EARLY - The Business of web3 from Bankless Consulting

Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting.

DSide's guest today is Mariette Clardy-Davis, aka AriesLaw, a mental health speaker and advocate with a background in law and music. She is an emerging leader in the DeFi, Crypto, and Web3 legal advisory space and is a member of various blockchain organizations. AriesLaw is an entrepreneurial and creative professional who excels in challenging and complex situations. She recently spoke at a conference titled "FTX Cryptocurrency Scandal: Bankruptcy, Class Action Lawsuits & Bombshells!" and joined us today to discuss her thoughts on Web3 legal developments, Mental Health prioritization & the growth potential of Web3.

***Timestamps***

• 0:00 - AriesLaw Background

• 2:35 - Differences between Web3 vs. Traditional Law

• 4:40 - Common legal challenges for Builders in Web3

• 8:30 - Will Regulation be a necessity for long-term Web3 Growth?

• 11:01 - AriesLaw experience at BC & long-term BC outlook

• 12:50 - Why do more people from non-traditional backgrounds need to be in the space?

• 17:29 - AriesLaw discusses the importance of Mental Health advocacy within Web3

• 26:31 - What is on the horizon for the legal landscape in Web3?

• 39:30 - What AriesLaw's Web3 experience has taught her?

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Nimit Sawhney is the co-founder and CEO of Voatz, a platform built on the idea that voting should be easy, secure, and accessible for everyone. Voatz is looking to revolutionize the way the world votes. The app gives users access to a voting system that is completely functional on tablets and smartphones by combining elements of remote identity proofing, biometrics, and blockchain technology. End-to-end verifiable and accessible remote voting is now an option thanks to this technology.

Nimit's areas of expertise span mobile software development, cryptocurrency development, cybersecurity, and public policy. He co-founded Voatz in 2015 and the platform has since been used to run over 117 elections at the state, county, university, and organizational levels, serving over 2.2M voters.

Voting on the blockchain offers an alternative to many of the shortfalls of traditional voting systems, including lack of security systems, which can result in electoral fraud. Nimit Sawhney proposes blockchain voting as a necessary next step in electoral processes globally, to ensure secure and transparent elections..

In this episode, Dside and Nimit discuss voter access, identity proofing, the security of blockchain voting, and the possibility of its global adoption in the near future.

***Timestamps***

• 1:50 - What is Voatz? and, why the world needs it

• 9:04 - Challenges facing blockchain voting technology

• 12:03 - How on-chain voting outclasses traditional voting systems

• 16:50 - Adoption of Voatz in the US, Canada and everywhere else!

• 23:10 - Nimit's background in public policy and how it applies to Voatz

• 26:40 - Identity proofing, KYC and and cybersecurity measures on Voatz

• 33:15 - The user voting experience on Voatz

• 38:25 - Voatz on mobile phones, tablets and the web!

• 39:40 - How grad school influenced the person Nimit is today

• 42:30 - A typical day in the life of Nimit Sawhney

• 44:20 - Looking to the future: What's next for Voatz?

***Additional Resources***

• Voatz

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Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting.

DSide's guest today is Adz, a management and brand strategy consultant with a wealth of experience working for major tradcos, as well as her own startups. While at Diageo, she was the Global Marketing Manager for the Captain Morgan rum brand. She has also founded and exited two talent search firms.

More recently, she is an L2 contributor at Bankless DAO, including the Marketing Office at Bankless Consulting. Adz has executed marketing and media visibility strategy projects for projects ranging from DeFi protocols to Philanthropy DAOs with experience executing across social media, events, and public relations. She is currently the Director of Marketing and Partnerships at Catapult - building better infrastructure for digital communities in Web3.

DSide and Adz discuss DAO involvement, governance, talent coordination and networking in web3. While Adz is of the opinion that DAOs and web3 may not be as decentralized as they ought to be, she is convinced of the need for tooling and systems that will inch us closer to that reality. Adz is an avid reader and a go-getter who is indeed optimistic about the future of web3.

***Timestamps***

• 1:10 - Adz's early career days and her background in web3

• 4:25 - How Web3 is changing the way people work and interact with one another

• 8:22 - Coordinating talent in the web3 space: sweet spots and challenges

• 12:09 - Affinity networks in web3

• 17:35 - Promoting equal access to opportunities for all players in the web3 space

• 21:15 - Adz's POV on what it's like being a woman in web3

• 23:30 - Promoting diversity and inclusion in web3: what should be done differently?

• 28:40 - Key attributes of a thriving web3 community

• 31:20 - Leadership and governance in decentralized organizations

• 33:50 - Adz loves to read!

• 37:03 - What did we learn today?

***Additional Resources***

• Diageo

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Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting.

