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In this episode, we sit down with Jaye Harrill, Communications Manager at Quantstamp - a leader in blockchain security, offering smart contract and front-end audits to enhance the security of decentralized applications. 

Passionate communications manager for blockchain security company Quantstamp, Jaye has a long leadership history in blockchain and Ethereum community spaces. She has dedicated her life to bringing broad visibility to the transformative changes this technology is expected to bring. Currently, Jaye is most known for her marketing, community events and security standards work. She is committed to bridging as many blockchain newbies together with as many vets as possible. Long term, 1 doge will forever be 1 doge. 

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Links

Jaye’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/JayeHarrill

Quantstamp Website: https://quantstamp.com/

Quantstamp Twitter: https://twitter.com/Quantstamp

Quantstamp Blog: https://quantstamp.com/blog

Quantstamp Medium: https://medium.com/quantstamp

Quantstamp Github: https://github.com/quantstamp

In this episode, we sit down with Deniz Omer, Head of Ecosystem Growth at Kyber Network - an on-chain liquidity protocol that aggregates liquidity from a wide range of reserves, powering instant and secure token exchange in any decentralized application. 

Kyber is a on-chain liquidity protocol that anyone can tap into for a wide variety of inter-token use cases. For example, vendors are able to accept payments in multiple tokens on their e-commerce platforms yet receiving in their preferred token. In addition, dApps can allow users who are not their token holders to utilize their platform and services with other tokens, and decentralized financial projects have the means to rebalance their portfolio instantly.

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Links

Deniz’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/denizomer

Kyber Network Website: https://kyber.network/

Kyber Network Twitter: https://twitter.com/kybernetwork

Kyber Network Telegram: https://t.me/kybernetwork

Kyber Network Medium: https://blog.kyber.network/

In this episode, we sit down with Mo Dong, co-founder of Celer Network - a leading layer-2 scaling platform that enables developers to build highly scalable decentralized applications through fast, easy and secure off-chain transactions. 

Graduated with a Ph.D. from UIUC, Dr. Mo Dong has been applying his research and engineering experience on networking protocol design, distributed systems, formal verification and Game Theory to scalability challenges of blockchain systems. Dr. Dong led projects revolutionizing Internet TCP and improved cross-continental data transfer speed by 10X to 100X with non-regret learning algorithms. His work was published in top conferences, won Internet2 Innovative Application Award and being adopted by major Internet content and service providers.

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Links

Mo’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/no89thkey

Celer Network Website: https://www.celer.network/

Celer Network Twitter: https://twitter.com/CelerNetwork

Celer Network Telegram: https://t.me/celernetwork

Celer Network Discord: https://discord.gg/Trhab5w

Celer Network Medium: https://medium.com/celer-network

Celer Network Github: https://github.com/celer-network

In this episode, we sit down with Michael Sena, co-founder and CEO of 3Box - a company aiming to be the shared backend for web3 by making it simple for developers to store data securely with their users.

3Box makes it simple to store data securely with your users, letting you focus on building great products. 

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Links

Michael’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/somemikesena

3Box Website: https://3box.io/

3Box Twitter: https://twitter.com/3boxdb

3Box Medium: https://medium.com/3box

3Box Discord: https://chat.3box.io/

3Box Github: https://github.com/3box

In this episode, we sit down with Jack O’Holleran, co-founder and CEO of SKALE Labs - a company building a modular protocol that allows developers to easily provision highly configurable blockchains so developers can focus on building scalable decentralized applications.

Jack is a veteran Silicon Valley Technology entrepreneur with a deep background in machine learning/AI technologies, security, and blockchain. His resume includes co-founder of Aktana, co-founder IncentAlign, and executive positions at Good Technology, and Motorola. His first work with Digital Currencies was in 2008 building a digital currency platform for Enterprise Resource Allocation. He has been an active Cryptocurrency investor and an evangelist for decentralized systems since early 2013.

Jack's passion for decentralized systems and blockchain led him to join efforts with Stan to solve the blockchain scalability problem. He is a veteran Silicon Valley Technology entrepreneur with a deep background in machine learning/AI technologies, and blockchain. His resume includes co-founder of Aktana, co-founder IncentAlign, and executive positions at Good Technology, and Motorola. His first work with Digital Currencies was in 2008 building a digital currency platform for Enterprise Resource Allocation. He has been an active Cryptocurrency investor and an evangelist for decentralized systems since early 2013.Enjoy!

