The Blockchain Show

249: Democratizing DeFi: The Bracket Labs Vision Unveiled with Pelli Wang and Michael Wasyl Nov 17, 2023

Bracket Labs' founders, Michael Wasyl and Pelli Wang, take center stage to share their mission of democratizing decentralized finance (DeFi). Pelli, with a background in traditional finance and crypto incubation, and Michael, seasoned in financial analytics at Bloomberg, discuss their journey and the genesis of Bracket Labs. The duo unveils their ambitious plans for crypto volatility products, aiming to fill gaps in the market and make DeFi more accessible. They introduce Bracket X, a tool enabling leverage positions on blue-chip assets, and explore the concept and benefits of crypto perpetuals for extended leverage. The conversation delves into the challenges and potential of the crypto market, new product developments, and the necessity for better user experience and security features in DeFi. The team discusses regulatory concerns, emphasizing the delicate balance between fostering innovation and ensuring compliance. Michael details Bracket Labs' commitment to security, transparency, and their tech stack, highlighting future plans and developments, including the upcoming launch of Passage. The episode concludes with insights into courage, transparency, and the pivotal role of blockchain in shaping the future. Join us for a deep dive into the evolving landscape of DeFi with Bracket Labs' visionary founders.

248: Revolutionizing Entertainment: The Power of Digital Collectibles with Hiram Vazquez Nov 01, 2023

In this episode, we have a captivating conversation with Hiram Vazquez, the founder and CEO of LALA. LALA is leading the charge in transforming the entertainment industry by redefining the fan experience through digital collectibles. Join us as we delve into the world of NFTs, exploring how LALA's innovative offerings set them apart in a rapidly evolving market. We uncover how LALA is rewriting the revenue model for the entertainment sector, and gain exclusive insights into their exciting projects. Hiram shares real-life examples of how fans can earn from their favorite movies and TV shows and discusses his inspiring entrepreneurial journey from venture capital to leading a groundbreaking digital collectibles platform. We also explore the challenges he's overcome, the future vision for LALA, and the evolving landscape of blockchain, NFTs, and the entertainment industry. Don't miss this episode to discover the endless possibilities of fan engagement and revenue sharing in entertainment with LALA's visionary CEO, Hiram Vazquez.

247: Navigating the World of Cryptocurrency with Dr. Tonya M. Evans Sep 07, 2023

In this episode of "The Blockchain Show," we delve into the ever-evolving world of cryptocurrency with an exceptional guest, Dr. Tonya M. Evans. Driven by her mission to transform the crypto-curious into the crypto-confident, Dr. Evans brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. As a distinguished law professor, keynote speaker, author, and podcast host, she has emerged as a trusted voice in the cryptocurrency landscape.

Our conversation takes us on a journey through various facets of the crypto universe. Dr. Tonya M. Evans unravels common myths, offers practical insights for newcomers to the space, and discusses the legal and regulatory considerations essential for investors and businesses. With her unique perspective, she also shares her valuable experience, including an interview with Mark Wetjen, head of regulatory & policy strategy at FTX, conducted just days before its high-profile collapse.

Furthermore, Dr. Evans sheds light on her advisory role to the United States government regarding intellectual property law issues related to NFTs and blockchain technology. Her wisdom and clarity serve as a guiding light in the ever-changing landscape of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Don't miss this enlightening episode that aims to empower and educate both crypto-enthusiasts and newcomers alike.

Episode Highlights:

- Debunking common myths surrounding cryptocurrency. - Legal and regulatory considerations for investors and businesses. - Dr. Tonya M. Evans' advisory role to the U.S. government on NFTs and blockchain technology. - Empowering the crypto-curious to become crypto-confident.

Join us in this enlightening conversation with Dr. Tonya M. Evans, a trailblazer in the crypto and blockchain space, as we navigate the intricate terrain of cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation.

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246: Unlocking Crypto Liquidity with Machine Learning: Brad Chase, Head of Liquidity Products at Ripple Jul 29, 2023

In Episode 246 of The Blockchain Show, we sit down with Brad Chase, the Head of Liquidity Products at Ripple, a pioneering enterprise crypto solutions provider. Brad takes us on a journey through the intersection of machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and the crypto industry, shedding light on how Ripple leverages these cutting-edge technologies to build liquidity products that facilitate seamless transactions for hundreds of customers, amounting to billions of dollars.

Brad shares insights into his pivotal role in developing Ripple's Liquidity Hub, a platform that enables businesses to access crypto liquidity on-demand through smart order routing from market makers, exchanges, and OTC desks across various crypto assets. Discover how AI and machine learning are revolutionizing Ripple's On-Demand Liquidity services, elevating their capacity to cater to a rapidly growing market.

Throughout the episode, Brad also offers his perspective on the institutional adoption of crypto and unveils Ripple's main priorities and exciting upcoming announcements. If you're intrigued by the transformative power of AI and its impact on the crypto landscape, this episode is a must-listen.

Listeners interested in the future of liquidity solutions, AI-driven advancements in the crypto industry, and Ripple's strategic direction will find this conversation with Brad Chase highly informative and enlightening.

Guest Speaker Profile: Brad Chase - As the Head of Liquidity Products at Ripple, Brad is at the forefront of driving innovation in the world of crypto liquidity. With a passion for machine learning and AI, he spearheads the development of groundbreaking liquidity solutions that empower businesses worldwide. Brad's expertise and leadership have been instrumental in establishing Ripple as a trailblazing enterprise crypto solutions provider.

245: Transforming Financial Inclusion: Sherry Jiang on Decentralized Finance and Bluejay's Mission Jul 17, 2023

In this episode of The Blockchain Show, we are joined by Sherry Jiang, a former product manager at Google and Amazon and the founder of Bluejay Finance. Sherry shares her inspiring journey from the tech giants to the world of decentralized finance and how Bluejay Finance is leveraging DeFi to provide financial services to under-banked populations in Asia.

Throughout the conversation, Sherry sheds light on the challenges women face in the decentralized finance space and the importance of creating a more inclusive industry. She also discusses the unique advantages that decentralized finance brings to communities, breaking barriers and enabling financial inclusion in Asia.

As a thought leader in the blockchain space, Sherry provides valuable insights into the future of decentralized finance and its impact on traditional financial institutions. She explores the potential for collaboration between the two worlds and shares real-world examples of how Bluejay Finance is improving financial access and empowering individuals through their innovative DeFi solutions.

Join us as we delve into the world of decentralized finance with Sherry Jiang, uncovering its transformative potential, and exploring the ways it is reshaping the global financial landscape while improving the lives of individuals worldwide.

244: Unleashing the Power of Web3 Gaming: A Conversation with Michael Sanders / Horizon Blockchain Games Jun 30, 2023

Join us on episode 244 as we delve into the exciting world of blockchain gaming with our special guest from Horizon Blockchain Games. Backed by industry giants like Brevan Howard Digital and Ubisoft, Horizon is at the forefront of revolutionizing the gaming ecosystem. Our guest, Michael Sanders, co-founder of Horizon Blockchain Games, will take us on a journey through the potential of web3 and its impact on the gaming industry.

Michael is a dynamic storyteller who has a unique ability to connect the dots and make complex concepts understandable. His passion for blockchain technologies sparked in 2010, and since then, he has immersed himself in the industry as an investor in cryptocurrencies and related startups. With a diverse background, including co-founding a clean energy startup, serving as VP of an advertising agency, and even exploring transformational dance and sound therapy, Michael brings a breadth of experience to the table. He is also an accomplished author, known for his best-selling book, Ayahuasca: An Executive's Enlightenment. Living a life of love, openness, and play, Michael is dedicated to infusing web3 and the emerging dimension with these same values.

