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Ep. 454 Chris Zhu | Building In-Game Economies with Sonic SVM Nov 25, 2024

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For episode 454, CEO & Co-founder Chris Zhu joins Brandon Zemp to discuss Sonic SVM and how they are enabling sovereign game economies that roll-up to Solana. Built with customized VM agnostic game engines and HyperGrid interpreter. Sonic’s vision is to expand the existing Solana Gaming Ecosystem to process millions of requests per second per game and settle them back onto Solana L1. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 0:57 | Devcon 2024 1:30 | Who is Chris Zhu? 5:19 | Sonic SVM 7:07 | Sovereign Game Economy 10:42 | What types of games can Sonic SVM elevate? 13:20 | AAA Games on Blockchain 17:06 | Sonic SVM use-cases 18:42 | Sonic SVM Mainnet 19:10 | Developer resources 21:10 | Sonic SVM Roadmap 23:00 | Best Web3 games today 25:42 | Sonic SVM website, social media & community 🎙 Sonic SVM Links: 🔗 Website: https://odyssey.sonic.game/#/modal/welcome 🔗 X: https://x.com/chrizhuu 🔗 X: https://x.com/SonicSVM 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrizhuu 🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/joinmirrorworld ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 453 Joshua Maddox | Fast Web3 Privacy Layer with COTI Nov 21, 2024

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For episode 453, CEPO Joshua Maddox joins Brandon Zemp on the show to discuss COTI, a Layer 2 solution on Ethereum designed for digital payments using its own blockchain protocol. COTI has made significant strides implementing garbled circuits on the real live blockchain in the first time allowing to secure multi-party computation (MPC) and enabling parties to jointly compute functions over their inputs while keeping those inputs private. Recently, COTI Chosen to Participate in Central Bank of Israel’s CBDC Project alongside companies like PayPal and Fireblocks. COTI was founded in 2017 and has since raised over $500M in funding from prominent investors, including Cardano's cFund, Borderless Capital, and Cardstarter. Before leading the ecosystem & partnerships at COTI, Joshua was the head of developer ecosystem and grants at Provenance Blockchain Foundation, Designed, led, and launched the largest grants program for regulated financial services on blockchain, distributing over $50 million. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 1:05 | Who is Joshua Maddox? 5:42 | What is COTI? 6:42 | What makes COTI the fastest privacy layer in Web3? 10:42 | COTI ecosystem use-cases 15:14 | Mainnet launch 15:57 | COTI & Bank of Israel CBDC project 22:13 | Benefits of CBDCs 23:13 | Privacy-on-Demand 25:48 | COTI Roadmap for 2025 28:10 | COTI Community 🎙 COTI Links: 🔗 Website: https://coti.io 🔗 X: https://x.com/COTInetwork 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamaddox 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coti-ltd 🔗 Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork 🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/wfAQfbc3Df ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 452 Cloris Chen | Tokenizing the AI Economy with Singularity Finance Nov 18, 2024

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For episode 452, CEO Cloris Chen joins Brandon Zemp to explore how Singularity Finance is bringing tokenized traditional assets onchain for increased liquidity, security, and transparency Cloris Chen, CFA, is a leading expert in decentralized finance (DeFi) with a focus on tokenization and the AI economy. As CEO of Singularity Finance, she bridges traditional and decentralized finance. Cloris’s background includes six years as a vice-president at HSBC, followed by a role as treasury director at a unicorn startup. Cloris holds master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania and economics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Cloris leverages her diverse experience to advocate for innovative financial solutions. Her insights on the intersection of AI, tokenization, and DeFi are reshaping perspectives on the future of finance. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 1:30 | Bitcoin $90,000 1:52 | Who is Cloris Chen? 5:57 | What is the AI Economy? 7:25 | What is Singularity Finance? 10:27 | How to Tokenize assets on-chain? 14:05 | How investors buy Tokenized assets? 17:35 | Investments strategies & risk profiles 20:42 | How can tokenized AI compute? 23:00 | Singularity Finance roadmap for 2025 24:22 | Future of Tokenization 27:18 | Singularity Finance website, social media & community 🎙 Singularity Finance Links: 🔗 Website: https://www.singularityfinance.ai 🔗 X: https://x.com/Singularity_Fi 🔗 X: https://x.com/clorisxchen 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/singularityfi 🔗 Telegram: https://t.me/Singularity_Fi ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 451 Jeremy Frank & Chris Sotraidis | Decentralized AI Applications with Autonomys Nov 15, 2024

