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Ray Svitla
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Talks with founders, rebels & policy-hackers building borderless futures. Full transcripts → embassy.svit.la 404Embassy is an independent research studio turned mixed-media podcast. From Lisbon to Lagos, we sit down with: > crypto nomads mapping network-states > AI-agent tinkerers automating community life > diplomats gone rogue on new governance Expect unfiltered takes, fight-club metrics, and value-deltas you can actually ship. ► Deeper intel, charts & bonus briefs live on embassy.svit.la embassy.svit.la

Episodes

  1. 08/07/2025

    ep3 // Minimum Viable Polity with Kateryna Musiienko

    404Embassy://Transmission_Log_#9 Signal_Source: Ray Svitla // svit.la Status: LIVE // MINIMUM_VIABLE_POLITY Theory is cheap. This is a field report from the front lines of state failure and rebirth. I sat down with Kateryna Musiienko, a Ukrainian City Council Member and an operator debugging a nation under extreme stress. This conversation was recorded after we both attended the John Smith Trust Ideas Exchange in Montenegro , an event focused on "Shifting the Power" in a broken world. For me, this was personal. I lived in Ukraine for three years – it's where I felt the most free. That context makes this conversation less of an interview and more of an urgent dispatch. We're all here talking about building new societies, DAOs, and network states. Kateryna is doing it for real, under the most challenging conditions imaginable. She is building a Minimum Viable Polity – not on a blank canvas, but on the smoking ruins of an old system. This is essential listening for anyone who thinks building the future will be easy. In this episode, we decode: * The death of traditional diplomacy and the rise of a new peer-to-peer protocol. * How to use reconstruction as a "hard fork" to reboot a nation's OS. * "State of Gratitude": A new governance primitive based on social trust, not just economics. * What it means to fight conceptual "ghosts" when you're building the future. This is a raw data stream from the front lines of the 21st century. Press Play. Episode Highlights (Timestamped): * 00:00:05 - The F-16 Pilot: A Metaphor for Statecraft * 00:01:44 - The Turning Point: From Journalist to Nation-Builder * 00:02:53 - The "Translator" Protocol: Bridging Grassroots and The Brussels Bubble * 00:06:20 - The Hard Fork: Using Crisis to Reboot a Nation's OS * 00:10:12 - Bottom-Up Reconstruction: The Only Way It Works * 00:10:29 - "State of Gratitude": A New Governance Primitive * 00:11:33 - The P2P Diplomacy Protocol: How Everyone Became an Ambassador * 00:15:26 - Fighting Conceptual Ghosts at the Edge of Reality * 00:18:52 - The Great Power Shift: Why the Center of Europe is Moving East * 00:20:29 - Democracy at War: When Global Institutions Fail * 00:23:44 - A 50-Year Vision for a City SEO & Tags: Minimum Viable Polity, Kateryna Musiienko, Ray Svitla, 404Embassy, Network State, Geopolitics, Ukraine, Reconstruction, Digital Diplomacy, Governance, Statecraft, John Smith Trust, Future of Nations, Systems Thinking, DAO Get full access to 404Embassy at embassy.svit.la/subscribe

    27 min

  2. 06/27/2025

    Kimberly Adams: From Dead Capital to Liquid Nation

    404Embassy://Transmission_Log#5 [PODCAST#2]_Signal_Source: Ray Svitla // svit.la Payload: 29 min of distilled optimismStatus: LIVE – press ▶︎ Last episode we mapped the crypto-anarchist terrain with Lou Kerner: government is not your friend — route around it. A powerful strategy, born of justified distrust. I get it. More than most. This week, we're flipping the coin. I met Kim during Dubai Token2049. Five minutes in I knew she was the counter-weight to Episode 01: * Lou Kerner → firewall the State * Kimberly Adams → adapter for the State Both blueprints matter, but only one ships passports before mine expires in 2030. In a market where cynicism is default, optimism is the most volatile asset — and Kimberly is trading it long. The Operator — Kimberly Adams Barbados-born systems thinker, founder of Onchain City, the project turning nations into liquid, on-chain economies with portable, asset-linked IDs. Ex-CBDC lead (Bitt), cross-chain PM (Bridge Network), now Venture Partner at Bankless VC. Episode Highlights: * 01:10 — Genesis — hallway “Aha!” moment → simulated on-chain city * 03:24 — Proof-of-Work — first CBDC in Barbados, surviving a co-founder rug-pull * 06:27 — Core Primitive — define “Liquid Nation” & the multi-trillion-dollar Dead Capital glitch * 11:45 — First Sandbox — Barbados Digital Free Zone as testnet nation-state * 16:22 — Passport Clock — five-year sprint to sovereign on-chain identity * 26:15 — Forecast 2035 — automated sovereignty & personal tea farms Dead Capital & The State OS The killer primitive in this conversation wasn't DePin or RWA. It was a term that reframes the entire problem: Dead Capital. It's the value locked in the legacy world, frozen and unusable because the system can't recognize it. Your skills, your reputation, your social capital – all become dead capital the moment you cross a border. Onchain City’s mission is to write the code that makes this value liquid. If home is a protocol, the nation-state is the dusty operating system we still boot each morning — last major update: the steam engine. The problem is, we're all running on an OS that hasn't had a major update since the invention of the steam engine. And Onchain City is shipping the full system upgrade patch. 📡 Personal Ping Ready to plug into a network-state crew with strategy, deep-dive R&D, and narrative-ops on tap. More on me > svit.laDM me or hit ray@svit.la Ray SvitlaStay evolving 🐌 Get full access to 404Embassy at embassy.svit.la/subscribe

