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Omar Ramadan, CEO and co-founder of BlockCast, discusses the challenges of content delivery in the current internet landscape, particularly the monopolistic control over media distribution and the resulting internet capacity crunch. He explains how BlockCast aims to decentralize content delivery using blockchain technology, allowing individuals and organizations to participate in a more efficient and equitable media distribution system. The discussion also covers the marketplace dynamics for CDNs, the product roadmap for BlockCast, and Omar's vision for the future of internet broadcasting.
Why you should listenBlockcast is a cutting-edge content delivery network (CDN) that utilizes multicast technology to revolutionize internet content distribution. Unlike traditional centralized CDNs, Blockcast operates through a decentralized caching architecture. This approach aggregates capacity from a global network of nodes, enabling content providers, such as streaming platforms and gaming companies, to deliver high-quality experiences more efficiently. By leveraging this decentralized framework, Blockcast reduces delivery costs and extends its reach to even the most remote areas.
At the core of Blockcast’s offering is its Multicast Adaptive HTTP Proxy technology. This enables one-to-many content delivery, optimizing bandwidth usage and alleviating network congestion. Blockcast is creating a Capacity Marketplace where content providers can purchase delivery capacity from a diverse range of network operators, including ISPs, over-the-air broadcasters (ATSC, 5G, DVB, and satellite), and individual users hosting caching nodes. This system not only maximizes resource utilization but also opens up new revenue streams for participants.
Blockcast’s decentralized caching nodes play a vital role in enhancing content delivery speed and reliability. Individuals and organizations are incentivized to host these nodes through Web3 token rewards, encouraging widespread participation and bolstering the network’s robustness. The benefits of this setup extend across various stakeholders. Content providers can cut delivery expenses while maintaining high-quality service and expanding into underserved regions. The multicast capabilities further allow for the efficient delivery of high-resolution content like 4K streaming without additional cost burdens.
Broadcasters, including ATSC 3.0 television stations, cellular carriers, and satellite operators, can capitalize on their existing infrastructure by contributing data channel capacity to Blockcast. This not only helps them generate new revenue streams but also allows them to participate actively in the evolving digital content ecosystem. Similarly, CDNs and ISPs gain an opportunity to extend their capacity and reach, especially in geographies where deploying traditional infrastructure may not be economically feasible.
In April 2024, Blockcast joined the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) to support the development of ATSC 3.0 technologies. This collaboration underscores Blockcast’s dedication to mitigating network congestion and inefficiencies tied to unicast content delivery. By integrating over-the-air digital technologies, Blockcast is positioned at the forefront of content distribution innovation.
Blockcast’s decentralized approach addresses key challenges in the content delivery space, including high costs, network congestion, and infrastructure limitations. Its scalable solution is well-suited for the increasing demands of today’s digital content consumers, providing an efficient, cost-effective alternative to traditional CDNs.
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Phillip Alexaeev, is the Chief Growth Officer of CrossFi, Cross Finance is a next generation digital ecosystem offering cutting-edge payment solutions. Phillip shares insights into his journey in growth marketing, the importance of building during bear markets, and the innovative ecosystem of CrossFi. He discusses user acquisition strategies, the significance of user confidence, and the future trends in the crypto space, including real-world assets and interoperability.
Why you should listenCrossFi is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that blends traditional financial services with blockchain technology, operating on its proprietary Layer 1 blockchain, CrossFi Chain. This infrastructure aims to provide secure, transparent, and efficient financial solutions.
The CrossFi Chain features a modular architecture comprising two key components: a Cosmos-based component for handling consensus, block production, and transaction creation, and an EVM-based component for Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility, enabling seamless interaction with smart contracts. Within this ecosystem, CrossFi leverages a dual-token model. The Mint Power (MPX) token represents the computing power required for mining XFI coins through staking, while the CrossFi (XFI) token functions as a utility token, granting access to services, decentralized applications (dApps), and products.
CrossFi offers a suite of DeFi services, including liquidity provision, staking, and borrowing of algorithmic stablecoins such as xUSD, designed to harness multi-chain benefits and provide users with diverse financial tools. To foster innovation, the CrossFi Foundation supports ecosystem development through grant programs targeting users, developers, creators, and validators. Initiatives like the CrossFi Evolution Hackathon aim to drive innovation and expand the platform’s capabilities.