Links

Jack’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackoholleran

SKALE Labs Website: https://skale.network/

SKALE Labs Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkaleNetwork

SKALE Labs Telegram: https://t.me/skaleofficial

SKALE Labs Discord: http://skale.chat/

ConsenSys Codefi Announces SKALE Network as the First Project to Launch a Token on the Activate Platform: https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/consensys-codefi-announces-skale-network-as-the-first-project-to-launch-a-token-on-the-activate-platform/

In this episode, we sit down with Bradley Kam, co-founder and Head of Business Development at Unstoppable Domains - a company focused on helping make crypto payments simple and enabling anyone to create censorship-resistant websites with blockchain domains.

Brad is a serial entrepreneur from Atlanta. Unstoppable Domains, a registry business building domain names on blockchains. In May, Unstoppable raised $4.3M led by Draper Associates. Previously, he co-founded Talkable, a YC backed marketing software company.

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Links

Unstoppable Domains Website: https://unstoppabledomains.com/

Unstoppable Domains Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstoppableweb

Unstoppable Domains Telegram: https://t.me/unstoppabledomains

Unstoppable Domains Medium: https://medium.com/unstoppabledomains

Unstoppable Domains Forum: https://community.unstoppabledomains.com/

In this episode, we sit down with Elena Sinelnikova and Natalia Ameline, co-founders of CryptoChicks - a self-financed non-profit changing the lives of women and youth around the world through education and mentorship around blockchain and AI. Elena and Natalia started CryptoChicks after getting a huge turnout for a blockchain meetup they organized in Toronto in 2017 to help other women to navigate through Blockchain technology.

CryptoChicks supports women and youth in Canada, USA, Bahamas, Pakistan, Switzerland, Dubai with education, hackathon events and mentorship. They also created mentorship programs, such as CryptoChicks Hatchery to help women start their own businesses. As a result of their fantastic work, CryptoChicks was nominated for the Blockchain Company of the Year Award at the Canadian FinTech and AI Awards in 2018 and 2019 as well as the Diversity Initiative of the Year at the inaugural Women in IT Awards Canada in 2019.

It was fantastic to hear Natalia and Elena describe their journey to get CryptoChicks to where it is today and what their efforts look like at hackathons such as ETHDenver. 

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Links

Crypto Chicks Website: https://cryptochicks.ca/

Crypto Chicks Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/crypto_chicks

Crypto Chicks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CryptoChicksOrg

Crypto Chicks Slack: http://cryptochickshackathon.slack.com/

Crypto Chicks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/cryptochicks

In this episode, we sit down with Shiv Malik, Head of Growth at Streamr - a real-time data protocol for the decentralized web focused on data monetization and exchange. Shiv is the author of two books, the co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation think tank, and a former investigative journalist for the Guardian. In his role with Streamr, he evangelizes about a new decentralized data economy and is completely psyched about bringing data unions to the world.

Streamr aims to replace centralized data brokers with an open source, decentralized peer-to-peer network for real-time data exchange by relying on cryptography instead of trust. It was started in reaction to the dominance of the Big Five tech giants, with the core belief that decentralized infrastructure can deliver a healthier distribution of money and power, as well as unlocking brand new use cases.

Shiv walks us through the origin story of Streamr, the components of their network and how different participants benefit from their token economic model.

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Links

Shiv’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/shivmalik

Streamr Website: https://streamr.network/

Streamr Twitter: https://twitter.com/streamr

Streamr Telegram: https://t.me/streamrdata

Streamr Medium: https://medium.com/streamrblog

Streamr Github: https://github.com/streamr-dev

Swash Telegram: https://t.me/swashapp

Swash Github: https://github.com/swashapp/swash.git

Swash Twitter: https://twitter.com/swashapp

In this episode, we sit down with David Gold, Founder and CEO of Dapix, a venture-backed company launching the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) Protocol aimed at revolutionizing blockchain usability. David brings decades of experience as a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor to this ambitious project.

The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) is a consortium of leading wallets, exchanges, and crypto payment processors supporting the FIO Protocol. The usability problems they are trying to solve include readability of addresses, confusion when sending transactions, and lack of context within transactions.

We had a great time hearing David’s compelling vision for FIO, how they’ve been able to succeed in building a very strong ecosystem and what the business model is for FIO.

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Links

Dapix Website: https://dapix.io/

FIO Website: https://fio.foundation/

FIO Twitter: https://twitter.com/joinFIO

FIO Discord: https://discord.gg/pHBmJCc

FIO Medium: https://medium.com/fio-blog

FIO Telegram: https://t.me/joinFIO

In this episode, we chat about highlights and insights at ETH Denver 2020 and NFT.NYC. We also dig into what the future might hold for crypto as we find our way through a global crisis.