Blockchain
Here’s Why Web3 Needs Women
Host Joel Flynn takes a deep dive into why better awareness is needed to persuade women into blockchain careers. That story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

Web3 Infrastructure Firm Blocknative Raises $15M for Ethereum Block Building Market
The funding round was led by Blockchain Capital, Foundry Group and several other venture capital firms.

Web3 Community Platform Console Launches Beta to Fix 'Broken' Social Networks
The decentralized, privacy-forward startup hopes to address the challenges Web3 communities face on other social networks like spam, bots and reckless crypto shilling.

Maple Finance Announces Major Upgrade, Stops Lending on Solana
Blockchain-based lending platform Maple Finance unveiled a major protocol overhaul in an attempt to improve on shortcomings highlighted by a spate of recent loan defaults after being hit with the FTX fallout. Maple Finance CEO Sid Powell discusses the upgrade and state of crypto lending in the wake of FTX's collapse.

Australia Moves to Tighten Safety Around Crypto in 2023
Australia's Treasury has invited feedback for a consultation paper that will include a framework for regulating crypto service providers.

Investing in Digital Assets That Drive Structural Change
RadicalxChange Foundation's President Matthew Prewitt joins I.D.E.A.S. 2022 to discuss the issues around existing forms of money from dollars to bitcoins and how blockchain could potentially solve those issues with the creation of new digital asset classes and identity structures.

Update on Crypto Investments in the Private Market
Joseph Borda, SVP and Head of Americas Research and Data Operations at Preqin, joins I.D.E.A.S. 2022 with an update on crypto activities in the private equity market including VC deal flows and hedge fund asset flows targeted towards blockchain and crypto.

Recreating Hollywood on the Blockchain
Story DAO's Co-Founders Justin Alanís and J.P Alanis join I.D.E.A.S. 2022 to reveal how the current Hollywood business model makes it the most creator-unfriendly environment in history, and how Story DAO utilizes Web3 and blockchain technologies to solve the industry’s problems.

Casper's Ralf Kubli on Blockchain’s Role in the Future of Finance
The Casper Association's Board Member Ralf Kubli joins I.D.E.A.S. 2022 to discuss the tokenized future of finance and why all financial contracts will be stored in blockchain-enabled environments. While CasperLabs' CEO and Co-Founder Mrinal Manohar joins I.D.E.A.S. 2022 to present on the current issues in the blockchain industry and why institutional adoption of blockchain hasn't happened yet.


