All About Blockchain

M any humans on our planet remain DIGITALLY excluded. Those who are excluded can be limited or unable to participate fully in society.  This divide between those with digital skills and those with barriers to access and use continues to widen. Co-Pierre George, who holds the South African Reserve Bank Chair in Financial Stability Studies, and his talented team at University of Cape Town, see this...

You want to jump on the hot new tech wave. Maybe you are starting your career or are thinking about changing industries to join the blockchain revolution. How do you prove your acumen in this fast moving space? A conversation with Arno Pernthaler, co-founder of the DEC Institute , an association launched and backed by leading academic institutions with strong focuses on Blockchain Technologies. Th...

CELEBRATING EARTH DAY 2022 * Sustainability is an increasingly important topic of conversation and we'll dive into how the rise of new technologies like blockchain can help. What about blockchain technology makes it so appealing for addressing challenges related to climate action? Hear all about this from Computer Scientist Iván Salvador Razo Zapata, lecturer and researcher at The Instituto T...

Digital Asset regulation is a controversial subject, but most experts argue that a framework is necessary to protect investors and outline clear guidelines for innovation. Rutger's Law Professor, Yulia Guseva , guides us through US crypto-regulation, and sheds light on global environments to navigate various legislative positions toward cryptocurrency.  Leading her through this juicy, in-dept...

We've been hearing of all the benefits to using blockchain across various sectors.  How can companies who know nothing about blockchain implement this technology into their business? Blockforce Founder/CEO André Salem has a solution for sellers to easily use blockchain without any previous knowledge.  Learn how merchants can accept digital assets like XRP, and also issue and offer NFTs. André...

Ready for the new web3 content experience? Look to the minting of derivative NFTs. You can exclusively view The Walking Dead 's final season and  join the drop of limited edition NFTs of Dolly Parton' s new album! Learn how the Entertainment Industry is turning to Blockchain for Content Ownership with Eluvio CEO Michelle Munson. She discusses how Eluvio is being used to provide owner-con...

How do we lower the barriers to people of color having access to strong education on blockchain? How do we train people to better qualify for this space flooding with job opportunities?  Holding annual competitions like "Battle for Crypto” that actively teach students how to buy, sell, and trade digital assets in an engaged learning lab is one step forward. A discussion between Ripple softwar...

A conversation between Navin Gupta, Ripple’s MD, South Asia & MENA, and Finweg ’s CTO, Wladimiro Navarro.  Finweg went through NYU Abu Dhabi’s startAD FinTech accelerator program and came out a winner.  Audience will learn about blockchain through this emerging start-up in Spain and Latin America and dive deeper into tokenizing assets.

How does Fintech and blockchain drive the economy toward more sustainable development? A conversation with Dr. Thomas Puschmann , Director of Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab , University of Zurich. He has studied hundreds of global start-ups focused on  sustainability and financial technology,  providing solutions for environmental, social and governance topics. We  identify major trends in the finan...

Can we trust blockchain? How can we be more confident interacting with the developing digital economy? Anchain.ai is a start-up passionate about facilitating legitimacy and security in the crypto industry. Co-founder and CEO, Victor Fang, works with a wide variety of public and private chains so that industry stakeholders can be secure AND we share the dedication of educating future innovators! He...

When it comes to financial regulation systems, how can we make recording the flow of information more clear? How can we keep up with the expense of self-regulating, especially when there are monthly changes? Newly emerged electronic trading practices call for new auditing protocols - why not build them with tech advances that help enhance market transparency? UCL's Guy Vishnia is doing his Ph...

The pandemic disrupted supply chains. Constraints will affect delivery of goods around the globe this upcoming holiday.  How do we fix this? Nikhil Vadgama, Deputy Director of UCL's Centre for Blockchain Technology, reviews ten sectors and hundreds of projects over the last decade that incorporate blockchain to provide better supply chain systems.  Learn how challenges with traditional supply...

How do you engage students to brainstorm ideas about how they might use a cryptocurrency on campus? Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Associate Professor of Economics at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, has been teaching courses on blockchain like “ Developing Blockchain Use Cases ”.  He engages all background of students to discover why a Distributed Ledger Technology might be an im...

Blockchain has far-reaching disruptive potential often focused on charitable works.    Explore the humanitarian efforts of SFSU students leveraging  this emerging technology for multiple blockchain projects, all related to blockchain for social good; applying blockchain technology to promote volunteer participation, and food safety monitoring for healthier food donations to hunger-relief charities...

What if we could increase voter participation and election credibility via secure, verifiable online voting for elections?   Researchers are building systems to utilize the immutability, transparency and distributed consensus properties of blockchain.  We are finding that a blockchain based voting system could solve many of the current day election challenges. Arnab Ghosh is a recent Electrical &a...

Are you captivated by the endless possibilities of how we can interact with money? S tudents are creating real world solutions using fintech tools to provide additional capacity in under-resourced communities. There are industry programs that help turn their visions into reality by providing resources that advance their prototypes, apps and ideas. Ishaan Hiranandani is a rising Junior at Universit...

Decentralization puts power in the hands of the consumer* Let's bring in the Enterprise Blockchain Award winner who has brought more  transparency to the Real Estate sector and beyond Named Canada's top tech titan, Dr. Atefeh Mashatan, is the Director of the Cybersecurity Research Lab and an Associate Professor at Ryerson University.  This renowned cryptographer found a way to reduce fra...

How do we amplify the positive effects of blockchain innovation? Influencing policy makers on technological capabilities and wider implications on society is a good place to start. Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society ( CITRIS ), envisions many possible use cases where blockchain will make a difference in...

How do we increase availability of capitol to small and traditionally disadvantaged borrowers? How can we invest in businesses we care about while purchasing products/services we want, especially during pandemic closures? Carnegie Mellon Professor Goldstein has been investigating the interaction of technology, work and money with his computer science students to overcome several long-standing prob...

We are seeing more and more applications being built on blockchain. And there are thousands of blockchains for developers to choose from.  What do you look for in a blockchain to support your application development? Chief Scientist Dr. Radu State and his team from University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust are busy building Dapps on the XRP Ledger. We...

How can blockchain help the construction industry? Think blockchain as your back office, matching purchase orders with actions, a system that generates a payment automatically without accounting approval. Or a single source of truth, created by all the participants on a given project, that’s plain for everyone to see. Blockchain keeps everyone honest. What if the dozens of companies that depend on...

How can artwork be the blockchain itself? Joey Orr runs the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art.  He commissioned leading artists Stephanie Dinkins and Simon Denny to explore the emergence of blockchain technology in collaboration with science and humanities researchers at The University of Kansas. They are pushing to think about issues of diversity, equity, access and...

According to the UNs' Food and Agriculture Organization, residents of the US Virgin Islands import more than 97% of their food. Nutritional content is not what it could be farmed locally and sometimes transported food arrives rotten or cannot arrive at all when container ships can't get into port during seasonal storms.  Food quality and shortage is a constant threat.  Dr. Joanne Luciano...

All About Blockchain is a Ripple-produced podcast featuring University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) partners to showcase utility of this innovative technology. Host Lauren Weymouth returns for season 2 with global guests discussing how they will use this tech to solve challenges and innovate in farming, art, construction and public infrastructure, climate change and more. Tune in to the f...

Why do we want digital assets to represent real world property? Tokenization of securities is still an area that is early in development and adoption but we can start to learn from enterprise solutions already on the market. Computational finance expert, Simon Sive, identifies practical challenges and discusses the ecosystem players already solving them using the tools available with blockchain.