Additionally, the platform plans to launch the xAssets decentralized platform, allowing users to mint, trade, and swap synthetic tokens representing real-world assets such as commodities, stocks, and currencies. This feature will offer financial products like margin and options trading, typically available only in traditional markets. Complementing these innovations, CrossFi is developing a crypto banking app and a CrossFi Card, which will provide a full suite of banking services with Web3 security.
By integrating traditional financial instruments with cutting-edge blockchain technology, CrossFi seeks to redefine the financial landscape, delivering decentralized, transparent, and user-centric financial solutions.
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Mehdi and Driss are the founders of Exponential, an investment platform that makes it easy to discover, assess, and invest in decentralized finance (DeFi) yield opportunities.
Why you should listenDeFi enables anyone to become a lender or market maker. When individuals have the power to grow their wealth exponentially, financial freedom is within reach for everyone.
The problem is that investing in DeFi is complex and risky. Exponential is intended to help investors assess the risk of DeFi yield opportunities so they can invest with confidence.
Exponential.fi is battle-tested and ready to grow your crypto. After a year of rigorous beta testing, Exponential emerged as a proven and reliable decentralized finance (DeFi) investment platform for investors of all levels — from newbies to degens. Now, crypto holders across 90 countries can access DeFi investment opportunities on a compliant platform designed to grow their crypto safely, easily, and gas-free.
Exponential offers users:
Vetted investment opportunities – their team of experts curates the top 5% of DeFi pools, all backed by comprehensive risk assessment and research.
Institutional-grade fund safety — all funds are held 1:1 and protected by multiple layers of security.
Seamless DeFi investing, no gas fees — one-click trading, streamlined performance tracking, and simplified tax reporting, all with a flat trading fee of .2%
They start with risk analysis and empower DeFi investors with the tools to assess the risk of DeFi investments. That’s why they built the first advanced risk assessment system in DeFi, which distills thousands of risk vectors into a simple rating, from lowest risk to high risk. Rate My Wallet, our ground-breaking risk assessment product, has enabled crypto holders to assess the risk of $23B in asset value, to date.
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Dmitry Meshkov is Founder and CEO of QUEX Tech. Quex are launching a next-gen Oracle which will be an alternative to Chainlink and sets the security standard for DeFi, RWA, and Prediction Markets.
Why you should listenQuex is revolutionizing blockchain oracles by integrating hardware-level cryptographic security to provide secure, decentralized data transfer to blockchain platforms. Their oracle solution addresses the pressing issue of data manipulation, which costs the DeFi space $400 million yearly, by notarizing HTTPS requests and ensuring verifiable on-chain data. This approach is especially valuable for the rapidly expanding Real-World Asset (RWA) market, projected to reach $16 trillion by 2030, where secure, tamper-proof data is crucial. Using trusted execution environments (TEEs), Quex enables robust data integrity for DeFi, prediction markets, and RWA applications, creating a secure foundation for future decentralized applications.
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Avi Zurlo is the new CEO at =nil; Foundation building an Ethereum L2 powered by zkSharding. =nil; Foundation is rolling out Testnet v1 for its Ethereum Layer 2 solution, powered by zkSharding. This launch marks a major step on their roadmap after the initial Devnet release in July. With zkSharding, =nil; Foundation’s new L2 combines the efficiency of appchains with the cohesive capabilities of a monolithic blockchain, aiming to offer unmatched scalability and interoperability for Ethereum developers.
Why you should listenIn this conversation, Avi Zirlo, CEO of NIL Foundation, discusses his journey in the crypto space, the vision and goals of NIL Foundation, and the significance of ZK sharding in building scalable applications on Ethereum. By enabling zero-knowledge (zk) proofs and sharding, =nil; allows developers to build scalable decentralized applications. Each shard in its architecture processes transactions independently but reports back to a primary shard, which validates and syncs data across Ethereum. This approach promises enhanced transaction efficiency, security, and low costs, making =nil; a robust framework for developing high-performance blockchain applications. Avi shares insights on the current landscape of Ethereum layer 2 solutions, the launch of NIL's testnet, and the focus on developer experience. Avi also provides his perspectives on the Ethereum ecosystem, market trends, and the future of blockchain technology.
