S1E9: Funding Web3 Privacy & Recent Web3 Trust Fails with Jim Nasr

12/20/22 • 58 min

This week, I continue my conversation with Jim Nasr, CEO of Acoer about privacy and using distributed ledger technology (DLT). We discuss his work leading The HBAR Foundation's Privacy Market Development Fund and the trends he sees across grant applicants. We also chat about the collapse of FTX and the ripple effect it’s had on the crypto space.

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Jim tells us about the types of innovations The HBAR Foundation seeks to fund; why privacy & security usability is an imperative; uses cases for decentralized identifiers (DIDs) and new "DID methods" like PKH. We also discuss FTX's collapse and how to provide real transparency and data regulation in DLT technology.

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Topics Covered:

The HBAR Foundation’s search for projects to fund that enhance privacy usability
Exciting privacy use cases Jim has seen using Hedera's DLT, including those that enable high-value, privacy-preserving transactions
What went wrong with FTX and what we can learn from it's collapse
How decentralized identity can enable the next iteration of web privacy
The tech behind MetaMask's Snap software that allows anyone to safely extend capabilities of their wallet

Resources Mentioned:

Learn about Acoer
Learn about The HBAR Foundation
Read about The HBAR Foundation's Privacy Market Development Fund

Jim Nasr’s Info:

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12/20/22 • 58 min

The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast - S1E9: Funding Web3 Privacy & Recent Web3 Trust Fails with Jim Nasr

Transcript

Debra Farber 00:00

Hello, I am Debra J. Farber. Welcome to The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast where we talk about embedding privacy by design and default into the engineering function to prevent privacy harms to humans, and to prevent dystopia. Each week we'll bring you unique discussions with global privacy technologists and innovators working at the bleeding edge of privacy research, emerging technologies, sta

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