Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting. DSide's guest today is Juan Montoya, co-founder and CEO of Rokk3r. Juan is a Web3 enthusiast who has a history of building and scaling technology-enabled business models. Prior to founding Rokk3r, Juan spent 8 years working in management consulting and Big Data modeling in economic recovery models for the government. Originally from Colombia, he graduated from Suffolk University before moving to DC, where he got his early career experience working in the 2008 financial crisis aftermath. After working for nearly a decad ..read more

Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting. DSide's guest today is Luc Schurgers, co-founder and CEO of DNABlock Animations Studio. Luc has had a diverse career, working in advertising with notable brands like Ray Bans, Levis, and Nissan, as well as stand-alone projects with the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final, and Ethernia - Cryptowars. He describes himself as a left/right brain thinker, combining his technical expertise in computer science with his creative passion for animation. DNABlocks has so far raised $7m in seed funding and anticipates launching its fu ..read more

Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting. DSide's guest today is Patrick Workman, the VP of Growth & Partnerships at Unlock Protocol. Patrick has worked at prominent companies like Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Experian, and Instagram. Patrick begins by discussing the background of the Unlock Protocol, a platform that leverages NFT technology to create memberships. He highlights the value that Unlock brings to companies by enabling them to generate predictable and recurring revenue through on-chain subscriptions and time-locked memberships. The conversatio ..read more

Welcome to EARLY. DSide’s guest today is Jay Steinback of yWhales.    Summary Jay discusses their newest project, FinRamp, which focuses on tokenizing real world assets, starting with the voluntary carbon credit market.  FinRamp aims to provide a regulated and compliant platform for the trading of these assets, ensuring transparency and trust.  The project is built on the principles of RegTech and aims to adhere to traditional finance rules and regulations.  Steinbeck emphasizes the importance of regulation in the Web3 space and the need for a legal foundation ..read more

Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting. DSide's guests today are Dr. Sergey Kachur and 0xHunter. Dr. Kachur is the founder of the UMedHub and UHub protocol, while OxHunter is a software consultant from Bankless Consultancy who collaborated with Dr.Kachur on the project. The protocol seeks to align incentives with purpose in the healthcare profession by rewarding industry professionals for answering questions from the community. The answers are fully audited by other industry professionals, which creates a virtuous reward cycle. The cycle rewards the most pal ..read more

Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting. DSide's guest today is HPayne, a seasoned marketer and blockchain expert who is presently the Marketing Director of ShapeShift, one of the world's largest non-custodial crypto exchanges. HPayne has over a decade of expertise in the IT business and has played an important role in determining how people interact with and comprehend blockchain technology. In this podcast episode, we learn about ShapeShift's background, starting in 2014 as a permissionless way to swap cryptocurrencies. The discussion then moves to why Shap ..read more

Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting. DSide's guest today is Miho Shinke, an operational development trainer and consultant for manufacturing companies and NGOs across Africa, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Miho is distinguished as an ABNLP master coach, which she utilizes to empower individuals and organizations alike by amplifying employee engagement through psychology coaching.  In the episode, Miho elaborates on how her training as a master coach in ABNLP merges emotional intelligence with logic, enabling better communication and cohesion between indi ..read more

Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting. DSide's guest today is Samantha Marin, a content writer and editor at Aragon and owner/operator of Quorum's newsletter. Samantha is an experienced creative writer and spends her time empathetically breaking down the complexities of Web3 and DAOs through her role at Aragon. She specializes in introductory guides on DAO creation and maintenance and recently contributed to version one of the Aragon DAO creation manual for the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation. In addition to her work at Aragon, Samantha curated ..read more

Welcome to EARLY, web3 business from Bankless Consulting. Sergio is a strategy buff with a passion for design and a knack for solving business puzzles. He once believed he would be a political analyst, but then I discovered the joy of strategy and facilitation. In his career he has worked on political campaigns, non-profit projects, startups and even started his own design studio. Over the past four years, Sergio has been exploring the web3 universe, helping businesses to leverage blockchain technology and create sustainable, resilient communities. At Bankless Consulting, Sergio has orchestrat ..read more

Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting. DSide's guest today is Mark Phillips, the Vice President of Business Development at Nova Labs. Nova Labs is a for-profit entity that operates on the Helium infrastructure, which delivers public wireless coverage in 192 countries for 5G and IoT devices. They offer a disruptive solution for wireless coverage and IoT connectivity. Nova Labs was launched in 2022 to distinguish the for-profit aspect from the open Helium network. In this episode of the podcast DSide and Mark Phillips discuss the community-driven approach, co ..read more