Horizon Blockchain Games is a video game studio and blockchain infrastructure company that is paving the way for seamless integration and development in the blockchain gaming space. With their recent Series A funding round, led by Brevan Howard and Morgan Creek, and participation from Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive Software, Horizon is positioned as a leading force in the industry.

With their all-in-one web3 developer platform and smart wallet called Sequence, Horizon is fast-tracking the process of developing web3 games on blockchain-compatible platforms like Ethereum. We'll explore the benefits of blockchain technology for gaming and how web3 has the power to shape the future of the industry.

Discover the challenges and opportunities in developing web3 games, as well as the shift from play-to-earn to play-and-earn models. Horizon's proof-of-concept technology and tangible gaming experiences showcase the unique possibilities that blockchain and web3 technologies bring to the table.

Don't miss this captivating conversation as we discuss the gaming and web3 outlook, including what's currently available in the market. Join us as we dive into the world of blockchain gaming and uncover the exciting innovations that Horizon Blockchain Games has to offer.

Tune in to The Blockchain Show and embark on a fascinating exploration of the future of gaming with Horizon Blockchain Games and their visionary co-founder, Michael Sanders.

243: Unlocking the Power of Data: Exploring Fluree's Blockchain-based Data Management with Brian Platz Jun 15, 2023

In this episode, we dive into the world of data management and the power of blockchain technology with our special guest, Brian Platz, CEO and co-founder of Fluree. Fluree is a web3 company that has developed an innovative graph ledger database and data pipeline toolset for trusted and secure data management.

In today's fast-paced business environment, data has become the new oil, and Fluree is at the forefront of leveraging blockchain technology to harness its potential. With their decentralized and trusted data storage capabilities, Fluree enables developers to store and manage data in a format that is crucial for the success and longevity of their clients' businesses.

Join us as Brian Platz shares his valuable insights on various topics, including his takeaways from Fluree's recent Series A funding round. Discover why blockchain-based solutions remain essential for the future of business, even as the initial buzz has subsided. Brian will also delve into how Fluree's data-centric architecture provides access to clean and linked data, catering to a diverse range of data consumers.

Don't miss this insightful conversation with Brian Platz as we explore the intersection of blockchain and data management, and uncover the potential it holds for businesses in today's digital landscape.

Fluree homepage: https://flur.ee/

Light Overview (PDF): https://flur.ee/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Fluree-Technical-Overview-v2.pdf

Architecture Overview: https://app.livestorm.co/fluree/introduction-to-fluree-architecture?type=detailed

242: Exploring the Power of Personalized Financial Technology with Emmanuel Daniel Jun 11, 2023

Join us for an enlightening conversation on The Blockchain Show as we dive into the fascinating world of emerging Fintech and its transformative effects on the world. In this episode, we have the privilege of hosting award-winning global thought leader, Emmanuel Daniel, as he shares his insights on the "Financialization of Everything" and the profound influence of personalized financial technology, including cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

Emmanuel, with his wealth of experience founding and running TAB Global, a prominent media, research, and consulting house, brings a unique perspective on how financial technology is reshaping the roles of institutions and markets. Drawing from his extensive network of leaders in banking and finance, Emmanuel offers valuable insights into the disruptive forces driving change and points global society in an entirely new direction.

Having won the Citibank Excellence in Business Journalism for Asia, Emmanuel's expertise is unparalleled. His upcoming book, tentatively titled "The Winning Civilization," delves deeper into the financially driven changes explored in his previous acclaimed work, "The Great Transition" (2022).

Tune in to discover the profound impact of highly personalized financial technology, the truth behind financial inclusion, the future of central bank digital currencies, and the pivotal role of decentralized finance in paving the way for cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Emmanuel also discusses how dysfunctional economies shape the future of global trade, the intricate relationship between public perception and the next financial crisis, the weaponization of money, and the reality behind the Chinese boogeyman myth.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights from Emmanuel Daniel as he reveals the intricacies of financial transactions and shares his vision for preparing an unexpected future. Join us as we explore the dynamic intersection of finance, technology, and society on The Blockchain Show.

241: Beyond Cryptocurrency: Exploring the World of Enterprise Blockchain with Neeraj Srivastava / DLT Labs May 29, 2023

Neeraj Srivastava is Co-Founder and CTO of DLT Labs, a global leader in enterprise blockchain solutions. Join us as Neeraj shares his journey from financial cryptography to pioneering blockchain technology. Gain insights into DLT Labs' successful implementation of blockchain solutions, including their groundbreaking work with Walmart Canada. Discover the concept of enterprise blockchain, the benefits of smart contracts, and how blockchain has played a pivotal role in overcoming distribution challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Get ready to be inspired by Neeraj's vision for the future and the transformative potential of blockchain across various industries.

240: Creating Decentralized Ecosystems with DGT Network / Alexander Khvatov May 02, 2023

In this episode, we chat with Alex Khvatov, the CEO of DGT Network, as he shares how their company is empowering enterprises to build open and decentralized ecosystems with retained governance and control. Alex discusses how DGT addresses the issue of inadequate Web3 infrastructure through flexible tokenization, decentralized identity, and interoperability, as well as embedded real-world information. Through their innovative approach, DGT is creating a new standard for decentralized ecosystems that can revolutionize the way we interact with the digital world. Tune in to hear more about their vision for the future of Web3 and how they are making it a reality.

239: Ari Navarro / VSA Partners - Unearthing Unique Opportunities in Crypto Apr 09, 2023

Ariadna Navarro is the Chief Strategy Officer at VSA Partners. Ariadna's expertise lies in brand and innovation strategies for crypto and other fintech industries. She oversees a team of 18 strategists at VSA, where she uses analytics, experience design, innovation, and brand and business strategy to find unique opportunities for clients from IBM to AT&T.

Recently, VSA was named the premiere creative partner for the Creator Fund of Ripple, a $250 million commitment to help indie creators bring their NFT projects to market on the XRP Ledger. VSA has worked with some of the world's top brands, including Google, Nike, IBM, and Pepsi. During the show, Ariadna discusses topics such as what drives NFT prices, blockchain's branding problem, and crypto trading addiction.

Ariadna's journey from heading up strategy at Interbrand to her current role at VSA is also explored. Originally from Venezuela, Ariadna has made New York her home for a very long time. Her passion for portfolio strategy, brand strategy, and solving problems makes this episode a must-listen for anyone interested in the evolving world of blockchain and fintech.

238: Centre Consortium / Kim Hamilton Duffy Mar 04, 2023

Kim Hamilton Duffy is Centre’s Director of Identity and Standards.

The Centre Consortium, an independent standard-setting body for the crypto ecosystem created by Coinbase and Circle. Centre launched an innovative set of decentralized identity protocols, called Verite, to address this question of how to protect our digital identities. Verite is designed to give people and organizations direct control over how, when, and where their personal information is shared in the crypto economy.

The standards can protect individuals’ digital identities for new blockchain-based apps in the next era of the internet. Algorand, Alkemi, Block, Coinbase, Circle, Compound Labs, ConsenSys, Espresso Systems, FTX, Hedera Hashgraph, Ledger, MetaMask Institutional, Phantom Technologies, Solana Foundation, Spruce, and Stellar Development Foundation have already committed to collaborating on shared decentralized identity standards using Verite.

