035: NASDAQ is Quietly Dominating Blockchain – with Johan Toll
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Release Date: 02/07/2019
046: Ethereum 2.0 – with Lane Rettig
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Lane Retting works at the Ethereum Foundation. He is a hacker and polyglot with an affinity for East Asian languages.
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045: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 4/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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044: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 3/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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043: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 2/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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042: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 1/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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041: Decentralization-as-a-Service – with Blockdaemon’s Konstantin Richter
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Konstantin Richter is the Co-Founder & CEO of Blockdaemon. He is a serial software entrepreneur and has also held senior-level positions at prominent firms such as Nokia and Deutsche Telekom.
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040: The New Blockchain Business Model – with Nodesmith’s Brendan Lee
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Brendan Lee is the CEO & Co-Founder of Nodesmith. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science, and has spent much of his career building developer platforms.
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039: The Bunz App Takes Canada by Storm – with Sascha Mojtahedi
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Sascha Mojtahedi is the CEO of Bunz. The Bunz App uses its BTZ token to facilitate peer-to-peer bartering and purchases, while also compensating users for interacting with partner brands.
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038: ICOs are Dead. Introducing STOs – with Swarm’s Philipp Pieper
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Philipp Pieper is the CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm. He discovered decentralized technologies and Blockchain after an encounter with the founder of BitTorrent.
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037: The Ultimate Cryptocurrency Tax Solution – with TaxToken’s Michael Foland
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Michael Foland is the President and Co-Founder of TaxToken. His mission is to make TaxToken, “the ultimate cryptocurrency tax solution.”
info_outlineJohan Toll is an Associate VP and leads Nasdaq’s blockchain efforts. He received the prestigious "FinTech person of the Year" award from the Financial Technologies Forum in 2018. Johan is also a renowned blockchain thought-leader and frequent speaker and panelist.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Nasdaq is not just a stock market company, but a full-fledged FinTech firm
- We go over how Nasdaq started experimenting with blockchain back in 2012, and how they created Nasdaq Linq, a blockchain-powered private share issuance platform that they used to become the first organization in the world to issue actual company shares on a blockchain in 2015
- We also explore Nasdaq CEO, Adena Friedman’s statement, that Nasdaq is open to becoming a cryptocurrency exchange