Jesus Rodriguez

Jesus Rodriguez is the CEO and co-founder of IntoTheBlock, a platform focused on enabling market intelligence and institutional DeFi solutions for crypto markets. He is also the co-founder and President of Faktory, a generative AI platform for business and consumer apps. Jesus also founded The Sequence, one of the most popular AI newsletters in the world. In addition to his operational work, Jesus is a guest lecturer at Columbia University and Wharton Business School and is a very active writer and speaker.

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Opinion

The Changing Face of Risk in DeFi

The biggest risk factors in the new era of decentralized finance may be economic, not technical, says Jesus Rodriguez, CEO of IntoTheBlock.

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Opinion

The Enablers of Decentralized AI

AI naturally evolves as an increasingly centralized technology, and any decentralization efforts are an uphill battle. But decentralization can win in specific areas of AI development, says Jesus Rodriguez, CEO of IntoTheBlock.

Web 3's use of AI will present challenges. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Opinion

The Next Phase of DeFi Is Here

Expect a transition from incentive madness to real utility in crypto markets, says Jesus Rodriguez, CEO, IntoTheBlock.

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Opinion

A Difficult Truth: The Unspoken Mismatch of Web3 and Generative AI

Generative AI workloads are designed to be computationally intensive, running on highly parallelizable GPUs. What role does that leave for blockchain? Jesus Rodriguez, of IntoTheBlock, explores one possible solution.

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Opinion

AI Should Be Decentralized, but How?

The case for greater transparency and verifiability in AI. But is decentralization the best way to achieve that and is feasible in practice? Jesus Rodriguez, of IntoTheBlock, says the technical challenges are tremendous.

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Opinion

How DeFi Protocols Are Building More Granular and Extensible Capabilities

The trend towards "micro-primitives" creates protocols that are more extensible, programmable and composable. But it also creates greater vulnerability at a time when protocols are under increasingly hack-attack.

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Opinion

A New Blockchain for Generative AI?

Web3 architectures aren’t built for AI, but they could be, says Jesus Rodriguez, CEO of IntoTheBlock. And there are risks if we don’t build.

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Opinion

The Next ChatGPT Won’t Be in Web3 Unless Some Things Change

Web3 infrastructures do not possess the compute, data or data science framework foundations to embrace generative AI. But it’s possible to build them, says Jesus Rodriguez, CEO of IntoTheBlock.

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Opinion

A Pragmatic View of ChatGPT in a Web3 World

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing every aspect of our daily lives. What will it mean for Web3? IntoTheBlock's Jesus Rodriquez learns from the machine.

The home page for the OpenAI ChatGPT app (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Finance

Las DeFi son el camino a seguir, pero necesitan evolucionar

La base técnica de las DeFi demostró ser increíblemente resistente a los catastróficos acontecimientos del mercado durante los últimos meses. La oportunidad para construir una nueva generación de servicios financieros sobre las DeFi nunca ha sido tan grande, pero el espacio necesita enfrentarse a importantes desafíos.

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