Welcome to SZN 2 of the LEDGER ProTeam!Join Ledger's CXO Ian Rogers and Gmoney, a renowned cultural thought leader and part of Ledger's esteemed Pro Team, as they discuss the future of value and digital assets. money brings deep expertise in companies and brands at the intersection of digital assets and fashion, with 15+ years of experience in the traditional finance sector as an investor.He is widely recognised for his iconic orange beanie CryptoPunk and is listed in Fortune's NFTy 50 and Vogue's "Business100 Innovators" List.During the interview, lan and money share insights and strategies for unlocking the potential of the internet of value. They discuss the imminent shift where every company on the planet will soon adopt digital assets, from finance to high fashion. money emphasizes the importance of self-custody for brands and enterprises to fully embrace blockchain technology and make the most of digital assets.Learn from these thought leaders as they discuss the opportunities and challenges of the evolving landscape, and gain valuable insights into the strategies and mindset needed to navigate this new frontier.If you want to learn more about how we enable brands navigating the crypto space visit enterprise.ledger.com/create/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you think about it, the internet has decentralized how culture is formed, anyone with a phone could create art or tell a story and reach millions of people around the world with a click of a button. Web3 enhances that even further, with blockchain technology not only can artists share their creations they can now own and monetize them as well as build and tokenize communities around their art. A true shift in paradigm. And there’s only very few artists out there who are able to capture Web3’s cultural zeitgeist. Today we’re excited to have one of them on the show, Ovie Faruq aka OSF. Ovie is a skilled trader for 10 years, who bought his first BTC in 2021, and turned into a renown NFT artist since then (reminder: we’re only in 2023), who we are very happy to welcome in the Ledger NFT Collection. How to make digital art people can relate to? How to manage your IP and why go for CC0 licenses? For this new episode of On the Ledger, we are happy to dive into his story, art and inspiration as well as explore Ledger's recent acquisition of thirteen of his artworks with the one and only Ariel Wengroff, Ledger’s VP of Comms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim Draper is a man who needs no introduction in crypto. But still: he is a venture capitalist, who investing in a lot of the early Internet companies tech startups, running Draper associates, once host the Meet the Drapers showHe is also a man who foresaw the success of a lot of upcoming start-ups and thought Bitcoin was “bigger than anything he saw before.” A man who thinks that more banks will fail, that you should not wait for the next crash to get yourself into BTC, and that “the safest place to store value is Bitcoin, on a Ledger” (full disclosure: he is also one of our investors).In this episode, he gives Ian Rogers a glimpse of the future of BTC and of the banking system, he explores scenarios where Bitcoin could not work, explains how to be an entrepreneur in this revolution of value and why you don’t want to be rich with chaos around you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The staking industry is expected to be worth $40B by 2025. With such potential, there’s no shortage of staking solutions currently available on the market.But one critical question arises - how can you stake securely?The answer is simple: retaining full ownership of your keys. That’s why Ledger partnered with KILN to offer its users the ability to stake ETH directly in Ledger Live from within the security of their Ledger devices, and to offer the perfect ETH staking solution for businesses.But what changes will the Shanghai Upgrade bring?In a visionary discussion with KILN CEO & Co-Founder Laszlo Szabo, and Global Head of Ledger Enterprise Alex Zinder, this new episode of On the Ledger discusses how to reinvent the financial industry, how to decentralize it and how to make it more transparent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How was ArtBlocks founded? Who are the first generative artists who started out there? What did the Auto Glyphs project change for them?During NFT Paris, in a room full of some of the best generative artists in the world, we recorded this one hour conversation between Ledger VP of Comms Ariel Wengroff and prominent figures in the ArtBlocks community (with Erick Calderon a.k.a. Snowfro, Sofia Garcia from ArtXCode, Glenn a.k.a. BlockBird, Matt a.k.a. Balon_art and Jeremy a.k.a. DeFiStaker), to discuss everything about generative art, from the moment where usual collectors could no longer afford to buy their own art to their “late night scrolling for new art” routine.Is it okay to come as a flipper if you stay as a collector? How do creators approach pricing? Why is it important to see your digital art in real life and not just on a thumbnail on OpenSea? And yes, you know us, what’s their biggest security fail? This new episode answers all of these questions, and many more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2022 was a big moment for Ethereum, the long awaited MERGE event ended up finally taking place on September 15th, shifting Ethereum from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake consensus and significantly reducing its energy consumption along the way, a massive step towards Ethereum 2.0.  