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For episode 451, Jeremy Frank & Chris Sotraidis join Brandon Zemp on the show to talk about Autonomys. Their network provides the infrastructure to scale decentralized AI 3.0 applications on-chain—hyper-scalable permanent data storage, super fast data availability & flexible EVM-compatible decoupled execution. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 0:54 | Who are Jeremy Frank & Chris Sotraidis? 2:17 | What is Autonomys? 4:48 | What is Decentralized AI? 7:06 | Permissionless 2024 7:52 | Mainnet launch timeline 8:40 | Autonomys roadmap for 2024 & 2025 9:50 | Dev docs & resources 10:11 | Autonomys website, social media & community 🎙 Autonomys Links: 🔗 Website: https://www.autonomys.xyz 🔗 X: https://x.com/AutonomysNet 🔗 Telegram: https://t.me/subspace_network 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/autonomys 🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/subspace-network ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 450 Rushi Manche & Jason Yanowitz | Recap of Permissionless 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah Nov 14, 2024

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For episode 450, Rushi Manche & Jason Yanowitz join Brandon Zemp at Permissionless 2024 to discuss the event, what BlockWorks is doing next and what’s on the roadmap for Movement. Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers news and insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Their editorial content, newsletters, podcasts and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets. Movement Labs is the first network of modular Move-based blockchains built to combine performance with liquidity and composability. They have come together to share their passion for Move with the industry and make their favorite programming language available to as many people around the world as possible. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 1:00 | Permissionless 2024 Recap 4:20 | Why Salt Lake City, Utah? 7:35 | Who is Rushi Manche? 8:00 | Who is Jason Yanowitz? 8:50 | What is BlockWorks Advisory? 10:08 | What is Movement doing at Permissionless? 10:42 | What is Movement doing in 2024? 11:18 | Highlights from Permissionless 2024 14:42 | Future of Crypto in the United States 17:35 | Movement and BlockWorks roadmaps for 2025 🎙 Movement & BlockWorks Links: 🔗 Website: https://movementlabs.xyz 🔗 Website: https://blockworks.co 🔗 X: https://x.com/movementlabsxyz 🔗 X: https://x.com/Blockworks_ ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 449 Gentleman James | Crypto Financial Planning with iYield Nov 13, 2024

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For episode 449, Founder & CEO Gentleman James joins Brandon Zemp to discuss how iYield is providing Crypto Financial Planning as a tool. iYield is crypto's 1st financial planning tool that integrates crypto, DeFi, staking, and fiat assets into one platform. Built by founder, Gentleman James, a longtime crypto investor since 2013, created out of his frustration with the lack of tools that provide a complete financial picture for both crypto and traditional assets. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 1:05 | Who is Gentleman James? 10:26 | What is iYield & what makes it unique among financial planning tools? 12:04 | User Features of iYield 14:01 | How to get set up on iYield 15:30 | Future features for users 16:22 | FIRE Calculator 17:33 | What Blockchain ecosystems are available on iYield? 18:52 | Solana & Cardano ecosystem support in the future? 19:23 | Is iYield FREE to use? 22:10 | Are there DeFi Yield Strategies on iYield? 24:23 | iYield Roadmap for 2025 25:50 | Tax tracking & planning tools 27:20 | iYield User Feedback 27:36 | iYield Community & Social 🎙 iYield Links: 🔗 https://go.iyield.com/BlockHash ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 448 Philip Milestone | Save, Send and Swap Digital Assets with Valora Nov 12, 2024

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For episode 448, General Counsel Philip Milestone joins Brandon Zemp to chat about Valora. Valora is a mobile-first crypto wallet native to the Celo Platform, available on both iOS and Android devices. Valora makes blockchain useful and accessible on even the most basic smartphones, enabling the 6 billion smartphone users worldwide to reliably save, send, and spend crypto as easily as sending a text message. You can download Valora on the App Store and Google Play Store. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 0:50 | Permissionless 2024 4:11 | Who is Philip Milestone? 7:33 | What is Valora? 10:06 | What makes Valora unique as a Crypto wallet? 12:15 | Where is Valora available? 12:55 | Valora Fiat On and Off ramps? 15:15 | How do payments work on Valora? 17:04 | Valora at Permissionless 2024 20:10 | Valora website & social media 🎙 Valora Links: 🔗 Website: https://valora.xyz 🔗 X: https://x.com/valora 🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/valora-886972503560433675 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/valoraapp 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipmilestone ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 447 Chris Li | Private Autonomous Transactions with Ava Protocol Nov 11, 2024