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Siwon Kim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Botanika, a hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage platform.
Why you should listenIn this conversation, Siwon Kim, co-founder and CEO of Botanica, discusses the importance of decentralized data storage and how Botanica aims to address the growing demand for data storage solutions. He explains the innovative AI-powered hardware nodes that differentiate Botanica from other providers, the tokenomics behind their native token Bonsai, and the strategies for user acquisition. Siwon Kim also highlights Botanica's role in the AI narrative and shares insights on the product rollout and future plans.
The Botanika B1 device offers a decentralized solution for scalable, secure, and efficient data storage. Combining hardware optimized for AI tasks with the Botanika Protocol, it tackles high cloud costs, security risks, and inefficiencies of centralized storage by dispersing data across a global node network. Key features include AI-driven resource allocation, data sharding, and B-Code compression for significant cost savings. Botanika aims to provide high-performance, low-latency access, making it ideal for industries needing reliable, scalable, and decentralized storage solutions.
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Incubated by Nvidia Inception VC Alliance, Compute Labs leverages its self-developed Compute Tokenization Protocol to financialize AI, enable direct exposure to compute assets, and create compute derivates, empowering investors to effortlessly yield from compute, the currency of the future
Why you should listenCompute Labs believes that compute will become the currency of the future, they are committed to democratizing access to this advanced AI infrastructure. Their mission is to establish the financial ecosystem for compute as an emerging asset class from zero. By leveraging blockchain technology and enabling financial derivatives, Compute Labs aims to reshape AI investments and create diversified opportunities for investors interested in capturing the most fundamental infrastructure, AI compute, throughout the AGI journey. They aim to be the premier platform for compute tokenization, derivatives, and structured products.
In this conversation, Albert Zhang, founder and CEO of Compute Labs, discusses the innovative approach of financializing AI through compute assets. He explains the vision behind Compute Labs, the tokenization of GPU resources, and how this model aims to democratize access to AI infrastructure. The discussion also covers the engagement of both retail and institutional investors, the collaboration with AI companies, and the roadmap for product rollout. Albert shares insights on the Nvidia Inception VC Alliance, the future of AI and AGI, and why investors should consider Compute Labs as an opportunity in the evolving landscape of AI and crypto.
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Fabian is the co-founder of Illuminodes, guiding the development of the SALUD Protocol, which aims to give individuals control over their health data. Fabian shares insights on the challenges of managing health data, the collaboration with local hospitals in El Salvador, and the integration of global standards in health data management.
Why you should listenThe SALUD Protocol is a groundbreaking initiative aimed at revolutionizing the way healthcare data is managed in El Salvador, using the NOSTR protocol. The pilot project, launched at Paravida hospitals in collaboration with the Salvadoran tech initiative Illuminodes, seeks to address the growing concerns around centralized healthcare systems and patient data privacy. Currently, many healthcare data systems are controlled by large corporations, which often monetize this data at the expense of patient privacy. With the SALUD Protocol, the aim is to return control of personal health data to the individual.
SALUD, which stands for "Sistema de Administración de Libertad Único y Descentralizado," offers a decentralized method of managing healthcare information. By leveraging blockchain technologies, it ensures that health data remains tamper-proof, trustworthy, and accessible only on a need-to-know basis by authorized healthcare providers. The promise of SALUD lies in its ability to provide accurate, decentralized data storage, reducing costs compared to traditional systems while also preventing single points of failure (SPOF).
El Salvador has positioned itself as a leader in both financial and technological innovation, particularly under the leadership of President Nayib Bukele, who made Bitcoin legal tender. With new healthcare laws on the horizon, El Salvador offers a prime testing ground for SALUD’s pilot program. This initiative represents more than just a local change; it reflects a global shift towards decentralized control of personal data, which is increasingly being seen as a fundamental human right. The team behind SALUD is optimistic that the success of this project will serve as a model for other countries and systems worldwide, ushering in a new era of digital sovereignty and patient-controlled healthcare data.
