On The Ledger
115 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEvery week, Ledger takes you through the news, hopes and downs that shatter the crypto space. Meet Ledger people, experts and partners. Listen to their stories and vision on the future of DeFi, Web3, Bitcoin. Be the first to learn Ledger updates and new nifty features.
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#82 Securing Yourself: Lessons from the Apple Security Breach
March 26, 2024 15:00 - 32 minutes - 360 MBLast week, a new vulnerability was discovered in Apple’s M1 chips. This unpatchable vulnerability makes it more clear than ever that using your phone or computer to secure your private keys may be convenient, but it comes at the cost of security.Our CTO Charles Guillemet has spent his whole career studying cryptography, and he knows these types of attacks well. He sat down with our CXO Ian Rogers to discuss what this new vulnerability is, how it works, and why hardware wallets are the best wa...
#81 Stepping into 2024, Bitcoin ETFs and Davos
January 30, 2024 14:46 - 56 minutes - 130 MBWelcome to the first On the Ledger episode of 2024!2023 was a year of challenge and adjustments for the crypto community, but as we step into 2024, a glimmer of hope is emerging. The market is showing signs of recovery, builders are re-energized, and regulatory clarity is paving the way for even greater innovation. And amidst this renewed optimism, one ecosystem stands out – Solana.A few days ago at Davos, Ledger’s Chairman and CEO, Pascal Gauthier, got to spend time with an old friend and fe...
#80 On The Ledger: Ledger Enterprise Tradelink
December 18, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes - 509 MBLedger Enterprise is Ledger’s best kept secret before 2022. In the post-FTX world of crypto, regulation, transparency, responsible-governance and speed are becoming increasingly important for institutional clients. This is why Ledger Enterprise built the TradeLink product for Asset Managers, Custodians and Exchanges allowing institutional clients to execute trades instantly without compromising the custodies of the assets under management. Today, our CXO Ian catches up with our VP Revenue ...
On The Ledger: Ledger Enterprise Tradelink
December 18, 2023 15:00 - 30 minutes - 509 MBLedger Enterprise is Ledger’s best kept secret before 2022. In the post-FTX world of crypto, regulation, transparency, responsible-governance and speed are becoming increasingly important for institutional clients. This is why Ledger Enterprise built the TradeLink product for Asset Managers, Custodians and Exchanges allowing institutional clients to execute trades instantly without compromising the custodies of the assets under management. Today, our CXO Ian catches up with our VP Revenue ...
#79 On The Ledger: Treasury Broker Rule
December 13, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 1.1 GBUnder newly proposed U.S. Treasury rules, potentially effective 2025, people providing certain DeFi websites, NFT marketplaces, crypto wallets, or other services “facilitating” crypto sales would have to make a decision: centralize, shut down, or block all U.S. users (and possibly VPNs). Under this backdrop, we invited policy leads from Block, Metamask and Blockchain Association to talk about their experience with the now delayed regulation and the implications for self-custody. Hosted on...
#78 Ledgerplex in the Sandbox
November 10, 2023 15:00 - 46 minutes - 777 MBThe Ledgerplex is now live in the Sandbox game. This is a sequel to our award-winning School of Block in the Sandbox game in Alpha Season 3, where players can learn crypto security knowledge via completing quests in game. We voxelized Ledger’s Verizon Factory in the Sandbox and created an experience to allow more people to be able to learn crypto security through a gaming experience. Tune in to find out how the original School of Block originated and how the Swipeback team and Ledger worked...
#77 Ledger Recover explained
October 24, 2023 12:30 - 40 minutes - 669 MBWe’re excited to launch Ledger Recover, provided by Coincover, that aims to lower the barrier of entry to self-custody by allowing our users to creating a secure backup for their Secret Recovery Phrase ready whenever you need it, so they can stop worrying about getting locked out of their own wallet. But what’s the origin story of Ledger Recover, what are the design principles and more importantly, who did we build Ledger Recover for? Check out this episode of On The Ledger podcast with our...
#76 Taking The Next Steps On Bitcoin
October 20, 2023 14:00 - 43 minutes - 723 MBOur CTO, Charles Guillemet, has just returned from Bitcoin Amsterdam, where he gave a fascinating keynote on the topic of Bitcoin governance. With the rising interest of institutions in Bitcoin, managing their access to the so-called digital gold is gaining paramount importance. In this new episode of On The Ledger, we have Charles with us to share his insights from the event and we’ll pick his brilliant brain on the topic of Bitcoin institutional custody and governance. After Charles, we'r...
