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.

“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.

“Back in 2017, I joined Google’s CTO office at Google Cloud because I believed AI would be utterly transformative — and Google was clearly leading that phase.” Kenzi Merkle in conversation with @ronbodkin, Founder of @TheoriqAI, on how his time at Google helped shape the vision behind Theoriq and his conviction that AI would reshape everything.

“Responsibility is about steering crypto AI so it benefits all of humanity — and letting the community govern the direction.” Our host Diksha Lyer in conversation with @ronbodkin, Founder of @TheoriqAI, on why responsibility in crypto AI means building with community governance from day one—so the technology lands in a positive way, not shaped by monopolies and closed-door incentives.

New episode this week featuring @ronbodkin, founder of @TheoriqAI A deep dive into AI x crypto: decentralized agent collectives, governance and accountability, the standardization gap in AI, and metrics that matter for decentralized AI networks. Also: Theoric’s thesis on interoperability and composability, Proof of Contribution/Collaboration as trust primitives, and the realities of token economics and governance.

Watch @michaelh_0g's full interview with @Web3BlockWave: open.spotify.com/episode/2bL…