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CGT AMA with Polygon and 0G
Recorded: Aug. 27, 2025 Duration: 0:49:39Space Recording
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. all right all right everybody welcome we have quite a panel of speakers today let's just
maybe give it another 30 seconds or so to get a few more people
in and then we'll get rolling. Up on stage with me, we have Neil from Polygon team, Larry
from IOTEX team and George from ZeroG, but see you all guys in about a minute.ご視聴ありがとうございました Thank you. And and i think the wait is over time to start uh welcome everybody thanks for joining uh me on
stage today um quite an amazing lineup i was just thinking about it. Thanks, Polygon and ZeroG for being here today.
Neil, Larry, and George, let's just introduce ourselves and then let's get rolling.
So let's go in this order since that's the order that you guys appear on my screen.
So Neil goes first.
Good afternoon.
Good evening.
Good morning, everybody.
Hopefully everyone's had a fantastic one on their end.
As our friends over here at IoTeX has said, my name is Nill.
I've been out here in the ecosystem for five years as an enthusiast in blockchain technology,
working professionally in the space for two years at this point.
And I am an ecosystem success and growth lead over at Polygon.
So our teams are already building on Polygon.
I make sure they have a ton of resources to continue to grow.
And new teams are looking building on Polygon. I make sure they have a ton of resources to continue to grow and new teams that are looking for a home.
I make sure they understand the benefits that they have for building within the Polygon chain
and what that means overall for AgLayer growth
and everything all in between.
So really excited to be here, obviously,
talk about all the things that we were able to accomplish
in this first round, but also all the things
that IoTeX will continue to accomplish in the future here.
So I appreciate you all having me here.
Neil, thank you.
And it's always a pleasure having you.
We had such a great time over the few episodes that you've joined.
So, yeah, I'm so happy that we're doing this
and we get a chance to recap together.
We'll get back to Neil.
Larry, how are you today?
How is it wherever you are in the world?
Doing great. I'm out of California.
Really appreciate ZeroG and Polygon for joining us
for this next season of Crypto's Got Talent.
My name is Larry, head of ecosystem here at IoTeX.
And I'm sure we'll dive into a lot more about what we're up to at IoTeX
across the deep end and the AI sectors.
But just really excited to
be joining these amazing projects and speakers today. Awesome. Thanks, Larry. And guys, yeah,
I don't want to brag, but I feel like I'm hosting some of the best speakers in the Web3 right now.
And so to add to that list, George, how are you today? Hey, much doing well very happy to be here
everybody you know I'm George I lead the strategic partnerships at zero gravity
also helping lead the accelerator program and an investor in zero G through
my fund but also investor in the crypto space since since 2017 so really excited
I was there for the the last uh cryptos got talent uh demo live
in can so i i know what it's all about uh zero g is a new entrant uh for this uh you know after
the success you guys had um i i think we're ready to knock this uh second round uh out of the park
so excited to be here thanks jorge that's amazing so uh guys for everybody in the
audience uh we don't really have like a super stiff uh action plan but if anybody has questions
or maybe things that you want to ask to either neil larry or george uh from polygon uh zero g or
iotex just uh feel free to do so in the comments maybe we'll get to a couple of audience
questions in the last few minutes i'd rather read comments though rather than maybe just
promoting people to speak i just think it's cleaner so drop your questions in the comments
and iotex host if we can potentially pin the link to join Season 2 for Cryptos Got Talent, let's maybe do that.
So any builder in the space that is interested in building some cool AI stuff with us can do so by joining the forum.
And I think we'll kick off Season 2 in the next, I want to say a few weeks so that we don't give away too much there.
I want to say a few weeks so that we don't give away too much there.
But yeah, just obviously stay tuned, apply, and we're super happy to get things rolling.
So that's all the stuff out of the way, all the house rules and things like that.
So let's maybe dive in the conversation.
