Episodes

Why Switzerland Got Digital Assets Right (Part II of II). Lars Schlichting, Founder of Lexify and Olivier Depierre, General Counsel of Metaco. – E113

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we continue our conversation with Lars Schlichting, founder of Lexify, and Oliver Depierre, General Counsel of Metaco.  Be sure to subscribe...

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Why Switzerland Got Digital Assets Right (Part I of II). Lars Schlichting, Founder of Lexify and Olivier Depierre, General Counsel of Metaco. – E112

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we have Lars Schlichting, founder of Lexify, and Oliver Depierre, General Counsel of Metaco. We discuss Switzerland’s role in the digital...

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Are Illinois & NJ Going To Lock Down Digital Assets? Gabriella Kusz, Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association and Nina Kaplan, Chair of the New Jersey Digital Assets Working Group – E111

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we have Gabriella Kusz and Nina Kaplan. We discuss digital asset regulation and the impact legislation can have at the state...

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Why Cayman Got DAO’s Right – Jonathan Turnham, Partner at Travers Thorp – E110

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we have Jonathan Turnham, Partner at Travers Thorp. We discuss regulation in the Cayman Islands and what differentiates the nation from...

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Securing Open Source Is a Public Good – Brian Behlendorf, Open Source Security Foundation

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we have Brian Behlendorf of the Open Source Security Foundation. We discuss the Open Source Security Foundation and how it is...

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The Carbon Offset Market: First Things First – Jamil Benabdallah, Founder of The Zero Fund – E108

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we have founder of The Zero Fund, Jamil Benabdallah. Today, we dive into the developing market of regenerative finance and try...

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How MiCA Fits In (Panel Series 4 of 4) – E107

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we our final panel discussion on MiCA. We give an overview of current EU legislation and  discuss achieving real viability and...

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Hyperledger: How The Sausage Gets Made. Hart Montgomery, CTO of Hyperledger Foundation – E106

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we have a conversation with Hart Montgomery, the CTO of Hyperledger. We delve into the Hyperledger ecosystem and look at the...

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MiCA: What a CASP Must Do in the EU (Panel Series 3) – E105

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we continue our panel series discussing MiCA. We delve into the appeals of MiCA in creating a common framework for the...

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New Year, New Congress: Digital Asset Legislation? Joel Oswald, Principal at Williams and Jensen – E104

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Joel Oswald, Principal at Williams and Jensen. We discuss lobbying and what legislation will come out of Capitol...

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EU Issuances of Crypto Assets Under MiCA (Panel Series 2) – E103

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we continue our guest panel discussion on the EU Market in Crypto-assets regulation (MiCA). We dive into the legislation and explore...

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Climate Action At Scale With Web 3.0 – Anna Lerner Nesbitt, CEO of the Climate Collective – E102

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Anna Lerner Nesbitt, CEO of Climate Collective. We discuss the digitization of the value chain to create transparency...

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The EU and MiCA’s Crypto Asset Framework (Panel Series Pt 1) – E101

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we have a 5-guest panel discussion on the EU Market in Crypto-assets regulation (MiCA). We dive into the legislation and explore...

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When Howey Met Judges (Law). Lewis Cohen, Greg Strong, Freeman Lewin and Sarah Chen, DLx Law – E100

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guests are Lewis Cohen, Greg Strong, Freeman Lewin, and Sarah Chen of DLx Law. We continue our conversation on the...

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Crypto Freedom Is Worth Fighting For. JW Verret, Founder of Crypto Freedom Lab and More. – E99

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is JW Verret, founder of Crypto Freedom Labs . We discuss the concerns with potential government restrictions on personal...

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Proof of Cure and DeSci. Savva Kerdemelidis, CEO of Crowd Funded Cures. – E98

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Savva Kerdemelidis, CEO of Crowd Funded Cures. We discuss how developers are building systems that are seeking to...

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Proof of Carbon on the Blockchain. Will Foulkes, CEO of Stabiliti – E97

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Will Foulkes, Co-founder, and CEO of Stability, a platform that provides complete end-to-end transparency and traceability across the...

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The Future Of DAO’s, DO’s and O’s. Dane Lund. Core Team Member of Alliance DAO. – E96

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Dane Lund, core team member at Alliance DAO. We explore the roles of autonomy and decentralization in DAOs...

