Blockchain Chatter Dexter Cousins

In episode 4 of Blockchain Chatter Dexter Cousins chats to Shane Verner from Fireblocks.

Shane shares the amazing story of Fireblocks, a tech startup who got to $100m ARR in record time (only Slack has accomplished this feat faster than Fireblocks!)

Dexter asks Shane why an Israeli based Blockchain business sees Australia as such an important market.

And they talk about some of the ground breaking work Fireblocks is doing in the Australian market.

Shane has spent many years in the banking technology sector working for companies like Thought Machine, IBM and Cisco. He shares his insights on how blockchain and digital assets are the future of the banking industry.

About Fireblocks

Fireblocks is an enterprise-grade platform delivering a secure infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets.

Fireblocks enables exchanges, lending desks, custodians, banks, trading desks, and hedge funds to securely scale digital asset operations through the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure.

Fireblocks serves over 1,600 financial institutions, has secured the transfer of over $3 trillion in digital assets and has a unique insurance policy that covers assets in storage & transit.

Some of the biggest trading desks have switched to Fireblocks because it's the only solution that CISOs and Ops Teams both love.

For more information, please visit www.fireblocks.com [http://www.fireblocks.com/].

In episode 3 of Blockchain Chatter, Dexter Cousins is joined by Ryan McCall, CEO of Zerocap.

They're an Australian Blockchain business building Digital asset investment products and technology for wholesale and institutional investors.

Ryan is responsible for driving the company forward to realise Zerocap's vision: zero friction, borderless finance.

2022 was a HUGE year for Zerocap. In addition to winning multiple industry awards, they launched Australia's first stable coin (in partnership with ANZ) and are partnering with ASX to build a digital asset trading and custody platform.

About Ryan McCall
As a self-taught software engineer, Ryan has worked around financial services since 2006, having designed and delivered complex risk and pricing engines for international insurance and wealth management companies including Marsh, Willis, IAG, Findex, Hyperion and Generation Life.

About Zerocap
Founded in 2016, Zerocap is a market-leading private wealth management firm for digital assets. Zerocap brings a deep understanding of digital asset technology, trading, portfolio optimisation, custody and insurance, having processed over a billion dollars of digital assets for investors, institutions and family offices.

Find out more https://zerocap.com or email Careers@zerocap.com
 

Blockchain Chatter is presented by Tier One People, leaders in Fintech Executive Search.

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In episode 002 of Blockchain Chatter, Dexter Cousins is joined by David Engel, Head of Business Development for Starkware, a Layer 2 scaling solution that helps companies build on top of Ethereum while reducing the cost of doing so by up to 1000x.

About David Engel
David is a business development executive, with deep experience in accelerating the growth of Web3 and Fintech companies.

Prior to StarkWare, David was a Fintech BDM at AWS, in both the ANZ and EMEA markets from 2019-2022.

David has also been a Commercial Director for the Australian and New Zealand markets for Verrency, a fintech platform that allows card issuers to innovate faster, and at scale, as well as Australian Country Manager for i2c, a Silicon Valley-based cloud payments processor.

Follow David on Twitter: @davidengel79

About Starkware
StarkWare is paving the way to a Web3 future, using uncheatable cryptographic technology to scale blockchain for mass adoption.

StarkEx, StarkWare's SaaS-based scaling service, has settled over $770B, processed over 294M transactions, minted more than 90M NFTs, and serves hundreds of thousands of users monthly through customers like ImmutableX, dYdX and Sorare.

StarkNet, a permissionless, general-purpose scaling solution, is live (Alpha) on Ethereum Mainnet. Developers from across the world are using it to build tomorrow's decentralized applications.

Starkware: https://starkware.co/
Starkex: https://starkware.co/starkex/
Starknet: https://starkware.co/starknet/

Blockchain Chatter is presented by Tier One People, leaders in Fintech Executive Search.

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Welcome to Fintech Chatter presented by Tier One People.

Each fortnight Dexter Cousins chats with Blockchain leaders about their journey, the big problem they are trying to solve and the lessons they have learned along the way.

In episode 001 Dexter is joined by Chloe White of Genesis Block.

Chloe is Blockchain Leader of the year and has worked directly on blockchain policy since April 2018. Chloe joins us to talk about the current state of the industry following last week's collapse of FTX.

Can the industry regroup or does this spell the end?

What lessons can we draw from the GFC and where might there be new opportunities in the future?

What role do regulators play now and how do we educate the public and regulators on the nuance of our industry?

Find out more about Genesis Block - https://genesisblock.com.au/

It seems a little crazy to start a blockchain podcast the week after the FTX collapse! 

So why have we done it? 

It has never been more important to provide a platform for the builders in this space. 
Too much attention and focus has been given to crypto influencers and noise makers. 

Blockchain Chatter aims to cut through the noise and give the industry's outstanding leaders the opportunity to talk about their businesses, the big problem they solve and how Blockchain and emerging technology can become the operating system of a fairer, safer, and more efficient world.

Blockchain Chatter is presented by Tier One People, leaders in Fintech Executive Search.

Connect with Dexter - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dextercousins/

Find out more - https://tieronepeople.com/

Fintech Chatter Podcast - http://fintechchatter.com