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Blockleaders.io editors Jillian Godsil and Lisa Gibbons speak to leaders, innovators and organisers in the web3 space covering topics from web3 gaming to decentralized finance to web3 events.
Jakob Kronbichler is the CEO and Co-founder of Clearpool ($CPOOL), the leading DeFi credit marketplace for institutions backed by leading investors, including Sequoia Capital and Wintermute. Since launching in 2022, Clearpool has originated over $590M in loans to some of the largest institutions in both TradFi and DeFi, including Wall Street giant Jane Street and listed firm Flow Traders.
It’s not often that a CEO gets voted in by his peers, but this is the starting ground for Nik Christodoulakis, CEO Enosys, a position he holds carefully. Three years ago he was CTO for Enosys (then called FLR Finance) leading the technical development of the company. The previous CEO left in unexpected circumstances and the remaining team voted him into the position.
“They persuaded me that I was ready for the position and, fast forward to now, I am pretty glad that I did.”
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Roy Hui, LightLink and Nathan Lenga, Elektrik
LightLink is a brand new Layer 2 Solution building on Ethereum and Elektrik is the very first decentralised application building on its blockchain. Elektrik is an innovative decentralised exchange focusing on providing an unrivalled trading experience with minimal fees, advanced tools and improved capital efficiency via a unique AI-driven machine learning model. The teams areremarkably aligned, to the extent where team members are shared.
It doesn’t get much more interesting than when two companies decide to cooperate together over their ideas, combine team players and share ambitions. Especially when there is a relationship built on trust, ambition and respect. This is the LightLink / Elektrik journey and it’s signposted for success.
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When faced with the question, how to protect crypto, OG Brock Pierce is circumspect. He points out that not everyone is in the same place.
“Early noobs looking to begin their journey might go to Coinbase and purchase their first $20 or $50 worth of crypto and it’s not an investment in crypto, but an investment in yourself. However, the moment you have a material investment – and that is a differentamount for everybody – then it’s important to understand the basics.
“It’s always better to walk before you can run, to walk in baby steps and don’t let FOMO (fear of missing out) cloud your judgement. This is a marathon, a long game, so take you time and be informed.”
Pierce repeats the mantra of not your coins, not your keys, not your keys, not your coins. He points out that people advanced in sophistication can look at investigating yield farming or decentralized finance. He emphasizes the importance of investing in your own education.
“If you are participating in those markets, then you by necessity take on the counterparty risk associated with those platforms and how you mitigate those risks is through diversification, but not having all your eggs in one basket. If any one asset fell it won’t wreck (rek) your entire portfolio.”
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Dmitry (Dima) Buterin, avid supporter of Ukraine, serial entrepreneur and father to Vitalik
Dmitry Buterin has always been outspoken and prone to using humour to make his point. He has lived through great change in his native Soviet Union before relocating to Canada in the 90s. There he has openly criticized the brain washing of the old Soviet era and increasingly the dictatorship of Valdmir Putin. It has not earned him many friends back in Russia where even high school peers condemn his views astraitorous. In fact, what is interesting when speaking with Buterin is that he is not nationalist or even jingoistic at all. At one stage I ask him who is his tribe and his answer is: “Humanity is my tribe.”
This thread of uniqueness runs through our conversation. At the end, I suddenly realise this is the gift or the legacy Buterin has given his son, an ability to view things in new and innovative ways. There are no set nations, cultures or even people in Buterin’s worldview but a series of individuals all rubbing along in their own little bubble. Perhaps the birth of Ethereum hinges on everyone and everything being unique.
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Matej Zrimšek – Co-founder and CTO of Akshun (The Unseen Agency)
Called one of the tech-hottest CTOs in Web3 by his co-founders, Matej Zrimšek, certainly has thereceipts. Holding a Bachelors in Computer Science, he went on to earn a doubleMasters in Computer Science and Mathematics.
“I also love algorithms and cryptography, so while my early career was in Life Sciences and includedrobotics programming and dabbling with 3D games and AI, it was no surprise thatI soon migrated over to crypto and blockchain, first working with an arbitrageplatform trading between different crypto exchanges and leveraging AI.”
