All About Blockchain

Worried about voter rigging? There is so much distrust in electoral systems around the world.  Nations seek a fairer, more efficient, transparent way to hold elections.

Public blockchains make voting and counting information accessible at any time and because every voter's vote is stored on a publicly readable blockchain,
each voter can verify that their vote is stored securely.

A conversation with Zkrypto Head of Business Development, Aerin Kim about a project under Professor Hyunok Oh that spun off from Hanyang University. 

Check out this timely conversation about revolutionary zkVoting that ensures votes cannot be altered or tampered with.

Central banks are reaching beyond legacy financial systems into the digital world to embrace new technologies and systems.   Most central banks have initiated projects on adoption of blockchain in CBDC. 

We dive into this prominent use-case with Computer Engineering Professor, Andreas Veneris of University of Toronto.  He has been in the digital asset space for over 14 years and commissioned by several central banks in different nations to advise on technical, legal and economic angles of a nation’s proposed digital currency. 

Tech-savvy listeners who are excited about cars, IoT, data, crypto, Web3, and software development can benefit from listening to this conversation between Alex Rawitz, Co-Founder and COO at DIMO and President of Cornell Blockchain, Leah Valente.

How does owning  more data collected by your car provide more value to you? And can you leverage this data to build a better connected car experience? Learn how an open platform can connect data producers (like cars) and consumers (applications and businesses) to unlock the next generation of mobility services.

The History of Black Writing project is an excellent example where an internationally renowned source for information converted from a distributed online database to a blockchain.

A conversation with English Professor Ayesha Hardison, the Director of the History of Black Writing, and Engineering Professor Drew Davidson who implemented the technology.   We explore this unique collaboration between University of Kansas faculty that resulted in applying blockchain to better expose students, instructors and audiences to reading literature by Black authors and further building the community to engage in dialogue about the history and future of the books, recovery and preservation. 

Continuing our conversation about using blockchain on our global path toward sustainability.

Listen to this rich discussion with Soheil Saraji, University of Wyoming’s Associate Professor of Energy and Petroleum Engineering in the College of Engineering and Physical Science. Audience will learn how we are utilizing blockchain for potential forward focused blockchain applications in the energy industry.  

You can deepen your understanding with Saraji's latest book titled Blockchain Technology in Oil and Gas Industry.

We have the technology to improve payment terms, without the use of selling invoices to 3rd parties, for millions of small trucking firms. Tokens can return 100 cents on the dollar to these businesses and improve economies for more than just profits and growth.

Catch this  rich discussion on how small businesses can take better control over their finances with Coffee & Crypto podcast host, Dr. Jimmie Lenz, an experienced executive, lecturer and scholar in the field of banking and capital markets.    

Are you following the most critical, vital, existential fight of our planet?

The potential application of blockchain to decarbonize our economy and our world so that we can avoid catastrophic temperature rise is happening. Discover along with others in our field how blockchain, may actually be a suitable technology.

A compelling conversation between Ripple’s Carbon Market Product Manager, Peter Rosberg and Berkeley PhD candidate, Ando Shah. Audience will learn how we are enabling blockchain for the carbon credit use case; modernizing carbon markets, accelerating high quality carbon removal and contributing to global climate goals.

For every dollar of economic value we create, we destroy one dollar of nature value -> This is a rich discussion on how companies are responsible for more than just profits and growth and how they can make a positive impact on the environment and society to give back.

Proving something about yourself in a digital world should be fast, easy and secure. How are blockchains useful in managing verifiable credentials, decentralized IDs and other tokenized assets?

Nick Dazé, founder and CEO of Heirloom, discusses the no-code tools
his team is creating for a trusted and tamper-proof environment for identity verification protocols.

Combining blockchain technology identity management gives us complete control over our identities, high security to our personal information and a way to store and share our identities across multiple platforms.

How does highly personalized FinTech change how institutions, markets, & societies run?

Columbia Professor, Agostino Capponi, explores how crypto and blockchain are altering the financial industry while expanding observations beyond finance to how transitions are taking place in society with the personalization of finance in a deep conversation with top 10 global influencer in the "Fintech Power50",  Emmanuel Daniel.

How much fun would it be to become a stakeholder in your favorite athlete? Sports lovers can now interact with chosen players and get rewarded.

Join UPenn scholars Arham Habib and Arpan Bagui talking about their journey creating an NFT Marketplace for athletes and their fans; VO2. This blockchain start-up that advanced through the Cypher Accelerator, builds community engagement with an engage to earn model that gives pro athletes a way to directly participate with their fan community. This is one more way we are seeing blockchain become mainstream, generating interactive communities.