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For episode 447, Founder Chris Li joins Brandon Zemp to discuss Ava Protocol and how they are supercharging Web3. Ava Protocol is an innovative layer-2 solution that leverages Eigenlayer to facilitate private and autonomous transactions across various decentralized applications, including DeFi, NFTs, and gaming. By introducing an intent-based execution model, Ava Protocol empowers users to schedule and automate complex financial operations, such as recurring payments, stop-loss orders, and streaming rewards. This event-driven approach enables cross-chain transactions to be triggered based on specific conditions like time, price fluctuations, or smart contract updates. Developers can seamlessly integrate Ava Protocol into their applications, automating tasks and optimizing efficiency without sacrificing privacy. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 1:07 | Who is Chris Li? 4:02 | What is Ava Protocol & Smart Contract Automation? 4:53 | Ava Protocol partnerships 7:43 | Future of Web3 in United States 10:42 | Coinbase’s Base Chain 12:24 | Sony Chain & Gaming on Blockchain 13:15 | Ava Protocol roadmap for 2025 14:33 | Ava Protocol website, social media & community 🎙 Ava Protocol Links: 🔗 Website: https://avaprotocol.org 🔗 X: https://x.com/ava_protocol 🔗 Telegram: https://t.me/ava_protocol 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avaprotocol 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisli2046 ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 446 Anna Kazlauskas | Network of User-Owned Data with Vana Nov 09, 2024

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For episode 446, Core Contributor Anna Kazlauskas joins Brandon Zemp to talk more about Vana and how they are building a network for user-owned data. Vana is a company committed to an open internet where individuals have control over their personal data and the AI models they contribute to. The company envisions a future where AI models are developed collaboratively by communities, similar to open-source software. To achieve this, Vana aims to break down the barriers of data silos by empowering users to export their own data. By doing so, researchers can access high-quality datasets and foster innovation in AI. Vana's ultimate goal is to create a foundation model that is owned by its users, trained on data contributed by 100 million individuals, and powered by their collective computing resources. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 0:36 | Who is Anna Kazlauskas? 2:32 | Bitcoin mining story 3:49 | What is Vana? 5:25 | Data protection & ownership 6:50 | Will AI take our jobs? 7:19 | East coast labor strike 8:53 | Vana use-cases & examples 11:14 | Earning from your data & data incentives 13:30 | Permissionless 2024 14:38 | What is Decentralized AI? 19:30 | Eliminating bias in AI 20:19 | Vana website, social media & community 20:37 | Vana roadmap for 2025 🎙 Vana Links: 🔗 Website: https://www.vana.org 🔗 X: https://x.com/withvana 🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Wv2vtBazMR 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vanaxyz 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annakaz ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 445 Zahary Karadjov | Build Oracles in Minutes with Blocksense Nov 08, 2024

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For episode 445, Co-founder and CEO Zahary Karadjov joins Brandon Zemp to discuss how anyone can create their own blockchain Oracles with Blocksense. Blocksense produces tightly packed blocks of data updates that can be published on the target chain with a single transaction. Additionally, through the power of Merkle trees, their data universe can scale to an unlimited number of continuously updated data feeds, offering a wide spectrum of cost-to-publish vs cost-to-access options. They’ve designed a flexible fee model, allowing the most popular data feeds to become cheaper to access over time, while increasing their security. Chains can choose to subsidize certain feeds to kick-start and maintain a vibrant DeFi ecosystem, all enabled by permissionless protocols and handled fully on-chain. Additionally, anyone can create a new data feed by writing a simple script. Anyone can become a data provider by staking funds and operating an automated oracle node. Any DApp on any chain can access their entire universe of data. ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 | Introduction 0:55 | Who is Zahary Karadjov? 2:35 | What is Blocksense? 5:13 | How does the Blocksense protocol work? 10:54 | How to create an Oracle with Blocksense? 12:27 | What does the Versatile Compute Network mean for Blocksense? 18:48 | Blocksense MVP & testnets 21:31 | Blocksense partnerships & collaborations 23:05 | Blocksense community 23:36 | Blocksense roadmap for 2025 🎙 Blocksense on Social Media: 🔗 Website: https://blocksense.network 🔗 X: https://x.com/blocksense_ 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahary 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blocksense-network 🔗 Telegram: https://t.me/BlocksenseNetwork ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 📢 Disclaimer: None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

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