Episode 234 - Geo - Community-Governed Knowledge for the Open Internet, with The Graph Co-Founder Yaniv Tal

For episode 234, we’re excited to welcome Yaniv Tal, a legendary builder who has helped shape the foundations of Web3 as we know it. Yaniv is the co-founder and former CEO of The Graph, one of the most critical pieces of decentralized infrastructure in the ecosystem, powering tens of thousands of applications across Web3. Today, he’s building Geo, a project focused not on scaling transactions, but on rebuilding trust, knowledge, and coordination on the internet itself.

In today’s episode you’ll learn:

• 🌐 Why Yaniv believes “Web3 isn’t here yet,” and what’s missing for the internet to truly become decentralized
• 🧭 How failures in coordination and governance, not technology, are holding back global adoption and trust online
• 📢 Why giving communities real editorial power is essential to rebuilding shared facts, credibility, and legitimacy on the internet
• 🚀 How Geo is experimenting with a new, community-governed knowledge layer for the web
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‍--Key Takeaways--

🔍 Web3 hasn’t delivered its trust promise yet, but the path forward is clear: Web3 aims to provide a composable layer of trust and verification for the internet, but today it remains too complex and fragmented to keep pace with misinformation. The real challenge ahead isn’t just decentralization — it’s usability, coordination, and trust at human scale.

🧠 Knowledge graphs are essential infrastructure for a trustworthy internet: By organizing information around entities and relationships rather than isolated posts, knowledge graphs enable transparency and verification. Bringing this model into open, community-governed systems is key to building shared, auditable knowledge layers for the open web.

🤝 Consensus-building is broken, but it’s not lost:  Algorithmic incentives and centralized platforms have fractured shared understanding. This episode shows that consensus isn’t about forcing agreement, but about creating credible processes to weigh evidence and expertise, helping communities restore trust and editorial agency online. 

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