Obviously, I'm sure people are familiar with what the three of us are doing but so instead of talking about that maybe let's let's talk about
some of the highlights or some of the more interesting things that are on the horizon
for polygons 0g and and iotex for example uh neil i was on um on an ag layer space just uh just a
few days ago there were a lot of like interesting conversation about aggregating liquidity uh for what that could look like for like agents for example
and what the potential use cases would be so let's maybe talk about how polygon is positioning
itself and how ag layer is positioning itself and what the opportunity is there for um builders
itself and what the opportunity is there for builders.
Yeah, absolutely.
I appreciate that comment a ton.
So I'll give the 30,000-foot view and how we've evolved from where we were and where
we are going.
Back in the day, this is back in the day, five years ago.
Wow, I feel like a boomer by saying that statement.
But here we go.
Back in the day, when Layer 2os were just getting started and uh we
were kind of just at the origin point of why we needed to scale ethereum we were very early right
we are the original layer two we are positioned as the builder's choice right so by default
individuals were jumping under ecosystem and they were building whatever they didn't want to build
on ethereum or whatever they did want to build on Ethereum just in more an efficient way, right? And so that
kind of caused us to have a ton of success, but also swell in certain areas that kind of were
unsustainable, right? Polygon kind of got an identity crisis in that way because there was
so much going on. And in our eyes now, especially how our
leadership is focusing, if you're known for everything in this space, you're really known
for nothing at the same time. It kind of creates this identity crisis for what is your purpose out
here. And myself and a lot of our team here, we are very of the mindset that general purpose is
not the way to build anymore.
You need to really focus on what the use case is for your ecosystem.
So we evolved.
We continue to see the direction that we're going in.
And when we look at the data, right, of what Polygon does very well is we have the most real world assets on our ecosystem.
We have some of the best real world applications in our ecosystem,
and we process the most payments of any platform in existence, right? So 46% of stablecoin volume
runs through Polygon, the most RWAs of any ecosystem next to Ethereum, like all these
things add up for us to be very focused on those narratives. And luckily the narratives of this
bull run are those two,
right? But you talk about the breakout opportunities that we have as well with
Polymarket, with Courtyard, with a couple different deep end projects. And now we're
integrating a bunch of AI integrations as well. It opens up the door for us to be chosen by default
again in this bull cycle because people see the longevity of our ecosystem. They've been here for five years.
We are the default choice for layer twos.
We have the connection with the Ethereum Foundation very closely.
This really points us in a direction for a ton of growth.
Now, we're also trying to solve problems.
And one of the problems that we're trying to solve is fractionalized liquidity.
And the funny thing is it's a problem that we created, right?
We created bridging and swapping. We created moving to other ecosystems. And we would be remiss not to solve the problems that we created, right? So that's why the ag with with one click, spending any type of currency on
any type of ecosystem, any type of blockchain in a sub five second transaction time.
So we want to abstract away the idea that you need to focus on one chain or another,
that you should just build where you feel comfortable and let us hide the wires for
you.
Let us connect people together and ensure that you can operate wherever you want.
Just make sure it all aggregates and make sure that you focus on making your platform as seamless
as possible. Neil, that was quite good. Wow. Nice. Very good. Thank you. And I'm so glad that you
guys set to solve the problem that you created. So thank you for that contribution. Awesome.
you created so thank you for taking for that contribution uh awesome um larry uh iotex uh
you know obviously i mean you know i'm part of the team but uh we've been you know quite doing a lot
of work behind the scenes we did the announcement in khan um where george was referring to uh talking
about you know our chapter three and and all the new interesting evolution
of where basically we're going in the future
and all the interesting things connecting the physical world,
the real world AI.
So maybe talk us through that and how this happened,
how was this sort of like the logical consequence
of everything that we've been building so far for the past five, six years and where we're headed?
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, for those that aren't familiar with iOS 6's history, we got started back in 2017, really focused on building a blockchain that would connect the physical and the digital worlds. And that's always been the mission from day one.
But I think the opportunity sets across the physical world
and in the digital world have grown.
And these permutations between physical and digital
have also grown.