On The Ledger x FWB #10 (Pryianka Desai, Tribute Labs)
September 08, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes - 635 MBPriyanka Desai, the founding member of Flamingo DAO, has an interesting story about how it all began. She's now the Chief Operating Officer at Tribute Labs, a company that supports DAO communities through open-source framworks built on Ethereum. She talks about how these DAOs are doing and what she thinks about the market. She also shares her thoughts on what might happen next in the Web3 space. Priyanka's journey shows us how new technologies like blockchain and decentralized organizations c...
On The Ledger x FWB #9 (Ben Palmer, CEO at New Computer Corporation)
September 01, 2023 14:00 - 57 minutes - 952 MBBenjamin Palmer, the visionary Co-Founder and CEO of The New Computer Corporation, is a prominent figure in Los Angeles, renowned for pioneering digital innovation. With a remarkable career spanning diverse domains, he leads the charge at a Web3 product studio, The New Computer Corporation, while also contributing as an Executive Producer Council member at UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance. Join us for the 9th episode of our FWB x Ledger collaboration as we talk with Ben about his jour...
On The Ledger x FWB #8 (Brian Mark, Rumfoords)
August 25, 2023 14:00 - 49 minutes - 819 MBBrian Mark is the COO at Rumfoords Creative Agency. Before this current gig, he has been at the forefront of a bunch of projects in the crypto space at companies like Adidas, FWB, Rally, and Dapper Labs. We talk about cult brands, that ultimately brought him out of bike shops, to Chrome Industries, and eventually to Adidas. We talk about how brands are thinking through web3 strategy and touch on “opt-in identity”. We discuss the shift in focus from short term return to long term membership va...
On The Ledger x FWB #7 (Charli Cohen, RSTLSS)
August 18, 2023 11:34 - 48 minutes - 806 MBOn this episode of FWB X On the ledger, we had the pleasure of talking to Charli Cohen, the founder and CEO of RSTLSS. If you are curious about the intersection of Web3, digital fashion, and video games, this is an episode for you! Charli tells us about her journey, including sailing from the UK to New Zealand, starting a fashion brand at the age of 15, becoming a fitness influencer and then launching a career in the digital fashion space. She talks about breaking in to the video game space ...
On The Ledger x FWB #6: Dani Loftus (from Draup)
August 11, 2023 12:25 - 1 hour - 1.14 GBIn this episode of FWB’s crossover with On the Ledger, we talk to Dani Loftus, the CEO and founder of Draup and a true pioneer in the world of digital fashion. We talk about revolutions and behavioral change, the emergence of fashion in the digital identity space, and the emergence of digital fashion in the gaming space before the NFT boom. She talks about the challenge in merging disparate communities of fashion and gaming. We discuss fashion as identity and how that spans the physical and d...
On The Ledger x FWB #5: Brice Partouche (CEO, Satisfy Running)
August 04, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 1.03 GBBrice Partouche is the founder, creative director and CEO of Satisfy Running, a clothing brand that makes thoughtfully designed and functional clothing for active people such as runners and rock climbers. Brice's approach to brand building stems from his roots in skateboarding and punk rock, but is applicable to anyone building a brand in the age of the internet. Anyone building a brand will identify with or be inspired by his approach of self-expression, patience, and audience. Also, Sati...
On The Ledger x FWB #4: Anna Bulbrook (Creativity, Curation and Practice)
July 28, 2023 14:00 - 57 minutes - 956 MBAnna Bulbrook is a violinist (projects from Airborne Toxic Event, to Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, to Beyoncé’s Lemonade) the founder of Gxrlschool, and the co-founder of Metalabel. She joined us from her tree-house in LA. We talk about Kanye West epiphanies. We talk about foraying discipline and practice into the rest of her projects and making impossible things possible. We talk about the parallels between start ups and bands. We talk about curation by trusted sources, and how that ...
On The Ledger x FWB #3: Mel (Tokenizing Culture)
July 21, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 1.1 GBIn this conversation with Mel, one of the leading experts in tokenomoics, we covered a lot of ground. When we say tokenomics, what do we mean? Where does that begin and where does that end? We discuss building web3 brands from the ground up and building web3 strategy for established brands. We discuss the importance of understanding culture, sub cultures, and how people interact when thinking about brands and problem solving. We discuss which brands are “ready” to be leaders in the Web3 spac...
