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The rise, fall, and turnaround of Better Mortgage, with CEO Vishal Garg
The Fintech Blueprint
05/31/24 • 46 min
Lex chats with Vishal Garg, the CEO of Better Mortgage. Better is an all-in-one digital homeownership company. From finding a real estate agent and getting a mortgage, to shopping for homeowners insurance and title services, Better and its affiliates take customers through the entire homebuying process online. Garg shares the story of how he founded Better Mortgage after experiencing the difficulties of getting a mortgage online. He explains how he saw an opportunity to reimagine the mortgage industry and create a more efficient and consumer-friendly process. Garg discusses the challenges of scaling the company, going public through a SPAC, and navigating the changing market conditions. He also shares his optimism for the future of Better Mortgage, highlighting the company's focus on efficiency, automation, and sustainable growth.
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
Better's Website: https://bit.ly/456T3Ub
Vishal's LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4e52szk
Topics: fintech, mortgage, digital lending, digital mortgage, SPAC, interest rates
Companies: Better.com, Better mortgage, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs, SoftBank
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TIMESTAMPS
1’33: Revolutionizing Mortgages: Vishal's Journey from Frustration to Fintech Innovation
6’41: Cracking the Mortgage Code: Leveraging Fintech Experience to Disrupt a Stagnant Industry
11’11: Overcoming Startup Challenges: Innovating in the Mortgage Industry and Securing Early-Stage Financing
15’25: Recruiting Top Talent: How to Attract High-Caliber Professionals to Revolutionize the Mortgage Industry
20’32: Scaling to Success: The Rapid Growth, Economics and Strategic Milestones of Better Mortgage
24’48: Balancing Growth and Profitability: Navigating Blitz Scaling and Cultural Shifts at Better Mortgage
28’17: Understanding the SPAC Process: The Market Conditions, Expectations, and Challenges of Going Public
34’20: Facing Macro Headwinds: The Declining Efficiency and Financial Challenges in a Changing Market
36’50: Balancing External Stressors and Internal Efficiency: Navigating Market Changes and Organizational Challenges
39’04: From Private to Public: Better Mortgage's Evolution, Current State, and Optimistic Future
43’11: Overcoming Market Shifts: Vishal Garg on Better Mortgage's Resilience and Path to Profitability
45’30: The channels used to connect with Vishal & learn more about Better Mortgages
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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What makes a successful AI investor, with Fusion Fund Founder Lu Zhang
The Fintech Blueprint
06/14/24 • 49 min
Lex chats with Lu Zhang, the founder and managing partner at Fusion Fund, a venture fund that invests in deep technology, including artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare. They discuss Lu's experience as an entrepreneur and the challenges she faced in building her own company. Lu also shares her investment thesis on AI, highlighting the opportunities in AI application and infrastructure. She believes that while large tech companies dominate the consumer AI market, there are still opportunities for startups in enterprise AI, particularly in industries with high-quality data and a need for AI solutions. Lu also discusses the potential of edge computing and the importance of addressing energy consumption and data privacy in AI infrastructure. She emphasizes the coexistence of large and small AI models and the need for practical, cost-efficient solutions. Finally, Lu discusses the revenue pools for AI companies and the growing awareness and adoption of AI in enterprises. She encourages startups to focus on reducing energy consumption in AI and addressing sustainability challenges.
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
Fusion Fund's Website: https://bit.ly/4egJMgp
Lu's LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KIWozf
Topics: Venture Capital, VC, Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Startup, Infrastructure, LLM, Decentralized AI, Healthcare
Companies: Fusion Fund, OpenAI, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD
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👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexSokolin
TIMESTAMPS
1’30: From Entrepreneur to VC: Insights from Building and Exiting a Successful Healthcare Startup
5’50: Navigating Startup Challenges: Overcoming Obstacles and Embracing Growth in My Entrepreneurial Journey
9’56: From Founder to Investor: Experiencing the Transition and Learning to Say No
15’16: Fusion Fund’s AI Investment Thesis: Identifying Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges in Artificial Intelligence
23’03: Comprehending Enterprise AI: Ensuring Startups Thrive Without Being Captured by Big Corporates
26’48: The Challenges and Opportunities in Selling Large AI Models to Enterprises: Fine-tuning The Sales Process and Building Strategic Partnerships
30’31: Exploring AI Infrastructure Investments: Paths to Acquisition and IPO in a Competitive Landscape
36’24: AI Infrastructure Gaps: Identifying Opportunities and Challenges in the Evolving Value Chain
40’53: The Future of Decentralized AI: Commercial Opportunities and Economic Dynamics in a World of Personal AI Models
47’07: Key Opportunities in AI: Unmet Needs and Ideas for Future Startups
48’08: The channels used to connect with Lu & learn more about Fusion Fund
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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Brigit's journey to $100MM+ revenue and $1B in fees saved, with CEO Zuben Mathews
The Fintech Blueprint
09/16/24 • 46 min
Lex chats with Zuben Mathews - CEO and Co-founder of Brigit. Brigit is a leading consumer financial app in the United States that offers a suite of holistic financial products including budgeting, financial insights, access to paychecks, and credit building. Zuben kicks off the conversation discussing his journey from investment banking at Deutsche Bank to founding one of the largest financial health apps in the U.S. Mathews reflects on his early experiences in banking, where he launched a small entrepreneurial team within Deutsche to leverage the bank’s data and client relationships to drive revenue. This experience helped shape his approach to solving real financial pain points, which became the foundation of Brigit.
