Consensus 2022
2022-06-09..2022-06-12
Austin, United States
[Consensus 2015, Consensus 2020, Consensus 2021, Consensus 2022]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Rise of the Creator Economy: Looking Back, Looking Forward | Cassandra Sagehorn, Matt Medved, Jarrod Dicker, Ameer Carter, Sterling Proffer | 40m |
Claim: NFTs shift from one-off products to NFT as first-mile tools that embed provenance into every creative act, turning fandom into financial stake… | ||
| CFTC’s Vision for Crypto Regulation | Rostin Behnam | 34m |
CFTC wants explicit authority to regulate cash digital commodities, arguing bitcoin and ether futures have traded since 2017 and recent UST collapse shows the… | ||
| Indexing Innovation: Defining and Measuring the Digital Asset Market | Jodie Gunzberg, Tarik Riviere, Kristen Mierzwa, Kevin Reynolds | 32m |
CoinDesk’s Digital Asset Classification Standard DAX maps the top 500 tokens into 36 industries, 23 industry groups and six sectors and updates assignments on… | ||
| Crypto Derivatives Are Changing Wall Street | Tim McCourt, Rich Rosenblum, Matthew Trudeau, Brad Keoun | 29m |
Crypto derivatives push trading toward 24x7 market dynamics while legacy futures remain 24x5 and CME limits tradable contracts to Bitcoin and Ether because of… | ||
| Active Investing in Digital Assets | Chris Rhine, Nolan Bauerle | 19m |
Argues the 60/40 rule loses usefulness as central banks force investors up the risk curve and recommends resize the 40 by allocating a measured slice to crypto… | ||
| Digital Asset Investment Outlooks in the Turbulent Market | David Duong, Liz Young, Jeff Dorman, Taylor Culbertson | 28m |
Panelists outline concrete ways to evaluate digital assets: on-chain tokenomics (circulating supply, unlock schedules, TVL), trading flows and exchange… | ||
| New Models for Market Making, Custody and Other Institutional Demands | Mike Belshe, Christine Moy, Evgeny Gaevoy, Noelle Acheson | 30m |
Discussion cites a concrete milestone: an $300 billion intraday repo program and firms that are regulated in New York and South Dakota, noting custody failures… | ||
| The Value of NFTs as an Asset | Dan Patterson, Kyle Samani, Tracy Wang | 27m |
Panel claims NFTs act as a distinct, early asset class with lower correlation to broad crypto and cites concrete infrastructure and products: a $100 million… | ||
| How the Adoption and Evolution of NFTs and DAOs Will Benefit Social Tokens | JAMES WO, Nolan Bauerle | 21m |
Argument: NFTs drive mainstream adoption because people can judge art quickly, and early PFP projects lock in 10K PFPs communities that prove unusually loyal… | ||
| Fad or Future? Are NFTs Here to Stay? | Jingcheng Li, Daniel Kim | 18m |
Argues NFTs have durable utility beyond hype: ownership for IP and loyalty, playable Big Time Studios items that sell on secondary markets, metaverse land like… | ||
| Financialization of NFTs | Halsey Huth, William Quigley, Tracy Wang | 32m |
Argues that stablecoins as circulatory system drives most crypto trading (tether handles roughly $30 trillion annually), claims NFTs are NFTs as programmable… | ||
| From Decks to Partnerships: The Web3 VC Journey to Strategic Investing | Tatiana Metodieva, Kalin Metodiev, Dani Osorio | 20m |
Nexo describes a strategic VC arm that makes 60+ investments since September to fill product gaps for its retail and institutional stack, leveraging a 5M user… | ||
| DAOs and the Future of Fundraising and Collective Action | Priyanka Desai, Rebecca Lamis, Kevin Owocki, Sam Kessler | 28m |
Panel lays out concrete experiments and limits: Gitcoin runs quadratic funding and matches roughly Gitcoin Grants $3M this round, packaging three years of… | ||
| Enterprise Accountability: Living Up to ESG Promises | Tasker Generes | 21m |
ServiceNow prototypes on Hedera for ESG use cases and reports concrete builds: a green token/brown token exchange that turns agribusiness offsets into tradable… | ||
| Returning Ownership: Finances, Data and Identity | Mike Brock, David Wachsman | 20m |