Through the first few years, we really
focused on building the first of itskind infrastructure to allow devices to be registered
on-chain, for them to submit data and hash their activities on-chain.
Obviously, this provided the foundation for what we know as the DPIN sector today,
decentralized physical infrastructure networks, which are basically sets of hardware, sets of devices that produce some type of
public utility that is put together by the community and fractionally owned by the community.
This is really tying real world assets in a way, if you want to call data and digital
utilities assets that come from the real world.
It tied it to these digital on-chain economies.
And I think that's what Deepin represents is, you know, these physical machines, physical hardware,
contributing to some type of protocol on blockchain rails right and now the next foray for us is really going to be
expanding more into the digital world not only can we create marketplaces for data and marketplaces
for digital commodities like bandwidth and connectivity and energy and things like this.
But we can also feed one of the largest new sectors of demand
in the artificial intelligence space.
You know, AI, as we know it, has really lived in the digital world
through things like chat TPT, through, you know, image generators,
voice generators, all these kind of agentic systems that are popping up
are doing a lot of amazing things in the digital world to basically summarize all of the contents
of the internet and provide value to people that want deeper research or just automation
kind of support. There's so many different use cases in the digital space, but we're really just scratching the surface of what AI's potential can be. And I think once we start
to feed AI with real world, real time data from real humans and real machines, we're going to
unlock a lot of really, really interesting use cases that are going to be rooted in AI. And we
believe that these solutions should also be rooted
and built on blockchain rails.
So things like, you know, more responsive,
low latency understanding of your environment
to help you navigate your day-to-day.
Things like, you know, building out these agentic systems
to not only automate things in the digital world,
but also automate things in the physical world.
Things like deliveries,
autonomous vehicle rides,
drone activities,
and making sure they're all transparent and verifiable.
So a lot of the work that we've done at IoTeX
has really been focusing on
how do we give devices identities on-chain?
How do we verify all of their activities before they're sent to
deep in networks? How do we ensure that the right amount of token incentives are delivered to the
right stakeholders? And it was very, very relevant in the deep in era. And I think even more relevant
in this AI era as it starts to scratch into the real world.
So yeah, all the work that we've done to date has really culminated in this massive demand-side opportunity in the AI sector. And we're excited to work with amazing companies like ZeroG and Polygon to continue to build out composable infrastructure.
And yeah, build out the infrastructure
that's going to power the future.
That's awesome, Larry.
And I think one of the, whatever,
I mean, you said a lot of important things,
but I think composability,
especially in the context of what Neil was saying as well,
is really paramount, right?
So enabling anyone to build basically whatever is most convenient
for them and at the same time kind of like leverage the whole uh web3 ecosystem as a whole
um so george i'd love to hear your thoughts it's it's interesting because in this regard um
obviously uh crg is kind of like set to launch you guys have done like amazing things so far uh i think
there is a lot of uh we can say maybe expectation or hype or you know interest uh regarding uh
regarding the launch and at the same time you're up here on stage with maybe two ecosystems that
have been there for many years now in crypto years so uh yeah, I'd love to hear your perspective, what you guys have been
up to, how did this all come about and what's coming next. Sure, thank you so much. Yeah,
and super happy to be here on stage with you guys. So, you know, at ZeroG, what we're doing
is we're building the world's largest AI L1. So, you know, I agree with what Neil said.
I think purpose-built L1s and
purpose-built chains makes sense.
So our goal is to make AI public good.
In that process, we are bridging
the gap between Web2 and Web3 AI.
So our L1 has a lot of the infrastructure that's
required to fully deploy applications on-chain that can conduct fully on-chain AI.
What we have is actually an infinitely scalable L1,
EVM compatible, and we have built what we call
a modular decentralized AI operating system,
which sits on top of the L1.
And the operating system has three core components.
The first is our decentralized data storage network.
It is the fastest and cheapest storage network in the space, so we're very excited about that.
And this really allows us to support builders to store high volumes of data. AI models, training sets,
AI agent networks, gaming data, all that stuff can be stored on our storage nodes, and it is modular.
