Sunday Mar 26, 2023
E15 - Steve Vallas on Aligning Blockchain Incentives in Asia Pacific
Steve Vallas is the managing director of Blockchain APAC, previous CEO of Blockchain Australia, and an all around Linkedin Wizard.
Steve came to Auckland to meet with industry discussing aligning incentives and shared interests between Australia and New Zealand.
In this conversation we touch on the scam narrative within crypto, how it has affected the nft space, and crytpo marketing, and of course regulation and where we're at in Asia Pacific.
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Timestamps:
01:30 Southern Hemisphere Perspectives
10:26 ICO hangover & NFTs
20:35 supply chains
24:40 nftFestAus
29:39 crypto marketing bros
34:41 regulation
41:14 lessons from Singapore
48:41 stablecoins
52:57 blockchain orgs
55:52 fin
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Some notes from the show:
- doodles pivot https://www.fastcompany.com/90783396/doodles-domination-how-a-1-year-old-nft-project-turned-into-the-next-big-thing
- opensea https://opensea.io/
- magiceden https://magiceden.io/
- blur https://blur.io/
- starkware https://starkware.co/
- nftfest aus https://nftfest.com.au/
- MiCA European Crypto Assets https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-mica-crypto-regulation-is-a-balancing-act-paris-blockchain-week-2023
- BIS's Carstens says fiat has lost https://insidebitcoins.com/news/bis-head-crypto-has-lost-the-battle-against-fiat-currencies
- Singapore crypto ad restrictions https://archive.ph/FKD5Y
- Singapore's Regulatory Sandbox https://www.mas.gov.sg/development/fintech/regulatory-sandbox
Contact Steve:
- Twitter https://twitter.com/stevevallas
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevevallas/
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Recorded at blockheight 781595. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
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