Announcement describes a concrete stack called Web5 combining decentralized identity, user-controlled data stores, and payments rails; it pairs a TBDex… | ||
| The Rise of the New Digital Cooperative | Seth Goldstein, Jeff Kauffman, Jennifer Sanasie | 34m |
Panelists describe a working model: a gallery DAO uses a multi-sig on Gnosis (5 signers, 3 required), mints city-by-city NFTs with a 10,000 NFTs goal and a… | ||
| The Pros and Cons of a Shared Wallet | Mike Dudas, Gennaro D'Urso, Aaron Wright, Tracy Wang | 33m |
Shared-wallet DAOs run a public treasury that enables fast collective purchases but struggle to deliver long-term projects. Examples cited: $47 million… | ||
| Web3: The New Design Pattern | John deVadoss, Erhan Korhaliller | 21m |
Neo N3 claims a developer flow that lets teams write, test, debug and deploy a smart contract in about three to five minutes and offers tooling to reduce… | ||
| Online Privacy: A Battle as Old as the Internet | Bryan Bishop, Ryan Lackey, Charlyn Ho | 30m |
Claims: Webcash implements a Chaumian eCash variant and removed Chaumian blinding to survive current KYC/AML pressure; mandatory KYC, BSA and regulator… | ||
| The New Ethics of Privacy and Pseudonymity | Paul Walsh, Logan Allen, Brendan Eich, Katherine Dee | 26m |
Panel argues doxing differs from whistleblowing and carries high false‑positive harm, predicting more vigilantism as institutions lose legitimacy, and… | ||
| Creating a Multichain World for All | Peng Zhong, Joon Ian Wong | 21m |
Argues that true multichain scale needs chain sovereignty plus secure interoperability and cites the IBC protocol as the permissionless connector already… | ||
| Bitcoin: When Lightning Strikes | Ryan Gentry, Lisa Neigut, Miles Suter, George Kaloudis | 29m |
Lightning runs as a layer‑2 payments rail that moves value off‑chain for instant, cheap settlement; Cash App already ships Lightning to 44 million monthly… | ||
| The Future of Democracy Hinges on Privacy Rights | David Chaum | 16m |
Claims a working stack: a quantum‑secured consensus and payments prototype hitting 3,500 TPS on a single‑core machine, a metadata‑shredding messenger based on… | ||
| How Zero Knowledge Proofs Change the Narrative Around Privacy | Rob Viglione, William Foxley | 22m |
Horizon describes a working stack: a zendoo interoperability protocol live on mainnet since December that links chains for horizontal scalability and aims for… | ||
| Discussing the Post-China Era of Mining | Christopher Manzano, Jameson Nunney, Ethan Vera, Nishant Sharma | 26m |
China's 2021 mining ban pushes hash power abroad; Cambridge data shows the US near 40% of global hash rate with industry projections to 50–60% by next year… | ||
| When Will ESG & Bitcoin Mining Get Along? | Daniel Hwang, Harry Sudock, Fred Thiel, Eliza Gkritsi | 30m |
Argument: bitcoin mining grows energy use because network security scales with hashpower, but hardware improves — S19 XPS 30% more efficient and recent… | ||
| Don’t Chain Yourself to One Network | Lin Dai, Violet Abtahi, Sam Kessler | 36m |
Argues that scaling requires choice not loyalty: Boba ships a hybrid compute layer that lets smart contracts call off‑chain APIs and atomically return results… | ||
| The Current State of Crypto Privacy Tech | Tor Bair, Edward Fricker, Tadge Dryja, Steven McKie | 26m |
Secret Network builds a private-by-default layer one for smart contracts to let some NFTs and identity data stay encrypted while still enabling selective… | ||
| Building a Web3 Where Platform Controls our Data | Harry Evans, Ben Schiller | 31m |
Claims a portable social graph via DSMP that keeps the social graph on-chain while putting posts and messages off-chain in cryptographically anchored batches… | ||
| The New Era of Mining Finance | Amanda Fabiano, Jaime Leverton, Lucas Pipes, Aoyon Ashraf | 35m |
Panel lays out hard numbers and concrete tools: about 30 public miners and roughly $1.9 billion owed for ASICs, debt pricing in the mid‑to‑high teens, and… | ||
| Smart Markets in DeFi | Jazear Brooks, Casey Arrington | 22m |
Sifchain describes a working-but-revised Protocol Monetary Trading Policy (PMTP) that raised a token ~70% in two weeks then prompted a market crash, explains… | ||
