Metaversd: Recent Episodes
Victoria Delgado Trevino
Metaversd Podcast is dedicated to innovation and thought leadership at the intersection of Distributed Ledger Technologies, Web3.0 and the Metaverse. It explores how traditional business models are disrupted with the emergence of the digital asset economy. Specific focus is given to Blockchain Technologies, NFTs, DAOs and DeFi whilst touching on AI,IoT, 5G, AR and VR, as most of them converge in a new paradigm shift.
In this episode we are speaking with On Yavin, a Managing Partner at Cointelligence.fund, specializing in investing in Play-To-Earn (P2E) projects. Play-to-earn games are bringing digital identity, assets, and ownership into players’ hands as the gaming industry is becoming decentralised and embracing the technologies of Web 3.0
Today, almost 3 billion people around the world play video games, and there is an entire infrastructure around professional gaming with the very best of them are considered athletes: employed as salaried team members, sharing in prize money at tournaments, and commanding lucrative sponsorship agreements. Video games now represent a $336 billion industry. These games are also spearheading a recent development of the Metaverse by increasing convergence of the physical and digital worlds. Metaverse Market is projected to reach a size of US$758.6 Billion by 2026. On Yavin, a professional Gamer and Blockchain Educator and Investor will tell us about investment opportunities in the sector and give us his view on the future of the Metaverse.
In this episode we interview John Reynolds, Founder and COO of Coadjute, a software company which focuses on connecting property market players using blockchain technology, creating in essence an Enterprise version of the Metaverse. Coadjute could be described as SWIFT of the Property Market, without which the transactions would be unimaginable in the near future. John believes we would soon use smart contracts, digitised land titles, digital currency and digital identities which will allow rapid property transactions to happen online, creating a fully digitised property market.The company was born from the consulting work John did for the UK Land Registry back in 2018, an R&D project that focused on the applications of blockchain technology to streamline the homebuying process. John believes that blockchain technology will do to industries what middleware has done for organisations in the past.It will help the free flow of information between companies and identification of data without the need of middleware.
John got into blockchain as a hobby in 2016, buying and selling cryptocurrencies, and up to that point had spent his whole life in enterprise IT.
Highlights Coadjute: what is it and what are its plans for the future?
- They started off as consultants for a land registry R&D project in 2018. They worked with the UK property industry to use blockchain technology to make the homebuying process simpler, faster and cheaper.
- Dan Salmons, previous director at Natwest, joined Coadjute after the Land registry project. John worked with Dan and his team to explore the possibility of building a company which would become Coadjute, and Dan believed in the idea of the company so much that he joined them full time as the CEO.
- John is currently an Entrepreneur In Residence at R3 Corda, an enterprise distributed ledger technology company. Coudjute uses R3 Corda because of their need for transactions to be private whilst still allowing all participants of the transaction to be able to identify each other. This is something that R3 Croda has built into the framework.
- Coadjute helps their customers by connecting all real estate transaction players in the seamless way. They allow a free flow of information between lawyers, surveyors, estate agents, buyers and more, which makes the process of buying a house much more efficient. Before then, each of these different players would have their own software and there was no way to share information freely between the different softwares, meaning long telephone conversations and slow transactions. Coadjute has fixed this.
- Coadjute have already signed up 70% of all real estate platforms and 30% of conveyancing platforms in the UK. John is not surprised by this. Coadjute has now begun a full scale rollout into the UK real estate market. International expansion to the US and Australia is on the horizon.
The future of Real Estate
- John believes we would soon use smart contracts, digitised land titles, digital currency and digital identities which will allow rapid property transactions to happen online, creating a fully digitised property market.
- Central Bank Digital Currency will be coming to England soon, which would be great for the development and indoctrination of blockchain technology.
**Links:
John Reynolds www.linkedin.com/in/reynodes
Dan Salmons www.linkedin.com/in/dansalmons**
- Coadjute www.coadjute.com
- HM Land Registry www.gov.uk
- The Law Commission of the UK. www.lawcom.gov.uk
- Law Tech UK www.lawtechuk.io
Blockchain Technology meets Sustainability and disrupts Energy Markets and the way local communities generate, store and trade electricity leading the way to a Net Zero.