Next stop was Bitstamp Cryptocurrency Exchange, which is the longest standing crypto exchange inexistence. Zrimšek believes it also to be the most regulated exchange. As aBanking Technical Lead he worked with departments from across many aspects ofthe exchange from payments, to accounting, to treasury and even support.
At this stage, while Zrimšek knew he was working in the right sector, he also knew he wanted to be a founderand not just an employee. He wanted to put his drive and enthusiasm into aproject of his own making and enjoy the full rewards of his efforts.
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Bumper your crypto and defend against price drops
Bumper is an innovative DeFi protocol that protects the value of the crypto you hold from bear cycles and market crashes and simultaneously preserves gains when the price climbs.
Set the price you want to protect and if the market crashes, your asset will never fall below that price. Importantly, if your asset price pumps, you’re still capturing that value rise
Co founder of Bumper Gareth Ward talks about how Bumper was developed. In conversation with Jillian Godsil
Ben Appleby, co founder and chief product officer with The Unseen Agency
As a freelancer all this life, Ben Appleby knows good people when he meets them. And so it was with his co-founder Richard Kieswich. As soon as they met, Appleby knew this man was smart and he wanted to work with him, so relying on the adage that it pays to employ (or co-found with) people that are smarter than you, he did.
This learning was circuitous enough and came over time. Appleby did not enjoy school and only found one teacher that ‘got’ him; and he got her back by overperforming in that subject, but largely he was a fish out of water as he struggled to conform under fluorescent lights.
“As soon as I could escape, I did.”
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Marieke Flament almost passed up on the chance to move into Web3 in 2015 because in her mind bitcoin was connected with illicit substances. She was approached by a headhunter who wanted to pitch her to a bitcoin startup.
“And I thought they’d got the wrong number. I did not want to work for drug dealers.”
However, curiosity got the better of her and she decided to investigate further – to ignore the screaming news headlines of the day – with the result she ended up working with blue chip Circle headed up by Jeremy Allaire.
“That was a great privilege to enter this space and work with someone who was incredibly visionary.”
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Web3 is a wonderful cornucopia of people from all walks of life, sharing passions and looking at the transformation world of blockchain, NFTs and AI to create new experiences and adventures. Fitting right into this eclectic mix is former playwright, rugby player, sustainable food mogul and TV presenter Richard Kieswick. In his adventures along the way to Web3, he peaked hard. His play has run on the WestEnd to critical acclaim, he played semi pro rugby (his sisters played even higher), his sustainable food business was to develop into one of the first compostable coffee pod companies which was valued in excess of £10million and, yes, he was the face for a TV shopping channel, BidTV, talking to hundreds of thousands of viewers every evening for six years.
Oh, and he founded an alcoholic sausage company called Dickie’s Big Boozy Bangers which has a great line on Bloody Mary bangers amongst other flavours. Interestingly, this company gestated from a perchance for boozy bangers but is importantly a data-driven business.
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Abel Sebhatu, CEO and co-founder of Atrivr.ai – his promise is that even your granny can use this platform
Fascinated by NFTs, Abel Sebhatu decided to fix the issue of complexity and difficulty surrounding their production. In short, he wanted the process of creating an NFT to be as easy as sending a message.
His background is technical, having studied mathematics and mathematical engineering, and for the six years prior to founding his NFT platform, he worked in a mixture of sectors, some outside crypto and some directly related. His non crypto work was with a startup in the Netherlands helping small farmers in the developing world become more productive. In the crypto world he worked with decentralized storage, DeFi and NFTs.
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Maria Matyushina does not do comfortable. Instead, she enjoys pushing herself in new experiences and challenges. This is reflected in her hobbies where she thrives on extreme activities such as paragliding and parachuting. Next on her bucket list is diving with manatees.
“I don’t do these activities every week but I love a challenge and a new adventure,” she says.
The same love of adventure has turned her career on its head from a legal beginning to managing a team of engineers at a top Web3 NFT company.
