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In this podcast episode, Reba Beeson, who serves as Alpha Point’s general counsel, explains how the company provides a technology platform for Institutional Operators to help provide crypto assets & services to their users.

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What is the AlphaPoint?

AlphaPoint is a white label platform for exchanges, brokerages and tokenization of assets. They have developed financial technology solutions for institutional operators providing access to digital assets and cryptocurrencies globally.

https://alphapoint.com/
https://twitter.com/AlphaPointLive

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What is BEN?

The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of blockchain students, professors, and alumni around the world! We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their communities!

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In this podcast episode, Li Jiang goes over Harmony’s vision, parallel processing transactions which allows the network to scale horizontally. This allows extremely fast and extremely cheap transactions. He talks about the future of Layer 1 & 2 networks and how they will all be able to talk with each other to the eventual point where we won't know which blockchain we're on!

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What is Harmony?

Harmony is an open and fast blockchain. Their mainnet runs Ethereum applications with 2-second transaction finality and 1000 times lower fees. Harmony is your open platform for assets, collectibles, identity, governance. Our secure bridges offer cross-chain asset transfers with Ethereum, Binance and 3 other chains.

https://www.harmony.one/
https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol

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What is BEN?

The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of blockchain students, professors, and alumni around the world! We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their communities!

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In this podcast episode, Marek Olszewski from Celo, gives an overview of crypto, DeFi and all the great innovation in the space has to be really accessible on mobile devices and how Celo is helping implement this in a decentralized manner. 

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What is Celo?

Celo is a mobile-first platform that makes financial dApps and crypto payments accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Celo's mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity—for everyone.

https://celo.org/
https://twitter.com/CeloOrg

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What is BEN?

The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of blockchain students, professors, and alumni around the world! We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their communities!

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In this podcast we discuss with Boba Network and its benefits as a Layer 2 Protocol, how we need seamless function in order to reach the maximum scalability, privacy & security and how Boba Network is helping accomplish this. 

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What is Boba Network?

Boba is an L2 Ethereum scaling & augmenting solution built by the Enya team as core contributors to the OMG Foundation. Boba is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 Optimistic Rollup scaling solution that reduces gas fees, improves transaction throughput, and extends the capabilities of smart contracts.

https://boba.network/
https://twitter.com/bobanetwork

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What is BEN?

The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of blockchain students, professors, and alumni around the world! We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their communities!

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In this podcast episode, Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin, walks us through how and why he founded Gitcoin. He explains his inspiration behind the creation of Gitcoin and how he built a way for software developers to get into the space and get paid for their work. He goes on to talk about the future for the industry and the exciting road ahead.

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What is Gitcoin?

Gitcoin is the community of builders, creators, and protocols at the center of open web ecosystems. A platform where you get paid to work on open-source software in Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, CSS, Design, and more.

https://gitcoin.co/
https://twitter.com/gitcoin

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What is BEN?

The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of blockchain students, professors, and alumni around the world! We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their communities!

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In this podcast episode, Chris Buren from BEN, interviews the fascinating Dean Thomas who transitioned from the traditional finance juggernauts of Goldman Sachs and Blackstone before switching paths and joining Polygon to head their Institutional Capital wing. He announces Polygon's new ties with EY before discussing the indelible influences crypto and technology will have on all of our futures.

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What is Polygon?

Polygon is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building multiple types of applications.

Using Polygon, one can create Optimistic Rollup chains, ZK Rollup chains, stand-alone chains, or any other kind of infra required by the developer.

Polygon effectively transforms Ethereum into a full-fledged multi-chain system (aka Internet of Blockchains). This multi-chain system is akin to other ones such as Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, etc with the advantages of Ethereum’s security, vibrant ecosystem, and openness.

https://polygon.technology/
https://twitter.com/0xPolygon

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The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of blockchain students, professors, and alumni around the world! We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their communities!

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In this podcast, the Social Director of BEN, Chris Buren, interviews the fascinating Dean Thomas who transitioned from the traditional finance juggernauts of Goldman Sachs and Blackstone before switching paths and joining Polygon to head their Institutional Capital wing. He announces Polygon's new ties with EY before discussing the indelible influences crypto and technology will have on all of our futures.


What is BEN?

The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of students, alumni, professors, teachers, professionals, and community leaders excited about blockchain across the world. We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their companies and communities.
 
Join BEN

Twitter: @BlockchainEdu
Youtube: BlockchainEdu

https://www.blockchainedu.org/

What is Polygon? 

Polygon is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building multiple types of applications.

Using Polygon, one can create Optimistic Rollup chains, ZK Rollup chains, stand-alone chains, or any other kind of infra required by the developer. 

Polygon effectively transforms Ethereum into a full-fledged multi-chain system (aka Internet of Blockchains). This multi-chain system is akin to other ones such as Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, etc with the advantages of Ethereum’s security, vibrant ecosystem, and openness.



 

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In this podcast episode, we talk with Sachi Kamiya, the Lead of Investments at Polygon. Hosted by our student Ishika from Rutgers University, we discuss a vast array of topics from Ethereum scalability to the future of NFT's, and how Sachi transitioned from a career in traditional finance to the crypto industry.

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What is Polygon?

Polygon is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building multiple types of applications.

Using Polygon, one can create Optimistic Rollup chains, ZK Rollup chains, stand-alone chains, or any other kind of infra required by the developer.

Polygon effectively transforms Ethereum into a full-fledged multi-chain system (aka Internet of Blockchains). This multi-chain system is akin to other ones such as Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, etc with the advantages of Ethereum’s security, vibrant ecosystem, and openness.

https://polygon.technology/
https://twitter.com/0xPolygon

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What is BEN?

The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of blockchain students, professors, and alumni around the world! We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their communities!

https://learn.blockchainedu.org/

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In this podcast episode, we talk with Kaleb Amarante, a freshman at Rutgers University double majoring in Computer Science and Finance. He explains how he became a developer while in college.  Kaleb goes over how he felt lost and didn't know where to start and how BEN jumpstarted his career in the right direction to find a job as a blockchain developer. 

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What is BEN?

The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of blockchain students, professors, and alumni around the world! We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their communities!

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In this podcast episode, we go over the recent ban imposed on crypto payments by the Central Bank of Turkey.  Did bitcoin really get banned from Turkey? Or just some payment processors?
 
What is the impact that this can have on the economy? We will discuss these questions and dig into many more issues that impact Turkey's fiscal policy. 

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The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) is the largest and longest-running network of blockchain students, professors, and alumni around the world! We are on a journey to spur blockchain adoption by empowering our leaders to bring blockchain to their communities!

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