Kyle Okamoto is the Chief Technology Officer at Aethir: the leading decentralized enterprise-grade cloud computing network. With over 20 years of experience in cloud and edge computing, digital media, IoT and AI, Kyle's leadership has been pivotal in scaling growth businesses and driving technological innovation at Aethir.

Before joining Aethir, Kyle served as the General Manager of Aeris Communications and Ericsson’s enterprise businesses, overseeing Internet of Things, Security, and Connected Vehicle portfolio companies. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of Edge Gravity, a global edge cloud platform facilitating cloud gaming, AI, and media and entertainment applications. Kyle's extensive experience also includes his tenure as Chief Network Officer of Verizon Media and his role as a founding member of Verizon Digital Media Services, which grew to a multi-billion dollar business before its acquisition by Private Equity.

In addition to his work with Aethir, Kyle is an early investor and advisor to Theta Labs, holds board positions in various technology companies and non-profit organizations, and is an active angel investor and advisor in the venture capital and private equity spaces. Kyle holds a Master of Business Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- AI’s growth is now gated by access to compute rather than model quality 
- Compute is becoming a financial asset class 
- AI demand continues to outpace supply 
- GPUs 
- Investors are starting to treat compute like infrastructure, not software 
- Financial structures are becoming essential to scaling AI infrastructure 
- Decentralized compute offers an alternative path during the global GPU shortage
- Enterprises are moving toward multi-source compute strategies 
- Financing compute 
- The financing of compute is as important as the tech side 

Aethir
X: @AethirCloud
Website: www.aethir.com
LinkedIn: Aethir

Kyle Okamoto
LinkedIn: Kyle Okamoto

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Tom Trowbridge is an entrepreneur and business builder; he is a co-founder of Fluence Labs, and Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) where he was President from Inception. He hosts the DePIN Day conference series and the DePINed podcast and is an investor in leading DePIN projects and crypto funds. Tom is an advocate for decentralized systems and distributed ledger/blockchain technology and believes these open source tools provide the best opportunity to build fairer, more transparent, and higher-functioning societies, government, and business ecosystems. He is passionate about driving education regarding blockchain, Bitcoin and the great promise of distributed systems. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The early days of HBAR 
- Decentralized storage/compute 
- Difference between decentralized compute vs centralized cloud 
- DePIN 
- DeAI 
- Crypto economic models 
- Fiat-linked rewards address crypto reward volatility 
- Staking models for cloud DePINs 
- DePIN offers a new, sustainable model for value creation 

Fluence Labs
X: @fluence_project
Website: www.fluence.network
Telegram: t.me/fluence_project

Tom Trowbridge
X: @TheTomTrow
LinkedIn: Tom Trowbridge

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Austin King, Founder of Nomina, is a Harvard-trained computer scientist, is a proven entrepreneur with a record of building and scaling high-impact ventures. He sold his first company to Ripple, where he co-authored a new payment protocol with CTO David Schwartz and led its go-to-market strategy. Today, Austin draws on his combined expertise in engineering and business development to drive growth and innovation in the next generation of financial infrastructure. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What’s going on with Ripple and XRP? 
- Why the pivot to Nomina? 
- Perp DEXs 
- Being delta neutral 
- Funding rate arbitrage 
- How to make money on funding rate arbitrage 
- Hyperliquid changed the crypto narrative 
- Current state of bridging in crypto 
- The future of financial advisors 
- Altcoins will get crushed over the next 18 months 

Nomina
X: @Nomina
Website: www.nomina.io
Telegram: t.me/nominaannouncements

Austin King
X: @AustinKing
LinkedIn: Austin King

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Dr. Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and deeptech investor. He is the Founder and CEO at Zama and an investor in over 50 companies across privacy, AI, blockchain, and medtech. Rand started coding at the age of 10, founded a Social Network at 14, and started a PhD at 21. He then created Snips, a privacy-centric AI startup that was acquired by Sonos. Rand holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in bioinformatics from UCL. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Banks won’t use stablecoins if they are public 
- zcash is the beacon of crypto privacy 
- Privacy is the final boss of blockchain 
- The future of surveillance and privacy 
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) 
- Zama = confidentiality layer 
- TVS = Total Value Shielded 
- Zama is like HTTPS for blockchain 
- Confidentiality without sacrificing transparency 
- First-ever on-chain sealed-bid Dutch auction 

Zama
X: @zama
Website: www.zama.org
Telegram: t.me/zama_on_telegram

Dr. Rand Hindi
X: @randhindi
LinkedIn: Rand Hindi

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Ken Miyachi is the Co-founder of BitMind, a company at the forefront of developing pioneering deepfake detection technology and decentralized AI applications. Prior to founding BitMind, Ken served as a Senior Software Engineer at leading organisations such as NEAR Foundation, Amazon, and Polymer Labs, where he honed his expertise in scalable technology solutions. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bittensor 
- The escalation of AI-driven crypto scams 
- Deepfakes 
- Why crypto is the perfect target for AI fraud 
- The urgent need for real-time verification systems 
- Solving the trust problem in a trustless industry 
- What regulators are signalling 
- Education and user awareness 
- The future: AI vs AI 

BitMind
X: @bitmind
Website: www.bitmind.ai
Instagram: instagram.com/bitmindlabs

Ken Jon Miyachi
X: @kenjonmiyachi
LinkedIn: Ken Jon Miyachi

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Anurag Arjun is the Co-founder of Avail, a unified foundation for rollups to scale horizontally, share liquidity, move assets trustlessly, communicate permissionlessly along with a multi-token economic security.

