GM Web3 Family 🚀 Season 3 is officially live — our anniversary edition. Bigger names, deeper alpha, stronger conversations with top Web3 builders. Let’s scale, ship, and build the future together.

“Biggest learning building in Web3? First principle is still: don’t die - don’t quit, keep finding a way.” @kenzimerkie sits down with @michaelh_0g to reflect on the shift from Web2 to Web3: why Web2 often moves from user-aligned to extractive incentives, why Web3 feels fundamentally different, and how embracing that mindset made building feel fun again.

“DA layers differ on three axes: performance, programmability, and AI-first design — because on-chain AI can’t live in a ‘megabytes-per-second’ world.” @sachiminara sits down with @michaelh_0g (Founder of @0G_labs) to compare against Celestia, Avail, and EigenDA: why throughput must jump orders of magnitude, how to avoid the broadcast bottleneck, and why a decentralized storage network is key for ultra-fast data ingestion + retrieval.

“Bored at a new school after moving from Berlin to Silicon Valley, I started hanging out at my dad’s SAP Lab — fast internet, endless reading, and falling in love with tech.” Our host @kenzimerkie talks with @michaelh_0g (@0G_labs) about his origin story: early curiosity, the path into Web3, and how it all led to starting his company.

“Back in 2016–17, crypto felt like an idea factory — hundreds of experiments, zero permission, pure creativity.” Our host Diksha Lyer sits down with @michaelh_0g, Founder of @0G_labs, to talk about the most fun part of building in Web3: an experimentation-first culture, and how tokenization unlocks new ways to sustain projects - including open-source - beyond the standard Web2 business model.

New episode this week, featuring @michaelh_0g, founder of @0G_labs. A deep dive into AI x crypto: modular AI chains, decentralized AI infrastructure, community-owned data, and why modularity is critical for scaling AI on-chain. Also: Michael’s founder journey, leadership through meditation and spiritual practice, and the real-world path to building the first modular AI chain.

How Do You Defend Your Positions Against a Guy with an Infinite Bankroll?” New podcast episode: @Kai2009pp sits down with Polymarket legend @one8tyfive. Our guest is a top market maker on the platform with over $1.0M+ in PnL and a trading volume exceeding $80.7 million.

“What happens when someone inside one of the most iconic retail platforms of the last cycle sees its limits up close?” @kenzimerkie speaks with @jayendra_jog, Co-Founder of @SeiNetwork, to trace the path that took him from the early days of Robinhood in Palo Alto — through hypergrowth, the IPO era, and the shock of the GameStop moment — to building in crypto. They discuss how witnessing the mechanics and constraints of traditional financial infrastructure firsthand reshaped his thinking, why the suspension of buys during one of retail’s most defining episodes left such a lasting impression, and how that experience ultimately pushed him toward systems designed to be more open, more resilient, and less dependent on centralized control.

“High-performance infrastructure only matters if it expands what users can actually do onchain — and makes that experience accessible at scale.” @sachiminara sits down with @jayendra_jog, Co-Founder of @SeiNetwork, to examine why parallelized execution is becoming increasingly important for the next generation of onchain applications. From trading and DeFi to high-frequency user activity that simply breaks in low-throughput environments, they discuss how lower fees and greater execution capacity can fundamentally reshape the user experience — especially for smaller participants who are otherwise priced out. They also explore how this plays out in practice through projects like Bancor’s Carbon DeFi, where Sei has emerged as the ecosystem driving the strongest activity and volume, underscoring how performance advantages translate into real adoption.

“Virtual machines are like cities — once they reach critical mass, they become magnets that are incredibly hard to displace.” @Dikshaalyer catches up with @jayendra_jog, Co-Founder of @SeiNetwork, to unpack this idea at a deeper level — why systems with flaws can still dominate simply because that’s where the activity, liquidity, and people already are. From New York and San Francisco to onchain environments like the EVM, they explore how network effects compound over time, why newer ecosystems struggle to pull users away even with better tech, and what it actually takes to break that inertia.

This week’s episode features Jayendra Jog (@jayendra_jog), Founder of @SeiNetwork. We dive into Jay’s journey from traditional finance at Robinhood to building Sei Network, and unpack how his view of markets, users, and product feedback shaped the way he thinks about blockchain infrastructure. The conversation explores the parallels between established cities and virtual machines: why dominant systems like the EVM are so difficult to displace, what makes developers stay, and what it actually takes for a new ecosystem to earn attention. We also dig into the need for higher throughput in Web3, how parallelization can help solve today’s performance limits, and why scalability matters if crypto applications are going to serve real users at a much larger scale. Jay also reflects on the role of memecoins, not just as speculation, but as community-driven movements that can reveal how culture, attention, and network effects form onchain.

“Bitcoin was the first distributed systems paper I read with an economic layer built into it — and that changed everything.” @kenzimerkie catches up with @averyching, Co-Founder & CTO of @Aptos, to trace his journey from high-performance computing and supercomputers, to scaling data infrastructure at Meta, to discovering Bitcoin and realizing that crypto was distributed systems with incentives natively embedded — the insight that ultimately led him to co-found Aptos Labs.

“We focused on four core areas: finance, gaming, social, and entertainment — but DeFi on @Aptos has seen the strongest traction.” @sachiminara sits down with @averyching to unpack Aptos’ real-world use cases and why DeFi has emerged as the breakout category: the safety of Move, the composability that allows products to plug into larger protocols, and an ecosystem that is now beginning to hit meaningful momentum.

“What inspires you to get up and build every day? For me, it’s pushing Web3 forward — making blockchain a true public utility for everyone.” Diksha Lyer sits down with @averyching (Co-Founder & CTO of @Aptos) to talk about what drives him: building the next era of the internet where blockchain brings ownership back to users and enables permissionless, trustless transactions that connect people globally.

New episode out today featuring @AveryChing - Co Founder & CTO of @Aptos. We explore the intersection of crypto and Al, Aptos' fundraising journey, how the network compares to other Layer 1s such as Solana and Ethereum, and what lies ahead for the Move programming language. Avery also shares his perspective on decentralized use cases, Aptos' long-term ambitions, and how more than a decade spent scaling distributed systems at Meta — including his work on the Diem blockchain — continues to shape his vision for the future of Web3 infrastructure.

“DeFAI turns DeFi into an agent economy: your strategy, automated execution, real-time feedback.” Our host Sachi Mihara talks with @ronbodkin, Founder of @TheoriqAI, about why AI-run DeFi could level the playing field—bringing ‘smart money’ tooling to anyone, not just funds.