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Why Investors Fund the Founder Before the Product
Shayna Rattler Davis of Executive Signals Group explains the competency gap that prevents technical founders from raising capital and why human presence is becoming a critical differentiator.
Midl's L1.5 Pitch: Native Bitcoin, EVM Contracts, No Bridge Wait
Georgy Skryuchenkov, DevRel at Midl, walks through how the team has spent over 18 months building an EVM-compatible execution environment that runs against native Bitcoin wallets and satoshis.
D_D Cloud Founder Crypdough on Building RPC Infrastructure in Rust
Crypdough.eth, founder of Futex Labs, returned to DevNTell to walk through the current state of D_D Cloud, a Rust-based cloud infrastructure platform offering RPC access to blockchain networks at low cost.
Inside DoubleZero Edge: How Malbec Labs Brings Private Network Performance to Solana Traders
Ben Marx, Head of Engineering at Malbec Labs, walks through DoubleZero Edge, a real-time market data delivery platform that uses multicast and Shapley value-based incentives to bring high-frequency trading-grade network performance to Solana.
Javier Lozano Jr. on Close Rates, Confused Buyers, and Building Predictable Pipeline
Javier Lozano Jr., fractional CMO and founder of Bolder Media Co., shares how he scaled Wrapmate from $1M to $20M in revenue, why founders go to market with too many products at once, and some tips on how to tackle go-to-market for founders.
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.