Lavinia D. Osbourne is on a mission to onboard 50K women to the blockchain community by 2023. Lavinia is a Blockchain, Fintech & Welltech specialist, consultant and thought leader. She founded Women in Blockchain Talks, an award-winning networking and educational platform that shines a spotlight on dynamic women in the Blockchain space, in 2019. In doing so, she has become a sought-after speaker and MC in Blockchain, Crypto and NFT.  In this episode Socrates Minas discusses with Lavinia D. Osbourne from Women in Blockchain Talks, an award winning educational platform and her initiativ ..read more

In this episode of Blockchain People, Socrates Minas, Business Operations Manager of D-Core talks with Daniel Elsawey, CEO of TIDEFI about decentralized finance (DeFi) and how TIDEFI offers a solution to the challenges ahead.   Socrates Minas | Business Operations Manager of D-Core Daniel Elsawey | CEO of TIDEFI #DCore #TIDEFI #Podcast #DeFi #Dex #Trading #Future #BlockchainPeople ..read more

Remember to LIKE the episode AND SUBSCRIBE to the show!  Octopus Network is a NEAR-based protocol for hosting sovereign application-specific blockchains (Appchains). Through staking the OCT token, Octopus validators lease their security to Appchains, which reward validators in their native token. Sheldon Dearr, Octopus' Technical Lead, is here to discuss the OCT ecosystem, enabling cross-chain communication with IBC, why most new blockchain projects fail, and other absorbing subjects. Table of Contents: 0:00:00 What is Octopus Network 0:02:36 Octopus & NEAR 0:03:56 Advantages of b ..read more

Today's guest is Yutaro Mori, Co-Founder of Orca, Solana's #1 DEX by volume. Orca describes itself as "the DEX for people, not programs." Improving crypto user experience is a central aspect of their vision. It is widely recognized as much more intuitive, clean, and easy to use than the competition. Yutaro's take on user experience in DeFi is crystal clear: making UX human-friendly is crucial for the mainstream adoption of crypto. 0:00:00 Orca, Solana OGs 0:02:27 Crypto needs human-friendly UX 0:06:49 Market downturns and the Solana ecosystem 0:09:46 Solana's future amidst its recent issues ..read more

Dennison Bertram is the founder of Tally, a platform offering no-code governance tooling for DAOs. Tally is used by the likes of Uniswap, Compound, Ampleforth, and many others. Can starting and managing a DAO be easy? Remember to like the episode, subscribe and comment so that the algorithm pushes us to the moon! Table of Contents: 0:00:00 What is Tally 0:05:10 How DAOs took over 0:10:06 Legal questions around DAOs 0:14:08 DAO tooling design 0:17:55 North Korean hackers 0:19:51 False DAOs 0:21:19 Echo chambers, misaligned incentives, and reaching consensus 0:29:21 The Terra ecosystem Reviva ..read more

Themelio is a proof-of-stake blockchain with a completely original non-fiat-pegged proof-of-work "stablecoin." It could be said that Themelio debuts an entirely new blockchain class with its governanceless architecture and innovative design choices. In this episode, Eric Tung, Themelio's Founder and CEO, exposes the causes for the recent stablecoin-related events, what stablecoins should be like, and Themelio's value proposition. Table of Contents: 0:00:00 What is Themelio? 0:06:18 De-pegging — a feature, not a bug. 0:14:05 Is USDC a liability for DAI? 0:15:33 Use cases for MEL 0:20:58 Them ..read more

For the second time in the Blockchain People Podcast, Youves co-Founder Werner Broennimann shares one valuable message: don't fear the bear market! Join us for a great conversation on the ripples of Terra's collapse throughout DeFi, bears & bulls, Tezos' upgrades, "financial alchemy", and more. You can follow Werner on Twitter as @WBroennimann. 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:42 Decentralized stablecoins 0:06:00 The issues of Terra and UST 0:16:54 Protocol design is hard 0:20:54 Are we in a bear market? 0:27:34 Tezos' updates and governance model 0:30:41 NFTs on Tezos and the real utility of NFTs 0 ..read more

Injective Protocol is a Cosmos Layer-2 protocol for building cross-chain decentralized exchanges offering derivatives, crypto futures, and Forex primitives. They are building the next-level DeFi infrastructure necessary for creating a new Internet economy. Eric Chen is the CEO of Injective Protocol. In this episode, we talk about building an infrastructure capable of gasless trades, Uniswap centralization concerns, the phantom of impermanent loss, and much more! 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:48 Gasless trades 0:03:58 What makes Injective unique 0:07:21 Token burns 0:11:45 Growing and scalability 0:14:1 ..read more

FreshCut is a Web3 company building a short-form video platform similar to TikTok, centered around curated gaming content. James Kuk, FreshCut's Co-Founder and CEO, views it as a next-gen content platform aiming to solve the unfair revenue share problem through decentralization and community ownership. James was also formerly part of Twitch. In this episode, we share viewpoints on treating content creators as first-class citizens, fitting in among existing platforms, whether to curate content or not, and many other interesting topics! Contents: 0:00:00 What is FreshCut 0:06:11 Why do gamers ..read more

Precog Finance is building Cerebral, a decentralized crypto futures and options marketplace, and Sentient, a trading algorithm exploring the unexplored DeFi niche of crypto futures arbitrage trading. In this episode, Precog's CEO, CTO and Lead Ethereum Developer join us to discuss unexplored opportunities in DeFi, competition in this niche and the technology behind their products. Contents: 0:00 - Intro 0:26 - What is Precog Finance 7:50 - Why is this niche so unexplored in crypto? 11:50 - When will competition catch up? 17:54 - Opting for closed-source 20:34 - Tokenomics and giving away BT ..read more