Welcome to The Fren Zone.

This week, our host Mason sat down with Dylan Zhang from Pond. Pond is a crypto-native AI model platform that enables developers to collaboratively create, own, and monetize blockchain-specific AI models by leveraging on-chain data.

Topics Discussed:

• Focusing on on-chain models for trading, risk assessment, and wallet profiling.
• Enabling developers to own, monetize, and improve hosted models using open blockchain data.
• Running competitions, including collaborations with Vitalik, to advance public goods funding and blockchain analytics.
• Addressing the cost of fully on-chain models by optimizing decentralization and efficiency.
• Exploring DeFi, tokenized assets, and AI integrations without becoming a blockchain itself.
• Supporting decentralized, competition-based model development like Kaggle while preserving developer ownership.

Follow us on Twitter:

• Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
• Mason – @masonic_tweets
• Project – @PondGNN
• Dylan Zhang – @ThinksDylan

More information about Pond:

• Website – https://cryptopond.xyz/ 
• Docs – https://doc.cryptopond.xyz/docs/introducing-pond 
• Model Labs – https://cryptopond.xyz/modellabs
• Model Factory – https://cryptopond.xyz/modelfactory/list