Mike De Zilva is a music artist, record producer, and tech founder based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His musical work reimagines Sri Lankan percussion and perahera rhythms through heavy guitars, analogue noise, and cinematic distortion. As the creator of the Yelo Ecosystem, he bridges the gap between high art and deep tech.
Alongside his music career, Mike is an established digital infrastructure architect operating at the frontier of the blockchain and artificial intelligence sectors, specializing in building autonomous intelligence pipelines and scaling decentralized infrastructure.
Mike De Zilva is a live music artist and producer who fuses heavy electronic production with organic Sri Lankan heritage. He released his catalogue via Bitcoin eScription technology and performed the world's first live music inscription on Bitcoin at Token2049 in Singapore.
Beyond the stage, Mike is a digital infrastructure architect who transitioned from managing legacy market acquisition for global brands into engineering decentralized AI architecture. He established his strategic foundation serving as a Brand Executive for ExxonMobil and Brand Manager for Leo Burnett. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Business from Louisiana State University and a B.A. (Hons) in Business & Communication from Coventry University.
The Adpod IntelligenceSuite™ is an end-to-end autonomous digital entity designed to uncover deterministic market truth with zero-latency. As the Founder and CEO of Adpod, Mike engineered it to replace legacy observational tools that suffer from 72-hour reporting delays and massive bot noise. Adpod operates with a zero-millisecond latency gap to process what global markets are actually doing in real-time.
Powered by a proprietary 8-stage self-correcting neural pipeline, Adpod connects multi-source data through active recon, search intent mapping, and on-chain grounding to deliver zero-hallucination intelligence.
Created and architected by Mike De Zilva, this proprietary AI model functions as the core analytical engine. It acts as an intelligent entity managing over 1,048,576 active nodes, continuously scavenging global API endpoints and filtering out up to 40% of inorganic bot signals to synthesize pure Human Truth.
The suite does not just process text; its Vision, Sonic, and Context engines analyze 4K video, voice audio, and deep semantic data across 150+ languages natively.
Mike developed the Adpod Neural Index (ANI™) to measure real-time brand equity via emotional velocity, alongside the yelo™ Creative Index, which utilizes simulated focus groups and AI governance to score and generate global campaign architecture.
Adpod's architecture drives critical intelligence for leading global entities. It powers sub-second narrative liquidity correlation for top-tier Web3 market makers including Gate.io, Vertex, and MEXC, and has executed precision sentiment intelligence engines for global FMCG leaders like Nestlé. To date, the broader Adpod ecosystem has integrated with over 13,000 decentralized applications and acquired a publisher network of over 30 million users.
The Yelo Ecosystem is a suite of Web3 platforms designed to fundamentally reform how audio is generated, owned, and monetized in the digital age. Leveraging his background as an established music producer and composer, Mike founded the ecosystem to bridge the gap between high art and deep tech, solving critical legal and quality bottlenecks plaguing the modern creator economy.
Mike engineered Yelo Studio, an advanced digital audio workstation (DAW) and style-to-music generative engine built for content creators, freelancers, and enterprise media, designed to help music creators get from idea to product really fast. Unlike legacy AI platforms burdened by copyright infringement and metallic audio artifacts, Yelo Studio is architected to guarantee zero rights conflicts while natively exporting pristine, artifact-free 24-bit 48kHz WAV audio.
To secure the assets generated by creators, Mike developed YeloPlay. The platform tokenizes music IP for streaming royalties and enables DAO-based governance, backed by infrastructure grants from Elastos and BeatFarm.
In 2025, Mike served as the leading host for the 'Asia On-Chain' side-event during Token2049 in Singapore. In collaboration with Elastos, he orchestrated the world’s first live music performance explicitly inscribed onto the core Bitcoin blockchain proving that high-fidelity cultural assets can be immutably secured without congesting primary network layers.
Driving localized tech adoption, he successfully launched Sri Lanka's first collective management DAO for digital media and executed the nation's first NFT concert in 2023 alongside local artists.
Mike maintains deep infrastructural connectivity and strategic alliances across the global AI, Web3, and financial data landscape, operating as a central node in a massive technological ecosystem.
Strategic relationships with 50+ crypto-native funds, including Genesis Capital (who actively sit on Adpod's advisory board), Animoca Brands, Techstars, Velocity DAO, and the IBC Group.
Deep integration infrastructure spanning elite AI models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq) and global news terminals (Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ, Financial Times).
Direct integrations with the foremost decentralized analytics and network platforms, including Arkham, Nansen, Etherscan, Solana, Chainlink, and the Ice Open Network (ION).
Exclusive access to over 50 IDO platforms such as DAO Maker, Fjord Foundry, Polkastarter, and Tenset, providing unparalleled visibility into token sales, capital flow, and execution strategies.
Vetted network of over 5,000 influencers and established direct collaboration with leading marketing protocols including Coinzilla, Hypelab, Cookie3, and Safary.club.