Hugo Philion, a globally recognized speaker and thought leader, is a Co-Founder of Flare and CEO of Flare Labs. Flare is the blockchain for data: an EVM smart contract platform specifically designed to support data-intensive use cases, including machine learning, real-world asset tokenization, gaming, and social.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The problem of existing oracle systems
- How Flare achieves rich and decentralized data with its enshrined oracles
- Flare Time Series Oracle & Flare Data Connector’s overview and use cases
- Unique role of Flare’s infrastructure providers including Google Cloud
- Blockchains for use cases like AI
- TradFi = legal guarantees, crypto = software guarantees
- EVM Layers 1s
- How oracles power sports betting
- Sports betting arbitrage
- USA presidential debate
- Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
- Limitations of current Dapps and how we get to mass adoption
- Web2-like experiences with Web3 guarantees

Flare
Website: flare.network
X: @FlareNetworks
Telegram: t.me/FlareNetwork

Hugo Philion
X: @HugoPhilion
LinkedIn: Hugo Philion

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#370: Hugo Philion, Co-Founder of Flare, on Mass Adoption, Rich & Decentralized Data, and Off-chain Compute