Zuben explains Brigit’s focus on addressing the U.S. financial crisis of living paycheck-to-paycheck, a problem he personally experienced as an immigrant student. Brigit’s initial product leverages cashflow data to provide instant cash advances, helping users avoid overdrafts and predatory loans. Mathews emphasizes that Brigit’s success stems from a commitment to solving users’ deepest financial issues and using real-time cashflow data, not traditional FICO scores, to provide financial solutions.
The conversation delves into Brigit’s subscription-based business model, which offers transparency and value to users, helping them save money while improving financial stability. Zuben discusses how the app has grown to serve over a million users, generating more than $100 million in revenue with a small team of 90. He also addresses challenges in fintech, such as data access in the U.S. compared to Europe’s open banking regulations, and calls for more balanced regulation that encourages innovation while protecting consumers.
The discussion concludes with Zuben advocating for greater access to bank data and better infrastructure for fintechs, highlighting the importance of innovation in improving customer outcomes in the financial space.
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
Brigit's Website: https://bit.ly/4d8tqoh
Zuben's LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3XvsEvT
Topics: Fintech, neobank, overdraft, cash advance, subscription, financial wellbeing, PSD2, regulation
Tags: Brigit, Deutsche Bank, Plaid, Chime, Revolut, Monzo, Yodlee, Synapse, Coastal Community Bank
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👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexSokolin
TIMESTAMPS
1’36: From Deutsche Bank to Brigit: Zuben Mathews' Journey in Finance and Entrepreneurship
5’03: Bridging Silos at Deutsche Bank: Detailing Strategic Vendor Partnerships and Fintech Insights
9’06: From Startup Struggles to Success: Building Brigit and Navigating the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
15’41: Solving America's Deepest Financial Pain Point: The Vision Behind Brigit's Differentiation in a Crowded Fintech Market
21’07: Leveraging Cashflow Data to Outperform Banks: How Brigit Built a Product to Tackle Overdraft Fees and Expand Financial Access
24’47: Beyond Overdraft Protection: How Brigit Uses Cashflow Data to Reduce Financial Stress and Drive User Engagement
29’01: Balancing Affordability and Financial Health: How Brigit's Subscription Model Empowers Users While Lowering Costs
33’25: Challenges of Data Access in US Fintech: Navigating Bank Transactional Data and the Push for Open APIs
40’36: Navigating US Banking Rails: The Role of Regulation, Innovation, and Customer-Centric Solutions in Fintech
45’24: The channels used to connect with Zuben & learn more about Brigit
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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Building a Trustless Supercomputer for Web3 and AI, with Arweave's Founder Sam Williams
The Fintech Blueprint
03/10/25 • 46 min
Lex interviews Sam Williams - founder of Arweave. This episode delves into the innovative aspects of Arweave, a protocol designed for permanent data storage and computation within the Web3 ecosystem. The discussion covers a range of topics, from the economic models underpinning Arweave to its potential applications in decentralized finance (DeFi) and beyond.
Notable discussion points:
The Founding of Arweave and its Mission – Sam Williams’ interest in distributed computing and concerns about authoritarianism led him to create Arweave in 2017. Inspired by the Snowden leaks, he saw the need for a blockchain-based permanent storage solution to protect journalism, historical records, and digital assets from censorship.
