Alejo Pinto is a co-founder at Pontem, a product development studio building Move and Ethereum virtual machine-compatible applications and products. We spoke about his time at IBM where he worked on blockchain projects, his love of the video game Runescape when he was a kid and how Pontem is opening up the Ethereum ecosystem to decentralized applications that are built in computer languages like Move and Rust, rather than just in Solidity.

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Justin is the CEO and co-founder of MoNA, a 3-D creator economy for the metaverse. In his previous roles at Magic Leap and DreamWorks Animation, Melillo helped build the world’s first AR digital human AI and a volumetric capture experience with the Royal Shakespeare Company. An artist and creator of immersive AR and VR experiences, Melillo’s AR lenses have been viewed more than 100 million times across Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. Melillo has collaborated with a number of household name musicians throughout his career such as Lizzo, Pearl Jam, and Cardi B as well as designing stages for touring musicians including Drake and Charli XCX.

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Frank Chaparro is an acclaimed speaker, angel investor and host of "The Scoop" podcast. He was founding reporter at The Block, a research and news company. Previously, he served as a fintech and market structure reporter at Business Insider and started his career in marketing and communications at NASDAQ.

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Ian is co-founder and president of Ingredient X, the film and software development studio specializing in blockchain, DeFi and NFT technologies including the creation of Film.io, a decentralized filmmaking ecosystem that places Hollywood decision-making onto the blockchain and into the hands of creators and fans.

Chris, co-founder and CTO of Ingredient X, was a pioneer in the early days of WordPress and is a member of the Infrastructure team for the Apache Software Foundation.

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Paul is in charge of EY's initiatives and investments in blockchain technology across the company's consulting, audit and tax businesses. He led EY's first blockchain strategy engagement to examine how digital services, payments and the Internet of things are coming together in new ecosystems. We spoke of his long-geld belief that corporations should be building on public chains like Ethereum, and how that squares with his recent appointment as chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, which is a proponent of private, permissioned blockchains.

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Jess is the CEO of WalletConnect, the leading web3 communications and usability platform. Having been integrated with over 500 wallets and 6,000 apps, it facilitates millions of end-user connections each month. Today, it is also empowering developers to build engaging web3 experiences with a suite of SDKs: Web3Modal, Web3Wallet, and the Web3Inbox app that facilitates human-readable message delivery between apps and users.

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Saneel Sreeni is a founding team member at Ritual, a decentralized AI startup. He was previously on the founding team at Alkimiya and a Venture Partner at Accomplice. He's also been around the block in crypto, doing both research at UC Berkeley and working across startups and venture capital firms.

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Jesse Shrader is the co-founder and CEO of Amboss, the leading provider of Bitcoin Lightning Network data and insights. Formerly an engineer, Jesse is focused on supporting the ongoing development of the decentralized and social payments layer for Bitcoin.

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Jesse mentioned the Reflex product they have just launched, if you'd like more information on it check out rpo.dev.

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