The Ledger Podcast

Anna Bulbrook is a violinist (projects from Airborne Toxic Event, to Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, to Beyoncé’s Lemonade) the founder of Gxrlschool, and the co-founder of Metalabel. She joined us from her tree-house in LA. We talk about Kanye West epiphanies. We talk about foraying discipline and practice into the rest of her projects and making impossible things possible. We talk about...

In this conversation with Mel, one of the leading experts in tokenomoics, we covered a lot of ground. When we say tokenomics, what do we mean? Where does that begin and where does that end? We discuss building web3 brands from the ground up and building web3 strategy for established brands. We discuss the importance of understanding culture, sub cultures, and how people interact when thinking abou...

On the second episode of our series in collaboration with FWB, Ian and Zoe talk to Sarah Drinkwater. She just launched an early stage VC fund in the UK called Common Magic where she invests in companies with community at their core. In this conversation they talk about the philosophy behind a community driven investment thesis, the ebb and flow of communities in the DAO space, and the culture that...

In this first episode in a series of conversations with Ledger and Friends With Benefits, we talk to the Mayor of FWB Alex Zhang about building DAOs and community business in general. We talk about the desires of communities to diverge over time and the desires of companies to make money and how to balance those two things from a perspective of community incentives and ownership. We talk about how...

In a world where your wallet becomes an essential pillar of your on-chain identity, Ethereum Naming Services, mostly known as ENS, is more than just an address – it's a social identifier. And the market has caught up with this idea, with some ENS names selling for astonishing valuations in recent Years Austria 2023 Ledger, we knew this was one thing missing on Ledger Live. There was no way to use...

A couple of weeks ago, Trust Wallet and Ledger shared some public news on an exploit that we spotted and fixed months ago. It’s a vulnerability the Ledger Donjon luckily found only 3 days after the release of a Trust Wallet software solution. The security experts at Ledger's Donjon reported the vulnerability to the Trust Wallet team so that it got fixed, and so that users’ funds remained safe. It...

Former football player and now renowned businessman and investor in Web3, Cordell Broadus aka Champ Medici has been leading his father, Snoop Dogg’s NFT venture and is now our newest Ledger Pro Team member. We took advantage of his presence at the latest Paris Blockchain Week to get him to stop by our offices for a half-an-hour chat with our very own VP Communications Ariel Wengroff. Sharing his p...

Welcome to SZN 2 of the LEDGER Pro Team! Join Ledger's CXO Ian Rogers and Gmoney, a renowned cultural thought leader and part of Ledger's esteemed Pro Team, as they discuss the future of value and digital assets. money brings deep expertise in companies and brands at the intersection of digital assets and fashion, with 15+ years of experience in the traditional finance sector as an investor. He is...

If you think about it, the internet has decentralized how culture is formed, anyone with a phone could create art or tell a story and reach millions of people around the world with a click of a button. Web3 enhances that even further, with blockchain technology not only can artists share their creations they can now own and monetize them as well as build and tokenize communities around their art....

Tim Draper is a man who needs no introduction in crypto. But still: he is a venture capitalist, who investing in a lot of the early Internet companies tech startups, running Draper associates, once host the Meet the Drapers show He is also a man who foresaw the success of a lot of upcoming start-ups and thought Bitcoin was “bigger than anything he saw before.” A man who thinks that more banks will...

The staking industry is expected to be worth $40B by 2025. With such potential, there’s no shortage of staking solutions currently available on the market. But one critical question arises - how can you stake securely? The answer is simple: retaining full ownership of your keys. That’s why Ledger partnered with KILN to offer its users the ability to stake ETH directly in Ledger Live from within th...

How was ArtBlocks founded? Who are the first generative artists who started out there? What did the Auto Glyphs project change for them? During NFT Paris, in a room full of some of the best generative artists in the world, we recorded this one hour conversation between Ledger VP of Comms Ariel Wengroff and prominent figures in the ArtBlocks community (with Erick Calderon a.k.a. Snowfro, Sofia Garc...

