Meet the Contest Winner: Crypto VC Researcher Glaze on Finding Opportunity in a Crowded AI Market

Glaze, a crypto infrastructure researcher at IOSG Ventures, won second place in the #DecentralizeAI Writing Contest by analyzing the gap between Web2 AI maturity and Web3 AI product design. Drawing from hands-on product experience and founder conversations, the piece argues that real opportunity lies not in hype, but in building decentralized, user-first AI infrastructure that solves concrete problems and achieves product-market fit.