404Embassy
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Talks with founders, rebels & policy-hackers building borderless futures. Full transcripts → embassy.svit.la
404Embassy is an independent research studio turned mixed-media podcast. From Lisbon to Lagos, we sit down with:
> crypto nomads mapping network-states
> AI-agent tinkerers automating community life
> diplomats gone rogue on new governance
Expect unfiltered takes, fight-club metrics, and value-deltas you can actually ship.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers themes related to the future of governance, decentralized communities, and blockchain technology, with episodes discussing concepts like network-states, Dead Capital, and innovative solutions for automated sovereignty, as showcased in conversations with guests like Lou Kerner about the crypto landscape and Kimberly Adams regarding the transformation of nations into liquid economies.
Talks with founders, rebels & policy-hackers building borderless futures. Full transcripts → embassy.svit.la
404Embassy is an independent research studio turned mixed-media podcast. From Lisbon to Lagos, we sit down with:
> crypto nomads mapping network-states
> AI-agent tinkerers automating community life
> diplomats gone rogue on new governance
Expect unfiltered takes, fight-club metrics, and value-deltas you can actually ship.
► Deeper intel, charts & bonus briefs live on embassy.svit.la
404Embassy://Transmission_Log#4 [PODCAST#2]_Signal_Source: Ray Svitla // svit.la Payload: 29 min of distilled optimismStatus: LIVE – press ▶︎
Last episode we mapped the crypto-anarchist terrain with Lou Kerner: government is not your friend — route around it. A powerful strategy, born of justified distrust. I get it. More than most.
This week, we’re flipping the coin. I met Kim during Dubai Token2049. Five minutes in I knew she was the counter-weight to Episode 01:
* Lou Kerner → firewall the State
* Kimberly Adams → adapter for the State
Both blueprints matter, but only one ships passports before mine expires in 2030.
In a market where cynicism is default, optimism is the most volatile asset — and Kimberly is trading it long.
The Operator — Kimberly Adams
Barbados-born systems thinker, founder of Onchain City, the project turning nations into liquid, on-chain economies with portable, asset-linked IDs. Ex-CBDC lead (Bitt), cross-chain PM (Bridge Network), now Venture Partner at Bankless VC.
Episode Highlights:
* 01:10 — Genesis — hallway “Aha!” moment → simulated on-chain city
* 03:24 — Proof-of-Work — first CBDC in Barbados, surviving a co-founder rug-pull
* 06:27 — Core Primitive — define “Liquid Nation” & the multi-trillion-dollar Dead Capital glitch
* 11:45 — First Sandbox — Barbados Digital Free Zone as testnet nation-state
* 16:22 — Passport Clock — five-year sprint to sovereign on-chain identity
* 26:15 — Forecast 2035 — automated sovereignty & personal tea farms
Dead Capital & The State OS
The killer primitive in this conversation wasn’t DePin or RWA. It was a term that reframes the entire problem: Dead Capital.
It’s the value locked in the legacy world, frozen and unusable because the system can’t recognize it. Your skills, your reputation, your social capital – all become dead capital the moment you cross a border. Onchain City’s mission is to write the code that makes this value liquid.
If home is a protocol, the nation-state is the dusty operating system we still boot each morning — last major update: the steam engine.
The problem is, we’re all running on an OS that hasn’t had a major update since the invention of the steam engine. And Onchain City is shipping the full system upgrade patch.
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