237: Ganesh Swami / Covalent - Blockchain Visibility Jan 21, 2023

Ganesh Swami is the CEO and co-founder of Covalent - a Web3 data analytics company offering a unified API that brings visibility to billions of blockchain data points. His focus with Covalent is to provide the richest and most robust data infrastructure requiring no code and is easy to use – for the entire blockchain ecosystem.

In this episode we discuss the following:

Data analysis and trends within crypto industry (across NFTs, DEXs, wallets, more)
Price movement and market trends
Entrepreneurship and bringing Web3 products to the market
Transitioning from Web2 to Web3; mainstream adoption of Web3

236: Matt Wisniewski / Satellite IM - Ownership of Your Digital Identity Dec 30, 2022

Matt Wisniewski is CEO of Satellite IM, a fully-integrated decentralized messaging platform addressing today’s data ownership and privacy issues. Unlike the current popular instant messaging apps, Satellite IM allows people to chat in a decentralized and peer-to-peer manner, without the need for intermediaries storing or tracking users’ data. Amidst ongoing data abuses by big tech companies, and the lack of a strong federal data privacy law, Satellite IM is taking the important step of returning data privacy to users so they can communicate, share assets, and more in an off-line, serverless, and encrypted way.

235: Alexander Tkachenko / VNX - Creating a Gold Standard in Crypto Dec 13, 2022

Alexander Tkachenko is Founder and CEO of VNX. Alexander is also the Founder of 2BE.LU, a Luxembourg-based VC fund, serves as co-Chair of the VC club at Luxembourg’s PE/VC association, and as an Executive Council member at Digital Banking and Fintech Cluster in the Luxembourg Banking Association.

VNX is the first European regulated investment platform for tokenized precious metals. It recently launched its VNX Gold token (VNXAU), which represents a stake in a physical gold bullion certified by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA).

234: Steven Walbroehl Returns Nov 22, 2022

Steven Walbroehl is Chief Technology Officer / Chief Security Officer and cofounder of Halborn, a cybersecurity organization specializing in blockchain companies. Steven is also a course author of SANS SEC554: Blockchain and Smart Contract Security and co-author of SEC556: IoT Penetration Testing.

We cover the 2022 Blockchain Security Summit as well as Blockchain and Cyber Crime issues today and in the future.

233: Micah Fraim / Navigating Crypto Taxes Nov 02, 2022

Micah Fraim is a cryptocurrency tax expert and author. He founded his CPA firm in 2013.

In this episode Micah shares his expertise on how crypto is currently taxed, tax planning and preparation for cryptocurrency investors. More importantly, he explains how to stay compliant with ever-changing crypto regulations while still paying as little as possible on your taxes.

232: Phillip Shoemaker / Identity.com Oct 12, 2022

Phillip Shoemaker is the Executive Director at Identity.com and former Apple App Store Director.

Identity.com is a non-profit organization pioneering pseudonymous on-chain identity verification for Web3. They provide an open-source, decentralized platform that offers developers permissionless authentication and verification while allowing consumers to control their own data.

231: Jim Dolbear from xx network and Elixxer Sep 14, 2022

The xx network is a fast, scalable blockchain that allows developers to deliver dapps that are secure and private thanks to their privacy protecting layer. We're talking quantum computer resistant cryptography. The Elixxer messaging app is built on the xx network and likewise provides ultimate privacy and security.

Jim Dolbear is the Co-Founder of xx network and the Chief Strategy Officer at Elixxer.

230: Daniel Matalon from #IsThereEnough and Impact Launchpad Aug 27, 2022

Daniel Matalon founded #IsThereEnough, a conversation about human survival, and is the cofounder of Impact Launchpad, a UK based venture studio for social impact investment, incubation, and development.

Both organizations are co-developing a token designed to underwrite a new, ownerless social impact banking system "to make the world work for 100% of humanity."

229: John deVadoss from Neo Blockchain Aug 08, 2022

John deVadoss is Head of Development at Neo Blockchain and the former Managing Director of Microsoft.

As we transition into what some would call Web3, John points out the need for utilizing Web2 type coding.

228: Christian Kameir and Jeff Jockisch from Your Bytes Your Rights Jul 15, 2022

Chris and Jeff are the hosts of Your Bytes = Your Rights, a new podcast about data privacy.

Chris is Managing Partner at Sustany Capital, a VC fund focusing on Blockchain Technology.

Jeff is a Data Privacy Researcher and CEO at Privacy Plan.

You can find their past live streams here. Tune in there Fridays at Noon Pacific Time for new episodes.

Join their LinkedIn group here

227: Oasis Protocol with Linda Lu Jun 21, 2022

Linda Lu is Head of Ecosystem at Oasis. Oasis Network is the leading privacy-enabled and scalable layer-1 blockchain network to propel Web3 forward.

We talk about the transition from Web2 to Web3, the importance of data privacy, the need for a data DAO to reward data owners, and how data can benefit social welfare and economic efficiency.

226: Helium with Frank Mong Jun 06, 2022

Frank Mong is COO at Nova Labs, formerly Helium Inc. Helium is providing internet connectivity through blockchain technology.

Frank explains how this works, the next phase of the Helium Network, and the rapid growth and success of the Helium Blockchain.

Similar to how Helium's co-founder created the first decentralized media company at scale, Napster, Helium is also changing the mind set of how internet service providing can be done.

225: Acorns with Seth Wunder May 21, 2022

Seth Wunder, CFA, is the Chief Investment Officer of Acorns. Previously, Seth founded Los Angeles based black-and-white Capital LP as it's sole Portfolio Manager in May 2016, with assets at peak greater than one billion dollars. black-and-white Capital's investment mandate centered on innovation, including a concentration in software, internet, fintech, e-commerce and other disruptive trends. Before black-and-white Capital, Seth was a founding partner and portfolio manager at Contour Asset Management LLC, in New York. During the almost seven years of operating Contour, he led growth in assets from approximately $500mn to over $1.5bn. Seth started his career over two decades ago as an equity analyst at two mutual fund complexes: OppenheimerFunds and Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He holds a B.S. in Applied Economics and Business Management from Cornell University.

Acorns is how everyday consumers save & invest for the long term. By putting tools of wealth-making in everyone's hands, Acorns has become the largest subscription service in U.S. consumer finance, serving 4.6 million everyday Americans. Customers get automated investing in diversified portfolios built with help from experts.

In this episode we cover Acorn's new Bitcoin-linked ETF experience as well as investing for the long term. As we look to the future of finance and investing, the role Blockchain will play is evident. With Seth's experience in analysis, he shares some factors influencing the emerging markets.

Read Acorn's Bitcoin Manifesto here

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224: Taxes in the Metaverse and Crypto-Sphere with Martin Fiore Apr 28, 2022

Martin Fiore is Managing Partner for the EY US East Region Tax practice. We talk about recent tax policies for crypto, DeFi, and metaverse assets, and speculate on the future implications of these technologies.

Links referenced in the episode:

EY TaxChat US

Blockchain solutions | Platforms, insights & services | EY - US

EY Blockchain

Cryptocurrency: compliance and controls | EY - US

223: Katie Chonacas Apr 20, 2022

Katie Chonacas is an international actor, NFT artist, and podcaster.

The Hey Layer platform for women in blockchain recently released her latest NFT collection, 11 Pillars of Katie Chonacas. She released her Dreamland 1111 Album on Opensea last year.

https://www.chonacas.com/

222: Faraway with Alex Paley - Video Game Economies on Blockchain Apr 03, 2022

Alex Paley is the co-founder of Faraway, a new gaming studio leveraging blockchain technology to unlock the potential for truly player-driven and decentralized game economies. Faraway’s debut title, Mini: Royale Nations, is the first live multiplayer game to launch on the Solana blockchain platform.

