Block, stock, and barrel

When designing enterprise blockchain networks, the blockchain layer is often thought to be the most integral part of the stack. Each platform has unique requirements, architectures, and different programming languages.

Here's where DAML comes in. Developed by Digital Asset, DAML is an open-source smart contract language specifcally designed to reflect business logic and work flows. It is platform-agnostic and is currently available on Hyperledger Fabric, Sawtooth, and Besu, Corda, VMWare blockchain platform, and SQL databases. Today, organizations leveraging DAML include the likes of accenture, the Australian Securities Exchange, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, and most recently, the Singapore Exchange.

Tim Kemp is the head of Emerging Ledgers at Digital Asset where he is responsible for delivering integrations of DAML on various platforms. In this episode, Tim talks about everything DAML, detailing the value of a smart contract language approach as a key component to improving accessibility and driving enterprise adoption. He highlights key take aways from DAML's earlier successful use cases, reflecting on what enterprises need to develop successful consortia. Finally, he touches on why partnerships are key and why he's excited about their recent partnership Chaisntack.

About Tim Kemp

About [Digital Asset](www.digitalasset.com)

Special Guest: Tim Kemp.

Beyond pharmaceutical traceability: blockchain for federaed learning in healthcare

From the storing and exchange of sensitive citizen and patient data to vaccine traceability, blockchain's tamper-proof data sharing capabilities have been widely regarded to have various applications in healthcare. In this episode, Mike McCoy talks about federated learning in healthcare and how blockchain provides a promising solution to unlocking its potential without compromising on privacy. He also talks about the challenges specific to implementing blockchain solutions in highly regulated, multi-stakeholder environments such as the healthcare and life sciences and its need for data interoperability standards. Learn about the various initiatives at ConsenSys Health such as the Consensys Covid hackathon, and their how they expect to see blockchain adoption evolving over the next few years. Also, he debunks the myth of the end of intermediaries so widely promised by blockchain, explaining how blockchain is instead making them more effective and efficient.

What is federated learning?

( extracted from Robert Miller's newsetters "Why federated learning is important")

About [ConsenSys Health](www.ConsenSysHealth.com)

About Mike McCoy

Mike also is an Adjunct Professor at Thomas Jefferson University's Institute of Emerging Health Professions as a lecturer and course developer for emerging technology graduate certificate courses. He is a member and ambassador to many technical working groups such as IEEE, Frontiers, Blockchain in Healthcare Today, Blockchain for Social Impact and the Hyperledger Working Group.

Special Guest: Mike McCoy.

How is blockchain redefining the social impact space?

In this episode, Mehran discusses how UNICEF is leveraging blockchain to alleviate some of the world's social issues. Learn more about UNICEF's blockchain initiatives both internally and externally to optimize efficiency and improve tranparency and accountability across multi-stakeholder environments. He goes indepth to talk about the vavious usecases for blockchain within the social impact space using examples of projects from the UNICEF Venture Fund and the UNICEF Crypto fund (supported by the Ethereum Foundation), and shares some of the implementation challenges faced.

Why is it valuable to look at how we design for communities that have remained largely underserved in tech? Learn how and why UNICEF is playing such a big role in advocating for blockchain-powered future, and why we need to bring the user back to the center of design in blockchain.

Check out the graduate startups from the first cohort of the UNICEF Innovation Fund:

Coinsence: Utopixar developed a platform that enables collaborations amongst communities and organisations to facilitate participative decision making and value transfer.

About Mehran Hydary

About UNICEF Innovation

Special Guest: Mehran Hydary.

With over 30 participating global banks, the Marco Polo Network, one of the largest and fastest growing blockchain-based consortiums to date.

In this epsiode, Ashlie speaks to Michael Odom, sales engineer at TradeIX to learn more about how the Marco Polo Network is revolutionizing the trade finance space using DLT. We discuss some of the challenges being addressed by the Marco Polo Network, and how and why distributed platforms provide an unprecedented solution that existing trade digitization attempts fall short of. Learn more about their future plans, challenges, and more.

About the Marco Polo Network

About TradeIX

Special Guest: Michael Odom.

Released in January 2020, the news of Hyperledger Fabric's version 2.0 release made waves across the enteprise blockchain community. The upgrade introduced a variety of improvements based of the development experience of enterprises building solutions on Fabric 1.0, including heightened data privacy capabilities, increased performance, more granular controls, and greater flexibility for consortium management.

KC Tam is a widely regarded expert in the Fabric world that has written extensively about his learning during his journey in blockchain. His deep dive articles of Fabric 2.0 that present cross comparisons between 1.0 and 2.0 are some of the earliest to have been written since its launch. In this episode, Ashlie speaks to KC Tam on the key changes introduced in Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 and his take on the value of these improvements.

