I had a fascinating conversation with Fazil and Fedor Erashev , founders of XFounders Bootcamp & Startup Reality | ✈️TOKEN2049 . There's something beautiful about entrepreneurs who build bridges for other entrepreneurs. These two took their scars from the startup battlefield and transformed them into a map

Fazil discovered something beautiful about poker and entrepreneurship. Both are games of incomplete information. Both punish emotional decisions. Both reward those who can calculate risk while others panic. It's fascinating how many Web3 VCs and founders play poker. Not for the

Those who've exited could disappear into comfort. Instead, Fazil and Fedor Erashev are building a syndicate of founders who choose to return. Not to give advice. But to remember together what it felt like to have nothing but an idea and the audacity to believe in it. The

Surprised how much Manus improved in the past couple of months. Worth trying.

I had a conversation with Benedetto from Folks Finance about building in the wilderness of DeFi. He's not building another DeFi protocol. He's building a home for users. A place where trust compounds like interest. Where someone who comes to lend stays to stake, swap, and

The only viable future for AI is non-autoregressive. It's upon this founding principle that we built Logical Intelligence — a company dedicated to making mission-critical software secure through AI formal verification. We’re launching two AI agents + a new foundation model to

The retailers aren't here. What we call growth is mostly whales playing yield games with over collateralized positions. Extracting value from value. It's beautiful mathematics, but it's not mass adoption. Real adoption follows a journey. You buy Bitcoin on Coinbase. You discover

I had a fascinating conversation with Alexander Gruell and Ingamar Ramirez from Starknet (BTCFi arc) about one of the most important technical challenges of our time, scaling Bitcoin without compromising its fundamental properties. Bitcoin is perfect in its simplicity. A ledger that cannot

Sometimes the right idea needs to find the right room. When Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io invented ZK-STARKs, he had created something remarkable. Zero knowledge proofs that let you verify truth without revealing the underlying information. A mathematical construction that seemed almost

Ingamar Ramirez and Alexander Gruell told me they're focusing 75% on Bitcoin. Not as a marketing strategy, but as a recognition of where the real work needs to happen. What struck me is how different this space feels. Bitlayer integrating with Starknet. Teams actually talking to

I had a conversation with Diego Borgo about the gap between what we build and how we explain it. Diego has watched countless founders struggle with the same problem. They can code a revolutionary protocol but can't tell you why it matters in a single sentence. They understand

The hardest problem in Web3 might not be technical. Every Web3 project speaks to five, maybe seven different tribes simultaneously. Developers who care about documentation. Bitcoiners who care about sovereignty. Enterprises who care about compliance. Retail investors who care

Sometimes the best branding lessons come from accidents. Diego Borgo wore a pink beanie to a tech conference because he figured no other guy would. He was trying to be recognizable to people who only knew his NFT profile picture. Practical problem, simple solution. Now he can't

In this conversation I speak with DeoBrands 🏰 , the cofounder and CEO of YieldNest . We talk about the long journey from the first lines of Bitcoin code to the complex world of decentralized finance today. Amadeo shares how his path began in 2011 when he experimented with

In this part of our conversation, DeoBrands 🏰 shares the vision behind YieldNest and the philosophy that guides its design. He explains how decentralized finance became complex over time with multiple protocols, constant rebalancing, and uncertainty about which sources of

I had a fascinating conversation with Victor Amaya about engineering production systems with AI in Latin America. We explored a fundamental question: What happens when you give people who've never had access to data the ability to query complex systems in real-time? Viktor's team is

I had a conversation with Kyle Rojas | Working at Avail from Avail about a journey that spans from combat zones to trading floors to the frontier of decentralized infrastructure. Kyle spent twelve years in the military, learning that integrity isn't just a value but a survival mechanism.

When Kyle Rojas | Working at Avail was at Goldman, the crypto team was five people. He couldn't legally talk about crypto to clients. Today that team is probably ninety people. This perfectly captures what it means to be early. Not early to a trade. Early to a shift in how the world works. Kyle

I recently read an article about what many now call the AI bubble. It described a world where the next stage of intelligence depends less on algorithms and more on balance sheets. We are no longer talking about startups raising rounds. We are talking about trillion-dollar