Podcasts about public blockchains

In this episode, we unpack Paradigm's groundbreaking 2025 report, “TradFi Tomorrow: DeFi and the Rise of Extensible Finance,” with Paradigm's Dan Robinson and Justin Slaughter. We explore the stunning stat that 66% of traditional financial institutions are actively engaged with DeFi—and what that really means. From tokenization and stablecoins to regulatory clarity and decentralized exchanges, this conversation dives deep into how Wall Street is already integrating with crypto. ------

In this episode of the Onchain Culture Podcast, we delve into the transformative potential of the Solana blockchain with Nick Ducoff, Head of Institutional Growth at Solana. We discuss Solana's unique technical capabilities, its growing appeal to major enterprises like Visa and PayPal, and its impact on the future of finance. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction & Disclaimer 3:45 Discussion on NFT Ticketing 6:03 Shift from Consumer to Enterprise Focus 9:59 Technical Innovations and Fire Dancer 12:02 Token Extensions and Permissioned Environments 17:08 Public Blockchains vs. Token Extensions 19:00 Institutional Growth Strategy 20:44 Success Stories and Ecosystem Support 21:45 Meme Coins and Institutional Perception 23:00 Stable Coins and Payment Innovations 30:37 Digital Money and Tokenized Deposits 32:54 Regulatory Clarity and Future Growth 34:55 Integrated Approach vs. Modularity 37:00 Composability and Financial Assets 39:02 Challenges for Solana in 2025 40:12 Personal Motivation and Vision 41:23 Conclusion and Contact Information What is the Digital Assets Season 2025? The Digital Assets Season (presented by w3.vision x Blockstories) is Europe's largest educational campaign on exploring the next drivers of institutional adoption in digital assets. From January to March 2025, 8 leading industry partners are hosting a 10-week immersive series designed to equip financial institutions with the strategies and playbooks needed to succeed in digital assets in 2025. Watch, read and participate in our events here: https://www.w3.vision/ Get in touch: Nick Ducoff: https://x.com/nickducoff Vicktoria Klich: www.linkedin.com/in/vicktoriaklich Maximilian Vargas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilian-vargas/ Relevant Links for the Digital Assets Season 2025: Podcast: https://www.onchainculture.xyz/ Newsletter: https://w3-news.beehiiv.com/ Event Calendar: https://lu.ma/DigitalAssetsSeason2025 Edited by: Viktor Foos: https://linktr.ee/viktorfoos

#tokenization #digitalassets #securitytoken   Tune in to this episode of the Security Token Show where this week Herwig Konings and Kyle Sonlin cover the industry leading headlines and market movements, including how tZERO, StegX, and Goldman Sachs are evolving the RWA Tokenization space! This week Jason Barraza had a chance to sit down with Daniel Radwansky from StegX, covering their multiple partnerships, both existing and upcoming. Meanwhile Kyle Sonlin got to interview Alan Konevsky from tZERO on their position in the market.   Company of the Week - Herwig: Goldman Sachs: https://www.goldmansachs.com/  Company of the Week - Kyle: DZ Bank: https://www.dzbank.com/     = Stay in touch via our Social Media = Kyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylesonlin/  Herwig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/herwigkonings/ Nico: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicopantelis/  Jason: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbarraza/  Opinion articles, interviews, and more: https://medium.com/security-token-group  Find the video edition of this episode on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@stmtvofficial    The Market Movements BlackRock's BUIDL Crosses $500M AUM: https://blockworks.co/news/securitize-ceo-on-tokenized-treasurys-growth   Goldman Sachs Plans Three Tokenization Projects for 2024: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/07/10/goldman-sachs-launch-tokenization-bitcoin-etfs-crypto-mcdermott/   KfW Issues €100M Bond on Polygon: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/government-owned-kfw-issues-e100m-crypto-digital-bond-on-polygon-blockchain/   ECB Trial DekaBank and DZ Bank Issue Two Tokenized Bonds via Clearstream: https://thetokenizer.io/2024/07/04/clearstream-dekabank-and-dz-bank-issue-tokenized-bonds-using-distributed-ledger-technology/   Digital Prime Technologies Launches RegD Offering via tZERO: https://www.accesswire.com/885848/digital-prime-technologies-launches-capital-raise-utilizing-tzero-securities-platform The Token Debrief   Tokenized RWAs Outperform Crypto in June 2024 - STM RWA Securities Market Update: https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/07/10/how-tokenized-real-world-assets-are-outperforming-crypto/    ABN AMRO Speaks on Public Blockchains: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/abn-amro-shares-why-it-uses-public-blockchain-for-bond-tokenization/    Bitwala Launches Tokenized Offering on Tokenize.it: https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/tokenize-it-launches-groundbreaking-bwala-security-token-offering/    MetaWealth Raises €2M at €50M Valuation: https://business-review.eu/business/global-investors-value-metawealth-at-eur-50-million-264375     FIX-FinP2P Alliance Launches for Interoperability with Global Digital Finance, FIX, and Ownera: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/gdf-fix-partner-for-tokenization-interoperability/    Jade City To Launch Tokenized Jade Marketplace, Announces $1.2M Open Round: https://alexablockchain.com/jade-city-launches-1-2m-seed-round/    Elmnts to Tokenize Oil Royalties on Solana: https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/solana-project-elmnts-wants-to-tokenize-oil-rights/  = Check out our Companies = Security Token Group: http://securitytokengroup.com/   Security Token Advisors: http://www.securitytokenadvisors.com/   Security Token Market: https://stm.co  InvestReady: https://www.investready.com   ⏰ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⏰ 0:16 Introduction 0:51 STS Interviews: StegX 8:18 The Market Movements 19:50 STS Interviews: tZERO 30:32 The Token Debrief 34:19 Companies of The Week: Goldman Sachs, DZ Bank

Episode Summary Jim Hiltner, Head of BD at Superstate, discusses the launch of their first product, a tokenized money market fund called USTB. The fund allows investors to tokenize shares and hold them in their own wallets, providing a more streamlined and composable experience. Hiltner explains that the fund is backed by ultra-short T-bills and offers a safe and high-yield investment option. He also highlights the importance of onboarding crypto-native investors and gradually expanding to other audiences. The goal is to educate and provide a comfortable and secure experience for institutional investors looking to enter the crypto space.  Superstate is focused on tokenizing traditional assets and building a bridge between traditional finance and decentralized finance (DeFi). They are working on bringing highly liquid instruments, such as treasury bills, onto the blockchain to provide investors with exposure to these assets. Superstate has formed the Superstate Industry Council, comprised of industry experts, to collaborate on expanding the availability of tokenized assets. They are also exploring advancements in the tech stack to create more compliant infrastructure in DeFi protocols, making it easier for institutions to interact with these protocols. Superstate is committed to building products that align with regulatory objectives and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the space.  Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:05 Introducing Superstate and Jim's Background  06:04 Superstate's First Product: USTB  10:36 Expanding the Surface Area of Tokenized Assets  14:41 The Next Wave of Assets to be Tokenized  25:19 Tokenizing Traditional Assets  26:34 Automating Processes and Reducing Friction  29:24 Expanding Product Offerings  34:15 Creating Compliant Infrastructure in DeFi  37:44 Building Institutional Products  43:01 Institutions Building on Public Blockchains  46:17 Improving the Front-End Experience  49:01 Unlocking Trillions of Dollars on Chain Connect with Jim and Superstate: X (Twitter): @HiltnerJim | @superstatefunds LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hiltner-cfa-87815482/ |https://www.linkedin.com/company/superstate/ Website: https://superstate.co To learn more about ATX DAO: Check out the ⁠ATX DAO ⁠website Follow ⁠@ATXDAO⁠ on X (Twitter) Connect with us on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Join the community in the ⁠ATX DAO Discord⁠ Connect with us on X (Twitter): Mason: ⁠@512mace⁠ Nick: ⁠@nickcasares⁠ Luke: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Luke152⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ash: ⁠@ashinthewild⁠ Support the Podcast: If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review and share it with your network. Subscribe for more insights, interviews, and deep dives into the world of Web 3. Tools & Resources We Love Podcast Recording & Editing - ⁠Riverside FM⁠: We use Riverside FM to record and edit our episodes. If you're interested in getting into podcasting or just recording remote videos, be sure to check them out! Keywords Superstate, tokenized money market fund, USTB, institutional investors, onboarding, yield, composability, Superstate, tokenization, traditional assets, decentralized finance, DeFi protocols, Superstate Industry Council, compliant infrastructure, regulatory objectives

In This Episode, The Friends Cover: • Google and Apple's potential AI partnership • How Meme coins have become a cultural phenomenon in the crypto market • A technical  analysis of Bitcoin • The transparency of crypto markets • The compression of time and the availability of new tools and platforms • The impact of inflation on the bond market • The lack of upside in the equities market  • Trade ideas for Reliance Industries and Solana • TikTok and its impact  — This episode is brought to you by Frec — Helping You Invest In The S&P 500 & Save On Taxes: https://frec.com/ — Skip Ahead: 00:00 Introduction and Swag Talk 02:50 Mike Tyson's Comeback Fight 04:26 Google Gemini May Partner With Apple   08:36 Howard Lost A Tooth 09:34 The Acceleration of AI 13:05 The Longevity of Nvidia 18:10 The Multi-Trillion Dollar Crypto Market and the Movement of Money 21:14 Solana and The Meme Coin Phenomenon 25:18 Crypto Markets 27:28 Dogwifhat and The Benefit of Public Blockchains  30:30 The Compression of Time  33:10 Changing The Rules 35:17 Risk and Risk Management 37:28 Inflation and the Bond Market 39:20 Interest Rates and Commodity Prices 41:12  Exposure to CRB 42:15 Best Performing Sectors 43:37 No Evidence That Interest Rates Are Going Down 45:17 Lack of Upside in Equities Market 46:20 Trade Idea: Reliance Industries 47:34 Trade Idea: Selling Solana 51:25 CoStar Group and The Real Estate Market 55:00 Price And Popularity 1:00:18 Post-AI Data 1:01:20 TikTok and its Impact 1:05:11 The Three Asset Classes (Maybe Four)  1:07:20 It's Spring Get The Fuck Outside — Referenced:  • Mike Tyson Fight - https://www.fastcompany.com/91058313/netflix-mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-fight-love-is-blind-sports • Tyler Denk - https://twitter.com/denk • Ram Ahluwalia - https://twitter.com/ramahluwalia • Solana - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/solana/ • SafeDeal (SFD) - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/safe-deal/ • DogWifHat Coin - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogwifhat/ • Nicky Montana - https://twitter.com/nickymontanaa • Comedy Cellar - https://www.comedycellar.com/ • Costar - https://www.costar.com/ • Eddy Elfenbein - https://twitter.com/EddyElfenbein • Steve Mnuchin's at it again - https://fortune.com/2024/03/16/why-does-steve-mnuchin-want-to-buy-tiktok-banking/ — Where To Find Howard and Friends: • Howard - https://stocktwits.com/howardlindzon • JC - https://stocktwits.com/allstarcharts • Phil - https://stocktwits.com/ppearlman • Production and Marketing - https://penname.co/ — All opinions expressed on this show are solely the opinions of the hosts' and guests' and do not reflect the opinions of Stocktwits, Inc. or its affiliates. The hosts are not SEC or FINRA registered advisors or professionals. The content of this show is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your financial advisor before making any investment decisions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/trends-with-friends/message

