Crypto VCs Selling “Freedom from Big Tech” While Building the Next Cartel
The pitch is everywhere these days.
OpenGradient, backed by Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin, and Sandeep Nailwal, says it’s here to free AI from Big Tech. No more getting cut off because some corporate policy team in California woke up on the wrong side of the bed and decided your project doesn’t fit their values.
Sounds like progress on the surface.
Until you look at who’s actually stepping in to run the new system. Same class of crypto insiders who already shape the narratives across Web3. Who move liquidity when they want. Who steer governance votes when it actually matters.
“The people who built the previous system are now selling you the escape pod — and keeping the keys.”
That line just sits there. Because it’s hard to argue with once you’ve seen the pattern a few times. New branding. New promises about user sovereignty and decentralization. Same faces from the last cycle ending up with the real leverage. The escape pod looks shiny. You just eventually notice who’s still holding the flight controls.
#opg $OPG @OpenGradient
The pitch is everywhere these days.
OpenGradient, backed by Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin, and Sandeep Nailwal, says it’s here to free AI from Big Tech. No more getting cut off because some corporate policy team in California woke up on the wrong side of the bed and decided your project doesn’t fit their values.
Sounds like progress on the surface.
Until you look at who’s actually stepping in to run the new system. Same class of crypto insiders who already shape the narratives across Web3. Who move liquidity when they want. Who steer governance votes when it actually matters.
“The people who built the previous system are now selling you the escape pod — and keeping the keys.”
That line just sits there. Because it’s hard to argue with once you’ve seen the pattern a few times. New branding. New promises about user sovereignty and decentralization. Same faces from the last cycle ending up with the real leverage. The escape pod looks shiny. You just eventually notice who’s still holding the flight controls.
#opg $OPG @OpenGradient