| Bitcoin’s Role in Institutional Strategy | Jon Melton, Terrence Dempsey, Nolan Bauerle | 21m |
Describes concrete institutional plumbing: Silvergate Exchange Network as a 24/7/365 dollar rail, Bitcoin-collateralized lending with LTV triggers and… | ||
| Building Sustainable Culture & Communities in Web3 | Gary Sheng, Jordan Cooley, Kevin Seo, David Casey, Tricia Wang | 29m |
Claims that barter is being revived barter on-chain using an open-source protocol that lets any merchant or freelancer issue mutual credit, with a use case in… | ||
| Web3athon: Financial Health | Fennie Wang, Oluwaseun David Adepoju, Marco Barbosa, Lauren Serota | 28m |
Describes three deployed models: a community currency backed 1:1 by federal dollars held at community banks that reinvest 70% reinvestment locally (vs ~20% at… | ||
| Mining Migration: Hashrate’s Journey to North America | Mike Colyer, Nolan Bauerle | 23m |
A group recounts how Chinese policy forced ~65–70% of global hash rate to move, leaving 10–15% still in China, and how a new North American pool built on… | ||
| Building an Institutional Grade BTC Miner | Darin Feinstein, Nic Carter | 21m |
Core Scientific describes building an enterprise Bitcoin data center in Western North Carolina—230,000 sq ft on 70 acres—to control uptime, efficiency and… | ||
| Proof of Learn: The Way to Move From Web2 to Web3 | Sheila Lirio Marcelo | 09m |
Company launches proof of learn and an educational game called metacrafters that teaches Web2 developers blockchain coding, issues a blockchain-inscribed… | ||
| How are Crypto Products and Culture Are Shaped? | Katherine Paseman | 11m |
CRADL launches a three-month virtual event called Web3athon with CoinDesk and HackerEarth that replaces weekend sprints with two months of research and… | ||
| Web3athon: Environmental Well Being | Sharlene Leurig, Claudio Parrinello, Jon Ruth, Gregory Landua, Lauren Serota | 27m |
A panel describes concrete projects: a platform that deploys a dense hyperlocal sensor network to crowdsource air quality data, paid by a utility token and… | ||
| Role of Web3 in Disaster Response and Relief | Jane Khodarkovsky, Joseph Thompson, Robert Greenfield, Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Rakia Reynolds | 31m |
Claims real outcomes: AID:Tech reports 400,000 digital IDs issued and $300 million delivered in aid, Celo promotes a mobile-first protocol and favors… | ||
| Lightning Talk: UX Heuristics | Kyle Becker | 10m |
A heuristic analysis of crypto apps finds crisp visual design and basic UI patterns working but deeper problems in infrastructure and workflows: dozens of… | ||
| Reseed - Combining Web3 and Agriculture | Josh Knauer | 14m |
A Web3 platform that pays smallholders for stored carbon by tokenized metric tons, verified every six months with satellite and AI verification and an app that… | ||
| Engineering JavaScript for Web3 | Brendan Eich | 42m |
NEAR adds a JavaScript smart‑contract path that compiles JS to WASM/base64 and runs in a QuickJS JS VM deployed as a contract; tooling shown includes… | ||
| Generational Wealth Building through Crypto | Robert Greenfield, Henry Foreman, Isaiah Jackson, Tricia Wang | 28m |
Claim: blockchain can encode nonmonetary value—impact, reputation and group savings frameworks—and map traditional lending circles into scalable protocols… | ||
| What Makes Hackathons Successful | Kayode Babarinde, Tracey Bowen, Ellis Norman, Daniela Peralvo, Katherine Paseman | 23m |
A three-month virtual format called Web3athon runs on HackerEarth’s platform with a 7 million developer community and 17 sponsors across L1s and L2s, offering… | ||
| Test Drive: Cosmos | Eric Urban | 29m |
Akash is a decentralized cloud marketplace that runs Docker containers on other people’s infrastructure, pays providers in AKT per block (~5s), and uses SDL… | ||
| Chainlink Labs Developer Interview | Solange Gueiros | 57m |
Live demo builds and deploys Solidity contracts with Remix + MetaMask on Rinkeby/Kovan to read Chainlink price feeds, register Keepers, request VRF randomness… | ||
