Evan Shapiro is the CEO and Co-Founder of O(1) Labs , the team behind Coda Protocol . Coda swaps the traditional blockchain for a tiny cryptographic proof, enabling a cryptocurrency as accessible as any other app or website. This makes it dramatically easier to develop user friendly crypto apps that run natively in the browser, and enables more inclusive, sustainable consensus....
May 27, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 64
Jesse Uzzell is CEO and Founder of Climate Futures , the organization behind 1Planet . They are empowering individuals and businesses to take climate action in their daily lives by enabling access to global carbon markets.
May 06, 2020•54 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Michelle Chuang is COO of Asensys , a new-generation, high performance system that brings throughput and capacity to a new, scalable level. Just how they are solving blockchain's scalability problem, AI and blockchain tech will power internet 3.0, what Asynchronous Consensus Zones are, and how the new age of the internet will help humanity stay secure in the post COVID-19 era are answered in this episode.
Apr 28, 2020•37 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Sky Guo is the CEO at Cypherium , a highly scalable and robust smart contract platform. Their design features a joint Proof-of-Work (PoW) and HotStuff (Also adopted by Facebook's Libra) consensus mechanism that can achieve thousands of transactions per second without sacrificing decentralization. Cypherium also implements a Turing-complete virtual machine for smart contracts that runs on Java, the most widely-utilized and reliable programming language in the world. This enables democratization o...
Apr 15, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Reuben Yap is the project steward for Zcoin , a global privacy-first digital currency. They are taking privacy to the next level with untraceable coins. Reuben's background in corporate law specializing in institutional frameworks as a lawyer, combined with his strong advocacy for online and financial privacy provides great insights into the future of cryptocurrencies and privacy. He talks about the merits of untraceable transactions and how Zcoin facilitates it, why privacy is a fundamental hum...
Apr 10, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Paolo Ardoino is the CTO at Bitfinex. He explains some new projects they are working on at one of the world's biggest crypto exchange, how IEO's are still alive and well, the Bitcoin Lightning network, how they bounced back from 2016's hack, the Halvening, and more.
Apr 03, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Hugo Renaudin is the CEO and co-founder of LGO , the leading digital asset exchange for institutions and the biggest institution exchange in Europe.
Mar 30, 2020•37 min•Season 2Ep. 58
Pradeep Goel is the CEO of Solve.Care , a global healthcare blockchain technology company using innovative approaches to solve the complex problems that plague healthcare around the world. Pradeep has deep expertise in healthcare, human services, finance, and technology. Before taking the reins at Solve.Care, he has been passionate about designing and building solutions for public programs, such as Medicaid, the Children Health Insurance Program, Medicare, SNAP/TANF, the Child Welfare Program, a...
Mar 23, 2020•48 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Danny Brown-Wolf is the Head of Partnerships and Strategy at Orbs, an enterprise blockchain solution allowing companies to prove responsibility with data through a public blockchain as a neutral third party way of verifying data.
Mar 19, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 56
Yael Tamar is the CMO and partner at SolidBlock the company behind the world's first commercial tokenization. She is a thought leader on this topic and the future of real estate financing. She also founded Women in Block.
Mar 05, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 55
Vamshi is the CEO and co-founder of BearTax . He joins Ethan to explain how his team's software is helping cryptocurrency traders file taxes with ease and confidence. With tax season upon us, learn the IRS's latest stance on crypto and what that means for investors and businesses. Also why it's crucial to classify cryptocurrency income appropriately, both gains and losses, and how accurate record keeping goes a long way. Vamshi speaks to why this is so and some of the advantages of their smart m...
Mar 02, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 54