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Sam Williams is the founder of Arweave. The Arweave network is like Bitcoin, but for data: A permanent and decentralized web inside an open ledger. The Arweave protocol is stable, mature and widely adopted.
Why you should listenPermanent storage has many applications: from the preservation of humanity's most important data, to the hosting of truly decentralized and provably neutral web apps.
In this conversation, Sam Williams, founder of Arweave, discusses the vision behind Arweave as a permanent data storage solution, its implications for information control, and the development of the Permaweb. He introduces the AO protocol, a decentralized supercomputer, and explains the economic model behind it, emphasizing the importance of liquidity in attracting users. The conversation also touches on the Universal Data License and the future of decentralized services in cyberspace
Arweave is a decentralized storage network that aims to provide a permanent, tamper-proof archive of data on the blockchain. Unlike traditional cloud storage platforms that charge ongoing fees and store data temporarily, Arweave introduces a novel concept called the "permaweb." This innovation guarantees that once data is uploaded, it will be available indefinitely without requiring the uploader to keep paying to maintain access. This is achieved through a unique economic model and technical infrastructure.
Data can never be taken down or censored, offering an unprecedented level of freedom for content creators and developers. Users have built platforms like decentralized social media apps, content archiving services, and even NFT marketplaces on Arweave, taking advantage of its promise of permanence.
A key part of Arweave's value proposition is that users only pay a one-time fee to store data, covering the cost for its perpetual storage. The one-time payment is calculated based on the current price of AR tokens and the anticipated future costs of storage. The system is designed to scale effectively, with storage costs decreasing over time due to advancements in storage technology.
Arweave has attracted attention due to its role in solving the problem of data integrity, especially in an age where information can be manipulated. By ensuring that information stored on its network can never be altered or deleted, Arweave offers a solution for organizations needing long-term data archival, such as research institutions, media outlets, and governments. Arweave represents a radical shift in how we might think about data storage, offering a decentralized, permanent solution in contrast to the fleeting nature of traditional cloud services.
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Michael Stroev is the CEO of Venga, a universal crypto app aimed at bridging decentralized finance and traditional banking.
Why you should listenVenga is a versatile crypto app designed to simplify how users navigate the world of Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi). Launched with a mission to bring blockchain technologies closer to mainstream users, Venga offers an intuitive, user-friendly platform that helps people buy, sell, and swap cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and others with ease. The app stands out by providing competitive exchange rates and lower fees, making it attractive for both newcomers and seasoned crypto enthusiasts.
The app aims to bridge the gap between decentralized technologies and traditional finance, addressing common issues in the crypto space such as poor user experiences, slow functionality, and a lack of trust. Venga is built on robust technology to avoid bugs and glitches, and it maintains a strong compliance-first approach. This is particularly important post-FTX, as trust in the crypto industry has become more critical than ever. Venga is fully registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) in both Spain and Poland, ensuring it operates under strict regulations, which enhances user confidence.
Venga’s long-term vision includes making crypto more accessible by improving education around blockchain technologies. The team behind the app believes that lack of understanding is one of the biggest hurdles preventing the broader adoption of Web3. In response, the app not only provides trading tools but also aims to educate users on DeFi innovations, allowing them to discover and explore new opportunities in the crypto world.
Looking ahead, Venga plans to expand its offerings with features like staking, additional cryptocurrencies, and its own Venga token. The team has big plans for 2025, including launching a fully-fledged cryptocurrency exchange and more advanced DeFi products, all while maintaining a focus on security, compliance, and a seamless user experience.
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Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is a Core Contributor at Sentient, a blockchain project enabling community-built open AGI He’s a researcher in information theory, applying its principles to solve real-world problems. Currently, he's a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Why you should listenSentient is an AI research organization fostering a new Open AGI Economy for AI Builders and Creators. It is building platforms and protocols to enable open-source AI developers to (1) monetize their models, data, and other innovations, (2) collaborate with each other to collectively build powerful AIs, and (3) be significant stakeholders in a new Open AGI economy.
