Wallets & Crypto Adoption with Nestcoin's Yele Bademosi & WalletConnect's Will White

06/08/23 • 51 min

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Yele Bademosi, the Co-founder and CEO of Nestcoin, and Will White, the COO of WalletConnect, to talk about a critical piece of crypto infrastructure: Wallets.

When talking about wallets here, we’re talking about non-custodial wallets - where users have full access and control over their private keys, unlike a custodial wallet which relies on and trusts third parties.

In the context of web3, we’re excited by the opportunities enabled by connecting a wallet and a user’s tokens or transaction history to a decentralized application. At the same time, we hear a lot about user experience challenges in the crypto ecosystem and wallets, of course, are central to that conversation.

crypto@scale is sponsored by Ripple.

Across Africa, Ripple is partnering with local financial institutions and fintechs to bring the benefits of better cross-border remittances to the region. To learn more and get in contact with the Ripple team, head over to ripple.com.

03:11 - Intro to Yele, Nestcoin and Onboard.
04:05 - Intro to Will and WalletConnect.
06:45 - WalletConnect as web3 infrastructure.
11:04 - The UX challenges with non-custodial wallets.
22:48 - The question of localization in the global crypto sector.
27:40 - The crypto ecosystem’s focus on Africa.
38:39 - Use cases.
50:13 - Follow Yele on Twitter.
50:36 - Follow Will on Twitter.
51:01 - Follow crypto@scale on Twitter.

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Yele Bademosi, the Co-founder and CEO of Nestcoin, and Will White, the COO of WalletConnect, to talk about a critical piece of crypto infrastructure: Wallets.

crypto@scale is sponsored by Ripple.

Previous Episode

Inside the Lazerpay Shutdown: A Conversation with Njoku Emmanuel

In today's episode, we welcome Lazerpay’s Njoku Emmanuel to the show.

In April 2023, Lazerpay announced that it would be shutting its doors in April of 2023. The startup, which was founded at the height of the crypto bull market in 2021, and to much fanfare Njoku who was just 19 years old at the time, promised to bring seamless crypto payments to Africa.

But since it shut down, a lot has been said in the ecosystem about the company and its shortcomings, so we wanted to get the story directly from Njoku himself.

00:00 - Intro
02:49 - Lazerpay's founding story.
05:51 - Pre-seed round, headcount growth, initial traction.
09:12 - Bear market impact.
14:59 - The issue of Njoku's age.
19:55 - Building with transparency.
22:57 - On the decision to shutdown.
34:48 - Njoku's lessons.
40:56 - The future of crypto in Africa.
42:18 - What's next?

crypto@scale is sponsored by Ripple.

Next Episode

Global Crypto's Focus on Africa with Visa's Cuy Sheffield & Stellar's Tori Samples

Here at crypto@scale, we're of the belief that Africa is home to market conditions that will enable widespread, mainstream crypto adoption, and that many of the most immediate and meaningful crypto use cases will happen on the continent.

We’re not the only ones who think that - and in today’s episode we’re joined by two friends from outside of the continent who are both deeply interested in the African crypto ecosystem, as well.

Today’s guests are Tori Samples, senior product manager at Stellar Development Foundation, and Cuy Sheffield, the head of crypto at Visa.

crypto@scale is sponsored by Ripple.

00:00 - Intro
02:43 - Intro to Tori
04:35 - Intro to Cuy
08:29 - Visa is investing $1 billion in Africa
10:37 - Why SDF is focused on Africa
15:09 - Crypto use cases on the continent
30:42 - Crypto-enabled impact and change
43:40 - Tori's recommendations
44:55 - Cuy's recommendations
48:28 - Follow all of us on Twitter!