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  • Hugo Philion, a globally recognized speaker and thought leader, is a Co-Founder of Flare and CEO of Flare Labs. Flare is the blockchain for data: an EVM smart contract platform specifically designed to support data-intensive use cases, including machine learning, real-world asset tokenization, gaming, and social.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - The problem of existing oracle systems
    - How Flare achieves rich and decentralized data with its enshrined oracles
    - Flare Time Series Oracle & Flare Data Connector’s overview and use cases
    - Unique role of Flare’s infrastructure providers including Google Cloud
    - Blockchains for use cases like AI
    - TradFi = legal guarantees, crypto = software guarantees
    - EVM Layers 1s
    - How oracles power sports betting
    - Sports betting arbitrage
    - USA presidential debate
    - Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
    - Limitations of current Dapps and how we get to mass adoption
    - Web2-like experiences with Web3 guarantees

    Flare
    Website: flare.network
    X: @FlareNetworks
    Telegram: t.me/FlareNetwork

    Hugo Philion
    X: @HugoPhilion
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  • Bill Laboon is the Director of Education and Governance Initiatives at the Web3 Foundation, after spending the previous five years teaching Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of two books: A Friendly Introduction to Software Testing, an undergraduate textbook; and Strength in Numbers, a near-future novel set in a world in which cryptocurrency has eliminated traditional money.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Future growth and evolution of the Polkadot ecosystem
    - Reaching 1000 referendums in the Polkadot ecosystem
    - Dot Play and Kylix Finance
    - The Decentralized Futures grant programme
    - Zug is the crypto valley of the world
    - Importance of regulatory oversight in crypto
    - Upcoming US election
    - Trump launching World Liberty Coin
    - Web3 education in LATAM
    - Polkadot isn’t one blockchain, it’s 51 different para-chains
    - Friend.tech going under
    - Crypto needs end-user consumer apps

    Web3 Foundation
    Website: web3.foundation
    X: @Web3foundation

    Bill Laboon
    X: @BillLaboon
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  • Graeme Moore is the Head of Tokenization at the Polymesh Association, a not-for-profit dedicated to the growth of the Polymesh blockchain ecosystem. He is also the author of B is for Bitcoin, the first-ever ABC book about Bitcoin. Prior to Polymesh, Graeme was the first employee at Polymath; the creative director at Spartan Race; and an associate at Canada’s largest independent investment advisory firm.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Institutional grade Layer 1s
    - Governance is underrated in crypto
    - Public-permissioned blockchain
    - The 5 pillars of Polymesh - governance, confidentiality, compliance, settlement, identify
    - Tokenizing Old Stone Church in Colorado
    - REtokens - RWA tokens for real estate
    - TradFi tokenizing crypto assets and crypto assets being TradFi’ed
    - Crypto = money legos
    - Creating new liquidity venues
    - OpenSea Wells Notice
    - Writing “B is for Bitcoin,” the first-ever ABC book about Bitcoin
    - The relation between TradFi and crypto

    Polymesh
    Website: polymesh.network
    X: @PolymeshNetwork

    Graeme Moore
    X: @MooreGrams
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  • Rebecca Liao is the CEO of Saga and an advisor to Sommelier Protocol, where she is designing their DAO. She is also the co-founder, advisor, and former COO at Skuchain, a currency agnostic blockchain for global trade. Before Skuchain, she was director of business development and head of Asia for Globality, a Softbank-backed B2B unicorn for AI-powered procurement of professional services.

    Rebecca was a member of President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, where she helped advise on China, technology, and Asia economic policy. She also served on Secretary Clinton’s foreign policy team for her 2016 presidential campaign, responsible for Asia trade and economic policy.