So no matter what chain these projects are on, they can still access that storage network.
The second component of the decentralized AI operating system is our data availability solution.
Our DA solution is thousands of times faster
and higher throughput than the current DA solutions.
This was the first product that ZeroG actually released,
I believe it was around last March, so March 2024.
The reason this was built was because we realized that,
you know, in order to do fully on-chain AI, the DA throughput needs to be in the gigabytes per
second. And with Ethereum and even Solana and the other chains, you know, the DA throughputs are in
megabytes per second, and it just, it would be insufficient. And so that was the first product
that ZeroG came out with. It got a good adoption on that.
Then we released the storage network after that.
Then the most recently is what we released is our compute network.
The compute network works in parallel with
our service marketplace for decentralized inferencing,
fine tuning, and data verification.
You can think of the service marketplace
as a platform for users to submit data,
for models to be trained, for AI agents to be listed,
and then you can monetize that entire flow.
And so when you bundle all three components together,
the storage, the DA, and the compute,
what we have is the operating system
that is out of the box.
Anybody can have AI functionality if they come to zero G.
And we want to be the all-in-one place for AI applications.
And we want to support other chains as well.
We have great relationships with Polygon, the IOTech folks.
Me personally, I've invested in you guys as well.
I did your ICO in 2017, IOTech.
So thank you for the profits. Polygon, you guys did great last cycle as well. I did your ICO in 2017, IoTeX, so thank you for the profits.
Polygon, you guys did great last cycle as well on the token stuff. So personally, I have good,
you know, I'm fans of you guys. And obviously, you guys are, you know, much older in the space.
But, you know, what we're trying to do is usher in a new wave of AI on chain. And we want to enable
this for all the builders across all the different chains.
That's why we follow a modular approach and that's why the infrastructure that we're building
is interoperable and it's highly, highly performant. So we want to give everybody
the Web 2 performance with the Web 3 benefits of decentralization, censorship resistance,
scalability, monet monetization verifiability
especially when you talk about AI models you know these are the things that we are focused on
awesome George thank you that is great so I think I can see how basically all of the things that
we're talking about relate to each other, right?
And if I can maybe take a few minutes to reel this back to kind of like how the whole Crypto
Scout Talent, which is kind of like the theme of today, right?
And basically, I mean, what does it mean?
It's our collaboration to basically recruit or find the best possible talent to then leverage
ecosystems such as IoTeX Polygon or ZeroG, right?
So in essence, that's what we're doing.
So this all came about because, you know, chatting with Polygon, we really wanted to
like collab together and find like some of these like uh super promising talented uh deep end based projects right so that
had some sort of like hardware element real world element and uh yeah it was it's been a great
journey i don't know if maybe nil you know you've been you've been up with us for for a few times
and uh you follow obviously the whole process you know
there is so many things that we've
gone through and I'm pretty happy
with the choices that we've made for the winner
so I don't know if maybe you wanted to spend
a few minutes but also
maybe abstract it away a little bit and let's
talk about
the strive to
basically find the best talent
and to propel the ecosystem forward
you know and what are you guys been up to in that regard yeah i think um you know the way that iotex
approached this was so unique right um and and you know hosting a talent show having live speakers
going through the streaming process doing things irl like it really gave a human touch to the way that grants are awarded.
And as anybody who knows, it works in the grants world, right?
Distributing these things, it's a very laborious process, right?
It takes a lot of effort to filter through the applications and go through the process.
And so this wasn't easy for IoTeX to manage. It won't
be easy to manage in the future either. But what you get when you go through that extra work is
the quality of projects that you receive is that much higher, right? Because individuals see the
attention to detail that you're providing and you're going into. And so they're more apt to opening it up on their side too.
They want to dive in with you.
They want to believe in the way that you are treating this process
as the way that you'll treat them during business conversations.
