The Ledger Podcast

Want to know how our brand new device, Ledger Stax, was brought to the world? Listen to our CEO Pascal Gauthier explain its origins, conception and evolution, from day 1 to this very moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the last episode before we hit Ledger Op3n, we are very pleased to meet with a serial Web entrepreneur and early stage investor in companies such as Twitter, Facebook & Square to name a few. Today he’s considered to be one of the leading voices in Web3, Co-founder and CEO of Proof and a partner at True Ventures, you might’ve guessed it already, this time we have Kevin Rose on the show, in d...

Our guest today has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, founded and sold a genomics company, became an early investor in crypto and then CTO of Coinbase, then a best-selling author with his recently published The Network State . Also, he thinks that blockchain (or, to be more accurate, that cryptographically verifiable information) is the most important human invention since the inventi...

At Ledger, we deeply care about Web3 security and the values of self sovereignty, so much talent is working day in, day out on developing the best in class security solutions for your digital assets. And the truth is: we haven’t really been talking that much about security here. But that is about to change…  Every month, we’ll take you with us behind the scenes at Ledger, to discuss the most...

This week, you'll hear a very different episode of On the Ledger. This week, we are not interviewing anyone. This week, Ledger is being interviewed... by the multifaceted legendary musician, Linkin Park hero, and now NFT aficionado (make sure to check his Ziggurats collection) Mike Shinoda. For the first time, Ian Rogers, Ledger's Chief Experience Officer, answers all the questions Mike and h...

Scale is a problem we all have to deal with. Especially the scale of the data we will consume in the next years. In 2021, the internet consumed 79 zettabytes, that’s the equivalent of 79 B laptops with 1TB storage capacity each. Thing is, despite this data being ours, we actually don’t own it, internet companies do and they absorb it and sell it back to us in the form of advertising, which is quit...

It’s a moment that’s never happened before in the crypto space. A long-awaited, often delayed one. But what does the Merge truly mean? Is the Merge a real technological shift, or just a change of narrative? What’s the point of switching from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake? As the Merge is on the verge of being completed, Charles Guillemet (CTO @ Ledger), Nicolas Bacca (Ledger Cofounder & VP o...

From selling punk-rock mixtapes to invading the web3 world , Brick is not your everyday NFT. It’s a project that’s truly born out of culture with music, live shows and fashion being at its core.  After touring with Trash Talk for more than 10 years, LA based musicians Lee Spielman and Garrett Stevenson drew inspiration from legendary DIY venues of the past to conceive of Brick with the great...

Although generative art existed way before Blockchain technology, last year has seen NFTs enable groundbreaking artists and their innovative expressions to gain access to whole new audience groups and monetisation mechanics, beyond the conventional boundaries of the art world. A symbiotic experience between artist, code and collectors. One cannot talk about generative art without mentioning Art Bl...

If you’ve been following the news, you probably know that we’ve announced the launch of the LedgerVerse on The Sandbox with the purpose of educating communities about Web3 security in a more engaging and culturally relevant way, starting with a first experience called School of Block, where players fight off hackers and scammers to win exclusive NFT rewards. But what’s that all about? Why’s Ledger...

This is an episode that some of you have long been waiting for. Today is the day we answer one of the key questions in crypto. Not the “who is Satoshi?” question. The “Wen Ada on Ledger” question. If this is what you’ve been asking yourself, listen on because we’ve got the answer. For its first year anniversary, On The Ledger is thrilled to meet with the mathematician slash entrepreneur slash farm...

Relationships between web3 and the press have always been quite complex. Like between two people having a hard time understanding each other. And then came Time Magazine. Within a year and thanks to its already famous TimePieces nfts, Time has become a key player of Web3 space and its adoption. A living proof that old media can evolve. So today, we are really happy to be talking to someone who has...

Deadfellaz is one of the most exciting NFT projects out there. So exciting that their founders are now represented by the Hollywood top-notch agents from UTA, to oversee the present and future of their 10,000 “undead” NFTs (among whom Elijah Wood and the rapper Lil Baby). Meeting her the day after she undoxxed herself, we are stoked to be chatting with Betty, who’s the co-founder and horde mother...

