Web3 Innovators

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.
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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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In the third episode of our new season of Web3 Innovators, our host Conor Svensson is joined by Julian Kwan, Co-Founder at Investax. Investax is a Singapore licensed digital asset securities platform.

They provide key infrastructure to digitise real assets, so you can use them to buy, sell, trade, borrow or lend instantly, across the world, 24x7.

Julian has founded 6 companies over his 22-year career based in Asia, including social media/technology, real estate investment & development, proptech and blockchain. He is currently focused on building key digital infrastructure connecting TradFi (Traditional Finance) to DeFi (Decentralized Finance).

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Episode highlights:

• How Julian got started in the space.
• The importance of being licensed in a specific jurisdiction in order to provide a web3 type of service.
• Using technology as a better way to hold, issue and trade shares.
• DAOs living on Ethereum and finding ways to regulate this.
• NFTs as the future of memberships, communities and frequent flyers.
• Julian gives advice to those thinking about buying into an NFT, or crypto.

Key Takeaways:

• “If you look at the public markets as we know them today, every significant expansion of capital is when new technology married that marketplace.” - Julian
• “You're either living in a cave or you don't understand what the Bitcoin White paper did to create such a kind of a paradigm shift in what is, how humans are exchanging value and how they communicate and how they actually exist.” - Julian
• “My vision was, if you open up your phone and you can see all your stocks on interactive brokers and you buy them really easily, why shouldn't we be able to do that with all of our assets?” - Julian
• “The more that there's institutional adoption for the whole space, the more that it does move towards the regulated space.” - Julian
• “The industry grows the volume of trades, volume of assets, and so if you're in that space as an investor, numerically, it's working for you. Even if philosophically it might be losing.” - Julian

Resources:

• Network State
• Ethereum
• Investax
• Ixswap
• Infinity and Beyond Podcast

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In the fourth episode of our new season of Web3 Innovators, our host Conor Svensson is joined by Carlos Vivaus Augier, Senior Principal Engineer / Director (Innovation & Research) at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

DTCC and its family of companies serve as the premier post-trade market infrastructure in the industry, advancing the automation, centralization, standardisation and streamlining of processes critical to the markets’ safety and soundness.

Carlos has worked as a Blockchain advisor for Tier 1 and large corporations from Finance, Energy, Health and Retail industries. He was awarded 2nd place in a national level blockchain hackathon and he co-authored two Blockchain books with top experts from the space.

Episode highlights:

• How Carlos became involved in the space
• How platforms integrate with Ethereum
• The regulatory framework
• What goes on chain vs what stays off
• Carlos’ view on blockchain's impact on the industry

Key Takeaways:

• “Our goal is that this platform is able to support multiple networks or operate on multiple networks.” - Carlos
• “So this is, I guess to some extent the first time that you would see users have the possibility to mint a security to an Ethereum main net so it could introduce efficiencies in secondary market where investors who directly hold those securities in their wallets are able to instruct transactions directly from their wallet on the blockchain.” - Carlos
• “It's better, as an enterprise with a highly regulated environment, to be conservative on how we use it and how we protect our clients and our users.” - Carlos
• “The important thing here is that the challenge is not necessarily how you're exchanging those assets, it is whether or not you're compliant with the rules of that asset.” - Carlos
• “What I like about the main net is not the fact that it's a public blockchain, it's the fact that it's a common infrastructure that could be used and that it works a hundred percent uptime, right since it started.” - Carlos

Resources:

• DTCC
• Opinnio
• Ethereum Mainnet
• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
• Commercializing Blockchain

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In the tenth episode of our new season of Web3 Innovators, our host Conor Svensson is joined by Elena Sinelnikova is the Co-Founder and Decentralization Coordinator at Metis. She is also CEO at Crypto Chicks.

Episode highlights:

• How and why Elena founded Crypto Chicks
• The diversity of people working within Web3
• The advice that Elena would give to recruiters trying to encourage applicants from a more diverse background
• How Metis was formed to create the infrastructure for a layer 2 solution
• Other work that Metis is focusing on
• The biggest challenges with layer 2 networks
• Elena explains what ZK rollups and optimistic rollups are and the work Metis is doing to combat the challenges they face
• Elena’s advice for anyone wanting to become involved in Web3
• Where Elena believes Web3 technology will be in 10 years time

Key Takeaways:

• When we opened Crypto Chicks back in 2016 at Conferences there were hardly any women, probably one or two women per thousand people. And now we see about half and half. So the picture changed dramatically. - Elena
  
• We wanted to create layer two. And not only layer two, we also wanted to create a Web3 economy where people can go create a business, find a job, create a nonprofit organisation, create their own project, and fundraise. - Elena
  
• Optimistic roll ups - and here is a little educational piece, is the transactions process in batches. So instead of adding transactions, one by one and saving them into layer one, layer two actually captures these transactions, bundles them up in one batch, and saves the whole batch into layer one. - Elena
  
• All layer twos are innovating. We already have successes where layer twos are lowering the cost quite significantly and also speeding up transactions quite significantly. - Elena
  
• So right now, for us, the most important part is we have this ability to build. We have the capability, we have great minds that are building and we know that we are bringing good to the world. - Elena
• We need more people, like entrepreneurs who create those ideas, create those businesses, who go and try and build and make mistakes. And we see in the space right now there are a lot of projects, but we can always have more because each one brings a very unique value proposition. - Elena

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Shout outs:

• Natalia Ameline

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