dlab Presents: Unblocked

dlab Principal Paul Saint-Donat chats with Balancer Labs COO Kristen Stone about:

- The impact decentralization has on vision 

- Senior leaderships role in bootstrapping culture

- Tools & methods employed by Balancer

- and more.

Kristen Stone  https://twitter.com/keighstone

dlab PM Paul Saint-Donat chats with Advanced Blockchain CEO Michael Geike about:

dlab PM Paul Saint-Donat chats with Enzyme Cofounder and Avantgarde CEO Mona El Isa about:

dlab PM Paul Saint-Donat chats with NEAR Protocol's Alex Shevchenko,  about:   

- How the Rainbow Bridge works (a trustless, permissionless, and generic protocol for connecting blockchains) 

- Their ETH L2 Solution Aurora    

- Challenges facing L2s   

- and more.   

Alex Shevchenko  https://twitter.com/AlexAuroraDev 

Aurora  https://aurora.dev/ 

NEAR Protocol   https://near.org/  

Paul Saint-Donat   https://twitter.com/psaintdonat

 dlab    https://dlab.vc/

dlab PM Paul Saint-Donat chats with Clayton Roche, Head of Community Development at UMA, about: 

 - How UMA Works  

- What Makes KPIs a great incentive tool   

- How UMA is using them  

- UMA's RFP and grant programs  

- and more.   

Clayton Roche  https://twitter.com/TokenArchitect  

UMA  https://umaproject.org/  

Paul Saint-Donat   https://twitter.com/psaintdonat 

dlab    https://dlab.vc/

dlab PM Paul Saint-Donat chats with Muneeb Ali, Co-Founder of Blockstack and CEO of Hiro, about:

- The origin story of Stacks

- The advantages of a smart contract platform built on Bitcoin

- The importance of having a formally verified programming language

- The differences between IPFS, Filecoin, and Gaia

- And more.    

Muneeb Ali https://twitter.com/muneeb

Stacks https://www.stacks.co/

Paul Saint-Donat https://twitter.com/psaintdonat

dlab https://dlab.vc/

dlab PM Paul Saint-Donat chats with Macro Investor and Founder of 10T Holdings, Dan Tapiero on:

- Dan's History on Wall Street

- Whether bitcoin eats the use case for gold  

- The tailwinds behind crypto 

- The similarities between the internet's effect on the TMT space vs crypto on financials 

- Investing in mid/late stage crypto companies

Dan Tapiero https://twitter.com/DTAPCAP

Paul Saint-Donat https://twitter.com/psaintdonat 

dlab https://twitter.com/dlabvc

dlab PM Paul Saint-Donat chats with ZenLedger COO Dan Hannum on the origin story of ZenLedger, crypto tax best practices, new initiatives of the IRS, wash sales, and more.

dlab Program Manager Paul Saint-Donat chats with Rafael Cosman, cofounder and CEO of TrustToken about its recent push into uncollaterized lending, credit scoring, listening to your customers, and more.

dlab Program Manager Paul Saint-Donat chats with Robert Kornacki, Head of Research at EMURGO and Ergo Foundation Board Member, about the PoW blockchain Ergo, NIPoPoWs, the Ergo summit, and more.