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How Dynamic Architected Embedded Wallets at Scale
Itai Turbahn shares the evolution of Dynamic from an unsuccessful Solana NFT transaction to a major acquisition by Fireblocks, focusing on abstracting crypto complexity for fintech scale.
The End of the Thirty-Page Pitch Deck
FishTank founder Elie Bouzaglou explains how short-form video and distribution are replacing static pitch decks, starting from a high school sales operation to a VC check wired before final exams.
The Economics of Truth and the Deliberate Moon Fork
Phill of the Lituus Foundation explains why Augur is triggering a terminal protocol fork to test its oracle security and why REP holders must migrate their tokens by August 1.
The Stablecoin Rubber Band: Ryne Saxe on Routing Money Across Chains
Eco CEO Ryne Saxe discusses the evolution of stablecoin infrastructure, the arrival of runtime-adaptable routing, and why he expects agentic commerce to trigger a market spike within the year.
Labeling 500 Million Wallets to Bridge the Gap Between Onchain Data and AI Agents
Hürcan Polat of Nansen details how enriched wallet labels provide the context AI agents need to trade autonomously and why pay-per-request infrastructure is replacing the traditional subscription model.
The Withdrawal Button You Can Never Find
SideShift.ai founder Andreas Brekken traces his path from typing RPC commands into a Bitcoin wallet in 2012 to building a direct-to-wallet exchange, and explains why machine-to-machine payments are the next frontier for autonomous agents.
Inside Benizinga and the Shift Toward Agentic Finance
Tommy Cotter, Director of Data Products at Benzinga, on building AI-powered financial APIs, transcribing earnings calls in real time, and more.
Quint and Verifying AI Generated Code
Gabriela Moreira, CEO of Quint Co, explains how an executable specification language defines correct system behavior, why Web3 is its sharpest use case, and what changed once AI started writing specs.
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.