221: Cybersecurity Expert Steven Walbroehl / Halborn / SANS Mar 24, 2022

Steven Walbroehl is the Chief Security Officer and cofounder of Halborn. He's also a Blockchain Course Author and Instructor at SANS, one of the top cybersecurity education organizations.

In this episode we cover the following:

Key vulnerabilities with blockchains and how hackers exploit them to steal crypto; private keys, code vulnerabilities, and financial vulnerabilities
Regulation of crypto security
Security for dApp and DeFi developers
Blockchain and Cybersecurity education
How decentralization and Bitcoin can help citizens in war-torn parts of the world

220: Stellar with Tomer Weller Mar 16, 2022

Tomer Weller is the Vice President of Tech Strategy at the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world's financial infrastructure. Founded in 2014, the Foundation maintains Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology. At SDF, Tomer focuses on technology strategy and the future of the stellar protocol.

More on Stellar: Stellar is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services that create equitable access to the global financial system. It is both a cross-currency transaction system, designed specifically for international settlement, and for issuance of digital assets, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 6 million accounts.

In his previous role as SDF’s Director of Partner Engineering, he led an engineering team working closely with selected financial institutions on defining interoperability standards and building the supporting tools to grow the Stellar network. Tomer has been part of the Stellar ecosystem since 2017, has led a plethora of partner integrations and contributed to projects such as Horizon and StellarX. He holds a MSc degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology And a BSc degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Learn more about Stellar at www.stellar.org

You can follow Tomer on Twitter here

219: Evan Kuo Returns / Ampleforth Mar 11, 2022

Evan Kuo is CEO and Co-Founder of Ampleforth.

Founded in 2018, Ampleforth is a digital currency, like Bitcoin, but with elastic-supply. The company was founded with a mission to introduce an “ideal money” that would have properties similar to Bitcoin, be able to be used to denominate smart contracts long-term, and act as a hedge against inflation.

218: Minterest with Josh Rogers Feb 27, 2022

Josh Rogers is CEO and Founder of Minterest, a value-capturing lending and borrowing protocol designed to make DeFi fairer for users.

217: Brian Platz of Fluree & Dmitri Safine of Ikigai Technologies Feb 16, 2022

Venn joins Ethan for a look at the "Crypto Bowl" ads as well as some other pop culture blockchain references.

Ethan interviews Brian Platz Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Fluree and Dmitri Safine CTO of Ikigai Technologies at the 21:00 minute mark.

216: Anatha with Ed DeLeon Feb 12, 2022

Ed DeLeon is the founder and CEO of Anatha, an ethos driven decentralized financial ecosystem.

215: Brian Bondy / Brave Jan 31, 2022

Brian Bondy is CTO and co-founder of Brave, a privacy browser with a blockchain based digital advertising platform. If you've heard us talk about BAT tokens, then you've probably heard us talk about Brave. Brian gives us a look back at how Brave came to be, their core features, what's new, and what's to come.

Brave recently partnered with Solana for Dapps, and also introduced the Brave Wallet.

214: Global Crypto Regulations with Wesley Thysse Dec 29, 2021

Ethan talks with Wesley Thysse about some upcoming changes that may be coming to the crypto community. We talk about the focus on peer-to-peer transactions, stable coins, privacy coins, and more and how individuals and businesses could be effected.

Click here to read Wes's full article.

213: iov42 with Ryan Worsley and David Coleman Dec 06, 2021

Ryan Worsley is CTO at iov42 and has a love for formal Computer Science approaches and techniques. His career has charted a course in which he developed one of the first retail, customer-facing live FX trading portals; rebuilt an “unfixable” bespoke in-memory database for an investment bank; designed and built a big-data Bitemporal Graph Database; and architected a Non-Repudiation Database for the UK tax authority.

Ryan’s love of big-data distributed systems engineering, complex problem spaces and worthwhile abstractions has found him at home at iov42, where the engineering is challenging from an academic perspective, but ultimately needs to be useful to real use cases and engineers.

David Coleman is CPO at iov42. David jumped straight into the fire of a startup by interning as a programmer after his first year of a Computer Engineering degree. His newfound passion for creative problem solving inspired him to join the company full-time and finish his degree in his spare time.

After the startup was sold, David moved into investment banking, designing and engineering high performance, high throughput systems. He continued to build this expertise in the financial sector, going on to initiate and run an API First initiative at a large global bank.

During his first foray into blockchain, David won Thomson Reuters’ 2016 and 2017 Hackathons, and with his interest in blockchain piqued, he joined iov42 in 2018. He now heads up the Product team, where he loves the challenge of combining his love of technological innovation with solving hard business problems.

Learn more about their EBSI project here.

212: Domination Finance with Adrian Kolody Dec 02, 2021

Adrian Kolody is Founder of Domination Finance, the first decentralized exchange for dominance trading. It's built on the Universal Market Access protocol and available on Ethereum and Polygon. DomFi’s platform tracks the market cap of bitcoin relative to the market cap of altcoins, allowing users to analyze shifts in relative coin prices and to trade on the overall market dominance of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether. Last month, the DomFi team announced the close of a $3.2 million seed round, led by ParaFi.

In this episode Adrian discusses:

How dominance metrics work and their value for crypto traders
The interplay between the bitcoin and altcoin markets
Which topics are bound to be important in the coming months for the DeFi market
factors influencing bitcoin versus altcoin market dominance, such as the new Bitcoin ETF.
His outlook on the industry’s growth and trends.

211: Aleph Zero with Matthew Niemerg Nov 10, 2021

Matthew Niemerg, Ph.D., is the co-founder and president of Aleph Zero Foundation—a Swiss non-profit offering a new infrastructure layer with a scalable plug-and-play privacy solution leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and Secure Multiparty Computation (sMPC). Mathew is also a Ph.D. in Mathematics in the area of numerical algebraic geometry, a Simons-Berkeley Fellow, and an IBM Center of Excellence Fellow in High-Performance Computing.

Aleph Zero is a new infrastructure PoS infrastructure layer based on an original, peer-reviewed consensus protocol. It’ll be the first privacy solution to combine zk-SNARKs and sMPC. Collectively, these tools work to cancel out the other’s drawbacks. zk-SNARKs allow for basic transfers but do not allow multi-user interactions. Whereas sMPC can be prohibitively slow on its own but allows for multiple participants. Merged, they create the basis for Liminal— a fast, secure, and highly private framework from which users can gain true privacy and where developers can stage Web 3.0 projects.

210: The Beginners Guide to Coinbase Nov 01, 2021

Venn, Daniel, and Ethan share their experiences with Coinbase and offer advice for those ready to make their first crypto purchase. Use this LINK to get $10 of free bitcoin and also to help support this show.

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209: Celo with Dr. Markus Franke of cLabs Oct 24, 2021

Dr. Markus Franke is a partner at cLabs working on Celo, an open source, global platform that aims to facilitate secure and efficient cross border payments to anyone with a mobile device.

208: Zach Bradford / CleanSpark Oct 10, 2021

Zach Bradford is CEO at CleanSpark. In this episode we identify some problems with electricity production in relation to Bitcoin mining but also society as a whole. CleanSpark has several solutions to address these problems and some innovative ideas for renewable energy beyond the blockchain space.

207: David Lucatch / Liquid Avatar Sep 10, 2021

David Lucatch is the founder & CEO of Liquid Avatar, parent company to Oasis Digital Studios).

