Scenius Studio Presents: "The Use-Case" (Episode #53)
Andrej Radonjic -- Grass
Welcome to “The Use-Case” a mini-series brought to you by Scenius Studio
Through Scenius Studio, Ben has interviewed 50 of the crypto industry’s top GPs and CIOs across liquid and private markets. One thing is clear, crypto has some savvy investors. Yet, both inside and outside the industry, the same question lingers: where are the real-world use-cases? We’ve built the infrastructure, but where are the apps? What commercial opportunities can blockchain and crypto uniquely unlock? Is speculation really the only game in town?
With The Use-Case, we’re spotlighting underrepresented companies and protocols that are building real, commercially viable businesses—ventures that couldn’t exist without crypto’s underlying technology. We’ll sit down with Founders and CEOs who are reshaping industries with blockchain at their core. Crypto isn’t just an asset class. it’s an enabling technology rewiring entire sectors.
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In this episode, Ben sits down with Andrej Radonjic, Co-Founder of Grass.
Grass gives users the ability to earn ownership in the Grass network by supplying the protocol with their unused internet bandwidth for data scraping purposes (something that is already happening to most of us and we don’t get paid!). The grass protocol packages this scraped web data and sells it to AI companies who have insufficient data to further develop their models. With over 3 millions users and 8-figures of annualized revenue, Grass is a real commercial business with a roadmap that makes it one of the most exciting projects at the intersection of crypto x AI and data.
See below👇 for a sneak peak of the episode, links to the podcast, and an overview of the topics discussed.
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In this episode we discuss:
Andrej’s background in physics, finance, and sports betting
Big companies using your IP address without your knowledge or permission
How the Grass protocol puts a toll booth on your internet bandwidth highway
Packaging web scraped data and selling it to AI companies building Multi-Modal models
Dynamics between the Grass Protocol and the labs entity developing Grass’ IP
Protocol design decisions to ensure that all tokenholders (VCs, team, and community) are aligned
Why Grass needed to be built on crypto rails to maximize its potential
The future of LLMs and how they will search for context and information
Generating 8-figures of annualized revenue all flowing back to the Grass Foundation
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