    She also writes for the New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Bloomberg View, and various other publications. Rebecca is also a fellow at the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, where she focuses on tech policy.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Launching an L1 for L1s
    - Crypto’s political playbook
    - Working for President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign
    - Politics and crypto
    - Empowering developers
    - Monolithic blockchains
    - Present day web3 gaming
    - Web3 entertainment
    - Web3 games need L1s for scalability and zero gas fees
    - Little - Saga’s liquidity integration layer
    - Saga Origins, the publishing arm of the Saga Protocol

    Saga
    Website: www.saga.xyz
    X: @Sagaxyz__

    Rebecca Liao
    X: @beccaliao
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  • SlumDOGE Millionaire was recently unveiled as the face of $NEIRO, providing a firm seal of approval for the upstart meme coin. SlumDOGE Millionaire gained public recognition after he turned roughly $180,000 into over $3 million in $DOGE, a story which was chronicled in the documentary ‘This Not Financial Advice’, featured on Apple TV, Amazon Video and other streaming services. Catapulting him to the cover of The New York Times and the Ryan Seacrest Morning Show in Los Angeles, SlumDOGE Millionaire’s unlikely story has also been covered by the likes of CNBC, MSNBC, Business Insider, TIMES Magazine, and was featured in ABC Australia documentary ‘Crypto Mania’ as well as CNBC’s mini-doc ‘How I Became An Overnight Dogecoin Millionaire’.

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    - The playbook for trading meme coins
    - Measuring conviction and memecoin narratives
    - Turning roughly $180,000 into over $3 million in $DOGE
    - NEIRO’s origin story
    - The key factor behind NEIRO’s meteoric recent rise
    - Many meme coins struggle with long-term value creation … how do we flip this trend?
    - Identifying investing trends
    - The art of risk taking
    - Meme stocks

    Neiro
    Website: www.neirocoin.xyz
    X: @NeiroOnEthereum
    Telegram: t.me/neiro_ethereum

    SlumDOGE Millionaire
    X: @ProTheDoge


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  • Jag Singh is the CEO and co-founder of re.al, an L2 build to facilitate deep onchain liquidity for tokenized RWAs. re.al seeks to redefine how RWAs are integrated into DeFi, using yield-generating real-world assets as novel building blocks in existing DeFi primitives.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Real World Asset thesis
    - TVL/RWA yields
    - Benefits of tokenizing real-world assets
    - On-chain Home Loans
    - Building on Arbitrum
    - Current market discussion
    - Transparent rewards program
    - Value accrual to community
    - Vertically integrated ecosystem
    - Rewards and points programs
    - Season 2 rewards goals

    re.al
    Website: www.re.al
    X: @real_rwa
    Discord: discord.gg/realrwa

    Jag Singh
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  • Dr. Ben Goertzel is a highly influential figure in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, and computational finance. Born in 1966, he has been a pioneering force in multiple scientific and technological domains. With a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Temple University, Goertzel has dedicated his career to both the theoretical and practical applications of AI, striving to bridge the gap between machine intelligence and human-like cognition. He helped popularize the term “artificial general intelligence” and he has been a strong advocate for moving the field of AGI.

    Dr. Goertzel leads the SingularityNET Foundation, the enterprise AI firm TrueAGI, the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society. Additionally, he is the facilitator of the Artificial General Intelligence conference, held annually for more than fifteen years.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - The future of AI & Blockchain
    - The history and future of AI
    - How AI and blockchain work together
    - Artificial General Intelligence
    - Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI) merger
    - $ASI
    - The killer use case for blockchain-based AI
    - AI product lifecycle
    - How AI agents can make our lives easier
    - AI-based fraud detection is more efficient on the blockchain

    SingularityNET Foundation
    Website: singularitynet.io
    X: @SingularityNET
    Telegram: t.me/singularitynet

    Ben Goertzel
    X: @bengoertzel
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  • Gabriele Giancola, council member of qiibee Foundation, is a prominent Swiss entrepreneur known for his contributions to the Web3 and blockchain space. After graduating with a Master’s in Business Management from the University of St. Gallen, Gabriele co-founded qiibee, where he is CEO, a blockchain-based loyalty ecosystem that helps brands run and connect loyalty programs.

