All About Blockchain

Can we have financial privacy AND stop financial crime? Stanford's Darrell Duffie thinks there's a third path and it might be the most important work happening in finance right now. In this special UBRI Leadership Session, Ripple SVP Eric van Miltenburg sits down with Professor Darrell Duffie of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, U.S. Senate witness, and architect of the course...

One documentary. A 4.9-star rating. A kidney community of millions waiting to see it. And nine major studios; Amazon, Apple, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney, Paramount+, Peacock, Showtime, and Stars that all said no. So Donald stopped asking for permission. In this episode, Lauren Weymouth sits down with filmmaker Donald Griswold to unpack how he's using Stuff.io, a blockchain platform backed by Mark C...

In this season opener we dive into the world of Crypto Insurance and the safety net required to bring institutional capital off the sidelines. Host Lauren Weymouth sits down with Sree Sanakkayala, founder of Mintara Labs , to discuss how they are "quantifying the unknown" to bridge the multi-billion dollar protective gap in digital assets. From a technical residency in Paris to a high-in...

The narrative around cryptocurrency is often bogged down by complexity, hype, and fear of scams. In this episode, host Lauren Weymouth cuts through the noise with Ali Tager, Head of Communications for the National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) , to reveal who is really using crypto in America and why. The NCA is on a mission to bridge the knowledge gap, focusing not on lobbying or existing indu...

What are the parallels between the early internet boom and today's blockchain revolution? How will the tokenization of every asset—from money and commodities to real estate and private equity—fundamentally reshape global capital markets? In this episode, host Lauren Weymouth sits down with Mathew Le Merle, a titan of tech investment and the Co-Founder and CEO of Fifth Era and Blockchain Coinv...

The U.S. just passed a monumental piece of legislation for stablecoins: The Genius Act . To break it down, host Lauren Weymouth sits with legal expert, Professor Michele Neitz of the University of San Francisco's Center for Law, Tech, and Social Good . Is this the first domino to fall in regulating the entire digital asset space, from DeFi to NFTs?  Together, they dissect what this new law me...

Recorded live from the  Apex conference in Singapore, this special episode of All About Blockchain features a deep dive into the fusion of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. Host Lauren Weymouth, head of Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), sits down with Professor Yang Lui of Nanyang Technological University to discuss a groundbreaking collaboration: bui...

Explore how new technologies like autonomous systems and blockchain will have an impact on our world and how research scientists are building a more open, fair and transparent ecosystem for future users. This conversation with Prof. Eduardo Castello covers how robotics combined with blockchain technology, creates new distributed robotic systems that help, support, and change the way humanity inter...

Blockchain helps bring about integrity of data and when data is trusted it can solve many problems. Hear about one solution, the Volta Initiative - a real life use-case that is creating a market place in Africa to help farmers. We are joined by Finance expert, Raša Karapandža, Dean of EBS Business School  in Germany and Visiting Professor/Researcher at NYU Abu Dhabi. This professor is widely regar...

As crypto security remains a major concern, secure key management infrastructure is increasingly important. A conversation with Riad Wahby the CEO of Cubist . Riad is a leading academic researcher and applied cryptographer responsible for the design and specification of several cryptographic protocols that form the basis for many Blockchains such as Ethereum and Avalanche. Additionally he is an el...

Imagine we could more seamlessly verify and authenticate our existence to access services across various platforms. Digital Identity enables trusted communication in the increasingly digital world while preventing fraud and theft. A conversation with the President of GCIT , Royal University of Bhutan. Audrey Low will educate listeners on the use case of Bhutan's NDI and share how she helped r...

Worried about voter rigging? There is so much distrust in electoral systems around the world.   Nations seek a fairer, more efficient, transparent way to hold elections. Public blockchains make voting and counting information accessible at any time and because every voter's vote is stored on a publicly readable blockchain, each voter can verify that their vote is stored securely . A conversat...