David speaks with Ethan about how the blockchain can address current concerns around cybersecurity and digital identity. Specifically, how people can be assured that their identity is not being stolen and or used against or without their permission. By leveraging biometrics to scan a digital avatar, his company can validate and verify a user's identity without costing them any control over their likeness, image or information.

Some topics covered in this episode:

How this challenges currently implemented systems
How a decentralized identity verification system can help us live better lives

206: James Wo / DFG Sep 04, 2021

James Wo is an experienced investor and entrepreneur in blockchain technology and digital assets; delivering a 200% return on investment in less than 2 years. Mr. Wo is also the Chairman of Matrix, the first regulated virtual assets multilateral trading facility (MTF) & custodian under the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) VA policy framework. He is a board member of LedgerX, and an Executive Committee member of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.

DFG is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm with more than $1B Assets Under Management. DFG’s portfolio includes an actively-managed trading fund which has earned returns of more than 400% over the last five years.

205: Two Prime with Alexander Blum Jul 23, 2021

A lot has changed since Alexander Blum bought his first Bitcoin for $9 in 2012. Alex has been professionally involved with the industry ever since. He previously founded digital investment group Atomic Capital, worked as a technology advisor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The World Economic Forum, and served as an economic development specialist for the Peace Corps. He is also a Fellow at the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies and Chair of the Nexus Global Lab on Blockchain and Systems Change.

Two Prime is a digital assets investment firm specialized in bitcoin and ethereum. By bringing traditional economic theory and financial strategy to the crypto space, Two Prime is uniquely positioned to hedge against risk and volatility and deliver successful financial outcomes to their clients. They are the trusted investment partner to high net-worth individuals, family offices, institutions, and corporate treasuries seeking intelligent exposure to digital assets.

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204: Cent with Cameron Hejazi - NFTs, the Environment, and the Metaverse Jul 11, 2021

Cameron Hejazi is the CEO of Cent. Cameron explains how Cent is utilizing Polygon to minimize the energy requirements for a more sustainable blockchain minting solution of their NFTs. He also helps host Ethan understand the power of NFTs and some cool uses that are yet to be fully realized. Cent is a platform that provides the tools to create, curate, and collaborate for a living through the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They're building a digital economy based on ownership, community, and identity. Polygon is a protocol and framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks. Cent has been using Polygon to sustainably mint NFTs and also reduce the environmental impact of minting and trading on the blockchain by almost 99%. Get 20% OFF + Free Shipping with promo code BLOCKCHAIN at MANSCAPED.com

https://polygon.technology/

https://v.cent.co/

www.cent.co

203: Dr. Jack Kruse - Bitcoin and Our Biology Jun 23, 2021

Dr. Kruse is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and Age Management Medicine Group. He has helped pioneer a totally new medical field - Quantum Mitochondrial Health. Building on his deep medical expertise, he has also built a vibrant community while being a bitcoin maximalist; he is dedicated to helping people build critical thinking skills. He continues to challenge our currently implemented systems and look for more feasible solutions to benefit everyone.

In this episode Dr. Kruse joins host Ethan for a look into how Decentralized finance and healthcare can help us live better lives. Some more topics covered in this episode:

How to Optimize Time, Health & Wealth
Building Wealth now to Compound & Take Care of Your Health in the Future
How the Thermodynamics of Currencies & the
Thermodynamics of Your Cellular Biology Are Related

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202: Jack Ottman Returns - Minds upgraded Jun 18, 2021

Jack Ottman is Chief Operating Officer at Minds. Jack is welcomed back for a look into recent updates on the Minds social network platform.

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201: Sentinel with Dan Edlebeck - dVPN Jun 01, 2021

Dan Edlebeck is Co-founder and CEO of Exidio, Sentinel’s development arm. He joins host Ethan for an informative episode concerning the need for decentralized virtual private networks, or dVPNs. With recent hacks into centralized VPNs, this development comes at a crucial time for internet freedom. Dan outlines how they are building on the Cosmos blockchain and how individuals can get involved and even be rewarded for their efforts as a node and/or validator.

theblockchainshow.com

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Episode 200 May 19, 2021

Steve and Ethan look back at the last five years of the podcast. Other topics include: the switch to Ethereum 2.0, staking, Elon Musk’s tweets, committing to crypto, and what we’re looking forward to in the near future.

199: Divi with Nick Saponaro May 07, 2021

Nick Saponaro is an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, and keynote speaker who is passionate about helping Crypto achieve its vision to deliver a truly decentralized financial services paradigm that benefits everyone. As Divi’s CIO, he deploys his programming and functional design skills to achieve the company’s core aim; to make crypto easy and drive its mainstream adoption. Media appearances include Cheddar, CNBC, Quartz, Investing.com, Nasdaq.com, and CoinTelegraph.

The Divi Project was established in 2017 to accelerate crypto’s mainstream adoption. Through Divi Labs, the company’s fintech innovation center, the company is developing world-class decentralized solutions that make cryptocurrency faster, more secure, and accessible to people at all levels of technical expertise.

Main Divi Project Website: https://diviproject.org/

Divi Wallet Microsite: https://wallet.diviproject.org/

Nick Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/NSapProductions?s=20

Divi YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCihooU0crqQkBOvV0_lsRnw

198: Jack O'Holleran CEO of SKALE Returns Apr 22, 2021

We hosted Jack O’Holleran, SKALE’s CEO back in February of 2019. We discussed Proof of Stake Blockchains and SKALE. A lot has happened at since then.

SKALE is currently going through a big and exciting network upgrade that will bring multichain to Ethereum.

Jack talks about the Ethereum Ecosystem Development and the role of L2s like SKALE - which is a center of the conversation at the moment. Jack also shares some great advice and information for new crypto and blockchain enthusiasts.

197: Prabhakar Reddy / FalconX Apr 15, 2021

Prabhakar is the Co-Founder of FalconX. He exited his last venture to an Accel Partners portfolio company, prior to joining Accel as an investor. At Accel, one of the largest and most successful VC firms in the world, Prabhakar focused on Blockchain, B2B, and Enterprise SaaS investments. Prabhakar is a serial entrepreneur with over nine years of experience running successful digital media and online video platforms, having scaled his first startup into the top 100 most visited websites in the world within three years of inception, and successfully exited his second startup to BookMyShow, India's largest entertainment platform, prior to joining Accel. An electronics engineer by background, Prabhakar also has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

FalconX is a cryptocurrency financial services company, providing institutions trading, credit, and clearing across all major crypto pairs. Fortune 1000 companies, family offices, and asset managers turn to FalconX as a trusted partner in the cryptocurrency market. FalconX currently services over 250 institutions globally and is backed by leading investors including Accel, American Express, B Capital Group, Coinbase Ventures, Fidelity and Tiger Global.

196: William Quigley Apr 06, 2021

William Quigley is co-founder of the first-ever stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency in the world, Tether. He is also the co-founder of WAX, the world’s leading decentralized NFT ecosystem. NFTs are very popular currently, and have moved into sports, art, design, and more. William explains to host Ethan how NFTs and the blockchain will completely transform the way we do modern business and collect items in the next 10 years.

Some other topics in this episode include:

Bitcoin predictions for the rest of 2021
The adoption of blockchain technology across other industries
Cryptocurrency’s market fluctuation

Aside from co-founding Tether and WAX, William is currently managing director at Magnetic Capital, a top investment and incubation firm that has launched the most innovative businesses in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors under William’s guidance and decades of expertise. Magnetic has funded successful players like OpSkins, Tether, WAX and StrongBlock, and many more, with an estimated $500m in gains across their portfolio over the last decade.

