Hedera Hashgraph - Gossip About Gossip Podcast (Hedera Hashgraph)

In this episode, Ali Pasha Foroughi, Independent Developer, Architect & Tech Lead, discusses immutable code, forking, smart contracts and more with host Paul Madsen.

In this episode, Alex Taylor, Founder of KPAY, discusses his experience working in various enterprise IT roles and eventually stumbling upon Hedera Hashgraph. Throughout his participation in one of Hedera’s hackathons, Alex ended up building KPAY – one of the easiest to use micropayments tools available today. Simply sign up, add in a link, and start earning cryptocurrency (or fiat) without having to go through any burdensome onboarding processes.

Listen to this podcast to hear Alex’s journey within the Hedera Community and learn more about what he is building with KPAY.

Learn more here: https://kpay.live/

You asked, We Answered! Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen challenge each other to answer the most challenging development questions to date on Hedera hashgraph. Have they solved your questions?  Check out the Hedera hashgraph Discord channel for more questions and answers. https://discord.gg/JwX4Nc

Ed Nwokedi from RedSwan.io discusses the tokenization of commercial real estate assets with the liquidity and security of public markets. Find out more about Red Swan and why it was built on the Hedera Hashgraph consensus algorithm. For more information on Red Swan check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOJIhpS41c or visit Redswan.io

Recorded June 14 2019

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Corporate Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our fourth Community Town Hall.

Topics range from what is Hedera’s "why", the Hedera Wallet, why a Governing Council of 39 members, and more. The community continues to enjoy asking fun questions that we are excited to answer, including some fun ‘this or that’ questions that both Leemon and Mance gladly addressed. What does Leemon think of Elon Musk's Neuralink interface project?

Listen to find out!

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our eighth Town Hall. Topics ranged from the possibility of using a DLT to vote on the U.S. presidential election, the Hedera Token Service, their favorite horror movies, and much more!

The Chinese government has made blockchain a key focus of their 5 year plan, quickly moving the industry beyond the “trough of disillusionment” and into real-world use cases.

Join Hedera’s Cooper Kunz in this Gossip About Gossip episode with Matthew Graham, CEO of Sino Global Capital, and Managing Partner of Liquid Value. As an investor living in mainland China and focused on the blockchain industry, Matthew provides insight into why their blockchain market “couldn’t be hotter”. They also discuss a recently leaked demo application, which showcases progress on their digital currency / electronic payment (DCEP) project, with large enterprises like Alibaba and Tencent helping bring the technology to a country with over 1.3B people. You can find Matthew on Twitter at @mattysino and learn about Sino Global Capital at SinoGlobalCapital.com.

Learn more about governance and the Hedera Council.  In this episode Scott Thiel from DLA Piper shares thoughts on becoming a Hedera Council member with Hedera Communications VP Zenobia Godschalk. Scott discusses legal uncertainty, regulatory frameworks, banned cryptocurrencies and 13 clients building dapps on Hedera.  Watch this video for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ZfhgJqNHE

Mance Harmon (Co-founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph) and David Post (Managing Director of Business Development and Strategy for Chainlink Labs) discuss Chainlink Labs joining the Hedera Governing Council. Chainlink, which serves as a secure blockchain middleware for powering a wide variety of enterprise users, will be the preferred oracle partner for the Hedera network and will collaborate to provide Chainlink integration with the Hedera Token Service (HTS). For more information, visit: https://hedera.com/blog/chainlink-labs-furthers-enterprise-focus-joins-hedera-governing-council

In this episode of Gossip about Gossip, Hedera's Developer Evangelist Cooper Kunz is joined by Tim Berglund, the Sr. Director of Developer Advocacy at Confluent. Tim’s experience in the technology industry spans decades, from writing firmware to some of the early days at GitHub, currently leading outreach and training at the multibillion-dollar enterprise software company Confluent. At Confluent, they're building an ecosystem around the popular event streaming platform Apache Kafka, which powers everything from Fortnite to the "Big Banks'" backend microservices.

Listen to this podcast to hear Tim's thoughts on distributed ledgers, Bitcoin, event streaming architectures, and the Hedera Consensus Service's low trust logging. You can follow him on Twitter at @tberglund and learn more about Confluent at https://Confluent.io.

