The episode is live. On Unblock'd, I chatted with Nico 🌲🌊, who grew up in Argentina watching inflation quietly erase what people worked their whole lives to build. That shaped everything about why he builds. Today he runs @OlaGuildGames, a gaming guild with a million

Three assumptions the global energy system was built on: → trade routes stay open → allied producers stay stable → price shocks are temporary All three are wrong right now. DePIN energy thesis is undeniable. Distributed energy markets will win.

Energy isn't transitioning. It's expanding. Calling it a "transition" is the most expensive framing mistake in the industry rn.

What’s the most critical for AI dominance in 2026?

70% of US transmission lines are 25+ years old. Turns out the hard part isn't making electricity. It's moving it. This is why DePIN energy will win.

Centralised energy markets: > build massive infra > spend billions > wait 10 years > still can't handle rooftop solar going both ways Decentralised energy markets: > trade energy peer-to-peer > use existing infrastructure > software not concrete > works today > already

Energy isn’t expensive. Bad systems are.

You can't Moore's Law your way out of a power shortage. The constraint is physical. The only way through is smarter infrastructure. Grids that flex, route, and enable energy trading in real time instead of waiting for new transmission lines.

"When that gas shows up, it's going to be three times more expensive than it's ever been. Clean energy should be a 'critical bridge' until gas power plants get built," said NextEra Energy, Inc.'s CEO, John Ketchum. Meanwhile solar is being curtailed at 35-65% in some markets because

DePIN is moving from whitepaper to physical infrastructure. That transition is messier than most people talk about. Tomorrow at EthereumZuri.ch event, our Head of Blockchain Operations JL joins the "The Scale Play: When DePIN Goes Industrial" panel alongside Raphael

Electricity built civilisation. For too long, people had no say in where it came from, what it cost, or who profited from it. That's the thing Dr Jemma Green and John Bulich set out to change with Powerledger. People to generate, trade, and take charge of their own energy.

You can't import your way out of a grid design problem.

The code held. The promise didn't. $285M gone from Drift in 12 minutes. Contracts audited twice. Just two signers, patiently cultivated over six months, approving transactions they didn't fully decode. We'd seen this before. $1.5B at Bybit. Same entry point,

Will data center power demand cross 1,200 TWh before 2028?

Riddle time. Built infra. Pivoted to neobank. Got debanked. Rebuilt the infra. Physicist, turned coder, turned lawyer, turned founder. Backed by a16z, Founders Fund, and Pantera Capital. Almost lost everything in 2022. didn't quit. Now on Solana. Routing stablecoins at scale.

"Money flows like fluid dynamics. If you give it the opportunity, it will choose the path of least resistance, lowest cost, and fastest clearance." Eco's founder Ryne Saxe figured this out in 2018. physicist. lawyer. accidentally ended up in crypto because it was the first

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38 GW → 128 GW. That's how much utility demand forecasts jumped in ONE planning cycle. How far behind is the US grid?

The pizza guy sold Bitcoin for food. Our next guest sold his for video games in middle school. And he now moves billions across borders with stablecoins. Guess the guest on Unblock'd with Dr Jemma Green. New episode dropping soon.

In 2022 Terra Luna collapsed, and billions left crypto overnight. Dirichlet asked: if this technology has a point, what is it? He found Bitcoin in middle school. Traded it for gift cards. Then built Sphere Labs on Solana, stablecoin infra moving billions across borders,