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Big Night for Easy Crypto as the Web3 Sector Celebrates its Leading Lights
Big Night for Easy Crypto as the Web3 Sector Celebrates its Leading Lights
December 7, 2023
Celebrating People and Innovation at the Blockchain and Web3NZ Awards at Callaghan Innovation Offices in Auckland.
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Easy Crypto’s stablecoin: What it Means for the Web3 Ecosystem
Easy Crypto’s stablecoin: What it Means for the Web3 Ecosystem
November 22, 2023
The debut of a digital dollar (NZDD) Stablecoin from the country’s largest home-grown cryptocurrency exchange offers could spur innovation in peer to peer payments and decentralised finance.
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The grassroots Kiwi-made Lightning projects harnessing Bitcoin
The grassroots Kiwi-made Lightning projects harnessing Bitcoin
November 2, 2023
When it comes to cryptocurrencies, Cody Ellingham is a self-avowed Bitcoin maximalist.
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Web3 Learning Series Recaps
Capital Raising for Web3 Businesses
Capital Raising for Web3 Businesses
Watch this investment masterclass with an expert panel as they discuss their ideal investment business, warm vs. cold introductions and what sort of companies should be pitching for VC and angel investment. Includes a session of trial pitches from the community with feedback from the panel.
Recording & TranscriptWeb3 StartupsGuide
How to Accelerate Revenue in a Start up
How to Accelerate Revenue in a Start up
John Dean from Sales Director Central discusses his methodology to grow and expedite revenue from the research phase through to scale up. The presentation encompasses every facet starting with understanding the customer, the buyer's process and through to the essential characteristics of effective consultants.
Recording & TranscriptGuide
Real World Cases for Crypto
Real World Cases for Crypto
In this discussion Corben Turner of Enteropt will take us through some of the existing trends for distributed ledger technology and some that are on the horizon such as environmental initiatives, interoperability between private and public blockchains and tokenised real world assets.
Digital Assets and DefiRecording & Transcript
Capital Raising for Web3
Capital Raising for Web3
Aaron McDonald talks about his journey, from his days with Centrality to today, CEO of Futureverse and how the collaborative ecosystem was successful in raising capital. Aaron discusses his take on the current state of the industry, how to succeed in Web3 and also potential traps to be aware of
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How to Source Web3 Talent
How to Source Web3 Talent
Join Morgan Stone on this presentation aimed at both aspiring Web3 professionals and new talent seekers. Morgan steps through the benefits/challenges in the Web3 ecosystem, how to manage the cultural and logistical aspects of distributed teams and discusses future plans for his “proof of experience” hiring platform - Seekr
GuideWeb3 StartupsRecording & Transcript
How to Design & Mint a Token
How to Design & Mint a Token
In this discussion Leanne will walk us through her strategy for designing and developing tokens and help us understand the various protocols and the specific capabilities they enable. Leanne will share her thoughts on where tokenisation is now and how it is likely to evolve in future.
GuideRecording & Transcript
The quantum web: beyond web3
The quantum web: beyond web3
Hear from Dr Bubanja as he goes through the science and physics behind quantum, where the trajectory is heading and the potential impact on web3, crypto currencies and the next phase of the internet. This will be a scientific discussion so expect academic topics rather than commercial discussions.
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Lightning Masterclass with Base58 & AUT
Lightning Masterclass with Base58 & AUT
Follow along with Jeff Nijsse’s AUT class in this group learning module as Lisa Neigut (niftynei) from Base58 takes us on a technical deep-dive session looking into Bitcoin's layer 2 payment protocol - Lightning. Discover what Lightning is, its role in Bitcoin transacting and how it functions as well as insights into the ongoing developments being made to improve the protocol.
GuideRecording & TranscriptBitcoinLightning
Key Legal Issues for Crypto/Web3 Projects
Key Legal Issues for Crypto/Web3 Projects
James Cochrane and Andrew Comer from law firm Lane Neave sit down to discuss the legal framework for Web3 related projects. Topics covered include relevant Acts (such as FMCA 2013), jurisdictional considerations, AML/KYC and entity structures.
Digital Assets and DefiLegislationRecording & Transcript
Balancing NZ's Energy Asymmetry using Carbon Negative Bitcoin Solutions
Balancing NZ's Energy Asymmetry using Carbon Negative Bitcoin Solutions
Daniel Batten, Co-founder of CH4 Capital and Simon Collins, Managing director of Stackr have an open discussion on the issues and opportunities in NZ's energy landscape and how Bitcoin offers an efficient and reliable solution to balancing NZ's energy supply and demand.
GuideRecording & TranscriptBitcoin
An Intro to Governance and Tokenomics within DAOs
An Intro to Governance and Tokenomics within DAOs
Jerome Kelsey, founder of Freeos, discusses the many facets of DAOs such as their disruptive nature, legal frameworks and how they will evolve in the future. On the tokenomics side, aspects covered include use of tokens in DAOs, regulatory implications and value creation.
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How to build NFTs on Cardano
How to build NFTs on Cardano
Gregor Neumayr, R&D consultant and data scientist at Callaghan Innovation talks through his journey with NFTs. Topics covered include formal definitions to certification and standards as well as a look into some of his own digital art creations.
Digital Assets and DefiRecording & Transcript
How to Survive a Bear Market in Web3
How to Survive a Bear Market in Web3
Jerome Faury, CEO of Immersve, steps through the critical aspects of navigating a market down-turn, from mental health, Adaptability Quotient, scorecards and SMART goals to Web3 accelerators in NZ, blockchain grants and raising capital.
GuideRecording & Transcript
Organisational design best practice for early stage startups.
Organisational design best practice for early stage startups.
David Ding, Business Innovation Advisor, has a conversation with Sarah Durlacher, Agile Project and Stakeholder Manager about her involvement in Web3 from a change management and agile perspective as well as the difficulties of constant pivoting and best practice organisational design for early stage startups.
Web3 StartupsRecording & Transcript
Taxing Digital Assets 101
Taxing Digital Assets 101
A journey through how cryptoassets are defined under NZ law, what triggers a tax event and the current and potential future state as concerns taxing of cryptoassets in NZ. Presented by EY and IRD
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How to Build a Strong Web3 Team with Daniel Bar, Founder of Bitfwd Capital
How to Build a Strong Web3 Team with Daniel Bar, Founder of Bitfwd Capital
An explanation of the concepts that are Daniels guiding principles for working in crypto and building a web3 startup team: Team evaluation, protocolization, risk factors, talent/ market landscape and opportunities in Web3.
Web3 StartupsRecording & Transcript
Security Best Practices for Web3 Businesses
Security Best Practices for Web3 Businesses
Marc Krisjanous is a certified security auditor from Confide. He discusses the most well known security standards relevant to industry - namely ISO 27001 and CCSS - and provides advice on how to keep digital assets safe from malicious actors as applies to Web3 platforms.
SecurityRecording & Transcript
Digital Assets and Decentralised Finance
Digital Assets and Decentralised Finance
The Opportunities and Challenges for New Zealand
White PaperDigital Assets and Defi
How Onfinality became a viable Web3.0 company in NZ
How Onfinality became a viable Web3.0 company in NZ
James Bayly, COO of Onfinality and SubQuery discusses his journey, the state of Web3 in NZ and how Onfinality are harnessing blockchain technology.
Web3 StartupsRecording & Transcript
New Zealand’s Regulation for Web3 Businesses
New Zealand’s Regulation for Web3 Businesses
The things every Web3 business needs to know about tokens and crypto regulation with Jeremy Muir and Bryan Ventura from Minter Ellison Rudd Watts.
RegulationRecording & Transcript
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