On The Ledger x FWB #2: Sarah Drinkwater from Common Magic
July 14, 2023 20:54 - 50 minutes - 841 MBOn the second episode of our series in collaboration with FWB, Ian and Zoe talk to Sarah Drinkwater. She just launched an early stage VC fund in the UK called Common Magic where she invests in companies with community at their core. In this conversation they talk about the philosophy behind a community driven investment thesis, the ebb and flow of communities in the DAO space, and the culture that drives it all. They also get into what it means to do a graduate degree in magic, a shift from ...
On The Ledger x FXB #1: Alex Zhang ("Mayor of FWB")
July 07, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 1.21 GBIn this first episode in a series of conversations with Ledger and Friends With Benefits, we talk to the Mayor of FWB Alex Zhang about building DAOs and community business in general. We talk about the desires of communities to diverge over time and the desires of companies to make money and how to balance those two things from a perspective of community incentives and ownership. We talk about how to keep community cool, when nothing can stay cool forever, and how to put structures in place ...
#75 When ENS meets Ledger
May 31, 2023 10:30 - 44 minutes - 738 MBIn a world where your wallet becomes an essential pillar of your on-chain identity, Ethereum Naming Services, mostly known as ENS, is more than just an address – it's a social identifier. And the market has caught up with this idea, with some ENS names selling for astonishing valuations in recent Years Austria 2023 Ledger, we knew this was one thing missing on Ledger Live. There was no way to use ENS when sending digital assets on Ethereum. Now, there is. For those of you who aren't familiar ...
#74 How the Ledger Donjon keeps the space safe
May 12, 2023 10:30 - 31 minutes - 529 MBA couple of weeks ago, Trust Wallet and Ledger shared some public news on an exploit that we spotted and fixed months ago. It’s a vulnerability the Ledger Donjon luckily found only 3 days after the release of a Trust Wallet software solution. The security experts at Ledger's Donjon reported the vulnerability to the Trust Wallet team so that it got fixed, and so that users’ funds remained safe. It ’s also a vulnerability that demonstrates how the Ledger Donjon works: its researchers do not ju...
#73 Time for self-empowerment & ownership w/ Champ Medici
May 02, 2023 12:38 - 28 minutes - 467 MBFormer football player and now renowned businessman and investor in Web3, Cordell Broadus aka Champ Medici has been leading his father, Snoop Dogg’s NFT venture and is now our newest Ledger Pro Team member. We took advantage of his presence at the latest Paris Blockchain Week to get him to stop by our offices for a half-an-hour chat with our very own VP Communications Ariel Wengroff. Sharing his perspective on why he became interested in blockchain technology and the NFT space, on why he li...
#72 Unlocking digital assets for businesses W/ Gmoney
April 25, 2023 10:30 - 26 minutes - 434 MBWelcome to SZN 2 of the LEDGER Pro Team! Join Ledger's CXO Ian Rogers and Gmoney, a renowned cultural thought leader and part of Ledger's esteemed Pro Team, as they discuss the future of value and digital assets. money brings deep expertise in companies and brands at the intersection of digital assets and fashion, with 15+ years of experience in the traditional finance sector as an investor. He is widely recognised for his iconic orange beanie CryptoPunk and is listed in Fortune's NFTy 50...
#71 Enter The Ledger NFT collection with OSF
April 04, 2023 11:12 - 49 minutes - 824 MBIf you think about it, the internet has decentralized how culture is formed, anyone with a phone could create art or tell a story and reach millions of people around the world with a click of a button. Web3 enhances that even further, with blockchain technology not only can artists share their creations they can now own and monetize them as well as build and tokenize communities around their art. A true shift in paradigm. And there’s only very few artists out there who are able to capture ...
#70 “We’re all going to be better in a BTC economy” w/ Tim Draper
March 31, 2023 10:30 - 44 minutes - 741 MBTim Draper is a man who needs no introduction in crypto. But still: he is a venture capitalist, who investing in a lot of the early Internet companies tech startups, running Draper associates, once host the Meet the Drapers show He is also a man who foresaw the success of a lot of upcoming start-ups and thought Bitcoin was “bigger than anything he saw before.” A man who thinks that more banks will fail, that you should not wait for the next crash to get yourself into BTC, and that “the safe...
