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People want to feel supported and safe at work – and inspired to innovate. What can people working at large corporations do to create this kind of environment? Saskia Mureau is the Director of Customer Digital at the Port of Rotterdam where she is harnessing digital systems to reduce emissions. She is passionate about creating inclusive workplaces where psychological safety and collaboration drive meaningful change. In this episode, Kamila sits down with Suchi to talk about why she chose to work at large corporations rather than startups. Saskia also reflects on her personal experiences, including navigating IVF while at work, and discusses how organizations can foster environments where employees feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Links: Saskia Mureau on Linkedin WHO infertility research BCG 2024 report on psychological safety in the workplace Suchi Srinivasan on LinkedIn Kamila Rakhimova on LinkedIn About In Her Ellement: In Her Ellement highlights the women and allies leading the charge in digital, business, and technology innovation. Through engaging conversations, the podcast explores their journeys—celebrating successes and acknowledging the balance between work and family. Most importantly, it asks: when was the moment you realized you hadn’t just arrived—you were truly in your element? About The Hosts: Suchi Srinivasan is an expert in AI and digital transformation. Originally from India, her career includes roles at trailblazing organizations like Bell Labs and Microsoft. In 2011, she co-founded the Cleanweb Hackathon, a global initiative driving IT-powered climate solutions with over 10,000 members across 25+ countries. She also advises Women in Cloud, aiming to create $1B in economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs by 2030. Kamila Rakhimova is a fintech leader whose journey took her from Tajikistan to the U.S., where she built a career on her own terms. Leveraging her English proficiency and international relations expertise, she discovered the power of microfinance and moved to the U.S., eventually leading Amazon's Alexa Fund to support underrepresented founders. Subscribe to In Her Ellement on your podcast app of choice to hear meaningful conversations with women in digital, business, and technology.…
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محتوای ارائه شده توسط Fortune Teller Podcast. تمام محتوای پادکست شامل قسمتها، گرافیکها و توضیحات پادکست مستقیماً توسط Fortune Teller Podcast یا شریک پلتفرم پادکست آنها آپلود و ارائه میشوند. اگر فکر میکنید شخصی بدون اجازه شما از اثر دارای حق نسخهبرداری شما استفاده میکند، میتوانید روندی که در اینجا شرح داده شده است را دنبال کنید.https://fa.player.fm/legal
Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are talking with Corey Petty, Chief Security Officer of Status. Status is a protected messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser created with top of the line technology. All of this is incorporated into a strong app for private and protected communications. The status app incorporates an open-source, peer-to-peer protocol, as well as end-to-end encryption to secure your messages from third parties. The users control their messages, and can send 1:1 private chats, private group chats, and join or create public channels to connect with their communities. Seamlessly incorporated with the crypto wallet, Status lets anyone, anywhere, send global payments directly in a chat. Users even have the options to send expressive stickers without a middle man. In addition, users can create their own packs and earn SNT in the decentralized sticker marketplace. Some of the benefits of using Status include: No phone number, email address, or bank account required when creating your free Status Account. Removal of centralized choke points protects your messages from censoring third parties. Status is both free (libre) open source software that can be reviewed by anyone, and free (no cost) to install. By using a peer-to-peer network, not centralized servers for the exchanging of messages, communications are yours and yours alone. Status offers increased privacy with end-to-end encryption (e2ee) on all users private messages automatically. Only the user and their intended recipient can view the messages – not even Status. Status implements an adapted version of the double ratchet algorithm for perfect forward secrecy. Protect your past and future messages even in the event of your current encryption keys becoming compromised. Status implements Waku to give privacy-preserving routing and messaging on top of devP2P. Waku uses topics to structure users messages, and these are rendered for all chat capabilities. As anyone can receive Waku envelopes, it relies on the capability to decrypt messages to determine the correct recipient. This is in order to provide routing, metadata protection, topic-based multicasting and basic encryption properties to support asynchronous chat. Other popular messaging apps--including Signal and Telegram—have clients talk to servers which are generally trusted, available and aware of how to route messages to other clients. Status messenger, however, uses decentralized P2P networks which don’t have servers and clients. Decentralized P2P messaging aims to remove centralized intermediaries, removing of single points of failure and increased resistance to censorship. Messages hop across multiple peers and proceed to hop even after reaching their recipient because peers do not know who the intended recipient is. To learn more about Corey Petty visit: Company Website: https://status.im/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ethstatus Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethstatus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/statusim LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/status.im/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/
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محتوای ارائه شده توسط Fortune Teller Podcast. تمام محتوای پادکست شامل قسمتها، گرافیکها و توضیحات پادکست مستقیماً توسط Fortune Teller Podcast یا شریک پلتفرم پادکست آنها آپلود و ارائه میشوند. اگر فکر میکنید شخصی بدون اجازه شما از اثر دارای حق نسخهبرداری شما استفاده میکند، میتوانید روندی که در اینجا شرح داده شده است را دنبال کنید.https://fa.player.fm/legal
Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are talking with Corey Petty, Chief Security Officer of Status. Status is a protected messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser created with top of the line technology. All of this is incorporated into a strong app for private and protected communications. The status app incorporates an open-source, peer-to-peer protocol, as well as end-to-end encryption to secure your messages from third parties. The users control their messages, and can send 1:1 private chats, private group chats, and join or create public channels to connect with their communities. Seamlessly incorporated with the crypto wallet, Status lets anyone, anywhere, send global payments directly in a chat. Users even have the options to send expressive stickers without a middle man. In addition, users can create their own packs and earn SNT in the decentralized sticker marketplace. Some of the benefits of using Status include: No phone number, email address, or bank account required when creating your free Status Account. Removal of centralized choke points protects your messages from censoring third parties. Status is both free (libre) open source software that can be reviewed by anyone, and free (no cost) to install. By using a peer-to-peer network, not centralized servers for the exchanging of messages, communications are yours and yours alone. Status offers increased privacy with end-to-end encryption (e2ee) on all users private messages automatically. Only the user and their intended recipient can view the messages – not even Status. Status implements an adapted version of the double ratchet algorithm for perfect forward secrecy. Protect your past and future messages even in the event of your current encryption keys becoming compromised. Status implements Waku to give privacy-preserving routing and messaging on top of devP2P. Waku uses topics to structure users messages, and these are rendered for all chat capabilities. As anyone can receive Waku envelopes, it relies on the capability to decrypt messages to determine the correct recipient. This is in order to provide routing, metadata protection, topic-based multicasting and basic encryption properties to support asynchronous chat. Other popular messaging apps--including Signal and Telegram—have clients talk to servers which are generally trusted, available and aware of how to route messages to other clients. Status messenger, however, uses decentralized P2P networks which don’t have servers and clients. Decentralized P2P messaging aims to remove centralized intermediaries, removing of single points of failure and increased resistance to censorship. Messages hop across multiple peers and proceed to hop even after reaching their recipient because peers do not know who the intended recipient is. To learn more about Corey Petty visit: Company Website: https://status.im/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ethstatus Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethstatus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/statusim LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/status.im/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/
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×Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Jay Fraser, Head of Strategy for BSTX. The goal of BSTX, a regulated exchange, is to make a way for a public exchange that is less tangled and with less resistance. BSTX is powered by tZERO technology and is jointly owned by BOX Digital Markets and tZERO. At the moment, the way to take a company public is complex and the benefits for small businesses does not always surpass the expenses that are involved with taking the business public. While the technological advancements have brought a lot of progression, it has overlooked the chance to improve on the process. Current technology companies are still following the procedures to go public in a near congruent method that the old rail and industrial companies have used for decades, which is a complicated and ineffective process. BSTX will use blockchain for making an easy exchange with price discovery to potentially encourage more firms to go public, allowing them to reach new investors. In return, investors profit in gaining admittance to previously closely held assets. A regulated exchange, like BSTX, allows for the future to better the current incumbent options and permit the offering of price discovery, corporate governance and investor protection, and a simpler path to an IPO. A securities exchange is open to all individuals and not limited to merely accredited and institutional investors. This provides issuers exposure to a larger number and a more diverse amount of investors. BSTX will operate as a facility of BOX Exchange LLC, a national securities exchange that is registered with the Securities Exchange Commission. BSTX shall be a fully automated, price/time priority execution system for the trading of select equity securities, such as exchange traded products (“ETPs”). The current system for companies to take their firms public, like via IPO (Initial Public Offering) is way too complicated to navigate and often too expensive for the average small to medium business owner to use. The entire process does not lend itself to smaller firms seeking investors. BSTX will make a way for them to publicly list their shares that is less complicate and with less resistance. Securities traded on BSTX will usually be obligatory in being registered with the SEC under both Section 12 of the Exchange Act and Section 6 of the Securities Act of 1933. To become a BSTX Participant, the applicant will complete a BSTX Participant Application to be approved by BOX Exchange. Upon approval, the participant will start the onboarding process with the technical team. For more: https://bstx.com/ https://twitter.com/bstxllc https://www.linkedin.com/company/bstx-llc/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Emre