Today, the development of AI is almost entirely controlled by a few organizations and a few individuals at those organizations. These organizations are locked into a feverish race to build AGI and, in the process, make critical decisions for all of humanity.
On the other side, a large fraction of humanity is working to build AI developer and user skills. They have limited ways to showcase and contribute their skills and even worse ways to be gainfully employed.
Sentient has the goal of bringing ownership rights to open AI development. By inventing science and technology that enables anyone to build, collaborate, own, and monetize AI products, we will birth an era of AI entrepreneurship.
Sentient is building an AI platform for builders to collaborate and monetize their innovations. AI builders are the workhorses and principal actors of this economy, the ones who innovate and collaborate to build powerful new AI offerings. The underlying blockchain protocol and incentive mechanism provide the necessary economic alignment needed for the evolution of Open AGI in this collective offering.
For all this to work, it is necessary that the powerful AI models hosted on Sentient are Open, Monetizable and Loyal (OML) – “loyal” models are those which remain aligned with the community that built them, enforced by the underlying blockchain protocol.
Sentient has pioneered a new ambitious field in AI research with OML models. OML models will drive a shared Open AGI economy, supporting millions of AI agents and further downstream applications for billions of AI users.
The next generation of AI will be able to reason, plan, and act strategically. This AI will be built using new innovative agents and by learning from interactions between these agents, underlying models, and humans. The Sentient AI platform will enable the community and the AI built by them to participate and learn from these interactions, with the underlying blockchain protocol ensuring everyone is incentive-aligned.
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Leanid Palkhouski is the Head of Ecosystem at Network3, helping AI developers efficiently train and validate models using Network3’s AIoT Layer 2 technology.
Why you should listenNetwork3 builds a dedicated AI Layer2, enabling AI developers worldwide to efficiently train, validate, and optimize models at scale through advanced techniques like AI model optimization, compression, federated learning, edge computing, and confidential computing.
They recently secured $5M to build Edge AI infrastructure, growing to over 300,000 nodes and 100,000 daily active sessions.
Network3 announced its new Local Large Language Model (LLM) feature at the TOKEN2049 DePIN Summit. This feature enhances the AI processing capabilities of smart devices by optimizing performance and reducing reliance on cloud computing. With Edge AI, data processing is done directly on local devices, improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing privacy. Network3 aims to make AI and Web3 more accessible by allowing IoT devices to train small AI models and offer rewards for shared computing power. The new LLM will launch for testing soon.
Network3’s N3 Edge V1 mining device, designed for decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) applications, sold out within seconds of its release. The high demand for the device reflects strong market interest in DePIN, which enables the deployment of decentralized infrastructure networks using token incentives. The N3 Edge V1 offers powerful edge computing capabilities, contributing to Network3's broader goal of enhancing smart device networks.
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Roy Hui is the Co-Founder and CEO of LightLink, a Layer 2 blockchain company that lets dApps and enterprises offer users instant, gasless transactions. Roy also founded Pellar, a Web3 builder of blockchain solutions for government and enterprises.
Why you should listenLightLink is an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain platform designed to offer fast, gasless transactions, primarily aimed at enterprises and decentralized applications (dApps). It was developed by Pellar Technology, a company that has been creating blockchain solutions for enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region since 2017. One of LightLink's key innovations is its Enterprise Mode, which allows businesses to run on the blockchain without requiring their users to pay transaction fees or even possess tokens, thereby simplifying the user experience.
The platform stands out for its scalability and affordability, boasting a transaction throughput of over 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) at a cost of less than $0.01 per transaction. This performance is achieved using its Optimium architecture, which separates the consensus, execution, and data availability layers. LightLink integrates with Celestia's data availability solution, enhancing security and allowing the platform to continue functioning even if the Layer 2 network goes offline.
In addition to its performance advantages, LightLink offers a gasless transaction model for both developers and enterprises, making it easier to scale decentralized applications without the need for complex tokenomics.
The platform's native token, LL, is used for governance, staking, and utility within the ecosystem. LightLink is also designed to be fully EVM-compatible, meaning developers can migrate their Ethereum-based projects to LightLink without needing to modify their code, simplifying the process of building on the network.
