Justin Drake: Is AI Moving Too Fast for Ethereum? | Ex Machina 03

Описание: Could AI advance faster than Ethereum can secure and scale its infrastructure?

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake joins Kubi Mensah, founder of Gattaca and the team behind Titan, one of Ethereum's leading block builders, for Episode 03 of Ex Machina, hosted by Richard Muirhead of Fabric Ventures.

Justin discusses Lean Ethereum, the race towards 10,000 transactions per second, post-quantum security and why he believes building defensive infrastructure is becoming urgent as AI accelerates.

Kubi shares how he went from experimenting with trading algorithms to building Titan, why he shut down a profitable trading business, and what it takes to compete at the heart of Ethereum's infrastructure.

Together, they explore the future of Ethereum, open systems, AI agents, decentralised marketplaces and the next generation of founders.

*CHAPTERS*

00:00 Introduction
02:59 Building without physical limits
07:37 Justin Drake's PhD rejections
11:52 Why OpenBazaar was too early
22:23 Ethereum's five-person research team
26:18 The hidden cost of closed platforms
31:43 Kubi Mensah on burning the boats
38:16 Building Titan from zero
46:34 Lean Ethereum and the future roadmap
1:00:57 10,000 TPS and autonomous agents
1:04:10 Is AI moving too fast?
1:09:10 Advice for the next generation of founders

*ABOUT THE GUESTS*

Justin Drake: Ethereum Foundation researcher working on Ethereum's long-term technical roadmap, scalability and cryptographic security.

Kubi Mensah: Founder of Gattaca, the team behind Titan, a leading Ethereum block builder.

ABOUT EX MACHINA

Ex Machina is the podcast about the human stories behind the Machine Economy.

Hosted by Richard Muirhead, the series sits down with founders, investors and researchers building the technologies reshaping how machines act, transact and participate in the economy.

From AI models and agents to robotics, compute, financial infrastructure and the physical systems powering them, Ex Machina goes behind the technology to understand how the people building it went from zero to one.

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ABOUT RICHARD MUIRHEAD

Richard Muirhead is Managing Partner at Fabric Ventures and host of Ex Machina.

A founder and investor, Richard has spent decades building and backing technology companies. At Fabric, he focuses on early-stage companies building across the Machine Economy.

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Fabric Ventures is a thesis-driven venture firm backing companies from inception.

Fabric invests across the Machine Economy, including AI, robotics, fintech, distributed computing and Web3, and has backed nearly 200 companies.

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