by Justin O'Connell | March 11, 2020 | Blockchains, Venture Capital | 0 Comments

Framework Ventures invests in the decentralized finance space, which is a niche in the blockchain industry focused on decentralizing finance.  "If we think about decentralized finance requiring either a pool of liquidity or a pool of capital,  there's...

by Justin O'Connell | March 2, 2020 | Wax | 0 Comments

WAX founder William Quigley is a big believer in Ethereum. He invested in the crowd sale, and decided to build the beta version of WAX on Ethereum. It's not perfect for everything, he says. “Ethereum does a lot of things well, but it doesn't do small dollar amount,...

by Justin O'Connell | February 26, 2020 | Komodo | 0 Comments

Komodo CTO Kadan Stadelmann has been doing this stuff most of his life. His background is in IT, engineering, and software development. He comes particularly from an OpSec and DevSec background, before he started actively engaging and researching the cryptographic...

by Justin O'Connell | February 18, 2020 | Bitcoin | 0 Comments

Trace Mayer has a long history in the Bitcoin industry. As an investor, Mayer he has backed well-known Bitcoin companies, including BitPay, Armory, and Kraken. He’s well-read in Austrian economics, and has degrees in law and accounting. Mayer’s first foray into the...

by Justin O'Connell | January 30, 2020 | Programming | 0 Comments

After his mathematician mom gave him an HTML book, Ivan Liljeqvist of Ivan on Tech read it over and over. “I remember very clearly there was a chapter about the objects and classes in C++,” he said. “I didn't understand how it worked and why it worked. So I just kept...

by Justin O'Connell | January 26, 2020 | Banking, Enterprise | 0 Comments

Chris Dean, CEO of Treasury Prime, knows bank technology. “Most [banking technology] is firmly planted in the 1980s,” he told me. “Very old. Most of the existing systems are not evolved. If you look at a Bancorp, for instance, it is pretty much the same technology...

by Justin O'Connell | January 17, 2020 | Hedera | 0 Comments

Lionel Chocron, Chief Product Officer at Hedera Hashgraph, began building three to five years ago at Oracle a portfolio of private ledger cloud solutions for large companies. Customers at Oracle were adopting blockchain technology quicker than they were adopting AI...

by Justin O'Connell | January 5, 2020 | MakerDAO | 0 Comments

The MakerDAO stablecoin, DAI, is pegged to the $1 US Dollar, not by holding US dollar reserves in a bank account equivalent to the amount of tokens in the system like the stablecoin Tether, but, rather, by holding in a smart contract collateralized assets, such as...

by Justin O'Connell | December 23, 2019 | Enterprise | 0 Comments

PG&E’s self-proclaimed ‘Blockheads’, who were assigned to investigate how to implement blockchain into PG&E’s business, chose the California low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) as an initial testing ground. PG&E choose LCFS, which has about 250-300 active...

by Justin O'Connell | November 16, 2019 | Stellar | 0 Comments

During CoinAgenda at Las Vegas Blockchain Week 2019, Michael Terpin and Jed McCaleb chatted fireside about the state of Stellar, a value-transfer network that strives to be a faster and cheaper way to send money.  During the discussion, Mr. Terpin, who leads the...