Decentralized vs. Distributed Storage – Williams explained how Arweave differs from alternatives like IPFS and Filecoin. Unlike traditional storage, which requires ongoing payments, Arweave uses a one-time payment model. This storage endowment leverages declining storage costs to ensure long-term data persistence without relying on centralized infrastructure.
Arweave’s Expansion into Decentralized Compute – Arweave has evolved beyond storage to develop decentralized computing through "Arweave IO." This enables parallelized smart contract execution, making it possible to run AI models, financial automation, and decentralized apps on-chain—aligning with Web3’s shift toward autonomous, intelligent systems.
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
Topics: Arweave, permanent data storage, Web3, decentralized systems, distributed systems, blockchain, economic models, IPFS, Filecoin, decentralized computing, decentralized finance, compute
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TIMESTAMPS
1’06: From Distributed Computing to Decentralized Truth Preservation: A Journey into Web3
4’31: Decentralization vs. Distribution: Defining the Future of Web3 Infrastructure
9’41: Building a Decentralized Archive: Arweave’s Journey from Vision to Adoption
16’28: Web3 Storage Economics: Arweave vs. IPFS and the NFT Data Dilemma
22’42: Arweave’s Endowment Model: A Blockchain-Native Approach to Permanent Storage
27’13: Arweave’s Next Chapter: From Permanent Storage to Decentralized Supercomputing
31’36: Decentralized AI and Agent Finance: Expanding Arweave’s Computational Power
36’26: Decentralized AI and Blockchain: Overcoming Computation and Consensus Challenges
41’34: The Future of Decentralized Intelligence: Trustless Finance and Digital Immortality
44’59: The channels used to connect with Sam & learn more about Arweave
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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The Virtual Card Revolution Powering $7 Billion in Transactions, with Extend CEO Andrew Jamison
The Fintech Blueprint
02/24/25 • 41 min
Lex interviews Andrew Jamison - CEO and Co-founder of Extend - a financial infrastructure platform that helps banks innovate financial product development with capabilities while working with their existing systems, starting with virtual cards. Andrew shares his journey into fintech, detailing his experiences at American Express and the evolution of virtual cards. He discusses the challenges and opportunities in the virtual card space, the founding of Extend, and its innovative approach to simplifying spend management. The episode highlights Extend's rapid growth, unique market position, and the future of financial management, emphasizing real-time transactions and integrated solutions for businesses.
Notable discussion points:
Virtual Cards = Smarter Spend ManagementVirtual credit cards revolutionize payments by enabling real-time reconciliation, reducing fraud, and improving financial control—especially for SaaS, digital ads, and legal expenses.
Extend’s Edge: Partnering with Banks, Not Disrupting ThemUnlike Brex and Ramp, Extend powers virtual cards on existing bank-issued cards, making adoption seamless for businesses while strengthening bank relationships.
B2B Payments Go EmbeddedThe future of finance is embedding payments directly into platforms like SAP Concur - letting CFOs manage expenses within the tools they already use.
From Enterprise-Only to Instant AccessVirtual cards once took months to implement. Extend’s API-first approach makes them deployable in minutes, bridging the gap between legacy banking and modern finance.
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
Topics: Extend, American Express, AMEX, SAP, fintech, credit cards, spend management, virtual cards, B2B, API, banking infrastructure, embedded payments
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👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexSokolin
TIMESTAMPS
1’10: From Green Screens to the Cloud: How Early Tech Shaped Andrew Jamison’s Approach to Business and Automation
5’12: Scaling Amex: Expanding Beyond Travel to B2B Payments and Virtual Cards
10’27: Virtual Cards in Travel: Solving Payments but Struggling with Scale
15’19: Virtual Cards and On-Demand Growth: How APIs Unlocked a New Payments Model
19’17: From Amex to Extend: Reinventing Virtual Cards for Everyday Business
26’00: Scaling Smart Payments: How Extend is Reshaping B2B Credit Cards
29’33: Rethinking Spend Management: How Extend Partners with Banks Instead of Replacing Them
31’47: Built for CFOs: How Extend Streamlines Payments and Expense Management
35’08: The Future of Finance: How Embedded Payments and APIs Are Reshaping the CFO’s Role
40’34: The channels used to connect with Andrew & learn more about Extend
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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Building a 800,000 device DePIN blockchain, with Peaq Founder Till Wendler
The Fintech Blueprint
08/26/24 • 35 min
Lex chats with Till Wendler, Founder of Peaq Network - a leading DePIN Layer 1 in the blockchain space. In this episode, Till discusses his journey into entrepreneurship and the blockchain space. He talks about his early involvement with Ethereum and building a business around e-commerce payments using cryptocurrencies. Till also explains the concept of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs) and their role in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Economy of Things (EOT). He highlights the limitations of current IoT systems and the potential for value exchange between devices. Till discusses the success of Peaq in attracting over 800,000 devices onto the network and the challenges of building demand for data-driven projects. He emphasizes Peaq's role in catalyzing the sector by providing support on product optimization, go-to-market strategies, and financial assistance.