#69 Staking in the days of the Shanghai Upgrade
March 28, 2023 10:30 - 43 minutes - 724 MBThe staking industry is expected to be worth $40B by 2025. With such potential, there’s no shortage of staking solutions currently available on the market. But one critical question arises - how can you stake securely? The answer is simple: retaining full ownership of your keys. That’s why Ledger partnered with KILN to offer its users the ability to stake ETH directly in Ledger Live from within the security of their Ledger devices, and to offer the perfect ETH staking solution for business...
#68 When Ledger meets ArtBlocks
March 22, 2023 08:31 - 58 minutes - 963 MBHow was ArtBlocks founded? Who are the first generative artists who started out there? What did the Auto Glyphs project change for them? During NFT Paris, in a room full of some of the best generative artists in the world, we recorded this one hour conversation between Ledger VP of Comms Ariel Wengroff and prominent figures in the ArtBlocks community (with Erick Calderon a.k.a. Snowfro, Sofia Garcia from ArtXCode, Glenn a.k.a. BlockBird, Matt a.k.a. Balon_art and Jeremy a.k.a. DeFiStaker), ...
# 67 Scaling Ethereum after the Shanghai Upgrade
March 14, 2023 11:30 - 48 minutes - 803 MB2022 was a big moment for Ethereum, the long awaited MERGE event ended up finally taking place on September 15th, shifting Ethereum from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake consensus and significantly reducing its energy consumption along the way, a massive step towards Ethereum 2.0. But there’s still somewhat of a long road of Ethereum updates ahead, including the Surge, the Verge, the Purge and the Splurge, sounds like a 90s rap song but it isn’t, this what it’s going to take for Ethereum t...
#66 Storing the value of attention in digital objects w/ Derek Edwards
March 07, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 1.18 GBHow can attention drive value? How to connect the attention economy to the web3 economy? In a world of abundance, our time and focus is probably one of the last items you cannot… scale. Of course, we can publish work, be easy to find, and generate thousands of impressions in seconds. But when do people actually care? When do you care? NFTs have driven a LOT of attention. Whether you might think it’s for good or bad reasons- they just have. Either it’s because they are scarce, or because th...
#65 Why your business, DAO or enterprise needs Ledger Enterprise
February 28, 2023 12:19 - 57 minutes - 946 MBThe more value you have, the more malicious actors will try to get it. You already know that if you own more than a couple of small bags of crypto. But imagine you’re a company or an organization trying to manage their digital assets at scale. This question arose a couple of years ago. Family offices, hedge funds, custodians, exchanges… They had no idea how to secure their assets (or they would do it from a Ledger Nano S). And even less how to manage them at scale. They needed enterprise-gr...
#64 Meeting the Communities of tomorrow w/ Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
February 21, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 1.25 GBThe crypto phenomenon is just one symptom among many: we are shifting from a mass market to an era of niches. But then, what is a niche exactly? Where does a community start? In this age of modern loneliness, is swiping the new sign of being part of a community? What do regressive conspiracy movements tell us about a new sense of belonging? With the hyper financialization of our everyday lives, should we demonize new technologies and speculation? In a fascinating discussion with our Chi...
#63 Should Crypto Fear Quantum Computing?
February 13, 2023 14:30 - 45 minutes - 761 MBThis year has seen the emergence of a variety of AI products showing us a glimpse of the exponential age. But one other innovation has the potential to completely change our world - Quantum computing. Quantum computers are very different from the classical computers that have been around for more than half a century. They harness the power of quantum mechanics to sift through huge numbers of possibilities and extract solutions to problems that might have otherwise been impossible to solve.Bu...
#62 OBJKT, Where Artists Are Collectors, And Vice Versa
February 07, 2023 11:30 - 44 minutes - 737 MBOBJKT is a marketplace that truly feels like a community – with 20,000 monthly active users and 6 millions tokens available, artists are also collectors, and, quite often, the other way around. It's a place that is 100% organic, that feels like the indie-rock scene in the overall NFT ecosystem. How can we build it so it becomes “bigger than we could ever imagine”? How can we make it well-known without giving even two cents to marketing? How can we ensure it remains accessible for everyone?...
