An art professor for twenty years, Jeff Davis is a generative artist and now Chief Creative Officer at Art Blocks. Seeking greater precision in his artwork, in 1999, he began to use design software to explore structures and colors to create digital art. Since then, he's been inspired by the use of technology for creative expression, building generative systems that explore form and color within specified parameters.. We spoke about his love of math, growing up outside Chicago, being a art professor for 20 years and his celebrated entry into the NFT art world and his role at formative NFT platform Art Blocks. This episode originally aired in March 2023.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tim McCourt has served as CME Group’s Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Financial and OTC Products since June 2023. He is responsible for leading the development and execution of the company’s global interest rate, equity index, foreign exchange, OTC, cryptocurrency and alternative investment product strategies. Previously, he served as Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Equity and Foreign Exchange Products since February 2022. He serves on the CME Ventures Investment Committee and the S&P Dow Jones Indices U.S. Advisory Panel.  Before joining CME Group in 2013 as Global Head of Equity Products, McCourt worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was responsible for building and managing the Americas Index and Delta One trading book. Prior to RBS, he held a senior trading role with JPMorgan in New York, spending 10 years with the Equity Derivatives Group.  McCourt holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston College and an MBA from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton SchoolSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For this week's episode of Decent People, we're bringing you a Decential Twitter Space with Jack O'Holleran. Jack co-founded Skale to help developers who want to use Ethereum but need faster transaction times and cheaper costs. That's exactly what Skale has done over the past several years, with five of the top 25 blockchain-based video games hosted on its network. We spoke about the right incentives for blockchain users, how Skale is able to vastly increase blockchain transaction times and what Jack sees in the near-terms for the wider Ethereum ecosystem. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Noam has been at Alchemy for the past two years where he’s helped scale the engineering organization from five engineers to where it is today. He currently leads several engineering teams focused on delivering reliable, scalable web3 infrastructure that will enable developers to unlock crypto for the next billion users. Prior to Alchemy, Noam worked at Quibi and Google and is an alumnus of Pomona College.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For today’s episode of Decent People, we’re chatting with Alex Zozos, Associate General Council for Coinbase and formerly division of trading markets for the SEC, on a recent Decential Twitter Space. Alex helps us understand the current state of crypto regulation in the United States, what the future landscape could look like, and provides insight on current events in the industry. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Philip Martin is the Chief Security Officer for Coinbase, where he is responsible for developing the technology, processes and team that safely store one of the world’s largest holdings of cryptocurrency. Prior to Coinbase, Philip built and led the Incident Response and Security Engineering teams at Palantir Technologies, developed new virtual infrastructure at Amazon A9 and spent a decade as a US Army counterintelligence agent in a range of foreign and domestic roles.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For this special episode, we're bringing you a recording of our Twitter space exploring the music industry, copyright laws, on-chain music, and folk values. Maceagon Voyce and Neil Berkeley join to discuss what it means for music to be folk and if folk icons like Bob Dylan genuinely lived up to that label.Read Keagon's exploration on whether web3 and blockchain can usher in a new era of common ownership in creative endeavors like music more akin to the folk era: https://www.decential.io/articles/this-machine-kills-copyright-minting-a-bob-dylan-song-as-a-way-to-resurrect-folk-traditionsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jacqueline Burns Koven is the Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Chainalysis where she works with law enforcement, financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, and cybersecurity companies and is a member of the Ransomware Taskforce. Prior to joining Chainalysis, she served in the U.S. Intelligence Community. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University where she was a Research Fellow for Technology & Public Policy.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ryan Li is the co-founder of CyberConnect, a decentralized social network that's building and scaling the next generation of decentralized social media platforms. Its most well known platform is called Link3.co. CyberConnect raised $15 million led by Animoca Brands last year. Ryan holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from University of California, Berkeley.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Arthur Breitman is a co-founder of Tezos. Previously, Arthur was a research engineer for Google X and Waymo. In his early career, he worked as a quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and the Courant Institute of NYU where he studied applied mathematics.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.