    Gabriele has worked with brands such as Miles & More, Etihad Guest, Renault, and Coca-Cola. Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of how blockchain can be applied to solve real-world problems, Gabriele envisions rewards as one of the top three payment methods that will drive blockchain’s growth and societal impact.

    Gabriele’s areas of expertise include blockchain innovation and business enterprise loyalty programs.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - The next iteration of loyalty programs
    - Consumer brands and sports clubs are now adopting blockchain
    - How Web3 has continuously evolved its incentivisation processes
    - Offering greater transparency and flexibility
    - Calculating the value of points programs
    - Creating liquidity in points programs
    - The importance of partnerships for loyalty programs
    - Using web3 to unlock the next frontier of loyalty programs
    - The future of rewards programs

    qiibee
    Website: www.qiibee.com
    X: @qiibee
    LinkedIn: qiibee

    Gabriele Giancola
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  • Chris Yin is CEO/Co-Founder of Plume, which he founded in 2024 to redefine how people use and think about RWAs. He is leading the team realizing the vision to simplify how users bring any kind of asset including collectibles and alternative assets in addition to traditional financial instruments onchain. Chris has an accomplished track record as a product lead and investor, with prior positions at Beluga, Scale Venture Partners, and Rainforest QA.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - RWAs
    - RWA-Fi
    - Advantages of tokenizing assets
    - Biggest challenges in RWA deployment
    - Plume’s unique offerings in the RWA space
    - Which collectibles and alternative assets that will be most valuable to bring onchain
    - Alternative assets for retail investors
    - Crypto evolving to serve institutional partners
    -RWA based loans and looping
    - Understanding the crypto product life cycle
    - Knowing your audience

    Plume Network
    Website: www.plumenetwork.xyz
    X: @plumenetwork
    Telegram: t.me/plumenetwork_community

    Chris Yin
    X: @chriseyin
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  • Cooper Scanlon, Co-founder of Movement Labs, dropped out of Vanderbilt after his journey led to the blockchain space and he realized that formal education wasn’t the key to his success and he enjoyed building a SPACDAO Vehicle more. This decision led to him pioneering the first yield aggregator leveraging Move and eventually envisioning and creating Movement Labs.

    Fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations, championing Web3 initiatives, and drawing from his experiences, Cooper brings a unique blend of financial & technical expertise and economic system insights to Movement Labs, steering and leading its strategic and cultural direction.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - The Move programming language
    - Using web3 tech to create your own change
    - "Building The Parthenon"
    - Battle of Olympus Hackathon
    - Rewarding community engagement in web3
    - Launching testnet and securing $160M in Total Value Locked (TVL)
    - Raising $38M from Binance Labs
    - Writing cheques for new teams in the Move / Movement Labs ecosystem
    - Incubating a community from scratch
    - Living in NYC vs. SF

    Movement Labs
    Website: movementlabs.xyz
    X: @movementlabsxyz
    Telegram: t.me/movementlabsxyz

    Cooper Scanlon
    X: @coopsmoves

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  • J.D. Seraphine founded Vision Tree with the sole purpose of transforming our culture and changing the world for the better through Media and Technology. With over 16 Years experience in the entertainment industry, he started in television working in production on the hit show 24 and went on to finance and produce a number of projects: including Hesher, starring Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon Levitt, the viral documentary sensation Sirius, and the Tony-nominated hit Broadway Play, Rock of Ages.

    J.D. directed the groundbreaking documentary series, Open Source Money, about the rise of Disney-incubated blockchain company, Dragonchain, and the global evolution of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The series premiered on Discovery Science Channel on the 4th of July 2020 and reached 1 million viewers in the U.S. He co-founded Raiinmaker, one the fastest growing Web 3.0 powered apps designed for the social creator economy. J.D. is committed to growing Vision Tree & Raiinmaker into powerful forces for change in the world that will have a major positive impact on the future of the global cultural landscape.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Merging Crypto & AI
    - DePIN
    - Simplifying the process of setting up nodes
    - Empowering everyone to train AI models
    - Democratizing data creation and collection
    - Importance of “Know Your Customer” (KYC) compliance
    - Deploying code directly from your smartphones to tap into decentralized computing power
    - Stories from working in the entertainment industry
    - Blockchain’s influence and distribution on the entertainment industry
    - Harnessing the power of community and removing the middleman