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Thibault has over six years’ experience working in traditional finance, as a portfolio manager and leading business development initiatives for a Swiss currency overlay firm ($30bn in AUM). Thibault has been in the crypto space since 2017 and made his way full time in 2021 after a career break and moving to China to learn Mandarin full-time. At Bifrost, Thibault manages Strategic and Business development initiatives - engaging and developing strategic partnerships across blockchain and financial industries i.e. institutions (VCs, HFs, MM, LPs) and sourcing relationships with ecosystem projects and protocols as well as identifying new opportunities (investment, revenue etc.)
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Matthew de la Hey, inploi
It pays to understand the people behind the company, in this case Matthew de la Hey, co-founder of inploi, in order to understand the corporate ethos of the company.
Coming from South Africa he understood first-hand the unfairness of life and wanted to make a difference.
“South Africa is a very complicated place, as well as a very beautiful place, with one of the most unequal societies in the world. Growing up there and being exposed to its inequalities instilled in me a strong sense of social justice.
“I think if we are to survive as a society, we need to address how capitalism works. Capitalism needs to adapt, and we need to level the playing field and create opportunity for all.”
Part of that vision led de la Hey into becoming a council member of the Council for Inclusive Capitalism last year. He sees capitalism as being an extraordinary economic system for growth and innovation but this vehicle needs to be harnessed for everyone, otherwise society will buckle under its own weight and the inequality it produces.
“We need to build more equal, more productive, happier, healthier societies, rather than a race to bottom where some people get very rich and a lot of people have nothing. We need a more inclusive, more sustainable approach, that considers all stakeholders and upholds a social contract”.
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Welcome to Joining the Dots, hosted on Blockleaders (hence the funny number) In this interview Lisa Gibbons speaks with Claudio, founder of Kryptos Chain. Claudio is a leading poker influencer and content creator in the Polkadot ecosystem.
Question: What is your background in technology and Polkadot?
I used to work as a database developer before getting into blockchain and starting my YouTube channel. In 2017, a work colleague introduced me to Bitcoin, which sparked my interest in cryptocurrencies. I set up a wallet and purchased my first Bitcoin on Coinbase, a popular platform at the time. I also discovered Ethereum and Litecoin on Coinbase and decided to invest in them without fully understanding their differences. As I delved deeper into crypto, I began to grasp its technical aspects and its potential to solve issues like double spending and high transaction fees. This intrigued me, and I started researching altcoins and initial coin offerings (ICOs). In April 2018, I launched my own YouTube channel to discuss cryptocurrencies and ICOs. I was particularly drawn to the Neo ecosystem, known as the "Ethereum of China" at the time, due to its requirement for payment to list projects, which I believed would reduce scams and encourage serious development. I expanded my research to other cryptocurrencies like Cardano and Tezos and aimed to become multi-chain rather than focusing solely on Neo. In 2020, I discovered Polkadot, an interoperability ecosystem connecting different blockchains, and became fascinated by its creator, Gavin Wood, who had previously developed Ethereum's programming language, Solidity. This led me to cover Polkadot extensively on my channel, including interviews with founders and co-founders, project reviews, and providing the latest news updates.
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Interview with Danny Brown Wolf, CoS with Upland - with Jillian Godsil
Danny Brown Wolf was poached to go and work with Upland by a headhunter. She tried to refuse saying that she worked B2B, not B2C. She did not know what metaverse was being pitched.
“When I heard Upland I thought it was gaming but the recruiter pestered me until I met Dirk and Edan (the two cofounders) and heard their vision. Then the penny dropped and I realized Upland was a blend of an economic platform. It may have started as a game, and there are gamification elements, but the real value proposition is the economy of Upland.
“I was excited as their future plans centered on User Generated Content (UGC). The other main kicker was the metaverse was mobile first. Not everyone has or wants a headset, not even a new Apple headset, but everyone has a phone.”
Underpinning the metaverse is the community according to Brown Wolf. “We keep in mind the community at all times. It is totally transparent and in fact the community can see any changes on chain even before we announce it.
“The community has even created analytic services that abstract data directly from the blockchain. They make decisions independent of Upland.”