| A High-Level Introduction to the Avalanche Network | Gabriel Cardona | 47m |
Overview of concrete claims and engineering: Avalanche ships sub-second finality, benchmarks ~4,500 tps, and currently runs ~1,500 full validators with… | ||
| From NFL to Crypto | DeShone Kizer | 31m |
A startup builds a vaulted commerce system that pairs physical limited-edition goods with one-to-one NFT-to-physical tokens using RFID, blockchain-tied… | ||
| Token Events: Sports, Fans and Data - Best of Consensus 2022 | Adam Jones | 33m |
Claims a built, deployed web3 fan OS that mints permanent non-fungible experience tokens tying event actions, purchases and streaming into a portable identity… | ||
| Minting Supercars in the Metaverse | Tom Watson, Yonathan Lapchik | 26m |
McLaren launches a private Genesis drop of 2012 P1 NFTs in May, minting first to owners to seed an MSO Labs community and then opening to broader fans… | ||
| Building the New Web3 Athlete & Fan Experience | Matthew Novogratz, Chukwukere Ekeh, Darren Glover, Jasmine Maietta | 31m |
Platform launches MLB digital collectibles with dynamic MLB Icons that update stats and link to real-world experiences, deploy a burn-to-earn mechanic to… | ||
| Sailing Into Fan Owned Teams | Ben Johnson | 13m |
SailGP runs purpose-built hydrofoiling F50s that hit about 100 km/h hydrofoiling F50s, streams ~30,000 data points/sec per boat into Oracle Cloud and T‑Mobile… | ||
| The World of Sport NFT Platforms | Brian Lee McCloud, Jeffrey Tong, Briana Richardson, Adam B. Levine | 29m |
Overview of what’s actually built and what works: a mobile metaverse with digital watch parties where fans buy team-branded avatars and are taught to buy NFTs… | ||
| Supercharging the Sports Fan: One-on-One | Drew Austin, Blake Jamieson, Mike O'Day | 30m |
Community launches 888 Knights PFPs and a 4,000‑seed follow up, ties those NFTs to real franchises including fan‑controlled football (FCF), Wagner United… | ||
| Hole in One | Mike Dudas | 21m |
LinksDAO describes a community-built golf club funded by NFT memberships that raised roughly $11 million treasury and now counts about 5,300 NFT holders, a… | ||
| How DAOs are Empowering Communities | Parker Jay-Pachirat, Gary Sheng, Laura Du | 45m |
Three DAOs describe concrete results and repeatable processes: Boys Club launches a minimum viable community with seven guilds, quarterly KPIs and an 80%… | ||
| DAO: Potential and Perils | Uri Ferruccio | 30m |
Explains where DAOs actually work today: investment, grants, collectibles, gaming guilds, and that major protocols like Uniswap, Compound and Aave already… | ||
| DAOs and Stakeholder Environmentalism | Bill Kentrup, Lisa Wade | 40m |
Claims that blockchain can digitally originate and tokenize carbon credits, using carbon NFTs for retail and corporate demand, and an Evergreen DAO to back… | ||
| Using DAOs to Develop Medicine and Pharmaceutical Products | Gennaro D'Urso, Khayyam Wakil | 43m |
Claims a DAO-funded model that repurposes existing drugs using a proprietary yeast‑based platform that gives a functional code to genes and compounds… | ||
| Friends with Benefits - Bringing Culture onto the Blockchain | Lindsay Howard, Alex Zhang, Yana Sosnovskaya | 42m |
Friends with Benefits says it attracts cultural creators with nearly 6,000 token holders, a $10M a16z-backed treasury and a reported $100M valuation; community… | ||
| The Story of the First DAO | Laura Shin | 29m |
Investigation names a likely 2016 DAO attacker as the person behind the handle toby.ai, linking aliases, IP and node names to funds routed through Chainalysis… | ||
| DAOs & The Launch of Next Gen Frameworks | Natalie Salemink | 18m |
Skadi Labs launches Prismatic as a DAO tooling framework on Algorand claiming rigid on‑chain rules fail for complex coordination and that the right… | ||
| DAO Tooling and Running a Decentralized Org | Nathan Hausman, Kaito Cunningham, Jin Kang | 46m |
Platform claims 3,500 DAOs launched on Syndicate and Utopia Labs focuses on payroll/bookkeeping for DAOs, a 14-person team, both recently fundraising; Global… | ||