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Bridging Real Life and Web3 With Droplets. Dr. Satya Sharma & Christopher Tiu, ZK Ladder – E95

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guests are Dr. Satya Sharma, an Industry Pioneer of Scan technology, and Christopher Tu, co-founder of ZKLadder. We discuss the...

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Crowdfunding for More Than Money. Eric Hess and Andy Greenstein, Hess Legal Counsel. – E94

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Andy Greenstein, fellow lawyer at Hess Legal Counsel. We share observations we have made while working on several...

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The CFTC and Ooki DAO: What It Means. Kayvan Sadeghi, Partner of Jenner & Block

On this week’s podcast, our guest is Kayvan Sadeghi,  Partner of Jenner & Block. We discuss the CFTC complaint against bZeroX, LLC and Ooki DAO and its implications for...

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Is Encryption Becoming More Important to the U.S. Gov? Paul Lekas, Head of Global Public Policy, Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) – E92

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Paul Lekas, Head of Global Public Policy at the Software & Information Industry Association (SSIA). We discussed current...

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What Makes A Digital Asset Scarce? Avichal Garg, Managing Partner of Electric Capital – E91

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Avichal Garg, Managing Partner of Electric Capital. We explore the concept of scarcity and how it drives value...

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Regulation and Digital Assets in the UAE. Kokila Alagh, KARM Legal. – E90

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Kokila Alagh, founder of KARM Legal Consultants. We discuss the regulatory hurdles facing digital assets in the UAE...

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Building On Chain Privacy Through a Tornado. Elena Nadolinski and Craig Timm of Iron Fish. – E89

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guests are Elena Nadolinski and Craig Timm of Iron Fish. We dive into the project, as well as discussing the...

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Hyperledger: Growing The Open Source Blockchain Ecosystem – Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation – E88

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation. We explore the collection of Hyperledger projects and discuss how...

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How the U.S. Tax Code Might Apply to Digital Assets. Jason Schwartz, Tax Partner at Fried Frank – E87

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Jason Schwartz, Partner at Fried Frank. We discuss tax challenges with digital assets as well as their permanent...

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Open Sourcing the Maker and the Taker. Michael Feng, Founder of Hummingbot – E86

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Michael Feng, Founder of Hummingbot. We discuss the decentralization of the market maker function and giving an edge...

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BitLicense: Too Much Rigor or Just Right? Kaitlin Asrow, Executive Deputy Superintendent, NYS Department of Financial Services – E85

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Kaitlin Asrow, Executive Deputy Superintend of New York’s Department of Financial Services. We discuss the process of obtaining...

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Bringing The Edge To The Capital Stack – Patrick O’Meara, CEO and Founder of Inveniam. – E84

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Patrick O’Meara, CEO and Founder of Inveniam. We discuss how Inveniam creates a data layer that allows data...

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Zero Knowledge, Scaling and Privacy. Benedikt Bünz, Chief Scientist of Espresso Systems – E83

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Benedikt Bünz, Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems. We discuss the state of crypto and the place for innovative...

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What Can Agriculture Coops Teach DAO’s? Todd Eskelsen, Partner at Eskelsen Law Group – E82

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Todd Eskelsen, Partner at Eskelsen Law Group. We discuss the potential use cases for decentralized autonomous organizations and...

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Digging Deep Into NFTs and IP. Stuart Levi, Partner at Skadden Arps. – E81

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Stuart Levi, Partner at Skadden Arps. We discuss different forms of licensing as well as IP issues associated...

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How To Balance Privacy and Tech For 1.4 Billion People. Suha Mohamed, Strategy and Partnerships for the Aapti Instititute. – E80

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Suha Mohamed of the Aapti Institute. The Aapti Institute is a policy research organization focused on examining lived...

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How to Choose Your Blockchain Interoperability Solution. Raphael Belchior – E79

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Raphael Belchior, Ph.D. Student and R&D Engineer at Blockdaemon. We explore the extensive research that Rapahel has done...

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LeXpunK’s Take on Exchange Regs and DeFi – Brandon Ferrick, Jordan Schwartz, and Eric Hess of the LeXpunK Army – E78

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guests are Brandon Ferrick and Jordan Schwartz, co-members of the LeXpunK Army. LeXpunK is a collaborative legal advocacy group that...

