Digitized
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDigitized's Derek Edward Schloss (@derekedws) sits down with builders across the blockchain and cryptoasset space to track the latest news on digitized assets and programmable organizations.
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Nimit Sawhney - Voatz (Episode #23 - "Voting on Blockchain")
June 09, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBNimit Sawhney is the CEO of Voatz, one of the leading blockchain-based voting platforms in the United States -- with more than 80,000 votes cast on the Voatz platform across more than 50 elections since 2016. In this episode, Nimit and Derek talk about the current problems that exist with electoral voting – including friction and inefficiency, lack of voter participation, human error – and why the time might be arriving for state and federal elections powered by mobile cameras, biometrics, a...
Stephen McKeon - Collaborative Fund (Episode #22 - "Security Token Base Layers, Valuation, and DAOs")
May 29, 2020 14:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBStephen McKeon is a Partner at Collaborative Fund, a SF/NY venture fund investing in blockchain-based financial infrastructure with an eye towards the future of our financial markets. Stephen is also a finance professor at the University of Oregon and one of the sharpest thinkers in the security token space. In this conversation, Stephen and Derek dive right in to topics like cryptoasset valuation, security token base layers, decentralized finance – projects like DeFi Money Market, Chainli...
Luis Macias - GrainChain (Episode #21 - "Supply Chains and Blockchain")
May 11, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBLuis Macias is the CEO at GrainChain, a Texas-based blockchain platform for facilitating contracts, records, payments, financing, and other transactional data for supply chain ecosystems. GrainChain has nearly 1500 active participants on its blockchain supply chain platform – including suppliers, farmers, inventory elevators, and buyers of dry grain in Mexico, Honduras, and the United States. In this episode, Luis and Derek talk about the problems that exist today with supply chain managem...
Derek Edward Schloss - Security Token Academy (Episode #20 - "A Formatting Revolution")
April 27, 2020 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBDerek Edward Schloss is the Director of Strategy at Security Token Academy, the leading educational platform for the security token industry. In this episode, Derek reads his latest published piece -- "Security Tokens and The Formatting Revolution". In the episode, Derek explains that the idea of taking securities and placing them on blockchains can be best understood as a simple formatting revolution that’s three thousand years in the making. Derek walks through the history behind the diffe...
Bruce Fenton - Watchdog Capital (Episode #19 - "COVID and Security Tokens")
April 13, 2020 14:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBBruce Fenton is the CEO at Chainstone Labs and owner of Watchdog Capital – an SEC-registered FINRA broker dealer for the security token industry. In this episode, Bruce and Derek chat through the blockchain and digital securities industry in light of recent COVID-19 events – including the $2T stimulus package recently passed by our U.S. Congress. They also dive into Bruce’s decades-long background in public markets, wealth management, finance and eventually – its intersection with blockchain...
Dan Doney - Securrency (Episode #18 - "COVID-19, DeFi, and Security Tokens"
March 30, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBDan Doney is the CEO of Securrency, a security token firm focused on enhancing financial infrastructure and interoperability across the world’s asset markets. In this episode, Dan and I talk about COVID-19’s influence on the decentralized finance space. We also cover the mapping of security token technology to ‘DeFi’ in the future, WidsomTree’s strategic investment in Securrency’s $17M Series A earlier this year – and why security tokens may eventually disrupt the ETF model. Finally, Dan and...
Patrick Byrne (Episode #17 - "A Blockchain Tech Stack For Civilization")
March 16, 2020 14:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBPatrick Byrne is the former CEO of Overstock.com, and a long-time blockchain technology advocate. Patrick has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Asian students from Dartmouth, a master’s in philosophy in ethics from Cambridge University, and a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University. Patrick has spoken frequently over the years about the role blockchain technology will play in redefining ownership and the exchange of value in our capital markets. In this episode, Patrick and De...
Marc Boiron - FisherBroyles Attorney/Partner (Episode #16 - "Safe Harbors and Cryptoassets")
March 03, 2020 15:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBMarc Boiron is a blockchain attorney and FisherBroyles Partner. FisherBroyles is a cloud-based full service law firm “for the twenty-first century” – with law offices in cities across the United States. Marc’s legal practice includes the intersection of securities laws with blockchain-based digital assets. In this conversation, Marc and Derek talk through SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce’s recent ‘Safe Harbor’ proposal, which aims to remedy some of the issues the industry has seen in the ap...
