ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Karan and Fed sit down with two of the sharpest builders bridging crypto and artificial intelligence:• Akshit, Co-Founder, Epoch Protocol (universal coordination layer for on-chain intents & solver networks)• Raghav “RG”, Core Contributor, Reppo (decentralised marketplace for data, compute & solver nodes)Key themes- Why “intents” change UX for DeFi, data, and agents- Designing solver markets, slashing & reputation layers- Bootstrapping real-time retail demand for GPU/data infra- How crypto incentives may accelerate autonomous AI agents- A candid look at what AGI really means (and why trust still matters)Chapters:00:00 Intro & episode setup00:06 Meet the hosts & guests01:00 RG’s Filecoin AI roots02:10 AK’s path to Epoch Protocol04:50 Mapping today’s Crypto-AI landscape07:40 How Epoch solves “state-to-state” intents14:00 Reppo’s marketplace for data & GPUs24:30 Trust, slashing & reputation dilemmas43:20 Toward autonomous agents & AGI1:09:45 Closing takeaways & where to follow
