Artists, Musicians, Comedians, Vloggers. If there is one group of people Web3 is going to benefit the most, the smart money would be on content creators. In this fascinating episode, Callum catches up with publisher and thought leader Matthias Naglschmid to talk about what Web3 means for content creators, and how they can benefit from decentralization.

The NEAR ecosystem is flourishing, and growing numbers of developers are choosing to build decentralized applications on the NEAR protocol. In this episode, Callum catches up with David Morrison of the NEAR Foundation.

True decentralization requires decentralized infrastructure. For this episode of The Web3 Podcast, we talk to two Keyvan Sadeghi and Ehsan Shariati; two founders who have taken up the challenge of building 'free forever' decentralized cloud storage with their new start-up, Functionland.

One of the common criticisms of Web3 is that new technologies like blockchains, smart contracts and NFTs have no real world applications. In this episode, Jacek gives us a dozen reasons why this way of thinking is so wrong. Tune in to find out why.

About Jacek Artymiak

Jacek is the founder of Certograph, a digital ID and crypto consultancy helping my clients move into the smart contracts and NFT space. Jack started out as an IT consultant in the e-commerce, media, and financial services space. He served as the Development Lead for the entity responsible for delivering the Open Banking Framework in the UK. He got interested in smart contract development in 2018 and started offering consultancy services in the crypto space in 2020. He is currently building a business-oriented NFT project and a digital identity framework for financial institutions interested in transacting over blockchain.

For episode 6 of The Web3 Podcast, we sit down with Integritee's CEO and founder, Waldemar Scherer. Waldemar explains what a blockchain is, how organisations can harness the power of the blockchain to securely process sensitive data, and how he is solving what Vitalik Buterin called the 'Blockchain Trilemma', by ensuring scalability, interoperability and confidentiality.

One of the most recognisable facets of Web3 are Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or 'DAOs' for short. In this episode, Nelson Jordan of DAOMasters walks us through what a DAO is, how they are structured and why they are going to change the world.

For our first dive into the Metaverse, who better to speak to than Jimmie Tyrrell? On this episode, we define what the Metaverse is, where the idea came from, how it has evolved, and what it might look like in the future. Oh, and we also speak about him getting mugged by a band of virtual children.

For this episode, we're ecstatic to welcome Jordan Gray of Codame and AstroDAO. Jordan and I talk about NFTs -- what they are, and what their past, present and future applications are.

About Jordan Gray

Jordan is a serial founder and the mastermind behind Codame, a non-profit that married technology with art. He is also the man behind AstroDAO, a platform for launching Decentralised Autonomous Organisations.

Jordan's Recommendations

1. Mintbase

2. NEAR Week

Social Links

Jordan's Twitter: @starpause

...my Twitter: @CallumWooders

...and our website: www.theweb3podcast.xyz

For this episode, we're very happy to welcome Murat Akdeniz of Blocknative. Murat will be telling us about the ins and outs of crypto, and all of its applications.

About Murat Akdeniz

Murat is an incredibly experienced founder and product leader. He is currently heading up product at a Web3 start-up, Blocknative. He has been in crypto in over a decade, and even founded the first social wallet on Ethereum.  

2. NEAR Week

Social Links

...my Twitter: @CallumWooders

...and our website: www.theweb3podcast.xyz

For the first episode of The Web3 Podcast, we are delighted to welcome Hadley Harris of ENIAC Ventures. On this episode, we define what Web3 is, discuss the Web3 landscape from an investment perspective, and shine a light on the ongoing evolution of the space.

About Hadley Harris

Hadley is a successful venture capitalist, entrepreneur and Twitter personality. As a founding partner of ENIAC Ventures, he has been a seed-stage investor to 11 unicorns.

In recent years, ENIAC have invested in a number of Web3 start-ups, including Genopets, ESports One and Rarify.   Early in his career, Hadley worked at Pegasystems, Microsoft and Samsung, before joining the founders of Vlingo to run a several aspects of the business across product, strategy, and marketing until it was sold to Nuance for $225M. He rolled his experience building a successful startup into Thumb, where as CBO he helped the real-time recommendation app reach user engagement levels second only to Facebook before being acquired.

Hadley grew up in downtown Boston, and now lives in New York City with his wife and son.

1. Andreeson Horowitz - Crypto Startup School 

2. Whiteboard Crypto

3. ...leverage mentors!

Hadley Harris: @Hadley 

ENIAC Ventures on Twitter: @ENIACVentures

ENIAC Ventures: Website

....my Twitter: @CallumWooders

...my Website: theweb3podcast.xyz