AdsDax is a rich media advertising platform that aims to leverage blockchain technology to reinvent the advertising industry.  AdsDax is an early user of the Hedera network, accounting for a good portion of the network transactions. 

Find out more about the opportunity that Hedera brings to this app and the capacity that the Hedera network has to bring on more transactions, helping AdsDax with their business vision of fighting ad fraud.

For more information, visit https://adsdax.com/ and check out the performance metrics on the Hedera.com home page.

Learn how Otrafy uses distributed ledger to optimize the supply chain management to help farmers and producers become more efficient and reduce waste.

This episode is an audio version of a livestream recording found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlYuAzqn0-E

Visit Otrafy.com for more on the company and solution.

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our monthly Town Hall.

Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen discuss the concept of rent in the DLT context. If you want to have a platform that has some type of shared storage or shared compute, long term you will need someone to pay for that, and that has to be a scalable, sustainable model. Learn how how rent is distinct from buying a permanent space in a block and how the Hedera platform strategically approaches rent. For more information on Hedera, visit https://www.hedera.com/ You can also find content from some of our top podcasts in our YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcaTa5RR9SuChJCAxj96nNFCoX_sWeHze

Smart cities and IoT projects will be made possible with financial innovations achieved in the payments industry. Self-sovereign identity and digital identity verification are made possible with recent advancements in payment technology.

Launched in the 1980s, eftpos introduced a fast, simple, and secure payment system, which was rapidly embraced by both shoppers and merchants in Australia. eftpos revolutionized the way we pay for goods and services, and, as a result, changed the retail landscape forever.

In this Gossip About Gossip podcast episode, Hedera’s Christian Hasker and Cooper Kunz are joined by Rob Allen, Entrepreneur in Residence at eftpos Payments Australia. Rob shares how eftpos addresses the blockchain trilemma constraints and what will probably be Hedera’s first-ever stablecoin.

Listen to the podcast and learn how a micropayments infrastructure will change the way we interact with online businesses and disrupt the revenue model for online content creators.

You can learn more about eftpos at https://www.hedera.com/blog/eftpos-pioneers-new-ecommerce-micropayments-solution-using-hedera-hashgraph and https://www.eftposaustralia.com.au/.

Are our purchase decisions the biggest weapons of mass destruction? Olly Bolton, CEO of Almond shares ideas on a sustainable, transparent economic framework to help responsible brands build their sales.  For more information visit http://almond.io/.

In this episode of Gossip about Gossip, Hedera's Developer Evangelist Cooper Kunz is joined by Michael Lewellen, the CEO and Co-founder of Tarski Technologies. Michael has years of experience in the blockchain industry, from mining Bitcoin, to doing enterprise consulting with some of the largest companies in the world.

Tarski Technologies has expertise building blockchain and Hedera Hashgraph based solutions, exploring use cases, and even doing independent 3rd party security reviews and audits.  Michael also serves on the newly established Texas Blockchain Council, helping instantiate a clear and friendly regulatory environment for blockchain companies in the State of Texas.

Give this podcast a listen to hear Michaels's experience coming to the Hedera community, participating in hackathons, and other work he’s doing in the industry.

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our ninth Town Hall.

Learn about the Hedera enterprise-grade public network for decentralized applications with Hedera Hashgraph Co-Founders Dr. Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon. Topics include: DAGs, security, running nodes, proxy staking, governance, problems with forks, software upgrades, proof of stake, dapps and more!

For more on the subject, visit Hedera.com or listen to this recorded webinar from Dr. Leemon Baird on The Path to Decentralization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNNYeSks-s

Listen to the latest episode of Gossip about Gossip to learn more about one of the longest-standing teams building on Hedera, Ledgerama. Through their newest product, WallaWallet, they provide a flexible and secure option to store and transfer HBAR. You’ll also be able to gain some insight into what may be coming from their team in the future, and their experiences within our community.

