Narb | narbeh.eth

Software Developer, body builder, web3, hockey nerd, @developer_dao, host of @devntellxyz, founder @Glossetadotcom & @storedat_io, co-founder @goodpeopleclick

[Narb | narbeh.eth @narb_s]

Celebrating 4 Years of the DevNTell Podcast

What a wild four years it has been for the @devntellxyz podcast. Even just thinking about this passion project of mine sticking around for four years sounds crazy to me. If you came to me five years ago and told me that I’d be running a weekly podcast hosting some of the most brilliant and forward thinking builders & founders in the game I would’ve told you you’re crazy. But here we are four years later approaching almost 200 episodes.

The Origin Story Behind DevNTell

The fact that the podcast has stuck around this long means I must have done something right when I came up with the idea all those years ago. If you don’t know the story of how DevNTell started, I’m keen to share it with you because I genuinely believe it might inspire you to take that leap of faith on a project you’ve been sitting on. DevNTell began back in 2022, fuelled by nothing more than a hunch and a desire to step outside my comfort zone.

In early 2022, right after the NFT craze peaked, I joined this incredible community called @developer_dao. I had seen the buzz online, minted a D_D NFT to join, and instantly found myself surrounded by likeminded people collaborating on the very first version of the Developer DAO website (the only initiative going on at the time). As the months went by, the community continued to grow, with more and more people wanting to get involved. Soon enough, sub-communities (i.e guilds) were created, helping members explore different verticals like development, business development, UX, product, and more.

As more people joined, I started to notice something important and not immediately obvious: everyone was building something yet no one really had a good way of sharing their work beyond distributing a link. Most people didn’t have a large enough network or social media audience to to really gain any traction with their project, classic go-to-market problems right? In fact, I had the same issue myself. I was just about to release my first open-source project, Glosseta, which is a decentralized glossary meant to help educate people on web3 related concepts and terms powered by Arweave (still around today, FYI); however, I had no idea how to get the word out about what I had spent months building.

I remember sitting in my room, staring at the ceiling, trying to figure out how to promote Glosseta as a first time founder. ChatGPT didn’t exist yet (ironically, it literally came out a month or so later), so I didn’t have an LLM to bounce quick ideas off of like we do today. For whatever reason, my mind wandered back to the early days of elementary school where we’d have these weekly show-and-tell days to share something we made in class and we’re excited about. And then it hit me: why not bring back that same concept but tuned to a more developer-centric flavour?

And that was it.

Show-and-tell… for developers.

Dev + ‘n’ + Tell.

DevNTell.

The first official episode featured myself showcasing Glosseta on December 3rd at around 8:30 AM PST just before starting my day job at Expedia. As 8:30 rolled around, a bunch of Developer DAO members gathered in a voice chat to watch me present Glosseta. It was nerve-wracking, exciting, and surreal all at once. I was presenting, recording the session, and answering questions live in front of my peers. When I wrapped up, a flood of people DM’d me asking how they could get on one of these sessions themselves.

So, I created a self-serve Notion page where anyone could jot down their name and what they wanted to share, then we’d schedule their session afterward. I still remember the first five slots filling up within a few weeks after I had done mine and then it spread like wildfire. People started booking months in advance and even hosted Max Howell (founder of Homebrew) in the early days. The show continued to grow in popularity to the point where even one year had an entire calendar fill up through December by the time May arrived. My initial hunch had indeed been validated. In solving my own problem I helped solve the same problem for countless other builders like me (the usual recipe for startup success).

Since that leap of faith back in December 2022, DevNTell has grown and evolved into a full-fledged podcast providing a safe, encouraging space where builders can share their stories, product demos and alpha to world.

Moral of the story? You can just do things. But the real lesson is to keep showing up. If you do, people will eventually take notice.

The Dev Factor

DevNTell was created for the builders and developers who tinker with the bleeding edge of innovation and the people building the tech giants of tomorrow. I have seen many podcasts that target the web3/blockchain niche but many of these play on market movements or concentrate on a specific chain, which is totally fine; however, DevNTell has always been chain agnostic and void of token price talk, focusing on the builders and the amazing products they are building. In fact, we welcome many different types of forward thinkers as we’ve hosted teams working on the cutting edge of AI, rare disease researchers, quantum biology researchers and more. As long as people keep pushing the needle of innovation forward, I’ll be here to provide a platform to help share their creations with the world.