Tekisalp, CEO of O(1) Labs. O(1) Labs current projects are Mina, the world’s lightest blockchain, that is powered by participants, and snarky, an Ocaml front-end for writing R1CS Snarks. Snarky is modular over the backend SNARK library, and comes with backends from libsnark. Mina is the world’s lightest blockchain, at 22kb, letting users quickly and directly access the current state on their smartphone and other blockchains, powered by the users. Mina uses zero knowledge technology, to make for a secure and democratic future we all deserve. One can build on Mina with zkApps, smart contracts made possible by zero knowledge. The SDK is based on Typescript. Users today are compelled to provide their data to centralized entities in order to participate in the modern world. Even in the decentralized side of crypto, there are growing efforts to compel users to give up their data to be able to engage in the crypto space. Mina differs from these centralized crypto businesses with zkApps, smart contracts powered by zero knowledge, to help keep the users in control of their privacy by confirming and sharing proofs of their data, rather than the data itself. You provide proof of your data, as opposed to the data itself. This helps to reduce the chances for your personal information to be hacked or sold. This allows you to be the only owner of your data. With Mina’s light size and off-chain nature of zkapp smart contract computations, Mina’s proof system can be easy to use on other chains. Currently, a bridge is being established between Mina and Ethereum, with the progress that is made here to go towards building trustless bridges on other chains as well. This will help dapps on other chains to make use of the privacy-preserving data verification, as well as the prompt proofs of huge computations and covert login features of Mina’s zkApps. Mina’s zkApps can securely connect with any website and access verified actual data for use on-chain. This allows developers to leverage data on the internet and then bring it on-chain. All of this is done without ever risking the privacy of their users. Many blockchains have become so heavy, that intermediaries are needed to run nodes, which breaks from the primary decentralization promise of blockchain, thus leaving these networks to be more susceptible to a 51% attack. Since Mina’s 22kb blockchain is so light, this means that anyone has the opportunity to easily connect peer-to-peer and formalize transactions like a full node, guaranteeing powerful censorship-resistance and security for the blockchain. For more: https://www.o1labs.org/ https://minaprotocol.com/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
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1:02:30In this Twitter Spaces we explore the impact of blockchain and crypto in helping financial systems be resistant to crisis. The speakers include Robbie Heeger, President and CEO of Endaoment, Aleks Larsen, General Partner at Blockchain Capital, and Teller Founder and CEO Ryan Berkun. Hosted by Teller Global Community Lead, Marlon Fuentes.…
Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Ryan Sheftel, CEO of Radkl. Radkl is a new quantitative trading firm bringing institutional-grade experience from Wall Street to the crypto markets by applying quantitative models to digital assets across blockchains. These quantitative methods include sophisticated, high-speed, computerized trading models for the purposes to invest in cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and the “decentralized finance” sectors. With Radkl, one will be able to use electronic market-making on crypto exchanges, with citing prices for an asset during the course of the day and profiting off of the spread between the prices at which the crypto currencies buys and sells. In addition, Radkl aims to be able to execute bilateral trades of digital assets with other companies, such as crypto hedge funds. Radkl is a company that will begin to start proprietary trading in digital assets, from bitcoin to the fast-growing decentralized finance market. In addition, the firm could make trades that keep prices of the ETFs in line with the crypto currency. Radkl is focusing in on building a team of engineers, data scientists and other world-class technologists to accomplish these, and other goals. One of the largest investors into Radkl is Steven Cohen, the billionaire hedge fund manager of Point 72 Asset Management. Radkl is being launched by partners of GTS, a company that trades as much as a billion shares of U.S. stocks a day. It should be noted that Steven Cohen will not be involved in the day-to-day operations of Radkl. It is the support of investors like Cohen, and the involvement of large institutions that have helped to propel the market for crypto to reach new heights, and it is with Radkl that they will be able to reach their goals. Radkl’s goals include the pioneering and implementing of radical alterations in financial technology as will yield unequaled ratios in the global markets and their respective economies. As cryptocurrencies as a market has reached a $2 trillion asset class, the market is still in the very early stages of institutional adoption. When additional professional investors enter the crypto market, the need arises for an institutional player like Radkl to engage in more digital asset transactions. There is no other firm with the proven finance and technology expertise of Radkl in the crypto space at this point. Radkl has both the capabilities and the passion to be a fundamental player in the evolution of both Centralized Finance and Decentralized Finance. For more: https://radkl.io/ https://twitter.com/radklcrypto https://www.linkedin.com/company/radkl/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Vaughan Smith, Chief Operating Officer of Bitso. Bitso is a digital exchange system that offers security and allows users to Purchase and Sell Digital Currencies among one another. A user places Buy or Sale orders in the Bitso market, where they are sold to others who wish to Buy or Sell. Bitso Shift is a new option to send, receive, and convert money in different currencies. Your money can cross international borders with the lowest fees. Some options you can do on Bitso include sending and receiving money between the US and Mexico, save USD, and convert USD to MXN with no fees. Bitso Shift helps users to send and receive wire transfers between the US and Mexico, transactions that are normally international, as if they were local. With the integration of Circle’s group, Bitso Shift allows people to wire transfers in a groundbreaking, handy, and fast way. This helps you overcome the traditional banking bureaucracy and headaches. Circle’s group is a regulated money transmitter in the US. Bitso Shift has partnered with Circle’s group to receive, process, and direct USD wires to the receiver of the money. Bitso Shift is currently open for transactions between the US and Mexico. Regardless of if you own a company or simply need to send or receive USD, Bitso Shift has the lowest fees and is the easiest method. Bitso Shift uses USD stablecoins. These are cryptocurrencies that are pegged or backed by the United States Dollar. As such, they help protect users from the volatility of cryptocurrencies and fluctuation in value. Bitso Shift provides 3 main levels within the system, each having certain requirements for the users to comply with. Before upgrading to the next level, Bitso Shift will handle a “Know Your Customer” procedure and use it to verify the identity of our customers to prevent Identity Theft, Financial Fraud, Money Laundering, and other situations. Bitso uses coupons that are codes that are created or redeemed within the platform to deposit or withdraw funds. The coupons allow for transferring funds to another Bitso user, requiring the generation of a coupon and then transferring it to another person so that they can redeem it. The coupons are also for withdrawing funds from your Bitso account. One can redeem the code whenever one decides to do so. Remember that if you lose your coupon, it may not be recovered. For more: https://bitso.com/ https://www.youtube.com/bitso https://www.facebook.com/BitsoGlobal https://twitter.com/bitso https://instagram.com/bitso https://t.me/Bitso_Global -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Ivan Ravlich, Co-Founder and CEO of Hypernet Labs. Hypernet Labs is a cyber infrastructure business creating advanced solutions for both digital commerce, and value transfer. By revolutionizing computer fabric, digital payments, and identities, Hypernet will make increased access to Web 3.0 to both new and experienced users. For corporate customers, you can have identity and compliance requirements via Hypernet’s Web 3, blockchain-based resolution for decentralized applications (dApps), NFTs, and a multitude of business dealing with today’s complex regulatory demands. Hypernet.ID creates a frictionless and auditable instrumentation for certifying and identifying customers on-chain. Hypernet.ID handles all of the required Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering demands with multiple facets. For customer identification: Government issued identity document verification and authentication Facial recognition and matching to the identity document presented by the users Address extraction IP address recognition Regarding Customer Due Diligence: Sanction checks Politically exposed persons checks Adverse media and social media scans And for Ongoing Monitoring: Daily customer screening The Hypernet.ID NFT is burned if a user no longer passes checks Hypernet.ID substantiates government issued IDs in more than 230 nations and uses biometric-based identity confirmations and liveness checks to match the individual to the ID. Once the individual is identified, the potential user is screened in real-time against thousands of global sanctions lists. Once the checks are complete, an on-chain, non-transferrable NFT is minted to their crypto wallet. Hypernet.ID is GDPR and CCPA compliant. Hypernet mints everyone’s Hypernet.ID NFT directly to their wallet on the blockchain. The NFT can then be used instantly by the smart contracts of your dApp or website. Integration efforts for your customer verification are now made easier. Include your tailored Hypernet.ID link in your dApp or website. Users are then directed to Hypernet.ID’s identity confirmation and AML checks. Upon completion, they will be redirected back to your app or site. With new users, this takes minutes to complete. For users who are returning, this takes seconds to execute. For developers, the smart contracts of your dApp access the publicly available, non-transferrable NFT of the user and interact with their account, serving to guarantee that any transfer of value obeys the applicable regulations. Customer’s identities that are submitted are used by Jumio to verify their identity. Details are checked and – if verified – only the company requesting the verification will receive their ID information. The user can burn their NFT at anytime. For more: https://hypernetlabs.io https://hypernet.id/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/gohypernet/ https://twitter.com/GoHypernet https://www.facebook.com/GoHypernet/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller podcast is Robbie Heeger, CEO of Endaoment. Endaoment, which launched in the fall of 2020, is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity providing philanthropic financial services to the crypto space. In 2021, the organization experienced more than 100x growth in donations received and grants distributed, and has raised more than $37M for charities across the United States. Endaoment is making it possible for crypto investors to more easily engage with philanthropy by allowing them to make tax-deductible donations of more than 150 different cryptocurrencies without first having to liquidate their holdings, building what they call a “public good infrastructure” on the Ethereum blockchain." For more: https://app.endaoment.org https://facebook.com/endaomentdotorg https://twitter.com/endaomentdotorg https://linkedin.com/company/endaoment -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller podcast is Josh Rogers, CEO of Minterest. Minterest