Host Marissa Trew speaks to Beryl Li, the co-founder of Yield Guild Games – the world’s first and biggest web3 gaming guild that focuses on building community, game discovery and developing vital web3 skills.

YGG aims to bridge the tech gap in emerging economies by providing access to Web3 gaming and upskilling community members. Beryl also discusses how the web3 gaming space has evolved since 2021 and why 2024 is the year where we'll see big things happen.

Sean Lee is the ex-CEO of Algorand and currently serves as a Senior Advisor for the Crypto Council for Innovation. In this episode, he discusses his experience leading the foundation of a prominent layer one blockchain and the critical importance of a community-driven governance model. We also explore the roles and relationship between innovators and regulators, Asia's distinct advantage, and predictions for the year ahead.

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Aptos launched its mainnet in October 2022, raised over $350 million in funding and has a current market cap of almost $3 billion. In this episode, we speak to Avery Ching, the CTO and co-founder of Aptos Labs about his vision of building Aptos as a general-purpose blockchain for the next billion users, its integration with AI, the oncoming wave of blockchain modularity, and the deeper challenges surrounding regulation.

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Leah Callon-Butler is the director of Emfarsis, a Coindesk columnist and a board member of the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA). Needless to say, her expertise in the web3 gaming space is unparalleled. Following the release of the 2023 BGA Industry Report, we ran through the key findings and what they mean for the road ahead.

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Devon Ferreira is a seasoned marketer, working across global brands like Oakley and Disney, before acting as CMO to major web3 institutions, Avalanche and Immutable.

In this interview, he relays the lessons he's learned throughout the course of his web2 + web3 career. He explains why web3 marketing is not fundamentally different to traditional marketing. The criticality of human psychology. Why web3 marketing needs to change. And what brands need to do to strengthen their position as the market recovers.

Born out of the Meta Diem project and the creation of the Move programme language, the Sui blockchain currently boasts over $300m in venture funding with a valuation in excess of $2b since its mainnet launch in May 2023, attracting the eye of many investors, developers and users alike.

In this interview, co-founder and CPO of Mysten Labs, Adeniyi Abiodun shares:

With the growing prevalence of fake news and AI-generated images that are capable of deceiving even the most scrutinising eye, how do we discern truth in this digital age? Alejandro Navia, CEO and co-founder of now media, proposes that the answer lies in tokenised media.

In this episode, Alejandro outlines how blockchain technology can be used to verify information, protect creators, and act as the medium through which storytelling is preserved online. Beyond the tech, this conversation explores wellbeing and spirituality in web3, the plight of the thought leader, and the importance of authenticity in our shared humanity.

On this episode, we are joined by William Falcon, the founder and CEO of Lightning AI – an open-source Python library that provides a high-level interface for popular deep learning framework PyTorch. Described as the "operating system" for AI, Lightning AI has enabled developers to train, deploy, and ship AI products at rapid pace. Throughout this conversation, William shares how his experience in the military, and how academia informs his approach to building and running what he describes as "the Mac of AI". We also delve into the regulatory and ethical challenges that surround the open-source vs. closed AI debate, the risks that come with building a technology in our image, and how we use AI to build a more progressive world.

Meet the brilliant Sterling Crispin, a conceptual artist and software engineer whose work explores  “computational beauty of nature, and our conflicting cultural narratives about the apocalypse”. In this episode, we dig into how Sterling marries these seemingly disparate worlds through his works – across art, code, blockchain, AI and finance – to explore the countless ways our collective futures might unfold.

This episode, we are joined by entrepreneur and philanthropist, Trevor Traina. His latest venture is Kresus – a new crypto wallet “super app" designed to onboard the masses in a "goof proof" way. In this interview, we discuss the role crypto wallets play as the first layer of interaction between people and the blockchain, and how it just might be the way we onboard mainstream users. We also discuss how Trevor's political background influences his outlook on the web3 industry at large, and what needs to happen on the regulatory front to ease this technology's path to mass adoption.