Guest Bio
Dr Jemma Green is Co-Founder and Chairman of Powerledger, a tech company that uses blockchain for energy and environmental commodity trading. Setting her career trajectory early on, Dr Green became the voice of sustainability and corporate social responsibility in the business of big money financing while at J.P. Morgan in London. She then went on to become a research fellow at Curtin University, was Deputy Lord Mayor of Perth, set up Australia's first fossil fuel free pension fund and has sat on numerous boards championing sustainable business. In 2016 Jemma co-founded Powerledger, which won Sir Richard Branson’s Extreme Tech Challenge. In 2018 Jemma was made EY Fintech Entrepreneur of the Year.
Hear how Dr Jemma Green is set to revolutionize energy markets by facilitating creation of grid- interactive buildings and peer-to-peer energy trading in the communities and cities. Dr Green will talk about how new residential developments and retrofitted existing portfolios of buildings become self-sustainable when embracing renewables and how our electric vehicles, like Tesla, could be used as a home battery to store excess energy.
Dr Green will reveal the business model of her company and how it utilizes its own Cryptocurrency (PowerToken) to raise money for the business, settle the transactions and offer customers significant savings. We will dive into why Blockchain technology is perfectly suited for trading energy, setting an example of how commodity trading companies could embrace Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency. Distributed nature of renewable energy production, which offers least impact on the grid, is matched with the distributed, immutable and borderless nature of blockchain technology. Powerledger is an example of traditional business focused on innovation that embraces Distributed Ledger Technology.
We will also talk about a controversial topic of energy consumption by Blockchain networks, United Nations Energy Compact and commitment by companies and nations to achieve clean affordable energy by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050, as well as the role of Global Blockchain Business Council or GBBC in the evolution of this emerging technology.
This episode is also packed with three mini-lectures from Victoria Delgado Trevino.
Victoria’s mini lectures
- Victoria explains what cryptocurrency mining is, and how it is integral to blockchain creation. She also explains the difference between “Proof of Work” and “Proof of Stake” mining protocols and how the transition to “Proof of Stake” protocol will reduce the energy consumption of blockchains and their environmental impact.
- Victoria talks about how cryptography works and how secure cryptocurrency is currently, touching on how quantum computers in the future may pose a threat to that. She explains the cryptographic equations and math behind this fear.
- Victoria talks about block subsidy, and the other technical aspects of bitcoin mining. She describes why miners do the work they do in maintaining the Bitcoin blockchain.
Guest Bio
David Palmer is a Digital Visionary and Blockchain Lead for Vodafone Business. He has worked in the IoT sector for 10 years and has been instrumental in the Vodafone Business assessment and exploration of Blockchain technology and its potential to add value in the IoT ecosystem. More recently David has been exploring the application and integration of finance, payments and telco technologies in the emerging transition from Internet of Things to Economy of Things and is responsible for the development of a ground-breaking Digital Asset Broker Platform.
There are 6.1 billion smartphones in circulation on the globe, which will go up to nearly 9 billion by 2034. With this amount of coverage, telecom companies like Vodafone will help bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds and connect people to the Metaverse.
The combination of DAOs, DeFi and Smart Contracts could push us into a new industrial revolution. We hear of Web 3.0, but with this may come as Industry 5.0.
As we are entering an era of Digital Assets, Token Economy and the Metaverse how our wearable devices, such as phones will give us access to this new world? And what is your Business Metaverse Strategy?
Hear how leading investment banks such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are planning to capitalise on the Metaverse opportunity and how CBDCs or Central Banks Digital Currencies will accelerate adoption of crypto and turbocharge Digital Asset Economy. David Palmer and Victoria Delgado Trevino unpack the blueprint of the Metaverse and it’s key challenges, touch on the future of Real Estate Tokenisation and Shared Mobility as well as the fact that there has never been a better time for building in inclusive industry, which is colour blind, gender blind and borderless.
Start Thinking Big and learning about the latest trends now or you will be left behind.
Guest Bio
Adonis Zachariades is the co-founder of Renovi, an NFT marketplace for architects and designers. He has an academic background as an economist and financial analyst, wrote his thesis on cryptocurrency, and created Renovi to combine his passion for NFTs with his interest in Architecture.The Metaverse opportunity could be over US$10 trillion by 2034, and with some big announcements by Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft recently the battle to shape the Metaverse has began.
RENOVI is designed to become a major player in providing Digital Assets for the Metaverse. It will become ‘the go to’ marketplace for people working across architectural, 3D design and property development sectors. We will talk about the future of Metaverse and the opportunities Architectural practices will have in creating Digital Built Environments in Metaverse. This is a future of Digital Twins as you have never imagined!