DeCent People
Conversations with the builders, visionaries and founders who are making the blockchain-based web3 world a reality.
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Raullen Chai is the Co-Founder and CEO of IoTeX, a modular Web3 infrastructure platform connecting smart devices and real-world data to blockchains. We spoke about the ongoing advances in what's now called DePIN, or decentralized physical infrastructure networks. A great DePIN project is Helium, a mobile phone provider
Jacqueline Burns Koven is the Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Chainalysis where she works with law enforcement, financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, and cybersecurity companies and is a member of the Ransomware Taskforce. Prior to joining Chainalysis, she served in the U.S. Intelligence Community. Sh
Jim is the co-founder of Catalyst, a cross-chain protocol that is going into testing mode in a few months. He was previously held product roles at Aave, Unstoppable Domains and Ripple. We spoke about his childhood in Chicago and then San Diego, California and how a love an early desire to go into education tech eventua
Dan O’Prey is Bakkt’s Chief Product Officer, Crypto. He most recently served as Chief Strategy Officer as part of the executive team at Digital Asset, where he was responsible for defining the corporate strategy and aligning the top-level product strategy. Bakkt is the crypto futures exchange that delivers actual coins
An art professor for twenty years, Jeff Davis is a generative artist and now Chief Creative Officer at Art Blocks. Seeking greater precision in his artwork, in 1999, he began to use design software to explore structures and colors to create digital art. Since then, he's been inspired by the use of technology for creati
Tim McCourt has served as CME Group’s Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Financial and OTC Products since June 2023. He is responsible for leading the development and execution of the company’s global interest rate, equity index, foreign exchange, OTC, cryptocurrency and alternative investment product strategies.