Ledgerama: https://ledgerama.com/

WallaWallet: https://wallawallet.com/

Jesse’s Hedera Hashgraph Guide: https://hh.guide/

It's not every day that a major tech company validates a unique business and governance model that you've been promoting for years. Hedera CEO Mance Harmon joins hosts Zenobia Godschalk and Ken Anderson to share how Facebook libra has validated Hedera's model and the important differences between Facebook Libra and Hedera Hashgraph, including ABFT. Mance Harmon's related blog post is here: https://www.hedera.com/blog/our-contrarian-approach-validated. Hedera's governance model can be found here: https://www.hedera.com/council#model.

Listen to Jim Nasr, VP of Synchrogenix, a Certara company, talk about Open Pharma, technology, micropayments and the future of healthcare. Visit OpenPharma.IO for more information on the project and watch Jim's presentation at the 2018 developer event Hedera18: https://youtu.be/1uS2706lO3A

Gaming theory with Dr. Leemon Baird! Does the value that DLT brings to the world also apply in a simulated world of gaming? Dr. Leemon Baird, inventor of hashgraph joins our hosts to discuss ways that DLT can fit in the gaming stack. This podcast provides a fascinating perspective on the future of gaming, protecting the value of game assets, grinding tactics, ownership and trust. Watch more from Dr. Leemon Baird in this Hedera hashgraph masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzWiiOLv96I.  

The blog post Dr. Baird mentioned in the podcast "Hedera Technical Insights: A hybrid DLT architecture for gaming" by Paul Madsen can be found here: https://medium.com/hashgraph/hedera-technical-insights-a-hybrid-dlt-architecture-for-gaming-e77d27b11901

Blockchain technology won’t replace the need for databases; however, it will strengthen cybersecurity by introducing a layer of trust that mitigates internal threats, malware, and other concerns.

In this Gossip About Gossip episode, Hedera’s Paul Madsen and Cooper Kunz are joined by Guy Harrison. Guy is CTO of ProvenDB, a database professional, and author.

Here are some blockchain applications and use cases that ProvenDB make possible:

• Prove ownership of intellectual property
• Prove timestamps for legal instruments
• Prove that records have not been falsified or tampered with
• Create a log of all document changes

There is no doubt that the proof of work algorithm was a breakthrough technology. We are now witnessing the limits of this distributed ledger technology as it cannot realistically scale without harmful effects.

Listen to the entire podcast and learn why anchoring digital proofs in databases are the new fingerprint.

You can find ProvenDB at https://www.provendb.com/.

Zenobia Godschalk, SVP of Communications, and Christian Hasker, CMO, discuss Hedera's long-term vision to build a trusted, secure, and empowered digital future for all, a developer-oriented marketing strategy, and growth as the world’s most used public, decentralized network with over one billion transactions and counting.

80% of smart contracts need external data, but without an oracle, the data is stuck in silos. Johann Eid from Chainlink shares more about the future of smart contracts as the primary method for establishing digital agreements and explains why Chainlink is integrating with technology like Hedera Hashgraph. In May 2019 Hedera and Chainlink announced they will integrate Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network with Hedera’s enterprise-grade distributed public ledger. Read more here: https://www.hedera.com/blog/hedera-hashgraph-and-chainlink-collaborate-to-provide-a-decentralized-oracle-network-for-hederas-enterprise-grade-distributed-public-ledger

Listen to CEO Jim Nasr of Acoer, a software development firm, explain the innovation in healthcare technology that provides near real-time results. The coronavirus emergency has caused much confusion and many question the accuracy of the reported data. Public health and large data depend heavily on trusted data sources. DLT and Blockchain in healthcare can improve the information flow in supply chain management. We are only scratching the surface of the many healthcare use cases that will benefit from this innovation. Visit https://www.acoer.com/ for more information on the project and see the daily tracking and visualizations of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Roland Ringgenberg is an Independent Digital Architect shaping our digital world with a current focus on Eclesia, a dapp for increasing trust in a decentralized collector's marketplace. In this episode you'll learn more about creating tomorrow's radical markets of the Web 3.0 based on Hedera.  Here is a link to the book by Glen Weyl & Eric Posner that Roland mentioned on Radical Markets, where you can also find a PDF version of chapter 1: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11222.html You can find the blog post on Deep Fakes mentioned by Paul Madsen here: https://www.hedera.com/blog/using-distributed-ledgers-to-combat-deepfakes

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our fifth Town Hall.