And that's really our approach here
and how we're trying to keep moving forward with every grant
and seed funding effort that we have on our side
because a lot of teams, it's very hard to,
you know, not only allocate these resources, but ensure that we provide them with the support that
they need over time. And so, you know, you'll see announcements from us coming out soon and some
other things in that direction of, or how we want to manage these things. But really what it stems
down to is we want to invest in the people that want to build alongside us just as much as they do.
Right. That is what it boils down to, because, you know, it's very hard to manage these processes.
We understand that teams have X amount of resources, X amount of team members.
It's still startup world. Everyone sees all these big entities.
They think there's hundreds of thousands of people working at them.
It's still pirate ship mode for all of us. But we know
that we can advance the ball more effectively by the way that we allocate
our resources and by the way that we treat people overall, which is really
what I give hats off to IOTechs for doing so excellently. It's that personal
touch. It's showing that you care. It's really reaching out across
to the builders and ensuring
that they know that they have somewhere to call home. And it's not somewhere they need to operate
alone with anymore. So our team works on that every single week. Hats off to Maddie and Smokey
and all the people on the community side and DevRel. They really work hard, but really excited
to see how things continue to propel in the future as well. Yeah, amazingil and you're right um hats off to maddie and like the
whole team for really i mean it was super fun even meeting in khan it was amazing and uh yeah it's
been it's been quite a journey because even for us uh like you say we're not like an enormous team
with like you know dozens and dozens of people worldwide um so it was fun and uh yeah intense to like manage all of this but it was uh
super worth it and we're super happy with the choices we've made there's going to be like a
ton of like announcement announcements and and things coming up and uh i'm so glad that we did
this together so super pumped um now looking back or maybe uh i know that larry has to
potentially drop off in a few minutes so i wanted to maybe uh get you up here on stage uh larry
before before you go and uh uh just talk about what we look forward uh to when uh selecting let's
say um new developers in the ecosystem and really how to like push the
envelope since it's kind of like what we like doing, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
I think, you know, these collaborative efforts across ecosystems are an amazing way to cultivate
this next generation of builders, right?
I think crypto has changed so much from needing to build kind of more full stack applications
and, you know, choose one ecosystem
to, you know, put all your marbles into.
And now I think this whole composable ecosystem
of different types of networks
that you can launch on multiple networks simultaneously,
you can build parts of your
stack on one network and leverage the tools you need from other networks. I think this vision of
kind of composable and open source building is starting to come to life as the infrastructure
layer progresses more. And I think about it in kind of these like infrastructure application
life cycles, right? Like the more infrastructure that's built will enable one certain type of
application. As these applications grow, they'll demand more and more of their infrastructure and
push the infrastructure teams to build new types of infrastructure. And then that will enable the
next wave of applications. Those applications will demand more and demand more infrastructure and so on and so forth, right? So maybe we're at the third or fourth iteration of
kind of layer one and layer two infrastructure now where a lot of the basics around, you know,
the general layer one stuff has been figured out from like a consensus level. No one's really
mincing brand new consensus mechanism
anymore. They're more thinking about the data availability side, the interoperability side of
things. So just by nature of the way that infrastructure has progressed, you're going to
see a lot of more interesting and more developed applications. So I think that's what I'm most
excited for and encourage everyone that has any type of idea that they think would fit onto blockchain rails to reach out to the Crypto's Got Talent team and work with great infrastructure providers like ZeroG, Polygon and IoTeX that just want to help people realize their vision.
So a little bit of rah-rah, but I think it's just a really exciting time to be building in the crypto space.
Yeah, I totally agree. Awesome, Larry. Thank you.
If you have to drop off, maybe feel free to do so.
Maybe we'll go to George and then maybe we'll do another round.
I'm still looking at questions from the audience.
If you guys want to maybe drop some questions that are either for Neil or for George,
in the meantime, let me know.
Actually, no, just post them,
and then I'll go through them
and see if we find anything interesting.
But yeah, thanks again, Larry.
We're totally aligned,
totally looking forward to what's coming next.
And talking about what's coming next, George.
Yeah, sure, thank you.
