Now Featured!&nbsp;Host Jerry Cuomo is joined by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAHhE8IBEAC5RqDFtMauduDrjcnPXWG6Acs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Loni Mahanta</a>, VP of Policy &amp; Government Affairs at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/opensea-io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenSea</a>, where she's evolving the worlds thinking of digital assets at the intersection of Law, Technology, and Policy.&nbsp;Loni helps broaden our thinking about <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=nfts&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6973267179475533824" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nfts</a>.&nbsp;Going way beyond what they are today, testing what they can be, and represent, in our highly digital world.&nbsp;Including our own digital identity as a type of non-fungible token

Loni is a strategic legal and policy executive whose leadership helps businesses remain agile and resilient in the face of sweeping, industry-altering change. She specializes in strengthening internal trust and collaboration while crafting relationships with elected officials, policy makers, regulators, employees, community groups, and the media.

Loni is currently the Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs at OpenSea, where she is fostering thoughtful dialog with policymakers regarding web3, crypto, and NFTs. Loni is also a Nonresident Fellow in the Economic Studies department of the Brookings Institution, where she focuses on tech policy and emerging tech.

Loni Mahanta

VP of Policy & Government Affairs at OpenSea

Season 1, Episode 4 - Host Jerry Cuomo is joined by Loni Mahanta from OpenSea.  On the trending topic of NFTs, Jerry and Loni helps broaden our thinking about NFTs, going way beyond what they are today, testing what they can be, and represent in our highly digital world.


OpenSea

Think Blockchain Podcast - OpenSea and NFTs

OpenSea with Loni Mahanta

Think Blockchain - an IBM podcast

Buy the Book

Welcome to Think Blockchain - a podcast for those curious about blockchain’s evolution to an ethical Web3 future. Hosted by IBM Fellow, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Cuomo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jerry Cuomo</a>, this podcast is the perfect companion to his <a href="thinkblockchain.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">book</a> (of the same name) and is recommended listening for anyone who is looking to shape our industry's road to Web3. The future of the internet is in our hands. Get your copy of <a href="thinkblockchain.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Think Blockchain today here</a>! Royalties from the book are donated tothe American Cancer Society.

Think Blockchain

In this episode, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-cuomo/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jerry Cuomo</a> and systems of engagement expert, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishayuk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chris Hay</a>, step into the metaverse and discuss how this new medium holds the potential to greatly enhance our ability to connect and engage with the world around us.Listen in to hear Chris demystify the metaverse, with examples of how to utilize its immersive engagement model to advance day to day business. Chris and Jerry also discuss the connection between the metaverse and blockchain technology and how blockchain could be used to create a decentralized system for identity verification and access control within the metaverse, allowing for greater security and privacy for users.Chris is a Distinguished Engineer, at <a href="https://www.ibm.com/consulting/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IBM Consulting.</a> To read more about what Chris and IBM is up to in the metaverse space read:<a href="https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/en-us/report/enterprise-metaverse" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Beyond the Hype: Explore five ways retailers and brands can drive value in the enterprise metaverse.</a>And if you’re enjoying these podcasts, we suspect you’ll enjoy Jerry’s new book, also titled Think Blockchain. Order your book today here <a href="http://thinkblockchain.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thinkblockchain.org</a>… with royalties donated to advance <a href="https://www.stjude.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">cancer research</a>.This podcast is sponsored by IBM Blockchain and Kaleido. Comments by Jerry, DJ, and Guests are their own and don't necessarily represent the sponsors position or opinions.

Heyyyyyyy!!! I'm Chris, thanks for checking this episode of Think Blockchain on Metaverse

I'm a distinguished engineer for IBM (fancy title I know). I work for our customer transformation division in IBM Consulting known as IBM iX. In-fact I'm our CTO. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out technology trends so I can effectively guide our teams and our customers in their transformation. I specialize in web and mobile technologies, commerce, cloud and IT architecture. 

These days you can find me thinking a lot about the metaverse and web3. I really think this will be a game changer. 

Chris Hay

IBM Distinguished Engineer

In this episode, Jerry Cuomo and systems of engagement expert, Chris Hay, step into the metaverse and discuss how this new medium holds the potential to greatly enhance our ability to connect and engage with the world around us.


Metaverse

In this episode, Jerry is joined by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-gaur-75571a9/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nitin Gaur</a> from State Street, for a timely discussion on Decentralized Finance or DeFi. Listen in to hear both sides of the coin (pun intended) on the benefits that it can bring to today’s banking, lending, trading, etc... As well as the risks associated with this emerging system of blockchain-based finance. Order your <a href="thinkblockchain.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thinkblockchain.org</a> book today and get a free copy of <a href="artofautomation.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">artofautomation.org</a> - with royalties donated to the American Cancer Society This podcast is sponsored by IBM Blockchain and Kaleido. Comments by Jerry, DJ, and Guests are their own and don't necessarily represent the sponsors position or opinions.