2022 was a big moment for Ethereum, the long awaited MERGE event ended up finally taking place on September 15th, shifting Ethereum from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake consensus and significantly reducing its energy consumption along the way, a massive step towards Ethereum 2.0.   But there’s still somewhat of a long road of Ethereum updates ahead, including the Surge, the Verge, the Purge a...

How can attention drive value? How to connect the attention economy to the web3 economy? In a world of abundance, our time and focus is probably one of the last items you cannot… scale. Of course, we can publish work, be easy to find, and generate thousands of impressions in seconds. But when do people actually care? When do you care? NFTs have driven a LOT of attention. Whether you might think it...

The more value you have, the more malicious actors will try to get it. You already know that if you own more than a couple of small bags of crypto. But imagine you’re a company or an organization trying to manage their digital assets at scale. This question arose a couple of years ago. Family offices, hedge funds, custodians, exchanges… They had no idea how to secure their assets (or they would do...

The crypto phenomenon is just one symptom among many: we are shifting from a mass market to an era of niches. But then, what is a niche exactly? Where does a community start? In this age of modern loneliness, is swiping the new sign of being part of a community? What do regressive conspiracy movements tell us about a new sense of belonging? With the hyper financialization of our everyday lives, sh...

This year has seen the emergence of a variety of AI products showing us a glimpse of the exponential age. But one other innovation has the potential to completely change our world - Quantum computing. Quantum computers are very different from the classical computers that have been around for more than half a century. They harness the power of quantum mechanics to sift through huge numbers of possi...

OBJKT is a marketplace that truly feels like a community – with 20,000 monthly active users and 6 millions tokens available, artists are also collectors, and, quite often, the other way around. It's a place that is 100% organic, that feels like the indie-rock scene in the overall NFT ecosystem. How can we build it so it becomes “bigger than we could ever imagine”? How can we make it well-known wit...

On the Ledger today, we are glad to receive a man who has changed the content creation industry. Yancey Strickler is one of the crowdfunding pioneers who co-founded Kickstarter 17 years ago, who now turned into a NFT degen in the last months and founded Metalabel , a release club where groups of people who share the same interests collaborate to drop and support work together. In an one-on-one dis...

When you are a creator, how do you shake up the cobwebs and keep taking creative risks? This is the question our guest for this episode asked himself after becoming a successful angel investor in tech, publishing a long list of best-sellers (check his 4-Hour series) and a podcaster came to ask himself recently.  His answer was: deep diving into web3, and creating “an emergent long fiction pro...

Curious about our new device, Ledger Stax? Want to know how we first thought of this new generation of hardware wallets, and what it took to bring it to life? Then listen to this discussion between our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and Tony Fadell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to understand the crypto ecosystem after the falls of FTX, Celsius and more? Where and how to educate yourself in an ever-changing crypto space? Looking back at 2022, it is fair to say that this will probably be a year that’ll forever be remembered in Web3. It had its ups and major downs but all in all we can see the future of this industry being built before our eyes day by day by passionate...

After starting out in jewelry, Yoon co-founded Ambush with Verbal. She's behind some of the brand's most successful collabs over the past few years with Off-White, Louis Vuitton, Nike, Starbucks and… Reese’s. And, guess what - she's also big in crypto. Our VP of Communications Ariel Wengroff took advantage of her presence at our bi-yearly event Ledger Op3n to sit with her and discuss how she fell...

Curious about our new device, Ledger Stax? Want to know how we first thought of this new generation of hardware wallets, and what it took to bring it to life? Then listen to this discussion between our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and our Chief Technology Officer Charles Guillemet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Curious about our new device, Ledger Stax? Want to know how we first thought of this new generation of hardware wallets, and what it took to bring it to life? Then listen to this discussion between our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and our VP of Communications Ariel Wengroff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.