aims to offer the highest long term yield in DeFi. The Minterest lending protocol passes on all surplus created directly to its users, providing their best interest. By running its own on-chain settlement and buyback mechanisms, the Minterest protocol automatically disperses the worth it acquires from interest rate, flash loan and liquidation fees to the community. It does this via MNT tokens that it buys on-market, ensuring your highest long-term yields. To ensure users can trust Minterest, Minterest’s auditing procedures are relentless, made to push the qualifications of asset security and secure long-term yields, ensuring your best interest. The asset security is overseen by an array of best-of-class auditors. All of Minterest is designed to make certain that your yield is protected for the long term. Real transparency is because Minterst is not only rigorously audited and backed by the most robust code in the world, its functional clarity gives you total peace of mind. A user-centric layout provides a personal portfolio, along with risk analysis tools, assisting the user to make sophisticated risk and reward decisions with assurance. As users investigate DeFi lending, there's a huge level of opacity when it comes to liquidations. Lenders and borrowers are not provided with sufficient and elaborate data to truly understand their risk profile. At best, one is supposed to know what can be extremely important and oftentimes complicated lending portfolios, with a simple traffic light risk analysis system. These people are supposed to use green, orange and red markers to measure their risk profile, without actually and fully understanding what the colour codes mean. The layperson can see that this is not running in people's highest needs. If one views DeFi lenders through a hypercritical lens, it’s simple to determine that the ones benefiting the most are not the users, but a small group who are profiting from opportunist liquidation methods. Current DeFi options have huge tensions between properly serving their users and ensuring protocol solvency. Solvency means always having enough liquidators circling to start liquidation events, especially during periods of high price fluxes. In turn, these platforms must make sure liquidation fees are profitable enough for liquidators, as well as assuring that liquidation events consistently occur to ensure there will be a steady flow of liquidations. The Minterest protocol manages liquidation functions automatically. The key advantage, beyond Minterest capturing all liquidation fee value, is that Minterest doesn’t need liquidators constantly circling it. Minterest can then authentically answer to its users and truly look after their interests without compromising solvency. Company Website:https://www.minterest.com Social Media: Twitter:https://twitter.com/Minteres LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/minterest/ Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/Minterest -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller podcast is Nick Rose Ntersas, Founder & CEO of Ethernity. Ethernity is the World’s First Authenticated and Licensed NFT platform, providing well-known name brands and Intellectual Properties in sports, content, collectibles, and technology to the blockchain by providing NFTs utility in Web3 and the Metaverse. In addition, Ethernity has announced native mobile apps for iOS and Android. The mobile app will be the first app to offer an omni channel approach to allow users for full cross-platform compatibility. This game changing app allows users in the Ethernity community to experience the seamless access to their user profiles, buy NFT packs via in-app digital currency, as well as the opportunities to enter to win free prizes with the use of the wheel spin feature. In addition, Ethernity allows users Polygon Bridging. By using Polygon Bridging, one can participate in the upcoming drops, using their Ethernity account and wallet to connect and bridge ERN/ETH to Polygon, the protocol, and framework to build and connect Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks. Additionally, one may acquire ERN with MATIC with the QuickSwap DEX on Polygon. Users may browse for aNFTs on the marketplace, using ERN or WETH, on either the Ethereum or Polygon networks. Ethernity is a community-oriented platform that offers limited edition authenticated NFTs (aNFTs) and trading cards produced by top ranked artists and endorsed by notable figures. One can acquire these exclusive aNFTs by auction or direct sales. Ethernity will build the most privileged aNFT library and will reward its artists and the Ethernity community. ERN, the Ethernity’s utility token, lets holders bid on and purchase rare aNFTs, physical collectibles, stake, farm for rewards, and partake in virtual and real-world experiences and events. A percentage of the sales yields may go to our charity partners. Ethernity teams up with famous brands, athletic icons and media figures, and world famous digital artists, to create NFTs. Buyers and the winners of auctions then claim their aNFTs and qualify for real-life unlockables. Authenticated NFTs are discharged in limited editions for sale on Ethernity. aNFT hodlers can sell their collections on the Ethernity marketplace. With ERN, users buy select aNFTs solely acquirable with ERN, while also having the opportunity to farm to earn Stones, that can be redeemed to buy exclusive NFTs. Ethernity locks 75% of profit from sales into ERN long-term, aiding the staking pool and rewards potential for the users. Users can currently acquire ERN on Binance, OKEx, KuCoin, Uniswap, Gate.io, and Quickswap. Company Website:https://www.ethernity.io Social Media: Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/EthernityChain Twitter:https://twitter.com/ethernitychain LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethernity-chain/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/ethernity/ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuzqvauB21tABl_TSz761kQ TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@ethernitychain Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/EthernityChain/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
The Future of Digital Assets with Jack McDonald Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller is Jack McDonald, CEO of PolySign. Polysign’s mission is to drive global use of digital assets, creating best-in-class infrastructure to enable institutions to secure and transact in digital assets across the capital markets and payments sectors. PolySign's technology engine has been designed for securing digital assets. This third generation, proprietary, private blockchain technology is the foundation to the development of digital asset infrastructure. PolySign provides patented, systemic security that enables best-in-class storage, transactions, and payments. The developed proprietary, next-generation blockchain technology will be the foundation to the creation of secure, trusted digital asset infrastructure, with the goal to make the digital assets market open for institutional investors. PolySign’s unique crypto-fintech team brings together luminaries in digital assets and technology, with proven leadership from financial services. As such, a lot of progress has been made in creating the international standard for institutional digital asset custody and settlement. They aim to integrate with current financial organizations and global markets, and rigorously clasp the best standards for regulation, being purpose-built to support them, devoted to acting with integrity and trust for our entire relationship. Global maturation and acceptance of digital assets will only happen when they can be reliably secured. To bring about the future of digital assets, PolySign developed its own institutional-grade custody solution. PolySign supports multiple digital assets, along with offering institutional-level custodial and infrastructure support, providing asset managers and exchanges with secure, international, multi-currency and convenient installations to reach their full potency. With all of the digital assets growing and maturing, institutional investors need trustworthy custody and trading options that match their needs that investing in traditional securities have. Institutions are gaining momentum in the digital asset space, PolySign is at the forefront to seriously increase market-facing capabilities in providing groundbreaking solutions to capital markets. PolySign is quickly placing itself as the leader for creating institutional strength custody and settlement infrastructure for digital assets. The security program, via a subsidiary, uses proprietary blockchain technology, end-to-end encryption, along with apportioned trust protocols that are to protect secret keys. PolySign is answering institutional investors’ accelerating requirements for secure, compliant access to the multi-trillion dollar crypto and digital asset markets, including the goals to incorporate next-generation digital banking technology into non-conflicted sales and trading systems. PolySign has raised a total of $80.2M in funding, including raising funds from Cowen Group and Blockchain.com Ventures. The funding has included seed, Series A, Venture Round, and Series B. Company Website:https://www.polysign.io/ Social Media: Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054682483068 Twitter:https://twitter.com/polysigninc LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/polysign -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on Fortune Teller is Robert Materazzi, CEO of Lukka. Lukka provides data and software solutions to handle crypto assets on infrastructure built for the future of commerce. Firms like State Street, Polychain, and eToro are among the customers that leverage Lukka’s Enterprise Software and Data to streamline crypto asset data, support NAV reporting monthly for over 50 crypto hedge funds across the globe. Lukka is the leading crypto asset and crypto asset data management firm to simplify middle and back-office operations. Lukka’s infrastructure is AICPA SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II compliant, providing customers with a comprehensive, secure, and scalable framework. Lukka provides institutional-quality crypto asset data with comprehensive coverage, accuracy, and completeness. Lukka provides organizations with Lukka Pricing and Reference Data, Market Data Feeds, Asset Classification, or Custom Solutions. For tax and business reporting, Lukka offers tailored business data reporting powered by Lukka’s robust processing and reporting engine. Lukka can also create custom solutions, with leading crypto data experts to help provide a custom-tailored solution for your business needs. The Problem When Trident Trust, a global leader in the fund administration space, first entered crypto in 2017, they had to acquire clients’ crypto transactional data via methods that were cumbersome and unsustainable (i.e., manual input, files, screenshots, etc.). Trident used spreadsheets to apply price and derive the trading activity value. Trident to manually transform the data into a format that was easy to understand by traditional fund accounting systems. The Solution In 2018 Trident became Lukka’s first fund administration customer. Lukka provided Trident with support for fund data collection, account balance calculations, and valuation for crypto-fiat spot trades. The Lukka Enterprise Software assisted Trident with data transformation and delivered standardized reports in a format that is directly loaded into Trident’s accounting system. Lukka now helps Trident support crypto spot transactions, derivative transactions such as options/futures/swaps, lending, and staking activity, as well as transactions occurring on many Ethereum-based DeFi protocols. The Results Automated transaction data input and account balance reconciliation for over 50 crypto hedge funds. The delivery of pricing and valuation data for more than 700 crypto assets used to support monthly NAV calculations. Automated reporting processes for each fund client that is formatted for direct upload into Trident’s primary accounting system without any manual intervention or data. Lukka also offers LukkaTax for Professionals for your practice’s