#61 From Record Labels to Metalabels, with Yancey Strickler (Founder @ Metalabel)
January 19, 2023 12:30 - 52 minutes - 875 MBOn the Ledger today, we are glad to receive a man who has changed the content creation industry. Yancey Strickler is one of the crowdfunding pioneers who co-founded Kickstarter 17 years ago, who now turned into a NFT degen in the last months and founded Metalabel, a release club where groups of people who share the same interests collaborate to drop and support work together. In an one-on-one discussion with our Chief Experience Officer, he discusses inventing the coolest magazine of tomorr...
#60 What’s new here? Web3 in the eyes of Tim Ferriss
January 10, 2023 02:30 - 1 hour - 1.42 GBWhen you are a creator, how do you shake up the cobwebs and keep taking creative risks? This is the question our guest for this episode asked himself after becoming a successful angel investor in tech, publishing a long list of best-sellers (check his 4-Hour series) and a podcaster came to ask himself recently. His answer was: deep diving into web3, and creating “an emergent long fiction project” in the form of an NFT project: CockPunch. And you should be aware that this one is not for fl...
#59 Ledger Stax... Explained by Tony Fadell
January 05, 2023 14:09 - 52 minutes - 875 MBCurious about our new device, Ledger Stax? Want to know how we first thought of this new generation of hardware wallets, and what it took to bring it to life? Then listen to this discussion between our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and Tony Fadell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#58 What do you know about Web3? With Zeneca & Mo El-Sayed
December 27, 2022 11:30 - 49 minutes - 817 MBHow to understand the crypto ecosystem after the falls of FTX, Celsius and more? Where and how to educate yourself in an ever-changing crypto space? Looking back at 2022, it is fair to say that this will probably be a year that’ll forever be remembered in Web3. It had its ups and major downs but all in all we can see the future of this industry being built before our eyes day by day by passionate creators, entrepreneurs and educators. In this new episode of On the Ledger, Mo El-Sayed, head ...
#57 Ledger Op3n through the eyes of Yoon (Ambush)
December 22, 2022 11:30 - 17 minutes - 286 MBAfter starting out in jewelry, Yoon co-founded Ambush with Verbal. She's behind some of the brand's most successful collabs over the past few years with Off-White, Louis Vuitton, Nike, Starbucks and… Reese’s. And, guess what - she's also big in crypto. Our VP of Communications Ariel Wengroff took advantage of her presence at our bi-yearly event Ledger Op3n to sit with her and discuss how she fell in love with Web3, as well as the need for less “toxic positivity” and more honest criticism in...
#56 Ledger Stax... Explained by Charles Guillemet
December 14, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 1.02 GBCurious about our new device, Ledger Stax? Want to know how we first thought of this new generation of hardware wallets, and what it took to bring it to life? Then listen to this discussion between our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and our Chief Technology Officer Charles Guillemet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#55 Ledger Stax... Explained by Ian Rogers
December 12, 2022 11:41 - 55 minutes - 914 MBCurious about our new device, Ledger Stax? Want to know how we first thought of this new generation of hardware wallets, and what it took to bring it to life? Then listen to this discussion between our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and our VP of Communications Ariel Wengroff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#54 Ledger Stax... Explained by Pascal Gauthier
December 06, 2022 14:45 - 35 minutes - 596 MBWant to know how our brand new device, Ledger Stax, was brought to the world? Listen to our CEO Pascal Gauthier explain its origins, conception and evolution, from day 1 to this very moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#53 Ian meets with Kevin Rose (Proof, Moonbirds)
November 30, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 1020 MBIn the last episode before we hit Ledger Op3n, we are very pleased to meet with a serial Web entrepreneur and early stage investor in companies such as Twitter, Facebook & Square to name a few. Today he’s considered to be one of the leading voices in Web3, Co-founder and CEO of Proof and a partner at True Ventures, you might’ve guessed it already, this time we have Kevin Rose on the show, in discussion with a man you surely know by now, Ian Rogers, Ledger’s Chief Experience officer. In les...
#52 Ian meets with... Balaji Srinivasan
November 11, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 1.18 GBOur guest today has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, founded and sold a genomics company, became an early investor in crypto and then CTO of Coinbase, then a best-selling author with his recently published The Network State. Also, he thinks that blockchain (or, to be more accurate, that cryptographically verifiable information) is the most important human invention since the invention of written history. On this new episode of On the Ledger, we are thrilled to have one of the...
