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ORO Builds a Conversational Interface Layer for On-Chain Finance
Katerina Vdovichenko, co-founder of ORO, shares how the platform translates plain-language instructions into on-chain transactions across swaps, staking, lending, and bridging, with a built-in security layer that validates every transaction before it reaches the user.
How Tether's Paolo Ardoino Is Betting on Local AI to Close the Intelligence Gap
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino joined DevNTell to discuss QVAC, the company's decentralized AI platform built to run models privately on consumer hardware, and shared why he sees it as a direct extension of what USDT did for financial access.
Tea Protocol: Rewarding Open-Source Commits with Blockchain Technology
Tea Protocol is a Layer 2 blockchain network designed to route rewards to open-source developers through cryptographic verification of their code commits. Co-founded by Timothy Lewis and Max Howell, the mainnet is scheduled to launch in 2026
The Wilhelm Foundation and the Fight to End the Diagnostic Odyssey
Mikk Cederroth co-founded the Wilhelm Foundation after losing three children to undiagnosed disease. On Undiagnosed Day, he and AI scientist Stanley Bishop discussed what it takes to close the gap between rare disease patients and the answers they need.
Inside Kleomedes: DIY Bare-Metal Blockchain Infrastructure
Marco Rinaldi and Avi of Kleomedes discuss how they transitioned from a Cosmos-based DAO to a private infrastructure company, building hand-crafted bare-metal nodes and monitoring tools for blockchain networks.
From 900,000 Nodes to AI Inference: How Gradient Built Its Open Intelligence Stack
Gradient began as a decentralized CDN with roughly 900,000 nodes before redirecting its distributed systems expertise toward AI inference and reinforcement learning. Alex Mirran, the company's BD lead, walks through the tools Gradient has built.
How a Liquidated DeFi Loan Led Harsh Rajat to Build a Universal Blockchain
Harsh Rajat's frustration with a liquidated DeFi loan in 2019 led him to build Push, a Web3 notification protocol that has since grown into Push Chain, a universal settlement layer that lets developers deploy once and reach users on any blockchain.
Filecoin Onchain Cloud Explained
Sarah Thiam, Head of DevRel at Filecoin, traces the path from IPFS and the Filecoin Virtual Machine to Filecoin Onchain Cloud, a modular stack for verifiable decentralized storage, payment, and retrieval.
ChainCraft Is Building a Multiplayer Game Platform That Uses AI Only When It Has To
ChainCraft co-founders Ryan Beltran and Eric Wood explain how the platform has shifted toward deterministic game mechanics, reserving AI for narrative generation and outcome adjudication while cutting token cost and improving reliability.
João Moreira on Why RWA Lending Breaks Without Secondary Markets
João Moreira, founder and CEO of Mystic Finance, explains why secondary market liquidity is the central unsolved problem in RWA lending and how Octarine Finance is designed to address it.
How Openfort Became an Open-Source Wallet Operating System
Joan Alavedra, co-founder of Openfort, explains how the company evolved from gaming-focused crypto tooling into a modular, self-hostable wallet infrastructure platform built around genuine non-custodiality.
Katana Network's Case for an Opinionated DeFi Stack
Billy Campana, DevRel at Katana Network, walks through how the DeFi-first Layer 2 chain approaches liquidity ownership, token incentives, and an MCP server he built to help users find yield opportunities on the chain.