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Building the Data Layer for Web3 – Muriel Médard (Optimum, MIT) | Cosmoverse 2025

This interview with Muriel Médard, Co-Founder and CEO of Optimum, was recorded by Bloomberg Adria during Cosmoverse 2025 in Split, Croatia. Muriel discusses how Optimum is building the data layer for Web3—creating decentralized, modular systems that make information transfer more robust, efficient, and scalable. Drawing from her experience as a professor at MIT and a leading researcher in network coding, Muriel explains how decentralization is not just a philosophy but a technological necessity. Centralized systems, she notes, often fail because they spend more resources on control than on actual functionality. Optimum’s approach introduces Flex Nodes, lightweight permissionless nodes that anyone can spin up to store and propagate data securely across networks. By separating data management from virtual machines, Optimum enables Web3 infrastructure to mirror the modularity of modern computing—where upgrades and scalability don’t require rebuilding entire systems. Muriel believes this evolution toward decentralized data will define the next generation of the internet: resilient, global, and inclusive by design. Join us for the next Cosmoverse in Hong Kong in 2026! Find out more at cosmoverse.org