| Uncovering the TruthDAO | Leslie Cauley | 50m |
Plans to launch TruthDAO claim an independent newsroom enforced by editorial discipline with published policies, on-chain community governance and a separate… | ||
| NFT Scams & Best Security Practices | Ariel Wengroff, Maaria Bajwa | 30m |
Phishing steals a Bored Ape then resurfaces — sold for ~$200k and repurchased for ~$300k — while bridge hacks and a multi‑sig breach (hundreds of millions… | ||
| Finding the UnicornDAO | Rebecca Lamis | 31m |
UnicornDAO launches as a queer-creative fund that raises over $5–6M in months, buys thousands of NFTs from women and LGBTQ+ creators, invests in female-founded… | ||
| Bringing NFTs into the Real World | Kevin Wright, Seth Goldstein, Ariel Wengroff | 34m |
Panel describes concrete experiments: a 50-hour Venice mint where each minter gets 15 minutes, plus a plan to mint 10,000 crypto citizens (1,000 per city) that… | ||
| Platforms and Cultural Aggregation | Roneil Rumburg, Nhan Phan, John Crain, Rico Mallozzi | 36m |
Panel argues Web3 moves ownership and direct monetization into creator–fan relationships: Audius hosts about 7 million monthly fans and 250,000 artists and… | ||
| Redefining Customer & Company | Spencer Gordon | 31m |
Claims that NFTs let Anheuser-Busch create direct two‑way customer relationships despite the three-tier system, using token gating and smart contracts to turn… | ||
| How the Music Industry Is Being Redefined by Web3 | Alex Salibian, Cherie Hu, Lin Dai, Will Gottsegen | 30m |
Claims that NFTs are best used as membership tokens and new artist financing replace advances, backed by a concrete onboarding tool that lets fans buy an NFT… | ||
| What’s Next in NFTs’ Wide Open Future | Shashi Menon, Zach Bruch, Raakhee Miller | 32m |
Companies like Paramount and Dolce & Gabbana move actual IP on chain: a Dolce Gabbana nine-piece couture collection is minted alongside physical goods, and a… | ||
| Platforms of Mass Disruption - Web3 and Traditional Industries | Nicole Sales, Michael Bouhanna, Ariel Hudes | 32m |
Auction houses report they sold a JPEG for $69 million (March 2021) and now run primary-market drops, galleries sign legacy painters to Art Blocks partnership… | ||
| How Web3 Can Help Musicians Make a Living Wage | Ed Balloon, Ollie Chanin, Mike Darlington, Latasha Alcindor | 32m |
Argues that Web3 lets musicians keep ownership, prove value and charge directly by minting on Zora, Catalog, Sound.xyz and even OpenSea, recommending… | ||
| Beyond Price Pumps and Into the Real Power of NFT Utility | Lindsey McInerney, Andrew Schiffman, Lisa Sterbakov | 30m |
Panel shows concrete NFT work: YellowHeart ships NFT tickets with a revolving QR barcode wallet that scans like a regular ticket and can airdrop vouchers and… | ||
| Where Does Your Digital Art Live? Storing NFTs With Confidence | Jonathan Victor | 19m |
NFT.Storage stores off‑chain NFT data on IPFS for content‑addressed CIDs and uses Filecoin to guarantee availability via cryptographic proofs of custody (daily… | ||
| Is Earning Passive Income Through DeFi Really Possible? | Alex McDougall | 31m |
Claim: passive income is possible but not passive — constant machine‑speed monitoring and risk frameworks are required. Shows on‑chain forensics: a 346 million… | ||
| How To Buy, Sell, and Create NFTs | Sasha Stiles, Samantha James, John Crain | 34m |
Practical steps and tradeoffs: set up a wallet (MetaMask, Kukai, Temple, Rainbow), pick a chain (Tezos mints for cents vs Ethereum mints often $60–$80 in early… | ||
| How To Buy Your First Crypto: Wallets and Exchanges 101 | Lindsey Grossman, Neil Bergquist | 34m |
A practical how-to comparing two paths: a regulated cash-to-crypto network that runs 20,000 locations and a simple onboarding flow tied to a custodial hosted… | ||
| Play-to-Earn and Rewarding Participation | Kevin Kim, Nico del Pino, Renz Carlo Chong, Darren Glover | 31m |
Genopets is a free-to-play move-to-earn mobile game on Solana that converts real steps into in-game energy for NFT pets; guilds finance play by holding NFTs in… | ||