Topics ranged from Mance and Leemon's vision for the future, what the last thing the Governing Council voted on, how Hedera can be used for supply chain tracking, and more.

This month's fun questions also didn't disappoint. What's Leemon's favorite scuba diving destination? What music is Mance listening to? Does Leemon like cats or dogs? Listen to find out!

In this episode Jordan Fried, SVP Business Development, and Christian Hasker, CMO, reflect on the past three years of Hedera Hashgraph, and take a trip down memory lane. Jordan looks ahead to what’s next for him, as he starts a new chapter.

Listen to this podcast to hear Jordan's experience first learning of the hashgraph consensus algorithm and then joining the Hedera Team.

We discuss the ever changing blockchain-powered audit and accounting landscape with Armanino‘s Director, Noah Buxton. Armanino is building trust for the decentralized internet. “Putting the trust back in trustless.”

Learn how this disruptive technology impacts data provenance, chain of custody, IT assurance, risk assurance, cryptocurrency, auditing, reconciliation accounting, substantive procedures, and decentralized finance (DeFi).

Check out Armanino's TrustExplorer, a real-time assurance dashboard here: https://real-time-attest.trustexplorer.io/ This marks the first time a full auditor’s opinion has been issued in real-time.

TrustExplorer enables the issuance of audits on-demand. This reduces the issuance of audit reports from 30 days to 30 seconds. By utilizing technology, auditors can now provide more relevant and timely data to the public. We have a revolutionary new source of trust and transparency. “It’s a decentralized future, but there still are centralized players.”

Armanino believes this is only the beginning for accounting industry breakthroughs due to the advent of cryptocurrency and blockchains. Learn more here: https://www.armaninollp.com/

Quantum supremacy has made breaking news, but what is it and how could this impact DLT cryptography? Learn from Atul Luykx, our Head of Cryptography in this fascinating discussion. For more on Hedera's post-quantum resistance visit this FAQ: https://help.hedera.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000764318-Is-Hedera-post-quantum-resistant-

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon, answer questions directly from the community in our second Town Hall. Topics range from the governing council, proof of stake, Sybil attacks, HBAR, proxy staking, Hedera Consensus Service (HCS), Hyperledger, AdsDax, public vs private vs intergalactic networks, virtual voting, and open source software. We also include some fun questions. Where did the name ‘Hedera’ come from? What does Leemon say are the top three scientific achievements or discoveries of all time? What does Mance describe as “palate shocking”? How would Leemon colonize Mars? Listen to find out!

Learn about testing security, scalability and performance as Donald Thibeau and Brady Gentile of Hedera discuss the Hedera Hashgraph community testing program. Find out how to gain early access to the mainnet to potentially earn hbars. Visit portal.hedera.com to find out more or get started.

According to Jiro Olcott from Guard Global, electricity is controlled by very large power organizations on old traditional architectures, costing the consumer a huge amount of money. With microgrid technology we can leapfrog hurdles and make electricity more available, at the right price for everyone. Guard Global develops software principally on the Hedera Hashgraph platform to support microgrids and tokenization of energy. In this Gossip About Gossip podcast episode, find out why Jiro Olcott believes Hedera is positioned to be "the packhorse of the microgrid industry".

Check out this inspiring video on managing renewable energy microgrids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBpX15oOqfA and visit http://www.guardglobal.org/ for more information on Guard Global. 

Simon Ostergaard, Futurist from the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies https://cifs.dk/ joins the Gossip About Gossip podcast to talk about the Future of Trust.  

Find out more about identity management in the distributed ledger space in this tech chat with Hedera's Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen.  Visit Hedera.com to learn more about Hedera Hashgraph.

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New Business Director Simon Olson from Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza (https://www.magazineluiza.com.br/) joins the podcast to share insights on the retail business and DLT attributes of security, fairness, throughput, energy use and governance.

