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Why Jonny Killed Their Web3 App To Build DEX Infrastructure with Spandex - DEX aggregator

938 views · 3mo ago · 53:38

Jonny Mac on HyperSub, Spandex, and the SLAP Framework for Swaps, plus DEX Aggregation Strategy and Swaps Infrastructure pivot and B2B sales: How Spandex built a performant open-source router by optimizing latency, accuracy, and trade execution. In this episode, we explore pivoting from Web3 creator tools to core DeFi financial primitives.

Topics: The rise and decline of Farcaster creator tools · Why Web3 creator apps lose conviction against traditional platforms · How to spot real product market fit signals in crypto downturns · Knowing when to pivot a startup after growth stalls · The breakdown of a DEX swap and execution latency · How positive slippage creates bad incentives for aggregators

Rethinking Future of Trust with Billy from Intuition System - future of trust for AI agents

1.1K views · 3mo ago · 40:25

How relative economic consensus solves data validation. My chat about Building a Decentralized Knowledge Graph for AI Agents with Billy from Intuition and how Intuition Systems evolved in the past two years. Discover how to scale identity, trust, and reputation protocols to combat data slop in the agentic era.

Topics: What is Intuition Protocol · How to scale identity and data protocols for AI agents · What is the difference between trust and truth in Web3 · How the Intuition trust protocol started at ETHDenver · How token curated decentralized knowledge graphs work · How do data atoms get created permissionlessly in a knowledge graph

How to Verify AI Agent's Identity Before It Spends Your Money and what Billions Network built to fix

2K views · 5mo ago · 42:44

Your AI Agent Has No Identity. That's a Bigger Problem Than You Think. 51% of internet traffic is already bots. The agentic economy can't scale without accountability — and no one's building the trust layer except Billions.

Topics: IDEN3 → Hermez → Polygon ID → Privado ID: the 8-year ZK research lineage · What Billions Network actually is today: B2B, B2C, and 2.3M+ end users · The KYA framework: why Billions is the #3 on-chain agent ecosystem on Earth · The bot problem: 51% of online interactions are unidentified and unaccountable · How to register an AI agent on Billions in practice · OpenClaw: the #1 identity skill for AI agents (and the cheeky GitHub reference)

Beating AI Slop: Why Authentic Social Proof is the Ultimate B2B Competitive Advantage #buildbetter

10 views · 6mo ago · 3:21

Guest: Beating AI Slop

B2B Social Proof is the most underutilized tool for founders looking to scale and stop leaving money on the table. Learn how to implement a natural testimonial process that builds authority and attracts high value customers.

Topics: How to grow B2B businesses faster · Why social proof is a powerful B2B growth trick · Implementing a testimonial collection process · Why unpolished video testimonials beat polished production · Long term benefits of social proof for B2B founders

Implementing Pragmatic Adaptive Privacy and Stateless Clients for Web3 Apps #buildbetter #podcast

15 views · 7mo ago · 36:56

Mastering Trustless Data with Colibri Stateless Light Clients. Replace centralized RPCs with verifiable infrastructure to ensure your application remains truly decentralized. It's ready, it's presented at EthCC, it's part of Kohaku wallet framework.

Topics: Why is trustless information essential for the Ethereum ecosystem? · How does a stateless client differ from a traditional heavy light client? · How to verify block canonicality using execution and consensus proofs · How do trustless approval services optimize proof generation? · How RPC providers can identify user intent through metadata and data reads · How to implement adaptive privacy for different types of blockchain requests

Price Is a Story And Yours Is Probably Lying-aka Pricing: The Story Behind the Numbers #buildbetter

5 views · 7mo ago · 5:00

SUMMARY Most founders treat pricing like math. It's not — it's messaging. In this rant, I break down why your price tag is one of your most powerful distribution tools, and why anchoring it to competitor prices or your own spending habits is quietly killing your sales. If you're a technical founder struggling to charge what you're worth, this one's for you.

Topics: Why founders get pricing wrong from day one · Price is a story: €10 vs €1,000 — who's actually listening? · The conference ticket example: why value is always subjective · The bias trap: stop projecting your wallet onto your customer · Why copying competitor pricing is a differentiation killer · How high prices attract the right buyers (not fewer buyers)

Mastering RWA tokenization and DeFi liquidity with RAAC founder Kevin Rusher #buildbetter #podcast

471 views · 7mo ago · 32:26

TLDR Kevin Rusher is the sole founder of RAAC — a DeFi liquidity protocol that tokenizes real-world assets (starting with gold mines and real estate) to back a stablecoin and generate sustainable, layered yield. His core insight: DeFi's volatility problem isn't solved by better tokenomics — it's solved by bringing dollar-denominated yield from outside crypto back into the system. Most RWA protocols are building for the market they wish existed.

Topics: How Kevin Rusher entered the crypto space in 2017 · Why Bitcoin became a research paper topic for a finance student · Journey from GPU mining to managing a crypto index fund · Lessons learned from the USDC depeg and Silicon Valley Bank crisis · Transitioning from a power user to the founder of RAAC · How to bring external dollar denominated yield on chain