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L2 Talk with Roy Hui, Co-Founder and CEO of LightLink Oct 05, 2023

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🔈 Nina talks with Roy about his computer engineering background leading to his tech ventures and LightLink, Roy’s take on L2s, LightLink compared to other L2s, the “enterprise, gasless” mode, calculating transaction cost, bridging to LightLink, LightLink as a vanilla EVM, the consensus and validation mechanisms, “the metaverse” and gaming economies, building for a purpose, Roy’s typical day and LightLink team, converging enterprise with W3, state of MainNet, the Elektrik project, LightLink’s roadmap, main challenges and more.

Roy is the founder of LightLink, a Layer 2 blockchain built for the Metaverse, NFT and Gaming applications. Roy is an engineer and entrepreneur who has founded several other ventures, such as Pellar (a Web3 builder of blockchain solutions), MyMedia (a digital agency that built several digital businesses for companies such as Sensis, Ausport, NovaFM) and MMGN.com (the largest Australian video games community).

Roy is also an advisory board member for Starfish Ventures in social and gaming. He started Silicon Beach Melbourne, one of the largest digital entrepreneur gatherings in Australia and is also a mentor at AngelCube and PushStart. Roy has a Computer Science degree from the University of Melbourne.🔈

Highlights:

⚡️ About Roy

⚡️ L2s & LightLink

⚡️ Blockchain Trilemma

⚡️ “Gasless ∕ Enterprise” mode

⚡️ Metaverse & Gaming Economies

⚡️ Roadmap & more

With You:

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Roy Hui (@royhui)

Episode Links:

🔗 https://twitter.com/LightLinkChain

🔗 https://twitter.com/royhui

Disclaimer:

📄 We do not deal with financial or trading token elements nor offer any licensed financial services, such as investment or brokerage services, fund management, capital raising or investment advice. The content of this podcast is provided for information purposes only and is not to be used or considered as an investment recommendation or an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe to any securities or other financial instruments.

Scaling Ethereum with Keone Hon, CEO and Co-Founder of Monad Sep 21, 2023

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🔈Nina talks with Keone about his high-frequency trading (HFT) background & the niche industry, the decision to start Monad, Monad’s mission of enabling more performant execution of EVM, why Monad is not a roll-up, the Blockchain Trilemma, applying Monad to other use cases outside of HFT, consensus and execution, the four “pipelining” innovations of Monad, Monad’s consensus and validation mechanisms, Monad’s approach to transaction costs, view on AppChains, biggest challenges, Monad’s roadmap and Keone’s take on what needs to improve in the space.

Keone is the co-founder and CEO of Monad Labs, a team of systems engineers bringing parallel execution and low-level optimization to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Before Monad, Keone spent eight years at Jump Trading building an HFT (high-frequency trading) system that was responsible for tens of billions of daily notional volume in major futures markets. In 2021, Keone joined Jump’s crypto division and led a team of engineers focused on blockchain research and dApp development. Today, Keone aims to fulfil the promise of the EVM and build the future of the internet at Monad.🔈

Highlights

⚡️ About Keone

⚡️ High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

⚡️ About Monad

⚡️ Blockchain Trilemma

⚡️ “Pipelining” Innovations

⚡️ Consensus

⚡️ Roadmap & more

With You

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Keone Hon (@keoneHD)

Episode Links

https://www.monad.xyz/

https://twitter.com/monad_xyz

https://twitter.com/keonehd

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W3ST Panel; DAOs & Sustainability "Using Blockchain to Drive Environmental and Social Impact" Sep 14, 2023

Show notes

🔈 This episode is dedicated to the Web3 Stronger Together ecosystem initiative and its 1st virtual summit, which took place between March 1st and March 4, 2023, in Evveland’s Metaverse - a virtual platform uniting several hundred Web 3 Leaders & Thinkers, over 100 projects and speakers and over 5000 attendees from across the world.