| Mixed Reality: The Metaverse We Actually Want | Pierina Merino, Vincent Kadlubek, Evan Helda, Samantha Bohbot | 34m |
Claims that matter: a working app that maps tokenized public art in Santa Monica to drive foot traffic and reduce crime, an operational Meow Wolf network with… | ||
| The Metaverse or Metaverses? Why We Need Interoperability | Winston Robson, Herman Narula, Eddy Lazzarin, Sergey Gorbunov | 31m |
Panel argues metaverse is early, fragmented and needs concrete standards: land contracts differ across projects, NFT-world peak users are below conference… | ||
| What Is the Metaverse and How Should We Define it? | John Linden | 31m |
Defines metaverse as an evolution of games into owned economies, citing 4 billion gamers, a million-plus accounts for Blanco’s Block Party, and a new NFL… | ||
| Identity Transformed: PFPs, Digital Fashion and the Blockchain | Natalia Modenova, Chad Knight, Megan Kaspar, Michael J. Miraflor | 32m |
Claims that DressX launched in 2020 and now runs the world’s largest digital fashion store (e‑commerce site, iOS/Android apps and an NFT marketplace), demos… | ||
| What is Doomer Techno-optimism? | Jon Stokes | 23m |
Claim: a new scene combines crypto/Web3 and prepper habits into be your own bank host your own cloud grow your own food generate your own energy. Tools… | ||
| We’ll Never 'Exit' to a Better World | Matt Prewitt | 25m |
Claim: universal money erodes communities, and a better approach is local, programmable currencies that tie rights to shared assets. The talk lays out a… | ||
| When Crypto Becomes Intelligent | Jesus Rodriguez | 26m |
Argues that crypto will shift from automation to native intelligence, citing IntoTheBlock’s own ML-driven quant strategies that attracted over a billion… | ||
| Lunarpunk and the Dark Side of the Cycle | Rachel-Rose O'Leary | 29m |
Argues cryptocurrency should protect participants by design, not expose them, and proposes DarkFi: a layer‑one blockchain for anonymous smart contracts built… | ||
| What Happens When the Rebels Win: Web3 in 2040 | Rhys Lindmark | 20m |
Claims that by 2030 about 20% of billionaires will be crypto billionaires, backed by simple math on Bitcoin at ~$200k and current token distributions; existing… | ||
| Activism in the Age of Cryptocurrency | Nadya Tolokonnikova, Ben Schiller | 28m |
A staged protest inside the Texas Capitol is filmed, then minted on Ethereum as a one‑of‑one and listed via Manifold and Zora while using PartyBid pooled… | ||
| Crypto at War: Inside Ukraine’s Historic Crypto Fundraiser | Illia Polosukhin, Mike Chobanyan, Alex Bornyakov | 29m |
Crypto fundraising moves from theory to practice: campaigns channel hundreds of millions of dollars—477 BTC, ~10,000 ETH and large amounts of DOT and… | ||
| Crypto Hedge Funds State of the Union Report | Henri Arslanian | 16m |
PwC releases a data-driven state of the union: crypto hedge funds hold about $4 billion AUM, average fund size near $60M, and the 10 biggest funds control ~50%… | ||
| Crypto and the Crisis of Meaning: Creating Culture and Communities Through Money | Meltem Demirors, Alex Zhang | 31m |
Argument traces 25,000 years of meaning to show how blockchain fuses money, memes and ritual into real social infrastructure: thousands of crypto communities… | ||
| Involuntarily Unbanked: How the Cannabis Industry Makes the Case for Crypto | Khurshid Khoja, Mary Pryor | 24m |
Federal prohibition forces state-legal cannabis businesses to operate largely cash-only, triggering back-to-back robberies, fatalities among retail workers… | ||
| Is My Algorithm Biased? The Imperative of Inclusion for Crypto | Mehrsa Baradaran, Dawn Song, Isaiah Jackson, Erin Cohee | 45m |
The panel traces how policy and lending tools produce persistent gaps: Black families hold about 1–2% of total U.S. wealth historically, the Freedmen's Bank… | ||
| Reimagining Art, Ownership and Legacy | Tyler Hobbs, Erick Calderon, Ryan Wilson, Carly Reilly | 26m |
Discussion traces concrete shifts: code that mints art at purchase via Art Blocks on-demand generative minting, algorithms must add enough entropy to avoid… | ||