needs. Our cloud software supports single-practitioner firms, up to firms with hundreds of individual CPAs and tax practitioners. Company Website:https://lukka.tech Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukka_inc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lukka YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWCGDbplXyKZh3IoA6B1xVw LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lukka-inc -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on Fortune Teller is Jacobo Toll-Messia, CEO of Nahmii. Nahmii is an Ethereum interoperable layer 2 scaling solution. Nahmii offers instant finality, predictable fees, and as well as commercial readiness. Nahmii believes Ethereum will be the foundation for Web3. However, while Ethereum does have many strengths, it does have some major challenges. These include: Low throughput High, unpredictable fees Latency Delayed finality In order to address these challenges, Nahmii will implement Ethereum’s security under a high-speed, low-cost execution layer. Nahmii scales any decentralized application to a global level. Nahmii makes DeFi projects, fintech solutions, industrial IoT integrations, supply chain management, oracle solutions, NFT platforms, and more production-ready. Rate of traditional databases, more than any other existing layer 2 solution, via the use of horizontal scaling. By using state pool technology, Nahmii eliminates the time between providing a transaction and network’s first confirmation. In removing the need to commit to a base layer for finality, Nahmii’s state-channel architecture allows for instant finality. Fees are always known before the transaction. It is well-known that fees on Ethereum discourages both users and developers. Nahmii’s low transaction fees allow users and developers to explore dApps, without prohibitive costs. Nahmii’s greatest creation is a technological breakthrough called “state pools.” State pools bring the instant finality of state channels, along with the pooled security of side chains and rollups. In combining both of these, Nahmii has instant transactions that are also secure. Nahmii 2.0 uses generalized smart contracts on the network, opening up the opportunities for almost infinite dApp innovation. Nahmii offers security from bad actors at all levels, securing transactions and user funds from beginning to end on Ethereum. In order to be certain that users can properly challenge fraud, Nahmii had to solve the “data availability problem.” To do so, we created a decentralized oracle in where the smart contract can verify that data is available. Nahmii permits developers to create their application layer on top of Ethereum, using familiar tools. The Nahmii virtual machine makes the work done by others, enabling compatibility with Ethereum smart contracts. For developers that have worked with Ethereum, they can use what they already know to start building. For new developers, learning resources are plentiful. Nahmii provides for users to earn yield, while at the same time, strengthening Nahmii, and in enabling the next generation of the Web. Two projects using Nahmii are NiiFi, a decentralized crypto exchange, and Fjord Maritime, a technical supplier to the aquaculture market. To learn more about Jacobo Toll-Messia, visit: Company Website: https://www.nahmii.io/ Discord: https://discord.com/invite/GKTsUTH Twitter: https://twitter.com/nahmii_io GitHub: https://github.com/hubiinetwork Telegram: https://t.me/nahmii -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today on Fortune Teller Podcast we are talking with Sergey Gorbunov, Co-Founder of Axelar Network. The Axelar Network brings Decentralized Interoperability to Ethereum, Cosmos Avalanche, Terra, Moonbeam and others, by unlocking cross-chain communications. Blockchain platform builders can plug-in their blockchain ecosystem to all other blockchain ecosystems. Dapp builders can host their dapps anywhere, as well as lock, unlock, and transfer assets, and speak with dapps on other chains via Axelar API. Users are able to interact with all applications across each blockchain’s ecosystem right from their wallet. Axelar is empowered by a decentralized and open network of validators. Any user can join, use it, and partake in the Axelar protocol. Byzantine consensus, cryptography, and incentives are used to ensure high-safety and liveness needs for cross-chain requests. The network is a universal platform to connects all blockchains via a decentralized network and an SDK of protocols and APIs. With the network and SDK, developers can effectively make new connections and implement their dapps with all blockchain ecosystems. This creates greater access to users, assets, liquidity, and many other applications. Axelar differs from similar projects in that current projects work on interoperability within their own ecosystems. They generally lack methods to connect external blockchains based off of different consensus rules and software stacks. The need to provide interoperability in the wider crypto ecosystem has been met with unproven centralized point-to-point bridging options created in the market. Axelar gives a complete solution to cross-chain interactions that is made to be interoperable with any chain. This allows for plug-and-play connectivity with little work to integrate new chains, and is made to be decentralized. Axelar features cross-chain routing and application-level transfer protocols. This lets builders access all interconnected chains via the Axelar network. This results in allowing developers to build on the best platforms that suit their needs and use global liquidity and composability. Due to being decentralized, it is open for anyone to participate in. Being universal in connecting, it is possible to scale across arbitrary Layer 1, Layer 2, Proof of Work (PoW) or Proof of Stake (PoS) chains. Retail users will be able to take advantage of cross-chain asset transfer workflows directly within the apps that they already use. The Axelar Network has already been audited by NCC, Cure53, and Oak Security. Axelar continues to perform audits of other components and functionalities, stress-testing, and pen-testing of its network throughout development. In January 2022, the Public Mainnet roll out begins, after initial interrogations with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the support of arbitrary EVM chains have happened. To learn more about Sergey Gorbunov, visit: Company Website: https://axelar.network Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/axelarcore Twitter: https://twitter.com/axelarcore YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf8GFg58fdp1iZwLAOV1Tgg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/axelarnetwork/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are talking with Rafaella Baraldo, Co-Founder of Pods Finance. Pods Finance provides users the opportunity to hedge their BTC, ETH, and other cryptos to protect portfolios from volatility. Pods Finance is a simple way to hedge crypto assets on the Ethereum Network. The Pods Protocol is a decentralized non-custodial Options Protocol, allowing for traders to buy, sell and provide liquidity using our new Options AMM. Buyers begin by choosing a put option. The buyer can then take action during the 24-hour exercise window. During this time, the buyer exercises their right to sell, or the option expires. Sellers locks stable assets as collateral. They then mint the equivalent put options. Sellers can then sell options for a premium, priced by the AMM. As with buyers, there is a 24-hour exercise window. Sellers may withdraw collateral if the exercise window has passed, or get the underlying asset if the option is exercised. Pods' design uses DeFi's composability and makes it simple for other DeFi projects to implement the Pods Protocol. Pods are made for DeFi options, by unlocking a unique experience of earning while using the liquidity provision feature in an options pool. There are many special ways to interact with the protocol. Users can sell, buy, provide liquidity for both puts and calls, and determine which suits their needs. Pods are incorporated in a grouping of non-upgradable smart contracts on EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) compatible blockchains. Binance Smart Chain or the Polygon Network are examples of EVMs. Traders hold portfolios of volatile assets, cryptos, and need to hedge their risk to assure that they can keep their funds even in worst case scenarios. Using options orders in decentralized order books is costly, and the existing options are not liquid enough to cope with the gas cost on Ethereum. Having options tokens as liquidity in Uniswap may equate to severe impermanent loss as it can only show the price based on a small number of inputs. Additionally, users may be unable to find reasonable market prices for buying or selling options in Uniswap. Pods Protocol’s Options Instrument and Options AMM addresses these problems uniquely. The Options Protocol implementation needs the options to be fully collateralized, allowing options sellers and liquidity providers hedges at all times. Pods implementation uses an external price oracle to update the spot price of the underlying cryptos, along with an internal oracle to support the Weighted Average Implied Volatility. The AMM pools are made and end within the option's lifetime, which is 24-hours. After an option enters the exercise window, trading stops, and users can only remove funds from the pool and exercise the options, as applies. To learn more about Rafaella Baraldo, visit: Company Website: https://www.pods.finance/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podsfinance/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsfinance YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PodsFinance/featured LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pods-finance/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are talking with Corey Petty, Chief Security Officer of Status. Status is a protected messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser created with top of the line technology. All of this is incorporated into a strong app for private and protected communications. The status app incorporates an open-source, peer-to-peer protocol, as well as end-to-end encryption to secure your messages from third parties. The users control their messages, and can send 1:1 private chats, private group chats, and join or create public channels to connect with their communities. Seamlessly incorporated with the crypto wallet, Status lets anyone, anywhere, send global payments directly in a chat. Users even have the options to send expressive stickers without a middle man. In addition, users can create their own packs and earn SNT in the decentralized sticker marketplace. Some of the benefits of using Status include: No phone number, email address, or bank account required when creating your free Status Account. Removal of centralized choke points protects your messages from censoring third parties. Status is both free (libre) open source software that can be reviewed by anyone, and free (no cost) to install. By using a peer-to-peer network, not centralized servers for the exchanging of messages, communications are yours and yours alone. Status offers increased privacy with end-to-end encryption (e2ee) on all users private messages automatically. Only the user and their intended recipient can view the messages – not even Status. Status implements an adapted version of the double ratchet algorithm for perfect forward secrecy. Protect your past and future messages even in the event of your current encryption keys becoming compromised. Status implements Waku to give privacy-preserving routing and messaging on top of devP2P. Waku uses topics to structure users messages, and these are rendered for all chat capabilities. As anyone can receive Waku envelopes, it relies on the capability to decrypt messages to determine the correct recipient. This is in order to provide routing, metadata protection, topic-based multicasting and basic encryption properties to support asynchronous chat. Other popular messaging apps--including Signal and Telegram—have clients talk to servers which are generally trusted, available and aware of how to route messages to other clients. Status