195: Prometheum with Aaron Kaplan Mar 03, 2021

Aaron Kaplan is the founder and co-CEO of Prometheum, Inc., a NYC based fintech company building a Federal Securities Law compliant, blockchain native, public market infrastructure servicing the entire digital asset lifecycle.

Aaron is also of counsel at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum, where since 2013 he has focused his practice on the applications of distributed ledger technology in the securities industry.

In this episode hosted by Ethan, Aaron offers extensive insights into the legalities around blockchain and the future of digital asset securities.

Articles referenced in the episode:

Ethereum Homestead Doc: https://ethdocs.org/en/latest/

Prometheum Architecture Paper: https://info.prometheum.com/papers

194: Xangle with Lihan Lee / Crypto Transparency with Standardized Disclosures Feb 23, 2021

Lihan Lee is the Co-CEO / Founder at Xangle.io. We talk about the need for standardized disclosure practices in blockchain projects, investor relations best practices for crypto startups, what South Korean crypto investors are looking for, how they're helping expose and avoid scams, and the state of the crypto market in South Korea.

193: Marc Grens Returns / DigitalMint Feb 15, 2021

Marc Grens is the Co-Founder & President of DigitalMint. He is a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the investment industry. Prior to DigitalMint, Grens held senior positions at Charles Schwab, HighTower Advisors, and Alpha Strategies. He received his M.B.A. from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University in 2010, and a B.A. from Illinois State University. Grens is an active angel investor and serves on multiple advisory boards of companies in the Chicago tech community.

DigitalMint is the leading Bitcoin point-of-sale provider in the nation with more than 325+ Bitcoin ATM and teller locations across the U.S. The company enables financial service centers, convenience stores, grocery chains, gas stations, and retail locations to sell cryptocurrency through physical kiosks and point-of-sale solutions.

https://www.digitalmint.io/

192: Stellar Development Foundation with Justin Rice Jan 10, 2021

Justin Rice is the Head of Ecosystem for the Stellar Development Foundation , the nonprofit supporting Stellar’s growth, and has a wide variety of topics that interest him. Some of those topics include:

Community Development - As Head of Ecosystem, Justin specializes in working closely with the developers that are building on Stellar’s network.
Stellar Ecosystem - Another key focus of Justin’s role is on how to effectively create and maintain an ecosystem that will continue to grow in future years.
Music and Film - Before joining the Stellar team, Justin worked in the arts, leading the band Bishop Allen and starring in several popular indie films.

191: Jack Leahy - Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Dec 11, 2020

Steve interviews Jack Leahy from the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. The EEA enables organizations to adopt and use Ethereum technology in their daily business operations.

Visit https://entethalliance.org/news/ to find current news and upcoming events

190: Christian Kameir Returns - Current VC Blockchain Insights Dec 09, 2020

Christian Kameir is Managing Partner at Sustany Capital. He brings Ethan up to speed on current blockchain venture capital insights. His last appearance on The Blockchain Show was episode 78.

Topics covered include:

Why Bitcoin failed to deliver on internet cash.
What his recommendations for startups would be to raise money.
The impact of regulation in the blockchain space.
Some core criteria for making investments specifically with blockchain solutions.
Voting - identity and blockchain technology as an election tool.
The case to investors for venture capital over other asset classes.
Why Sustany Capital chose blockchain as an investment focus.

189: Braintrust with CEO Adam Jackson Nov 24, 2020

Adam Jackson is the CEO of Braintrust, the world's first user controlled network that connects organizations to highly skilled tech talent. Their company shares have been tokenized and distributed as cryptocurrency amongst the freelance talent that uses the network. A huge leap forward for the gig economy especially during the era of working from home.

188: Utopia Genesis Foundation with Daniele Sestagal - Music and Blockchain Nov 15, 2020

Utopia Genesis Foundation is creating a base for the music industry that benefits artists and creators and streamlines the business. By harnessing big data and the power of blockchain, Utopia will provide the UOP with the needed data to usher in a new ecosystem thereby addressing current problems. Thus promoting growth, innovation, and a new stream of creativity in the music industry.

187: VAIOT with Michael Beches Nov 12, 2020

Michael Beches is the Growth Manager for VAIOT, the developer of AI-powered services for businesses. They are leveraging both AI and blockchain technology to offer B2C businesses an intelligent virtual assistant with a seamless user interface for convenient communication with customers.

186: Atari with Fred Chesnais - Blockchain, Video Games, and much more Nov 01, 2020

Fred Chesnais is the CEO of Atari. You can learn more about their blockchain gaming initiative at atarichain.com

Mass adoption of blockchain technology has been a central theme of this podcast since 2016. Fred helps explain to Blockchain Show host Ethan how Atari is making it happen. This includes the Atari Token, Exchange, Casino, and Betting with more to come including a new Atari PC / console hybrid: the Atari VCS

185: INVIZION with Russ Lema and Daryl Taylor Oct 27, 2020

INVIZION is a decentralized Digital Token for funding green renewable energy projects, along with waste tracking, that utilizes blockchain technology.

Russ Lema and Daryl Taylor join Blockchain Show host Ethan for an innovative look into how the NVZN token is fixing the waste and renewable energy industry.

184: Mythical with Rudy Koch and Cameron Thacker - Next Gen Video Game Tech Oct 19, 2020

Mythical is a next generation game technology studio utilizing a digital and open standard for virtual items on blockchain with dGoods. Rudy and Cameron from the team join Blockchain Show host Ethan for a look into the upcoming Blankos Block Party game and the changes to the gaming industry that will surely follow.

183: Easy Crypto Hunter with Josh Riddett - The New Era of Energy and Wealth Creation Oct 12, 2020

Easy Crypto Hunter is the UK's largest manufacturer and supplier of GPU mining. They're helping to build the renewable energy sector by encouraging more sites to be built. The excess energy generated powers mining rigs and gives the miners a far greater return than the traditional model of selling the electricity back to the grid. What may seem too good to be true is actually possible and CEO Josh Riddett educates host Ethan about just how they're making it work.

182: Binance Charity with Helen Hai - Crypto Against COVID Sep 28, 2020

Helen Hai is heading Binance's Blockchain Charity initiative which concentrates on using blockchain for social good. Helen is the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Goodwill Ambassador for industrialization in Africa among many other accolades. She joins host Ethan and reveals how donating with blockchain technology is superior to legacy systems and the remarkable progress being made. To learn more about how you can help visit binance.charity

In this episode you will learn:

Why Binance Charity decided to start Crypto Against Covid
How they helped people in Wuhan, New York City, and other major centers of the pandemic
How they were able to unite the crypto community around the globe to help those in need
Their Transparent Donation System
Ways COVID will affect the crypto industry
What the PPE token is and how it works
Who is being fed in Africa from crypto donations
How the blockchain community will change the way people think of personal identity and culture
With blockchain tech, how trust can be rebuilt

181: Dan Holdings with Danny Oyekan - Blockchain in Africa Sep 23, 2020

Danny Oyekan is the founder and CEO of Dan Holdings - Africa’s leading fintech, blockchain, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies firm. They're developing new blockchain-powered products and services, including Telechat - a chat application with a built in social payment application for cryptocurrency, Coins App - an all-in-one social payment application for global digital currencies, and BlockFinex - a crypto to crypto and fiat to crypto exchange platform.

Danny gives host Ethan some insight into how to use virtually no fiat currency, how to use crypto to avoid remittances, and the future of the African markets.