From farm acres to crypto. Launched in 2021, 10T was the first major fund to invest in digital assets companies (including Ledger, of course). Since then, it has taken part on such projects as Yuga Labs or Ledger, led by the genius What is a macro-investor and why a good macro-investor is a... story-investor, why he bought the 2018 dip and why 10T stands for a 10 trillions market cap - why it’s a...

On The Ledger, we have often met with people who got started in crypto or NFTs and thrived from there. But what about people who’re massively successful in their career and THEN turn to Web3? What does this new space bring to their business? Our guest today did just that. After an early career in finance, she became an icon by founding Boss Beauty with her two sisters. Both a successful entreprene...

How to build a software business tailor made for the new NFT ecosystem from... a simple Google (r) form? Our guest Brenden Mulligan invented a way for the NFT creators to choose the way their art is distributed, starting by making sure purchasers are real humans and not just scripts, leading to a project enhancing digital sovereignty for artists but that can also be used as a powerful market analy...

Imagine that you’re in a space where you can create and be rewarded for that. Where you can build a community, and be rewarded for that. Social media and Web2 have democratized access to community building at scale. And now Web3 and digital assets are supercharging that with the ability to align the financial incentives of each participant. It’s like a facebook group with a shared bank account! Th...

Composability is a major component of web3, where creators can combine different components together into larger structures. A bit like Legos, but with crypto, finance, or... art. With NFTs, artists can indeed unleash their creativity and merge different disciplines together to provide their communities with unique experiences. This is exactly what our guest today does. After 20 years in the music...

Staking. This is a word that might sound scary, even if you’re crypto-advanced, either because it is too complex or inaccessible. How much crypto do I need? What is a delegator? How to choose a node? What are the risks, and how to prevent them? This is where Figment comes in. Figment is a blockchain infrastructure and services provider that makes it simple for token holders and enterprises to part...

We are living the days of an artistic and cultural renaissance. Thanks to Blockchain technology, for the first time in history digital ownership is a possibility. And that changes everything. We can now own keys, create contracts and distribute assets. We are also free to port them over to different environments, which means that we can be digitally sovereign. How does this impact you and why...

It’s always been part of Ledger’s DNA to encourage internal and external developers to enrich our ecosystem. We made our code open-source, and available to any external developers. Which resulted in third-party developers submitting most of the coin applications and then blockchains that you currently use on your Ledger device. We engaged with the team behind one of the biggest blockchains out the...

That’s the kind of episode we look forward to weeks in advance. This is the inspiring story of someone who taught himself how to use 3D art software in his free time while working at a restaurant. Since then, he has sold over 2000 NFTs for about 9 million dollars and worked with some of the biggest names in fashion and entertainment, despite (or thanks to) the fact that “s*cks at doing what other...

Moonpay is one of the hottest crypto projects in town. Why? Because historically the process of entering and exiting the web3 world, the so-called on and off ramps, has been crammed with frictions. But not anymore… Moonpay provides a payment infrastructure for crypto that enables you to access the realms of Web3 in a fast, simple and secure way. Or as Jimmy Fallon puts it… the Paypal for Crypto. A...

Historically, brands and media companies have always been shapers and amplifiers of culture. And with every innovation that came about, the cultural landscape and its main acts were bound to change. From the TV to the internet, social media and now Web3 and digital assets, every innovation brings in new possibilities, opens the door for new players and eliminates the slow movers.  Web3 is onl...

On this episode of On The Ledger, we talk with a man on a mission : “to onboard the next billion people onto crypto”. His name ? Beniamin Mincu. His job ? Cofounder and CEO of Elrond. He started with a team “which could literally build rockets”, and worked on creating an “Internet-scale blockchain.” Along with Fabrice Dautriat, Head of Platform at Ledger, we discuss how to overcome crypto main UX-...