what is plain strata?
a podcast and a newsletter that explain decentralized ai, layer by layer.
for people who are curious, not yet expert, and allergic to hype. two hosts, claire and peter, take one idea down to the ground and build it back up. it is the explanation we wish we had been given.
the newsletter
one long-read a week, in your inbox.
every episode written out in full, with the sources. calm, precise, no hype. free.
three ways in
every episode is one of three kinds
basics // start here
the ground floor
eight evergreen episodes, b01 to b08. each one is a rung: one query end to end, then trust, money, oracles, training, compute, agents and governance.
layer // thursday // 30 min
one concept, from the ground up
what is physically happening, the mechanism step by step, and what breaks without it. still the right explanation a year later.
pulse // tuesday // 20 min
the week's one real story
one story that touches the decentralized stack, and why it matters. a week with no such story gets no pulse.