The Smart Economy Podcast: Real-World Blockchain Applications with Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Dr. Wendy Charles, CSO of BurstIQ. Topics include her background in health policy and compliance, how blockchain technology improves health industry practices, the increasing rights individuals have over their health data, how COVID changed healthcare appointments, the growing changes in how organizations and governments view blockchain, and more!Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Danielle Wall Elliott, COO of Nayms. Topics include her background and time at ShapeShift, the decentralization of ShapeShift as a corporation, how the cryptocurrency space has changed since 2014, the insurance industry becoming more digital, the types of clients Nayms seeks to insure first, the inclusivity cryptocurrency inherently offers, and more!Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Odd Røland and Adrian Fjellberg, lead maintainers of Flamingo Finance. Topics include their background in Web 2, the shifting mindsets people have in their relationships with finance, cross-chain and other features on Flamingo's roadmap, the FLUND staking token, how meme coins can activate an ecosystem, and more!Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Psykeeper, the founder of Saffron Finance. Discussion topics include trade-offs of being an anonymous founder, his outlook on DeFi's opportunities and constraints, preferences for building in bear markets, multi-asset tranching systems, using stablecoin yield for insurance funds, and more!Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Snake Plissken, the Chief Administrative Officer at Elk Finance. Discussion topics include how the DeFi platform achieves cross-chain interoperability, Elk Finance’s impermanent loss protection, the types of contracts it deploys, using NFTs for access to cross-chain proxy token services, and more!Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with William Song, founder of Lyrebird. Topics discussed include Terra’s collapse and how it changed his perception of “defending the peg,” how Lyrebird will adapt and potentially move forward with a fractionally backed stablecoin, the importance of using yield-generating assets for collateral in the Bowerbird lending protocol, using Neo’s native oracle network, and more!Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Andrew Redden, a founding member of PleasrDAO. Discussion topics include his background as a developer in the ETH ecosystem, his perspective on what DAOs are, what one should consider when championing a proposal in a DAO, the process and emotions of purchasing items at auction, and more!Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Yev Muchnik, founder of Launch Legal. The pair discuss her journey into the legal field and blockchain, the differences between projects in bull and bear markets, the various types of DAOs Yev has advised, participating in DAOs related to humanitarian efforts and employee services, DAO tooling, the future of DAOs, and more!Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Claude Müller and Guil Machado, Senior Software Engineers at AxLabs. The trio discussed their open-source code philosophy, the thought processes that went into the development of the GrantShares DAO, how individuals can propose projects for DAO funding, the project proposal life cycle, and more!Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest

Episode Notes In the inaugural episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Jon ShapeShift, co-founder and former COO of the ShapeShift exchange. The pair discuss ShapeShift's decision to shut down as a corporate entity and migrate entirely to a DAO model.Did you enjoy this episode? Check out these other great guests:Tomasz Stańczak - Ethereum FoundationDavid Hoffman - BanklessFisher Yu - Babylon LabsAlexei Zamyatin - BOBSid Powell - Maple FinanceAnd many others!ATTENTION all blockchain, crypto, and Web3 professionals! If you're a founder, CEO, or expert doing something innovative in this space, we're interested in speaking to you! Apply to be a guest on our platform and connect with our vibrant community of blockchain professionals:  https://bit.ly/SEP-guest