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Creating Trust with Embedded Privacy – Zohar Hod, CEO of One Creation – E77

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guests is Zohar Hod, founder and CEO of One Creation Corporation. One Creation Corporation is a privacy solution leveraging several...

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Web 3.0, Censorship, and Why It Matters – Nadim Kobeissi, Co-founder of Capsule.Social and Anastasia Sazonova, Rising Ukrainian Writer – E76

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guests are Nadim Kobeissi, Co-founder of Capsule.Social and Anastasia Sazonova, Ukrainian Blogger. We explore Nadim’s platform Capsule.Social, and the decentralized,...

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Your NFT Identity and Web 3.0. Dylan Dewdney, Co-Founder of NFT3. – E75

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guests is Dylan Dewdney, Co-founder of NFT 3. We explore Web 3.0 and the issues associated with the concept of...

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Taking the “Ow!” Out of DAO’s. Ross Campbell and Jordan Teague, Kali DAO. – E74

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guests are Ross Campbell and Jordan Teague of Kali DAO. Kali DAO is a legal resource that helps to guide...

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PETs At Work In The Down Under. Alistair Muir, CEO of Vanteum. – E73

This week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Alistair Muir, CEO of Vanteum. Vanteum provides advisory services for privacy enhancing technologies, and Alistair shares his perspective into...

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How Do You Create a Security Interest in a Digital Asset? Professor Carla Reyes, Southern Methodist University School of Law – E72

This week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Carla Reyes from Southern Methodist University School of Law. We discuss the Uniform Commercial Law and security interests in...

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Building the Human Network Into the Law. Drs. Jennifer Cobbe and Heleen Janssen, Universities of Manchester and Amsterdam. – E71

This week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, our guests are Jennifer Cobbe from the University of Manchester and Dr. Heleen Janssen from the University of Amsterdam. We discuss what...

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Going Long on Wyoming, Trusts and Bitcoin. Joel Revill, CEO of Two Ocean Trust. – E70

This week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, we have another conversation with Two Ocean Trust CEO Joel Revill. We discuss updates in Wyoming legislature regarding covering digital assets in...

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The Perks of Oblivious RAM for SMPC. Brett Hemenway Falk, Research Professor, University of Pennsylvania – E69

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Brett Hemenway Falk, Research Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss Brett’s recent research on oblivious ram, data leakage,...

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How Can The SEC Adopt A Better Fit for Crypto? Yuliya Guseva, Professor at Rutgers Law School – Ep 68

This week on The Encrypted Economy, we continue our conversation with Professor Yuliya Guseva from Rutgers Law School. Yuliya gives her insights on the SEC and its recent regulatory...

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NFT’s That Are Ready For The Metaverse. CyberToothKat, Creator of Book of Alchemy, an NFT Web3 Game – E66

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is CyberToothKat, Creator of the NFT game Book Alchemy. In this episode, we discuss Web 3, NFT gaming in the metaverse,...

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How Data Coops Protect at the Edge. Thorsten Dittmar – E66

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Thorsten Dittmar, founder of the data cooperative Polypoly. In this episode, we discuss a range of topics all tackled head-on...

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What Do Algorithms Do With Personal Data? An EU Approach. Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law, EDHEC Business School, France – E65

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Gianclaudio Malgeiri, Associate Professor of Law and Technology of EDHEC . In this episode, we discuss the privacy issues associated...

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Is the SEC’s Approach to Crypto Regulation a Good Fit? Yuliya Guseva, Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School – E64

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Yuliya Guseva, Professor of Law at Rutgers University. In this episode, we discuss SEC actions in digital asset enforcement and...

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Cross Chaining the Future With DLT Gateways. Dr. Thomas Hardjono, CTO, MIT Connection Science & Technical Director, Trust-Data Consortium – E63

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Dr. Thomas Hardjono, CTO of Connection Science and Technical Director of the MIT Trust-Data Consortium. Dr. Hardjono discusses interoperability between...

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We Need to Build More Than Tokenomics. Nathan Schneider, Author and Asst. Professor University of Colorado – E62

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Nathan Schneider, author of Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado....

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Looking Ahead To 2022 With Optimism, Eric Hess- E61

This week’s episode looks ahead to 2022 and the developments we may see in our digital ecosystems. We discuss potential hurdles to come and technologies that are likely to...