Why artists are embracing NFT’s:
Our artists love to create NFT’s as they give them a vehicle to create, sell and promote theirown artistic talents and ideas rather than those asked for by art editors andcreative directors in their day-to-day world of being a commercial artist. It gives them complete artistic freedom and asense of control over their own financial destiny while also being able toconnect their own personal artistic preferences. Ultimately, with ongoingroyalties written into a smart contract, it potentially gives them a revenuestream each time they are ‘flipped’ and in perpetuity. And that’s not a bad thing!
Kevin in conversation with Jillian Godsil
Mirek Kaspar is the creator of Liberverse - the metaverse for Liberland. In conversation with Jillian Godsil
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Zara Zamani is the Chief Solutions Officer (CSO) of the leading Nordic blockchain company, ChromaWay, and Co-Founder of Neoki Metaverse. She has multiple years of experience in designing blockchain platforms in tourism, healthcare, logistics, foodchain, energy, gaming, DeFi, DAOs, and now metaverse and fashion industries. She has also been involved highly in the development of innovative investment models in the crypto space. She was featured as one of the 21 women in the blockchain you should know in 2021 by Fintech Review and the 10 most influential women in technology in 2021 by Analytics Insights.
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Clem Chambers, technical innovator, entrepreneur, software expert (especially in gaming for 27 years) and best selling author - talks setting up his first business on a sixpence, hiring runaways, what's wrong with education, why crypto, his fears for young people and The Rocky Horror Show celebrating its 50th anniversary with NFTs
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Jake Lee of Uppercent talks to Jillian Godsil about building the world's first NFT marketplace dedicated to e-learning on Flare
Lindsay Asmodt, head of marketing for Upland, talks about her journey from national ice skating champion into marketing the metaverse. Your host is Jillian Godsil
Thessy Mehrain, co founder of Liquality.ie, talks about raising $7 million in 2021 and how being a female founder influences her work - most notably in creating a workspace that is rich in diversity. She is also founder of Women of Blockchain in NYC which boasts 3500 members. Your host is Jillian Godsil
Bridget Greenwood, founder of the Bigger Pie and Co-founder of the 200bn.Club talks about the issues facing female founders raising money. Pre Covid in the UK only 3% of VC money went to female only founders and post pandemic that has fallen to 1.5%. Bridget talks about changing that up - for the betterment of all. Your host is Jillian Godsil
Ayelen hails from a strong corporate background working for companies such as Bain and Revolut - and is now working in a startup which last year raised $3.5 million. She speaks about the challenges of being a female founder looking to raise money in Web3
Students Mat Bartnik and Joe Smith are building Ireland on Minecraft - in this interview they explain how the project began and how work is progressing. Your host is Jillian Godsil
BTE Ireland are the team undertaking the task of building Ireland. Their discord currently has 2000 members which is managed by a small team of 6th year students. The members , with ages ranging from 16 to 21, have done incredible work so far; they have successfully coordinated many building teams to construct some amazing well known Irish buildings and landmarks , curated a virtual community, managed multiple remote teams, produced social media content and have been active in socialising internationally.
Beginning April 20th 2020 when Mateusz Bartnik, one lone Transition year student, discovered the worldwide project and realising that there was no Irish BTE team, decided to try to contact the team that were currently managing building Ireland. After weeks of trying to get in touch with no luck, Mateusz began inviting Irish members into an “unofficial BTE Ireland '' discord server he made. He spent the next 2 months convincing the team currently managing Ireland to hand the reins to him and the newly formed “Build the Earth Ireland” team. Proving themselves more than capable after growing their member count to over 200.
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Co-founders of Salsa, Helena and Grace met at a conference before deciding the work together - and talk to the host Jillian Godsil about the challenges and benefits of working as female founders - and raising funds.
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In this podcast we sit down with Sinead Marsh, Commercial Marketing Director, and Carole Gilkes, customer services director, of Service Express were speaking about the role of women in leading roles and the opening of their engineering facility into Ireland.
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Tammy Khan, co CEO and co Founder of FYEO charts her progress from a strategic communications and philosophy degree, via a family business selling antiques on ebay to co-leading a cyber security firm working with layer one blockchains. She ‘face planted’ into tech she says and loves it.
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Lisa Gibbons sits down with BigFan Co-founder Kurt to discuss his experience in the sporting world, fan engagement and how BigFan is working with Web3 technology to provide more interaction points for fans in the future.