One thing that sets DevNTell apart is the livestream-first approach. Before episodes hit Spotify or Apple Podcasts, we host live sessions where founders join us in real time so that the audience can ask questions, challenge ideas, and interact directly with them. This “in the trenches” environment creates an intimacy and authenticity you don’t often see elsewhere. And for the founders out there: yes, VC scouts watch the show. More often than you’d think.

What’s Next?

We’re already booked well into early Q2 of 2026, and can’t wait to share what’s coming. If you enjoy the podcast, you can help out tremendously by clicking the follow button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere else you catch your podcasts. If digital collectibles are your thing, we have episode available to mint for free as well on the pods platform. We also encourage you to follow DevNTell on X, TikTok, LinkedIn and Instagram to keep up to date with all the latest clips, episodes, contests, special promo codes and giveaways (who knows, maybe we might have something cooking for you on that front already).

Whether you’ve been here since the early Discord days or you only just discovered the show, thank you. Your support means everything and I’m excited to keep running this wonderful podcast for you all. I’m aiming to host many more founders, many more projects, and maybe even you someday. Be sure to subscribe to our Luma Events channel to get the alpha on upcoming livestreams, workshops and IRL events.

Cheers and here’s to to the next 4 years!

- Narb

[DevNTell @devntellxyz]

🎙️ From Stablecoins to decentralized AI

Hear the motivation behind why @tether is getting into the AI game to empower people around the globe with localized AI via @qvac

[Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao]

🎙️ "Technology should be the thing that helps us humans in the moments where everything goes to hell basically."

@tether CEO Paolo Ardoino ( @paoloardoino ) traces this design philosophy back to his early days building resilient comms systems for battlefields 😮

Hear why building for humanity's worst moments shaped @qvac in this DevNTell clip 👀

[Narb | narbeh.eth @narb_s]

Be sure to sign up to see all the latest around D_D Cloud this Friday

[DevNTell @devntellxyz]

Want the latest alpha around D_D Cloud?

Then you better sign up for this week's livestream where we'll be hosting @crypdoughdoteth and @futexlabs learning all about the D_D Cloud platform ☁️

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[DevNTell @devntellxyz]

Want the latest alpha around D_D Cloud?

Then you better sign up for this week's livestream where we'll be hosting @crypdoughdoteth and @futexlabs learning all about the D_D Cloud platform ☁️

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[Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao]

🎙️"The gap will become not twice bigger, but will become 100 times bigger because as people need stable currency, they need stable intelligence."

Paolo Ardoino ( @paoloardoino ) warns that the divide between those with and without AI access won't just double, it could grow 100x 🤔

Hear why "stable intelligence" might be the next great equalizer in this DevNTell clip, where we discuss @tether's mission with @qvac 👀

[Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino]

Do Androids dream of programmable money? 🤖🤖

[DevNTell @devntellxyz]

🎙️ "These AI agents will not have a Morgan Stanley account. They will not probably use PayPal. They will need programmable money."

@tehther CEO Paolo Ardoino ( @paoloardoino ) sees a future where trillions of AI agents transact with stablecoins, not banks 🤔

Hear why programmable money is the missing layer for the agent economy in this DevNTell clip, where we discuss how crypto and AI will collide 👀

[manny @mannyornothing]

A service blueprint is really an honesty test. It forces you to draw every actor, including the one most infrastructure companies leave off the page: the person tapping the button. Get the customer wrong and the whole layer underneath optimizes for the wrong thing.

[DevNTell @devntellxyz]

If topics like local AI, decentralized intelligence, and agentic payments get you excited, have we got a DevNTell episode for you!

