We were joined by Trent McConaghy, CTO at Ocean Protocol, to discuss the advantages of managing data via blockchain, what makes a data set valuable and what challenges derive from the AI gold rush.

Trent McConaghy: Ocean Protocol – AI & the Data NFT Marketplace (V4)

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We were joined by Mara Schmiedt, CEO of Alluvial, to discuss how institutional players regard liquid staking and how infrastructure evolved since the early days of ETH POS.

Alluvial: Institutional Liquid Staking and Spot Ethereum ETF - Mara Schmiedt

We were joined by Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, to discuss their quadratic funding model which raised over $60M for public goods funding, and how Gitcoin 2.0 further decentralises crowd-funding

Quadratic Funding and How Gitcoin Raised $60M for Public Goods - Kevin Owocki

We were joined by Illia Polosukhin & Alex Skidanov, co-founders of Near Protocol, to discuss why rollups are inefficient at scaling blockchains and how Near’s sharding fixes this bottleneck.

Near Protocol: 'Blockchains Cannot Scale Without Sharding!' - Illia Polosukhin & Alex Skidanov

We were joined by Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, to discuss how crypto evolved over the past 10 years, and what role Tether played in shaping both crypto, as well as emerging markets and developing economies.

'Is Tether's USDT Safe?' - Paolo Ardoino

We were joined by Lukas Schor, co-founder of Safe, to discuss Gnosis’ role in building early Ethereum infrastructure and tooling, and how Safe branched out to help secure >$100Bn worth of assets.

Trent McConaghy: Ocean Protocol – AI & the Data NFT Marketplace (V4)

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