The speakers discuss the importance of deeper community engagement with a common purpose vs. “the speed” of execution, the problem of voting power, incentivization and setting up mechanisms for the greater good among other ideas with respect to DAOs. 🔈

With You

🎤 Olesya Kovalskaya (@kawaiiless), Maria Eisner Pelch (@MariaPelch), Andrew Kozik (@andykozik), Victor Lardé, Valeriy Nemyrov (@VNemyrov)

Web3 Stronger Together Initiative:

🔈 BRP is a media partner with “Web3 Stronger Together”, a non-profit ecosystem initiative that aims to:

⚡️ connect open-minded Web3 leaders & thinkers

⚡️ show the powerful “together” effect

⚡️ illustrate a strong, solidary, active & committed Web3 community despite market challenges

⚡️ emphasize fairness, inclusivity, diversity & sustainability

⚡️ demonstrate that the Web3 revolution is about cooperation, not competition

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W3ST Panel; DAOs and Democratic Participation "Using Blockchain to Enhance Political Engagement and Inclusion" Sep 07, 2023

Show notes

The panel continues to define a DAO, its challenges and use cases. The speakers also discuss voting practices, proof solutions such as zero-knowledge, and concerns with respect to usability, compliance & education among other related ideas.🔈

With You:

🎤 Jon Dajci (@MidnightCryptoG), David Owen Morris (@bigpiggy01), Andrew Sayles (@CloseSomeSayles) and Aiden Smith

Web3 Stronger Together Initiative:

🔈 BRP is a media partner with “Web3 Stronger Together”, a non-profit ecosystem initiative that aims to:

⚡️ connect open-minded Web3 leaders & thinkers

⚡️ show the powerful “together” effect

⚡️ illustrate a strong, solidary, active & committed Web3 community despite market challenges

⚡️ emphasize fairness, inclusivity, diversity & sustainability

⚡️ demonstrate that the Web3 revolution is about cooperation, not competition

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”Digital Asset Lending” with Adam Reeds, Co-Founder and CEO at Ledn Aug 30, 2023

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🔈 Adam is the Co-Founder and CEO at Ledn, a global company regulated in the Cayman Islands that focuses on building financial products to help people save in bitcoin and digital assets. Prior to co-founding Ledn, Adam spent ten years at Dream Asset Management where he developed, built, and financed a $1.5 billion portfolio of renewable power projects. It was Bitcoin's connection with energy that brought Adam into Bitcoin mining, where he and his co-founder identified a gap in financing digital assets. Today, Ledn is a broad financial services platform with clients in over 130 countries. Adam is a graduate of the HBA program at the Richard Ivey School of Business and also holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario.

We talk with Adam about his background and BTC mining beginnings which paved his crypto asset path, Canadian banks and their reservation with digital assets, TradFi vs. centralized crypto lending, Ledn loan/yield/mortgage products, Ledn’s survival & risk management during the crypto lending crash, de-risking relationships, the “open book” report, the DCN product, decentralized vs. centralized lending, Ledn’s client base structure and team, proof of reserves, rebuilding trust in the lending industry, competitive landscape, the Canadian trucker incident and Ledn’s roadmap. 🔈

Highlights:

⚡️ About Adam

⚡️ TradFi vs. crypto lending

⚡️ About Ledn

⚡️ Risk management

⚡️ Roadmap

With You:

🎤 Nina Cerar, Blockchain Recorded Podcast (@ninacerar10) & Adam Reeds (@adamreeds)

Episode Links:

🔗 https://ledn.io/

🔗 https://twitter.com/hodlwithLedn

🔗 https://twitter.com/adamreeds

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W3ST Panel; DAOs and Community Governance "Empowering Local Decision-Making Via Blockchain Technology" Aug 24, 2023

Show notes

The panel discusses the main challenges and issues in creating and managing DAOs from community engagement to governance. It is imperative to tackle governance as DAOs have all the potential to pave the way for organizational infrastructure in a decentralized digital economy. 🔈

With You:

🎤 Laurent Perello, W3ST (@PerelloLaurent), Dante Cullari (@KonvergenceInc), Akina Ho (@AllStarsWomen), Felix Tejland (@Brickken), Liran Peretz (@AltyChatBot), Greg Chew (@GregChew14)

Web3 Stronger Together Initiative:

🔈 BRP is a media partner with “Web3 Stronger Together”, a non-profit ecosystem initiative that aims to:

⚡️ connect open-minded Web3 leaders & thinkers

⚡️ show the powerful “together” effect

⚡️ illustrate a strong, solidary, active & committed Web3 community despite market challenges

⚡️ emphasize fairness, inclusivity, diversity & sustainability

⚡️ demonstrate that the Web3 revolution is about cooperation, not competition

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W3ST Panel; DAOs for Social Good: Leveraging Decentralized Autonomous Organizations to Tackle Global Challenges Aug 10, 2023