EP. 221 - Running LLMs Locally – @tether CEO Paolo Ardoino Reveals Decentralized AI Platform @qvac

In this episode of DevNTell, Narb welcomes Paolo Ardoino ( @paoloardoino ), the CEO at Tether. They discuss QVAC, Tether's decentralized AI platform designed for running intelligence privately and locally on any device, without cloud reliance or permission.

In this episode you can expect to:

• Learn all about QVAC: the QVAC SDK, the Fabric LLM engine, the origin story behind it and how you can get started building with it today.

• Enjoy a discussion around "stable intelligence," why edge AI matters for real-world applications, how stablecoins will power AI agents, and Paolo's advice for founders building today.

Watch the full episode today👇

https://t.co/TDtpgWbNUu

[Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao]

Want a peek into the latest and greatest around D_D Cloud?

🎙️ This week on DevNTell we'll be joined by @crypdoughdoteth (founder of D_D Cloud) to tell us all the latest alpha around the platform and more ☁️

📅 June 5th

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[pbillingsby @pbillingsby_]

Looking for my next role in web3 or AI. I build, I write, I ship. Been across the full stack from protocols, developer tooling to docs, agents and growth. Open to chatting! My DMs are open 🤝

[Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao]

DevNTell - Exploring Real-Time Market Data Delivery with @doublezero Edge feat. @bgmarx | Host: @narb_s https://t.co/z7WFXXRUEU

[Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao]

Have you signed up for DevNTell this week?

🎙️ Tomorrow, we'll be joined by @bgmarx (Head of Engineering, @MalbecLabs_xyz) to discuss @doublezero Edge and more 🔥

📋 RSVP today

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🎙️ " We didn't use to live in a world where, you change your tool that often. ...Now you have to change your tool set to be able to accelerate every time something radical comes out."

Hear @teaprotocol Co-Founder and CEO Timothy Lewis give us his perspective on the future of engineering with AI 👀

[Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao]

🎙️ " The technologies will always change. So be willing and able to change with the technologies."

Timothy Lewis, Co-Founder & CEO of @teaprotocol, dishes some golden advice to aspiring founders and builders in this in this DevNTell clip 👀

[Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao]

🎙️ "It is so much fun. There's so much to build"

I bet there's more than a few of you out there who feel the same when it comes to building with AI these days.

Hear @teaprotocol Co-Founder and CEO Timothy Lewis tell us how he's finding building with AI 👀

[pbillingsby @pbillingsby_]

Ive been building Pulsar. A lightweight SDK for founders who launched a web app and want to know if it's actually working.

Two lines of code, get LLM-powered analysis of your user behavior delivered every Monday. No dashboards. No data team.

Beta coming soon 👀

[DevNTell @devntellxyz]

If topics like open source, agentic coding, software supply chain security, tokenizing dependencies and on-chain identity for developers get you excited, have we got a DevNTell episode for you!

EP. 220 - Tea Protocol: Rewarding Open-Source Heroes | Timothy Lewis ( @teaprotocol )

In this episode of DevNTell, Narb is joined by Timothy Lewis, the Co-Founder & CEO of Tea Protocol. They discuss Tea Protocol, the permissionless network powering the future of open source by anchoring it in cryptography and turning every signed commit into part of a global economy.

In this episode you can expect to:

• Learn all about Tea Protocol: their Layer 2 for open source, the teaRank system for valuing dependencies, and how they are enabling direct, permissionless rewards for developers through cryptographic commit signatures.

• Enjoy a discussion around AI-first development, the challenges of supply chain attacks on package registries, and why simple English is becoming the new syntax.

Watch the full episode today👇

https://t.co/nWZ78pcSRI

[Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao]

Want a peek into the latest developments around DoubleZero?

🎙️ This week on DevNTell we'll be joined by @bgmarx (Head of Engineering, @MalbecLabs_xyz) to discuss @doublezero Edge and more 🔥

📅 May 29th

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[Narb | narbeh.eth @narb_s]

Come hang out and learn how to up your GTM game

[Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) @developer_dao]

DevNTell - Escaping Founder-Led Everything: Helping Tech Founders Install a Simple Growth System That Compounds feat. @therealjavylo | Host: @narb_s https://t.co/ovpO4XRIrV