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 electronic trading practices call for new auditing protocols - why not build them with tech advances that help enhance market transparency? UCL's Guy Vishnia is doing his PhD thesis around AuditChain, and built a proof of concept to connect all the data and automate trade...

The pandemic disrupted supply chains. Constraints will affect delivery of goods around the globe this upcoming holiday.  How do we fix this? Nikhil Vadgama, Deputy Director of UCL's Centre for Blockchain Technology, reviews ten sectors and hundreds of projects over the last decade that incorporate blockchain to provide better supply chain systems.  Learn how challenges with traditional supply chains are solved using blockchain and what we can expect to see in the next ten years.

How do you engage students to brainstorm ideas about how they might use a cryptocurrency on campus? Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Associate Professor of Economics at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, has been teaching courses on blockchain like “Developing Blockchain Use Cases”.  He engages all background of students to discover why a Distributed Ledger Technology might be an improved solution over what currently exists today. In this episode you can learn about leading...

Blockchain has far-reaching disruptive potential often focused on charitable works.    Explore the humanitarian efforts of SFSU students leveraging  this emerging technology for multiple blockchain projects, all related to blockchain for social good; applying blockchain technology to promote volunteer participation, and food safety monitoring for healthier food donations to hunger-relief charities.  In a conversation with Leigh Jin, Professor of Information Systems and Director of Technology...

What if we could increase voter participation and election credibility via secure, verifiable online voting for elections?   Researchers are building systems to utilize the immutability, transparency and distributed consensus properties of blockchain.  We are finding that a blockchain based voting system could solve many of the current day election challenges. Arnab Ghosh is a recent Electrical & Computer Engineering  graduate of University of Waterloo and budding entrepreneur.  Find...

Are you captivated by the endless possibilities of how we can interact with money? Students are creating real world solutions using fintech tools to provide additional capacity in under-resourced communities. There are industry programs that help turn their visions into reality by providing resources that advance their prototypes, apps and ideas. Ishaan Hiranandani is a rising Junior at University of Michigan, leader in the Blockchain@Michigan (BAM) student club, entrepreneur and DeFi...

Decentralization puts power in the hands of the consumer* Let's bring in the Enterprise Blockchain Award winner who has brought more  transparency to the Real Estate sector and beyond Named Canada's top tech titan, Dr. Atefeh Mashatan, is the Director of the Cybersecurity Research Lab and an Associate Professor at Ryerson University.  This renowned cryptographer found a way to reduce fraud in the real estate sector as well as the insurance marketplace and in supply chain management with...

How do we amplify the positive effects of blockchain innovation? Influencing policy makers on technological capabilities and wider implications on society is a good place to start. Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), envisions many possible use cases where blockchain will make a difference in the next 5-10 years.  She had the opportunity to Chair The California Blockchain Working Group that...

How do we increase availability of capitol to small and traditionally disadvantaged borrowers? How can we invest in businesses we care about while purchasing products/services we want, especially during pandemic closures?Carnegie Mellon Professor...

We are seeing more and more applications being built on blockchain. And there are thousands of blockchains for developers to choose from.  What do you look for in a blockchain to support your application development? Chief Scientist Dr. Radu State and...

How can blockchain help the construction industry? Think blockchain as your back office, matching purchase orders with actions, a system that generates a payment automatically without accounting approval. Or a single source of truth, created by all the...

How can artwork be the blockchain itself?Joey Orr runs the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art.  He commissioned leading artists Stephanie Dinkins and Simon Denny to explore the emergence of blockchain technology in...

According to the UNs' Food and Agriculture Organization, residents of the US Virgin Islands import more than 97% of their food. Nutritional content is not what it could be farmed locally and sometimes transported food arrives rotten or cannot arrive at...

All About Blockchain is a Ripple-produced podcast featuring University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) partners to showcase utility of this innovative technology. Host Lauren Weymouth returns for season 2 with global guests discussing how they...

Why do we want digital assets to represent real world property? Tokenization of securities is still an area that is early in development and adoption but we can start to learn from enterprise solutions already on the market.Computational finance expert,...

How can we individually improve our energy consumption?  We might think about  reducing our carbon footprint, but to improve our behavior, we need to effectively measure our individual usage.Architect Dorit Aviv is doing just that with a distributed...

How does blockchain help assets maintain their value?Senior Research Scientist, Vishwas Patil, discusses LandCoin: A simple Asset Management Protocol. He helps us understand that blockchains provide methods to encapsulate transfer of not only a value...

A deep look into how researchers in Brazil can create value out of biodiversity by connecting it to advanced technological innovation. Engineering Professor Marcos Antônio Simplício Júnior, from the Polytechnic School of University of São Paulo, talks...

Q Have an idea to solve a unique challenge?A Build a demo on blockchain SDKs (Software Development Kits) are open source tools available to developers, students, and anyone who wants to learn to build prototypes for their ideas.  Nathan gives real life...

Scott Chamberlain is keen to solve all kinds of challenges using blockchain technology—including digitizing cows to make meat production more efficient and consumers better educated.

We care more and more about clean energy, but challenges still exist with how it is being tracked, bought and sold. How can blockchain help the energy sector? Energy consultant Kate Tomlinson has experience across the energy value chain, including...

How can blockchain help homelessness? What special features of blockchain technology make it better for storing patient data than current systems?Join Director of Data Integration at Dell Medical School’s Department of Population Health, Dr. Anjum...

All About Blockchain is a Ripple-produced podcast featuring University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) partners to highlight what is being built on this innovative technology. Host Lauren Weymouth shares a sneak peek of topics and guests...