Igor Telyatnikov - AlphaPoint CEO (Episode #15 - "An Engine For Security Token Exchange")
February 24, 2020 15:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBIgor Telyatnikov is the CEO and Co-Founder at AlphaPoint, a white label platform for cryptoasset exchanges, brokerages, and the tokenization of assets. AlphaPoint’s tools allow teams to quickly and securely launch their own digital asset exchanges using AlphaPoint’s full stack exchange technology -- and also allows projects to create blockchain-based digital assets using AlphaPoint’s “Asset Digitization Software”. In this conversation, Igor and Derek talk through the two core arms of Alph...
Gabriel Shapiro - Blockchain Attorney (Episode #14 - "DAOs, Tokenized Securities, and Sufficient Decentralization")
January 29, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBGabriel Shapiro is a blockchain attorney and writer focusing his practice on the intersection of securities law, corporate law, and blockchain networks. Shapiro has published a number of pieces on this intersection -- specifically, the tokenization of corporate capital stock, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and sufficiently decentralized blockchain networks. In this conversation, Gabriel and Derek talk about all three of these areas -- blockchain-enabled public markets, the...
Dave Hendricks - Vertalo (Episode #13 - "Cap Tables, Self-Sovereignty, and Security Tokens")
January 15, 2020 15:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBDave Hendricks is the CEO of Vertalo, a blockchain-agnostic cap table solutions company for security tokens. Vertalo aims to build "the operating system for digital assets". In this conversation, Dave and Derek talk about Vertalo's origin story, how Vertalo connects all major players of the security token ecosystem together, and Vertalo's recently-announced tokenized real estate partnership with custody giant Prime Trust.
Stephen McKeon - Collaborative Fund (Episode #12 - "DeFi, DAOs, and Security Tokens in 2020")
December 29, 2019 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBStephen McKeon is a Partner at Collaborative Fund, a SF/NY venture fund investing in blockchain-based financial infrastructure with an eye towards the future of our financial markets. Stephen is also a finance professor at the University of Oregon and one of the sharpest thinkers in the security token space. Previously, Stephen joined Derek on Security Token Stories Episode #2 to chat about his “Security Token Thesis” paper and how security tokens will dominate previous methods of reporting ...
Saum Noursalehi - tZERO (Episode #11 - Building A Security Token Exchange)
December 10, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBSaum Noursalehi is the CEO of tZERO, an end to end security token lifecycle and trading platform. tZERO’s goal is to make capital markets more efficient, reliable, and accessible through digitization and blockchain-based technology. The tZERO team has created a number of tailored products that aim to improve traditional markets— including the tZERO ATS and trading platform, the tZERO Crypto App, and the Boston Security Token Exchange — a joint venture with BOX Digital that aims to be the fir...
Jimmy Bingham - Prime Trust (Episode #10) - "Tokenizing Real Estate Asset Trusts"
November 25, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBJimmy Bingham is the SVP of Business Development at Prime Trust—a technology-driven trust company that provides financial infrastructure solutions for the leading global exchanges, OTC desks, platforms, broker-dealers, stablecoins, and more. Prime Trust's stack of APIs and technology solutions help power some of the largest names in the digital asset space — including Binance, Huobi, Bittrex, OKCoin, and many more. In Q1 of 2020, Prime Trust will launch its new TREATs platform for tokenized ...
Jimmy Bingham - Prime Trust (Episode #10 - "Tokenizing Real Estate Asset Trusts")
November 25, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBJimmy Bingham is the SVP of Business Development at Prime Trust—a technology-driven trust company that provides financial infrastructure solutions for the leading global exchanges, OTC desks, platforms, broker-dealers, stablecoins, and more. Prime Trust's stack of APIs and technology solutions help power some of the largest names in the digital asset space — including Binance, Huobi, Bittrex, OKCoin, and many more. In Q1 of 2020, Prime Trust will launch its new TREATs platform for tokenized ...