| The Web3 World According to Google Cloud | Richard Widmann | 08m |
Claims that web3 is an infrastructure revolution and that Google Cloud can supply planetary-scale pieces: 19 undersea cables and several dozen data centers… | ||
| When Payments Go Programmable - PayPal Roundtable | Jose Fernandez da Ponte, Dan Schulman | 30m |
PayPal announces on‑chain transfers enabled so users can move crypto in and out to external wallets and settle purchases by instantaneously converting to fiat… | ||
| The Big Picture: Two Visionaries on Where All This is Headed | Amy Wu, Bill Tai, Staci Warden | 32m |
Argues the current downturn is a long, healthy reset that frees people and talent while builders keep shipping, warns token valuations still have room to fall… | ||
| The Minds That Imagined the Metaverse and VR | Neal Stephenson, Jaron Lanier, Leah Callon-Butler | 45m |
Traces the metaverse back to sci‑fi roots then pivots to concrete infrastructure: a new layer‑one chain (Lamina1) and a Sigma template of smart contracts aim… | ||
| Crypto 2050 - Future of Smart Economies, Asteroid Mining, and coming Digital Asset Wars | Brett King | 41m |
Predicts every major economy runs on AI and automation by 2050, with robots outnumber humans and more machines have wallets than humans; mobile payments hit… | ||
| The Story of the First DAO | Laura Shin | 29m |
Claims identification of the 2016 DAO attacker as Toby Honish supported by a forensic chain: DAO ether moves into ETC, tiny Shapeshift conversions that follow… | ||
| How to Use Charts and Analysis to Invest in Crypto | Katie Stockton Roberts, Damanick Dantes | 34m |
Technical analysis is pitched as a risk management system that actually defines entries, exits and downside: uses MACD and stochastic momentum gauges plus… | ||
| Elon Musk Proposes to Proceed With Twitter Acquisition: Report | Elon Musk | 02m |
A high-profile acquirer proposes proceeding with the Twitter purchase at $54.20 per share, triggering a stock halt and a pending trial over breakage of the… | ||
| The Journey to Crypto Normalization | Sam Bankman-Fried | 26m |
Claims willingness to spend up to $1 billion in this election cycle, describes weekly DC trips to lobby for a U.S. regulatory framework and says FTX is… | ||
| Here's What You Missed | 06m | |
Consensus draws 20,000 attendees to Austin and CoinDesk stitches three days of panels into a case that power shifts from banks to builders, arguing digital… | ||
| The Coming Digital Currency Wars | J. Christopher Giancarlo, Neha Narula, Emily Parker | 28m |
105 countries experiment with CBDC, 10 have launched, and China already puts its digital yuan in 250 million users; the panel gives concrete tradeoffs: privacy… | ||
| On the Long Road to Internet Privacy | Edward Snowden | 29m |
Nine years after the NSA revelations, encryption is widely deployed for content but metadata exposure remains the core unresolved leak, letting observers map… | ||
| Who Should Issue Digital Dollars? | Dante Disparte, Rohan Grey, Caitlin Long | 34m |
Argues that issuance boils down to legal rights and rails not ideology: Fed controls final settlement so a U.S. digital dollar requires bank charters or new… | ||
| Ask me Anything | Micah Johnson | 35m |
Creates Aku as an NFT-driven character and media IP that retains 100% ownership, uses Async programmable art (day/night layers) and smart contracts to change… | ||
| The Starfish Moment: Decentralized Organizations and the Reinvention of Philanthropy | Rod Beckstrom, Kimbal Musk | 31m |
A philanthropic DAO that started with six nonprofits now has 19 voting members, over 400 applications and a $860,000 grant pool this quarter, using quadratic… | ||
| Scanning, Trying and Scaling: Fidelity’s Journey in Digital Assets | Abby Johnson, Matt Walsh | 33m |
Started by listing 52 use cases and running internal experiments including employee pilots and a $200,000 mining test to learn the stack and custody risks… | ||
| When Crypto Goes Big Leagues | Dan Moriarty, Adam Jones, Sterling Proffer | 31m |
Claims that teams use a digital passport (wallet-as-cookie) to track non-PII fan metadata, reward users with utility tokens redeemable for tickets and merch… | ||