He entered the blockchain industry in 2017, founding Matic Network, which evolved into Polygon Labs. By 2020, he launched Avail within the Polygon ecosystem, utilizing his background in research, economics, and engineering. In March 2023, he spun out Avail as an independent project.  Anurag is a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded several successful startups across diverse industries, ranging from cash flow lending to regulatory tech. His expertise and vision continue to drive Avail's success and position the company at the forefront of the blockchain revolution.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Biggest misconceptions people have about interoperability and “multichain” today
- UX is still the main pain point in crypto 
- Intent-based architecture 
- Liquidity unification 
- Creating a unified balance across chains 
- Quantum’s threat to crypto 
- Unlocking a multichain userbase 
- Liquidity fragmentation 
- Making Nexus chain-agnostic — including EVM, non-EVM, and eventually Solana 
- The future of crypto 

Avail
X: @AvailProject
Website: www.availproject.org
Telegram: t.me/AvailCommunity

Anurag Arjun
X: @anuragarjun
LinkedIn: Anurag Arjun

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Michael Sena is the CSO and Co-Founder of Recall, a decentralized skill market for AI where communities fund, rank, and discover the AI solutions they need. Michael started in crypto in 2016, helped scale ConsenSys from 30 to 1,800 people, co-founded uPort, the first decentralized identity protocol, and 3Box Labs where he led development of Ceramic Network. At Recall, Michael focuses on growing the world’s largest AI competitions and giving the community the power to shape and accelerate the future of AI. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Google Gemini is elite 
- Present day AI 
- The best AI managed crypto strategies are private 
- How AI-driven reputation systems are reshaping crypto investing 
- What AI Agent trading competitions mean for the future of AI managed crypto strategies 
- How open arenas bring trust to AI selection 
- Why today’s AI benchmarks are failing and how decentralized validation could restore trust 
- Importance of making AI results visible onchain 
- How Recall is shaping AI discovery, validation, and adoption 
- Prediction Markets - Their recent NFL Prediction Arena on Thanksgiving and upcoming ones 
- How AI will impact crypto trading in 2026 

Recall
X: @recallnet
Website: recall.network
Discord: discord.gg/recallnet

Michael Sena
X: @dataliquidity
LinkedIn: Michael Sena

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Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos, is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. Arthur has a background in mathematics and computer science, and prior to the Tezos project, he worked in quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and as a research engineer at Google and Waymo. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and the Courant Institute of NYU where he studied applied mathematics. Arthur is a member of the Tezos Foundation Council and is also a director at Trilitech, a London-based adoption team for the Tezos blockchain. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tokenized uranium 
- Quantum’s threat to Bitcoin 
- Deep dive on Tezos blockchain 
- Proof-of-stake is the best consensus 
- There is no PMF for security on blockchains 
- The emergence of Tezos as the artists' blockchain 
- EVM compatibility layer 
- 19 upgrades without a hard fork 
- The Data Availability Layer deep dive 
- The future of Tezos 

Tezos
X: @tezos
Website: tezos.com
LinkedIn: Tezos

Arthur Breitman
X: @ArthurB
LinkedIn: Arthur Breitman

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Lucas Bruder is the CEO of Jito Labs and a founding contributor of the Jito Network, a suite of Solana-based protocols that enhance network efficiency and support high-performance DeFi infrastructure. A Carnegie Mellon-educated electrical engineer, Lucas brings deep expertise in high-performance distributed systems and firmware development. Prior to Jito Labs, he served as Technical Lead at Built Robotics, where he led teams developing autonomous construction equipment, and specialized in LiDAR firmware at Ouster. Lucas combines hands-on embedded systems expertise with a proven ability to tackle ambitious technical challenges in decentralized finance. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Jito gets yield 
- SOL ETF bull theory 
- Present day Solana ecosystem 
- Jito’s regulatory push 
- BAM = new execution infrastructure on Solana 
- The future of Robotics 
- Why transparency matters in high-performance trading 
- ACE explained simply 
- The future of Jito 

Jito Labs
X: @jito_labs
Website: www.jito.wtf
Discord: discord.gg/jito

Lucas Bruder
X: @buffalu__
LinkedIn: Lucas Bruder

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Jordan Jefferson is the CEO and Founder of DogeOS, the App Layer for Dogecoin that turns idle DOGE into a productive asset through gaming, yield opportunities, and consumer apps. He also leads MyDoge, the #1 Dogecoin wallet with 500,000+ users.
An early Bitcoin entrepreneur since 2011, Jefferson built DogeOS to provide the first native DOGE yield and real utility for millions of underserved Dogecoin holders.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The evolution of Dogecoin from culture to real economy 
- Why now is the right time to build around Dogecoin 
- Turning dormant DOGE into active capital 
- How community-driven liquidity differs from traditional DeFi 
- Making crypto simple enough for everyday users again 
- The role MyDoge plays in connecting users to real applications 
- What DogeOS adds to the broader crypto market 
- How builders can tap into Dogecoin’s existing audience 
- Why culture may be crypto’s strongest network effect 
- What happens when Dogecoin activity moves fully on-chain 
- The future of meme coins and DOGE 

DogeOS
X: @DogeOS
Website: www.dogeos.com
Discord: discord.gg/dogeos

Jordan Jefferson
X: @MyDogeCEO
LinkedIn: Jordan Jefferson

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