Jehan Tremback - Althea (Episode #9 - "Decentralized Internet")
November 11, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBJehan Tremback is the CEO and Co-Founder of Althea, a team building a decentralized internet network that allows routers to pay each other for internet bandwidth, peer-to-peer (P2P). Althea encourages and empowers any individual to become their own internet service provider, and earn money by providing internet service to their neighbors and local businesses. In this interview with STA’s Derek Edward Schloss, Tremback walks through his history in the San Francisco hacker space, the opportuni...
Jehan Tremback - Althea (Episode #9)
November 11, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBJehan Tremback is the CEO and Co-Founder of Althea, a team building a decentralized internet network that allows routers to pay each other for internet bandwidth, peer-to-peer (P2P). Althea encourages and empowers any individual to become their own internet service provider, and earn money by providing internet service to their neighbors and local businesses. In this interview with STA’s Derek Edward Schloss, Tremback walks through his history in the San Francisco hacker space, the opportun...
Thomas Borrel and Adam Dossa - Polymath (Episode #8 - "Security Token Blockchains")
October 28, 2019 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBThomas Borrel (Chief Product Officer) and Adam Dossa (Head of Blockchain) are building security token software at Polymath, a tokenization platform that aims to make the creation, issuance, and management of security tokens simple. In this interview with STA’s Derek Edward Schloss, Borrel and Dossa walk through the limitations of public blockchains like Ethereum for the security token industry, and why Polymath decided to work on their newest initiative—the Polymesh Blockchain. The Polymesh...
Thomas Borrel and Adam Dossa - Polymath (Episode #8)
October 28, 2019 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBThomas Borrel (Chief Product Officer) and Adam Dossa (Head of Blockchain) are building security token software at Polymath, a tokenization platform that aims to make the creation, issuance, and management of security tokens simple. In this interview with STA’s Derek Edward Schloss, Borrel and Dossa walk through the limitations of public blockchains like Ethereum for the security token industry, and why Polymath decided to work on their newest initiative—the Polymesh Blockchain. The Polymesh...
Douglas Pepe - George Washington Law School and Mango Farm Assets (Episode #7 - "Tokenization Software")
October 14, 2019 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBDouglas Pepe is an instructor at GW Law teaching "Blockchain Law and Policy," an attorney and Partner at Joseph Hage Aaronson law firm, and co-founder at Mango Farm Assets building asset tokenization software on top of the Ravencoin blockchain. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, Pepe talks about how he approaches teaching blockchain topics to new students at GW School of Law, the current state of securities guidance from the SEC for new and existing token projects, and why...
Douglas Pepe - George Washington Law School and Mango Farm Assets -Episode #7
October 14, 2019 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBDouglas Pepe is an instructor at GW Law teaching "Blockchain Law and Policy," an attorney and Partner at Joseph Hage Aaronson law firm, and co-founder at Mango Farm Assets building asset tokenization software on top of the Ravencoin blockchain. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, Pepe talks about how he approaches teaching blockchain topics to new students at GW School of Law, the current state of securities guidance from the SEC for new and existing token projects, and why...
Jor Law - Verify Investor (Episode #6 - "Accredited Investors")
September 30, 2019 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBIn this episode of Stories Token Stories Host Derek Edward Schloss sits with Jor Law, co-founder of Verify Investor. The Jobs Act of 2012 and its limitations Accredited Investors under United States Law Blockchain in the crowdfunding industry Tzero acquiring Verify Investor What the future holds for the state of the Security Token Industry
Jor Law-Verify Investor (Episode #6)
September 30, 2019 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBIn this episode of Stories Token Stories Host Derek Edward Schloss sits with Jor Law, co-founder of Verify Investor. The Jobs Act of 2012 and its limitations Accredited Investors under United States Law Blockchain in the crowdfunding industry Tzero acquiring Verify Investor What the future holds for the state of the Security Token Industry
Luc Falempin - Tokeny (Episode #5 - "Luxembourg Tokenization")
September 16, 2019 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBLuc Falempin is the CEO at Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based tokenization platform for regulated securities. Tokeny is a technology provider and end-to-end platform to issue, manage, and transfer regulated security tokens. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, Falempin walks through the Tokeny platform, and where Tokeny is seeing the most tokenization for demand right now. Falempin also discusses why he believes Ethereum is the most influential blockchain for security tokens. His t...
