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Payments Innovation Across Fintech & Web3 with Fabric Ventures

Payments Innovation Across Fintech & Web3 with Fabric Ventures

Anil Hansjee is a General Partner at Fabric, a UK-based blockchain VC. Prior to joining Fabric, Anil ran Corporate Development EMEA at Google and then led PayPal Ventures in that region. He has tremendous experience investing in fintech and payments at the venture, strategic and angel levels. In this conversation,

Competing to Win as an Emerging L1 Blockchain with NEAR

Competing to Win as an Emerging L1 Blockchain with NEAR

Recently, we wrote a deep dive analysis of NEAR Protocol, an emerging L1 blockchain, available to Premium subscribers. Today, we're releasing a conversation with Marieke Flament, CEO of the NEAR Foundation. NEAR is an emerging layer 1 blockchain specifically optimized for usability, along with speed and security. NEAR

Deep Dive: NEAR Protocol

Deep Dive: NEAR Protocol

Setting the Scene Before digging into NEAR specifically, let's start with the higher level question of how L1s should be evaluated. NEAR isn't a company or a platform, it's an open source protocol and developer community. How should we think about its potential and

Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney

Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney

Mike Cagney is the Co-Founder and CEO of Figure, a full stack financial services blockchain company with consumer offerings in market or on the way in lending, banking and more. In late-2019, Figure raised $103 million at a $1.2 billion valuation and continues to grow. Prior to starting Figure,

Libra, Stablecoins, CBDCs and the Need for Digital Money

Libra, Stablecoins, CBDCs and the Need for Digital Money

Today, we’re joined by Lex Sokolin to discuss recent developments in digital money, including stablecoins, CBDCs and a new Facebook Libra proposal. A digital world needs digital money, and a few influential players are actively working to build it. China’s BSN initiative and Facebook’s Libra embody the

Real World Blockchain Implementations with R3

Real World Blockchain Implementations with R3

Richard Gendal Brown is the CTO of R3, an enterprise blockchain company backed by a number of high profile strategic investors. R3 has been working on its Corda platform since the early days of blockchain mania, and is now actively supporting projects and implementations in syndicated lending, trade settlement, supply

Live-Streamed Blockchain Panel (November 8, 2017)

Live-Streamed Blockchain Panel (November 8, 2017)

This week, I had the pleasure of participating in a live-streamed discussion on Blockchain. I was joined by some blockchain phenoms, who provided excellent insight into how the technology is being deployed in financial services: Richard Crook Head of Innovation Engineering RBS Fredrik Voss Vice President, Blockchain Innovation Nasdaq Keith