Central banks are reaching beyond legacy financial systems into the digital world to embrace new technologies and systems.   Most central banks have initiated projects on adoption of blockchain in CBDC .  We dive into this prominent use-case with Computer Engineering Professor, Andreas Veneris of University of Toronto.  He has been in the digital asset space for over 14 years and commissioned by s...

Tech-savvy listeners who are excited about cars, IoT, data, crypto, Web3, and software development can benefit from listening to this conversation between Alex Rawitz, Co-Founder and COO at DIMO and President of Cornell Blockchain, Leah Valente. How does owning  more data collected by your car provide more value to you? And can you leverage this data to build a better connected car experience? Lea...

The History of Black Writing project is an excellent example where an internationally renowned source for information converted from a distributed online database to a blockchain. A conversation with English Professor Ayesha Hardison, the Director of the History of Black Writing, and Engineering Professor Drew Davidson who implemented the technology.   We explore this unique collaboration between...

Continuing our conversation about using blockchain on our global path toward sustainability. Listen to this rich discussion with Soheil Saraji, University of Wyoming’s Associate Professor of Energy and Petroleum Engineering in the College of Engineering and Physical Science. Audience will learn how we are utilizing blockchain for potential forward focused blockchain applications in the energy indu...

We have the technology to improve payment terms, without the use of selling invoices to 3rd parties, for millions of small trucking firms. Tokens can return 100 cents on the dollar to these businesses and improve economies for more than just profits and growth. Catch this  rich discussion on how small businesses can take better control over their finances with, Dr. Jimmie Lenz ,  Exec Director of...

Are you following the most critical, vital, existential fight of our planet? The potential application of blockchain to decarbonize our economy and our world so that we can avoid catastrophic temperature rise is happening. Discover along with others in our field how blockchain, may actually be a suitable technology. A compelling conversation between Ripple’s Carbon Market Product Manager, Peter Ro...

Proving something about yourself in a digital world should be fast, easy and secure. How are blockchains useful in managing verifiable credentials, decentralized IDs and other tokenized assets? Nick Dazé, founder and CEO of Heirloom , discusses the no-code tools his team is creating for a trusted and tamper-proof environment for identity verification protocols. Combining blockchain technology iden...

How does highly personalized FinTech change how institutions, markets, & societies run? Columbia Professor,  Agostino Capponi,  explores how crypto and blockchain are altering the financial industry while expanding observations beyond finance to how transitions are taking place in society with the personalization of finance in a deep conversation with top 10 global influencer in the "Fint...

How much fun would it be to become a stakeholder in your favorite athlete? Sports lovers can now interact with chosen players and get rewarded. Join UPenn scholars Arham Habib and Arpan Bagui talking about their journey creating an NFT Marketplace for athletes and their fans; VO2 . This blockchain start-up that advanced through the Cypher Accelerator,  builds community engagement with an engage to...

We are at the very beginning of NFT's becoming a meaningful percentage of art, collectables, gaming, and community markets and yet NFT's are already a multi billion dollar market. It can be intimidating for first-timers to  invest in NFT's as an alternative investment class. This is why Co-Founders Mahan Fathi and Aristotelis Charalampous have created a start-up called NFT Valuation...

Whether you are just dipping your toes into Web3 and looking to take a free MOOC to advance your understanding or interested in diving all in to get a Master's degree in Digital Currencies and Blockchain Technology - University of Nicosia Institute for the Future is a great resource. They not only entered into teaching and researching blockchain early on but are now fully participating in the...

Buying or selling a home? Blockchain cuts the transaction process and cost of buying a single family home down dramatically. Welcome to the next-generation  for real-estate investments. Real Estate experts Geoffrey Thompson and Sanjay Raghavan from Roofstock share their revolutionary journey with this web3 PropTech leader.  We also hear how they benefitted from attending Cypher, Wharton's Blo...

Learn about new ways of storing documents, multimedia, sensor telemetry (all kinds of data) on the internet to never lose it again and new ways of sharing it through real-world objects as digital twins online (mirrored NFT tokens with attached data). Dr. Eric Falk, Co-Founder of Filedgr , talks all about this Digital Twin Datahub