Luc Falempin-Tokeny (Episode #5)
September 16, 2019 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBLuc Falempin is the CEO at Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based tokenization platform for regulated securities. Tokeny is a technology provider and end-to-end platform to issue, manage, and transfer regulated security tokens. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, Falempin walks through the Tokeny platform, and where Tokeny is seeing the most tokenization for demand right now. Falempin also discusses why he believes Ethereum is the most influential blockchain for security tokens. His t...
David Hoffman-RealT (Episode #4)
September 03, 2019 15:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBDavid Hoffman is the COO at RealT, an Ethereum-based platform for tokenizing real property ownership in the United States. RealT empowers investors around the globe to buy into the US real estate market through compliant, fractional, tokenized ownership–powered by blockchain. RealT’s first tokenized properties are single-family homes in Detroit, Michigan. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, Hoffman walks through the RealT platform, the launch of its first tokenized properties...
David Hoffman - RealT (Episode #4 - "Tokenized Detroit Real Estate")
September 03, 2019 15:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBDavid Hoffman is the COO at RealT, an Ethereum-based platform for tokenizing real property ownership in the United States. RealT empowers investors around the globe to buy into the US real estate market through compliant, fractional, tokenized ownership–powered by blockchain. RealT’s first tokenized properties are single-family homes in Detroit, Michigan. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schloss, Hoffman walks through the RealT platform, the launch of its first tokenized properties...
Nick Cowan- Gibraltar Stock Exchange (Episode #3)
August 19, 2019 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBNick Cowan is the CEO and Founder of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group, a financial services portfolio that includes the Gibraltar Stock Exchange, the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange, JUNO Fund Administration, FORT Advisory Firm, and HASHTACS, a fintech subsidiary and developer of the proprietary STACS blockchain and protocol. The Gibraltar Stock Exchange aims to be one of the world’s first regulated stock exchanges to list and trade security tokens. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward...
Nick Cowan- Gibraltar Stock Exchange (Episode #3 - "Gibraltar's DLT Push")
August 19, 2019 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBNick Cowan is the CEO and Founder of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group, a financial services portfolio that includes the Gibraltar Stock Exchange, the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange, JUNO Fund Administration, FORT Advisory Firm, and HASHTACS, a fintech subsidiary and developer of the proprietary STACS blockchain and protocol. The Gibraltar Stock Exchange aims to be one of the world’s first regulated stock exchanges to list and trade security tokens. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward...
Stephen McKeon- Collaborative Fund (Episode #2 - "The Security Token Thesis")
August 05, 2019 15:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBStephen McKeon is a partner at Collaborative Fund, a venture fund investing in blockchain-based financial infrastructure with an eye towards the future of our financial markets. McKeon is also a finance professor at the University of Oregon, and one of the leading thinkers in the security token space. In addition to his role at Collaborative Fund and the University of Oregon, McKeon is also the chief strategy advisor at Security Token Academy. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schlo...
Stephen McKeon- Collaborative Fund (Episode #2)
August 05, 2019 15:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBStephen McKeon is a partner at Collaborative Fund, a venture fund investing in blockchain-based financial infrastructure with an eye towards the future of our financial markets. McKeon is also a finance professor at the University of Oregon, and one of the leading thinkers in the security token space. In addition to his role at Collaborative Fund and the University of Oregon, McKeon is also the chief strategy advisor at Security Token Academy. In this interview with STA's Derek Edward Schlo...
Bryan Myint - Republic (Episode #1 - "Crowdfunding and Blockchain Securities")
July 09, 2019 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBIn this episode, Derek and Bryan discuss: Republic's background and how Republic Crypto was formed The benefits of regulated "Airdrops." The launch of Republic's "Note" token The benefits and limitations of Reg CF and Reg A+ as it relates to security tokens Working with regulations to update securities regulations in the future What the future holds for Republic and blockchain securities in 2019 and beyond
Bryan Myint- Republic (Episode #1)
July 09, 2019 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBEach episode, Derek Edward Schloss, Security Token Academy’s Director of Strategy, sits down with industry insiders. To ask the questions that professionals, service providers, investors, and enthusiasts want to know most about the digitization of assets, securities, and finance. In this episode, Derek and Bryand discuss: Republic's background and how Republic Crypto was formed The benefits of regulated "Airdrops." The launch of Republic's "Note" token The benefits and limitations of Re...