41:11 Iraq and Kurdish fighters 42:31 Insurance companies avoid region 43:13 Trump Hormuz US Navy proposal 44:15 China in talks with Iran 44:58 Asia imports most Gulf energy 45:38 China stockpiles commodities 47:58 China renewable energy strategy 49:23 India wants Russian oil 49:57 India's ties with USA & Israel 51:39 South Korea hurt by oil crisis 52:12 Europe faces new inflation shock 52:39 EU wants Russian oil 53:17 Ukraine backs Gulf dictatorships 54:08 Geopolitical reality 54:53 Gulf monarchy propaganda 56:00 Foreign nationals in GCC countries 56:34 Migrant workers in Persian Gulf 58:32 Asymmetric warfare results 59:59 End of "strategic patience" doctrine 1:00:55 Supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei 1:01:57 Nuclear weapons 1:03:29 Clear losers of Iran war 1:04:42 Outro

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Every Banking - https://Every.iohttps://Lemon.io - Lemon.io/twistWispr Flow - https://wisprflow.ai/twistPlaud - https://plaud.ai/twistRo.co - https://Ro.co/TwistToday's show:*Sure, we all love open source models, but what about completely decentralized AI? Rather than leaving the big decision-making in the hands of a few elite CEOs, shouldn't users have a say — and potentially even a stake — in how this incredible technology develops?On TWiST, we welcome Ala Shaabana of Crucible Labs, one of the co-founders of Bittensor. It's an open-source protocol powering a blockchain-based machine learning network. What does that mean? Users mine a crypto token — $TAO — but rather than using up their compute on solving extremely long equations, they devote it to actually powering a range of innovative AI apps (aka subnets).Plus we've got Mark Jeffrey, co-founder of the Bittensor Fund Stillcore Capital, to show us some of his favorite subnet projects, and walk us through how he trained his AI agent to mine crpyto.All that AND two amazing new OpenClaw demos.Mark Jeffrey: https://x.com/markjeffreyStillcore Capital: https://stillcorecapital.com/Ala Shaabana (Crucible Labs): https://x.com/CrucibleLabsMichael Ryaboy (Setup Claw): https://setupclaw.com/Pete and Maddie Reese (Bizzby AI): https://bizzby.ai/Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:28 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at https://Plaud.ai/twist and use code TWIST for 10% off!04:11 The booming intersection of crypto, and AI agents05:49 Mark Jeffrey joins the show!06:13 Bittensor explained — how TAO subsidizes AI products07:37 Mark's top Bittensor projects00:10:40 https://Every.io - For all of your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes or other back-office administration needs, visit https://every.io.00:12:20 How subnet tokens work00:17:34 How the Crucible Labs wallet simplifies subnet token allocation00:19:33 https://Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist00:22:42 The importance of private inference and encrypted AI prompts00:29:36 Wispr Flow: Stop typing. Dictate with Wispr Flow and send clean, final-draft writing in seconds. Visit https://wisprflow.ai/twist to get started for free today.00:33:07 How AI is restoring old movies and media!00:40:57 SetUpClaw's “set it and forget it” AI agents00:45:50 https://Ro.co: Ro's insurance checker will let you know if your coverage includes GLP-1s for FREE. Go to https://Ro.co/Twist for your free insurance check.00:54:35 “Off-duty” with Lon and JasonSubscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.comCheck out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.comSubscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcpFollow Lon:X: https://x.com/lonsFollow Alex:X: https://x.com/alexLinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelmFollow Jason:X: https://twitter.com/JasonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanisCheck out all our partner offers: https://partners.launch.co/Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarlandCheck out Jason's suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanisFollow TWiST:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartupsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartupsTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartupsSubstack: https://twistartups.substack.com

Ahmad Sharawi reports on prisoner exchanges between Damascus and the Druze, suggesting a path toward decentralized stability and minority rights in a war-torn Syria. Guest: Bill Roggio, Ahmad Sharawi. 16.