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Base's Denim Upgrade Brings 200 Millisecond Blocks and Millisecond Time Onchain
Eric Brown, Head of DevRel at Base, walks through the Denim upgrade: native 200 millisecond blocks, the new BaseTime timestamp, B20 policy changes, and what faster blocks mean for liquidations, tokenized stocks, and agents.
From Heavy Metal Drummer to Consulting AI: Tim Lidman on Building Clyde
Tim Lidman, co-founder and CEO of Clyde AI, traces his path from heavy metal drummer to Accenture partner and explains how Clyde combines AI advisors, human collaborators, and firm-specific guardrails for consulting work.
Slicing Ethereum's 12-Second Block Into 100 Pieces
Kevin Lepsoe, founder of ETHGas, explains how his company sells Ethereum blockspace in advance, splits blocks into sub-second preconfirmations, and build an on-chain lane for institutions worried about front-running and sanctions.
A Chicken Allergy, a Telegram Bot, and MOI's Case for Revocable Agent Authority
Piyush Maheshwari and Gokul of MOI explain the participant layer behind the network and run a live demo of TrustClaw, a Telegram food-ordering agent that can read user context only through a grant that the user can revoke.
From The Graph's First Hire to Verified Onchain Data: Rodrigo Coelho on Amp
Edge & Node CEO Rodrigo Coelho on going from first hire at The Graph to building Amp, a SQL pipeline for verifiable blockchain data, plus a preview of the unreleased Amp Cloud.
Crossmint's Alex Rawitz on Agents That Shop: Delegated Signers, Saved Cards, and a Pair of Gloves Bought Live
Alex Rawitz, Head of Agentic Payments at Crossmint, walks through the Agent Commerce Toolkit, from agent cards and smart contract wallets to browser-automated checkouts, and explains why most merchants are not yet ready for agent buyers.
Keeping the Data on the Device: Jay Albert on Building with Midnight
Jonathan 'Jay' Albert, a Solutions Engineer at the Midnight Foundation, talks with Narb about keeping user data on local devices, zero-knowledge proofs, the NIGHT and DUST token split, and building across chains with Effectstream.
LLM Gateway's Two Founders on Enterprise Routing, AirSide, and Token Fraud
Ismail Ghallou and Luca Steeb return to DevNTell to describe how LLM Gateway, still a two-person company, added SOC 2 compliance, enterprise routing, the AirSide provider marketplace, and DevPass, and why fraud forced a pricing change.
Fossilizing the Moment of Creation
Dr. Manny Ahmed and Ari Abelson of OpenOrigins explain how they are tackling cryptographic provenance, and how their Cambium network and Tally product make media and AI agent logs impossible to fake after the fact.
The Architecture of a Unified Real World Asset Marketplace
Mike McCluskey and Ashley Ebersole of tx discuss the merger of Sologenic and Coreum, the regulatory shift at the SEC, and a technical approach that builds compliance directly into tokens.
Inside the Push for Agent-Native Payments at Coinbase Business
Head of Coinbase Business Sid Coelho-Prabhu details the shift from fax-driven financial alerts to the x402 protocol, where AI agents fund their own wallets to settle onchain transactions.
Avery Ching on Aptos, The Machine Economy, and the Quantum Clock
Aptos Labs co-founder Avery Ching discusses the move from Meta to Layer 1 infrastructure, the development of Decibel and Shelby for the machine economy, and why he is building for post-quantum security today.