DSide's guest today is Michael Holdman, a successful serial entrepreneur, accomplished salesman and founder, with over four startups to his name. He has been involved in the telecommunications and internet industry since the early 1980s, spanning about four decades. He is credited with the founding of one of the first Application Service Providers (ASPs), an innovation that has now evolved to what we call the "cloud".

He began his successful entrepreneurial career with a profitable exit from an interconnect telephone company in Las Vegas, Nevada, while he was still in college. He is the founder and CEO of PraSaga, a next generation layer one blockchain with a focus on solving some of the limitations that currently bedevil existing layer one blockchain technology.

In this episode, Michael Holdmann speaks about his transitioning from the cloud services business to the blockchain. He shares his views on decentralized data ownership and how PraSaga is helping to realize a future that will allow players across many industries to adopt blockchain technology with ease. Michael and DSide discuss the core of PraSaga's blockchain infrastructure with an emphasis on its use cases and what particular good it can do for society.

***Timestamps***

• 1:37 - A walk down memory lane : Interconnect telephone companies and Application Service Providers

• 7:08 - The cloud as Michael's inspiration to get on the blockchain

• 11:09 - Decentralizing data ownership: Your data should be yours to own and control!

• 12:50 - The PraSaga Origin

• 19:26 - Smart contracts as the operating system for the future and how they work

• 27:33 - How best can we make blockchain technology appeal to normies?

• 30:07 - Innovative uses of blockchain technology in real life scenarios

• 32:24 - Partners building projects on the SagaChain

• 36:30 - Learning and earning with PraSaga - Why Python as a programming language?

• 40:24 - Encouraging adoption and ensuring the security of the SagaChain using PoS and PoW

• 49:00 - Blocks, minting and rewards on the SagaChain

• 53:10 -Incentivizing the health and Pharmaceutical industries to onboard on the SagaChain

• 56:00 - The future with PraSaga

***Additional Resources***

• Bitcoin

• PraSaga

• Python

• Hedera

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Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting.

DSide's guest today is Joe King, a committed Web3 advisor and consultant with a focus on tokenomics, decentralized finance protocols, and Web3 gaming. He enjoys learning about innovations in the decentralized finance space and writing research papers that offer advice on fresh initiatives for businesses and DAOs. Joe possesses extensive expertise in DeFi, Real World Assets on the Blockchain, Token Allocation Models, and Tokenomics Design.

Joe King got involved in crypto currencies in 2016 and spent the next few years as a trader/investor with a focus on technical financial analysis. During "DeFi Summer" of 2020 he was hooked on what these decentralized financial tools could bring to the world and how Smart Contracts could revolutionize a large part of the Financial, Real Estate, and Insurance sectors. Joe believes (as do I) that Web3 will slowly swallow large parts of existing financial systems and he loves the idea of building the future.

In this episode, Joe talks about his journey through the world of decentralized finance and about crypto trading, exchanges, the particular applications of tokenized assets in real world scenarios and a lot more that can be possible with web3 in the future. DSide and Joe dig into exciting new DeFi projects and the challenges they face, real estate investing, the realities of real world assets on the blockchain, and Joe shares his visions of the future of web3. For the fun part, Joe talks about his early life as a chef in Aspen and his love for paragliding!

***Timestamps***

• 6:00 - Joe's journey from TradFi to DeFi

• 7:40 - Centralized vs. decentralized finance

• 12:20 - Exciting new innovations in DeFi - GMX as an instance

• 15:20 - Joe's early days as a private chef

• 18:55 - Learning rules to bend the rules

• 22:22 - Real estate investing

• 25:40 - Bringing real assets on-chain and potential use cases

• 32:00 - Everything that can be tokenized will be tokenized

• 35:30 - Bets on the future of web3 - There's more to come!

• 40:45 - Insurance and web3

• 45:30 - Paragliding! Learning to fly

***Additional Resources***

• Coinbase

• Binance

• Kraken

• SushiSwap

• UniSwap

• Robinhood

• GMX

• Paragliding

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Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting.

DSide's guest today is Richard Olsen. Richard has been referred to as the Great Grandfather of Blockchain. He is a financial powerhouse, a visionary, and a supporter of change for a better future. He established Lykke in 2013 and launched the exchange in 2015 with the goal of using blockchain technology to transform the financial services industry.

On this episode of EARLY, DSide and Richard discuss high frequency trading, how regulations affect stakeholders in the decentralized finance space, as well as how artificial intelligence (AI) and big data can shape the financial markets for better outcomes in the future.

Under Richard's direction, Lykke has consistently positioned itself as a provider of blockchain and financial services products to strategically reach out to new consumer demographics in the B2B and B2C market with the goal of reinventing the financial services sector and demonstrating to people the true potential of the blockchain. Cycling is a hobby for Richard and he also believes sufficient rest is necessary for maximum productivity.

***Timestamps***

• 1:34 - What is High Frequency Finance?

