On this episode of Koji Conversations, Soph chats to Senator Andrew Bragg. Senator Bragg has been the flagship Senator for crypto in Australia. Putting aside mainstream assumptions about crypto as a fad, scam, and or haven for criminals, Senator Bragg has been steadfast in putting the underlying technology front and centre. In this chat, he covers: Australia as a world leader so far The US’ approach and his discussions with Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis An appropriately dynamic and light...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Soph chats to the Co-Founder of Illuvium, Kieran Warwick. Alongside two of his brothers and a mammoth team of approx. 200 employees, the Illuvium team are building first AAA blockchain game. An open world collectible and auto battler all in one. With 1.2 million registered users and over $1 billion staked in the protocol prior to game launch, it’s safe to say the community is ready. Keep an eye out for the open beta releasing in June. Join the...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Jack and Soph chat to Co-Founder of TracerDAO Patrick McNab and head of the Tracer team Billy. Tracer DAO is a smart contract protocol for derivatives, focussed on providing a suite of tools for users to manager their risk or supercharge their holdings via their new derivative primitive, perpetual pools. They offer effective risk management tools to hedge out risk that exists on balance sheets, as well as allowing users to effectively take out further...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Soph and Jack chat to Alex from Anima. Anima is an augmented reality company bridging the metaverse and physical world. The project consists of three major components: 1. An augmented reality platform for the creation of new AR objects, experiences and art. 2. The selling of these creations as NFTs, with the verification layer being displayed in AR. 3. Their studio, where they help artists and developers bring their concepts to life. Soph, Jack and...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Soph chats to Blair from 1,989 Sisters. 1,989 Sisters is an NFT collection comprising of 1,989 female avatars hand drawn, painted and then scanned by Blair. The collection is an extension of her work as a fashion illustrator with a digitally native twist via a generative algorithm to embrace the NFT medium. Soph and Blair chat about how side-hustles transition to life-changing careers, the promise of more female collectors and creators, and where the...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Jack and Sophie chat to Steve Vallas, the CEO of Blockchain Australia. Blockchain Australia is a member based organisation bring greater awareness and advocacy to the digital asset sector. Steve offers valuable insight into how Australia is poised for success with a promising regulatory outlook, the talent flooding into the space, how zero-knowledge proofs are a powerful innovation for consumer protection, and much more. JOIN BLOCKCHAIN AUSTRALIA's...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Jack chats to Scoopy Trooples from Alchemix. Alchemix is a forward-thinking DeFi protocol offering users self-repaying loans via earned yield. Scoopy is an absolute gigabrain offering an in depth explanation of the protocol, plans for V2, the multichain future, as well as discussing the current Curve Wars, the future Toke Wars and Alchemix's multi-chain future. JOIN HIS COMMUNITY Alchemix twitter: https://twitter.com/AlchemixFi (@AlchemixFi) Scoopy’s...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Jack chats to Isaac from Rigor. Rigor is a Defi protocol that provides decentralised liquidity for home builders seeking to finance the construction of their homes. Rigor offers a solution to the affordability crisis using Web3 native solutions for coordination and financing. Through their model, builders will become more profitable and efficient whilst buyers can enjoy affordable houses. Moreover, they hope to implement unprecedented buyer options, such...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Jack chats to Commodore from Krause House DAO. Commodore describes the community as "a group of people crazy enough to buy an NBA team as a DAO". Their vision raises interesting questions about DAOs as a new corporate governance model and whether a community first, bottom-up structure can own and operate an NBA team. Join this Koji Conversation, with Commodore from Krause House. Questions: 1:41 In an elevator pitch, how would you describe what Krause...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Jack chats to Emma-Jane from DigitalAX. Building an entire ecosystem for the nascent Web3 fashion industry is no small task, but Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee is on track to make it happen. Her passion for the principles of transparency, provenance, and ownership that underpin blockchain technology are the driving force behind her approach. Leveraging the technology to truly decentralise the fashion industry and right the wrongs of the exploitative Web2...

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Jack chats to the Fabricant founder, Kerry Murphy. Our social world has become increasingly Web 3 enabled, and soon the Metaverse will become the all encompassing epicentre of our social identities. Digital Fashion will form a foundational layer in how we express ourselves online. Unlike the physical fashion industry, the digital industry is accessible, scaleable, and sustainable. Everyone will have the tools to be a digital fashion designer, curate...

Join David for a conversation with David and Đorđe from Tempus Finance. Tempus is building the DeFi native version of interest rate swaps powered by an Automated Market Maker (AMM). It is a protocol used for risk reallocation between different market participants who are exposed to the same assets. In traditional finance, interest rate swaps are highly customised, non-collateralised and made between a counter party and the bank. In DeFi, non collateralised interest rate swaps haven't been...