    29 min

  3. 06/05/2025

    “Gov ≠ Friend”: Lou Kerner on CryptoMondays & Network States

    404Embassy://Transmission_Log_#2 [PODCAST]Signal_Source: Ray Svitla // svit.laPayload: 30 min of uncut meatStatus: LIVE — press ▶︎ Ola Operators, I promised to alternate deep-dive essays with live conversations – here’s the first one. Episode #1 of the 404Embassy podcast clocks in at 30 minutes of pure signal with Lou Kerner, the force behind CryptoMondays (60+ IRL chapters and one humble claim: “the largest network-state on Earth”). We met during Token2049 Dubai at a pop-up Embassy I was hosting. Five minutes in, I knew I needed him on tape. Governments aren’t our friend—and tomorrow will be worse. Lou’s words, my lived reality. That’s why 404Embassy exists. Why this conversation matters * Prototype network-state: CryptoMondays has been knitting local nodes since 2017; the Ethereum Community Conference was literally born from there node. * For some reason, Balaji ghosted Lou. That’s fine. 404Embassy welcomes version conflicts. This fuels better maps. * From Bolt to Bitcoin: Lou built the biggest social network before MySpace, then became Facebook’s loudest Wall-Street bull — until the fake-news pivot broke his faith and pushed him toward decentralisation. Hearing that pivot story from the OG himself is worth the download. Hit play (and yes, watch on YouTube – the glitch-snail intro is worth your bandwidth): Yes, I spent an entire weekend crafting that glitchy intro/outro — watch it on YouTube just for the art! Episode Highlights 00:00 Cold boot — “Gov ≠ Friend reboot 03:01 Bubble. Crash. Bubble. Capitalism on loop 05:55 Value-Δ — why salvation scales better than SaaS 09:01 CryptoMondays → 60-city side-chain IRL 11:47 Govs vs Coins — who rugs first? 15:01 Public goods ≈ free beer? Community math 18:09 FAMGA ⚔ Web3 — Star-Wars for souls 21:04 News-feed addiction & decentralized dopamine 23:55 Spray-and-Pray VC — 1 400 roll-ups later 26:58 Agents talk to agents — AI × Web3 micro-tx tsunami 30:09 Ethereum monks ⚔ Solana D-gens — ethos showdown Full transcript lives below 👇 Prefer audio-only? * Spotify → link * Apple Podcasts → link * RSS for any player → RSS * Full transcript But seriously, the video glitch art? Worth every byte. Forward this to an operator who still thinks borders are mandatory.Rate, comment, drop a 🐌 — the snail moves faster with friends. What’s next? You decide Ray SvitlaStay evolving 🐌 > embassy.svit.la · X @ray_svitla · TG @ray_svitla Get full access to 404Embassy at embassy.svit.la/subscribe

    31 min
  4. “The Government Is Not Your Friend”: Lou Kerner on Building the Largest Network-State

    06/03/2025

    “The Government Is Not Your Friend”: Lou Kerner on Building the Largest Network-State

    Governments print money, rewrite rules and—according to Lou Kerner—slowly strangle innovation. So he started something else: CryptoMondays, a 60-city IRL network-state for crypto nomads. In this first episode of the 404Embassy Podcast, we unpack: • Why Lou’s only two thoughts on government are “not our friend” & “tomorrow it’ll be worse.” • The Value-Delta equation that explains religions, Facebook and Web3 cults. • A $1 M Bitcoin price target by 2031 (and why the volatility is just noise). • MonDAI – an open-source agent that matches meetup guests better than Tinder. • Ethereum’s ethos vs Solana’s money-pivot, and why both matter. • How spraying 1 400 startup bets beats picking winners. > Guest: Lou Kerner — Partner @ Blockchain Coinvestors, founder of CryptoMondays. > Host: Ray Svitla — rogue researcher @ 404Embassy. 00:00 – Cold-open: “The government is not our friend” 03:05 – Capitalism = Bubble → Crash → Bubble 05:55 – Community & the Value-Delta equation 08:40 – Decentralization & the CryptoMondays model 11:47 – Governments in crypto: incompetent or hostile? 13:50 – Public goods, Bitcoin & community trust 16:10 – War for the soul of humanity: FAMGA vs Web3 18:40 – Social media, engagement & algorithmic decay 21:00 – Investing via spray-and-pray (1 400+ bets) 23:40 – AI + Web3: stablecoins, agents, micro-tx future 26:30 – Ethereum vs. Solana: ethos or money? 29:00 – Final thoughts: “You're either growing… or dying” 🔗 Full transcript, charts & bonus briefs: https://embassy.svit.la/ 🕗 New episodes every 2 weeks. Rate, share, drop a snail emoji. 🐌 Get full access to 404Embassy at embassy.svit.la/subscribe

    31 min
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Talks with founders, rebels & policy-hackers building borderless futures. Full transcripts → embassy.svit.la 404Embassy is an independent research studio turned mixed-media podcast. From Lisbon to Lagos, we sit down with: > crypto nomads mapping network-states > AI-agent tinkerers automating community life > diplomats gone rogue on new governance Expect unfiltered takes, fight-club metrics, and value-deltas you can actually ship. ► Deeper intel, charts & bonus briefs live on embassy.svit.la embassy.svit.la

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