Read KC's writing on Hyperledger Fabric 2.0

About KC Tam

KC is the founder of LedgerTech, mainly providing blockchain consulting and training service to various types of clients. He is also an instructor and training material developer at Blockchain Educators, providing classroom training on various blockchain topics, and a part-time lecturer at City University of Hong Kong. He speaks in many blockchain events and webinars, and publishes articles regularly on blockchain topics, from concepts to hands-on practice, receiving more than 15,000 views each month. His interest is to explore how blockchain platforms work, and how blockchain applications help in the business world. His focus is on Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum. Prior to his blockchain journey, he also spent almost 10 years in cloud consulting roles in both Cisco and Ericsson.

Special Guest: KC Tam.

Cultivating Singapore into a global hub for blockchain

Singapore has often been cited to be a leading hub for blockchain projects as a result of its thriving blockchain ecosysem and favourable regulatory environment. In this epsiode, Veronica Tan and Yi Ming Ng describe the state of blockchain adoption in Singapore from both public and private perspectives, including government involvement, the various stakeholders, and past and future challenges. They also talk about both government and industry responses to tackling these barriers, emphasizing the need for a multi-stakeholder approach.

At the Singapore Fintech Festival, IMDA and Tribe are announcing the launch of OpenNodes, a new content platform built to foster a hyperconnected blockchain ecosystem through collaboration and education. In October, they published the Singapore Blockchain Landscape Map, that provides an overview of various blockchain companies and initiatives that are pioneering the application of blockchain technology to various use cases in Singapore.

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Veronica is from the Technology & Infrastructure Group in IMDA (Infocomm Media Development Authority) Her work revolves around master planning and strategy development of frontier technologies such as blockchain, that are relevant for Singapore to realise its vision to be a leading digital economy in the world. Veronica was previously involved in IDA’s Smart Nation efforts, overseeing the development of Smart Nation infrastructure to enable data-driven decision making for Singapore.

Yi Ming is the Managing Partner of Tribe Accelerator, Singapore’s First Government Supported Blockchain Accelerator to facilitate the mass adoption of blockchain technology in startups. Yi Ming too serves as a partner at TRIVE, an early stage Southeast Asia (SEA) focused Venture Capital firm based in Singapore, which invests in technology startups from Seed to Series A rounds of funding in various domains. This includes Deep Technologies, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Marketplaces and FinTech.

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About Open Nodes

About IMDA

About Tribe Accelerator

Special Guests: Veronica Tan and Yi Ming Ng.

How do you successfully build ecosystems?

In episode 2, Ashlie speaks to Tom Menner, the director of solution architecture in APAC at R3. Tom gives an in-depth introduction of R3, Corda, and everything in between. He talks about several exciting solutions being built on Corda today across supply chain, digital asset, trade finance, and insurance, and discusses how Corda is powering some of the largest enterprise blockchain consortiums such (Voltron, Marco Polo, B3i, Monetago). Tom is fond of comparing blockchain to plumbing and he thinks that everyone needs to stop talking about blockchain.

Tom Menner is R3’s Solution Architect for the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore. His focus is to translate clients’ functional and non-functional business and technical requirements into a solution designs. In addition to architecture work Tom is a frequent speaker at blockchain and industry conferences, and is a technical ambassador in Asia for blockchain and cryptocurrency technology meetups. Prior to joining R3 Tom had a lengthy career at IBM, most recently working on Hyperledger Fabric but also supporting e-commerce solutions in B2B integration, electronic payments, and digital marketing. Prior to that he was a Worldwide Middleware Architect for IBM, leading design efforts for global clients on middleware and data solutions and earning assignments in Japan and China. He had his start as a consultant for Transarc, a Pittsburgh-based transaction processing technology startup.

About R3

R3’s global team of over 200 professionals in 13 countries is supported by over 2,000 technology, financial, and legal experts drawn from its vibrant ecosystem. The Corda platform is already being used in industries from financial services to healthcare, shipping, insurance and more. It records, manages and executes institutions’ financial agreements in perfect synchrony with their peers, creating a world of frictionless commerce. Learn more at www.r3.com and www.corda.net.

Special Guest: Tom Menner.

In the first episode of Block, stock and barrel, Eugene Aseev, CTO and co-founder of Chainstack, clears some of the main misconceptions of blockchain. He talks about the road to adoption, the different challenges of enterprise and public blockchains, cutting through the blockchain hype, and why he’s in it for the long run.

Eugene Aseev is the CTO and co-founder of Chainstack, a multi-cloud and multi-protocol Blockchain Platform as a Serivce. He has over 10 years of experience building and leading top R&D teams on a global scale in organizations like GeoEdge and Acronis. He has strong roots in engineering, cybersecurity, and research, with more than 10 years of experience in leading top R&D teams on a global scale. He began actively experimenting with blockchain over 3 years ago when researching on blockchain for data protection and has built production-grade solutions on Ethereum during his time as the VP of engineering at Acronis. His experience has inspired him to radically simplify blockchain deployment and implementation to accelerate blockchain adoption. Eugene has spoken extensively on enterprise blockchain implementation and distributed ledger security.

Where you can find Eugene:

Special Guest: Eugene Aseev.