Join Jack for a conversation with Guillaume and Olivier from Sonar Watch, your DeFi dashboard for the Solana ecosystem. Like so many successful DeFi projects, Sonar was built from the ground up when Olivier started developing a tool to track his personal wallets. After sharing the tool with the community and receiving a groundswell of positive feedback Olivier kept iterating and building out features. Eventually switching to the project full time and joining forces with Guillaume brings us to...

Join Jack for this conversation with Justin and Jonas from Quantum Art, an NFT photography platform giving power back to creators. Justin is the creator of Twin Flames, one of the most successful NFT photography projects to date and Jonas is a member of Flamingo DAO, one of the leading NFT collectors. They've joined forces to create Quantum Art, which will be a powerhouse curated collection of photography NFTs spotlighting artists in the space. In the current model, great artists and their...

Join Jack for this Koji Conversation with CJ and Rev from Atlantis world, who are developing a gamified interface for the Web3 space. Users can interact with DAOs, Defi, blockchain bridges and the wider crypto community. "We are building a world where you can live, work, play and earn, all at the same time whilst also accessing Web3 building blocks in a super fun gamified and interactive way". Join this Koji Conversation, with CJ and Rev from Atlantis World. Join the Conversation: Experience...

Join Jack and Angelo Alessio for the first episode of High Definition's new series, Unearthed. The Unearthed series gives you a peak inside the exciting world of early stage projects and how you can get involved. To kick the series off, we've invited Angelo who is the founder of build_, a co-working first, real estate second DAO. The project is reimagining co-working for the decentralised future. He goes into detail about how build_ hopes to solve the problem brought to the fore by COVID-19:...

Join David and Jack for a chat with Auryn Macmillan about decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs). Auryn is product lead at Gnosis, who are building new market mechanisms for decentralised finance as well as DAO tooling. He goes into detail about the meritocratic rise of DAOs, as well as the benefits of their transparency for particular organisations. Auryn also talks about the pitfalls of DAOs when it comes to smaller decision making, and potential opportunities to troubleshoot...

"Longevity has the potential to be to traditional medicine what crypto is to traditional finance." Balaji Srinivasan, 2021 (@balajis). Tyler Golato is co-founder of VitaDAO, which is shifting the paradigm on the science of ageing by prioritising research into preventative and pre-emptive medical interventions. Some longevity researchers contest that the first person to live to 1,000 is alive today. Tyler is more modest in his prediction but maintains that longevity research will unlock vast...

The DAO Hack is arguably the most impactful moment of Ethereum's history to date. 15% of all circulating ETH was vulnerable, millions of ETH was hacked and the chosen path forward for Ethereum caused blockchain ideologies to clash, dividing the Ethereum and Bitcoin communities. In this episode Jack and David speak with Griff Green. He is Community Manager of The DAO, Co-Founder of the White Hat Group and was at Ground Zero as the events of The DAO Hack unfolded. Step by step, Griff walks us...

Cameron Robertson is bridging the gap between the real world and crypto by reducing the friction between the Meatspace and Metaverse. 2017 was when Cameron first had his eye on crypto, in particular, he was interested in hardware wallets. By observing this space, he noticed that the people developing and using this technology were tech natives and therefore, the innovation was tailored for their skill level, leaving a large unaddressed market gap for those who were not. With a background in...

Xavier is equalising access to pre-IPO and pre-token markets with prePO. After a stint living in Korea working as an experimental game developer, Xavier knew he needed to change profession as he was struggling to make a living. Fortunately at this point he was already using crypto zombies, which had a notification about a Bitcoin meet-up in Korea. Being interested in Bitcoin and Alt coins already, Xavier attended and the seed of working in crypto was planted. Initially, Xavier came back to...

Born and raised in Russia, Roman Storm grew up in a low income, high crime environment. He always wanted to be a programmer but it seemed out of reach in his current circumstances. So after a stint in metallurgy, he knew he had to make drastic changes to make his dream a reality. Roman immigrated to San Francisco where he immediately felt inspired by the seemingly endless abundance. With the determination to start his own business but without the idea, Roman attended various hackathons to...

Jack is founder of Colony, who are building organisations for the internet. Jack has always been magnetised by technology and its ability to create something new. He is well-known for his work in fine jewellery, where he used 3D printing technology to create some of most expensive pieces of art ever made. One notably was a diamond encrusted skull, selling for 100 million USD. As the years went by, Jack got tired of attending fancy parties with Russian oligarchs. He was an artist, not a...

Farmwell knows what the people want and delivers. Coming from a background of studying financial systems, Farmwell is fascinated by financial markets and their impact on society. He is also intrigued by incentives and their power to influence people’s behaviour. After working for a few years in enterprise software, he decided to take the plunge into DeFi. Throughout his career, Farmwell has become increasingly magnetised by the innovation of online sports betting. This lead him to co-found...