While ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organizations’ and ‘Incorporation’ might sound mutually exclusive, that could not be further from the truth. In fact, DAOs are not really protected or given the opportunity to realize their full potential until they incorporate. The reason why is threefold: first, if a DAO is not recognized as a legal entity, all of its contributors are at significant personal risk; second, if a DAO doesn’t have corporate personhood, it cannot own any intellectual property, partic...
Jul 18, 2023•40 min
The founder and CEO of SPACE, Batis Samadian founded the company in 2021 with a goal to build a fair and equal economy for creators and businesses. Previously, Batis was the product lead at Zapp, and as a serial entrepreneur and investor, he also worked for Saffron, a venture builder that was involved with early VR startups and was an angel in a number of successful projects. Batis has been in crypto since 2013, initially mining with his friends from their college dorms. Today, he brings all his...
May 01, 2023•42 min
As a former Senior Investigative Counsel, federal prosecutor, and Chainalysis alum, Amanda Wick has been in nearly every corner of the crypto ecosystem. After nearly a decade in government service and working at a startup, she grew passionate about the need for increased inclusion of women in the future of digital assets. She recently founded a non-profit called the Association for Women In Crypto to provide networking and education opportunities that will help promote and advance women in the s...
Apr 10, 2023•34 min
Tegan Kline, Co-Founder and Head of Business at Edge & Node (the initial team behind The Graph), helping to ensure a vibrant decentralized future. The Graph is Edge & Node’s first protocol, an indexing and query protocol organizing the world’s open blockchain data and making open data a public good. Tegan helps leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. Tegan made Forbes 30 under 30’s class of 2022. Tegan Kline is the former Internationa...
Mar 13, 2023•30 min
Kimberly Almeida - Director of Programs, Levi Strauss Foundation Kim is a corporate philanthropy, CSR and international development professional. She joined the Levi Strauss Foundation in 2012 and leads the Foundation’s learning and analysis efforts across its three giving areas. Previously, she oversaw the design and implementation of Levi Strauss & Co.’s Worker Well-being initiative, which aims to improve apparel workers’ lives through partnerships with the Company’s vendors and community ...
Sep 06, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Jeremy Nau is a founding member and Director in Armanino's Blockchain and Digital Assets practice. A CPA, Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP), Jeremy acts as a subject matter expert for Armanino's clients across all industries. In this capacity, Jeremy leads the digital asset portions of audit, SOC, SOX and tax engagements for many types of industry clients such as exchanges, custodians, miners, stakers, token projects, wallets, payment processors and s...
Aug 23, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Anna Stone is an accomplished Web3 innovator and growth leader with a proven track record in building, launching, and scaling inclusive crypto products, made for the masses, since 2018. At eToro, Stone oversees go-to-market strategy for the company's NFT business, and leads the company's impact initiatives which focus on leveraging blockchain and #Web3 as key to democratizing finance for all. She is a co-founder of GoodDollar.org, a social-impact protocol and DAO that leverages free market incen...
Aug 17, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Neeraj Kashyap is the founder and CEO of Moonstream. Moonstream is a one of a kind web3 game engine with tools to build on-chain game economies. There are tens of thousands of players already participating in game economies built with Moonstream. The company has secured over $3b in transaction volume to date. Neeraj is a mathematician with a Ph.D. in Number Theory. He spent his late twenties in Japan, using mathematics and Machine Learning to build algorithms to diagnose Parkinson’s disease and ...
Aug 02, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Brian Schuster is a Software Developer, Technical Manager and Entrepreneur building devMint School to close the talent gap in the Web3 industry. Brian started his career non-technical, graduating with a Business Degree from UNC. After studying entrepreneurship at MIT and realizing that the best opportunities were in technology, Brian started a rigourous self-study practice to learn software development. These practices eventually led him to roles including Infrastructure Developer, Solution Arch...
Jul 17, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Michele Benedetto Neitz is a Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law and the Founding Director of the Blockchain Law for Social Good Center, the first of its kind in the United States. She teaches Blockchain and the Law, Business Associations, Legal Ethics, and other classes. She has been voted “Most Outstanding Professor” by the graduating class of GGU Law six times, most recently in 2022. Professor Neitz was appointed to advise the California legislature as a member of the Cal...
Jul 07, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Kadeem Clarke is an entrepreneur, blockchain expert, and venture capitalist investing in the top cryptocurrency companies of the future. In addition to being a freelance digital consultant for tech startups and small businesses, Kadeem is Head of Labs of Momentum 6, a value-add-focused VC fund in the crypto space. Momentum 6 invests in early-stage cryptocurrency startups and provides incubation services, from marketing to tokenomics, to help grow portfolio companies. At Momentum 6, Kadeem leads ...
May 04, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Lewis Cohen is the co-founder of DLx Law, a law firm founded in 2018 to serve the needs of a new, technology-driven economy. Lewis and the DLx Law team provide in-depth legal counsel to startups, growth companies, major enterprises, and governmental entities on a broad range of matters involving the use of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other disruptive technologies. Passionate about the ability of innovative technologies to change the way businesses and individuals work together, Lewis has be...
Apr 20, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Dr. Thibault Schrepel, LL.M., is an Associate Professor of Law at VU Amsterdam University where he co-directs the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute, and a Faculty Affiliate at Stanford University CodeX Center where he has created the “Computational Antitrust” project that brings together over 60 antitrust agencies. Thibault also holds research and teaching positions at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris. He is a Harvard University Berkman Center alumnus, a memb...