So, you know, with ZeroG,
we're less than two years old, right? Our team has grown significantly. When I joined last year, there's 12 people, I believe, and now there's close to 70. So, I've grown a lot in the last year.
gearing up for our mainnet launch. Our mainnet is anticipated for our end of Q3. And we are still,
you know, on testnet version 3. What we're super excited about though is even on our testnet,
we were able to achieve 11,000 TPS per shard. And so as far as testnet stats go like that,
that was super impressive. And, you know And the way we structured our blockchain
is that it's in a sharding mechanism.
And so at 11K TPS per shard, you can have many, many shards.
Our goal post mainnet launch is to get to infinite TPS.
We kind of feel transactions per second
is going to be an outdated mechanism,
like our outdated benchmarking tool,
especially when you talk about infinite TPS.
So what's focused or top of mind for us right now
is to say, okay, we're going to mainnet.
We want to have a lot of applications
take advantage of the infrastructure
that Zeruji has been building, right?
11k TPS per shard,
or let's just say infinite TPS down the road,
means that you can do a lot of things on-chain
that you could not have done previously, like prior to Zero-G.
If you want to do a fully on-chain AI agent,
which has all the data stored on the Zero-G storage network,
vertically integrated with the compute network and service marketplace
for training of agentic models, and then you even want to have the community participate in that
training side of things. And then you want to scale the AI agent network to have multiple agents
either working through MCPs or swarms. You can scale that entire network from the ground up on
zero G, right? And then you have the benefits of it being a highly scalable L1
such that you don't have to worry about high excessive gas fees.
You don't have to worry about block congestion, right?
You don't have to worry about drop transactions with RPCs
and things like that, which you may face on other chains.
A lot of these things have been hyper-optimized for AI.
And now the benefit is it's backwards compatible
with the less demanding applications, right?
So gaming, DeFi, D-PIN,
we really tip our hats to IoTeX.
You guys started the entire D-PIN wave.
The applications utilizing IoTeX's infra,
if they're able to integrate 0G infra as well,
now they have infinite scalability.
We have a lot of interesting projects building
in the deep end space on 0G because they want to
scale a mobile network with 100,000 phones,
or they want to scale a weather system with a million users,
for example. What we're trying to do is enable
the next generation of applications with infinite scalability.
Our mainnet version one is just the first foray into that future.
We want to build it alongside the best developers.
That's why we love what Crypto's Got Talent is doing.
The talent pool is great.
The moderators are great.
The people who are judging are great.
And so we want to basically invite all the builders, right, to come in, you know, try
your luck, you know, get selected.
There are cash prizes.
There are other things as well.
But more than the cash prizes, the real benefit of joining an infrastructure or this type
of group where you have the legacy players like,gon, you have the real creators of industries like IoTeX on the deep inside,
and now you have the blockchain and AI pioneers,
a team of 40 or so AI researchers,
you have a team of blockchain infrastructure developers,
you have a very, very highly funded network as well.
So you have a trio of a highly funded network as well. So you have like the, you know,
a trio of a lot of people that can,
a lot of foundations that can actually support you, right?
In your building and in what you want to do
with go to market fundraising and technology.
So it's like the golden era, right?
Of creating dApps.
I actually think we're entering that golden era of dApps.
And so if you have something that you guys are working on, if you have something that you want to build,
you know, if it's AI focused, you know, ZeroG is very, very equipped to support.
But even if it's not AI, if it's DeFi, gaming, whatever, you know, we're really excited to, you know, to come and support all the builders.
and support all the builders.
George, that was great.
I love that this is the golden era of building decentralized applications.
It's just quite inspiring.
I can't wait to get rolling.
And honestly, yeah, I mean, having gone through a few months of season one,
it's kind of great to think about you know uh season two and like all
these new projects so it's it's new for everybody you know like we get there it's the first time
that you meet people uh people that come up on stage talk to strangers sometimes it's like
several hundreds of strangers sometimes we've had dozen uh like thousands of strangers, and people just do it.
And they get feedback on the spot.
Some feedback was a little bit on the harsher sides.
