Episode 044 - Breaking the Crypto Trilemma: How to Make Decentralization Work with Development Economist and Algorand Foundation CEO Staci Warden

In this episode of the Ownership Economy, we speak with Staci Warden, the CEO of the Algorand Foundation. Staci previously ran the Center for Financial Markets at the Milken Institute, and before that worked as an executive at JPMorgan and Nasdaq. She started her career as a development economist at the United States Department of the Treasury. In the episode, we discuss how Algorand works, it’s unique value proposition, and some real world applications of this blockchain. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Show Notes:

1. Algorand: A secure and efficient distributed ledger - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030439751930091X
2. Nigeria is creating a digital marketplace to help creators sell their intellectual property rights - https://techcabal.com/2022/05/26/nigeria-intellectual-property-rights/
3. The Economics of Consensus in Algorand - https://www.mdpi.com/2674-1032/1/2/13
4. Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers - https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD1172417
5. Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies - https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3132747.3132757
6. Algorand - https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01341
7. Another Look at ALGORAND - https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.04463