We've turned the tables and interviewed Gossip Guy, a community member well known for gossiping about the world powered by hashgraph and the Hedera ecosystem.  For about the last year, Gossip Guy has provided videos and livestreams with updates, interviews and insights.  Find out what drives Gossip Guy, and become of one of the more than 1000 people who have subscribed to his Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaAz9GU7TlvG5kDdGbxANlQ

Who is Swisscom Blockchain and why have they joined the Hedera Governing Council? Kamal Youssefi, Industry Lead of Enterprise Blockchain at Swisscom Blockchain AG https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamal-youssefi-20180077/ joins the Gossip About Gossip podcast to share perspectives including DLT integrations and enterprise implementations. Visit Swisscom Blockchain's website here: https://blockchain.swisscom.com/ and learn more about the Hedera Governing Council in this overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfYLsHFXyGQ

Farmers deal with various pests during growing seasons. Currently, there isn’t a public database for pest data to be uploaded and presented. The lack of available data makes it difficult for these growers to know what pests to expect and when they should start treatment. Treatment at the wrong time affects our food crops as well as the environment.

Public Pest Network is a public decentralized database where pest data can be published and then shared in a way that is easy to understand. In this Gossip About Gossip episode, Hedera’s Paul Madsen and Cooper Kunz are joined by Katie Grubb, an Entomologist at the University of Kentucky, and Bryan Racic, a Software Engineer.

The Public Pest Network’s user-friendly interface, heat map distribution of data, and pest prediction system, give entomologists and growers an easy way to communicate pest data to save crops and encourage minimal pesticide use.

Listen to the entire podcast and learn how data science, data aggregation, and a next-generation distributed ledger technology deal with pest control and protect our food supply.

You can learn more about Public Pest Network at https://hedera20-platform.bemyapp.com/#/projects/5ec9692d834fc0001b7d7be4.

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our ninth Town Hall. Leemon addresses transaction prices on the Hedera Hashgraph mainnet, we answer if Hedera Hashgraph a good fit for CBDC creation and much more!

In discovery workshops the team plots use cases on the Y axis and superpowers on the X axis driving a discussion on the value of Hedera for feasible and viable solutions. Join co-hosts Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen to learn more about Hedera Hashgraph "Superpowers" and how these powers can be valuable for your business.

In the episode Ken Anderson refers to the Council members running the nodes. Hedera will migrate over time from a permissioned model where only the Council members run nodes to eventually a fully permissionless model where anyone can

For more information on Hedera visit https://www.hedera.com/ for more information.

Check out this YouTube video for more on how hashgraph works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwYU1Zr9Tg

Is the definition of micropayments that which cash or digital fiat currency can't currently do? Fiat currency is leaving business on the table and Consultant Jon West who previously led blockchain for Thomson Reuters joins us for this spotlight on micropayment opportunities.  More information on the IMF "Winds of Change: The Case for New Digital Currency" article mentioned in the podcast can be found here: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/11/13/sp111418-winds-of-change-the-case-for-new-digital-currency.  

Learn more about the impact micropayments will have on industries in this webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJHkM5M9ZVw

When was the last time your bank offered to stake your assets or provide a loan backed by your crypto holdings? What if your bank could not only custody your crypto, but also let you stake assets for rewards and take out loans backed by your tokens?

The merging of traditional banking and digital assets opens up fascinating new possibilities.

But who is actually bridging these two worlds?

Welcome to the first episode of Season 5 of Gossip About Gossip, hosted by Zenobia Godschalk. Join us as we explore the merging of traditional banking and crypto with Aliya Das Gupta of Sygnum Bank, the world’s first regulated digital asset bank. This forward-thinking conversation provides insights into the new possibilities unfolding:

• How did Sygnum get its start and gain the vision to integrate crypto with regulated banking?
• What's driving global demand for Sygnum's unique crypto banking services?
• What does the future hold for decentralized identity and compliance?
• Insights into how Sygnum navigates the thrilling frontiers where banking collides with blockchain innovation.

By integrating crypto with trusted, regulated services, Sygnum points to a future where the best of both worlds can merge.

Explore the fascinating intersection of traditional banking and digital assets with Aliya Das Gupta of Sygnum Bank, as she illuminates the vision behind Sygnum's origin story to bridge these two worlds.

With this conversation, we learn the burgeoning global demand for their novel crypto banking services, from custody and staking to loans collateralized by tokens. Aliya gives us a glimpse into the future of decentralized identity and compliance to expand access to DeFi. This conversation provides insight into how Sygnum navigates the frontiers of finance by integrating crypto with trusted, regulated offerings.

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our monthly Town Hall.

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our monthly Town Hall.