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The panel explores the trajectory of DAOs, their challenges and how to leverage them for social good with the importance of understanding their value proposition and potential for innovation.🔈

With You

🎤 Laurent Perello, W3ST (@PerelloLaurent), Cedric Delport (@CedricDelport), Lacey Hunter (@TechAid_World), Hans Koning (@hanskoning), Ganesh R (@elephant3gg)

Web3 Stronger Together Initiative:

🔈 BRP is a media partner with “Web3 Stronger Together”, a non-profit ecosystem initiative that aims to:

⚡️ connect open-minded Web3 leaders & thinkers

⚡️ show the powerful “together” effect

⚡️ illustrate a strong, solidary, active & committed Web3 community despite market challenges

⚡️ emphasize fairness, inclusivity, diversity & sustainability

⚡️ demonstrate that the Web3 revolution is about cooperation, not competition

🔗 https://www.web3strongertogether.com/

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W3ST Panel;DeFi and the Future of Investing "Decentralized Investment Platforms and DAOs" Aug 03, 2023

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The panel explores the emergence of decentralized investment platforms and DAOs in the DeFi space, their potential risks and challenges and how they are changing the way we think about investment and asset management.🔈

With You

🎤 Mattin Noblia, W3ST (@mattinway), Greg Chew (@GregChew14), Graham Patrick Malone (@grahammalone), Guruprasad Venkatesha (@Guru_BCUBE)

Web3 Stronger Together Initiative:

🔈 BRP is a media partner with “Web3 Stronger Together”, a non-profit ecosystem initiative that aims to:

⚡️ connect open-minded Web3 leaders & thinkers

⚡️ show the powerful “together” effect

⚡️ illustrate a strong, solidary, active & committed Web3 community despite market challenges

⚡️ emphasize fairness, inclusivity, diversity & sustainability

⚡️ demonstrate that the Web3 revolution is about cooperation, not competition

🔗 https://www.web3strongertogether.com/

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W3ST Panel; DeFi and the Future of Lending "P2P Lending and Decentralized Credit" Jul 27, 2023

Show notes

The panel covers the discussion of the potential and advantages of decentralized credit and peer-to-peer lending platforms in the DeFi space, and how they could revolutionize traditional lending models. 🔈

With You:

🎤 Laurent Perello, W3ST (@PerelloLaurent), Jonathan C. Dunsmoor, Esq (@JDunsmoorEsq), Holger Fischer (@hchfischer), David Palmer

Web3 Stronger Together Initiative:

🔈 BRP is a media partner with “Web3 Stronger Together”, a non-profit ecosystem initiative that aims to:

⚡️ connect open-minded Web3 leaders & thinkers

⚡️ show the powerful “together” effect

⚡️ illustrate a strong, solidary, active & committed Web3 community despite market challenges

⚡️ emphasize fairness, inclusivity, diversity & sustainability

⚡️ demonstrate that the Web3 revolution is about cooperation, not competition

🔗 https://www.web3strongertogether.com/

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W3ST Panel; DeFi and the Future of Money "Exploring CBDCs and Stablecoins" Jul 20, 2023

Show notes

The panel covers diving into the role of CBDC and stablecoins in the DeFi ecosystem and how they are changing the way we think about money and financial transactions. The speakers first define the stablecoin and CBDC, their role and potential risk in the industry. They discuss the difference between the two, whether “programmable money” is needed and use case considerations from varying points of view. 🔈

With You

🎤 Laurent Perello, W3ST (@PerelloLaurent), David Creer (@Dave_Creer), Hassan El Bakkali (@CryptoHael), Phillipe Furlan (@frenchcbdc), Charmaine Short (@ettaverse)

Web3 Stronger Together Initiative:

🔈 BRP is a media partner with “Web3 Stronger Together”, a non-profit ecosystem initiative that aims to:

⚡️ connect open-minded Web3 leaders & thinkers

⚡️ show the powerful “together” effect

⚡️ illustrate a strong, solidary, active & committed Web3 community despite market challenges

⚡️ emphasize fairness, inclusivity, diversity & sustainability

⚡️ demonstrate that the Web3 revolution is about cooperation, not competition

🔗 https://www.web3strongertogether.com/

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