In crypto news today BlackRock is tokenizing investment funds on the Ethereum blockchain. Japan pension fund thinking of investing in bitcoin. Goldman Sachs bullish on public crypto blockchains.

Matt Walsh, Founding Partner of Castle Island Ventures, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on public blockchains, joins the inSecurities podcast to talk about the regulatory landscape and market structure challenges for entrepreneurs who are building #blockchain infrastructure and application companies. Matt also tells Chris and Kurt about his podcast, On the Brink, which explores the political, ethical, and economic significance of #Bitcoin and other public blockchains.

Nicholas is a serial start-up master, super successful entrepreneur and a former banker who has raised over US$92B in the public and private equity capital markets. With a career that includes working at Robert Fleming where he was a director of equity capital markets and head of technology private placements, as well as being a vice president at JPMorgan, Nicholas is a guy who has been at the very top of his field for over 25 years. His work has seen him co-start Crescent, a bayesian machine learning technology company as well as AdAstra, a systematic CTA Hedge fund which was sold to Aspect Capital. As well as advising on a wide array of businesses, Nicholas is the founder of Arkeytyp Holdings, Valu.Earth and Advisor to Verus.io. He manages a portfolio of Intellectual Property, Digital Assets in Blockchain software and secure hardware.In this episode, we discuss how cryptocurrency and blockchain technology and how it can be a massive set forward for humanity.In this episode, you'll discover:How brands can use cryptocurrency to transfer value and strengthen consumer relationshipsHow blockchain can cut out the middlemen and give us full ownership of our information and identityThe Importance of information in the digital worldWhy we need to move toward decentralization and how blockchain technology can helpHow Verus aims to be a scalable public infrastructure for the worldWho is Satoshi, the creator of BitcoinSign up for the Some Future Day Newsletter here: https://marcbeckman.substack.com/Nicholas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-lyons-20015230/Verus: https://verus.io/Valu. Earth: https://valu.earth/To join the conversation follow Marc here:YoutubeLinkedInTwitterInstagramMarc is a Senior Fellow of Emerging Technologies at NYU, the CEO of DMA United, and is on the New York State Bar Association's Taskforce for Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets.Some Future Day is produced and edited by Jon Bumhoffer at Make More Media

In this enlightening episode of "Web3 with Sam Kamani," we dive deep into the evolving world of blockchain and DeFi with our special guest, Akash Mahendra. As a pivotal figure behind Haven1 blockchain and Yield app, Akash shares valuable insights on their projects, challenges in the blockchain space, and the future of Web3. Time Stamps & Key Topics: [00:00:00] Introduction: Welcome Akash Mahendra [00:00:10] Overview of Haven1 and Yield App [00:00:18] Haven1: EVM Compatible Layer One Blockchain [00:00:29] Yield App's Role and Achievements [00:01:14] Haven1's Global Team Dynamics [00:01:54] Plans for Haven1 in 2024 and Market Predictions [00:03:15] Understanding Haven1's EVM Compatibility [00:04:26] Haven1's Unique Security Features [00:05:15] Differentiating Haven1 from Other L1 Blockchains [00:07:05] Institutional Engagement with DeFi on Public Blockchains [00:07:50] Future Trends: Increased Usage in Web3 and DeFi [00:10:39] The Role of Stablecoins in Blockchain Adoption [00:13:14] Encouraging Developer Adoption on Haven1 [00:17:24] Akash's Contrarian Views on Web3 and Centralization [00:20:51] Haven1's Vision for the Future [00:23:04] Strategies for Engaging Developers in Haven1 [00:25:07] Akash's Evolving Views on Web3 and DeFi [00:29:52] The Rapid Pace of Innovation in Web3 [00:31:15] Haven1's Community Engagement and Future Plans [00:34:20] Closing Remarks and Future Outlook for Haven1 Closing Thoughts: Join us as we explore the intricacies of Haven1's approach to a more secure and compliant blockchain solution, and how it aims to shape the future of digital finance. Don't miss this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of where the blockchain industry is heading from one of its key innovators. Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. Finally, I don't run ads on my podcast. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on ApplePodcasts or share this podcast with a friend. Connect with Akash and Haven1 here. https://www.linkedin.com/in/akash-mahendra-48541121a/ https://yield.app/blog/What-is-Haven1  Connect with me here - https://samkamani.com/#linktree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/web3podcast/message

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss an update on the FTX trial after week one in court, the influx of VC funding toward AI-based businesses, a macroeconomic crypto market analysis and potential upcoming catalysts, current enterprise interest and sentiment surrounding public blockchains, which chains these businesses are opting to build upon and why, impressive best seller accolades for Alex's new Web3 book, a news headline roundup, and more!

Welcome to the Big Ideas Monday Miniseries, brought to you by the For Your Innovation Podcast. Big Ideas is meant to enlighten investors on the long-term impact of innovation. This annual research report seeks to highlight the technological breakthroughs evolving today and creating the potential for super-exponential growth tomorrow. We believe that innovation is taking off now, corroborating our original research and boosting our confidence that ARK's strategies are on the right side of change. To learn more, view Big Ideas 2023. This week's Big Ideas Monday Mini Episode focuses on Public Blockchains. In 2022, the contagion from Terra/LUNA, Three Arrows Capital, Celsius, and FTX/Alameda wiped out ~$1.5 Trillion in crypto market capitalization. Despite the severe downturn, public blockchains continue to foster The Monetary, Financial, And Internet Revolutions. The long-term opportunity for Bitcoin, DeFi, and Web3 is strengthening. Cryptocurrencies and smart contracts could command $20 trillion and $5 trillion in market value, respectively, during the next ten years. Sources: ARK Investment Management LLC, 2023. Forecasts are inherently limited and cannot be relied upon. For informational purposes only and should not be considered investment advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any particular or cryptocurrency security. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Pat and Rafael dive into the world of Web3 with Jared Klee, Director of Web3 at Vouch. From on-chain verifiable credentials to tax returns, we uncover the potential impact of Web3 on accounting workflows and discuss how companies can leverage these advancements to streamline their accounting processes.Get NASBA Approved CPE or IRS Approved CELaunch the course on EarmarkCPE to get free CPE for listening to this episode.Checkout the Bitwave channel on Earmark to get even more CPEChapters(00:00) - CWA E6 (00:34) - Introducing our Guest Jared Klee (01:29) - How did you get into Web3 and start your career? (09:51) - How do you think Private vs. Public Blockchains have changed? (15:54) - What is it going to take for the supply chain to get distributed by crypto? (26:48) - What is the hardest part of ensuring Web Three Companies? (38:01) - What is some advice you would give accountants on how to advise their clients? (46:59) - What gets you excited about Web3 recently? Connect with our guest, Jared Kleelinkedin.com/in/jared-klee/twitter.com/KleeBeardConnect with Patlinkedin.com/in/patwhitetwitter.com/patwhiteConnect with Rafaellinkedin.com/in/rafaelcasastwitter.com/RafaelCasasBWFollow the Crypto With Accountants Podcastfacebook.com/CryptoAcctsPodtwitter.com/CryptoAcctsPodlinkedin.com/showcase/cryptoacctspodLeave a review on Apple Podcasts or PodchaserSubscribe to the Crypto With Accountants Podcast in your favorite podcast app!This podcast is a production of the Earmark Media