Some were, you know, always very constructive, though.
And it's not easy.
So, you know, hats off to, like, everybody that participated in Season 1,
even if you guys were not selected for winners.
Hats off to the winners for doing amazing.
So I'm really looking forward to this.
I was honestly, guys, looking at some of the comments.
I personally don't find some questions
that are so specific to the topic of the AMA,
even though there are some questions
maybe about polygons
upgrades some some about the roadmap but we we kind of cover some of these things
and yeah I don't think the other questions are quite that relevant for
the topic of today's conversation so yeah maybe we skip the skip the audience
questions for now but we don't have to also keep it too
too long i was thinking in the 45 minute range uh would be good so we have maybe another uh round
of things from neil and george um neil if maybe there is one or two things that you are looking
forward to for this uh for this q4 uh maybe 2026 uh something that you want to share with us,
feel free to.
Yeah, absolutely.
Man, I'm really excited for a lot of things
that we're working on, obviously.
Like I alluded earlier to the ag layer
and the effects that that'll have over time.
Really excited for those interrupt solutions
that are rolling out.
I'm super proud of the work that the Katana team has done from the DeFi perspective.
And I think that the rise of their productive TVL levels and all the things that they do
is something we can be super proud of over here.
But also it's like, I'm also really proud that we found our niche and we're just sticking
to it.
And now you see a lot of people are, if you're watching the last week on the timeline,
everyone's talking about predictions markets
and consumer RWAs and all these other things
that like really should be the focus
of how we build out here.
Because we were so focused on the idea
that you can make fast money out here for a long time, right?
It was, oh, it's a meme coin, let's do this.
Oh, it's a NFT project, let's do that.
Like, that's great.
And I love the culture that we have here.
I would never change CT for the way that it is.
But I really feel as though we're getting much more intelligent
with the way that we are approaching the space as a whole.
And because we're so uniquely positioned for the consumer RWA space,
because we're so uniquely positioned in prediction markets, I put out a post earlier today, I was
like, if you're building a prediction market, I don't know why you would build it anywhere else.
Like this isn't about like, oh, Polymarket's here, so they can't like, so you can't compete with
them. It's the fact that we share in the values of our chain, right? Like we share
in the value, we share in the volume itself. And those resources are meant to make sure that we
foster effective growth. So I just encourage all of our builders out here, like if you're really
looking for a place to call home, definitely give us a look if you're building in those narratives.
Obviously, you need to build where you're most comfortable, but I can promise you that no team will be as involved as ours is
with the way that we are looking to make sure that we all win
at the end of the race, right?
Like our Web3 ethos has been pure for a long time.
The ag layer is meant to do what it does
because it solves real-life problems,
and I can't be more excited for the direction that we're heading in
for the rest of the year and into next year.
Thanks, Neil. That was awesome.
Yeah, super pumped.
I'm really looking forward to see more builders joining Polyunic System.
And already, you know, like some of the applications that you've mentioned are super interesting.
So, yeah, even more use cases coming up.
Super pumped.
Thanks, Neil, for joining us it was awesome
George to you yeah I mean you kind of said like what you were kind of like excited at what's kind
of coming in like Q4 but I mean if we can add maybe a couple more things maybe you know looking
further ahead if you want sure sure yeah so Q4 is going to be a big quarter for ZeroG right
mainnet is end of Q3 we're going to have several applications that are going to be a big quarter for Zero-G, right? Mainnet is end of Q3. We're going to have several applications
that are going to TGE on Zero-G's chain as well
in Q4 and Q1.
And these are some really high-quality dApps.
And we're actually going to be launching a launchpad
where we're going to hope that the community
can get access to some of these plays as well,
these investment opportunities in these applications at the early stage.
So we're excited about that.
We also have an AI agent launchpad that's coming out,
which will have a lot of
the inbuilt infrastructure as part of the creation process.
So the data would be stored on a storage network.
Training for the models that the agents tap into
will occur on our compute and service marketplace.
