An interview with Ted Zipoy, Chief Innovation Officer at Sch0lar.io.Scholar seeks to take the student debt crisis head on leveraging the power of blockchain and DeFi. Our platform enables and connects all of academia through our native ecosystem, token, and community. Scholar allows users to conduct peer-to-peer transactions on digital platforms to support higher education. The quotation about blockchain is from: Neeta Pandey. (2021). Blockchain In Education. Techno Learn, 11(2), 115–121. Available at: https://doi.org/10.30954/2231-4105.02.2021.7