All About Blockchain
Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) is accelerating education, adoption and innovation in partnership with global universities. We can better understand this emerging tech by hearing from scholars who are developing real use-case that solve for today's challenges. Host Lauren Weymouth interviews leading blockchain experts covering various applications across a wide range of sectors.
Episodes
47 episodes
Blockchain Online Voting System | Aerin Kim
Worried about voter rigging? There is so much distrust in electoral systems around the world. Nations seek a fairer, more efficient, transparent way to hold elections. Public blockchains make voting and counting i...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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24:31
Digital Currency Strategies of Central Banks | Andreas Veneris
Central banks are reaching beyond legacy financial systems into the digital world to embrace new technologies and systems. Most central banks have initiated projects on adoption of blockchain in CBDC
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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37:05
Reshaping the Auto Industry | Alex Rawitz DIMO
Tech-savvy listeners who are excited about cars, IoT, data, crypto, Web3, and software development can benefit from listening to this conversation between Alex Rawitz, Co-Founder and COO at DIMO...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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36:07
Applying Blockchain to the HBW Project | Ayesha Hardison & Drew Davidson
The History of Black Writing project is an excellent example where an internationally renowned source for information converted from a distributed online database to a blockchain. A conver...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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25:39
Novel Blockchain Applications in the Energy Sector | Soheil Saraji
Continuing our conversation about using blockchain on our global path toward sustainability.Listen to this rich discussion with Soheil Saraji, Universit...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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24:00
Tokenizing Transportation | Jimmie Lenz
We have the technology to improve payment terms, without the use of selling invoices to 3rd parties, for millions of small trucking firms. Tokens can return 100 cents on the dollar to these businesses and improve economies for more than just...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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28:20
How Blockchain Will Save The Climate | Ando Shah
Are you following the most critical, vital, existential fight of our planet? The potential application of blockchain to decarbonize our economy and our world so that we can avoid catastrophic temperature rise is happening. Discover alon...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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35:10
Blockchain Application for Identity Management | Nick Dazé
Proving something about yourself in a digital world should be fast, easy and secure. How are blockchains useful in managing verifiable credentials, decentralized IDs and other tokenized assets?Nick Dazé, founder and CEO of
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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39:27
The Personalization of Finance | Emmanuel Daniel
How does highly personalized FinTech change how institutions, markets, & societies run? Columbia Professor, Agostino Capponi, explores how crypto and blockchain are alt...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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42:24
Interactive Sports Marketplace for Collectable Tokens | VO2
How much fun would it be to become a stakeholder in your favorite athlete? Sports lovers can now interact with chosen players and get rewarded. Join UPenn scholars Arham Habib and Arpan Bagui talking about their journey...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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23:26
Empowering Investors | NFT Valuations
We are at the very beginning of NFT's becoming a meaningful percentage of art, collectables, gaming, and community markets and yet NFT's are already a multi billion dollar market. It can be intimidating for first-timers to ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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17:24
NFT Credentialing | Klitos Christodoulou
Whether you are just dipping your toes into Web3 and looking to take a free MOOC to advance your understanding or interested in diving all in to get a Master's degree in Di...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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16:12
NFT Home Sales | Geoffrey Thompson & Sanjay Raghavan
Buying or selling a home? Blockchain cuts the transaction process and cost of buying a single family home down dramatically. Welcome to the next-generation for real-estate investments.Real Estate experts Geoffrey Thompson a...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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27:53
Bringing Web3 forward with authentic data transit | Eric Falk
Learn about new ways of storing documents, multimedia, sensor telemetry (all kinds of data) on the internet to never lose it again and new ways of sharing it through real-world objects as digital twins online (mirrored NFT tokens with attach...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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21:01
Universal Access to Central Bank Digital Currencies | Co-Pierre Georg
Many humans on our planet remain DIGITALLY excluded. Those who are excluded can be limited or unable to participate fully in society. This divide between those with digital skills and those with barriers to access and use con...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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37:42
Shaping Blockchain Certification - DEC Institute | Arno Pernthaler
You want to jump on the hot new tech wave. Maybe you are starting your career or are thinking about changing industries to join the blockchain revolution. How do you prove your acumen in this fast moving space?A conversation with Arn...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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24:19
Renewable Energy Certificates using DLT | Iván Razo
CELEBRATING EARTH DAY 2022 * Sustainability is an increasingly important topic of conversation and we'll dive into how the rise of new technologies like blockchain can help.What about blockchain technology makes it so appealing for a...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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19:27
Cryptocurrency Regulation | Yuliya Guseva
Digital Asset regulation is a controversial subject, but most experts argue that a framework is necessary to protect investors and outline clear guidelines for innovation.Rutger's Law Professor,
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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43:13
Transforming Business with Blockchain | André Salem
We've been hearing of all the benefits to using blockchain across various sectors. How can companies who know nothing about blockchain implement this technology into their business? Blockfo...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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24:56
Hollywood Meets Blockchain NFTs | Michelle Munson
Ready for the new web3 content experience? Look to the minting of derivative NFTs. You can exclusively view The Walking Dead's final season and&nb...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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30:35
Diversity and Inclusion in the Blockchain - Crypto Space | Ali Emdad
How do we lower the barriers to people of color having access to strong education on blockchain? How do we train people to better qualify for this space flooding with job opportunities? Holding annual competitions like "Battle f...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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25:40
Blockchain Power for Innovative Economy | Wladimiro Navarro
A conversation between Navin Gupta, Ripple’s MD, South Asia & MENA, and Finweg’s CTO, Wladimiro Navarro. Finweg went through NYU Abu Dhabi’s
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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23:23
Fintech -> Key Driver to Sustainability | Thomas Puschmann
How does Fintech and blockchain drive the economy toward more sustainable development?A conversation with Dr. Thomas Puschmann, Director of
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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22:24
Protecting Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies | Victor Fang
Can we trust blockchain? How can we be more confident interacting with the developing digital economy? Anchain.ai is a start-up passionate about facilitating legitimacy and security...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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38:04
AuditChain: Trading Audit Platform over Blockchain | Guy Vishnia
When it comes to financial regulation systems, how can we make recording the flow of information more clear? How can we keep up with the expense of self-regulating, especially when there are monthly changes?Newly emerged electron...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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22:24