But there’s still somewhat of a long road of Ethereum updates ahead, including the Surge, the Verge, the Purge and the Splurge, sounds like a 90s rap song but it isn’t, this what it’s going to take for Ethereum to scale and be mass adoption ready. On this new episode of On The Ledger, your host Mo El-Sayed discusses how to scale Ethereum without compromising on decentralization or security, with the Founder of the Aave-Chan initiative Marc Zeller and our Chief Technology Office Charles Guillemet. With a couple of bold statements on Arbitrum and Optimism, sharding and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can attention drive value? How to connect the attention economy to the web3 economy?In a world of abundance, our time and focus is probably one of the last items you cannot… scale. Of course, we can publish work, be easy to find, and generate thousands of impressions in seconds. But when do people actually care? When do you care?NFTs have driven a LOT of attention. Whether you might think it’s for good or bad reasons- they just have. Either it’s because they are scarce, or because they have a purpose, because you value their creators. Or all of the above. And this is why they have value, even if someone thinks they’re just another overpriced jpegs.In a symbiotic conversation with Derek Edwards (partner at Collab + Currency and author of a great medium piece on why and how NFTs store value), Ian Rogers deep dives into on the past, present, and future of NFTs and why, pretty soon, everything that can be digital will be digital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The more value you have, the more malicious actors will try to get it. You already know that if you own more than a couple of small bags of crypto. But imagine you’re a company or an organization trying to manage their digital assets at scale.This question arose a couple of years ago. Family offices, hedge funds, custodians, exchanges… They had no idea how to secure their assets (or they would do it from a Ledger Nano S). And even less how to manage them at scale. They needed enterprise-grade security with the right governance layer to operate.A product had to be built. Ledger had to come up with a solution. This is Ledger Enterprise, the industry’s best kept secret - for now.In this very special episode of On The Ledger, Ian Rogers gets our Chief Technology Officer Charles and our VP for Business Solutions, Alex Zinder to explain how we intended that solution, everything one can do with it, and why we think that… it’s simply the best out there. Not just the more secure. The best. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The crypto phenomenon is just one symptom among many: we are shifting from a mass market to an era of niches.But then, what is a niche exactly? Where does a community start?In this age of modern loneliness, is swiping the new sign of being part of a community?What do regressive conspiracy movements tell us about a new sense of belonging?With the hyper financialization of our everyday lives, should we demonize new technologies and speculation?In a fascinating discussion with our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou brings his answers to these questions, and raises a lot of other ones…Learn more on his book Speculative Communities here: www.ariskomporozos.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This year has seen the emergence of a variety of AI products showing us a glimpse of the exponential age. But one other innovation has the potential to completely change our world - Quantum computing. Quantum computers are very different from the classical computers that have been around for more than half a century. They harness the power of quantum mechanics to sift through huge numbers of possibilities and extract solutions to problems that might have otherwise been impossible to solve.But then, if quantum computing can break crypto-encryption, what will happen to blockchain technology? Is there a chance that we’ll see quantum computers break current cryptography in our lifetime? If not, what will we see in our lifetime?To answer those questions, we are happy to talk to our CTO Charles Guillemet and Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Chief Security Officer at Taurus, with a quick appearance from Chat GPT, for a deep, slightly technical, but always insightful conversation, 100% free of sci-fi speculation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.