Bo Hines, Executive Director of the President's Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, joins FF President Marta Belcher on DWeb Decoded, live during Consensus 2025 in Toronto, to share the U.S. administration's strategy for cementing U.S. leadership in crypto and Web3.

AI companies are hungry for data—and traditional data brokers are failing both buyers and sellers. On this episode of DWeb Decoded, Lucas Nuzzi, CEO and co-founder of Portex, explains how Portex is creating a tokenized data marketplace for the AI era.

Trevor Koverko, Co-Founder of SapientAI, joins DWeb Decoded to explore the growing need for decentralized, human-augmented data in AI model training. From early crypto to launching a real-world gig economy for data labeling, Koverko lays out how the future of AI is human-powered.

Lisa Loud, Executive Director of Secret Network Foundation, joins host Kurt Opsahl, Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties Policy at Filecoin Foundation, to discuss building confidential infrastructure for AI using encrypted, on-chain technology. From Intel SGX and TEEs to the ethics of decentralized agents, this episode explores how to protect privacy while scaling next-gen AI.

In this episode of DWeb Decoded, Clara Tsao, Founding Officer at Filecoin Foundation, speaks with Ben Fielding, co-founder of Gensyn. Gensyn is creating decentralized infrastructure for AI—enabling machine learning to run trustlessly across distributed devices using crypto verification.

Lei Lei, VP and Head of Business Development at Kite AI, joins DWeb Decoded to discuss Kite AI’s decentralized AI Layer 1. From building a data and model marketplace to using Filecoin and IPFS for on-chain provenance, this episode explores how KAI is enabling scalable, modular, and transparent AI infrastructure.

In this episode of DWeb Decoded, we sit down with Stefaan Vervaet to reflect on the one-year journey of Akave—a decentralized data layer built on Filecoin. With over 75 projects already building on Akave, Stefaan shares how a focus on ease of use and enterprise functionality is setting them apart.

Ocean Protocol co-founder Trent McConaghy joins DWeb Decoded to share a compelling vision for the future of AI, decentralized infrastructure, and human-AI co-evolution. From the role of Filecoin in enabling sovereign AGI to building brain-computer interfaces that augment human cognition, this episode explores the intersection of Web3 and emerging intelligence.