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Plain Strata

Plain Strata

Plain Strata takes one concept from the frontier of decentralized AI and builds it from the ground up - physical first principles, no jargon without grounding. Created by Dastan Modubash. Hosted by Claire and Peter, two AI-generated voices doing a surprisingly good job explaining systems they technically run on. The angle, structure, and editorial decisions are human. The voices are AI. No prior knowledge assumed. Decentralized AI, layer by layer.

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39 episodes

  1. Plain Strata: The Pay Split, Who Pays When Each Sub-Network Sets Its Own Cut 13:13
  2. Plain Strata: Nothing Left to Compare, Why a Judge Nobody Checks Still Gets Paid 25:34
  3. Plain Strata: Integer Overflow, Why a Guard Built From the Same Arithmetic Certified a Theft 13:53
  4. Plain Strata: Canonical Serialization, Why Two Honest Parties Can Look Like Liars 39:57
  5. Plain Strata: Could Not Check, Why Verifying AI Work Needs a Third Answer 35:12
  6. Plain Strata: The Inference Subsidy, Who Pays for the Cheapest AI in the World 14:20
  7. Plain Strata: Memory Access Patterns, How an Operator Reads Private Prompts Without Decrypting 32:29
  8. Plain Strata: Attestation vs Re-Execution, Where Each Way of Checking AI Work Puts Your Trust 13:48
  9. Plain Strata: The Stake-Weighted Middle 24:17
  10. Plain Strata: Stake Delegation, Who Holds the Vote Inside the Token 11:05
  11. Plain Strata: Counterfactual Verification, Would the Discovery Have Happened Anyway 16:38
  12. Plain Strata: Compute as Collateral, Borrowing Against the Machines That Run Open AI 17:10
  13. Plain Strata: Hardware Attestation, Checking the Room Instead of the Answer 21:08
  14. Plain Strata: The Easy Half, A Network Wants Miners to Run AI and Checking That Work Is the Hard Part 18:02
  15. Plain Strata: The Entry Fee, To Prove an AI Answer You Have to Round the Model Off First 18:39
  16. Plain Strata: Somebody Has to Sign, Open AI Models Now Come With a Revenue Line 14:16
  17. Plain Strata: The Wiring Between Them 23:11
  18. Plain Strata: Nobody to Trust 16:12
  19. Plain Strata: Nobody Checks the Answer 19:49
  20. Plain Strata: The Gate Was Never the License 15:48
  21. Plain Strata: Say Yes Once 22:11
  22. Plain Strata: No Handshake Required 11:00
  23. Plain Strata: The Name That Stays 26:58
  24. Plain Strata: A Name and a Wallet 19:26
  25. Plain Strata: The Scorekeeper 32:09
  26. Plain Strata: Train Your Own 15:32
  27. Plain Strata: The Third Rail 18:57
  28. Plain Strata: Why the Frontier Stays in One Room 24:53
  29. Plain Strata: The Permission Slip 24:00
  30. When a Network Sells Itself 34:44
  31. The Off-Switch 22:33
  32. Plain Strata B8: Who Decides? 34:29
  33. Plain Strata B7: Agents With Wallets 41:51
  34. Plain Strata B6: Airbnb for GPUs 19:35
  35. Plain Strata B5: Harder to Build Than to Use 17:24
  36. Plain Strata B4: The Oracle Pattern 19:05
  37. Plain Strata B3: Skin in the Game 17:24
  38. Plain Strata B2: Three Ways to Trust an Answer 19:40
  39. Plain Strata B1: One Question, End to End 24:03