#blockchain #tokenization #SecurityTokens   Tune in to this episode of the Security Token Show where this week Kyle Sonlin and Herwig Konings talk about Private & Public Blockchains!   Herwig's Company of the Week: Citi: https://www.citi.com/   Kyle's Company of the Week: Satif: https://www.satifgroup.com/about    = Stay in touch via our Social Media = Kyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylesonlin/ Herwig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/herwigkonings/ Opinion articles, interviews, and more: https://medium.com/security-token-group Find the video edition of this episode on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTKdeN3ElyPeqtROWUp0CmQ   All articles that were discussed were sourced from https://STOmarket.com/news    Check out our medium blog for more news!   #STSTOP5 Articles of the Week   Credit Agricole Blockchain Bond Network: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/credit-agricole-cib-seb-blockchain-bond/   STA Success Network Launch: https://www.securities.io/sta-looks-to-further-fuel-growing-interest-in-digital-securities-with-success-network/   UBS Cross-Border Trade Using Blockchain: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ubs-executes-first-cross-border-113000635.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKmPKWwlklGGYgfP32Mt2p_pD_odENqB4bYiwf-pLAFTSddhwzCclpC0vpZ422i48lLdYe3nkMrM_B-fT_d5tBv1zOe3yq0YXXX4G1KGYco_lh4FaB37LWllflccN_zzuFSiQf2V0WdDV9XuKiVEkCFQgrR-6_gE48KQG7TANgsb   JPX Invests in Nomura's BOOSTRY Platform: https://www.marketsmedia.com/jpx-invests-in-security-tokens-platform/   Greenbrier Capital Lists on INX for Trading: https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/inx-is-first-to-convert-traditional-stock-shares-of-public-company-to-fully-regulated-tokenized-shares-301787811.html?tc=eml_cleartime   Institutional Update   UBS: https://www.broadridge.com/press-release/2023/ubs-executes-intraday-repo-trade-on-broadridge-dlr-platform   Equity Shift: https://equityshift.com/   Market Update:    INX: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/inx-is-first-to-convert-traditional-stock-shares-of-public-company-to-fully-regulated-tokenized-shares-301787797.html   JPX: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/42082/jpx-takes-stake-in-nomura-led-blockchain-business-boostry   = Check out our Companies = Security Token Group: http://securitytokengroup.com/  Security Token Advisors: http://www.securitytokenadvisors.com/  Security Token Market: https://stm.co InvestReady: https://www.investready.com   ⏰ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⏰ 0:49 Introduction: Private & Public Blockchains 1:58 Credit Agricole, STA Success Network, UBS, JPX, Greenbrier Capital on INX Trading | STSTOP5 6:02 UBS, Equity Shift | Institutional Updates 8:26 INX, JPX | Market Updates 10:17 Main Topic: Private & Public Blockchains 20:53 Companies of The Week: Citi, SATIF

Marcos Placona, Director of Developer Relations, at Circle, joins us to share his thoughts on how developer evangelism has changed over the years, as well as his opinions on Web3.

In the first episode of our new season of Web3 Innovators, our host Conor Svensson is joined by Paul Brody, Global Blockchain Leader at EY where he drives EY's initiatives and investments in blockchain technology across consulting, audit, and tax business lines.Paul is also a Board Member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and prior to working at EY was Vice President and Global Industry Leader of Electronics at IBM.Episode highlights:The prototype system, ‘Adapt' that Paul built and how IBM not wishing to take it further inspired him to leave and join EYHis role in developing blockchain within the organisationWhy Paul is such an advocate for public blockchainWhy there is a lack of privacy with public blockchains and the problems this causesThe reasons you can't migrate applications built on private blockchain to publicWhy he sees blockchain as transformational technologyThe issues around forming and working with a consortiumThe differences between permission and permissionless blockchain and the problems Paul sees with permissionedThe key differentiators between trust anchors and trusted third partiesThe two initiatives; Nightfall and Starlight Paul is currently working onHow Paul believes the future landscape for Web3 technologies will lookKey Takeaways:We had created this product, we had pitched it to IBM leadership and they were not interested. They didn't want to go any further than the prototype, and that was at the point where I parted company with IBM because I wanted to do this. - PaulWe see this over and over again, people created these centrally run private blockchain business models and they just didn't work. - PaulWe've had this vision of a value proposition where you can basically take any kind of business application and run it on a public blockchain, any kind of B2B transaction. But the reality has been that we can't do it. - PaulThere will be many stablecoin firms, there will be many audit firms, there will be many external data sources at Oracles. We will have to decide to trust some of them in how we build our transactions, but none of them will become central intermediaries. None of them will become monopolists. None of them will have overwhelming power in the ecosystem. - PaulMy goal is that in January of 2023 we will launch the first production versions of both Nightfall and Starlight as production betas on the public Ethereum main net. - PaulWhat's really cool about X.509 certificates is they are themselves public open standards supported by many different third party providers. So nightfall will remain truly public and permissionless. - PaulResources:Connect with Us Join the Web3 Innovators community and engage with like-minded individuals passionate about the potential of blockchain technology.Contact Web3 Labs:Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Discord | Tiktok • Explore Web3 Labs: Web3 Labs specialise in web3 solutions for enterprise. • Email Web3 Labs • Get Conor's latest thoughts on Web3 and where we're headed.

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wclittle) continue my Product and Code series to discuss first - on the product side - why and how blockchains can be used to create digital products. I also show - on the code side - how to instantiate a variable in a Ruby on Rails controller to display it in an associated view file. In the product section I discuss Yuga Labs' https://mdvmm.xyz/ and explain why you - as a Web3 product manager - should be following Yuga's strategies carefully to learn how to apply similar principles for your own products.Visit https://satchel.works/@wclittle/ventures-episode-134 for more information. You can watch this episode via video here.  0:03 - Tee-up for the episode, product and code things, curriculum doc → https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mRGdU5JCOl96ywR6sSvAiae7W8sDxFhkih5mdqrGitM/edit# 0:27 - Product: What product managers need to know about Web3 - why build on a blockchain? Difference between Yuga Labs and an airline (e.g. NFTs vs. airline miles)  3:11 - Code: Ruby on Rails controllers, setting a variable in a method, adding it in a index.html.erb view to change our “Hello World” to “Hello, World”

In the fourth episode of our new season of Web3 Innovators, our host Conor Svensson is joined by Carlos Vivaus Augier, Senior Principal Engineer / Director (Innovation & Research) at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).DTCC and its family of companies serve as the premier post-trade market infrastructure in the industry, advancing the automation, centralization, standardisation and streamlining of processes critical to the markets' safety and soundness.Carlos has worked as a Blockchain advisor for Tier 1 and large corporations from Finance, Energy, Health and Retail industries. He was awarded 2nd place in a national level blockchain hackathon and he co-authored two Blockchain books with top experts from the space.Episode highlights:How Carlos became involved in the space How platforms integrate with Ethereum The regulatory frameworkWhat goes on chain vs what stays offCarlos' view on blockchain's impact on the industryKey Takeaways:“Our goal is that this platform is able to support multiple networks or operate on multiple networks.”  - Carlos“So this is, I guess to some extent the first time that you would see users have the possibility to mint a security to an Ethereum main net so it could introduce efficiencies in secondary market where investors who directly hold those securities in their wallets are able to instruct transactions directly from their wallet on the blockchain.”  - Carlos“It's better, as an enterprise with a highly regulated environment, to be conservative on how we use it and how we protect our clients and our users.” - Carlos“The important thing here is that the challenge is not necessarily how you're exchanging those assets, it is whether or not you're compliant with the rules of that asset.”  - Carlos“What I like about the main net is not the fact that it's a public blockchain, it's the fact that it's a common infrastructure that could be used and that it works a hundred percent uptime, right since it started.” - CarlosResources:DTCCDigital Securities Management (DSM)OpinnioEthereum MainnetEnterprise Ethereum AllianceCommercializing Blockchain➡️ Remember to leave us a 5* review and we'd love to hear your comments too!➡️ Follow Web3 Labs on Twitter➡️ Follow Web3 Labs on LinkedIn➡️ Follow Conor on Twitter➡️ Get Conor's latest thoughts on Web3 at https://writing.conorsvensson.com/

Nach 175 Episoden Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock'n'Roll ist es endlich soweit und es gibt eine Episode mit dem Schwerpunkt Decentralized Finance (DeFi), die sowohl für Anfänger als auch Fortgeschrittene interessant ist. Alexander Bechtel hat sich hierfür niemand geringeren als Prof. Fabian Schär eingeladen. Fabian Schär ist Professor für Distributed Ledger Technology und FinTech an der Uni Basel. Er hat zum Thema Kryptoassets und Blockchain Economics promoviert und ein Buch geschrieben namens «Bitcoin, Blockchain und Kryptoassets». Fabian publiziert regelmäßig wissenschaftliche Papier, u.a. auch ein Papier zu DeFi, welches in der Review der Federal Reserve Bank von St. Louis veröffentlicht wurde. Er ist nicht nur bei Zentralbanken, sondern auch in Arbeitsgruppen beim World Economic Forum oder der OECD ein gern gesehener Ratgeber und Diskussionspartner. Fabian und Alexander hangeln sich entlang Fabians Definition von Decentralized Finance: «Decentralized Finance nutzt Public Blockchains und Smart Contracts, um Protokolle für Finanzapplikationen zu bauen, die folgende Eigenschaften haben: sie sind offen, transparent, kombinierbar und non-custodial». So schaffen es die beiden einen umfänglichen Einblick in das Thema zu geben, ohne die aktuellen Schwächen und Nachteile aus den Augen zu verlieren. Am Ende erweitern Fabian und Alexander die Diskussion und sprechen über interessante Forschungsergebnisse zum Thema Grundstückspreise im Metaverse, denn Fabian hat zu diesem Thema ein spannendes Forschungspapier mit interessanten Ergebnisse geschrieben. Falls ihr euch schon immer gefragt habt, was genau es mit Decentralized Finance auf sich hat und warum Menschen so viel Geld für Grundstücke im Metaverse ausgeben, dann hört unbedingt in die aktuelle Episode von Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock'n'Roll. Viel Spaß!

Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news Brought to you by watchthiscards.com Bitcoin is up slightly at $31,736 Ethereum is up slightly at $1976 and Binance Coin is up slightly at $320 Cardano up 25% Axie infinity up 25% Aave up 17% Singapore's MAS announces plans to research use cases for DeFi on public blockchains. Terra's Mirror Protocol suffered a 90M exploit Korean prosecutors launch official investigation of TerraUSD. B2B buy now pay later solution Mondu has raised 43M

In der sechzehnten Folge "Irgendwas mit Krypto" sprechen Philipp Sandner und Simon Seiter darüber, was aus den Initiativen zu permissioned blockchain-Systemen wurde und überlegen, was die größten Hindernisse für den Erfolg dieser Systeme sind. Kapitel: 0:00 Intro 0:30 Simons Hauptkritikpunkt an permissioned blockchains 6:45 Wer verbessert die Blockchain? 11:42 Wer ist für Governance zuständig? 18:00 Public Blockchains - die Natur des Staates? 22:00 Elektronisches Wertpapiergesetz und public blockchains Philipp Sandner LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippsandner Twitter: @philippsandner Johannes Blassl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-johannes-sebastian-blassl-432535114 Simon Seiter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-seiter Twitter: @simonlseiter

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Dr. Thomas Hardjono, CTO of Connection Science and Technical Director of the MIT Trust-Data Consortium. Dr. Hardjono discusses interoperability between DLT networks and the implementation of gateway mechanisms as a potential solution. Be sure to subscribe to The Encrypted Economy for more perspective on the progress in blockchain and the revolutionary technologies allowing its adoption.  Topics Covered:·       Introduction·       Thomas' Background·       The Evolution of Layer 1 Public Blockchains·       Discussing Interoperability Architecture for DLT Gateways·       Differentiating Gateways from Bridging·       Is ODAP Uniquely Suited to Gateways?·       Implementing the Gateway Function Within Bridging Networks ·       Using Bridge to Facilitate Enclosed Systems·       Comparing Constructs in Terms of AML Compliance·       Significance of Logged Data for Verification·       Discussing Cryptography and Limitations in Gateways ·       What are Some of the Challenges?Resource List:·       Thomas' LinkedIn·       Thomas' Twitter·       Interoperability Architecture for DLT Gateways·       DLT Networks·       TRISA·       Internet Engineering Task Force·       Kerberos·       CryptoKitties·       Wanchain Episode·       Open Digital Asset Protocol·       Visa Universal Payment Hub Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms! Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Facebook      

Short for decentralized finance, DeFi is an umbrella term for peer-to-peer financial services on public blockchains. But is this sector the one you were looking for and how it is different from centralized finance? Tune in to know with host Srijan Bharadwaj.

Live from Breakpoint 2021, Ali Yahya (a16z) moderates a discussion about wallets, custody and the User Control Layer with Brandon Millman (Phantom), Filip Dragoslavic (Solrise) and Maria Phillips (Slope Finance). 00:10 - Intro02:32 - Custodial vs. Non-custodial models for keys holding07:11 - Education is key11:37 - Building on top of user-controlled layers16:48 - Unbundling Wallets20:04 - Mobile vs. Desktop  Ali (00:10):All right, welcome everyone. So today we have a great panel to talk about the user control layer. So everything that has to do with UX, interfaces, wallets, how people use their private keys to interact with blockchains, and how all of that plays into web 3.0, and the things that are being built in DeFi, NFTs, et cetera. And we've got only 20 minutes, unfortunately, which is an egregiously short period of time to cover such a meaty topic, but excited for it. It's going to be a great conversation. I'm going to start by letting our panelists, maybe introduce themselves. Maybe one minute kind of introduction, and then we can dive in. Does that sound good?Filip (00:50):That sounds good. I'm Filip from Solflare. We actually built the first wallet on solana. That was actually before magnet, July last year. And Solflare was the first taking wallet, and right now we have over 20% of solana circling supplies stake through Solflare, and we are expanding onto all platforms. We have a web browser, we have a browser extension. We just launched mobile on Friday. And we are just looking to give all our users the opportunity to access Solflare from whichever platform they want to. And that's what we're all about.Brandon (01:37):Hey, everyone, I'm, I'm Brandon Millman. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Phantom. Just got started back in May, and it's just been such an awesome journey. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone in the audience and listening back at home for helping support us on this journey, and to hit 1 million users recently. Each and one of you are one in a million to me, so really appreciate it.Maria (02:03):Hi everyone. I'm Maria Phillips with Slope Finance, I'm head of communications. Slope Finance was the first mobile wallet on solana and we have over 150,000 downloads and an MAU of 95%. We are mobile first. Yeah, fantastic. Delighted to be here today.Ali (02:23):Amazing. Well, thank you guys. Well, let's start with, I think one of the basic questions about how user interfaces should interact with a blockchain. And that is the question of whether the keys should be held by the user, or if those keys should be held, or might be held by a company in the middle, like say a company like Coinbase or a company like that, where that would be kind of a custodial model versus having things being non-custodial and sitting at the edges. And I think we all kind of know what the ethos of this space is, but of course there are many trade offs. And so I'm curious to talk through how you guys think about those trade offs, and what are the kinds of things that we can do to empower the user as much as we possibly can.Filip (03:04):There's two different approaches like custodial and noncustodial. Noncustodial is in a true spirit of crypto where you actually control the keys. You control their finances and no one can actually take it away from you. I talked to someone from Algeria and he told me how important that is for them.Ali (03:24):Yeah.Filip (03:25):Since I don't live in a country like that, I didn't know that's so important for them because at one point in time, someone can actually get something from the bank account, they lose everything. But on the other hand, all people are actually used to, don't have that responsibility of just holding all their finances with them. So we have bank accounts, we trust banks with our money and it's going to be a long road to educate old people, to get from the custodial to the non-custodial thing. And I don't think that it's ever going to happen in a big way, but as all crypto people here are, we are like early adopters and we want to try new things, but the vast majority will always stay non-custodial. And there's always going to be those two approaches.Ali (04:19):Yeah. Makes sense. What do you think, Brandon?Brandon (04:22):Yeah, I'll start off by saying that at Phantom, our goal is to make the decentralized web safe and easy to use for everyone. And you know, what that means is expanding past like the very small number of users we have now to tens of millions and billions in the future. But you know, the thing is that giving private keys directly to users, is sort of akin to giving them keys to like a super car Ferrari, it's like super powerful, but not everyone needs all that power. And I'll say, actually, I think there's actually more than just this dichotomy of like non-custodial and custodial. It is actually a bit of a range of different techniques that are kind of somewhat in the middle. So I think there's things like social recovery, multi-party computation, premier secret sharing, tourists, those sort of things. And I think all of those techniques have not really been given the chance to really been taken to their like full extent. So yeah, we're really excited to kind of explore a lot of those options and sort of bring more custodial flavor, to non custodial tools.Maria (05:32):When we look at our user base, okay, number one, India, number two, US and number three, Malaysia. Everyone of our customers really are accessing via mobile, and that onboarding, and that access is a huge concern to us to make it as easy as possible. So we are looking at different innovations in this space. And especially because we're looking at being the gateway from web 2.0 to web 3.0, and being able to link activities in decentralized identity is what we're calling it. Being able to identify people in specific ways, according to their activities. And hopefully we're going to use that to lower the access and entry barrier for our customers to make it as easy as possible. And a better experienceFilip (06:16):Just wanted to add that actually education is so important and just getting people to know how crypto actually works and why is it so good for them? That's actually one of the things that, what we actually launched our sulfur academy. So we have blogs and guides to capture the users and tell them, okay, this is how works. Because there's a lot of scams out there. I mean, we both know that because before we actually launched mobile, we have caught three fake wallets. We actually met one of the developers who made those fake wallets reached out to us. And told us, oh, I'm so happy that you're using our wallet at the wallet that I made. And he was actually commissioned by someone else to produce fake wallets for Solflare and Phantom. So that was mind blown to us. He felt so bad, but he didn't know that. And so education is key actually to preventing users, for getting scammed and actually get so burnt that they say, oh, okay, all crypto is a scam. So that's why...Ali (07:22):I think this point of education is really good because I think there are two philosophies in this space. One of them is crypto wants to be seen. This is a line from Cavan, who's a founder of foundation. And his view is over time, people should become aware of what crypto is. People should become aware of the way that private keys work. They should become aware of the fact that holding your own private key is very different than signing into a web 2.0 service. And that's one philosophy that these things will become front and center. And that education will be a big piece of this and that you actually, as an application developer, should not be trying to hide it away, right. That you should not be trying to fully abstract it such that the user actually does not know anymore that they're interacting with a blockchain.Ali (08:05):And then a different philosophy would be more like a product and a very pragmatic point of view, which is people have a very hard time understanding how all of this works. And so instead, what you should do is you should abstract it away. You should make it look as much like a web 2.0 thing as possible, so that you can get people on board. And then over time, maybe you shift towards a more kind of web 3.0 native user pattern. And those are two very different ways of building a product. And I'm curious how you guys think about that. I mean, your point about education, how do you think about education?Filip (08:38):Yeah, I think educating users is actually the key to it. I mean, they don't need to know like 90% of it.Ali (08:45):Yeah.Filip (08:45):It's totally fine if they do the very basics and if they interact with, for example, much more complicated protocols, they don't need to know what goes on in the background.Ali (08:55):Right.Filip (08:55):But they need to know when the app says, okay, you're now signing a transaction, what end means on the blockchain. And this is the only thing that they should know. And we should actually push as an industry, users to educate themselves just in those basics.Brandon (09:15):I feel like none of us here really know what the final conclusion of all of this web 3.0 tech is really going to look like. And I think we're just so early in the vast majority of people who are going to use these centralized technologies have not really used it yet.Ali (09:30):Yeah.Brandon (09:30):But I agree. User education is super important. Support is another thing that we've seen that's super important. Unfortunately, the status quo nowadays is to kind of throw everyone into this zoo of a discord and let whatever happen. And unfortunately, a lot of projects basically just turn a blind eye to what happens in there. All these scams