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First Ever Women’s Only DAO with Maria Shaikh
Today we’re talking to Maria Shaikh, a founding member of the first ever women’s DAO. Maria is also a data scientist at ZebPay, one of the world’s most secure trading platforms. Maria says she was always a finance person. She watched her parents' involvement in the stock market and majored in finance. She says when she was first exposed to bitcoin, it was seen only as a tool to make a quick buck. It was later that she would be introduced to crypto and blockchain, which is essentially decentralized finance. She was impressed with the technology that went along with it. When she was finishing up her major in finance, she took an internship at ZebPay. She says it wasn’t her plan to stay, she was all set to study further, but it was too good to leave.
Maria works on the research and development team at ZebPay. She says it’s the first and leading cryptocurrency trading platform. When ZebPay was first launched, cryptocurrency became banned in India. Luckily, that decision was reversed in March 2020. Maria says it’s been uphill since then. However, she says they still don’t have clear guidelines in place. They’re optimistically looking forward to that because some people are still scared to opt in because of the lack of guidelines. ZebPay is now based in India, Singapore, and Australia, with plans for expansion across the world. Their growth in terms of number of traders and product offerings has been great. Maria says they just want people to have easy access and that their new app Zeb is meant for people new to the space.
The DAO was launched on Women’s Day and is the first ever women’s only DAO. The idea was created by the VP of research and development because women are underrepresented in both tech and crypto. Maria and her team don’t want women to miss out because of lack of knowledge or access. Maria says they envision an organization that’s owned and operated by women, where they take ideas and lock them into a smart contract, so they can’t be ignored or disobeyed. The DAO is currently only open to female employees of ZebPay, but they intend to make it open to any female investor of ZebPay.
If you’re interested in learning more about ZebPay visit zebpay.com. They should also have a website coming up soon for the DAO.
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Divi is creating the world's first closed-loop, vertically-integrated cryptocurrency ecosystem. Much like Apple's ecosystem is anchored by iCloud, the Divi Project blockchain serves as the core of the Divi network of technologies. Thanks to a keen understanding of the divide that separates the mainstream from the crypto world, the Divi team is able to create solutions to the industry's biggest problem: adoption by non-technical users. Divi's user-friendly, one-click solutions aim to bring blockchain-based payments into modernity with great UX. In this podcast, we will cover all aspects of cryptocurrency, hot topics, and technology as worldwide adoption grows.
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Today we’re talking to Maria Shaikh, a founding member of the first ever women’s DAO. Maria is also a data scientist at ZebPay, one of the world’s most secure trading platforms. Maria says she was always a finance person. She watched her parents' involvement in the stock market and majored in finance. She says when she was first exposed to bitcoin, it was seen only as a tool to make a quick buck. It was later that she would be introduced to crypto and blockchain, which is essentially decentralized finance. She was impressed with the technology that went along with it. When she was finishing up her major in finance, she took an internship at ZebPay. She says it wasn’t her plan to stay, she was all set to study further, but it was too good to leave.
Maria works on the research and development team at ZebPay. She says it’s the first and leading cryptocurrency trading platform. When ZebPay was first launched, cryptocurrency became banned in India. Luckily, that decision was reversed in March 2020. Maria says it’s been uphill since then. However, she says they still don’t have clear guidelines in place. They’re optimistically looking forward to that because some people are still scared to opt in because of the lack of guidelines. ZebPay is now based in India, Singapore, and Australia, with plans for expansion across the world. Their growth in terms of number of traders and product offerings has been great. Maria says they just want people to have easy access and that their new app Zeb is meant for people new to the space.
The DAO was launched on Women’s Day and is the first ever women’s only DAO. The idea was created by the VP of research and development because women are underrepresented in both tech and crypto. Maria and her team don’t want women to miss out because of lack of knowledge or access. Maria says they envision an organization that’s owned and operated by women, where they take ideas and lock them into a smart contract, so they can’t be ignored or disobeyed. The DAO is currently only open to female employees of ZebPay, but they intend to make it open to any female investor of ZebPay.
If you’re interested in learning more about ZebPay visit zebpay.com. They should also have a website coming up soon for the DAO.
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Divi is creating the world's first closed-loop, vertically-integrated cryptocurrency ecosystem. Much like Apple's ecosystem is anchored by iCloud, the Divi Project blockchain serves as the core of the Divi network of technologies. Thanks to a keen understanding of the divide that separates the mainstream from the crypto world, the Divi team is able to create solutions to the industry's biggest problem: adoption by non-technical users. Divi's user-friendly, one-click solutions aim to bring blockchain-based payments into modernity with great UX. In this podcast, we will cover all aspects of cryptocurrency, hot topics, and technology as worldwide adoption grows.