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.
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Timestamps Audio:
00:00 Southern Hemisphere Perspectives
09:34 ICO hangover & NFTs
19:44 supply chains
23:48 nftFest Aus
28:45 crypto marketing bros
33:47 regulation
40:20 lessons from Singapore
47:47 stablecoins
52:04 blockchain orgs
54:58 fin
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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’s crypto ad restrictions https://archive.ph/FKD5Y
Singapore’s Regulatory Sandbox https://www.mas.gov.sg/development/fintech/regulatory-sandbox
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Contact Steve:
Twitter https://twitter.com/stevevallas
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevevallas/
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Find Jeff:
Twitter https://twitter.com/Japple
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnijsse/
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Recorded at blockheight 781595. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.