LightLink's mission is to make blockchain adoption as seamless and intuitive as possible, abstracting away complex features like gas fees so that users can interact with blockchain technology as easily as they do with traditional Web2 applications.
LightLink and its partners have demonstrated cutting-edge web3 capabilities in over 50 projects, including Australian Open, Translucia, The Red Village, Vhils, CoalaPay, and more.
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Tim Kravchunovsky is the founder and CEO of Chirp. Chirp is a DePIN network founded by a team of Telecommunications experts. Tim Kravchunovsky has over 20 years of experience as a network engineer, having held a position as a Consulting Engineer at the World Bank, Comacast and Chemonics International. Tim founded Chirp in January 2021 to connect the world through groundbreaking, accessible technology that has the potential to transform the way we live our daily lives.
Why you should listenChirp’s mission is to connect the largest number of devices with the blockchain under one revolutionary network and a SaaS platform. With a focus on IoT and Mobile, Chirp aims to redefine the future of wireless communication.
DePIN is one of the leading crypto narratives of 2024. DePIN uses blockchain to develop physical infrastructure like telecom communication, storage, IoT, and more. By decentralizing infrastructure, DePIN achieves tech scale and gives power back to the users.
Tim Kravchunovsky, founder and CEO of Chirp, discusses the ambitious goals of Chirp in creating a global IoT ecosystem that connects real-world devices through decentralized technology. He shares insights on the challenges of IoT connectivity, the importance of breaking down barriers between different devices, and the potential of decentralized networks to empower communities. Tim emphasizes the need for standardization in IoT and the role of Chirp in facilitating this transformation, while also touching on the future of smart cities and the impact of blockchain technology.
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Curvance is a modular liquidity management protocol designed to optimize the use of yield-bearing assets and ERC-20 tokens. Curvance DeFi aims to be the “everything app” for lending and borrowing, designed to help address fragmentation across chains and protocols.
Why you should listenCurvance is a chain-agnostic reward and utility layer for yield-bearing assets and other ERC-20 tokens. Initially to be launched on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Blast, Base, Optimism, and Polygon zkEVM, it aspires to establish itself as the de-facto reward and utility layer for any ERC-20 token.
Curvance as a protocol allows users to unlock further capital efficiency on yield-bearing assets. The vault technology's modular approach allows the support of nearly any ERC-20 token.
The goal of Curvance is to become DeFi’s end-game and the de-facto "everything app" to facilitate user access to lending and yield generating protocols.
As DeFi continues its growth trajectory and more sophisticated yield-generating products are built upon existing DeFi infrastructure, the market size and prevalence of yield-bearing assets are expected to expand significantly.
In this evolving landscape, Curvance assumes a pivotal role, facilitating the continued growth of DeFi by empowering users to leverage their assets through borrowing, lending and staking protocols, thus amplifying their capital efficiency and opening doors to new opportunities.
A key component of this vision is Curvance's multichain strategy that enables Curvance to tap into different flywheels quickly. This removes one more step in the users journey, further simplifying the DeFi experience.
As a result, Curvance can provide services to a broader range of users and leverage the strengths of different yield-bearing asset protocols and markets, maximizing its revenue potential.
The goal is to become the top liquidity management layer for new crypto users and experienced DeFi veterans. This mission starts with supporting and integrating the biggest revenue generating protocols in DeFi, abstracting the complexity required to access these opportunities away from the user. Additionally, the multichain strategy enables Curvance to expand to emerging chains and protocol flywheels that are in demand easily.
The Curvance protocol capitalizes on the extensive composability of yield-bearing assets and ERC-20 tokens, allowing tokenized treasuries, tokenized NFT markets, and other primitives to be borrowed against in a decentralized peer-to-peer fashion. It will open a whole new world of capital efficiency and optimized yield.
On Curvance, users can access third-party protocols that facilitate earning a competitive Annual Percentage Rate (APR) on assets. Curvance unlocks additional utility and reward layers that can unlock liquidity by securing loans against user assets and in some cases earn CVE tokens via the Gauge System.
Hence, Curvance can be regarded as the final top layer for DeFi yield.
