Podcast appearances and mentions of tom ding

Foundations of Crypto Capitalism with Tom Ding of DFINITY & String Labs

String Labs founders Tom Ding and Dominic Williams joined us to discuss their project DFINITY, a next-generation blockchain network. Through leveraging technological advances, DFINITY aims to deliver an infinitely scalable decentralized cloud that will be able to power applications from decentralized search to supply chain applications. We covered DFINITY’s approach to scalability, interoperability, consensus as well as their sophisticated approach to governance: The Blockchain Nervous System. Topics covered in this episode: Tom and Dominic ended up founding String Labs The DFINITY project and objective of an infinitely scalable decentralized cloud How consensus works in DFINITY Governance in DFINITY through the Blockchain Nervous System Threshold Relay signatures and other new technologies that are part of DFINITY The importance and mechanics of public/private blockchain interoperability DFINITY’s business model Episode links: String Technology DFINITY Shanghai Talk DFINITY Shanghai Presentation Slides Introducing Random Beacons Using Threshold Relay Chains Random Beacons in Decentralized Networks This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/157

Tom Ding is the CEO and co-founder of String, a venture backed FinTech startup developing a decentralized permissionless global financial environment for Ethereum smart contract developers that aims to help programmers become the world's bankers. In other words, he is passionate about creating products that would otherwise not have existed. Tom formerly worked at Alibaba and eBay. At String they improve all financial services from consumer banking to hedging and with partners are launching a decentralized, low cost, global and open platform that will unleash innovation by the crowd. They care especially about the world's un/underbanked and businesses in developing economies where it is often impractical to access advanced financial services. Listen to episode here. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Tom Ding is the CEO and Founder of Koinify, a platform for funding decentralized applications. Think of Koinify as a sort of Angel List to bootstrap and fund a new decentralized economy, specifically decentralized applications. With his company, Tom hopes to help build the decentralized app which help push this technology to the mainstream. With his extensive knowledge of this space, we talked about the future of DACs and DAPPs and discussed some of the challenges these new models are facing, from profitability to the obvious legal aspects. This episode was recorded over a live Google Hangout. It was our first attempt at doing a live video show and unfortunately we didn’t get the recording right. Our apologies for the bad sound quality, we’ll get the next one right. Episode links: Koinify 2020: A Call for DApps and DAOs This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/042