The DCo Podcast

Saurabh Deshpande
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Stories with depth, insight & data covering all things Web3. For builders. By builders. www.decentralised.co

  1. May 29

    Building GPU Finance Rails with David Choi from USD.AI

    You can borrow against most of the valuable assets - land, house, factory, and even art. But you still can't easily get a loan against GPUs, one of the most valuable assets on earth right now. David Choi, co-founder of USDai (Permian Labs), is building the market that fixes that. He lends against the chip rather than the company, and uses crypto rails to turn that debt into a tradeable instrument instantly, instead of over the three years traditional securitisation takes. We get into why banks won't finance chips, why GPUs beat every other asset they tested, what stops a borrower from running off with the hardware, and why GPU-backed debt eventually replaces all credit in an AI-driven economy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.decentralised.co

    1h 20m

  2. May 14

    The Institutional Case for ZKsync with Alex Gluchowski

    Alex Gluchowski, CEO of Matter Labs, built ZKSync as an L2 scaling project. When a dozen other L2s converged on doing the same thing, he pivoted to a harder problem: getting banks on-chain. In this conversation, we get into what actually secures a blockchain (hint: not the validators) and how zero-knowledge proofs allow institutions to maintain privacy without sacrificing enforcement guarantees. We also cover token design, governance, and why Alex thinks institutions are much closer to production than the market realises. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.decentralised.co

    1 hr

  3. Feb 17

    Inverting the Perps Playbook with Brett Harrison from Architect

    Brett Harrison helped scale FTX US before founding Architect and its exchange AX. AX is the first regulated centralised exchange for perpetual futures on traditional assets like gold, currencies, single stocks, and GPU compute, all settled on crypto rails. We talk about why perpetuals never took off in traditional finance, the innovator's dilemma facing CME, and how crypto infrastructure is quietly reshaping the $15T/day futures market. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.decentralised.co

    49 min

  4. Feb 10

    All Assets, Everywhere with Philipp from LI.FI

    In this episode, LI.FI Founder and CEO Philipp Zentner joins Saurabh to unpack where crypto is headed as tokenised assets proliferate across chains, standards, compliance rails and execution venues. They talk about why fragmentation is the default, why distribution is the hard part of tokenisation, and how LI.FI is building the orchestration layer that makes “asset A to asset B in one click” possible. We also go deeper into how LI.FI evolved from aggregation into a broader coordination layer, including its multi-chain transaction rail, a domain-specific execution layer (Composer), and an open solver marketplace for intents. If the next era of crypto looks like more rails, more standards, and more asset representations, the winners may be the systems that can route reliably across all of it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.decentralised.co

    52 min

  5. Jan 29

    The House Doge Built with Timothy Stebbing

    Timothy Stebbing is CTO of House of Doge and Director at the Dogecoin Foundation. He spent 25 years in open source development before joining Dogecoin in 2021. In this episode, we discuss: • Why Timothy tells his friends and family to stay away from crypto • How 2% inflation was accidentally good design • Why Bitcoin lost the payments battle • The growth from five developers to over a hundred • Managing a community of memers and institutional investors • What Dogecoin is actually building This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.decentralised.co

    48 min

  6. 11/28/2025

    Building a Brain and Hands for Blockchains with Mike from Talus Network

    AI is shifting from chat interfaces to agents that act, earn, and participate in real economic activity. Mike Hanono, CEO of Talus Network, explains how this agentic economy takes shape and why it needs crypto rails. We explore idol.fun as the first live example of agents competing and generating value. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.decentralised.co

    42 min

  7. 11/20/2025

    Building for Institutions with Eric Saraniecki

    Eric Saraniecki has spent the past decade building the infrastructure that large financial institutions need to participate in crypto. As the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Digital Asset and a core builder behind Canton Network, Eric has a perspective that few operators in this industry share. He works directly with banks, asset managers, and market operators on the problems that define institutional adoption. This conversation outlines what those institutions actually require and why most blockchain systems were not designed for their needs. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.decentralised.co

    1h 6m

  8. 11/05/2025

    Zynga's Founder Justin Waldron

    The conversation with Justin Waldron, co-founder of Zynga and now founder of Open Game Protocol, is a masterclass in how distribution models evolve in games and how Web3 could power the next one. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.decentralised.co

    1h 8m
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Stories with depth, insight & data covering all things Web3. For builders. By builders. www.decentralised.co

Information

  • Creator
    Saurabh Deshpande
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    55
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Decentralised.co
  • Show Website
    The DCo Podcast

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