    Raiinmaker
    Website: www.raiinmaker.com
    X: @Raiinmakerapp
    Telegram: t.me/raiinmakernetwork

    J.D. Seraphine
    X: @commodorgonzo
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  • William E. Quigley is a cryptocurrency and blockchain investor. He has incubated and invested in more than 30 bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency-related investments and co-developed the first crypto derivative used to trade pre-release Ethereum. He co-founded Tether, the first fiat-backed stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency to date, GoCoin, a pioneering crypto payments processor, and co-founded WAX, a leading NFT blockchain platform. In 2013, Mr. Quigley co-founded Crypto Currency Partners, a blockchain equity investment fund with early notable investments in Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfury, Authy, ChangeTip, and Circle.

    Prior to his involvement in blockchain, William was a venture capitalist, co-founding Clearstone Venture Partners, a $700M early-stage focused venture capital firm where he concentrated on communications and consumer technology companies. Before Clearstone, William was a managing director at Idealab! Capital Partners (ICP), the world’s first consumer Internet venture capital firm. ICP was an early investor in some of the leading Web 1.0 era companies, including Paypal, Netzero, MP3.com, and Goto.com.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Overall market moves and SEC approvals
    - Maturation of the crypto market
    - Unique value of where we are in crypto adoption era
    - Why Tether has no peg
    - The future of Stablecoins and De-Fi
    - De-Fi’s impact on the global commerce
    - The spread and use of blockchain technology across other industries
    - Why countries will adopt CBDCs
    - The history of banking
    - RWAs
    - Digitization vs Tokenization


    WAX
    Website: www.wax.io
    Twitter: @WAX_io
    Telegram: t.me/wax_io

    William E. Quigley
    Twitter: @WilliamEQuigley
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  • Amitt Mahajan is the Founder of Proof of Play, the creators of Pirate Nation, the fully onchain free-to-play pirate-themed roleplaying game (RPG). Prior to founding Proof of Play, Amitt was the founder and CTO of MyMiniLife (acquired by Zynga), founder and CEO of Toro (acquired by Google), and the co-founder and CTO of Rare Bits, an NFT marketplace launched in 2018 the same week as OpenSea. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille (300M players, $1B+ in revenue) and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Building FarmVille and working at Zynga, a top 3 gaming studio of all time
    - The importance of distribution in gaming
    - Distribution in FB vs Telegram vs Discord
    - Social gaming
    - Creating games = giving multiple choices and giving high player agency
    - “Finding the fun”
    - Building decentralized games and gaming infrastructure
    - Crypto is ethical neutral technology
    - Importance of streaming in today’s games
    - Building community
    - Dev cycle speed

    Pirate Nation
    Website: piratenation.game
    X: @PirateNation
    Discord: discord.gg/piratenation

    Amitt Mahajan
    X: @amittm
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  • Evan Weiss, Chief Operating Officer at Alluvial, is a seasoned expert in the crypto industry. Prior to Alluvial, he served as the Business Development Lead for Coinbase Cloud at Coinbase, where played a crucial role in leading business teams for the launch of Coinbase's Wallet-as-a-Service. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Business Operations at Bison Trails, where he successfully managed sales, business operations, and customer success teams. Under Evan's leadership, these teams built the largest staking provider in the industry, overseeing assets staked totaling over $30 billion by November 2021.

    Evan is also the founder of the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), a nonprofit industry alliance established in 2019. POSA has been a driving force in advocating for forward-thinking public policies to foster innovation in proof-of-stake ecosystems. Evan's work with POSA includes contributions to legal frameworks for staking, industry principles for staking-as-a-service, and fair taxation of staking rewards. His efforts have resulted in the publication of the first legal research addressing staking regulation and tax considerations, particularly in the context of liquid staking in the United States.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - ETH ETF
    - What is “liquid staking”
    - The difference between staking, liquid staking, and re-staking?
    - The future of DeFi
    - What is Alluvial and Liquid Collective?
    - Future of ETH ecosystem and staking industry
    - The current staking narrative for institutions and normies
    - What will be the killer consumer crypto app?