Piotr Blazewicz, CEO and co founder of Coin Clash Games, talks about casual skill-based mobile games that can be played for money. In the background, reputation is maintained by recording all details on a blockchain. In addition, the platform is funded by tokens. Holders of those tokens can earn fiat from the revenue from the site. Holders can also vote on the direction of the platform.
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Hugo Philion, CEO and co founder of Flare Networks talks about the originals of the blockchain, the go live of the mainnet and the active community - A Blockchain of Data. In conversation with Jillian Godsil
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Lisa speaks with Mariana De La Roche, Regulatory Affairs Manager at IOTA
Mariana De La Roche is Regulatory Affairs Manager at IOTA, Co-Chair of the social impact and sustainability working group at INATBA.
We cover a wide range of topics in our conversation, including, community led projects, projects with a focus on agricultural and climate and Mariana's passion to speak about the social impact of blockchain technology. We also spoke about a more positive approach to regulation and the importance of encouraging dialogue. Mariana is helping to set standards and definitions of key concepts using blockchain solutions. See the following report from INATBA
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Lisa Gibbons speaks with Eddie Ibañez, CEO of LIFE Rewards, about democratizing Travel & Hospitality industry.
LIFE Rewards
LIFE Rewards offers hotel reservations which will be digitized and converted into tradable, collectible NFT’s. Based on AI now servicing a large online travel agency, LIFE will launch with discounted prices on millions of hotels globally. LIFE will be the first platform to make large volumes of hotel bookings available for trading on secondary markets, just as baseball or Broadway tickets are today. By creating liquidity in bookings, both hotels and travelers will get more flexibility and an improved booking experience. Users can pay via credit or debit card, and crypto payments will also be accepted.
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President Vit Jedlicka talks to Blockleaders host Jillian Godsil about how he set up his new country almost eight years ago with no bloodshed on the banks of the River Danube.
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Jillian Godsil speaks to crypto advisor Dinny Collins. Dinny is founder of Crypto with Dinny.
Jillian speaks to Dinny about his financial background, investing in himself and how to retire early. And lot's about surfing.
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Lisa Gibbons speaks to founder of Livetree Ashley Turing.
Ashley Turing is the founder of Livetree social network and has been in the blockchain industry since 2015. He has a computer science background with a proven track record developing and launching apps starting his career with the founder of Winamp, one of the first ever MP3 players.
He then went on to develop the first online lottery and architected big data systems for a number of tier-1 investment banks.
Ashley has deep experience with blockchain technology and machine learning especially within media and specifically media royalties.
He has featured for Livetree on Sky News, BBC and coordinated partnerships with leading blockchains (Unique, Polkadot, Celo, Moonbeam) and with the media channels and distributors (BBC Worldwide and Endemol Shine).
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Jillian Godsil meets CryptoHub founder Eliran Ouzan – an entrepreneur who believes crypto is 10 years behind Web2. At the start of our conversation, Eliran Ouzan makes two key observations. The first is that when he found Web3 he loved the sense of community, the real ability to be able to connect with a project and moreover react with it.
“Supporters of Web3 projects can make a real difference to the project – their voice is heard,” he points out. “They can communicate directly with the founders and in some cases vote directly on the direction of the project. This is not possible in Web2. For example, I might think Facebook is awesome but if I hold shares (unless I hold like a lot) I am not going to have any impact on the way the company is run.”
The second observation is that while the technology is tremendous the marketing is not. “Web3 began as a technically inspired philosophy with the emphasis on the tech. Even after 13 years and the growing momentum, the marketing is still way behind traditional Web2 companies.”
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Lisa Gibbons speaks to Giovanni Gargiulo, software engineer and CEO & Co-Founder of ArgusNFT about bringing credibility back to NFTs. In this week's Blockleaders podcast Lisa Gibbons learns about the latest tech protecting artists in the world of NFTs.
Giovanni's background Giovanni speaks to Lisa about his background in tech, which he has been working in for the last 14 years. Most recently he worked in ecommerce and machine learning. This is the experience he draws on for his current work at AgrusNFT. ArgusNFT Argus NFT is an AI powered NFT fake detection platform. It has eyes on different blockchains and scans for duplicate NFTs.