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
Peaq's Website: https://bit.ly/3XjsaKo
Till's LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4cGvSSJ
Topics: Blockchain, web3, decentralized applications, dapps, economy of things, EOT, depin, iot, decentralized physical infrastructure networks
Tags: Peaq, IOTA, Exonum, DMG MORI, Silencio, MapMetrics, Helium
ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT
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👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexSokolin
TIMESTAMPS
1’09: From the Valley to Blockchain: Till’s Journey into Entrepreneurship and Crypto
4’59: Building Peaq: From Berlin's Blockchain Scene to IoT Innovation
8’26: Connecting Machines to Blockchain: The Use Case Discovery and Peaq's Evolution
13’31: From IoT to the Economy of Things: The Evolution of Connected Devices
17’53: Unlocking the Machine Economy: The Role of Web3 and DePINs in Decentralized Infrastructure
20’50: Scaling the Machine Economy: Successful Use Cases Built on Peaq's Decentralized Network
23’34: Driving Network Growth: How Peaq Reached 800,000 Connected Devices Through Strategic Go-to-Market and Product Market Fit
29’15: Streamlining DePIN Success: How Peaq Simplifies Tokenomics and Focuses on User Demand
32’56: Empowering Ecosystem Growth: Peaq's Role in Supporting Projects from Integration to Funding
34’45: The channels used to connect with Till & learn more about Peaq
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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Curve’s Big Bet Reinventing Payments and Wallets, with CEO Shachar Bialick
The Fintech Blueprint
12/23/24 • 52 min
Lex interviews Shachar Bialick, the founder and CEO of Curve, a fintech mobile wallet. In this exciting episode, Shachar touches on: (1) his background as a serial entrepreneur and his experience in the Israeli military shaped his ability to solve problems and work in high-stress environments, which are key traits for a successful founder. (2) The initial idea behind Curve was to create a "wallet to rule them all" - a single interface that could consolidate and manage multiple payment cards and accounts, providing more value and convenience to customers. (3) Building Curve involved navigating complex challenges, such as convincing payment networks like Mastercard and Visa to change their rules to allow Curve's back-to-back wallet technology. This required a resilient, innovative, and persistence approach. (4) Shachar emphasizes the importance of building a company culture that fosters curiosity, adaptability, and a belief that "everything is possible" rather than focusing on perceived limitations. (5) Lastly, Shachar discusses the evolution of the fintech landscape, including the challenges faced by neobanks in creating true financial marketplaces, and the ongoing issues with the implementation of open banking standards.
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
Topics: Curve, ApplePay, Google Wallet, PayPal, Tink, neobank, fintech, wallets, payments, paytech, NFC, Open Banking
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TIMESTAMPS
1’02: From Military Service to Fintech Success: Shachar Bialick on Founding Curve and Redefining Payments
9’10: The Resilient Founder: Risk-Taking, Leadership, and the Cultural Mindset Behind Entrepreneurship
14’59: From Unbundling to Rebundling: Building Curve to Solve Financial Fragmentation
20’50: Revolutionizing Payments: Curve's Ambition to Unite Financial Ecosystems
24’26: Trailblazing Curve: Overcoming Challenges to Redefine Payments and Build a Global Fintech Ecosystem
30’23: Project Elah: How Curve Challenged Apple’s NFC Restrictions to Redefine Digital Wallets
34’50: Shaving the Lion: How Curve Built a Culture to Overcome Industry Challenges and Innovate
39’05: Challenging Apple Pay: Curve’s Strategy to Deliver Tangible Customer Benefits
42’01: The Evolution of Fintech Infrastructure: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Role of Open Banking
51’54: The channels used to connect with Shachar & learn more about Curve
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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Building the income and employment data layer for financial services, with Pinwheel CEO Kurtis Lin
The Fintech Blueprint
06/03/22 • 40 min
Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Bakkt and SoFi)
The Fintech Blueprint
01/18/21 • 38 min
Hi Fintech Futurists,
Welcome to our podcast series!
