What AI Founders Need To Know

May 13, 2025
Season 1
86 min

Description

🎙️ The CoinRock Show – AI, DePIN & Building the Future of Infrastructure
🎧 Tune in for a future-forward conversation at the crossroads of artificial intelligence, decentralized physical infrastructure, and practical entrepreneurship

This episode features Julian Au (@julianauxm), Founder & CEO of @DePINed_org. Matthias and Julian break down how decentralized infrastructure is unlocking real-world use cases—from monetizing idle hardware to improving user experiences through AI and edge computing.

💥 Key Themes Covered:
🔹 What DePIN actually is—and why it matters now
🔹 How distributed infrastructure is powering a new AI stack
🔹 Turning everyday devices into earning nodes
🔹 Bridging hardware, AI, and crypto to solve real problems

🚨 Special Guest Segment: Julian Au
Julian shares a founder’s view from the frontlines of building in a fast-moving, fragmented market. He dives into:
✔️ His early experiments with streaming PCs from the cloud
✔️ The vision behind DePINed.org and its product roadmap
✔️ How to balance decentralization with UX
✔️ What’s broken in today’s AI pipeline—and how DePIN helps fix it
✔️ How founders can move fast without breaking everything

🧠 Infra, AI & Real-World Utility
⚙️ The problem with centralized AI compute models
📦 Using idle storage, bandwidth, and compute for real value
🌐 DePIN as a coordination layer for smart cities, edge networks, and more
🔐 Privacy, incentives, and aligning user + network interests

💡 Alpha for Builders, Operators & Technical Founders
Julian and Matthias explore:
• Why DePIN is becoming the “infrastructure layer” for crypto AI
• How to make your protocol user-centric from day one
• Building in public vs stealth — and when to switch
• How AI and decentralized compute networks will evolve side by side

🚀 If you're curious about where AI meets Web3 — this is the conversation.
Infra-first thinking. Human-first design. The next tech wave starts here.

🔗 Explore the topics further:
Julian Au: @julianauxm
DePINed: @DePINed_org | depined.org
CoinRock Media: coinrockmedia.com
CoinRock: @CoinRockMedia | @CoinRockCap
Telegram Alpha Group: http://t.me/CoinRockAlpha

🎧 Tap in now. The future is decentralized, intelligent, and already being built.

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Matthias Mazur, Founder

Matthias Mazur is a serial Web2 and Web3 entrepreneur, investor and author with 17 years of experience in building, acquiring, growing and selling digital businesses.

He has been involved in digital marketing since the early 2000s, and has built over a dozen internet-based businesses which have collectively generated over $200 million in revenue in the publishing, e-commerce, and software markets since retiring from professional tennis in 2007.

He is retired financially, and his portfolio business generates $30 million/year with over 150 employees and staff across all companies.

He bought Bitcoin in May 2017, been through 2 bear markets, has been a private investor in crypto and blockchain projects for years and founded CoinRock to solve inefficiencies in the crypto and Web3 industry by giving the public access to projects usually only reserved to whitelisted investors and private groups.  

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