180: JellySwap with Tito Titov and Krasimir Raykov Sep 17, 2020

Tito Titov is the CEO of JellySwap, a DEX working on several blockchains aiming to solve the interoperability issues between the different networks. In addition to swapping coins, users can provide liquidity and become market makers thereby enabling them to make profit.

Tito is joined accompanied with CTO Krasimir Raykov for an interview with Blockchain Show host Ethan for a look into JellySwap's features, use-cases, and technology. Several interesting anecdotes are mentioned, including what it's like meeting Vitalik at a European meetup.

179: Blockchain in Education with Nadav Zeimer Sep 13, 2020

Nadav Zeimer has worked in technology and education for decades, from software engineering in the Silicon Valley to serving as a principal in NYC. Thus, Nadav has unique insights into how blockchain technology can help students. He's been recognized for his digital media centered approach to reforming schools by integrating podcasting into his curricula.

In his book Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There he explains the need to re-imagine how academic credits are stored and utilized in education by introducing blockchain technology to the credit ledger system.

In this episode Nadav explains the problems with politicians setting the academic policy, standardized testing, high school credits, and how his plan for using blockchain-based credits will revolutionize the current system of academic capital. He gives examples of how podcasting in high schools is bridging the gaps for some students and how it may play a role in the post COVID-19 world. We also talk about digital code being used to write anti-bias, both in race and equity in education.

178: Uphold with Michelle O'Connor Sep 04, 2020

Michelle O’Connor is VP of Marketing and Community at Uphold, an “anything-to-anything” digital money platform, serving two million customers in more than forty countries, with access to fifty-five currencies, including commodities, digital assets and precious metals.

Michelle is passionate about building the future of inclusive finance through emerging technologies and was recently recognized in the list of ‘Most Inspirational Women in Tech 2019.

177: Max Sklar Aug 30, 2020

Max Sklar is a machine learning engineer and podcast host at The Local Maximum. On this episode, Max speaks to the state of emerging technology, rapid prototyping and building products, as well as the current state of the Tech Industry / Silicon Valley. We also talk about his contributions at Foursquare as a machine learning engineer. This includes Foursquare's City Guide and Ad Attribution products. We speculate how Blockchain and Crypto will work with future technologies in the near future.

Episodes we mentioned:

Episode 83 - about Bitcoin Energy Consumption: localmaxradio.com/83

Episode 5 - Ethereum and Smart Contracts: localmaxradio.com/5

localmaxradio.com/126 on electoral systems (for the blockchain enthusiasts)

Others that we didn't mention:

localmaxradio.com/89 on liberland

localmaxradio.com/112, localmaxradio.com/37 with Naomi Brockwell

localmaxradio.com/76 - Bitcoin and Google invades Politics

176: TALGiving with Tej Gundavelli Aug 17, 2020

Tej Gundavelli is CEO and Co-founder of TALGiving, a giving platform built with blockchain technology. It's an app that helps facilitate one-to-one connections between donors and recipients, built with matchmaking features. Beyond just monetary assistance, TALGiving also provides people in need with specific resources including clothing, shelter, food, medical, and education—crowdfunded by individual and corporate donors. Differing from platforms like GoFundMe, TALGiving has absolutely 0 costs involved for all parties, 100% of proceeds go towards the specific causes.

They're also working with Minds to allow crypto-based donations (in the works: https://www.minds.com/touchalife/

175: Grey Swan with Peter Harrigan Aug 09, 2020

Peter Harrigan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Grey Swan Digital. Grey Swan is a decentralized, global platform that will serve as the foundation for the Price Sharing Economy, by doing for the $500 Trillion derivatives industry what Apple did for the computer.

174: EFANI with Haseeb Awan - America's Most Secure & Private Cellphone Carrier Aug 03, 2020

Haseeb Awan is a cell phone security expert and the CEO of EFANI the most secure and private cellphone service in the USA. By using 11 layers of client-side integrity and authentication protection they are ensuring no one's cell phone number is attached to personal information through their service. As a SIM swap attack survivor, Haseeb knows what it's like to recover from this potentially devastating situation which is why he created EFANI.

They've protected hundreds of crypto investors in the last few months. Haseeb has unique insights and stories around the subject.

@efani @haseeb

173: Zilliqa with Amrit Kumar Jul 26, 2020

Amrit Kumar is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Zilliqa, the high-performance, high-security blockchain platform which looks to enable a new standard enterprise-grade scalability and security in the industry.

172: Polyient Games with Craig Russo Jul 25, 2020

Craig Russo is Director of Innovation at Polyient Games. Polyient Games is the first open, chain-agnostic investment ecosystem devoted entirely to funding and expediting the growth of early-stage startups that are developing the infrastructure and application layers necessary to scale the blockchain gaming industry.

171: InfiniGold with Jon Deane Jul 21, 2020

Jon Deane is the CEO of InfiniGold and was formerly CEO of TCM Capital, and a Managing Director of JP Morgan where he was the Global Head of Agricultural and Bulks Commodities Trading, as well as Head of Commodities Trading for Asia Pacific, covering oil, base metals, bulks, precious metals and agriculture.

The Perth Mint Gold Token (PMGT) is the first digital gold token on a public blockchain with its underlying asset underpinned by government guaranteed gold. Each digital token is issued by InfiniGold and backed 1:1 by GoldPass certificates representing physical gold held by The Perth Mint – the custodian of the physical gold which supports PMGT. This gold is securely stored in its central bank grade vaults and is guaranteed by the Government of Western Australia. For more information visit: https://pmgt.io/about/

170: Mysterium.Network with Jaro Šatkevic Jul 17, 2020

Jaro Šatkevic is the head of Product at Mysterium.Network an open-source project that built the world's first decentralized VPN. We cover the ways in which everyday people's data is vulnerable on the current version of the internet and how to better safeguard digital footprints. Some surprising insights into censorship, digital discrimination, and more online injustice are brought to light as well as solutions with their platform and others.

BCS Ethereum Show 2: Kosala Hemachandra - MyEtherWallet Jul 10, 2020

Kosala Hemachandra is the founder of MyEtherWallet, a safe, free, open-source wallet that puts you in control of your private keys as the nexus for all interactions on the Ethereum blockchain. This episode includes:

How crypto wallets have evolved and where MEW's heading
Why MEW sees mobile as the next wave of financial inclusion
ETH 2.0
How his quick visit to see his family in Sri Lanka means he's running his company while locked down at his parent's home indefinitely

169: IoTeX with Raullen Chai and Larry Pang Jul 01, 2020

IoTeX has been recognized for using blockchain for a use case that makes sense: decoupling the identity of devices from users and issuing decentralized accounts to serve as access controls and logins for IoT devices.

168: Securrency with Dan Doney Jun 27, 2020

Dan Doney Co-Founded Securrency in 2015 and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Lead Architect of Securrency’s comprehensive, cutting-edge technology. Dan is a recognized expert in software development, artificial intelligence, process automation, cybersecurity, dynamic asset pricing, and enterprise architecture. Dan served as the Chief Innovation Officer of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and is the recipient of the 2014 Fierce 15 award as a top government change agent. Dan holds degrees from the U.S. Naval Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

TBCS Ethereum Show 1: Back to Basics, Flipping Bitcoin Jun 26, 2020

Steve and Joey host a spinoff of The Blockchain Show called The Ethereum Show. The original concept for the podcast dates back to 2016 with Steve and Ethan going forward instead with The Blockchain Show. As interest in new developments in regards to Ethereum surge, Steve reclaims the hosting throne this time with his friend Joey to shed some light on the Ether side of things. Ethan joins briefly to recount the early days of The Blockchain Show and Steve later breaks down decentralization and unforeseen use cases of Ethereum to Joey.