• 4:15 - Simplifying trading for everyone

• 7:02 - Bringing finance onto the blockchain

• 9:35 - Impact of regulations on blockchain finance

• 11:18 - The core of Lykke's business model

• 13:56 - Democratization of financial markets for fostering inclusion

• 18:45- Assets digitization has come to stay

• 20:50 - The future of blockchain finance

• 23:40 - Applying artificial intelligence for financial analysis to improve trading outcomes

• 28:40 - Will blockchain finance eventually become a norm in the global finance industry?

• 33:01 - What's next for Lykke?

***Additional Resources***

• Lykke

• OANDA

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Welcome to Early, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting.

DSide's guest today is Omen, the resident legal counsel and director of the legal office at Bankless Consulting. He has positioned himself at the forefront of web3 law and is an active contributor to communities such Legal DAO and Pizza DAO. He is passionate about DAOs, the blockchain economy and the future of web3. Omen is knowledgeable about a lot of things and is a big believer in the power of knowledge sharing, teamwork and collaboration.

***Timestamps***

• 2:20 - The past year in review

• 6:05 - Venturing into web3 law ecosystem

• 13:34 - How developed is the current legal framework in crypto?

• 19:10 - Transforming small businesses with crypto

• 23:56 - Driving institutional adoption of cryptocurrency

• 27:05 - Debate on crypto regulations

• 38:18 - Is Ethereum a security?

• 44:45 - The Legality of DAOs

• 48:49 - Use cases of Smart contracts

• 55:10 - Why corporations need a web3 strategy

***Additional Resources***

• Pizza DAO Twitter

• Rare Pizza Collectibles

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Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting.

DSide's guest today is Chuck, a founding member of Bankless Consulting, a digital nomad and a writer. He is passionate about social impact practice as a step towards building blockchain technology for real world use cases. Before web3, he worked full time at the University of Maryland. Chuck is focused on helping grow vibrant web3 communities, meeting people and building purposeful relationships. His fascination with web3 stemmed from his discovery of its scope and just how impactful it can be. He is a strong believer in blockchain technology's potential to positively influence our global future.

***Timestamps***

• 6:23 - The digital Nomad life

• 11:10 - Life before web3

• 14:20 - Entering the web3 environment

• 16:30 - Relevance of non-technical skills in web3

• 20:35 - Life in Bankless Consulting

• 24:21 - Social Impact Practice in web3

• 30:50 - How web3 creates a more equitable system

• 33:40 - Perspective on finance and governance

• 41:14 - The global potential of crypto and web3

• 50:35 - The future of Bankless Consulting

***Additional Resources***

• Home DAO

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DSide's guest today is DeFi Beats, well versed in politics and wildly fascinated by sports gambling and degen activities in web3. In addition, he is a learned expert in decentralized finance, NFTs, DAO governance and is a contributor in multiple DAOs. Besides these, he runs a political campaign management agency and maintains an active footprint in the political space.

DeFi Beats is passionate about reinventing systems to achieve better outcomes. His involvement in real world politics triggered his inquisition to find better ways to make the political system work. This fascination with the possibilities in web3 led him down the degen rabbit hole, and he has not looked back since.

***Timestamps***

• 7:10 How political consulting led me to web3

• 11:11 Can blockchain technology transform voting and the electoral process?

• 17:45 The fine line between centralization and delegation

• 19:22 Interests in web3

• 20:46 NFT Utility - The now and the future

• 27:19 Involvement in DeFi and Degen activities

• 29:58 Gambling and taking risks in web3

• 31:52 Skillset optimization at BC

• 32:56 The predictive need for tokenomics experts

• 37:40 The need to experiment to figure out what works

***Additional Resources***

• Joke Dao

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In this episode of Early, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting, DSide interviews Ryan Anderson, a web3 pioneer with extensive experience in branding, innovative organizational systems, and thought leadership. They discuss Ryan's journey into web3, the potential of decentralized social platforms, web3 gaming, and the future of NFTs, touching on insights that Fortune 1000 executives can learn from.

Timestamps

5:16 - The groundbreaking Digital Happy Meal campaign 8:30 - Ryan's fascination with "the next big thing" 9:00 - Tracing the origins of web2 10:24 - Ryan's accurate predictions about web2 11:30 - Ryan's entry into the web3 space 12:50 - How discovering DAOs changed everything for Ryan 16:00 - The potential of decentralized social platforms 19:00 - Examining the drawbacks of web2 25:00 - The importance of decentralized identity and composability in web3 28:30 - Predicting the leading companies in the web3 era 31:10 - The need for user-friendly web3 solutions 33:00 - The exciting possibilities of web3 gaming 37:00 - Exploring the role of gambling in web3 39:03 - The evolving landscape of NFTs 44:30 - Ryan's dream project in the web3 space 49:00 - Ryan's recent reads and book recommendations

***Additional Resources***

• [book] Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

• [book] Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness

• [book] Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World

• [book] Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

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