#51 Never Been Hacked: Our New Security Update
October 25, 2022 10:30 - 42 minutes - 706 MBAt Ledger, we deeply care about Web3 security and the values of self sovereignty, so much talent is working day in, day out on developing the best in class security solutions for your digital assets. And the truth is: we haven’t really been talking that much about security here. But that is about to change… Every month, we’ll take you with us behind the scenes at Ledger, to discuss the most recent developments, dive into the latest scams and hacks and answer your questions to provide you w...
#50 Ian meets with… Mike Shinoda
October 07, 2022 12:30 - 42 minutes - 706 MBThis week, you'll hear a very different episode of On the Ledger. This week, we are not interviewing anyone. This week, Ledger is being interviewed... by the multifaceted legendary musician, Linkin Park hero, and now NFT aficionado (make sure to check his Ziggurats collection) Mike Shinoda. For the first time, Ian Rogers, Ledger's Chief Experience Officer, answers all the questions Mike and his amazing Discord community have about crypto, web3 and more. What is clear-signing? What does one...
#49 Filecoin, How Blockchain Can Manage Your Data
September 21, 2022 10:30 - 52 minutes - 874 MBScale is a problem we all have to deal with. Especially the scale of the data we will consume in the next years. In 2021, the internet consumed 79 zettabytes, that’s the equivalent of 79 B laptops with 1TB storage capacity each. Thing is, despite this data being ours, we actually don’t own it, internet companies do and they absorb it and sell it back to us in the form of advertising, which is quite profitable. Blockchain and decentralized storage technologies offer an alternative to that sys...
#48 The Merge, StarkNet & the Future of Ethereum
September 13, 2022 10:30 - 58 minutes - 975 MBIt’s a moment that’s never happened before in the crypto space. A long-awaited, often delayed one. But what does the Merge truly mean? Is the Merge a real technological shift, or just a change of narrative? What’s the point of switching from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake? As the Merge is on the verge of being completed, Charles Guillemet (CTO @ Ledger), Nicolas Bacca (Ledger Cofounder & VP of Innovation) and Abdel Bakhta (Tech Lead @ StarkNet) share their thoughts on this very special mom...
#47 Ledger Market: Let The Brick Drop
August 30, 2022 08:11 - 45 minutes - 753 MBFrom selling punk-rock mixtapes to invading the web3 world, Brick is not your everyday NFT. It’s a project that’s truly born out of culture with music, live shows and fashion being at its core. After touring with Trash Talk for more than 10 years, LA based musicians Lee Spielman and Garrett Stevenson drew inspiration from legendary DIY venues of the past to conceive of Brick with the great help of art advisor Aiden Cullen. Brick will be a music venue by night and a community-run creative s...
#46 Snowfro & Artblocks: The Generative Art Evolution
July 20, 2022 10:08 - 1 hour - 995 MBAlthough generative art existed way before Blockchain technology, last year has seen NFTs enable groundbreaking artists and their innovative expressions to gain access to whole new audience groups and monetisation mechanics, beyond the conventional boundaries of the art world. A symbiotic experience between artist, code and collectors. One cannot talk about generative art without mentioning Art Blocks. Art Blocks is leading a new generation of art through its platform. The project created b...
#45 The Sandbox: into the Ledgerverse w/ S. Borget (COO @ The Sandbox)
July 05, 2022 10:30 - 43 minutes - 716 MBIf you’ve been following the news, you probably know that we’ve announced the launch of the LedgerVerse on The Sandbox with the purpose of educating communities about Web3 security in a more engaging and culturally relevant way, starting with a first experience called School of Block, where players fight off hackers and scammers to win exclusive NFT rewards. But what’s that all about? Why’s Ledger partnering with The Sandbox , kickstarting a true web3 romance? Why is the Sandbox from other,...
#44 ADA & Ledger, the time is now w/ C. Hoskinson
June 15, 2022 10:30 - 54 minutes - 906 MBThis is an episode that some of you have long been waiting for. Today is the day we answer one of the key questions in crypto. Not the “who is Satoshi?” question. The “Wen Ada on Ledger” question. If this is what you’ve been asking yourself, listen on because we’ve got the answer. For its first year anniversary, On The Ledger is thrilled to meet with the mathematician slash entrepreneur slash farmer, Ethereum Cofounder and brain behind Cardano: Charles Hoskinson. With Fabrice Dautriat, our ...