And then we have even what we call intelligent NFTs,
or INFTs, it's a new ERC standard, ERC 7857.
And so that's going to be minted alongside the agent
so you can prove ownership of the agents.
You can then fractionalize the NFT and trade it so you can prove ownership of the agents. You can then fractionalize the NFT and
trade it so you can trade ownership of agents instead of just trading meme coins, which
may or may not be linked to the real agent. And that's all going to come through in our
AIverse launchpad, which is also coming out probably in October. So we have a lot of exciting
things, right? A lot of applications coming out, going to market with us.
There's going to be a lot of incentives
for builders as well.
So super excited about that.
And then overall, we're seeing that there's a huge demand
on the Web2.ai aspect as well.
And so we are going to be onboarding companies
from the Web2.ai who are going to tap into Web3.ai
for decentralized training, for example.
Who are going to tap into Web3 for sources of training, for example, who are going to tap into Web3 for sources of data.
And so now what we're trying to do is empower users with large and rich data sets
and bring it back to enterprises in the Web2 space
and really drive some value back to the on-chain users.
We may think the on-chain economy is large and stuff.
It's really not, right?
There's not that many participants right now, But we do generate a lot of data. And the companies that are in the Web2 well, and then monetize that data through useful things,
such as training models or providing enterprises with these raw data sources as well.
So we're really excited about bringing to market a lot of these applications,
which leverage the underlying Zero-G technology, but in the end should benefit the end user.
You don't have to be tech savvy to benefit from the Zero-G's ecosystem.
You can just be a participant,
and you should have benefits.
This is the beauty of a new L1 launching.
I'm sure we've all seen different chains launch and things like that.
But Zero-G, we're fundamentals first,
we're utility first, and that's why we spent all the time building out the infrastructure,
so that when
applications do launch when these tokens do launch you know our goal is that they are used for
something more than just speculation they're used for utility and they're used to distribute value
across a large network and allow for scalability of these applications so they're sustainable through
cycles right so we anticipate q4 to be a bullish cycle,
but these things are unpredictable in crypto.
But what is predictable is if you build solid infra,
and if you build solid customer rails,
so where customers will use your infra
regardless of the market conditions,
then you have staying power.
And so ZeroG on the foundation side, we're focused on that.
And then with our applications, we're making sure that we give them the right guidance
to be a useful application regardless of the speculative nature of crypto.
That was extremely well said. Thank you, George.
That was actually quite insightful and a lot to unpack right so awesome um yeah guys i think we've
covered a lot uh maybe not to overwhelm the audience with like so much information but i am
sure there is a ton to look forward to and a ton of that has already been built so i think the main
three let's say call to actions for if we had to like maybe summarize this space
would be uh definitely stay uh keep up with um with nil and the polygon ecosystem for a ton of
stuff that is happening especially on the on the ag layer side keep up with george and zero g with
basically uh mainnet launch and all these other interesting things if you are in the AI space.
And if you want to build on these ecosystems
and you want to leverage the amazing knowledge and experience
that we've all brought up to the stage today with us,
do join CryptoScope Talent Season 2.
It's going to be fun.
It's a little bit different
kind of like what nio was saying right at the beginning uh yeah normally uh programs for
builders do not have an element of uh uh liveness uh to them it doesn't really work as a as a talent
show it's more like you know behind the scenes
and there's maybe a lot quieter but i think that in general uh if you just want to apply if you
just have an idea um it's good to like get out there let people know what you're doing and uh
especially it starts giving visibility to your project so do join us uh and our host uh iotex today um put the link up there it's pinned so if
you guys want to click on that post that post has a link to the form that uh you need to just fill
out uh to basically be part of uh season two we'll go through it all together uh with our partners
and we should maybe get things rolling in the next, let's say, two to three weeks, right?
So do so.
We're looking forward to basically
have all these projects coming our way
and like working with us.
Neil, George and Larry, wherever you are,
I also wanted to thank you guys for your time here.
It was great, super insightful and see everybody later thank you thank you so much take care see you guys take
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