At State Street Digital, Nitin's aspiration is to build the digital bank of tomorrow with a focus on digital assets and technology design. His aim is to transition part of the company’s financial market infrastructure and its clients to the new digital economy. 

Nitin Gaur

Leader | FinTech | Decentralized Financing. 

DeFi

Decentralized Finance - DeFi

On the trending topic of Web3 digital identity, Jerry is joined by the ever amazing <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaseacat/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lisa Seacat Deluca</a>, leader of Web3 identity at <a href="https://unstoppabledomains.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Unstoppable Domains</a>, WITI Hall of Fame, 3x LinkedInTopVoices, inventor, speaker, and author of 2 children’s books!<blockquote>“The internet is an unstoppable force,&nbsp;and for 50 years its drummed the rhythm of humanity's march forward. But somewhere along the way, we missed a few beats. Surrendered our data and privacy. And became ‘users’ instead of people.”</blockquote>This is part of the Unstoppable domain’s mantra, in which Lisa and Jerry deep dive into, describing how a new style of “easy to read” domain names (e.g., LisaSeacat.x) is the ticket to becoming people again and defining the future of <a href="https://unstoppabledomains.com/blog/introducing-login-with-unstoppable" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Login and Identity</a> for Web3. Here are links to the articles Lisa and Jerry referenced.<ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/superheroes-owned-domain-names-theyd-unstoppable-lisa-deluca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">If Superheroes Owned Domain Names, They'd Be Unstoppable</a></li><li><a href="https://unstoppablewow3.com/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Unstoppable Women of Web3</a></li><li><a href="https://lisaseacat.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LisaSeacat.com</a> </li></ul>﻿Get your copy of <a href="http://thinkblockchain.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Think Blockchain</a> today here! Royalties from the book are donated to the American Cancer Society. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Blockchain and Kaleido. Comments by Jerry, DJ, and Guests are their own and don't necessarily represent the sponsors position or opinions.

Lisa Seacat DeLuca leads engineering and product management for web3 identity and login at Unstoppable Domains innovating the future of the decentralized web. She is the 2nd Most Prolific Female Inventor in the world and as a technology executive for the past decade, Lisa brings emerging technology to life. Previously, Lisa spent 16 years at IBM as a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Product Management. Lisa holds a Masters of Science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University with minors in Business Administration and Multimedia Productions.
Lisa is an Inductee into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame, Entrepreneur Magazine listed Lisa as one of their "49 Female Entrepreneurs Who Are Reshaping the Business World", and she's been featured in #LinkedInTopVoices in Technology list three years (2019 #2, 2018 #1, 2017 #2). She is a TED speaker, a self-published author of two children’s books titled "A Robot Story" and “The Internet of Mysterious Things”, and the most prolific female inventor in IBM history and the only one to ever reach the 100th Invention Plateau Award (an IBM internal patent award system). Her innovation portfolio includes over 800 patent applications filed within the United States and abroad, of which, over 600 have been granted, to date. The subject of her patent ideas range from areas such as cloud, mobile, IoT, social, security, cognitive, commerce and everything in between. Lisa is an AAAS-Lemelson Inventor Ambassador where she increases visibility to the importance of innovation. Lisa has spoken at numerous tech conferences and written articles to share her technology and innovation passion with others.

For recent articles and information about Lisa, visit LisaSeacat.com or follow Lisa on Twitter @LisaSeacat.

Lisa Seacat Deluca

Unstoppable Domains

On the trending topic of Web3 digital identity, Jerry is joined by the ever amazing Lisa Seacat Deluca, leader of Web3 identity at Unstoppable Domains, WITI Hall of Fame, 3x LinkedInTopVoices, inventor, speaker, and author of 2 children’s books!