167: RealT with David Hoffman Jun 11, 2020

David Hoffman is Co-Founder and COO of RealT, the platform for tokenizing property ownership in the United States. RealT’s platform allows investors to earn daily dividends on a fractional, tokenized basis.

166: Fold with Will Reeves Jun 04, 2020

Will Reeves is CEO of Fold, and a tech entrepreneur with expertise in developing payments solutions. Will continues to work as Head of Payments at Thesis with previous experience as Venture Lead at A3Ventures and Co-founder of Membo. Of note, Will also was part of the early team that brought the Google Store to market, and he led the vision for the cult project, Lightning Pizza, the first real-world service using the bitcoin Lightning Network that allows customers to order Dominos Pizza anywhere in the U.S. with bitcoin.

The Fold app, now available on Android and iOS, allows shoppers to earn bitcoin rewards back (up to 20%) on credit card and lightning purchases when shopping at merchants like Amazon, Target, Starbucks, Uber, Airbnb, and more. Users can spend these rewards on their next purchase, save for later use, or withdraw to a personal wallet.

165: DigitalMint with Marc Grens May 31, 2020

Marc Grens is an investor, Fin Tech expert, and the Co-Founder and President of DigitalMint, the leading Bitcoin point-of-sale provider in the USA.

164: O(1) Labs and Coda Protocol with Evan Shapiro May 27, 2020

Evan Shapiro is the CEO and Co-Founder of O(1) Labs, the team behind Coda Protocol. Coda swaps the traditional blockchain for a tiny cryptographic proof, enabling a cryptocurrency as accessible as any other app or website. This makes it dramatically easier to develop user friendly crypto apps that run natively in the browser, and enables more inclusive, sustainable consensus.

163: Climate Futures and 1PLANET with Jesse Uzzelle May 06, 2020

Jesse Uzzell is CEO and Founder of Climate Futures, the organization behind 1Planet. They are empowering individuals and businesses to take climate action in their daily lives by enabling access to global carbon markets.

162: Asensys with Michelle Chuang Apr 28, 2020

Michelle Chuang is COO of Asensys, a new-generation, high performance system that brings throughput and capacity to a new, scalable level.

Just how they are solving blockchain's scalability problem, AI and blockchain tech will power internet 3.0, what Asynchronous Consensus Zones are, and how the new age of the internet will help humanity stay secure in the post COVID-19 era are answered in this episode.

161: Cypherium with Sky Guo Apr 15, 2020

Sky Guo is the CEO at Cypherium, a highly scalable and robust smart contract platform. Their design features a joint Proof-of-Work (PoW) and HotStuff (Also adopted by Facebook's Libra) consensus mechanism that can achieve thousands of transactions per second without sacrificing decentralization. Cypherium also implements a Turing-complete virtual machine for smart contracts that runs on Java, the most widely-utilized and reliable programming language in the world. This enables democratization of the development of smart contracts and lowers the barrier to blockchain adoption for existing enterprise.

160: Zcoin with Reuben Yap Apr 10, 2020

Reuben Yap is the project steward for Zcoin, a global privacy-first digital currency. They are taking privacy to the next level with untraceable coins.

Reuben's background in corporate law specializing in institutional frameworks as a lawyer, combined with his strong advocacy for online and financial privacy provides great insights into the future of cryptocurrencies and privacy.

He talks about the merits of untraceable transactions and how Zcoin facilitates it, why privacy is a fundamental human right, and some other privacy and crypto-related use cases such as verifying elections on the blockchain.

159: Bitfinex with Paolo Ardoino Apr 03, 2020

Paolo Ardoino is the CTO at Bitfinex. He explains some new projects they are working on at one of the world's biggest crypto exchange, how IEO's are still alive and well, the Bitcoin Lightning network, how they bounced back from 2016's hack, the Halvening, and more.

158: LGO with Hugo Renaudin / Digital Asset Exchange for Institutions Mar 30, 2020

Hugo Renaudin is the CEO and co-founder of LGO, the leading digital asset exchange for institutions and the biggest institution exchange in Europe.

157: Solve.Care with Pradeep Goel Mar 23, 2020

Pradeep Goel is the CEO of Solve.Care, a global healthcare blockchain technology company using innovative approaches to solve the complex problems that plague healthcare around the world.

Pradeep has deep expertise in healthcare, human services, finance, and technology. Before taking the reins at Solve.Care, he has been passionate about designing and building solutions for public programs, such as Medicaid, the Children Health Insurance Program, Medicare, SNAP/TANF, the Child Welfare Program, and other health insurance and health information exchanges over the past 26 years.

156: Orbs with Danny Brown-Wolf Mar 19, 2020

Danny Brown-Wolf is the Head of Partnerships and Strategy at Orbs, an enterprise blockchain solution allowing companies to prove responsibility with data through a public blockchain as a neutral third party way of verifying data.

155: SolidBlock and Women in Block with Yael Tamar Mar 05, 2020

Yael Tamar is the CMO and partner at SolidBlock the company behind the world's first commercial tokenization. She is a thought leader on this topic and the future of real estate financing. She also founded Women in Block.

154: BearTax with Vamshi Vangapally Mar 02, 2020

Vamshi is the CEO and co-founder of BearTax. He joins Ethan to explain how his team's software is helping cryptocurrency traders file taxes with ease and confidence.

With tax season upon us, learn the IRS's latest stance on crypto and what that means for investors and businesses. Also why it's crucial to classify cryptocurrency income appropriately, both gains and losses, and how accurate record keeping goes a long way. Vamshi speaks to why this is so and some of the advantages of their smart matching program across multiple exchange platforms. Users can even go backwards to update previous returns and become current on back taxes.

153: Ampleforth with Evan Kuo Feb 28, 2020

Ethan is joined by Evan Kuo from Ampleforth, for a exploration into the potential of DeFi - Decentralized Finance.

Today's decentralized assets, such as Bitcoin and ETH, can be seen as the primitive building blocks for tomorrow's DeFi use-cases. These include lending, debt, and synthetic equities, however, we quickly come to a realization of their inherent limitations. Evan breaks down how their limitations are due to their high correlation to each other and why they bring about the need for extreme overcollateralization and the risk of autoliquidation.

This brings up a big problem in crypto that not many are addressing. The diversification of these primitive building blocks will be required for DeFi to reach its potential. Hypercorrelation is a huge problem, one that threatens the very viability of cryptocurrency.

Further topics covered in this episode:

The AMPL is a decentralized commodity-money like Bitcoin, but with near perfect supply-elasticity like fiat.
Its protocol automatically increases or decreases the quantity of tokens each user holds in response to 24 hr volume weighted price by adjusting a global scalar variable (similar to a gravitational constant or coefficient of expansion).
Because traders of this coin realize gains and losses in quantity as well as price, the protocol introduces a fundamentally new set of incentives--requiring profit-maximizing users to trade in a different manner.
Ultimately, unique behavior in response to these incentives creates a new different movement pattern, resulting in lower correlation with bitcoin and floating price assets today.

152: CryptoTrader.Tax Feb 17, 2020

David Kemmerer is the CEO and Co-Founder at CryptoTrader.Tax the largest cryptocurrency tax reporting software in the U.S.

With the new cryptocurrency question on the IRS 1040 Schedule 1, all U.S. taxpayers will, for the first time, be asked to declare crypto on their income tax return.

David speaks to where the IRS is in regard to cryptocurrency and where this space is heading.

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