    Alluvial
    Website: alluvial.finance
    X: @alluvialfinance

    Evan Weiss
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  • As Gaianet's CEO, Matt spearheads the mission to reshape the AI landscape. With his adept leadership and 8 years of experience in community development, developer evangelism, and strategic partnership, Matt is dedicated to driving Gaianet toward a future where AI technologies are transparent, accessible, and beneficial to all – facilitating innovation and progress across industries.

    Matt previously served as the Director at Consensys and endeavored to contribute to the evolution of the web (web3) and build the future of community development in the Ethereum ecosystem. With Matt being the leader, Consensys launched a dynamic virtual pre-accelerator program in collaboration with Tachyon, MetaMask, and Linea. Through mentorship, Matt helped numerous promising founders grow their businesses as members of the Consensys community.

    During his time at J.P. Morgan, Matt built a developer community around Quorum, an open-source private/permissioned enterprise blockchain platform based on Ethereum. He established a 50+ member global Ambassador program, tripled the size of the community, and garnered substantial support from the enterprise Ethereum ecosystem.

    Matt's contributions extended to organizing 150+ hackathons for renowned Fortune 500 companies, including Mastercard, Motorola, ABInBev, RBC, Barclays, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and UBS. Collaborating closely with local tech partners, NGOs, universities, accelerators, and government agencies, Matt facilitated impactful events that embraced startup culture on a global scale.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Ethereum ETF
    - The current and future state of decentralized AI
    - The technical and philosophical benefits of AI
    - Real world applications of decentralized AI
    - Navigating the challenges in decentralized AI implementation
    - The role of community in decentralized AI ecosystems
    - Overcoming centralization in AI
    - The future of AI innovation
    - The relation of AI and crypto
    - What is Gaianet?
    - Why do people shit on the Ethereum ecosystem?
    - AI agents

    Gaianet
    Website: www.gaianet.ai
    X: @Gaianet_AI
    Telegram: t.me/Gaianet_AI

    Matt Wright
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  • Bobby Lee is the Founder and CEO of Ballet, the cryptocurrency company behind the innovative REAL Series Cold Storage. This physical cold storage was launched in 2019 as the world’s first-ever non-electronic cold storage card with multicurrency support that requires zero setup to use. Ballet aims to bring true global adoption to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency by making it easy, safe, and reliable for everyday people to store and manage their digital assets.

    Bobby Lee has been a leading entrepreneur and expert in the crypto industry since 2011. He is also the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller “The Promise of Bitcoin.” Prior to founding Ballet, Lee was the CEO and co-founder of the first Bitcoin exchange established in China, BTC China (later renamed BTCC), which was acquired by a Hong Kong-based investment firm in January 2018.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Mining and buying Bitcoin back in 2011
    - The relation between gold and bitcoin
    - Bitcoin ETF
    - Bitcoin regulatory landscape in USA and China
    - Future of Bitcoin
    - What is Ballet? The easiest and most efficient cold storage crypto solution
    - BIP38 private key encryption
    - Bitcoin ownership and custody
    - The importance of self-custody + cold storage
    - Trump + JD Vance being pro-crypto

    Ballet
    Website: www.ballet.com
    X: @BalletCrypto
    Telegram: t.me/BalletCrypto

    Bobby Lee
    X: @bobbyclee
    LinkedIn: Bobby Lee


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  • Sunil Srivatsa is the founder and CEO of Storm Labs, the creators of the Cove Protocol, the first onchain portfolio manager.

    Previously, Sunil founded Saddle, the premier open-source StableSwap with $2.2B+ in volume, and was a senior software engineer at Uber where he worked on infrastructure security, self-driving cars in the Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), and real-time analytics.