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Looking Ahead To 2022 With Optimism – E61

This week's episode looks ahead to 2022 and the developments we may see in our digital ecosystems. We discuss potential hurdles to come and technologies that are likely to...

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Looking Back on 2021, Eric Hess – E60

This week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy is dedicated to looking back at some of the conversations throughout the year and discussing the developments in blockchain since each one...

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Why Bermuda Got Crypto Right! Natalie Neto, Walkers Bermuda- E59

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Natalie Neto, Partner at Walkers Bermuda. With extensive experience advising firms throughout fintech, Natalie talks to us about her experience...

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Why Bermuda Got Crypto Right! Natalie Neto, Walkers Bermuda – E59

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Natalie Neto, Partner at Walkers Bermuda. With extensive experience advising firms throughout fintech, Natalie talks to us about her experience...

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What’s in Your NFT? Ben Lakoff and Sam Casey, Charged Particles – E58

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guests are Ben Lakoff and Sam Casey from Charged Particles. They join us to discuss use cases with the protocol and Charged...

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The Truths and Myths of Cooperatives – Greg Brodsky, Founder of Start.Coop – E57

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Greg Brodsky, founder of Start.Coop. Greg joins us to discuss worker cooperatives and Start.Coop’s mission to empower entrepreneurs by supporting...

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The Truths and Myths of Cooperatives. Greg Brodsky, Founder of Start.Coop – E57

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Greg Brodsky, founder of Start.Coop. Greg joins us to discuss worker cooperatives and Start.Coop’s mission to empower entrepreneurs by supporting...

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The Fork in the Road for DeFi – Lewis Cohen, Founder of DLx Law – E56

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Lewis Cohen, founder of DLx Law. Lewis’ numerous contributions to the blockchain community show his valued perspective in the digital...

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The Fork in the Road for DeFi. Lewis Cohen, DLx Law – E56

This week on The Encrypted Economy, our guest is Lewis Cohen, founder of DLx Law. Lewis’ numerous contributions to the blockchain community show his valued perspective in the digital...

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Are DAO’s and Cooperatives a Good Fit? Linda Phillips, Yev Muchnik and Jacqueline Radebaugh, JR Wiener PC – E55

This week on The Encrypted Economy, we have Linda Phillips, Yev Muchnik, and Jacqueline Radebaugh of Jason Weiner P.C. With ample experience advising organizations as they transition their business...

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What Is FATF’s Latest on Virtual Assets? Michael Mosier, Former FinCen Acting Director and Stealth Project Team Member – E54

This week on The Encrypted Economy,  we have Michael Mossier, former FinCEN acting director and stealth project team member. As an expert in financial developments with a strong background...

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Privacy Tech, Data, and Nuclear Waste. Dan Bogdanov, Head of R&D at Cybernetica -E53

This week on The Encrypted Economy, we are joined again by Dan Bogdanov, Director of the Information Security Institute at Cybernetica and the Co-Inventor of Sharemind. With a Ph.D....

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What Should Law’s Role Be in Social Media? Vasant Dhar, Professor NYU Stern & Center for Data Science – E52

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Vasant Dhar, Professor at NYU Stern and Center for Data Science. As an expert in digital transformation and artificial intelligence,...

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SPDI’s, Crypto Banking, and DAO’s in Wyoming – Matt Kaufman, Partner at Hathaway & Kunz – E51

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Matt Kaufman, Partner at Hathaway & Kunz, LLP.  Matt has experience working with Wyoming’s ENDOW and helping draft Wyoming’s DAO...

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What Proof of Human Existence Can Do – Victor Paradigm, Founder of Humanode – E50

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Victor, Founder of Humanode.  At a high level Humanode can prove the identity of users through a novel authentication schemes...

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How Are Crypto Funds Regulated In The U.S.? Greg Xethalis, General Counsel for Multicoin Capital – E49

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Greg Xethalis, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Multicoin Capital. Being involved with the legal side of the cryptosphere...

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Estonia: The Birth of a Digital Country. Dan Bogdanov, Head of R&D at Cybernetica – E48

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Dan Bogdanov, Director of the Information Security Institute at Cybernetica and the Co-Inventor of Sharemind. With a Ph.D. in Informatics...

