Web3 BlockWave Podcast

GM Web3 Family 🚀 Season 3 is officially live — our anniversary edition. Bigger names, deeper alpha, stronger conversations with top Web3 builders. Let’s scale, ship, and build the future together.

Watch @michaelh_0g's full interview with @Web3BlockWave: open.spotify.com/episode/2bL9yU…

Most DA layers compete on one metric: throughput. 0G competes on three: performance, programmability, and AI-native design. On-chain AI can't live in a "megabytes-per-second" world. It needs a DA layer built for gigabytes. 50,000x faster. 100x cheaper. Purpose-built.

The best founders don't start with a pitch deck. They start with obsession — sneaking into their dad's lab because the internet was faster there. @michaelh_0g built 0G from that same curiosity. Now it powers decentralized AI infrastructure for 100+ partners.

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“Biggest learning building in Web3? First principle is still: don’t die — don’t quit, keep finding a way.” Kenzi Merkle sits down with @michaelh_0g to reflect on the shift from Web2 to Web3: why Web2 often moves from user-aligned to extractive incentives, why Web3 feels fundamentally different, and how embracing that mindset made building feel fun again.

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“DA layers differ on three axes: performance, programmability, and AI-first design — because on-chain AI can’t live in a ‘megabytes-per-second’ world.” Sachi Mihara sits down with @michaelh_0g (Founder of @0G_labs) to compare against Celestia, Avail, and EigenDA: why throughput must jump orders of magnitude, how to avoid the broadcast bottleneck, and why a decentralized storage network is key for ultra-fast data ingestion + retrieval.

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“Bored at a new school after moving from Berlin to Silicon Valley, I started hanging out at my dad’s SAP Lab — fast internet, endless reading, and falling in love with tech.” Our host Kenzi Merkle talks with @michaelh_0g(@0G_labs) about his origin story: early curiosity, the path into Web3, and how it all led to starting his company.

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“Back in 2016–17, crypto felt like an idea factory — hundreds of experiments, zero permission, pure creativity.” Our host Diksha Lyer sits down with @michaelh_0g, Founder of @0G_labs, to talk about the most fun part of building in Web3: an experimentation-first culture, and how tokenization unlocks new ways to sustain projects - including open-source - beyond the standard Web2 business model.

New episode this week, featuring @michaelh_0g, founder of @0G_labs. A deep dive into AI x crypto: modular AI chains, decentralized AI infrastructure, community-owned data, and why modularity is critical for scaling AI on-chain. Also: Michael’s founder journey, leadership through meditation and spiritual practice, and the real-world path to building the first modular AI chain.

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Kenzi Merkle chats with @pumatheuma, founder of @SuccinctLabs, about what it really takes to build SP1: ZK is brutal. Performance is everything, docs are thin, and there’s no real playbook — so the team had to go deep in the code and invent new ZK algorithms to hit rollup + bridge-grade speed.

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Kenzi Merkle sits down with @pumatheuma, co-founder of @SuccinctLabs, to ask: is Crypto Twitter a must for Web3 founders? Uma says it’s not about an NFT PFP or a pseudonymous handle — it’s about being real. Genuine engagement > superficial presence.

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Diksha Lyer asks @pumatheuma a simple one: what actually gets you up every day in Web3? Uma’s answer is straight-up team energy — building in-person, whiteboarding nonstop, and solving hard problems with people she genuinely loves working with.

Today, we’re joined by @pumatheuma — founder of @SuccinctLabs. We talk about her Web3 journey, what drove her to start Succinct, why ZK proofs matter for scaling + privacy, and what it really took to build SP1, their ZK virtual machine.

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