Episode 19 of our Community Show and first one for 2023 is with Shane Verner, ANZ Sales Director of Fireblocks, a global digital asset custody platform with over 1700 customers worldwide and 92 in Australia. We learn about the cybersecurity origins of Fireblocks and how its Web3 Engine has been described as the AWS for Web3 helping companies build and scale faster than ever before.

Your interviewer for this episode is Shahirah Gardner.

Timestamps

0:00: Introduction and how Shane landed at Fireblocks

2:35 What is Fireblocks, how did it start?

3:35 Fireblocks $1bn cap raise and global customers

4:50 Fireblocks enters Australia

5:37 The evolution of Fireblocks as a Web 3 engine & impressive portfolio of projects from banking to ecommerce

9:30 Pillars of the Web3 engine and helping companies scale rapidly

10:30 Security infrastructure and governance

11:15 Developer tooling, agile scaling, 24/7 connectivity

12:40 When should a company consider Fireblocks and the story of a customer that has grown with them

16:40 What’s the future of Fireblocks?

18:15 The rise and adoption of tokenisation in Australia

21:30 State of regulation and what’s needed

21:44 Diversity of the web3 community and sense of belonging

24:30 How to reach out and get in touch

Links

- Fireblocks website - https://www.fireblocks.com/

- Fireblocks on Twitter - https://twitter.com/FireblocksHQ

- Shane on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-verner-3154b72/

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