happen, people get DMed and whatever. So yeah, I think we really all need to take a much more user focused approach, not just in the applications themselves, but in, around just all of the surrounding infrastructure, support, education, et cetera.Ali (10:06):Yeah.Maria (10:07):Financial literacy and traditional financial services isn't great either to be honest.Ali (10:11):Yeah.Maria (10:12):But I do see this whole e-commerce space that we're involved in and looking at, I think that is a way to bring people into the space to understand it better.Ali (10:20):Yeah.Maria (10:21):If they start using cryptocurrencies or if they start using this in their normal daily shopping or activities, this is a way for them to understand that it's safe. You know, I paid for something, I got it. Yay. This is good. That's a real great way for them to understand and onboard in a really low level way, but get there.Ali (10:41):Completely.Filip (10:42):I just wanted to touch on the topic that Brandon actually mentioned, with support. We both did in our discords, people get scammed and stuff like that. So we tried everything. So we take this try and see what works approach. So we tried with telegram, we tried with discord. Yep. But people always get scammed. So I think we're launching periods to our live chat support on the website, but it's always like this fine line of, okay, how do you actually provide the users the best experience, but that they also feel still completely anonymous. It all depends on that fine line, and we need to see what works best actually.Ali (11:22):Completely. Well I think this actually segues well into how a user control layer application like a wallet or other kind of applications at that layer enable developers to build on top of them. Right. And I think that there's another kind of spectrum of different schools of thought or different approaches in that world as well, where you can think of meta mask or the kind of wallet that is very un-opinionated about how developers build things on top, as being on one end of the spectrum where you can really just sign anything using meta mass, you can sign just a binary blob because it doesn't provide you with very much context as to what it is that you're doing. And it's really on the developer to inform you as to what you're signing actually is.Ali (12:18):And then on the other end of the spectrum, can be much more opinionated about how the wallet integrates with specific applications, such that the wallet itself, the team who builds the wallet itself might integrate directly with a protocol that does lending. One example on ethereum world would be compound, you integrate with compound directly. And then there's a whole spectrum in the middle where a wallet could provide the tools for developers to build applications for it that are standard. And that give a little bit more structure and context for what that integration should look like, but it's not done by the team itself. And it enables an ecosystem to kind of emerge, to improve what the user experience might look like by enabling them to do things in a way that's more structured. So I think we need certain standards that help us build these applications in a way that are intuitive. And I'm curious how you guys think about this factor, or if you agree with it and, and where you guys kind of land on it philosophically.Brandon (13:19):Sure. Yeah. I can lead. Again, I'll preface everything by saying that we're in this mass experimentation phase where a lot of things are still being figured out. That being said, I feel like some of the walls that you've alluded to that have done more plugin type architecture. So namely origin, I feel like have sort of been left in the past a little bit, just because they were not really able to keep up with the explosion of all of these permissionless daps.Ali (13:50):Yep.Brandon (13:51):And, therefore were not really able to sort of participate in the network effect that gets created between daps and the users of those wallets. And so our opinion right now is to keep it very permissionless. Keep the current model going, as it has a lot of momentum and all of that. But again, that being said, I feel like we still have yet to see the final conclusion of all this, so things are always changingFilip (14:19):There's different trade offs between both approaches because if you integrated directly into the wallet, so firstly, the UX is going to be way better. And you could actually provide safe haven for all those new users because the permissionless world is the wild west. So you have like five great applications, you have five applications that will actually scam your money, so you could actually protect them. But on the other hand, you actually are gate keeping with your wallet. So this is why the panel is called whole user control layer. So the wallet actually dictates to which application the user can actually connect. And this may not always be in the best interest of the user because maybe that wallet has, for example, a business model with the dap that they have. So this is one part of it, in a permissionless system, the other thing applies.Filip (15:22):So there's inherent risk. And if we're going that way, then we need to go back to the previous topic and that is education. So if we educate them, then it's completely fine to do as permissionless because they know what they're doing. But if there's a big influx of new users who are just coming into the space, wanting to experience something and they want to do it quickly without educating themselves, we're in a really tough spot with permissionless systems. But as Brandon pointed out, we're so early, we don't know which way is actually going to work best. So I think there will be wallets with different approaches and we'll see which one is going to be the most successful one, which the users will actually choose that perspective.Ali (16:10):Completely. Do you want to add something Maria?Maria (16:12):Yeah. We have integrated with over 80 daps, but we're very lucky, we have 35 engineers, and we've created a standardized way for them to come to us and work with us and partner. So that's been fantastic and it grows, our list is growing, we're meeting people here, so happy to connect.Ali (16:29):And Maria are those integrations integrations that the team has pushed forward, or are those collaborations with the teams, or I'm curious how they end up working.Maria (16:40):It's collaborative. Yeah. Yeah. We absolutely work with them and make sure that they integrate with us seamlessly.Ali (16:46):I think an interesting question that also duck tails with what we're talking about here, with respect to integrations, is whether it's possible to kind of unbundle what a wallet is. And I mean, there are kind of standards out there that are being pioneered to things like wallet connect and I'm curious how you guys think of what the actual kind of user controls layer looks like. What are the various different components? What are the roles of that piece of the stack and how you think about what you're doing plays with that?Brandon (17:20):The wallet is actually, in its current form, a very complicated multifaceted product. So there's so many different parts. So not only in the app and outside of it. So inside the app, there's things like key management, there's things that people expect, like being able to do everything that you expect from your tokens.Ali (17:39):Yeah.Brandon (17:40):And if view, NFTs, swap tokens, like interact with daps and all that. And so it is a very challenging thing to juggle all of those things at once, especially in such a fast moving environment. And I think we're already seeing those sort of things, getting unbundled with like NFT viewing specific daps and daps that are more geared towards very fine gain grain control of your token accounts and things like that. And so I could see a world where they get unbundled, but I could also see a world where someone's kind of able to solve all those things, and under one umbrella,Filip (18:26):That's an interesting question. So it's basically the WeChat and other things. So is it a super app that can do everything?Ali (18:34):Yeah.Filip (18:34):Or is it an app that does one specific thing and then lets you connect to others? I think a really interesting approach is actually to have that super app, but in a light version. So you, the let the users do very basic operations with NFTs, with SPL tokens, with whatever they want to, because the space is evolving so fast, user demand is shifting from one week to the other and if a wallet can end up fast enough, then they could provide them those basic functionalities. But if they want to do some really heavy, deep stuff, then it's almost certainly going to be unbundled because you can't have 50 different integrations, fully integrated into the app. This just becomes exploded at one point. Especially on mobile. Dap is doable.Ali (19:35):Yep.Filip (19:35):But mobile, when you're limited with space, it's going to be almost impossible.Ali (19:42):Completely.Maria (19:43):For us, it's the super app approach. We love to keep our customers internally within the app. And you know, we do everything from activities, news, ranking centrally in the app. That's what we're trying to do, and it keeps our open rate really high as well.Ali (19:59):Yeah. Well, in a related question, which you alluded to is the question of mobile versus desktop and how the patterns of usage of web 3.0 and crypto might evolve and what might become the dominant vector for using keys for interacting with web 3.0 apps. What are your thoughts? How do you guys think that this will evolve?Brandon (20:20):Yeah, it's interesting. Because I feel like web 3.0 on mobile in more recent memory has had a hard time sort of getting started.Ali (20:30):Yeah.Brandon (20:30):And I think it's actually a function of the user base that has been using blockchain apps for the past couple years, which it has been more of like this prosumer DeFi type of user that prefers using complex DeFi apps on desktop. But what we're seeing now, I think is a couple paradigm shifts that are really setting the stage up for mobile. So first is this kind of new cohort of users that is much more NFT focused, and therefore a lot more casual. And so I think those people actually expect a really polished mobile experience. So I think that's one paradigm shift that's happening. And the second one is why we're all here today, is scalable and cheap blockchains, which their nature actually lends themselves much, much better to a mobile environment. So I think those two things are actually setting us up for the sort of new age of like web 3.0 on mobile. Which I think was not as tenable as before.Maria (21:37):Well for us, it's definitely mobile. Okay. We do have a Chrome extension as well, but for our customers, they don't really have laptops. It's very much mobile and that's their experience and how they onboard and how they continue to access. So it's definitely mobile for Slope.Filip (21:53):I'll go back to the last point and I'd say, it's going to be mixed. So you're going to do complex operations on a desktop, most certainly because mobile won't have the ability to provide them, but I see actually mobile and mobile wallet as your signing device for everything. When you connect to your desktop application, you just sign it with mobile. So because it's much more secure on mobile. I can't imagine myself, I can't imagine a lot of people actually, I don't know, sitting on a couch with a laptop open and browsing NFTs, as opposed to just sitting on a couch and browsing NFTs from their mobile app.Ali (22:38):Yeah. Yeah.Filip (22:39):And buying, selling. I want to connect to radio and harvest my farm in the morning from mobile. I don't want to do it from a desktop, open the desktop, type in radio, something like that.Ali (22:51):Yeah, it does feel as like, as web 3.0 begins to intersect more with a consumer world, mobile becomes increasingly more important as a result.Filip (23:01):Completely. Especially with NFTs.Ali (23:03):Yeah.Filip (23:05):Because NFTs and games in particular, so all those web 3.0 games are going to provide a huge user base, actually that is younger, the opportunity to experience crypto. And then you need a mobile wallet because all those mobile games will need a wallet.Ali (23:20):Of course.Filip (23:21):Unless they integrate one themselves, but talking to a lot of them, they don't want that responsibility because it's actually hard to build a wallet and maintain a wallet for it to be safe and secure for all users.Ali (23:33):Completely agreed. All right. Well, I think this is a good point to wrap the conversation. Thank you very much for joining us. This was awesome. This was awesome.