| When Spot Bitcoin ETF? The Outlook for Regulated Investment Vehicles | Lori Tiernan, Matt Hougan, David LaValle | 27m |
Panel argues that approval hinges on CME bitcoin futures surveillance as a proxy for spot-market oversight and presents 200+ pages of academic research to… | ||
| Investor Town Hall: Security, Reputation, ESG and Other Barriers to Institutional Adoption | Katherine Molnar, Matt Halstead, David Cooper, Joe Marenda, Antony Lewis | 46m |
The panel treats the Terra collapse as a hard data point — $60 billion wiped out — that clarifies fund risk management and accelerates stablecoin scrutiny… | ||
| NFTs the Onramp for Generation C | Les Borsai, Amanda Cassatt | 30m |
Company Serotonin spins out Mojito, a backend for NFT marketplaces, and launches a Mojito backend powering a repeatable ecommerce-style storefront for… | ||
| Bored Apes, Blue Chips and Where Do We Go From Here? | Maaria Bajwa, Richerd Chan | 27m |
Panel lays out concrete moves: Manifold builds artist-first minting tools; a serialized experiment on Solana mints free collectibles, runs weekly votes and… | ||
| 'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson AMA | Neal Stephenson | 32m |
Author of Snow Crash connects the novel to today by naming concrete roles and projects: former chief futurist at Magic Leap, first employee of Blue Origin, and… | ||
| Foundations | Chirag Dhull, Jaeson Ma, Lydia Chiu, Jodie Gunzberg, Patrick O’Grady, Jimmy Xu, Marcus Jones | 01h 28m |
A platform announces a $100 million Culture Catalyst fund to finance NFTs and IP launches on Avalanche and a web3 super‑app that mints NFT “golden tickets”… | ||
| THORchain - Consensus 2022 Foundations | Kevin Beardsley, Marcel Robert Harmann, Michael Wagner, Chad Barraford, Rodney Yesep, Tyler Bond, Gavin McDermott | 01h 17m |
Kevin Beardsley (XDEFI Wallet), Marcel Robert Harmann (THORWallet), Mogarchy (THORSwap) and Michael Wagner (Brokkr) present the highlights of their… | ||
| Helium - Consensus 2022 Foundations | Ann Ai, Jose Gabriel Marcelino, Violet Su, Daniel Andrade, Denis Agarkov, Scott Sigel, Payam Kabiri, Joey Hiller, Clarissa Redwine, Emperor Nik Hawks | 01h 14m |
Helium reports network scale and concrete kit: roughly ~850,000 hotspots providing coverage, Bobcat ships ~370,000 Miner units and launches the Bobcat 500 with… | ||
| Cosmos - Consensus 2022 Foundations | Dean Tribble, Peng Zhong, Gregory Landua, Jake Hartnell, Sunny Aggarwal, Billy Rennekamp, Denis Fadeev, Zaki Manian, Ethan Buchman | 01h 29m |
Agoric ships a sovereign Cosmos chain with JavaScript smart contracts, targets a Q3 launch and an overcollateralized inter‑stable token backed by IBC assets… | ||
| Fantom - Consensus 2022 Foundations | Owen Palmer, Michael Kennedy, Pete Ho, Michael Kong, Sam Bond, Justin Silver, Austin Rampt, Clay Kilgo | 01h 33m |
Fantom claims sub‑second deterministic finality at 0.8–0.9s finality, no block reorgs, ~70 validators and recent snapsync work that shrinks a full node sync to… | ||
| on BUIDL Island: Bermuda's Digital Asset Strategy | David Burt | 29m |
Bermuda presents a working regulatory stack: an annually-updated Digital Asset Business Act, a three-tier license path (test, sandbox/modified, full) with test… | ||
| Crypto, Basketball and TopShot | Justin Herzig, Michael Levy, Ridhima Kahn, Peter Jennings | 30m |
Top Shot launches as video “moments” on Flow with Dapper Labs hiding blockchain complexity, enabling pack drops, a secondary marketplace and features like… | ||
| When Moving Money Is as Easy as Sending Email | Glenn Hutchins, Jeremy Allaire | 29m |
Vision is: make dollars native to the internet by tokenizing government money and running it on blockchains, currently issuing USDC on nine blockchains and… | ||
| DAOs and Evolving the Creative Mindset | Jeff Kauffman | 29m |
A panel outlines concrete DAO experiments and mechanics: a Super Bowl ad workflow uses ~100 people split into 2–3 person teams with three days to pitch, then… | ||
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