messenger, however, uses decentralized P2P networks which don’t have servers and clients. Decentralized P2P messaging aims to remove centralized intermediaries, removing of single points of failure and increased resistance to censorship. Messages hop across multiple peers and proceed to hop even after reaching their recipient because peers do not know who the intended recipient is. To learn more about Corey Petty visit: Company Website: https://status.im/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ethstatus Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethstatus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/statusim LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/status.im/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on Fortune Teller is Pat Doyle of Genesis Volatility and Pink Swan Trading (DeGen Data). GVol allows for one to manage risks, identify opportunities, analyze and trade activity, providing institutional grade crypto options analytics. To manage risks, use Gvol calculators to assist in estimating probabilities, Black-Scholes pricing, and various implied volatility outputs. In order to identify opportunities, GVol tools help you find pricing fluctuations along with high probability trades in the crypto options market. The nature of the crypto options market causes pricing inefficiencies and positive expected value trades. For analyzing trade activity, GVol tools lets you monitor trade flow and changes in open interest. This detailed analysis helps you understand what whales and other large volume traders are doing with the crypto options market, providing insight into hidden trading opportunities. GVol provides its users with Live Stats in the crypto options market. These live stats include data to help in making trades, and include: Implied volatility pricing from various venues Volume, open interest and deep liquidity profiles And times and sales data In addition, GVol provides crypto options traders with Historical Data: Investigate trade and quote data, Compare the current implied volatility environment versus historical volatility, Explore trends in open interest and put/call ratios, and Investigate block-trades using our “Block-Sniffer” Furthermore, GVol can also provide you with tools on DeFi related trades: Compare CeFi versus DeFi trade data, Find edge and alpha in the nascent DeFi option markets, As well as to analyze on-chain liquidity and volume data Lastly, GVol offers an Application Programming Interface (API) for those parties that are interested: Our API solution is currently live in market, $899/mo Desk fee includes pro subscriptions firm wide Please Contact info@genesisvolatility.io for more information on GVol’s Application Programming Interface (API). DeGen Data works in the NFT market by providing traders, collectors, and enthusiasts with the proper tools for their efforts. To have a better insight into the NFT market, one needs to know the “floor,” the lowest priced item in a collection. Next, you need to know the Unique number of Holders. Following that, Wallet Activity is important. These metrics can help, and are all meant to be used together. Each project has unique ways to drive value. DeGen, via FLEX, highlights the fact that the ownership of art should be respected. How, where and when it is displayed should be up to the owner. The FLEX protocol, V1.0, includes support for broader use cases. Like ways for NFT owners to capture the value their NFT generates. To learn more, visit: https://gvol.io/ https://pinkswantrading.com https://www.genesisvolatility.io/ https://degendata.io/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today on the Fortune Teller podcast, we are talking with Mason Burkhalter, Head of Operations at API3. API3 allows for the creation of trustless applications that interact with Web APIs. Instead of using legacy third-party oracle networks, API3 is moving towards first-party oracle options to provide more security, efficiency, regulatory compliance, and simplicity. The API3 data feeds are governed by an open DAO of stakeholders, industry experts and project partners. This lets dAPIs to be operated with maximal transparency, minimal trust in centralized operators, and without centralized attack surfaces. API token holders take a direct part in governing the project by staking API3 tokens into the API3 insurance staking contract, granting voting power in the API3 DAO. Third party oracles are both insecure and expensive. API3 data feeds are not exposed to data tampering and denial of service attacks by middlemen, as API3 does not have third-party node operators. Thus, API3 data feeds reach higher cost-efficiency, with fewer attack surfaces. Source-level decentralization of dAPIs is enabled by Airnode, a fully serverless oracle node to be deployed by any API provider for free, and with little day-to-day management. API3 provides dAPI users with an on-chain insurance, powered by the API3 token and Kleros’ decentralized courts. API3’s insurance gives dAPI users a quantifiable safety net in the event of a malfunction, and holds the API3 DAO directly responsible for the dAPIs’ security, while it incentivizes a security-first governance approach for dAPIs, along with the API3 project as a whole. Furthermore, dAPIs can be bridged to any blockchain, being a multi-layer, cross-platform data solution. This allows for smart contracts on various platforms with more accurate access to premium real-world data. This multi-layer, cross-platform approach lets any smart contract platform leverage API3’s ecosystem of dAPIs and data-integration tools by creating a bridge between API3 and the network. API3 allows for API providers to easily run their own oracle nodes. With this, API providers can provide their data on-chain, without an intermediary, to any decentralized app (dApp) interested in their services. Using a single first-party oracle creates centralization at the API level, and requires the API provider to be trusted. An oracle network makes the request to multiple independent oracles, reducing their responses to a single answer via predetermined consensus rules implemented as a smart contract. With these, individual malicious oracles cannot manipulate the outcome, creating a level of decentralization and trustlessness. In addition, the oracle network must be governed decentrally as well. Otherwise, a central entity can switch the oracles or APIs used, or replace the aggregator to manipulate the oracle network output. To learn more about API3, visit: https://api3.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/api3/ https://www.youtube.com/c/API3DAO/featured https://twitter.com/API3DAO -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest on The Fortune Teller podcast is Leo Matchett, Co-Founder and CEO of Decentralized Pictures (DCP). Decentralized Pictures is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization with the idea that artistic talent may be discovered innovatively. Through user consensus, Decentralized Pictures has set up a democratic film fund, an online community of creatives, film-fans, and industry professionals who choose who is most deserving of our support. One can submit their idea, and if the community agrees, we will help you make it. We will help finance it, and introduce you to the people who will help you execute it professionally. Decentralized Pictures discovers great talent and curates content. DCP will offer awards to winners in the user community. Competitions with various levels of financing awards will initially be offered for proposed documentaries with social impact. Users will review and rate those proposals, providing opinions to help determine the winner(s) of each award. Further, finalists and winners will be matched with DCP’s network of industry partners that will assist these aspiring filmmakers in realizing their films and launching their careers. An open-door policy and the chance for anyone to prove themselves on talent, vision, and sweat alone is what DCP is all about. Through our platform currency, FILMCredits, and powered by incentive mechanisms, our ecosystem enables decentralized participation, crowdsourced curation and, eventually, autonomous financing. As such, it creates an alternative to the traditional system that defines the film industry today. We feel that giving access to those who deserve it, will inspire and empower a new generation of artists. Due to various regulatory bodies, every user undergoes Know Your Customer (KYC). This allows you to be sure that every community member is a real person and that their vote is legitimate. The aforementioned FILMCredits are fuel for the platform. Users can stake them on their favorite projects, pay others to review their own submissions as a bounty, or simply purchase entry vouchers to pay for application fees for various creative financing rewards. Submission fees help to incentivize our community to read, rate, and review your project! The submission fee will be divvied up amongst the reviewers based on accuracy, stake, reputation, and timing of the review. Film revenues are divided into various pools. DCP acts as the financier, and all the net revenue recouped in this pool will go o the film fund for future financing rewards. As for the winner, depending on whether they are a producer of the film and contracts for a share of this pool, they may share in the producers’ pool. For more about Decentralized Pictures, visit: https://decentralized.pictures -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today on the Fortune Teller podcast we have a very special guest, Robbie Heeger, Co-Founder & CEO of Endaoment. Before we begin, we have a special announcement: “Just yesterday, a group of teens announced they'd be working with Endaoment, the first fully on-chain 501(c)(3), to launch the first-ever DAO-based toy drive, elfDAO. 16-year-old Byeongjun Moon established elfDAO alongside teenage friends and advisors from ConstitutionDAO with the goal of raising $1 million before the end of December to support toy drives across the United States. Donors who contribute to elfDAO will receive a unique holiday NFT created by 15-year-old elfDAO member, Nicolas Gatien. In addition to an NFT, donors will receive $GIFT governance tokens proportional to the size of their donation, allowing them to vote for which toy drives they’d like to see receive grants from elfDAO. Based on the community’s vote, the donations will be distributed to recipient organizations via Endaoment.” The Endaoment’s Donor-Advised-Funds and Community Field-of-Interest Funds are powered entirely by smart contracts, facilitated on the Ethereum blockchain. Together with our easy-to-use donation and grant making application, we’re making a new kind of community foundation, with values and functionality aligned for the crypto industry. We seek to include people from varied backgrounds, beliefs, and positions. We create systems to encourage philanthropy and heightened involvement between grant recipients and donors. We ask for and seek to realize the goals of those who are within and without our community. We focus on transitioning donated dollars from donors to nonprofit organizations with a minimal of fees and overhead. We learn from and with our partners to accomplish substantive results. We leverage crypto-native ways to cooperate and compound our abilities to do good in the world as a whole. Endaoment.Tech, our sister software development firm, focuses on making compliant protocols for on-chain institutions. Endaoment has built our application and on-chain contracts from the ground up with decentralized software, services, and design practices in mind. With the combined efforts of Endaoment and Endaoment.Tech, we are delivering a composable, compliant, and tax-efficient services to the people. We make on-chain giving easy, by providing the option to use our application, or over the counter, for our community. Using Endaoment you can donate cryptocurrencies in their original token form, on-chain. This creates several benefits: 1) The granted amount is equal to the present market value of the donation (i.e., there is no tax on the sale). 2) The potential tax deduction is equal to the market value of the donation. 