DeCent People

Jim is the co-founder of Catalyst, a cross-chain protocol that is going into teting mode in a few months. He was previously held product roles at Aave, Unstoppable Domains and Ripple. We spoke about his childhood in Chicago and then San Diego, California and how a love an early desire to go into education tech eventually led him to web3.

This episode originally aired in April 2023.

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DeFi Dad is a power-user, educator, and investor in all things DeFi and Web3 at 4RC (Fourth Revolution Capital). He has been producing educational content on DeFi since 2019 including a popular YouTube channel and a weekly post in The Defiant called DeFi Alpha. He co-hosts The Edge Podcast where he helps listeners uncover the next generation of DeFi and Web3 protocols in a unique podcast-tutorial format. You can subscribe to his channels and learn from his wide range of content for free at defidad.com!

This episode was released in October 2023.

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Justin joins the show to talk about how brands are approaching the marketing opportunities in web3 worlds as well as centralized games like Roblox. With $600 million spent in "digital worlds" every month, companies like Forever21 and NBC are planting a firm foothold to reach those consumers.

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Eric joins the show to talk about the Chainalysis 2023 Crypto Crime Report. We discussed to overall drop in crime last year as general blockchain-based activity was down. Still, only 0.34% of all blockchain activity is criminal, according to Chainalysis. We also talked about ransomware, dark market and pig butchering activity. You don't want to miss this one!

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We have a special episode today where we held a Twitter Spaces with Ruben Rojas, who is the artist we're featuring on Decential's short film series Decent Days.

In the first film in the series we are proud to be featuring artist Ruben Rojas. In this episode Ruben tells his unflinching story and chronicles the crushing lows that came before the rewarding highs of finally following his passion to make art. Over the years Ruben has seen his work appear on dozens of murals, in fine art galleries around the world and featured in collabs with an impressive list of major brands.  Ruben has also dipped his toes into the Web3 waters with a very successful NFT launch. The Decent Days series will focus on the humans behind the projects that show the positive contributions Web3 has in store for our culture.  Ruben is the epitome of this and we hope you enjoy this film.

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Sicco is an experienced software development leader with a background in tech, politics, history, and sociology. We spoke about his early desire and then rejection of a career in journalism, how he loved becoming a software developer and his discovery of blockchain tech in 2021. Sicco has a passion for video, tabletop, and collectible card gaming, which informs his approach to teamwork and strategic thinking, and led to some very interesting observations about where blockchain can help — and hinder — gaming.

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Raullen Chai is the Co-Founder and CEO of IoTeX, a modular Web3 infrastructure platform connecting smart devices and real-world data to blockchains. We spoke about the ongoing advances in what's now called DePIN, or decentralized physical infrastructure networks. A great DePIN project is Helium, a mobile phone provider that uses a decentralized network of hotspots to connect phones to each other. We also talked briefly about Chai's past as a white hat hacker and the philosophy of what IoTex wants to bring to the DePIN world.

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Jacqueline Burns Koven is the Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Chainalysis where she works with law enforcement, financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, and cybersecurity companies and is a member of the Ransomware Taskforce. Prior to joining Chainalysis, she served in the U.S. Intelligence Community. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University where she was a Research Fellow for Technology & Public Policy. This episode originally aired in October 2023.

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Jim is the co-founder of Catalyst, a cross-chain protocol that is going into testing mode in a few months. He was previously held product roles at Aave, Unstoppable Domains and Ripple. We spoke about his childhood in Chicago and then San Diego, California and how a love an early desire to go into education tech eventually led him to web3.

This episode originally aired in April 2023.

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Dan O’Prey is Bakkt’s Chief Product Officer, Crypto. He most recently served as Chief Strategy Officer as part of the executive team at Digital Asset, where he was responsible for defining the corporate strategy and aligning the top-level product strategy. Bakkt is the crypto futures exchange that delivers actual coins upon expiration of the futures contract, giving institutional or more conservative investors a way to accumulate crypto on a fully regulated marketplace. This episode originally aired in February 2023.

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