IDEAS Week

Learn directly from entrepreneurs innovating across digital assets, Web3, blockchain and the metaverse.

IDEAS Week

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Casper Labs Has Its Sights Set on Enterprise

Mrinal Manohar, the CEO and co-founder of Casper Labs, believes most current blockchain offerings are insufficient for enterprise needs. He aims to change this.

Casper Labs CEO Mrinal Manohar (Casper Labs)

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Lit Protocol: Public Key Infrastructure for a Decentralized World

Lit Protocol's David Sneider, a presenter at the CoinDesk I.D.E.A.S. conference, wants to decentralize public key cryptography.

David Sneider

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dClimate: Smart Contracts for the Warming World

dClimate’s Sid Jha, a speaker at CoinDesk’s IDEAS conference, is a decentralized marketplace for climate-related data.

(Sid Jha)

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How Jump Crypto Is Supporting Web3 Projects Across the DeFi Ecosystem

Steve Kaminsky, who works in special projects at the firm, shares how Jump Crypto is helping Pyth in its efforts to solve the oracle problem.

Steve Kaminsky (LinkedIn)

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Everyrealm Eyes Communities of Scale in the Metaverse

Everyrealm, a speaker at CoinDesk's IDEAS event, started by investing in metaverse real estate. Now that's only a small part of its portfolio.

(Janine Yorio/Everyrealm)

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‘No Central Points of Failure’: Sunny Aggarwal on ATOM 2.0, Mesh Networks and Cosmos’ Future

The Osmosis founder discusses Cosmos' long-term vision ahead of CoinDesk's I.D.E.A.S. conference.

(Sunny Aggarwal, modified by CoinDesk)

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DIMO Helps Drivers Gain and Monetize Their Car Data

Co-founder Andy Chatham explains how the open-source, decentralized project wants to help drivers tap into the valuable car data market.

Andy Chatham

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Investing in Web3: Culture and Entertainment

A simple strategy for where to put your money is to search among your passions, hobbies and obsessions.

(GDarts/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

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DeFi for the Masses

Valentin Pletnev of Quasar Finance wants to democratize access to sophisticated transactions in decentralized finance.

Valentin Pletnev CEO Quasar Finance (QuasarFi)

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Reuniting Borrowers and Lenders on Defi

Morpho is an Ethereum application bringing peer-to-peer to lending to protocols like such as Aave and Compound. Paul Frambot is the co-founder.

(Paul Frambot)