Steve Vallas is the managing director of Blockchain APAC, previous CEO of Blockchain Australia, and an all around Linkedin Wizard.
Steve came to Auckland to meet with industry discussing aligning incentives and shared interests between Australia and New Zealand.
In this conversation we touch on the scam narrative within crypto, how it has affected the nft space, and crytpo marketing, and of course regulation and where we're at in Asia Pacific. ---------------- Timestamps: 01:30 Southern Hemisphere Perspectives 10:26 ICO hangover & NFTs 20:35 supply chains 24:40 nftFestAus 29:39 crypto marketing bros 34:41 regulation 41:14 lessons from Singapore 48:41 stablecoins 52:57 blockchain orgs 55:52 fin ---------------- Some notes from the show:
- doodles pivot https://www.fastcompany.com/90783396/doodles-domination-how-a-1-year-old-nft-project-turned-into-the-next-big-thing
- opensea https://opensea.io/
- magiceden https://magiceden.io/
- blur https://blur.io/
- starkware https://starkware.co/
- nftfest aus https://nftfest.com.au/
- MiCA European Crypto Assets https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-mica-crypto-regulation-is-a-balancing-act-paris-blockchain-week-2023
- BIS's Carstens says fiat has lost https://insidebitcoins.com/news/bis-head-crypto-has-lost-the-battle-against-fiat-currencies
- Singapore crypto ad restrictions https://archive.ph/FKD5Y
- Singapore's Regulatory Sandbox https://www.mas.gov.sg/development/fintech/regulatory-sandbox
Contact Steve:
- Twitter https://twitter.com/stevevallas
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevevallas/
Find Jeff:
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Recorded at blockheight 781595. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
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