3) All actions occur on-chain and are publicly verifiable using a blockchain explorer like Etherscan. For more information visit: https://app.endaoment.org https://facebook.com/endaomentdotorg https://twitter.com/endaomentdotorg https://linkedin.com/company/endaoment -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we have Anthony Georgiades Co-Founder of Pastel Network. The Pastel Network is a peer-to-peer decentralized platform to securely register, trade, and collect NFTs. One of Pastel’s core features is the Negligible Fees. With the high gas costs on the Ethereum Blockchain, some have to spend $500 worth of ETH to make a single artwork NFT, which ends up excluding most digital artists in the world. The Pastel Network keeps the cost to register an artwork minimally below $.05, ensuring that transacting is affordable irrespective of network exhaustion or the underlying price of PSL. We ensure low fees in Pastel with a mechanism that automatically adjusts the required registration fees based on how much the mining difficulty has increased for PSL over time. Users incorrectly believe that NFTs are minted and exist in a decentralized manner on the blockchain. However, NFTs are really only non-fungible to the extent they refer to the actual token, not ownership of the rare asset itself. Storing an NFT’s metadata and assets on a centralized server or using IPFS for the maintenance of files makes any creator or owner vulnerable to the loss of assets if the centralized entity shut down or if the protocol links were to go dead. Pastel ensures that the digital asset itself is uploaded, verified, and registered on the Pastel blockchain — rather than just the token with which it is minted. Via smart tickets on the Pastel ledger, one can store their masterpieces in a distributed fashion across Supernodes, as opposed to just ensuring the token is non-fungible. The sophisticated storage layer, leveraging the RaptorQ fountain code algorithm, breaks an asset up in a series of redundant chunks. Each chunk has certain random fragments of the combined file and is distributed redundantly across participating Supernodes. Pastel is user-friendly, with a PastelID, a system that ensures creators and collectors can share their PastelID key on their website or various social media account, as opposed to the confusing string identifiers associated with pub/priv key pairs. Every aspect of Pastel was carefully designed to account for intuitive user-flow and understanding. Pastel uses the zk-SNARK system introduced by Zcash, allowing for provably secure “shielded” (private) transactions that can be validated by the network without disclosing the receiving address. PSL is the native cryptocurrency on the Pastel Network, allowing participants to securely register and store their assets on the Pastel Network. The data written inherits all the security properties of the Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency, providing a solid foundational layer. For more, visit https://pastel.network/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are speaking with Matthijs de Vries, founder and CTO for AllianceBlock. AllianceBlock seamlessly brings DeFi and TradFi together. The future of finance is an integrated system in which the best of both worlds can work together to increase capital flows and technological innovation. The AllianceBlock technology solutions and product suite solve challenges in the industry, like interoperability, compliance, and access to liquidity. AllianceBlock focuses on three layers, each serving a specific need in DeFi. They are: the DeFi layer, the Data Layer, and the Regulatory and Compliance Layer. Alone, they help DeFi projects grow and traditional financial institutions invest in DeFi. Together, they make the future's financial structure. AllianceBlock offers cross-chain access with the AllianceBlock Bridge. The AllianceBlock Liquidity Mining as a service provides access to additional liquidity and volume, and the AllianceBlock DEX. AllianceBlock Fundrs provides a peer-to-peer funding protocol. AllianceBlock Terminal provides a comprehensive dashboard of data analytics and information for DeFi strategizing. Several international jurisdictions’ regulations are written in machine logic within the smart contract. Actions within the network will be pre-authorized and automatically compliant at all times. Regulatory amendments are validated by oracles serving as Proof of Authority nodes. The ALBT token is a tool to be used as the primary medium of exchange, reward for participants, and to pay network fees. ALBT tokens will be the reserve currency for the reserve pool and governance token for voting and power delegation. The ALBT token utility and scarcity is achieved via deflationary features: node staking, liquidity pooling, and both quarterly revenue-based token burns and activity-based token burns. AllianceBlock is creating an ecosystem of stakeholders across both traditional and decentralized finance to create a fully decentralized and globally compliant capital market. Industry stakeholders and service providers become nodes within the AllianceBlock Ecosystem. They can then propose their services and be compliant with multi-jurisdictional regulations while plugging into legacy TradFi systems. The AllianceBlock Ecosystem enables its members to issue, transfer and own tokenized and/or digitized assets. It allows any entity to create assets and applications without the need for approvals from centralized authorities. It uses human and machine intelligence to make use of the wisdom of groups in decision-making and governance. AllianceBlock lets developers build products to leverage user data, in a secure manner that provides privacy to investors and users, while allowing them to have control over their data. To learn more, visit: https://allianceblock.io -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today, we are talking with Philippe Bekhazi, the CEO of XBTO. In 2015, we were the first to provide institutional-grade liquidity to major trading platforms. Since then, we have made significant efforts to create stability in the cryptocurrency markets. We continue to grow and shape the industry through our extensive technical knowledge of market infrastructure and investments in market-related blockchain technology companies. XBTO consistently ranks among the leading traders by notional trade volume. XBTO offers global access to crypto finance. As fintech entrepreneurs and investors, we constantly unlock new opportunities by anticipating the rapidly changing needs of the industry. We use advanced technology and proprietary algorithms to trade cryptocurrencies and crypto derivatives. We are active in platform trading, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, asset management, venture capital, and cryptocurrency mining. Not only that, but we are also developing cutting-edge solutions for stablecoins. We build relationships with industry leaders and help set the standards for this dynamic, fast-paced market. We seek to provide the industry with best-in-class quality, security, and reliability. XBTO identifies and unlocks trading opportunities while minimizing risk. We have global access and focus. Off-exchange trading combines market liquidity with discretion, accountability, and negotiable terms. Traders can execute large transactions promptly without the price slippages and order book visibility of exchange trading. Most banks, initially, will look at Bitcoin. The next area they will most likely consider are stablecoins as they are fairly easy to understand, compared to other, more volatile, crypto. Some banks may start with stablecoins first, due to their stable nature of being pegged to assets they are more familiar with. Banks are starting to converge towards crypto exchanges, and the crypto exchanges will become like banks, as Kraken is doing. USDC-Circle is another exchange that is exploring the option of becoming like a bank. As many, like Coinbase, begin to offer debit cards, they become the hubs for customers to do their spending for non-crypto based transactions. Coinbase offers direct deposit for their employees, so employees can have their money go directly into their Coinbase account, and then, spend it with their debit card. While there is the software side—blockchains, DeFi exchanges, like UniSwap—that is not regulated, you then have the other side that has all the regulations, when it comes to directly dealing with the exchange and transferring of money, which in the US, can cause innovations to proceed at a slower pace than in other parts of the world. For more on XBTO: https://www.xbto.com/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today on the Fortune Tellers Podcast, we are talking with Alex DiNunzio, CEO of Jambb, a digital marketplace that helps fans acquire epic moments in live comedy as NFTs (Non-fungible Tokens). One of the main buckets is novel content that the audience has not seen before. For example, someone recorded an old show on VHS. One can take it to YouTube, and get many views, but not necessarily generate any real revenue. The return on time invested, for most artists, simply is not there. The second of the two main buckets are for fans who repeatedly watch an artist’s content, such as a favorite part of the overall content, that is watched, again and again. Fans can own a piece of that moment, to share with others. For many people, they have collected physical items, such as Pez Dispensers or baseball cards. Recently, there has been a shift from owning and discussing physical objects to the digital. Today, fans share many of their favorites digitally. One of the things that digital ownership comes with is a perk. For example, a comedian may give a fan who owns an NFT of their work tickets to shows, redeem it for memorabilia, or other mixings, to attract the fans. Instead of short-term goals and fast exits, Jambb looks for creators that are interested in the long term. This is a fan acquisition strategy for years to come. When recruiting content creators and people to the advisory board, this strategy is what we want these people to think of. How value is created, regardless of market cycle is that in addition to the NFTs, the content creators have commercial rights to make dollars, put on YouTube, or resell it. It holds value, no matter the status of the market. Currently, the commercial rights are for the one specific NFT. We are continually experimenting with the DAO and community, such as owning multiple parts of content. How the owner of the NFT, with the commercial rights, benefits the content creator in that they have new distribution systems. We don’t know the creative capabilities of the buyers, and what they can do with the assets. This is experimentation, where they can get some money upfront, and benefits them by providing the content creators with new audiences. The NFT helps fans and comedians find new content. In addition, when fans buy the NFT, they have the hope that it will increase in value over time. Not only will the NFT transfer, but the rights will, allowing the new owner options in how to promote and profit with it. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we are talking with Jan Stockhausen, chief legal architect of Etherisc, a decentralized insurance protocol with products to protect a variety of assets anywhere from crops to crypto wallets. Users of Etherisc also have the capability to request or build an insurance product of their own. Ideas of governance, insurance, financial services compliance started coming up around 2016, where we realized that this concept of programmable distributed systems was real and could be brought to life with Ethereum. In the DeFi space, there is the ability to lend, to borrow, to earn you governance tokens, utility tokens, to really be a participant in the network. I think we've now started to see the next evolution where people actually want to work in the network. They want to participate in voting or proposals or governance. These worlds combining start making a really nice hub for what will be the needs of insurance. All these people, the insured, insurance companies, and regulators, need to trust each other. Insurance is very centralized, very highly regulated and therefore also fairly slow industry and slow moving. If you take blockchain technology and the trustless network it offers, you see the possibilities. You can put all these actors together, rather than having a centralized insurance entity in the middle. With the help of the regulation that provides the certainty that everyone will get what they signed up for and the blockchain can solve the problem in a decentralized and a much more efficient way. We are at the stage where there are many applications that are crypto native, and a lot of the financial instruments that are emerging in the DeFi space. We're also working on insurance for crypto wallets, for example. It's fair to say we're spearheading this breakthrough of blockchain technology into the real world, into where blockchain technology is used to solve real problems of real people in the real world. We have the opportunity to show that this is possible and that blockchain is here to stay. In Sub-Sahra Africa, only about 3% are insured. It’s hard to be profitable in these regions with traditional finance. Blockchain can help, especially with regulation issues. Technology is the way to unlock insurance for the uninsured. Innovation will be the key. Blockchain offers faster and fewer fees than traditional methods. Learn more at: https://www.etherisc.com/ -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today’s guest is Barron Solomon, the founder of Solo Music, a global music marketplace. Solo Music uses smart contracts and NFTs to create digital music assets and connect artists, fans, and the industry at large. Barron’s background is in the IT space, where he worked to help small to medium-sized businesses migrate from a physical infrastructure to a virtual one. One of his big endeavors was introducing businesses to cloud technology when it first came out. As part of his job, he had to stay up to date with the next wave of technological innovation. That’s where he stumbled upon blockchain in 2014. Since then, he says he’s done nearly every job you can do in the space, from working in a commercial mining facility to DAP analysis and production. Barron says that, in general, people are resistant to anything they don’t inherently understand. You have to break down the barriers with education to show that this piece of technology isn’t scary. Barron believes eventually people will realize that this is cheaper, faster, and better. Blockchain truly can impact the music industry if we let it. Just like the internet made it possible to transport information, blockchain will break down barriers for transporting money. The music industry is a $20 billion industry, which Barron believes is nothing compared to what it could be. He says music is a universal language that we can all connect around. Being in Nashville, Barron has been around music all his life and knows many people in the industry. He says the music industry has the most confusing contracts, with so many aspects going into how artists earn money. Barron says that many artists don’t even understand how, when, or why they’re getting paid. Barron wants to utilize this technology to give artists more transparency. He also wants to leverage this technology to build a fan club of the future, where fans can have different ways to interact with artists. We’ve worked with artists that have offered things like a one-hour zoom session with them. Up to this point, artists haven’t been able to fully monetize and gain liquidity access to the real value they are providing, which is their artistic ability. If you’d like to learn more about the Solo Music project, visit www.solomusic.io. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we are talking to the co-founder and CEO of Horizen Labs, Rob Viglione. Horizen Labs is a layer one blockchain-based technology company that focuses on data privacy and security. Horizen Labs was created in 2017, but Rob has been working with cryptocurrency since 2012. He says he first heard about Bitcoin while working and living in Afghanistan, where currency is often unstable. He quickly realized this new currency is needed all over the world. Rob says in the US we’re used to relatively stable currencies, but it’s a different story in most other places around the world. A decentralized finance option was desperately needed. After working in Afghanistan, Rob went back to University in 2014 to get his PhD in finance. He did his dissertation on crypto finance, and so he got a lot of research into it. That knowledge led him to launch what is now Horizen. While building out Horizen, Rob was focused on value and privacy. They launched as a privacy currency before pivoting to a blockchain operation. Now they’re focused on unlocking a broader sense of things that go beyond money. Rob says with programmable blockchains, the sky is the limit on what can be built on them. Side chains are Horizen’s answer to scaling. Rob says scaling has been a hot topic since 2014 when people realized that trying to jam too many transactions through a single ledger was challenging. Some people’s answer was to do a bigger block size, but at Horizen they decided to do many blocks in parallel. Their technology allows them to have up to a thousand blockchains operating parallel to each other, and from there you can scale indefinitely. Rob says people choose Horizen over other blockchains because it is completely in your control, you don’t have to worry about being de-platformed. There’s no convincing other groups to do anything, it’s completely yours. You also capture all the economics of it. Developers can even configure their percentage of transaction fees. Finally, because they have their own dedicated blockchain, they aren’t competing for bandwidth. If you’d like to follow Horizen’s progress and check out their various projects, visit www.horizenlabs.io. If you’d like to follow Rob, he can be found on LinkedIn or on Twitter @robviglione. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/…
Today we are talking with BTC VIX, admin of both WallStreetBets and SatoshiStreetBets. He describes himself as part of the core libertarian movement, being very skeptical of the Fed and central banks printing money. It was in this movement that he stumbled upon crypto and went down the rabbit hole. BTC VIX says he hasn’t looked back since 2013. He was part of a group of traders and a community was born out of that. That community then merged into a Telegram group and continues to progress. BTC VIX says he wasn’t a developer, so instead he became more about community building and expanding out trading products. The WallStreetBets is a movement that was founded on the principle of you having autonomy. Just in the last two years, we have had synthetic products you can trade. BTC VIX calls our attention back to the 2008 housing crisis, where we didn’t see any bankers go to jail. People wanted political change, and you can either do that through voice or exit. People began by using their voice to protest, but that didn’t really work. People then wanted to use their money to get revenge. Finally, DeFi is an exit out of the Wall Street game. VIX explains how the GameStop scandal was a way to stick it to the man. With a consistent lack of transparency in the current system, an exit into DeFi would equalize the playing field. That’s not to say that DeFi won’t have growing pains associated with it, but the main goal is for DeFi to go borderless. BTC VIX asks why can’t someone in the US buy Samsung stock? It’s about giving access to people that wouldn’t otherwise have access to all these instruments. In DeFi, there is no oppressor. BTC VIX hopes to see a scenario where companies pause and say ‘we don’t want to list on Nasdaq, we want to list as a token’. That’s when things will get a lot more momentum. BTC VIX is cautiously optimistic about the future of DeFi. If you’re in the same boat and would like to follow BTC VIX journey, you can find him on Twitter @BTCVIX. You can also follow WallStreetBets and SatoshiStreetBets on Telegram. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/…
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Today we are talking to Rowland Graus, product manager at Agoric. Rowland says while in college, he roomed with 8-10 guys that were really into poker. Bitcoin became big in the poker community, and Rowland was in the perfect place to hear about it. As the years went by, Rowland tracked bitcoin, but didn’t really get pulled in until February 2017. It was while launching a new product for a startup that Rowland’s business partner spoke to him for hours about Ethereum. Rowland was convinced it was something he should put some money into as an investor. After he bought in, he realized he should learn more about it and that’s when he really got sucked in. He started seeing products being built but didn’t see a lot he could do in the space, so he watched from a distance. In 2019-2020, Rowland started to see products that he understood and would use personally. That was his light bulb moment when Rowland realized he needed to switch his career. Rowland has noticed some differences as well as some similarities between DeFi and traditional finance. When Ethereum first launched, Rowland had a lot of friends asking him what he thought of it and whether they should buy in. Rowland told them he honestly had no idea how to value this new thing. He says there are parallels between valuing DeFi and traditional finance, and NFTs are a perfect evolution of that. Like every business model, there should be a way that money and revenue are generated. It’s amazing to see how far DeFi protocols have come. Ethereum has done $50million in transaction fees. We need diversity at the layer one level where some are solving specific security systems. That diverse range will bring such a broad ecosystem of users. If you can lower barriers to make it possible for developers who aren’t security experts to do it well, the amount of development you’ll see is going to explode. When it comes to the future of Agoric, Rowland says by the end of next year, he expects to see significant hubs of liquidity connecting cosmos chains in meaningful ways. He says that will be a massive opportunity for developers, and we’ll suddenly see complex derivatives markets. If you’re interested to learn more about Agoric, visit them at www.agoric.com or follow them on Twitter @agoric. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we’re talking with Zach Bronstein, the COO of Endaoment, a donor advised fund (DAF) provider in decentralized finance. Endaoments mission is to encourage charitable giving of cryptocurrencies. Before Endaoment, Zach spent five years at Morgan Stanley in the finance department. Before that, he says his life revolved around non-profit involvement. He found that Endaoment combined those two parts of his life. He was especially excited about decentralized governments and the compatibility of smart contract architecture. Furthermore, he was able to take his skills from being a teacher to both Morgan and Stanley and Endaoment. He found that he could take complex concepts and train others effectively. He says that so much of what he does is chatting with non-profits about what Endaoment provides and introducing them to the cryptocurrency world. Zach explains a donor advised fund (DAF) as the most tax efficient vehicle for making donations. He says DAF’s are not new or specific to crypto. In fact, they’ve existed for more than half a century and were created by the IRS so that folks with a lot of assets could easily donate to charity. Before DAF’s you would have to sell your asset, pay capital gains taxes on it, then you could take what was left and donate it. With DAF’s you donate the asset directly to charity, the charity liquidates the asset and no one pays capital gains. All big banks have a DAF platform, basically built out of a sister 501c3 entity that they match. The only way to go through the process is to use a DAF that already exists. When a donor wants to give some cryptocurrency, most charities don’t know what to do with it or how to accept it. They get overwhelmed with having to get set up with a fiat on ramp, learning to use digital wallets, etc. Things get complicated quickly, and Endaoment wants to make it as simple as possible to both donate crypto and to receive crypto as a charity. Endaoment offers two forms of payouts; they can receive funds as USD into their bank account, or they can receive funds as coins and do what they want with that. Most folks opt for the USD because it’s what they’re most comfortable with. Others are excited to have an opportunity to get into crypto, where they can either further invest or cash out. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we’re talking to Xochitl Cazador, Head of Ecosystem Growth at Celo Labs. Xochitl considers her background unique, as she came from a small town in Mexico with no running water and no electricity. Coming from a town of 200, she was the first in her family to go to college. From there, she became an executive for a Fortune 500 company. This is where she noticed there was plenty of wealth but a lack of opportunity in a lot of cities outside of Silicon Valley. She says when she discovered blockchain, she got goosebumps. She was excited about democratizing wealth and technology. This prompted her to leave her job at Cisco and go to Stanford Business School to try to find a way to bridge the gap. Xochitl would go on to become the Head of Ecosystem at Celo Labs, a mobile first blockchain company. Their mission is to build an open financial system that creates prosperity for all. She says when you look at penetration rates for smartphone users, you see that it’s increasing at a rapid pace. When you compare that to adoption of financial systems and tools, that still lags. Celo is uniquely positioned by being a mobile first app to bridge that gap. When it comes to use cases that will get to real world adoption, Xochitl says applications where you can store, send, and save money are at the top of the list. The decentralized aspect of it has helped their presence go from 87 countries to 113. What excites Xochitl most about crypto is the possibility for communities to leapfrog. It’s about taking a non-traditional path and doing something that allows you to surpass and advance in unimaginable ways. It’s amazing how emerging countries are using crypto. From a first world view, there are two roads to take; end users coming into DeFi, and how to take technology today and empower traditional FinTech. Xochitl says supporting entrepreneurs is key. She recommends any and all entrepreneurs to check out and apply at Celo Camp. The Celo Camp inspiration was how to provide mentorships and access to capital to entrepreneurs. Before, the basic route was to go to Silicon Valley and fundraise. Now we’re seeing the capital dispersed, as well as the support that goes with it. To learn more, visit Celo Labs at www.celo.org. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we’re talking to Jake Brukhman, founder and CEO of CoinFund. Jake has always been a computer science and math guy, with a 10-year career in financial technology. He says he learned about bitcoin in 2011 and while he thought it was fascinating, it took him a couple of years to really understand what blockchains were. It was after reading a white paper on Ethereum that he realized it made a lot of sense to make a new digital asset class. This led him to found CoinFund in 2015 which was the first investment and research firm in the industry. CoinFund has studied and supported development of blockchain since its inception and the team has more than 30 years of experience in investing, engineering, and law. The evolution has been about how this technology can be applied to all of these different areas. Jake says blockchain is a coordination technology that’s as broadly applicable as a database. He believes blockchain technology can play a role in so many different areas with some core ones being transfer of money, accumulation of value and digital goods, Web3, and decentralized financial protocols. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we’re talking with Humpty Calderon, Head of Community at Ontology, a blockchain for self-sovereign ID and data. They specialize in things like decentralized data exchange, credit based cross chain lending, and more. Before joining Ontology Humpty was introduced to the world of DeFi through bitcoin in 2015. He started digging into conversations, joined several local meet ups, and discovered builders through those meetups. As these builders started looking into proof of stake they decided they wanted to release a community node on Tron. As they started developing the technology, they invited Humpty to join them and help build their community. After live elections, their node was the first community run node that was selected, and they had over 50% of the delegated stake. Once things were up and running, Humpty developed a digital wallet and the node went onto the Ontology platform This is when Humpty met the team and kept in touch over the years. In early 2021 Ontology started talking to Humpty about an interest in further developing their technology, and they extended an invitation for Humpty to join the team. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we’re talking with Alan Chiu, co-founder and CEO of Enya which recently launched a L2. Alan says when crypto started taking off last year Enya was still helping to fight Covid. They had developed a distributed crypto symptom tracker that was used by 13 million people. This is when Alan started to see the potential of what he had learned in the cryptography space. By starting Enya he hoped to restore the balance of power between individuals and centralized entities. The imbalance of power has some to do with who owns the data. Centralized entities own a lot of personal data and Alan says that’s a function of the way we’ve structured the information architecture over time. Service providers and companies had to accumulate a lot of data in order to provide a great level of service to individual users. But what if we could use advanced cryptography to restore the balance of power where users' data could stay on their devices. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we’re talking with Joe Lallouz, co-founder and CEO of Bison Trails. Joe says his journey into crypto was long but pretty organic. As an engineer, Joe is a very technical person, and it was the technology perspective of crypto that caught his interest early on. He had friends that were more involved in the bitcoin side of things, and they showed him how it worked. The idea of programmable money and digital assets was exciting to Joe, so he started messing around with that. In 2016 he decided he wanted to go full time into crypto and got to work as a builder. He and a friend were working on two different projects, one being a wallet, when they realized that the ecosystem around supporting developers wasn’t great. Joe says there wasn’t a lot of tooling available to builders. That’s when he had an aha moment and realized he could help to make it easier for people to participate. So he took a step back and decided to build a platform to make it easier to build on chains. By the end of 2017 Bison Trails was born. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we’re speaking with Anastasiya Belyaeva, one of the co-founders of Fabric Ventures. Anastasiya has always had a vision of the world where things work differently and where individuals are free to organize in ways that they like, to set up goals and accomplish them without needing to ask permission to participate in the economy. After graduating from university Anastasiya joined a venture capital fund. After working for a couple of VC funds and investing in software in general, she got together with her soon-to-be partner to build Fabric Ventures. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we’re talking to Sid Powell, the co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance, an institutional marketplace for capital built on the Ethereum blockchain. Sid has a traditional finance background, where he worked in banking and mortgage and asset backed securities. He says he was always more fascinated by what it would take to build a business, so he joined a FinTech and ran the treasury department. It was at that time that he started learning more about Ethereum. Sid says he started thinking about ways to manage debt and help businesses expand by using smart contracts. That was the idea that became Maple. Coming from banking, Sid had been exposed to the start-up scene, but he never saw huge financial innovation until blockchain. As he learned more, he could see a clear opportunity to have an impact on the financial system. He says what can start small in the defy space has potential to turn into huge protocols or companies. That’s one of the things that attracted him to the space. Sid says he could see that this was the internet of finance, so he knew there was going to be tremendous opportunity. Sid says he knew he would regret it if he hadn’t taken the plunge. Sid believes that success largely depends on the effort and effectiveness with which you approach your tasks. He says it’s amazing how much resilience is a core competency you need to have in this business. He’s described it before as chewing glass and staring into the abyss. When asked what books have inspired him lately, Sid says the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. It’s a brief history of humankind that Sid says has highlighted the importance of focusing on the story you're telling your team, community, and customers. The book has also brought to his attention that most institutions, other than religion, are less than 300-400 years old. The Federal Reserve for example is only 107 years old. It’ll be interesting to see where the future takes us. When asked what he could confidently predict would happen by the end of the year, Sid said he thinks we’ll see over a billion dollars in under-collateralized loans done. To put that in perspective, across all protocols, there were maybe 10-15 million on chain in defy in under-collateralized loans at the beginning of 2021. This would be 100x growth. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
Today we’re talking with Regan Bozman, co-founder of Lattice Capital, an early stage crypto venture fund. Regan says they invest in tokens, equity, NFTs, DeFi, and the like. Four and a half years ago, Regan was working at AngelList when he and some others spun out CoinList. Regan was the first employee to jump over, and he spent three and a half years doing coin sales. Now they’re just getting Lattice off the ground and are excited to invest in and work with early stage teams. Regan says right now this space is all about adoption. When he first joined CoinList their focus was on everything no one else wanted to do, from writing token sales to handling customer support. At the time no one was doing sales, so when Regan joined there was a backlog of a thousand companies that were inquiring. Regan says it was a trial by fire entry. As they built up the company, they hired someone else to do sales. Regan then started spending more time with customers, finding out what they wanted to achieve with their launches. When Regan started in crypto, he knew nothing about it. He says he had an insane inbox with ideas like launching a hotel in space. Everyone thought there was a quick buck to be made. Regan says it was low barriers to entry that brought him back around in 2019. He remembers that at the time there were two young guys in India that launched a hack-a-thon and within 30 days had $20-30 million running through smart contracts. Regan says that was eye-opening for him because there was no way in the traditional finance system that anyone without a lot of money and at least two years time could build an application like that. Regan realized that they could create a much more competitive market. In the short term, Regan says the market is skewed. Ultimately, crypto has a history of booms and busts. The last 12-18 months of defy hype has made it not that hard to raise money, launch a token, and make some cash. Regan says they’re long term, they don’t flip tokens. He says what they’re really excited about is fascinating applications of smart contracts. He says they’ve made one investment in Latin America, which is like leveraging stable coin rails for remittance, that’s doing very well. -- The Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to www.teller.finance/…
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