SoFi is going public with a SPAC deal worth over $8 billion. A few things we touch on in detail: (1) this is still largely a lender, (2) there is a gem of an embedded finance play called Galileo that SoFi owns, and (3) the multiple is a little over 10x T12 revenues, which is not crazy expensive, but not cheap.
Speaking of Galileo and finance APIs, we transition to Plaid, and how it is is not going to be one of the networks in Visa’s network of networks. Who wins and who loses in the equation? And last, we cover the Bakkt SPAC of over $2 billion and our view on its future.
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Excerpt
Lex Sokolin:
If I could hop in to caricature it even a little bit more, as you're saying, 10 years ago, 12 years ago, whenever it was, SoFi is starting to do this arbitrage. They're arbitraging the government's decisions to non-discriminate for student loans, and it's a 400 basis point arbitrage, and they're getting all of the wealthier, better credit students from business schools and law schools to come to them. And if you're running a lending business, all you're doing really is printing money now because you're taking fees upfront and you've got credit risk way, way, way in the back. So on a revenue basis, you look pretty fantastic. So because you look fantastic, you might pick up $500 million or a billion from your friends at SoftBank and all of the other FinTech VCs which are trying to build gigantic consumer brands and are doing it on consumer growth and revenue growth and not really are super worried about credit risk.
Now you fast forward 10 years and the world is in many ways on fire, everybody's bankrupt, money's being printed every which way, and it so happens that your largest investor SoftBank itself is losing 12 billion bucks, printing $10 billion options contracts on tech companies and all sorts of shenanigans. And you start getting calls. You start getting calls from a variety of billionaires, from people that are managing hedge funds and creating these SPAC structures, to the Facebook billionaires like Chamath who are printing SPAC structures, to FinTech billionaires, or near deca-millionaires like The Bancorp's Betsy Cohen. So you start getting these calls saying, "Wow, you have some nice economics, let's go public." I think this is the first fancy one, right? The first fancy FinTech that is going this route. Is that fair to say?
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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Building Artificial Intelligence we can trust using ZK Proofs, with EZKL CEO Jason Morton
The Fintech Blueprint
05/07/24 • 41 min
Lex chats with Jason Morton, CEO of EZKL - EZKL is a technology that helps people build around artificial intelligence using zero-knowledge proofs (ZK proofs) and the latest in technology. Jason explains that ZK proofs are a way to prove that a computation has been executed correctly without revealing any sensitive information. The proofs can be used to verify the execution of AI models, statistical models, and other computations on blockchain networks. EZKL provides a command line tool, a backend proving service, and a Python library for developers to use. The company's economic model involves licensing the components of the system and running backend services. In the future, EZKL aims to provide a more complete solution for interacting with the technology. The demand for verifiable AI and ZK proofs is expected to come from both Web2 and Web3 companies, as well as enterprise clients
MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION
EZKL's Website: https://bit.ly/4dx1wUb
Jason's Twitter: https://bit.ly/4boqumY
Topics: fintech, machine learning, ai, artificial intelligence, llm, zk-proofs, zero-knowledge proofs, blockchain, web3
Companies: EZKL, Ethereum, Bitcoin, DARPA
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TIMESTAMPS
1’18: From Mathematics to Machine Learning: Tracing the Journey of an AI Researcher"
3’47: Putting Theory Into Practice: Navigating the Evolution of Neural Networks and Blockchain
7’18: Understanding Zero-Knowledge Proofs: The Evolution and Impact of Cryptographic Privacy
11’02: Digital Trust and Privacy: How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Enhance Security and Authentication Online
16’15: From Consensus to Cryptography: Exploring the Transformative Impact of Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Blockchain Technology
22’30: Revolutionizing AI with Blockchain: The Strategic Focus of EZKL on Verifiable and Secure Machine Learning
28’18: Connecting Worlds: Bridging Advanced AI and Blockchain Technology for Economic and Computational Efficiency
31’21: Strategic Transparency: Integrating Proofs in Smart Contracts for Trustworthy Investment Strategies
35’44: EZKL Defined: Navigating the Blend of Product, Library, and Framework in Blockchain Proofs
38’48: Blurring Lines: Will Web3 Innovations or Traditional Web2 Enterprises Drive the Future Demand for EZKL?
40’28: The channels used to connect with Jason & learn more about EZKL
Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.
Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella
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