🧵 Your Wallet, Your Chain, Your Apps All Powered by THIS — Yair Cleper | Ep. 101

<p>In this episode, I sit down with Yair Cleper, founder and infrastructure builder, to uncover the invisible layer that keeps crypto running — RPC, nodes, and decentralized access.From UX and fintech startups to building Magma Devs and contributing to Lava Network, Yair explains how blockchains actually communicate, why most of Web3 still relies on a handful of providers, and what happens when AI agents start transacting on-chain nonstop.He breaks down:🧩 What RPC really is — and why it’s the “language layer” for every blockchain🌐 Why early crypto was simple (run a node, trust no one) vs today’s multi-chain reality🏗 How Lava turns thousands of node runners into a decentralized access layer⚙️ DIY nodes → Alchemy/QuickNode → decentralized routing🚨 The Trump meme coin incident on Solana &amp; how Lava kept Fireblocks at 100% uptime🔐 How infra failures silently break wallets, DEXs &amp; airdrops🏦 Why foundations like NEAR use Lava Pools as public-good infrastructure🤖 Why AI agents may soon execute most on-chain transactions💸 How stablecoins, RWAs &amp; CBDCs rely on infra we rarely think aboutFollow Yair Cleper &amp; Lava Network🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cleper🔗 Lava LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lava-network/🌐 Lava Network: https://lavanet.xyz✖️ X: https://x.com/yaircleper✖️ Laba X: https://x.com/lavanetxyz✉️ For any business inquiries, email me here:ck@ckogan.comListen to the full podcast🎧 https://anchor.fm/constantinkoganSubscribe to my channel🔗 https://www.youtube.com/@ConstantinKoganFollow me on socials🌐 Website: https://ckogan.com📲 Telegram: https://t.me/constantinkogan📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/constkogan💻 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/constantin-kogan✖️ X: https://x.com/constkogan🎙 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/constantinkoganTimestamps:0:00 – Cold open: crypto, RPC, AI agents &amp; “nobody knows RPC until it fails”0:36 – Intro: Who is Yair Cleper? Magma Devs, Lava Network &amp; friendship with Constantin1:53 – Curiosity, Technion &amp; first startup: building a Wix-like product in 20013:25 – eToro-style startup &amp; the painful lesson of choosing the wrong cofounders4:42 – Business intelligence startup, Cloudera exit &amp; retail tech journey6:04 – NFT summer, meeting Vitalik, mentors &amp; falling fully into the crypto rabbit hole8:05 – Netflix analogy: what blockchains really are and why access is broken11:03 – Read vs write: how wallets, swaps &amp; airdrops actually talk to blockchains