This episode was originally published on March 11, 2021In this episode of The Unstoppable Podcast, our CEO and co-founder Matthew Gould talks all about scaling on public blockchains.How can we scale blockchains so they can support ever greater numbers of transactions and functions without being crippled by huge fees and wait times? This has always been a big question in the blockchain space.Matthew introduces some of the current problems, like gas prices. He shares ideas about how we might be able to scale blockchains without costs spiraling out of control. He also explains some concepts like zero-knowledge proofs, the Nakamoto consensus, and smart contract blockchains — and how all three of these have combined to make modern-day decentralization possible.Some other ideas we touch on include state channels — a way to do lots more transactions while storing a lot less data, and side chains — a way to avoid high transaction fees or long waiting times when doing a lot of transactions. We also talk about some of the potential problems involved.—You can follow Matthew on Twitter and LinkedIn, Diana on Twitter and LinkedIn, and learn more about Unstoppable Domains and our work here.—Don't forget to rate, download, and subscribe to the podcast so we can keep producing awesome content for you – and you won't miss an episode.

In this episode,  Abhitej Singh, Strategy and Marketing lead at Persistence One discusses his journey into crypto when coming across Bitcoin and the importance of Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Abhitej gives a detailed overview of Persistence and the Cosmos Ecosystem. He discusses the idea behind Persistence, the solutions it provides to DeFi and goes on to discuss the utility of the XRPT token. Finally, Doc challenges Abhitej to a quickfire round of questions.Date of podcast recording: Friday 12th OctoberAbout Persistence OnePersistence One is a protocol powering Institutional Decentralised Finance. The Persistence technology stack is a full suite of products covering the end-to-end journey of facilitating borrowing of Crypto assets using real-world assets as collateral and removes all complexities of using Public Blockchains to allow for easier institutional adoption while catering to easy use for Crypto-native users.Abhitej Singh's Social Media:Twitter: @abhitezsingh Persistence OnePersistence One Website:  https://persistence.one/Persistence One Social Media Channels:Twitter: @PersistenceOneTelegram Community Chat:  https://t.me/PersistenceOneChatTelegram Announcements: https://t.me/PersistenceOneMedium: https://medium.com/persistence-blogLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/persistenceone/Special thanks to @jammgroup for helping to arrange the podcast interview.Crypto Unplugged Social MediaTwitter:Doc - @DrCrypto47Oz - @AskCryptoWealthCrypto Unplugged - @crypto_unplugdCrypto Unplugged YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/CryptoUnpluggedCrypto Unplugged on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/crypto_unplugged/Crypto Unplugged Telegram Community Channel:https://t.me/cryptounpluggedSubsocial Network:Crypto Unplugged - https://app.subsocial.network/5191Doc -  https://app.subsocial.network/5180Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.co.uk/cryptounpluggedukLinktree:https://linktr.ee/cryptounpluggedFor crypto and Bitcoin articles on technical and fundamental analysis, project reviews on altcoins, and more visit the Crypto Unplugged Website:https://cryptounplugged.co.ukShow your support by leaving a review:https://lovethepodcast.com/cryptounplugged

On the latest episode of The Bit, Stephen Stonberg sits down with David Shin, Head of Global Adoption for the enterprise-grade, service-centric blockchain project Klaytn for a stimulating discussion around the company's growth, its plans for expansion into new markets, and how the emergent trends within the crypto ecosystem, from DeFi and NFTs to blockchain-based gaming, have impacted Klaytn's strategy. 

Today we discuss the recent updates regarding unrealized capital gains taxes, international taxation initiatives, tax haven crackdowns, and how that all plays into blockchains. We make the case that this is all very bullish for the Freedom Coin Covenant. Monero will benefit significantly as many people realize their wealth is not safe from the growing forces of global socialism on public blockchains.   Follow me here: Gab: https://gab.com/GulagStag Twitter: https://twitter.com/moneromatteo Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MoneroMatteo:b Rumble: Monero Matteo (not sure of link) Telegram: https://t.me/thegulagstag Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/moneromatteo This is NOT Financial Advice - I am NOT a financial professional. Inquiries: Email: Moneromatteo@protonmail.com Donate To Support Monero Projects Here: https://ccs.getmonero.org/ Channel Donations: Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/moneromatteo Monero (XMR) Address: (Too long for this format - see youtube) Bitcoin (BTC) Address: bc1q0myje5uzrwxj7pua4em4dcaqxjmd86ptgacq9r Zano: @matteo

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In the last two installments of this series, we talked about the problems facing blockchain projects when it comes to scaling to a global level. We talked about gas prices, transaction fees, and some of the solutions currently being tried.In this episode, we're diving a little deeper into some of the current state-of-the-art solutions to blockchain scaling challenges. Today we're talking about Plasma, optimistic roll-ups, ZK roll-ups, and Validium.We cover the pros and cons of each and talk about some common topics like whether or not to use on-chain cryptographic verification and on-chain data availability.--You can follow Braden on LinkedIn, Diana on Twitter and LinkedIn, and learn more about Unstoppable Domains and our work here.--Don't forget to rate, download, and subscribe to the podcast so you won't miss an episode and we can keep producing awesome content for you.

How to scale blockchains so they can support ever greater numbers of transactions and functions without being crippled by huge fees and wait times has always been a big question in the blockchain space.Matthew introduces some of the current problems like gas prices, and talks about how we might be able to scale blockchains without costs spiraling out of control. He also explains some concepts like zero-knowledge proofs, the Nakamoto consensus, and smart contract blockchains — and how all three of these have combined to make modern-day decentralization possible.Some other ideas we touch on include state channels — a way to perform a lot more transactions while storing a lot less data, and side chains — a way to avoid high transaction fees or long waiting times when doing a lot of transactions. We also talk about some of the potential problems involved.—You can follow Matthew on Twitter and LinkedIn, Diana on Twitter and LinkedIn, and learn more about Unstoppable Domains and our work here.—Don't forget to rate, download, and subscribe to the podcast so we can keep producing awesome content for you – and you won't miss an episode.

Yesterday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released Interpretive Letter 1174. The letter allows banks to participate as nodes in “independent node verification networks” (which you might better know as blockchain networks) as well as use stablecoins for payments settlement.  In this episode of The Breakdown, NLW looks at:  Crypto Twitter’s response to the news  A review of key passages from the letter The response of critics The implications for CBDCs and the geopolitical battle between the U.S. dollar and China’s emerging digital currency  Enjoying this content?   SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1438693620?at=1000lSDb Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/538vuul1PuorUDwgkC8JWF?si=ddSvD-HST2e_E7wgxcjtfQ Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9ubHdjcnlwdG8ubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M=   Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW   The Breakdown is produced and distributed by CoinDesk.com

A new interpretive letter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency paves the way for stablecoins and public blockchains to be fully integrated in the financial infrastructure. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.Yesterday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released Interpretive Letter 1174. The letter allows banks to participate as nodes in “independent node verification networks” (which you might better know as blockchain networks) as well as use stablecoins for payments settlement. In this episode of The Breakdown, NLW looks at: Crypto Twitter’s response to the news A review of key passages from the letterThe response of criticsThe implications for CBDCs and the geopolitical battle between the U.S. dollar and China’s emerging digital currency

Well this is a historic moment for sure for the future of cryptocurrencies and our entire financial system. Today we uncover the ground breaking news and what that may mean for our money and some of the oldest cryptos. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/moneygeeks/message

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today's healthcare environment, medical records and personal wellness information are often spread across a complicated maze of systems, leaving patients and providers without an easy way to access and share important health data. To help with this, HIE is building, Trustee. Trustee is a private, patient-directed health information record being built on the HIE of One open source platform. The Trustee, universal health record, is designed to give the patient complete control over who has access to their medical files. They also talk about the importance of blockchain and how it can be the solution for standards in identity management. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adrian Gropper Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss WWT.COM/TWIT

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today's healthcare environment, medical records and personal wellness information are often spread across a complicated maze of systems, leaving patients and providers without an easy way to access and share important health data. To help with this, HIE is building, Trustee. Trustee is a private, patient-directed health information record being built on the HIE of One open source platform. The Trustee, universal health record, is designed to give the patient complete control over who has access to their medical files. They also talk about the importance of blockchain and how it can be the solution for standards in identity management. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adrian Gropper Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss WWT.COM/TWIT

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today's healthcare environment, medical records and personal wellness information are often spread across a complicated maze of systems, leaving patients and providers without an easy way to access and share important health data. To help with this, HIE is building, Trustee. Trustee is a private, patient-directed health information record being built on the HIE of One open source platform. The Trustee, universal health record, is designed to give the patient complete control over who has access to their medical files. They also talk about the importance of blockchain and how it can be the solution for standards in identity management. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adrian Gropper Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss WWT.COM/TWIT

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today's healthcare environment, medical records and personal wellness information are often spread across a complicated maze of systems, leaving patients and providers without an easy way to access and share important health data. To help with this, HIE is building, Trustee. Trustee is a private, patient-directed health information record being built on the HIE of One open source platform. The Trustee, universal health record, is designed to give the patient complete control over who has access to their medical files. They also talk about the importance of blockchain and how it can be the solution for standards in identity management. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adrian Gropper Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss WWT.COM/TWIT

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today's healthcare environment, medical records and personal wellness information are often spread across a complicated maze of systems, leaving patients and providers without an easy way to access and share important health data. To help with this, HIE is building, Trustee. Trustee is a private, patient-directed health information record being built on the HIE of One open source platform. The Trustee, universal health record, is designed to give the patient complete control over who has access to their medical files. They also talk about the importance of blockchain and how it can be the solution for standards in identity management. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adrian Gropper Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss WWT.COM/TWIT

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today's healthcare environment, medical records and personal wellness information are often spread across a complicated maze of systems, leaving patients and providers without an easy way to access and share important health data. To help with this, HIE is building, Trustee. Trustee is a private, patient-directed health information record being built on the HIE of One open source platform. The Trustee, universal health record, is designed to give the patient complete control over who has access to their medical files. They also talk about the importance of blockchain and how it can be the solution for standards in identity management. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adrian Gropper Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss WWT.COM/TWIT

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today's healthcare environment, medical records and personal wellness information are often spread across a complicated maze of systems, leaving patients and providers without an easy way to access and share important health data. To help with this, HIE is building, Trustee. Trustee is a private, patient-directed health information record being built on the HIE of One open source platform. The Trustee, universal health record, is designed to give the patient complete control over who has access to their medical files. They also talk about the importance of blockchain and how it can be the solution for standards in identity management. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adrian Gropper Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss WWT.COM/TWIT

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today's healthcare environment, medical records and personal wellness information are often spread across a complicated maze of systems, leaving patients and providers without an easy way to access and share important health data. To help with this, HIE is building, Trustee. Trustee is a private, patient-directed health information record being built on the HIE of One open source platform. The Trustee, universal health record, is designed to give the patient complete control over who has access to their medical files. They also talk about the importance of blockchain and how it can be the solution for standards in identity management. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adrian Gropper Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss WWT.COM/TWIT

With bitcoin slipping alongside European stocks and a leaked memo about China's blockchain plans, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.Today's stories:Federal Reserve Now Targets Inflation Above 2%, Bitcoin Breaks $11KFederal Reserve officials said Wednesday they would hold U.S. interest rates at close to zero and work to push inflation above 2% "for some time." Bitcoin 'Young Investment' Wallets at Highest Level Since February 2018New investors are entering the bitcoin market at a faster pace and possibly creating upward pressure on prices, on-chain data shows. China's BSN Will 'Localize' Public Blockchains for Local UseChina’s state-sanctioned Blockchain-Based Service Network is finally bringing public chains to its homeland -- but they will look very different. Kraken Becomes First Crypto Exchange to Charter a US BankOn Wednesday, the Wyoming Banking Board voted to approve Kraken’s bank charter application. Kraken is the first SPDI bank in Wyoming.