What does it mean to reach consensus on blockchain versus hashgraph? What powers do council members have?  Do I have to pay to check my balance?  In this episode hosts Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen answer tough questions on the challenges of understanding how blockchain and hashgraph reach consensus, council powers and paying for transactions.  Join the Hedera discord channel for further discussions on hashgraph technology and development.

The boom in monetized data has some claiming that private data is the new oil. The use cases are varied from banking and credit management to name a couple. Join Vishal Dharmawat and Sharat Chandra from EarthID as we discuss an enhanced user experience in the Identity space. Decentralized Identity promises to give users greater control and privacy over their identity – as regulations like GDPR are more and more mandating for enterprises. This episode explores that value proposition, how it differs from other identity models, and how EarthID is building a decentralized identity platform on Hedera.

Download the EarthID app and learn more at https://www.myearth.id/.

What is MVD and how can you manage decentralization without going too far?

Join Hedera’s Cooper Kunz in this Gossip About Gossip episode with Amazon’s Alexa Software Developer Summer Intern, Tune.fm’s Hashgraph Implementation Consultant and Lead Developer, and Bluesky’s volunteer researcher, Rahul Kothari.

From the Software Developer perspective, Rahul shares the concerns enterprises have with blockchain technology and why he turned his attention away from Ethereum. Blockchain forking represents a very real risk to enterprise adoption. “Hedera is the most enterprise-facing DLT out there in the market, out of all them that I’ve seen.”

The Minimum Viable Decentralization means the minimum decentralization you need to achieve distributed trust that blockchain provides without going overboard. Enterprises will face only minimal changes to their codebase. Rahul points out that not many people address the negative aspects of decentralization, such as catching bad actors. Bad actors can cause massive havoc, which is why the final goal should be a high degree of anonymity without allowing bad actors to escape responsibility. This is what Hedera Consensus Service achieves.

Rahul is supporting Jack Dorsey’s project, Bluesky. Jack Dorsey, and others, have identified that data can be a liability, which is why Bluesky is attempting to decentralize a social media protocol that can still be easily accessed by everyone.

Listen to the entire interview and learn how a healthy balance of decentralization will address privacy and fake news issues without relying on a centralized database. 

You can find Rahul at rahul-kothari.github.io.

According to Michael Beitler, Co-founder and CEO of Virtual Power Plant LLC, the future of energy is moving off the grid and into the distributed ledger space. Learn more about Michael and the virtual power plant concept in this episode. For more information visit https://myvpp.io/

Over 60 million people in the U.S. play fantasy sports—that’s one in almost five people. Game developers need to keep rolling out new and exciting opportunities to keep these gamers engaged.

How is one company, GameOn, leveraging Web 3.0 to do just that?

On today’s episode of Gossip About Gossip by Hedera, podcast Host and SVP of Communications at Swirlds Labs, Zenobia Godschalk, speaks with Matt Bailey, CEO of GameOn, about what GameOn is and how they are leveling up the sports and fantasy gaming experience on Web 3.0 through their Karateka launch.

Godschalk and Bailey also discuss…

The journey GameOn has taken to get to where they are now

How GameOn is leveraging blockchain technology for the fantasy sports industry

GameOn’s cross-chain compatibility and partnership with Hedera

Bailey covered the Web 3.0 benefits. “Let’s use the karate combat partnership that we have as an example… We’re going to be selling playable digital fighters. So, every fighter in the karate combat league, you’re going to be able to buy them. They’ll be limited at 200 per fighter but it will look and feel like the actual fighter that’s fighting in the live events. With that playable digital fighter, notice we’re not calling it an NFT. Of course, it is an NFT, but it’s a playable digital fighter. You can gear it up, so you can buy gear like weapons and shorts and other different items that can not only change the look of your playable digital fighter, but can also give it an advantage in games,” he stated.

Matt Bailey is CEO of GameOn and Founder & Board Director of Brooklyn Kings Rugby League. He is an entrepreneur breaking into the future of Web 3.0 games. He has served as an Adjunct Professor for Clark University, Senior Director, Brand Partnerships, for LiveStyle, Inc., and Director, Global Partnerships for Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, amongst other roles. Bailey attended the University of Technology Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Management in Sport & Exercise.