Why he left crypto for AI w/ Nader Dabit

About this episode

Nader Dabit discusses his transition from crypto to AI and the challenges faced in the Web3 space.

I spoke to Nader Dabit, longtime crypto developer and educator who built at Aave, Lens, and Developer DAO, about what it felt like to be at the frontier of Web3 and why he eventually left. Nader spent years genuinely believing in decentralized social and censorship resistant platforms, and we dig into why those ideas haven't found their footing: the brutal difficulty of onboarding people, a culture that kept rewarding hype over substance, and watching the space forgive grifters over and over ...

People in this episode

Host: The Blockchain Socialist

Guest: Nader Dabit

Topics covered

• crypto
• AI
• Web3
• decentralization
• censorship resistance
• onboarding
• hype culture

Keywords

• crypto
• AI
• Web3
• decentralized social
• censorship resistance
• onboarding
• hype
• grifters

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Aave, Lens, Developer DAO

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