Monica Quaintance, who is the Head of Research and Networks at Kadena Blockchain. She’s a former Senior Data Engineer at Rent the Runway and a former Quantitative Analytics Engineer at the SEC. Joining Utsav Jaiswal from Hacker Noon as co-host is Lisa JY Tan, Founder and Lead Economist at Economics Design. They discuss Monica’s entry into Blockchain, the state of Blockchains in general and her contribution to the development of the Kadena Public Blockchain, how it provides cross-chain transactions, smart contracts, and the myth of unhackable Blockchains.  Monica also serves as a co-Founder at Universal Consensus, through which, she advocates for more diversity in the Blockchain sector to realize true universal consensus. Continue reading about blockchain, economics and smart contracts on Hacker Noon.   Check our annual Noonies Awards nominees https://noonies.tech/. Voting is now live!   Also, check out Hacker Noon via the NOONIFICATION, Giphy (ahem Facebook and/or Instagram), Twitter, or just get a technology story published today and check our sponsorship options.  

Do you know the differences between public blockchains? In this episode myself and Konrad Rotkiewicz explained the differences between the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains and other more "modern" blockchains. We also talked about Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and why Konrad is looking for the next Bitcoin. Konrad is the CEO and founder of Ulam Labs, an agile software development company with the mission to help startups and medium-size companies in utilizing Crypto and Blockchain technologies for better decentralized world. For more about Ulam Labs www.ulam.io Ulam Labs LinkedIn page

Guests:Illia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon) - debating FOR the motionZaki Manian (@zmanian) - debating AGAINST the motionHost:Richard Yan (@gentso09)In a world where decentralized applications proliferate, will these applications be built on top of a few or many public blockchains? Exploration of this topic would help us understand the merits of the coexistence of many protocols. On the extreme, each dapp can have its own chain, so that the developers/community for each app can have maximal control over the full stack of their product.The guests we have for this episode have essentially voted on their position with their feet. The oligopoly advocate is cofounder of a layer-1 protocol, and the multiplicity supporter is a major contributor to one of the earliest, if not the earliest, blockchains designed with interoperability in mind.Be sure to also check out our previous episodes too, on Bitcoin's store of value status, tokenization and smart contracts, DeFi, bitcoin halvening, China's future in blockchain, and POW vs POS.If you would like to debate or want to nominate someone, please DM me at @blockdebate on Twitter.Please note that nothing in our podcast should be construed as financial advice.Source of select items discussed in the debate:Inter-Blockchain Communication: https://cosmos.network/ibc/Near protocol: https://nearprotocol.com/

In this episode of the Hatch Storytellers' Series, DigitalOcean VP of Product Apurva Joshi chats with Edouard Lavidalle, Co-Founder of POSBakerz. Listen to Edouard discuss how he built the POSBakerz team, remote work, the future of crypto, and where he finds his inspirations! To learn more about POSBakerz, visit their site.Don't forget to subscribeLearn more about HatchLearn more about POSBakerzConnect with DigitalOcean:Follow us on TwitterLike us on FacebookFollow us on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's show, we discuss the idea of true privacy on public, transparent blockchains and some of the ways it's working (or not) in Bitcoin or related projects right now. Select Shownotes: How can public blockchains have privacy? The decreasing cost of passive surveillance MimbleWimble research Attack, Developer Response, and Alternative Implementation Response Gossip Protocols and The Stasi Model Skin in the game with Proof of Work The moving target and the arms race Obscuring origins and game theory security Breaking links with lightning and other layer-2s Adversarial relationships are economic in nature Attacks in theory vs. practice Security through obscurity? Researchers, cryptographers and state level actors and more... Let’s Talk Bitcoin! is a long-running independent podcast on the ideas, people and projects powering the cryptocurrency narrative. On this show, we basically talk about everything other than the price. Since we started this conversation in early 2013, a whole world of blockchains and tokens has sprung up alongside bitcoin, and we talk about those too as real-world events help us see what’s real and what’s just clever marketing. Visit LTBShow.com for all 419 of our past episodes or to subscribe directly to the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show. Episode 420 (How can public blockchains have privacy) Credits: Sponsors - Brave.com & eToro.com Hosts: Adam B. Levine (http://ltbshow.com) Andreas M. Antonopoulos (https://aantonop.com/) Stephanie Murphy (https://www.stephaniemurphyvoice.com/) Jonathan Mohan ( https://twitter.com/JonathanMohan) Other Staff Producer - Adam B. Levine Editor - Jonas Music (Theme) - Jared Rubens Music (Other) - General Fuzz

Oded Wertheim provides and update on Orbs, which is a project building public blockchain infrastructure designed for enterprises. In this conversation Oded details Orbs’s approach to collaborating with enterprises and how it differs from the private/permissioned approach taken by Hyperledger and R3’s Corda. Oded also lays out the problems that public chains solve for enterprises and how trust will be a standard feature built into the products of the future. If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

There’s no question the corporate world is serious about blockchain technology. Exhibitors at the recent Blockchain Expo in London included multinational tech, finance and consultancy firms. But what stage have big companies reached in developing blockchain projects? And are they ready to accept the original Bitcoin vision of public blockchains - rather than working on ‘in house’ private blockchains? Many in the Bitcoin world see the latter as like the so-called ‘walled gardens’ of online services such as AOL and Compuserve, which were popular before the Internet overtook them as the public grew more confident about going online.CoinGeek spoke to two executives from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) at the conference to understand their perspective on blockchain adoption. The podcast also includes a detailed example of one blockchain project in an interview with Aisling McGibbon, senior product manager with PWC. It’s called Smart Credentials, and is a platform which allows users to get their qualifications validated by the bodies that issued them.

For most firms getting a good understanding of what is blockchain and its possible use is a challenging exercise. Once that has been established a further decision has to be made regarding whether or not to build their blockchain solution on a public or private blockchain system. Within the first two weeks of January 2019, both the public and private blockchain proponents expressed their views on the merits of their systems. For this podcast we had the pleasure of having Richard Brown, Chief Technology Officer at R3, the builders of Corda, a private blockchain system, express his views.   Who is R3? R3 is an enterprise software company that produces an open-source blockchain called Corda. Corda was first launched in 2016, initially for financial services sectors, mainly banks. However, it was the insurance industry that helped broaden Corda’s view and utility as a blockchain for other industries. Now in 2019, Corda has launched the 4thversion of Corda which has already been adopted by finance, insurance, healthcare, government, and the oil and gas industry.   What is blockchain? What is interesting to know is that in the early days of R3 they didn’t begin with the ambition or the intention of building a blockchain platform. R3 began as a collaborative exercise between a large number of large firms to try and figure out what is blockchain and what the opportunities and implications it might have. The conclusion they came out with regarding “What is blockchain?” is that blockchain is a technology or an approach to building systems that allows multiple parties who want to transact, but who don’t fully trust each other to do so in a way that allows each and every one of them to know what they see on their computer is exactly the same as what their counterparts sees on theirs. This massively drives down duplication costs, errors, inconsistencies and the need for reconciliation which allows firms to focus on solving business problems and transacting with their counterparts. Essentially, once you know what you see is accurate, that you know the information you’re working on is correct, you can make decisions more quickly and with more confidence.   Busting the myth of private blockchains - Consensys On the 3rdof January an author at Consensys, an Ethereum based blockchain technology company, published a blog post entitled “Busting the Myth of Private Blockchains”, whose main point was to explain why enterprises shouldn’t use private blockchains in business: Business networks need resilience, interoperability, permissioning, and privacy to succeed. These requirements, however, are out of scope for proprietary distributed ledgers, let alone traditional database technologies. The Ethereum blockchain’s granular privacy layers and public-first approach make it a powerful enterprise solution for organizations that need the flexibility of an in-house platform and that want the global reach to participate in economies of scale.     The Rebutal – Busting the myth of public blockchains for business On the 14th of January, Richard wrote a blog post “Busting the myth of public blockchains for business”. In this blog post he debunks three of the main arguments the Ethereum community makes on why business should build on Ethereum: Ethereum has the largest community of developers. For any firm new to blockchain deciding which platform to use can be complicated. A common argument used by the Ethereum blockchain community was to go to the platform with the most developers. Ethereum has the most advanced tools and the best technology. This argument essentially builds on the first since Ethereum has the largest community of developers. Anchoring your private transactions onto a public chain is more secure. Public chains are more immutable than ‘insecure’ private networks and so you should ‘anchor’ your private transactions to prevent malicious parties rolling back your transactions behind your back.”