    Before Uber, Sunil was an early member of the data engineering team at Square. He is also a founding partner at eGirl Capital. Sunil earned his B.S. in Computer Science with a double major in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Stories from working at Uber
    - When company names come verbs … sky is the limit
    - What is Storm Labs?
    - The importance of onchain portfolio manager
    - Current global DeFi landscape
    - Automated market makers in crypto
    - Loss Versus Rebalancing
    - Yield farming, re-staking + points programs
    - Tips to deal with slippage
    - AI-powered investment tools in crypto

    Cove
    Website: www.cove.finance
    X: @cove_fi
    Discord: discord.gg/fvxc4p6gB2

    Sunil Srivatsa
    X: @devops199fan
    LinkedIn: Sunil Srivatsa


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  • Three years ago, Burnt Banksy’s act of burning a physical Banksy ignited global discourse on NFTs and Web3, exposing the industry's flaws. The story was covered by leading publications including Bloomberg, CoinDesk, GQ, CoinTelegraph, BBC, CBS, and is often cited as the catalyst of the NFT revolution. Now, through the XION blockchain, founder Burnt Banksy leads a mission to democratize Web3 to the masses, making ownership accessible to all by removing unnecessary barriers and complications through chain abstraction.

    Burnt Banksy can provide valuable insights into a range of topics, especially as they relate to chain abstraction and crypto abstraction in general—making blockchain technology easier to use for a larger audience. Burnt Banksy can also speak to ecosystem interoperability and related topics of making crypto more adoption-friendly.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - The decision behind burning a Banksy painting
    - State of the market — why create another L1?
    - Solving UX & fragmentation
    - Mass adoption - is it just a pipe dream or can crypto fully go mainstream?
    - Long tail crypto thesis
    - What is chain abstraction?
    - EarnOS with Uber, Baskin Robins, Sunglass Hut, The North Face, etc
    - Mass adoption = chain abstraction
    - Creating a wallet-less L1 chain
    - The power of micropayments

    XION
    Website: xion.burnt.com
    X: @burnt_xion
    Discord: discord.gg/burnt

    Burnt Banksy
    X: @BurntBanksy


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  • Sid Coelho-Prabhu is the Senior Director of Product Management for Coinbase Wallet, the self-custody wallet that serves as a gateway to the onchain ecosystem. He joined Coinbase in 2017 with a goal of helping to build a more open financial system. Prior to joining Coinbase, he was the CEO and co-founder of Savvy Investments, an online investment advisory and management service.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Republican Party to implement crypto in official party platform
    - Working at Coinbase
    - Creating a trustworthy brand
    - The importance of self-custody
    - The evolution of crypto wallets
    - Building on base
    - Coinbase Wallet web app launch
    - One-stop destination to explore, manage, and engage with the blockchain
    - Coinbase’s Smart Wallet
    - Adoption of decentralized applications
    - On-chain summer
    - Payments in crypto is vastly underrated

    Coinbase
    Website: www.coinbase.com
    X: @coinbase
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/Coinbase

    Sid Coelho-Prabhu
    X: @sid_coelho
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  • Will Fan is the CEO and Head of School at NewCampus, a challenger business school designed for emerging markets.

    As a partner at Open Campus, a pioneering Web3 foundation, he is deeply involved in financing groundbreaking education and future of work initiatives.

    His work is driven by a blend of education, community building, and exploring new industries. Over the past decade, his experiences have spanned from China and the Middle East to Southeast Asia.

    In this conversation, we discuss:
    - Price action’s correlation to attention
    - Overview of Open Campus
    - Integrating crypto and blockchain education into curriculums
    - Bridge between Web3 and education
    - Blending nodes of education problems into solutions
    - The future of education
    - Launching a new L3 on Arbitrum
    - Verifying education problems on-chain
    - Web3 financing as the catalyst for moving the needle

    Open Campus
    Website: www.opencampus.xyz
    X: @opencampus_xyz
    Discord: discord.gg/opencampus

    Will Fan
    X: @hellowillfan
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