With these NFTs the technology can check which NFT was created first thus detecting which is a copy. It protects NFT artists work and protects buyers from buying a fake asset.
At the moment there is one recurring word in conversations about NFTs: scam. The mission, Giovanni says, is to give back credibility to the NFT industry.
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In this week's Blockleaders podcast Jillian Godsil speaks to Marc Meyer and James Kouzinas, directors of Crowdz.
In this episode we will learn about how fintech company Crowdz is changing the game for small and medium businesses. Marc and James talk to Jillian about Crowdz, the first invoice marketplace built specifically for small and mid-sized businesses.
Crowdz is helping businesses rethink invoices, cash flow, and trade finance to improve cashflow. By replacing outdated practices Crowdz helps small and medium businesses to reduce wasted time.
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In this week's Blockleaders podcast Jillian Godsil speaks to Baptiste Gréve, founder of Orbis Labs. Orbis is the web3 social software company founded by Baptiste Greve (former Edge & Node) and Charles Levecque (TikTok, Facebook). Its mission is to build the future of open social connectivity.
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Dan Sutherland speaks to Jillian about how web3 technology has enabled Self Group to bring the human concepts of trust into an online setting.
While building the company Dan and his team had lots of ideas about where they wanted the company to go. As well as building the concept of human trust, they wanted to create a service where people could consolidate the online versions of themselves into one electronic self.
How did blockchain become part of the business? When COVID hit Dan wanted to be proactive in protecting his company and his employees jobs as they were building the service. They had a shift in strategy and started focusing on R&D.
They looked what they already had and what new tech they could find.
Elements of blockchain aligned well with their goals, such as decentralization.
Jillian noted Dan's out of the box thinking and he gives credit to his dyslexia. He says a number of people on his team are dyslexic and he is a firm believer in dyslexic thinking giving a fresh perspective.
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Jillian Godsil interviews Rémi Tuyaerts, co-founder and core contributor of Alluo.
Remi talks to Jillian on this week's podcast about democratizing financial services. He believes that in a world so connected with telecommunications we should all have equal access to financial services.
People who lack access to basic financial services are forced to stay at the same income level that they have always been and lack the opportunities to build wealth, Remi says.
"It shouldn't be like this".
Crypto somewhat offers a solution to this but there are more elements that need to be taken into consideration and this is what Alluo is trying to do. Alluo is a DAO but users don't need to use or understand crypto. They will have all the benefits of crypto but not need the extensive knowledge required in normal crypto applications.
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CEO of Unique Networks Alex Mitrovitch joins Jillian Godsil on this week's Blockleaders podcast. Unique Networks is leading blockchains role in fighting clmate change and is partnered with COP27, currently taking place.
This episode Jillian and Alex talk about using blockchain for to help with some of the issues we have in the world today, one of these being climate change. Alex talks about some of the projects helping with the climate crisis in the space, such as Digital Art 4 Climate. This uses blockchain as a fundraising mechanism for climate change initiatives.
Listen to our previous podcasts about Digital Art 4 Climate where we interviewed Pauline Foessel and Irina Karagyuar.
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Jillian Godsil speaks to Seán Lynch, founder and developer of OpenLitterMap and Litter Coin.
In this week's Blockleaders Podcast we hear about OpenLitterMap and Litter Coin, an open source collecting geographic data on litter, brands and plastic pollution.
Founder Seán Lynch talks about how his background playing video games and his studies in geography in university came together to give him the 'ah-ha' moment he needed to create OpenLitterMap.
Thus he created a game type software where users can log litter and pollution and earn crypto in return. The data collected is openly available. Anyone can download the data for free, and use it for any purpose, without permission.
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Pauline Foessel is the curator and entrepreneur behind Artpool, an NFT platform where art enthusiasts can discover quality artworks curated by leading art world professionals.
Blockleaders editor Jillian Godsil speaks to Pauline about founding Artpool and how NFTs and web3 technology are helping in the traditional art world as well as the newer web3 art world.
