Building The Largest L1 for AI with Michael Heinrich
Michael Heinrich is the Founder of 0G, who is seeking to build the largest Layer 1 blockchain for AI. Before 0G Michael has worked as a consultant at Bain and at Bridgewater during the financial crisis - and built a startup which went from $300k ARR in its first year to $100M in 4 years. After the business went through significant upheaval during COVID, Michael met his technologist cofounders, who were the founders of China’s largest and only regulatory compliant L1 - and after some back and forth they decided to build 0G together. They raised $35M preseed from top investors like Alliance, Animoca Brands, Delphi Digital, Stanford Builders Fund, Symbolic Capital and OKX Ventures. In this conversation we will focus on Michael’s journey’s towards 0G, the vision behind 0g and its product, and how Michael thinks about building the largest blockchain for AI.
The First America First Mainnet: Movement with Rushi Manche
Rushi is the cofounder of Movement Labs a team focused on accelerating the growth and adoption of the Move programming language - which was developed by the Libra team at Facebook. It’s chain attracted almost $170M TVL as part of its Cornucopia liquidity boot strapping event at the time of recording, it’s token MOVE is trading at around $5B FDV last we checked, and President Trump’s World Liberty Fi Defi Protocol has bought MOVE to the tune of millions of dollars on separate occasions. Rushi has been making waves recently with his appearances on mainstream American news + his focus on the importance of politics as a way for blockchains to extend themselves into the uses cases of enterprise and government. In this conversation we will discuss Rushi’s history and his inspiration to build Movement Labs; the Movement Labs protocol including its potential as well as its challenges; + the way for forward for crypto in the US and worldwide.
The Next Generation Of Consumer Crypto With Luca Netz
Luca Netz is the CEO of Pudgy Penguins and Igloo - who are building Abstract, a new layer 2 blockchain leading the next generation of consumer crypto. We all know Pudgy Penguins well: Pudgy Penguins is the most successful web3 IP to date: it is the most viral IP online with more than 40b views on Giphy; it is one of the most collectible NFTs as a loyal web3 collector base catapulted the NFTs to more than a $100,000 floor price earlier this year; and has paired this web3 success with web2 and IRL success via partnerships with Walmart, Target and PEZ - amongst many others. On the Abstract side, backers from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund said Abstract is well positioned to onboard the masses to crypto because “Pudgy Penguins has the best 0 to 1 distribution edge we’ve ever seen in the crypto space” In this conversation today we will focus in on Abstract, its vision and how Luca is building out for the next generation of consumer crypto.
Make Ethereum Great Again
Bing is the co-founder of MegaETH, who are building the first realtime blockchain on Ethereum which seeks to achieve 100,000 transactions per second with <10ms blocktimes. MegaETH announced their seed round in June of last year, where they raised $20M led by Dragonfly Capital with some very prominent angels like Vitalik, Joseph Lubin, Sreeram and Cobie. They also just recently sold out a $10M community round on Echo in seconds. Bing is also an advisor to Consensys + the founder of Hotpot DAO. In this conversation we discussed Bing’s history and journey towards MegaETH; the MegaETH story + product and why its vision is so important for Ethereum.
