Leaders

In June 2020, WordProof and Sebastiaan van der Lans were awarded the top prize of Blockchain for Social Good by the European Commission and with it a whopping €1 million. They beat off 175 contenders from more than 40 countries at various rounds to emerge the overall winner with ...read more

Exploring your sexuality in a safe place has become more difficult ironically in this digital era. It might be argued that people can look online for any number of different interpretations of their sexuality, but in reality, it’s easier to come a cropper as anonymity is often ...read more

NFTs, or Non Fungible Tokens, just might be the next gateway drug into all things crypto. NFTs address the critical issue of a digital asset being unique – ensuring provenance and ownership while removing the problem of counterfeits. In essence, NFTs are used to create verifiable ...read more

Nikolay is a serial entrepreneur based in Russia. Holding a PhD in Economics from the University of St Petersburg, he is the president of Balt Shelf Holding, a company with many businesses from logistics, to high tech to manufacturing. He has held this role since 1997. He is also ...read more

We begin on the subject of eyebrows; or rather I begin, with the owner of the eyebrows in question no less the crypto luminary Tim Draper. I am a self-confessed fan of Mr Draper but am less enamoured by this particular part of his visage. I also confess to being slightly ...read more

There are many metaverses in Web3 with more springing up overnight. Some bright spark recently called the metaverse just space on someone’s computer (or more correctly computers) but on February 15, JP Morgan issued a report on metaverses which concluded by saying that the ...read more

PornVisory is a different kind of adult entertainment site where the users are paid to watch content. Currently the videos shared are curated by the PornVisory team (the name is a pun on Porn + Advisory) rather than the other way around. The team selects what they feel to be the ...read more

Edward Buchi is very keen on Hackathons. When I spoke with him today he is running a month long virtual hackathon with some 20 plus groups participating so far. He doesn’t know what the final number will be as people are allowed to enter at any point. There is only one important ...read more

Tanya Hardie, AnyTask Marketing Manager at Electroneum, has just celebrated one year with Electroneum. She arrived at the busy cryptocurrency company with little experience of blockchain but with a strong marketing background. From sports to bathrooms, Tanya has worked across ...read more

When I first started looking at the DEUS project I found it very confusing both in the token generation and the actual platform. Turns out, it is both much simpler than I originally understood and yet deeply complex at the same time. The token generation is a continuous model, ...read more

Robin is a filmmaker and broadcaster and a very fine one too. He has twenty plus years of making films, real films, but he also has around the same amount of experience filming coffee makers. He has nothing per see against coffee makers, indeed some of his best coffee has come ...read more

Have you seen the exploding heads by Jon Noorlander, the Swedish artist? No? Then please google him and then come back and read this article because my excitement won’t make sense otherwise. The reason for the interview today is that he is moving into fine art with a new series ...read more

Speaking with Joel Comm alone today is pretty rare as he is mostly joined at the hip with his co presenter of The Bad Crypto podcast, Travis Wright. Today storms, COVID and NFT madness means the two have been separated but I am delighted to turn the tables and be able to ...read more

We spoke to six accomplished web 3 leaders about how they spend their mornings. While there is a lot of variety in each leader's routine the one unchanging characteristic is consistency. 1. Drink lemon water first thing in the morning Lemon water contains nutrients that help ...read more

It’s the holy grail of the cryptosphere – mass adoption. The second mantra is help the unbanked: notice I don’t say bank the unbanked, we don’t necessarily want to funnel people into a banking system that no longer serves the ordinary people, but to help people get access to ...read more

When Vit gives keynote talks, as he does all over the world on blockchain, finance, political platforms, he often opens with a thought-provoking question: “Who has thought about founding a country?” Depending on the audience, people can nod enthusiastically, hands go up in the ...read more

In October, Teana Baker-Taylor took up the reins as the General Manager of the UK for Crypto.com. She leads the U.K. business strategy and oversees operations, including leading licensing efforts, regulatory affairs and business development. A heavy hitter woman in finance, ...read more

It started as a joke, as an accidental thing. Jordan has been in DeFi for many years, he has a senior position in ConsenSys and his job is to build DeFi products. “I’m deep in this space and have been building products, infrastructures and apps in DeFi and it’s really getting ...read more

Human trafficking is a multibillion dollar business and it is growing exponentially. Consider the fact that a kilo of drugs can only be sold once only but a human being can be trafficked over and over again. It’s all in the maths. 40 million people are trafficked each year with ...read more

Philipp Kothe, blockchain expert at Datarella, once set up a healthy dog food brand in Guatemala with his sister who is, according to him, dog mad. She works with dogs, training them and also, and perhaps more importantly, training their owners. She had moved temporarily to ...read more

Before I get to the big news I want to explain about the name of this company. In a recent interview I kept on stumbling over the initials JPB. In exasperation I asked the founder, Andrew Hamilton, why on earth had he chosen those initials, could he not have gone for something ...read more

Bridget does not like to stereotype but to nurture is a core component of her being. As founder of The Bigger Pie she puts into action the vision she has of an empathetic world where diversity is embraced, and women help grow the pie. She sees her role as allowing others to have ...read more

Jesse, or Aggroed as he is better known, is the CEO of Splinterlands, the most played game on blockchain. His nickname comes from a term used in gaming where one player purposely agitates a sleeping threat such as a dragon; to aggro is to invade a monster's space and aggroed is ...read more

“We’ve achieved a lot in the first year but now we need to tackle the elephant in the room – if gaming is going to be the first killer to on ramp people for mass adoption, then we have to make blockchain gaming more like video gaming,” says Ingram. “Blockchain is all about owning ...read more

Pavel Entin was born in the Soviet Union in 1976 when it was still under communism. His family are all academics, and his mother was keen for him to become a medical doctor. But his education took him to the US on a student exchange where he was part of a group of one of the ...read more

I’d like to address a fundamental misconception about investing and crypto – Is it just about the APY? I would argue people engage with crypto for a wide range of reasons. Sometimes, people engage with crypto as a direct reaction to the financial crash of 2008 where the banks ...read more

Near Protocol’s user-friendly interfaces make it easy for novice blockchain users to set up everything from a simple wallet to an NFT marketplace. Blockleaders tested the system, and we can say the platform is living up to expectations. And with a recently completed funding round ...read more

Eunice Wong is on a mission to show other people, especially women, that they can become financially independent and has found she has a natural flaw for trading – something that surprised her as she never studied finance. “Actually I wanted to be a rock star when I was younger. ...read more

NFTs are not just about art. Into this exploding field comes established player, Mintbase, with ambitions to rethink NFTs. Just as we get our heads around the concept of digital art NFTs then another cargo-load of applications arrives to really fry the brains. So let’s begin at ...read more

BAXE is not just a platform, it’s an ecosystem with a vision to take back the internet. As CEO and co founder Christian Moore explains: “This is our mission; I have been blessed by a team of highly intelligent capable executives who are passionate about our dream to use ...read more

Darren straddles the divide between the underworld and the status quo, providing an essential bridge for digital tourists wishing to travel in either direction. He is contraction personified and has no issues walking either side of the street. “I keep my feet in both camps, ...read more

The art world has been truly re-awakened with the influx of creative NFT artists and collections available today. Although the global pandemic has presented a challenging period for creatives across a wide spectrum, the world of digital art has thrived and given artists a new ...read more