Conversations with the founders, protocol architects, and enterprise operators building the financial infrastructure layer for the autonomous economy.
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Sreeram Kannan is the founder of EigenLayer, the protocol that invented the concept of crypto-economic restaking — a primitive that allows Ethereum validators to extend cryptoeconomic security to new protocols without requiring them to bootstrap their own validator sets.
Before EigenLayer, Sreeram was an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
EigenLayer has raised over $164M from a16z crypto, Polychain, Hack VC, Blockchain Capital, and dao5, securing over $14B in Ethereum TVL across 120+ Actively Validated Services (AVS).
Sreeram walks through the invention of restaking, why Ethereum's economic security was always the deepest moat in crypto, and how EigenLayer unlocks an entirely new design space for protocols that can now share that security without bootstrapping their own validator sets.
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Michael Heinrich is the Co-founder & CEO of 0G Labs, building the world's first decentralized AI operating system — a modular blockchain purpose-built for AI workloads that need sub-second finality and massive data throughput.
Before 0G, Michael was the CEO of Garten (YC-backed, $100M+ raised) and held roles at Allianz, SAP, and Bain & Company. He holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
0G Labs is building toward becoming the foundational infrastructure layer for on-chain AI agents, models, and data marketplaces.
Michael Heinrich on building 0G — the modular AI blockchain designed to make on-chain AI viable at scale. We explore why current infrastructure can't support the data throughput AI workloads demand, and how 0G's modular design separates consensus, storage, and compute into independently optimized layers.
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Prabal Banerjee is a Co-founder of Avail, a trust-minimized modular blockchain focused on data availability — the foundational layer that lets rollups and app-chains scale without sacrificing security.
Prabal is a cryptography researcher with a PhD in theoretical computer science. Avail was spun out of Polygon in 2023 to independently focus on the data availability layer of the modular stack.
Avail has raised $75M+ from Founders Fund, Dragonfly, Cyber Fund, and Figment Capital, and its testnet has processed billions of transactions.
Prabal Banerjee on Avail's thesis that the future of blockchain is modular — where data availability, execution, and settlement become specialized layers. We discuss why data availability is the missing primitive for the rollup-centric future and how Avail's light client design fundamentally changes scalability economics.
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Trevor Koverko is a Co-founder of Sapien, a decentralized AI data network that pays humans to label, verify, and contribute high-quality data for AI model training.
Trevor previously co-founded Polymath, a pioneering security token platform, and has been active across Web3 infrastructure for nearly a decade.
Sapien has built one of the largest decentralized data workforces in Web3, with contributors across 60+ countries producing labeled data for Fortune 500 AI customers.
Trevor Koverko on why the bottleneck for AI isn't compute or models — it's high-quality, domain-specific data. Sapien is building a gamified, Web3-native data labeling network that turns data contribution into an economic activity rewarded by tokens.
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Art Abal is a Co-founder of Vana, the first Layer 1 blockchain where users own, govern, and monetize the data they generate — flipping the data-extraction model of Web2 into a data-ownership economy.
Before Vana, Art led product and engineering teams across Web3 infrastructure companies, focusing on the intersection of privacy, cryptography, and user-centric economics.
Vana has raised $25M from Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain, and MH Ventures, and today powers dozens of Data DAOs where users pool, govern, and license their data.
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Every conversation, from the bleeding edge of restaking and decentralized AI to the infrastructure powering on-chain data ownership. Each episode is a deep-dive with a founder building what comes next.