Marcus Levin, founder of XYO, joins DWeb Decoded to share how his team built a decentralized, geospatial data network with 10M+ active nodes—largely from non-crypto users. From proof-of-location to crowdsourced real-world data, Marcus breaks down how XYO evolved from a blockchain idea into a sustainable DePIN success story.

In this episode of DWeb Decoded, host Aaron Stanley sits down with Arrash Yasavolian, Founder and CEO of Taoshi, to explore how his team is building a decentralized proprietary trading network on BitTensor Subnet 8.Taoshi enables quant teams to compete in a token-incentivized marketplace, producing AI-driven trading strategies without the overhead of hedge funds or prop firms. This discussion kicks off a new mini-series focused on the Tensor Economy—a fast-emerging intersection of decentralized AI and blockchain-native infrastructure.

We join Megan and Rick Prelinger on-location at the Prelinger Archive in Richmond California to discuss how analog media, forgotten footage, and underrepresented histories are being preserved and shared through free culture and decentralized tech.They explain how their partnership with the Filecoin Foundation is accelerating digitization efforts—from 16mm films to political zines—and why high-fidelity metadata is the key to building archives that last.