Last week we had the pleasure to talk to Hugh Karp, founder of Nexus Mutual, about their insights on how blockchain and smart contracts can be used for building effective insurance mutual. This is Hugh’s second appearance on Insureblocks as he was a guest blogger last September where he penned a post on “Public Blockchains in Insurance: Do incumbents need to worry?”   What is Blockchain? Hugh believes it is more interesting to focus on what the technology enables instead on focusing on the technical description of it. Blockchain gives a shared view on some sort of information, so that everyone can agree on the information and that it can only be changed by playing by the rules. Examples of such information are account balances and the rules could be a combination of smart contract logic and consensus process to add new information to the blockchain. In Bitcoin that consensus process is mining for example. Once we have shared information that all parties can agree on, and self enforcing rules, we can coordinate human activity in ways we couldn’t do before. What is key is that this can now be done more efficiently than ever before and without a central regulator.   Why Mutualisation? Mutuals are the original insurance structure. They arose because communities recognised that they had a shared common risk and that they would be more resilient if they spread this risk out within the group. These communities would pool resources together and decide as a group when a claim will be paid. If no claims were made then all the members benefited. This is a stark difference to traditional insurance companies whose interests aren’t aligned to those of its customers. Shareholders driven by profit by not paying out claims. Mutuals are member led and have a shared goal thus reducing the risks for conflicts of interest. So what about regulators? Aren’t they meant to reduce those conflicts of interest? Hugh believes that in well developed countries that is the case but it comes at an administrative costs. In developing countries though many people don’t always have a reliable legal and regulatory system on which they can rely on.   What is Nexus Mutual? Nexus Mutual uses the power of Ethereum so people can share risk together without the need for an insurance company... ie bring back the true form of mutuals where individuals contribute to an insurance like entity and group together to protect themselves. Nexus Mutual uses blockchain to reengineer the business model.   The role blockchain and smart contracts play in building a mutual? How does it help to scale trust and capital? Mutuals have traditionally struggled to compete with shareholder insurance companies. Expanding outside of their original community group is challenging for a mutual. Hugh exemplifies this problem with an example of where one village may not trust the elders from another village to pay out their claims. Thus blockchain can be helped to scale out trust because instead of having to trust that other group of people you simply have to trust that the code works as it is intended. The other, less well-known issue, that mutuals face is the scaling of capital. Due to how they are structured, mutuals can only raise money from their membership base, and have limited access to capital markets.  As insurance is capital intensive it does put limit a mutuals growth. Hugh believes that due to their decentralised characteristics mutuals can only be built on a public blockchain (e.g. Ethereum) instead of a private one (e.g. Hyperledger and Corda). This ensures that the funds are collectively held on a smart contract instead of in a central location. Member driven and member owned.   Tokenisation As Nexus Mutual is using smart contracts on the Ethereum public blockchain they can tokenise membership rights of the mutual which allows an increased level of flexibility on how they can raise capital. In other words the rights of the members (e.g.

Interview location: WashingtonInterview date: Tuesday 20th Nov, 2018Company: Coin CenterRole: Research DirectorIn the age of financial surveillance, cryptocurrencies have created a headache for regulators. The ability to move value, across the world without any intermediary has many benefits to society but can sidestep state-level regulations. Further, the ICO boom has created new forms of capital creation and regulators have been watching the space closely.Coin Center recognises the benefit of preserving the freedom to innovate with these permissionless public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and they support this by:- Producing and publishing policy research from respected academics and experts- Educating policymakers and the media about blockchain technology- Engaging in advocacy for sound public policyIn this interview, I talk with Coin Center’s Research Director, Peter Van Valkenburgh about the complexities of state v federal legislation and how they work with policymakers to support public blockchain innovation.-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show my doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: Bitcoin | Ethereum | Litecoin | Monero | ZCash | RipplecoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

Public blockchains produce enormous amounts of data. In theory, anyone can access the raw contents of transaction and blocks. In practice, however, querying blockchains can prove to be a daunting task. The difficulty lies in the fact that blockchains are particular types of distributed databases and thus carry several limitations. Most, if not all, blockchains lack the most basic SQL querying capabilities supported by nearly every off-the-shelf database system. Take Bitcoin as an example. Its API lacks even the most basic calls which would allow a user to query any address and receive the balance. In order to achieve this, block explorers and alike have developed sophisticated middleware infrastructure that parses the blockchain, normalizes the data, and stores it in a database, where it can be queried. In the best of cases, companies offer API calls for only a limited set of operations. Google hopes to change this by freeing blockchain datasets. We’re joined by Allen Day, Science Advocate at Google’s Singapore office. Earlier this year, he and his team released the Bitcoin blockchain as a public dataset in Big Query, Google big data IaaS offering. In August, they added Ethereum to their list of freely available public datasets, which includes US census data, cannabis genomes, and the entirety of Reddit and Github. Anyone wishing to query the data can do so in SQL on the Big Query website or via an API. For instance, a relatively simple query would return the daily mean transaction fees since the Genesis Block in just a few seconds. Coupled with Google’s AI and Machine Learning infrastructure and other open data sets, one can only imagine the potentially groundbreaking insights we could gain from this data. Topics covered in this episode: Allen’s background as a geneticist The similarities between blockchains and evolution process in lifeforms Google’s cloud platform and its various components Big Query and its publicly available datasets The Bitcoin and Ethereum datasets in Big Query Why this data is useful to the public and for what it may be used The particular challenges in implementing Ethereum as opposed to Bitcoin Insights we may gain by crossing blockchain dataset with other data How machine learning and AI could help us better understand specific transaction patterns Episode links: Bitcoin in BigQuery: blockchain analytics on public data Bitcoin Blockchain Public Dataset Ethereum in BigQuery: a Public Dataset for smart contract analytics Ethereum in BigQuery: how we built this dataset Ethereum Blockchain Public Dataset Change Agent by Daniel Suarez Real-time Ethereum Notifications for Everyone for Free ethjs-abi library, compiled for use in Google BigQuery Kaggle: Your Home for Data Science The Strange Inevitability of Evolution - Issue 20: Creativity - Nautilus Reddit_ Google Cloud Thank you to our sponsors for their support: The open, decentralized trading protocol for ERC20 tokens using the Dutch auction mechanism. More at epicenter.tv/dutchx. Deploy enterprise-ready consortium blockchain networks that scale in just a few clicks. More at aka.ms/epicenter. This episode is hosted by Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/254

The expectation has become widespread that blockchains will end up underpinning major societal infrastructures. The narrative in the blockchain space is that networks are decentralized and trustless and thus regulation should not apply to networks directly. Legal scholar Angela C. Walch has been questioning terms like decentralization and trustlessness and argues that blockchains shift the need for trust rather than remove it. Her controversial ideas include that key developers of open-source project should be treated as fiduciaries and held accountable for the consequences of their work. Angela Walch is a professor of law at St Mary University School of Law and a Research Fellow at the Center for Blockchain at UCL. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and has been doing academic work on legal issues surrounding public blockchains since 2013. Topics covered in this episode: How she became interested in Bitcoin and issues around the narratives of decentralization and trustlessness How her work has been received in the blockchain space The problematic lack of a clear definition of terms like trustless, immutable and decentralized Why blockchains should be looked at as trust-shifting, not trustless The definition and role of fiduciaries in society Why blockchain developers could be considered fiduciaries The practical implications and difficulties of regulating blockchain developers as fiduciaries How the SEC’s stance on blockchains connects with the question of developers being fiduciaries Her personal views on the value and promise of blockchain tech Episode links: Angela Walch Angela C. Walch - St. Mary's Law Angela Walch – Medium In Code(rs) We Trust: Software Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains The Path of the Blockchain Lexicon (and the Law) Open-Source Operational Risk: Should Public Blockchains Serve as Financial Market Infrastructures? Coin-Operated Capitalism paper Journal of Financial Technology Introducing: The Journal of Financial Technology – Angela Walch – Medium Thank you to our sponsors for their support: Simplify your hiring process & access the best blockchain talent . Get a $1,000 credit on your first hire at toptal.com/epicenter. Deploy enterprise-ready consortium blockchain networks that scale in just a few clicks. More at aka.ms/epicenter. This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/253

00:00 – 00:50 Intro & Begrüßung 00:51 – 03:04 Nhan Vu, Intrapreneur 03:05 – 03:50 Mainzer Blockchain Meetup 03:51 – 06:55 Die Geschichte der Blockchain 06:56 – 08:12 Zentrale und dezentrale Systeme 08:13 – 11:10 Welches Kernproblem löst Blockchain und wie funktioniert sie? 11:11 – 16:24 Blockchain 2.0, Smart Contracts und Manipulierbarkeit des Systems 16:25 – 21:40 Mining 21:41 – 27:02 Public Blockchains vs. Private Blockchain 27:03 – 29:39 Blockchain in Deutschland – wo stehen wir? 29:40 – 31:21 Empfehlungen für weitere Infos Ethereum: https://www.ethereum.org/ Tangleblock: http://www.tangleblog.com/ BTC-ECHO: https://www.btc-echo.de/ Crypto Meetup Mainz: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Mainz-Crypto-Community/?_cookie-check=X5SLuS0qI7ensmCJ 31:22 – 33:00 Fragen aus dem Publikum Dock.io: https://dock.io/ Steemit: https://steemit.com/ 33:01 – 33:52 Resümee & Schlusswort „Kein Wort über Kryptowährungen!“, das war die Bedingung, um Intrapreneur und Querdenker Nhan Vu, zum Thema Blockchain auf „Das Digitale Sofa“ zu bekommen. Naja, zu 100% haben wir es nicht geschafft, aber wer sich für die grundlegende Technologie und deren vielfältigen weiteren Einsatzmöglichkeiten interessiert, für den ist unsere aktuelle Folge genau das Richtige! Das Gespräch führt von den Anfängen über Blockchain 2.0, Smart Contracts und Mining hin zu Public vs. Private Blockchains und gibt spannende und hilfreiche Einblicke in das komplexe System Blockchain. Reinschauen (oder -hören) lohnt sich! Bei Fragen und Anmerkungen oder Verbesserungsvorschlägen, schickt uns gerne eine E-Mail an: DasDigitaleSofa@kemweb.de Der Podcast wird live und vor Publikum sowohl als Video als auch als Audiofile aufgezeichnet. Hier geht es zum Video: https://youtu.be/luDyJRc_8eA Mehr Infos zu Nhan Vu findet ihr hier: https://vuncion.com/ Folgt uns auch auf unseren anderen Social-Media-Kanälen: Facebook: www.facebook.com/KEMWEB/ Twitter: twitter.com/kemweb?lang=de XING: www.xing.com/companies/kemwebgmbh&co.kg LinkedIn: de.linkedin.com/company/kemweb-gmbh-&-co-kg

MacLane Wilkison from NuCypher talks about infrastructure-level privacy in public blockchains. Key takeaways: Blockchains are transparent ledgers that will require data privacy tools to scale NuCypher is an infrastructure-level protocol designed to help decentralized applications manage and protect important data sets Data privacy is critical to the growth of the industry, and End-users won't see NuCypher under the hood, but seen by blockchain developers Full show notes at http://wing.vc/