Upon beta, Curvance will be live on at least Ethereum, Arbitrum, Blast, Base, Optimism, and Polygon zkEVM. By being multichain from the start, Curvance places itself at the center of the multichain DeFi landscape and aligns itself with similar protocols.
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Albert Castellana is the Co-Founder and CEO at Yeager AI, building GenLayer, a decentralized blockchain platform designed to integrate artificial intelligence directly into smart contracts. By combining blockchain and AI, GenLayer opens up a range of use cases, such as intelligent oracles, prediction markets, decentralized governance, parametric insurance, and more.
Why you should listenGenLayer is a decentralized blockchain platform designed to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) directly into smart contracts. These enhanced contracts, called Intelligent Contracts, surpass traditional smart contracts by not only executing predefined conditions but also by interacting with real-time data from the web and processing natural language. This integration allows GenLayer's contracts to perform tasks beyond basic transactions, such as decision-making based on dynamic, real-world information without the need for oracles.
At its core, GenLayer uses a Python-based execution environment called GenVM, which enables developers to create contracts that can interact with large language models (LLMs), such as GPT, to analyze and process complex information. The platform’s unique Optimistic Democracy consensus mechanism ensures that multiple validators, powered by AI models, reach an agreement on the validity of transactions. This consensus mechanism allows for greater flexibility, as validators can handle non-deterministic tasks (those with multiple possible correct outcomes) like interpreting natural language queries or accessing web data.
By combining blockchain and AI, GenLayer opens up a wide range of innovative use cases, such as intelligent oracles, prediction markets, decentralized governance, parametric insurance, and much more.
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Tyler Sloan is a Product Manager at ANKR, the leading Web3 infrastructure company. It has a set of different products for building, earning, gaming, and more — all on blockchain.
Why you should listenAnkr is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to simplify access to Web3 services, making it easier for developers and enterprises to build, deploy, and manage blockchain applications. By leveraging a global network of nodes, Ankr aims to provide a cost-effective and efficient solution for interacting with blockchain networks, supporting various use cases in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Ankr focuses on providing reliable and scalable node hosting services. Developers can deploy their own nodes on the Ankr network, accessing a variety of blockchain protocols such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Polygon. This flexibility enables users to tailor their infrastructure according to specific project needs, ensuring optimal performance and reduced latency. By eliminating the need for extensive technical knowledge and resources, Ankr empowers developers to focus on building their applications rather than managing complex infrastructure.
One of the standout features of Ankr is its unique proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, which enables users to earn rewards by staking their tokens. This not only incentivizes participation in the network but also enhances its security and decentralization. Users can stake ANKR tokens, the native cryptocurrency of the platform, to support various blockchain networks while earning rewards in return. This dual functionality of staking and node hosting positions Ankr as an attractive option for both developers and investors.
Ankr also offers a developer-friendly suite of tools and APIs that facilitate seamless integration with blockchain networks. The platform provides SDKs (Software Development Kits) and documentation to help developers create decentralized applications (dApps) and services with ease. These resources streamline the development process, allowing for rapid prototyping and deployment of projects. Ankr’s commitment to fostering innovation is evident through its focus on community engagement and support, providing a vibrant ecosystem for developers to collaborate and share ideas.
Ankr addresses the scalability challenges faced by many blockchain networks. By utilizing its distributed architecture, the platform can handle a high volume of transactions without compromising speed or efficiency. This scalability is crucial for supporting the growing demand for decentralized applications and services in various sectors, including finance, gaming, and supply chain management.
Ankr is a comprehensive infrastructure solution for Web3, offering developers and enterprises the tools and resources necessary to thrive in the blockchain space. With its focus on accessibility, scalability, and community support, Ankr is poised to play a significant role in shaping the future of decentralized technology.
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Mathias Beke is Co-Founder and CTO at Kairon Labs, an advisor and crypto market maker for digital asset issuers.
Why you should listenKairon Labs is a player in digital asset trading and liquidity provision, offering a wide range of services designed to optimize liquidity management for crypto projects and exchanges. Established as a leading market maker in the cryptocurrency space, Kairon Labs specializes in ensuring that digital assets have sufficient liquidity across centralized exchanges (CEXs) and decentralized exchanges (DEXs), allowing for seamless trading experiences for users and institutional clients.
