Scenes from FIA Boca 2024
We present a special mid-week episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from FIA Boca 2024. During this March’s FIA Boca conference in Boca Raton, Florida, we partnered with the FIA to interview a wide-range of futures industry participants. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sat down with these guests to ask them how they see their […]
Maryam Ayati, Co-Founder Watr Blockchain Protocol
This morning, SmarterMarkets host, David Greely, sits down with tradfi turned defi commodities expert, Maryam Ayati, to explore the role of blockchain and decentralized finance in the carbon markets. Join us as we identify technological opportunities and tools available to make carbon markets more transparent, less prone to error, faster, and more efficient to solve […]
Erik Townsend, Host, Macrovoices
In this third episode of our three-part series, host Grant Williams speaks with the original host of SmarterMarkets™, Erik Townsend. Erik and Grant discuss the concept of Smarter Markets, through the lens of financial systems, digital currencies, and NFT’s, and how technological advancements will champion these new currency systems. Download full transcript → Hosted By
Kaliya Young on Self Sovereign Identity as a Tool to Advance a Consent-Based Economy
For the opening episode of ‘Identikit Sequent X’, Michelle Dennedy welcomes Kaliya Young, also known as The Identity Woman, to SmarterMarkets™ for our latest series examining the evolution of digital identity, and how self-sovereign identity, specifically, can advance a consent-based economy. Kaliya is one of the world’s leading experts in self-sovereign identity and identity on […]
Leemon Baird and Understanding Distributed Ledger
Hedera Hashgraph co-founder Dr. Leemon Baird joins Erik to discuss the distributed ledger technology that makes tokenization possible. Hosted By
Charlie McGarraugh on Translating Tokenization Jargon to Digestible English
Charlie McGarraugh is Chief Strategy Officer for Blockchain.com, the largest self-custodied crypto wallet provider globally. Previously he was a Goldman Sachs Partner and former head of metals trading, so his native language is finance. In this interview, Charlie explains Tokenization in terms that Finance professionals can relate to, then goes on to explain what this […]
Maryam Ayati’s Vision for Tokenizing the Entire Supply Chain
We sit down with energy industry maverick and market innovator, Maryam Ayati, who leads NEO Holdings. NEO brings established industry giants together with the climate and entrepreneurial ecosystem in mutually profitable models. Together, they identify and operationalize tomorrow’s most valuable new commodities and business models, reinventing energy and extractive supply chains such that they serve planet, […]