Expert in artificial intelligence and Web3 — IT World
About this publication
IT World profiles Dmitry Kotov as an expert in both artificial intelligence and Web3, and looks at how he combines the two when building products.
Dmitry Kotov's role
Dmitry Kotov is featured in a Russian IT publication on working across AI and Web3, and on consulting that covers both.
Background
IT World is a long-running Russian technology publication read by IT professionals and management. An expert listing there is a professional-record entry rather than coverage of a specific event.
The pairing of AI and Web3 in one profile reflects the sequence the work actually took. The blockchain period produced the habits that the AI work runs on — treating a system's incentives as part of its design, and assuming that anything valuable will be attacked. What it did not produce was a durable business, which is the honest reason the emphasis moved.
Dmitry Kotov's commentary
When IT World reached out for this profile, the angle they wanted was the intersection of AI and Web3. At the time, most coverage treated these as separate domains — you were either an AI person or a crypto person. My argument was that the convergence was inevitable and already underway. Decentralized compute networks like Akash were solving the GPU shortage that centralized cloud providers couldn't address fast enough. On-chain data was becoming a first-class training signal for financial models. And smart contracts were evolving into autonomous agents that needed LLM reasoning to handle edge cases. What I tried to convey in the interview was that the real opportunity wasn't in either technology alone, but in the systems-level thinking that connects them. The companies I was building at the time drew on blockchain data pipelines feeding into machine learning models. That architectural pattern, where Web3 provides the data layer and AI provides the intelligence layer, is now mainstream. Back then it was still contrarian enough to warrant a feature article.
Originally published on it-world.ru in Russian.
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