One of the core services provided by Kairon Labs is liquidity provision. By utilizing sophisticated algorithms and market-making strategies, the company ensures that token projects can maintain tight spreads and consistent order books, helping to minimize volatility and enhance market depth. This service is vital for new token launches and ongoing token liquidity management, ensuring that tokens are traded efficiently across multiple platforms.
Kairon Labs also offers market-making services, acting as a liquidity provider to foster a healthy trading environment. This can be particularly beneficial for tokens listed on multiple exchanges, where liquidity fragmentation can hinder smooth trading. The company’s market-making solutions help reduce slippage, enhance price discovery, and improve overall market quality.
Kairon Labs also provides advisory services, leveraging its deep expertise in digital assets and liquidity management to help projects navigate the complexities of exchange listings, trading strategies, and regulatory landscapes. By offering tailored consulting services, they enable crypto projects to develop optimized strategies for liquidity deployment, tokenomics, and exchange relationships.
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Aaron Krowne is Partner & Practice Group Lead Blockchain & Corporate, at Industria Business Lawyers (IBL Partners) a technology-forward distributed law firm.
Why you should listenSince its founding in 2018, IBL Partners has leveraged versatility and technology to deliver professional and sophisticated legal services for innovators in the twenty-first century technology sector. Advances in technology, including AI, Blockchain and DLT, fintech, "DeFi", and "Web3", continue to revolutionize the industry. Unfortunately, government agencies and corporate stakeholders often find themselves playing catch-up with innovation. IBL Partners leverages its collective regulatory experience and expertise in technology to navigate the regulatory uncertainty and offer clients indispensable legal support in new frontier as well as established areas of the law.
Aaron Krowne is an attorney who arrived at the practice of law following a career in computing and technology, where he worked as a research data scientist.
He founded a series of online startup ventures, several of which attained global recognition. His pre-law career also includes establishing multiple online libel law precedents and participating in the early development of the Creative Commons IP license system.
He was one of the first lawyers globally to focus on blockchain, initially familiarizing himself with Bitcoin and its underlying technology in its early days.
Today, he advises a diverse array of blockchain and “crypto” companies, covering areas ranging from money services and AML law to NFTs, and works at the forefront of the professionalization and expansion of the rapidly-growing cryptocurrency finance and “DeFi” space.
Aaron joins Andy to discuss blockchain law, regulations, the regulation by enforcement approach of many US agencies, and the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act.
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Mario F. Pazos is the marketing lead at the memorably named GOAT Network, the first BTC L2 to offer a sustainable yield.
Why you should listenBTC serves as a store of value, offering fewer opportunities for yield generation compared to other cryptocurrencies, like Ethereum or stablecoins. This limited utility in DeFi applications has resulted in lower returns for BTC holders.
BTC holders have serious concerns when their BTC moves to another chain. The security of Bridges and BTC Layer2 needs to be addressed given the limited functionalities of BTC scripts.
GOAT Network aims to solve this via its decentralized sequencer, the key to GOAT network's fairness and censorship resistance. A native Bitcoin Script based Locking mechanism is also introduced to guarantee GOAT Network is immune to Long-Range Attacks.
GOAT network’s OCP(Optimistic Challenge Process) is built on BitVM2’s permissionless bridge protocol and allows any computation off-chain to be verified on Bitcoin with Continuation techniques. Inspired by ZKM’s proof network, splits the SNARK verifier into a group of subscripts, and the subscripts are committed by MAST and Taproot on Bitcoin.
Decentralized sequencers create an open market to earn sustainable sequencer revenue (in BTC and GOAT Tokens).
Sequencer revenue can be tokenized in order to trade and generate additional returns. BTC holders can lock BTC on L1 to mint goatBTC on GOAT BTC L2; goatBTC can be used for yield generation.
GOAT token lockers earn additional goatBTC mint /redeem fees.
More ways to generate sustainable yield via Defi, Cefi and Tradfi are on the way.
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