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Can Hyperledger Make the World a Better Place? Nancy Min, Chair of Hyperledger’s Social Impact Group and Founder of Ecolong, LLC – E47

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Nancy Min, Chair of Hyperledger’s Social Impact Group and Founder of Ecolong, LLC. With extensive experience in the technology space,...

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When Does Code Defer to Law? Andrew Hinkes, Partner at K&L Gates – E46

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Drew Hinkes, Partner at K&L Gates and Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern and NYU School of Law. With extensive legal...

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How Congress Got Tax Reporting Laws Wrong. Abraham Sutherland, Founder of Saker Group – E45

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Abraham Sutherland, Founder of Saker Group and Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.  With expertise in...

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Why Isn’t There More Hype about Hyperledger? Matt Zand, Author of Hands-On Smart Contract Development With Hyperledger Fabric

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Matt Zand, Author of Hands-On Smart Contract Development With Hyperledger Fabric. With expertise in Hyperledger Fabric and private distributed ledger...

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Crypto Politics & the Regulation of Swaps: Christine Parker, Partner at Reed Smith LLP – E43

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Christine Parker, Partner at Reed Smith. As an accomplished attorney with expertise in regulatory, enforcement, and transactional matters relating to...

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NFT’s: You Get What You Get and You Don’t Get Upset, Nelson Rosario, Principal at Smolinski Rosario Law – E42

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Nelson Rosario, Partner at Smolinski Law. As an accomplished attorney with expertise in the cross section of digital assets and...

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Jack Lu and Weija Zhang, Wanchain: How to Bridge across 10,000 Blockchains – E41

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guests are Jack Lu and Weijia Zhang, CEO and VP of Engineering at Wanchain. Wanchain provides solutions for the connectivity problem inhibiting...

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DAO’s and the Social Graph: Jenil Thakker, CEO of Coinvise – E40

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Jenil Thakker, CEO of Coinvise. Coinvise is dedicated to the creation of Ethereum-based financial infrastructures for personal and community-owned capital....

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Jonathan Wu, Crypto Analyst: What Makes a Stablecoin Stable?

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is crypto analyst Jonathan Wu. With skills gained through a decade of consulting, private equity, and founding organizations in several different...

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Uri Klarman, CEO of bloXroute: Layer Zero and the Need for Speed

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Uri Klarman, CEO of bloXroute Labs. BloXroute Labs is a layer zero solution to the scalability issues that inhibit blockchain’s...

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Eric Hess, What Is the SEC Signaling to DAO’s? – E37

This week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy is dedicated to the discussion of the current legal environment and relevant news regarding decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations...

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Thomas Attema, Cryptography Scientist at TNO: Privacy Tech At Work In The Kingdom – E36

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Research Scientist Thomas Attema, a cryptographer from the Netherlands-based applied research institute TNO. TNO works to bridge the gap between...

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Chris Rodriguez, Somos Ancestria & Daniel Uribe, Genobank.io: Building a Latino Genome Bank through NFT’s

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guests are Daniel Uribe, CEO of Genobank and Christian Rodriguez, CTO of Somos Ancestria. Genobank and Somos Ancestria work together to ensure...

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Riana Pfefferkorn, Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory: Is Encryption Safe from the Law?

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Riana Pfefferkorn, Research Scholar at Stanford’s Internet Observatory Lab. Stanford Internet Observatory is a cross-disciplinary program dedicated to studying the...

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Richard Yan: COO, Vite Labs & The Blockchain Debate Host: How Do You Scale Proof of Stake?

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Richard Yan, COO of Vite Labs. Vite Labs is a technology company that seeks to innovate decentralized systems and create...

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Dave Jevans, CEO of CipherTrace, Can Crypto Can Clear AML’s Hurdles?

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Dave Jevans, CEO of CipherTrace. CipherTrace was founded in 2015 and provides anti-money laundering compliance solutions to the world of...

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Jeanine Hightower and Corey Wendling, Atomyze:  Time To Tokenize The Commodities Markets

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guests are Jeanine Hightower-Selitto and Corey Wendling, CEO and CTO of Atomyze LLC. Atomyze utilizes blockchain technologies to revolutionize the commodities marketplace,...

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James Putra, Crypto Strategy, Tradestation: Who Is Going to Add Digital Assets on Their Balance Sheet?

Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms!  Twitter   LinkedIn   Instagram   Facebook   This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is James Putra, Vice President...

