This Founder Thinks AI Agents Will Replace Travel Planning in 2 Years

Описание: New guest on Decentralized Voices! Ivan Maltsev, co-founder of Nomadz, built a Solana-based travel aggregator. In this episode, Ivan breaks down how traditional platforms pocket roughly 30% on every booking while returning expired coupons as "loyalty rewards", and how Nomadz replaces that with an onchain travel identity.

We also get into what it took to win the Solana Mobile hackathon, launch on the Seeker phone, and why his lean team of five, building from Kyiv and Dubai, treats resource constraints as a competitive edge rather than a handicap.

Highlights:
🔸 Nomadz - the first Ukrainian startup to receive Solana Foundation investment
🔸 The benefits of Solana Superteam, and why everyone tries to copy-paste them
🔸 AI agents that book travel autonomously
🔸 Why do people travel more to find the human connection
🔸 The best places on Earth to be a digital nomad

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Guest, Ivan Maltsev: https://x.com/ivan_nomadz
Host, Daria Strategy: https://x.com/DariaStrategy
Podcast website: https://decentralizedvoices.xyz


📌 Timestamps:
00:00 Intro. Ivan's path from Pokémon cards to blockchain
03:58 What Nomadz is
05:14 Onchain travel identity: XP, quests, referrals
08:37 Building from Ukraine: an unexpected advantage
12:10 Why Solana: tech and Superteam
15:15 Hotel pricing reality check
16:43 Traditional loyalty programs are broken
18:02 Solana Seeker and zero-fee app distribution
20:10 Are conferences dying or evolving?
25:17 AI agents in the travel industry
27:42 Favorite places as a digital nomad