Apr 06, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Claudia Olah is the Director of Marketing for Metajuice, a subsidiary of the first and largest social metaverse platform, Together Labs (formerly IMVU). She's been in the crypto industry managing global marketing teams in Shanghai for over 5 years and is now back in Silicon Valley leading a team that is building digital assets for the metaverse. Today we'll be talking about what industry leaders are doing in the Metaverse, how blockchain is a part of that whole system and what companies today ar...
Mar 21, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Dirk Lueth is a serial entrepreneur and an early adopter of blockchain and related technologies, based in Silicon Valley. He co-founded European and US-based companies in the FinTech and digital media spaces, including the Financial Times Deutschland and Forbatec which has been acquired by SunGard (today NYSE:FIS). Dirk mentored over 30 startups through his work at international startup accelerators in Silicon Valley and is a frequent speaker/panelist focusing on topics about the metaverse, bloc...
Mar 08, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Ari Redbord is the Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company. TRM provides next generation blockchain analytics software to governments, financial institutions and cryptocurrency businesses. Prior to joining TRM, Ari was the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary and the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the United States Treasury where he worked with teams from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes ...
Feb 23, 2022•22 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Miko Matsumura is a General Partner with gCC Gumi Cryptos Capital, a Silcon Valley investment fund with over $400M in assets including early-stage investments in unicorns like OpenSea, Yield Guild Games, Celsius Network, VEGA Protocol, Qredo and 1Inch Network. Miko fell in love with open source software 25 years ago as chief Developer Evangelist for the Java Programming Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley incl...
Feb 09, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Lewis Cohen is the co-founder of DLx Law, a law firm founded in 2018 to serve the needs of a new, technology-driven economy. Lewis and the DLx Law team provide in-depth legal counsel to startups, growth companies, major enterprises, and governmental entities on a broad range of matters involving the use of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other disruptive technologies. Passionate about the ability of innovative technologies to change the way businesses and individuals work together, Lewis has be...
Jan 24, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Daniel Spuller is the Head of Industry Affairs for the Blockchain Association in Washington, DC. He was appointed Co-Chair of the North Carolina Blockchain Initiative by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in 2019. Since 2012, Spuller has been an advocate of decentralized digital assets, bitcoin, and blockchain-based technologies. From 2016-2020, Spuller led membership and growth at the Washington-based Chamber of Digital Commerce growing it from 38 to over 200 members at its peak. He previous...
Jan 09, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Lewis Cohen is the co-founder of DLx Law, a law firm founded in 2018 to serve the needs of a new, technology-driven economy. Lewis and the DLx Law team provide in-depth legal counsel to startups, growth companies, major enterprises, and governmental entities on a broad range of matters involving the use of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other disruptive technologies. Passionate about the ability of innovative technologies to change the way businesses and individuals work together, Lewis has be...
Nov 28, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Anthony Day helps organizations to understand the benefits of using exponential technologies like Blockchain to create commercially viable digital transformations. He is responsible for designing, building and managing Blockchain platforms for IBM's clients in the UK & Ireland. Anthony brings together the best of IBM in terms of people; technology accelerators; platforms like Food Trust, Tradelens, Trust Your Supplier; and ecosystem partners from around the world to deliver scalable, secure ...
Oct 28, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Jiri Kobelka has had a long career in IT, fintech, and software development, and several years ago she set out to create a full-fledged blockchain development platform. They launched Tatum as a solution for developers to build apps on blockchains quickly and easily and without any blockchain development experience. Tatum runs infrastructure and provide a unified API for 20+ blockchains, allowing developers to leverage powerful API to perform complex blockchain operations simply and effectively. ...
Oct 03, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Lewis Cohen is the co-founder of DLx Law, a law firm founded in 2018 to serve the needs of a new, technology-driven economy. Lewis and the DLx Law team provide in-depth legal counsel to startups, growth companies, major enterprises, and governmental entities on a broad range of matters involving the use of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other disruptive technologies. Passionate about the ability of innovative technologies to change the way businesses and individuals work together, Lewis has be...
Sep 23, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Jim Gatto is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. He is Leader of the Blockchain & Fintech Team, Social Media and Games Team and Open Source Team. Jim leverages his unique combination of nearly 30 years of IP experience, business insights and attention to technology trends to help companies develop IP and other legal strategies that are aligned with their business objectives. His practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property,...
Aug 19, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Daniel Uribe is CEO & Co Founder of Genobank.io, Serial Entrepreneur, +17 years experience in Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing; +5 years experience in Blockchain & Smart Contracts. Recently specializes in Privacy Laws, Genomics & Bioinformatics. Daniel Holds Bs. Electronics Engineering, MBA from IPADE Business School, Executive Programs @ Stanford GSB & Singularity University; “Data Science” at Galvanize, “RNAseq” at EcSeq Bioinformatics GmbH (Berlin) & recently “Data: Law, Pol...
Aug 11, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Adrienne Valencia Garcia is currently IBM’s Senior Counsel for Cognitive Systems and most recently served as IBM’s Senior Counsel for Blockchain Solutions, a first-of-a-kind role created in April 2017 while she was completing a three-year assignment in Latin America. As the Senior Counsel for Blockchain, Adrienne was the worldwide legal executive focal for all blockchain engagements and oversaw the global members of the law department who supported blockchain transactions. She is a trusted advis...
Jul 08, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 1