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Sasa Milic: How to Improve Data for Smart Contracts

Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms!  Twitter  LinkedIn  Instagram  Facebook  This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Sasa Milic, a Co-Founder of API3. API3 is...

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Marc Boiron, General Counsel for DeFi Protocol dYdX, What Cryptolaw Is Talking About Now

Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms!  Twitter  LinkedIn  Instagram  Facebook  This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Marc Boiron, General Counsel for dYdX. Marc has...

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Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama.ai: How End To End Encryption is Coming To AI and The Internet

Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms! Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Facebook This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Rand Hindi, the CEO of Zama.AI. Any previous...

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Mark Wetjen, CEO of MIAX Futures: Adapting To Disruption Through Digital Asset History

Follow The Encrypted Economy! Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Facebook This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Mark Wetjen, the CEO of MIAX Futures. Mark’s career in finance has...

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Reuben Bramanathan, IDEO CoLab Ventures: Social Tokens, Personal Tokens and NFTs

Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms! Twitter  LinkedIn  Instagram  Facebook  This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Reuben Bramanathan. Reuben is a true innovator in...

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Shari Noonan, CEO of Rialto Markets: Creating an SEC Regulated Marketplace for Securitized Tokens

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Shari Noonan, the CEO, and Co-Founder of Rialto Markets. Rialto is a registered Broker-Dealer, operating an Alternative Trading...

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Nigel Smart, Founder of Unbound Security: Divorces and Enterprise Cryptography, The Perfect Match

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Nigel Smart, a Co-Founder of Unbound Security and Professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Nigel’s reputation as a...

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Scott Purcell, CEO of Prime Trust on Empowering Fintech Innovation with Infrastructure Solutions

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Scott Purcell, the Founder, and CEO of Prime Trust. Despite the industry-shaping disruption that Prime Trust has brought to financial...

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Special Epsiode: The Encrypted Economy, Looking Ahead

This episode of The Encrypted Economy is a unique one, coming to you outside our normal publishing schedule.  We will still air our weekly interview with a new guest...

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Nick Neuman, CEO of Casa: On Safeguarding The Crypto Wallet

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest in Nick Neuman, the CEO of Casa. Nick’s company provides a one-of-a-kindprivate key management platform aimed atthe self-custody of Bitcoin. Casa...

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Kevin McCarthy, VP of Business Development at Inpher: On Secret Computing

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Kevin McCarthy, Vice President of Business Development at Inpher. Inpher is another major player in the privacy enhancing technologies (PETs)...

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Donna Redel, NY Angels Board Member & Digital Asset Professor on Investing in Disruptive Technologies

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Donna Redel. She is an Angel Investor on the board of New York Angels, and an Adjunct Professor of Law...

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John Verry, Founder of Pivot Point Security: A New Cybersecurity Standard Is Emerging and Is Here To Stay

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is John Verry. John is the Founder of Pivot Point Security, as well as the host of his own podcast called...

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John Verry, Founder of Pivot Point Security: A New Cybersecurity Standard Is Emerging and Is Here To Stay – E17

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is John Verry. John is the Founder of Pivot Point Security, as well as the host of his own podcast called...

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Matt Hougan: Allocating To Digital Assets, Bitcoin ETF and The First Ever DeFi Index Fund

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Matt Hougan, the CIO of Bitwise Asset Management. Bitwise was founded in 2017 and brought investors the first cryptocurrency index...

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Matt Hougan, CIO of Bitwise: Allocating To Digital Assets, Bitcoin ETF and The First DeFi Index Fund – E16

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Matt Hougan, the CIO of Bitwise Asset Management. Bitwise was founded in 2017 and brought investors the first cryptocurrency index...

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Igor Mezic, CTO of MixMode: Simplifying AI, What’s Old Is New

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Igor Mezic, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbra, and the CTO of MixMode.AI. Igor is a leading innovator on a methodology known...

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Igor Mezic, CTO of MixMode: Simplifying AI, What’s Old Is New – E15

On this week's episode of The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Igor Mezic, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbra, and the CTO of MixMode.AI. Igor is...

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Ellison Anne Williams, CEO of Enveil, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Make Entirely New Things Possible

This week on The Encrypted Economy my guest is Ellison Anne Williams, the founder and CEO of Enveil, a Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) start-up. She founded the company in 2016 after spending 12 years at the NSA studying the technologies...

