Web3 Innovators

Web3 Innovators

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Web3 Innovators episodes

  • #49 - What it takes to Audit Smart Contracts with Jerome Rousselot

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to Jerome Rousselot, CEO & Founder of Jita Digital. Jita Digital offers strategic advice and security audits to fintech startups, businesses and asset managers. With clients including digital gold, ref finance and Q.org.

    Jerome was a fantastic guest and his knowledge stems from not only founding Jita Digital in 2015 but also advising numerous teams on their product development. We're sure you'll take a lot away from this conversation.

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    Learn more about Jita Digital - https://jitadigital.com

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    30 min
  • #48 - Finding Superfans with Web3 with Gurps Rai

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to Gurps Rai, CEO of droppTV. dropTV  an interactive media platform that enables viewers of video content to perform “on-screen shopping” with just a simple click.

    Topics discussed in the conversation:

    - Why web3 is so compelling for artists and fans
    - Simplifying onboarding to Web3
    - Using web2 platforms as launchpads for web3

    Gurps has been involved in several crypto-oriented projects, as an early investor in the Hub Culture ecosystem, and original came from a financial background, which made our conversation particularly fascinating.

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    33 min
  • #47 - Bringing Bandwidth On-Chain with Sherlock Shi

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to Sherlock Shi, co-founder and CEO of Meson Network.

    Meson Network is working to create the world’s largest bandwidth marketplace in the future. With Meson users can exchange their unused bandwidth resources with Meson for tokens, and those who need bandwidth will come to Meson’s market to borrow bandwidth anywhere in the world.

    If you like this podcast please remember to subscribe, rate and leave a review. This helps more people learn from these awesome web3 innovators.

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    41 min
  • #46 - The Case for Governance and Sovereignty in Web3 with John deVadoss

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to John deVadoss, head of development at Neo Blockchain. John spent the first couple of decades of his career at Microsoft where he worked on a number of platform initiatives including their .NET platform.

    Topics covered include:

    • Why decentralisation is merely an enabler for self-governance and self-sovereignty 
    • Blockchains as economic platforms
    • How the intersection of technology, economics and social issues is driving web3 adoption
    • How early we still our in its adoption

    John has a vast amount of experience in the space and an in-depth perspective. We're sure you'll enjoy the chat!

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    To order your copy of the Number 1 Best Seller 'The Blockchain Innovator's Handbook', head to https://www.web3labs.com/innovators


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    53 min
  • #45 - Crypto Scams with Erica Stanford

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to  Erica Stanford, Founder of the Crypto Curry Club and author of the book Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption.

    Given Erica’s book, lots of the discussion revolves around scams in crypto, including:

    - Ways scammers target communities
    - Scammers scamming scammers
    - Multi-level marketing and crypto
    - Why web3 isn’t a scam

    Conor and Erica also discuss her latest research project  —assassination services on the dark web.

    It was fantastic to hang out with Erica for this episode — she’s spent so much time researching the dark underbelly of crypto that she’s uniquely qualified to talk about it, and you will learn a lot from the conversation.

    Find out more about the Crypto Curry Club here

    Read more about Erica's book Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption here

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    To order your copy of the Number 1 Best Seller 'The Blockchain Innovator's Handbook', head to https://www.web3labs.com/innovators

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    58 min
  • #44 - Web3 and Wine with Oliver Oram

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to Oliver Oram, Founder and CEO of Chainvine.

    In this enlightening conversation, Conor and Oliver discuss the many ways Web3 technology is applicable to the wine industry. Some of the points covered include:

    • Why tax authorities, such as HRMC, are interested in blockchain and wine
    • The differences in fine wine versus batch wine
    • Virtual labelling and other opportunities relevant to consumers
    • Tokenisation of wine

    The ways in which the wine industry is embracing Web3 technology is already very broad. We're sure you'll enjoy learning more about the intricacies of the industry as well as its intersection with Web3 from Oliver.

    Find out more about Chainvine here

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    To order your copy of the Number 1 Best Seller 'The Blockchain Innovator's Handbook', head to https://www.web3labs.com/innovators

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    46 min
  • #43 - Decentralised Derivatives with Barney Mannerings

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to Barney Mannerings, founder of Vega Protocol. Vega Protocol is a platform for building derivatives for Web3.

    In the conversation Conor and Barney dig into a number of topics including:

    -The infrastructure required to create on-chain derivatives
    -How they approach leverage and risk management
    -The community’s role
    -What’s still missing from DeFi

    Whilst derivatives have been linked in the past with events such as the global financial crisis of 2008, they are an absolutely key piece of plumbing in our financial infrastructure, allowing business to hedge risk against a myriad of different asset classes.

    Barney is a a finance and technology veteran who spent many years working in capital markets technology before founding Vega, it was exciting to see how they’re building out this key infrastructure for Web3.

    Find out more about Vega Protocol here

    Watch the video here

    To order your copy of the Number 1 Best Seller 'The Blockchain Innovator's Handbook', head to https://www.web3labs.com/innovators

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    Join the Web3 Innovators community and engage with like-minded individuals passionate about the potential of blockchain technology.

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    50 min
  • #42 - Creating a Web3 Content Network with Leonard Kish

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to Leonard Kish co-founder of the Cortex Network.

    Cortex is a Web3 content network that provides a scalable, provable, private, user-centric and affordable network for publishing, finding and updating content.

    In the conversation Conor and Leo discuss the various components to the Cortex network, why Hierarchical Deterministic wallets are a key building block for them and who the initial batch of creators are on the network.

    The current centralised models used for publishing content online are far from ideal, Leo’s perspectives on how Cortex is challenging this approach are great to hear.

    Find out more about Cortex here.

    Watch the video here.

    To order your copy of the Number 1 Best Seller 'The Blockchain Innovator's Handbook', head to https://www.web3labs.com/innovators

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    52 min
  • The Stablecoin Landscape with Marius Ciubotariu

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to Marius Ciubotariu, Founder of Hubble Protocol. Hubble is a DeFi protocol on Solana that provides a censorship-resistant stablecoin USDH.

    Topics covered in the discussion include:

    - How DeFi benefits the end user
    - Why censorship resistance is such an important topic
    - The stablecoin landscape, and how Hubble’s USDH stablecoin fits into it
    - How collateralised stablecoins backed by cryptocurrencies should be
    - Other types of assets that could be collateralised on-chain in the future

    Marius is a technologist with a deep passion for finance and building products to benefit the end users, if you want to get a better understanding of stablecoins and DeFi, we thoroughly recommend you listen to this episode!

    Find out more about Hubble Protocol here.

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    46 min
  • #40 - What's next for DeFi? with Amit Chaudhary

    In this episode of Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to Amit Chaudhary, Head of DeFi Research at Polygon.

    Amit has had the good fortune of being able to study DeFi protocols since 2017 initially as part of his PhD research, and now at Polygon.

    During the conversation Conor and Amit discuss a number of topics such as:

    - Why usability of DeFi is trailing protocol development
    - What are the key risks that should be articulated with DeFi
    - What are some of the DeFi native products that will help bring better price stability to crypto assets

    The growth of the DeFi ecosystem is absolutely fascinating, we know you'll enjoy hearing Amit's perspectives on it.

    Watch the podcast here.

    Find out more about Polygon here.

    To order your copy of the Number 1 Best Seller 'The Blockchain Innovator's Handbook', head to https://www.web3labs.com/innovators

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    1 hr 8 min

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In Web3 Innovators, Conor Svensson, founder of Web3 Labs speaks to those folk changing the face of finance and other industries with web3 and blockchain technologies. Each week he speaks to a new…