The No BS Guide to Crypto AI with Prodia - Shawn Wilkinson, Prodia, Ep. 260

The Blockcrunch Podcast

Today Jason is joined by Prodia Co-Founder & CEO, Shawn Wilkinson to discuss the future of AI x Crypto and decentralized compute. In this episode they discuss:

• The foundations for Prodia
• Why now is the time for DePIN
• Decentralized node use-cases
• Training vs decentralization
• Web3 compute network scepticisms
• Will Prodia launch a token?
• And much more!

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(07:57) Why DePIN?

(15:10) Economies of scale/cost efficiencies

(19:53) Aggregating supply/matching demand

(20:48) Decentralized node use-cases

(25:00) Training vs decentralization

(29:48) Power of cold outreach/market dynamics

(30:46) Web3 compute network scepticisms

(41:37) Miner business models

(46:11) Prodia token

(48:30) Why decentralized compute networks

(55:00) Outro

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