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Ellison Anne Williams, CEO of Enveil, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Make Entirely New Things Possible – E14

This week on The Encrypted Economy my guest is Ellison Anne Williams, the founder and CEO of Enveil, a Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) start-up. She founded the company in...

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Gary DeWaal, Counsel to Katten Muchin, on Digital Asset Regulation, XRP and DeFi (S1, E13)

This week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy features Gary DeWaal, Special Counsel to Katten Muchen and former Senior Trial Attorney for the CFTC. With former CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler...

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Kurt Rohloff, Co-Founder, Duality Technologies – My Mission to Make Homomorphic Encryption Boring (S1, E12)

In this episode of the Encrypted Economy, we talk with Kurt Rohloff , Co-founder and CTO of Duality Technologies and one of the pioneers in the homomorphic encryption space....

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John Pigott, CEO, ABE Global on Innovating Capital Markets with Auctions and Distributed Ledgers (S1, E11)

This week on the Encrypted Economy, our guest is John Pigott, CEO of ABE Global. ABE is an acronym for A Better Exchange, which is exactly what John has...

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Paul Clayson, CEO of Agile PQ, Securing Today’s IOT Devices Against Tomorrow’s Post Quantum Cyber Attacks (S1, E10)

On this week’s episode of the Encrypted Economy, I talked to Paul Clayson, CEO of Agile PQ. Paul has a long and impressive career which includes serving as Chief of...

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Paul Clayson, CEO of Agile PQ, on Securing Today’s IOT Devices and Protecting Against Tomorrow’s Post Quantum Cyber Attacks – E10

On this week’s episode of the Encrypted Economy, I talked to Paul Clayson, CEO of Agile PQ. Paul has a long and impressive career which includes serving as Chief...

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Dyann Heward Mills, EU Commission’s Privacy Ethics Expert, On Evolving Regulations & Bias In Technology (S1, E9)

This week on the Encrypted Economy, my guest is Dyann Heward Mills. Named by Business Insider as one of 28 Power Players driving data policy in the EU, Dyann’s...

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Eric Hess, On Where The Encrypted Economy Has Been And Where it Will Go in 2021 (S1, E8)

This episode of the Encrypted Economy is the last of 2020. In it, I take the time to review our first run of episodes and discuss the future of...

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Felix Shipkevich on Regulating Virtual Currencies and Why it is So Difficult to Open a Money Services Business in the US (S1 E7)

On the latest episode of the Encrypted Economy, I was excited to talk to Felix Shipkevich of Shipkevich Law. Felix is an expert in commodities regulation and money services...

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Matt Walsh, Cofounder of Castle Island Ventures on Investing in the Disruptive Technologies (S1, E6)

On this episode of the Encrypted Economy, I was excited to have Matt Walsh, the co-founder of Castle Island Ventures, and co-host of the On the Brink podcast on...

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Cutting Edge Advances In Data Science – Secure Multiparty Computation (S1, E5)

This week in the Encrypted Economy explore the foundations of how the ability to secure data fundamentally changes the very economics of our society and the business, legal and...

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Travis Schwab CEO of Eventus on Market Surveillance for Centralized Digital Asset Markets (S1, E4)

Travis Schwab, CEO of Eventus on Market Surveillance for Centralized Digital Asset Markets In this episode of the Encrypted Economy, I spoke with Travis Schwab, CEO and Founder of...

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David Harris, Co-Founder of Manetu on Protecting Personal Data Privacy with Greater Transparency and Control (S1, E3)

In our third episode of the Encrypted Economy, we spoke with David Harris, co-founder of Mantenu, a consumer friendlily platform for streamlining enterprise management and compliance. David discussed how...

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Joel Revill, CEO of Two Ocean Trust on Becoming a “Qualified Custodian” for Digital Assets in Wyoming (S1, E2)

In this podcast, I spoke with Joel Revill Founder and CEO of Two Ocean Trust, a Wyoming Chartered Trust Company offering wealth management services to high-net-worth individuals and family...

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Eric Hess, Host on what is the Encrypted Economy (S1, E1)

This is the first episode of “The Encrypted Economy” where Eric Hess, your host, answers the what, why and who questions around this new weekly podcast show focusing on...

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