Pauline tells Jillian about her work with Irina Karagyuar of Unique Networks on the Digital Art 4 Climate project. Digital Art 4 Climate is a multi-stakeholder partnership initiative using blockchain technology to turn art into digital assets or NFTs. The idea is to open up a socio-technological innovation space for climate empowerment.
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One human breath. This is the entire carbon impact of creating one NFT on the Unique Network, according to Irina Karagyaur on this week's Blockleaders Podcast. Lisa and Irina discuss sustainability, blockchain and NFTs.
They talk about:
-the importance of the Polkadot ecosystem in terms of sustainability
-why by-default sustainable solutions are superior to carbon offsetting measures
-harnessing the power of blockchain to prevent environmental impact
Can the blockchain reduce the impact of some of the worst polluting industries including the fashion industry? Irina explains how.
Irina is the Head of Ecosystem Growth and Business Development at Unique Network, where she leads the business growth activities for the organization. She focuses on establishing strategic partnerships and ecosystem building to enable bridging the off-chain world with the Metaverse.
She is the Head Ambassador for Western Europe of the Polkadot network, and also London’s Regional Co-Chair to FIBREE (Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise), co-coordinator of DigitalArt4Climate initiative.
Irina co-founded BQ9, a crypto-fintech boutique advisory firm that focuses on NFTs, and other Web 3.0 services.
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Jillian Godsil speaks to Nick Quirke about his background in digital marketing and how his interest in game development went from casual to co-founder.
They discuss the need for games to become chain agnostic or cross chain and about how Landbox.io is a game with something for everyone.
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Playember CEO Hugo Furneaux and CMO Jon Hook speak to Jillian Godsil about introducing the casual gamer to web3, the potential for broad adoption on mobile and using blockchain to make ad integration in free gaming a better and more integrative experience for everyone.
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Elias (Ilya) Zhurin is leading the OG Protocol project. This project is to create a tool to allow other projects to use dynamic NFTs. Dynamic NFTs are NFTs that change based on different parameters, data or information. Elias speaks to Lisa Gibbons about his work with OG protocol, learning curves in his career and his best piece of advice to any budding NFT project.
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Pawnfi is unveiled as the new official partner of Flare, a new Layer -1 blockchain which enables secure decentralized interoperability between chains and ecosystems. In this interview Jillian Godsil interviews Wesley about his background and the vision behind Pawnfi.
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In this week's podcast Jillian speaks to the CEO of DancingSeahorse.com. Alex Nahai speaks to Jillian about his passion for innovation in music, his career development from music producer to lawyer to music agent. He talks about where the name Dancing Seahorse comes from and how they also run a brick and mortar club in LA.
DancingSeahorse.com is lead sponsor for ZebuLive, taking place on September 22nd and 23rd 2022.
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On this week's podcast Alessandro De Grandi, CEO and founder of The Nemesis, talks to Jillian Godsil about his career journey from VR, furniture design, IT, healthcare and space to web3. They discuss his step by step approach to moving the web2 market into web3 and the rare beauty of having an entire new economy to explore.
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Nick Vale is Co-Founder of reNFT Labs and co-founder of Rumble League Studios. He speaks to Jillian Godsil about renting NFTs, scholarship managers and the growth of reNFT.
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Hipworth is a renowned NFT Artist and founder of Web3 music platform Djenerates. He has teamed up with Crypto Gibraltar to offer a world-class immersive experience. Hipworth worked as a digital artist and content creator in the music and entertainment industry for over 20 years now. He got involved in the electronic music industry by running warehouse parties in the late 90s.
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Samson is a senior emergency & finance strategist specializing in operations & technology, healthcare and financial services crisis management. Most recently, he joined the team at the Space Channel, as their head of anthropology and co-host of The Space Economy Show.
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Lisa Gibbons speaks to Peter Burgess ahead of Crypto Gibraltar on 22nd -24th Sept 2022.
Peter shares what we can expect at Crypto Gibraltar 2022. From merging a metaverse experience with the real world, to sightseeing tours Crypto Gibraltar is set to be a weekend not to miss.
Peter and Lisa talk about the importance of bringing the lessons from web2 into web3 and helping people find an entry point into the world of crypto. Listen to the end to find out Peter’s dream speaker to have at one of his events!