Jerry is joined by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zarracina/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matt Zarracina</a>, CEO and Co-founder of <a href="https://true-tickets.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">True Tickets</a> - a scalable and secure digital ticketing delivery experience that integrates with many of today’s existing ticketing platforms.&nbsp;“What exactly is a ticket?” is one question they discuss.&nbsp;Can it be viewed in the same class as a digital asset, token or NFT? Or is it a license, with a set of business rules outlining terms of an experience?Matt explains that True Tickets plays a similar role in a ticketing industry, to what <a href="https://www.sabre.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sabre</a> (airline reservation system) plays in the travel industry. &nbsp;As “the Sabre” of ticketing, True Tickets provides the transparency, chain-of-custody, and engagement rules of how tickets can be security managed across an ecosystem of ticket companies.&nbsp; Matt describes that being the custodian of tickets is a distributed computing problem, hence permissioned blockchain, as a distributed shared ledger system, is well suited for rules management across a diverse ecosystem of ticket vendors.To quote the <a href="thinkblockchain.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Think Blockchain book,</a> “if there are 1000 applications of blockchain, bitcoin is just one”… True Tickets certainly is a standout amongst the other 999 applications.Here are links to the articles Matt and Jerry referenced.<ul><li><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__matthew-2Dzarracina.medium.com_nfts-2Dshouldnt-2Dbe-2Dtickets-2Dand-2Dhere-2Ds-2Dwhy-2D5a63b7d0f00f&amp;d=DwMF_g&amp;c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&amp;r=hhgwynMzmD-0vZjvv9v1Pec60fjXsHfAB1vzm9KNpcg&amp;m=slycQ47vjI7bwDhTnMpLiiQ2VdwPMS7NyfJKbmzEWONleelBS0MQAZnudvsONbBC&amp;s=keUM7BgXFdS8WSuXz52ReRPeboKTMKSI49BTRGNOGrk&amp;e=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NFTs shouldn’t be tickets and here’s why</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__matthew-2Dzarracina.medium.com_ticketing-2Dand-2Dweb-2D3-2D0-2Dbridging-2Dthe-2Dmetaverse-2Dand-2Dthe-2Dactual-2Dverse-2Da4d70eebea1a&amp;d=DwMF_g&amp;c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&amp;r=hhgwynMzmD-0vZjvv9v1Pec60fjXsHfAB1vzm9KNpcg&amp;m=slycQ47vjI7bwDhTnMpLiiQ2VdwPMS7NyfJKbmzEWONleelBS0MQAZnudvsONbBC&amp;s=gDcHVlOnQQtZIrKwKA6-V-5iw3waQCjDEamQgAU1O-k&amp;e=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ticketing and Web 3.0: Bridging the Metaverse and the “Actual-verse”</a></li><li><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__matthew-2Dzarracina.medium.com_ticketing-2Dthe-2Dactual-2Dverse-2Dnfts-2D2-2D0-2D5730e609779e&amp;d=DwMF_g&amp;c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&amp;r=hhgwynMzmD-0vZjvv9v1Pec60fjXsHfAB1vzm9KNpcg&amp;m=slycQ47vjI7bwDhTnMpLiiQ2VdwPMS7NyfJKbmzEWONleelBS0MQAZnudvsONbBC&amp;s=YEJUzpup7J2cIBjsBnUqnGZZTkPgHt1q1oOx-11GW7U&amp;e=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ticketing, the “Actual-Verse”, &amp; NFTs — 2.0</a></li></ul>Get your copy of <a href="https://app.casted.us/account/95/shows/e6480999-2194-4709-8e1a-966e7541eb0c/episodes/7e5d5272-b49b-444a-a3ea-d3587a8d188f/thinkblockchain.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Think Blockchain today here</a>! Royalties from the book are donated to the American Cancer Society.<h5>This podcast is sponsored by IBM Blockchain and Kaleido. Comments by Jerry, DJ, and Guests are their own and don't necessarily represent the sponsors position or opinions.</h5>

As co-founder and CEO of True Tickets, Matt's mission is to improve the live events experience for venues, patrons, and performers alike by reestablishing the common link between all three: trust. 

Matt Zarracina

CEO, Co-Founder, True Tickets

True Tickets

Welcome to <a href="thinkblockchain.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Think Blockchain</a> - A podcast for those curious about blockchain’s evolution to a Web3 future. This is it… The start of a new podcast… hosted by Jerry Cuomo relating to topics covered in his new book of the same name.In blockchain, a genesis block is the very first block of data committed to the chain. So, in a sense, this episode is the genesis block of this new podcast series. In this episode, Jerry is joined by his digital twin, DJ. Together they introduce the podcast, describe who it’s for, and hint at some guests and topics that we’ve teed up for future discussions.Jerry describes the book and the podcast share the same goals which related to shaping the future of the Internet, which many call Web3. But to improve our future, we need to understand the issues of today’s Web2 world.&nbsp; Issues like…<ul><li>Identity theft, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Issues with data privacy, </li><li>A balanced rewards system for those creating and contributing valuable data to the internet,</li><li>Going beyond the 2D internet into an immersive 3D metaverse,</li><li>And a safe, easy and trustworthy approach to digital money.</li></ul>All these topics are areas that need attention and are areas that Jerry feels blockchain technology's unique attributes can take a real run at solving these problems. Hence, the title of the podcast and book, <a href="thinkblockchain.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Think blockchain</a>. Get your copy of <a href="thinkblockchain.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Think Blockchain today here</a>! Royalties from the book are donated to the American Cancer Society.<h5>This podcast is sponsored by IBM Blockchain and Kaleido. Comments by Jerry, DJ, and Guests are their own and don't necessarily represent the sponsors position or opinions.</h5>

D.J, or Digital Jerry, is Jerry Cuomo's digital twin. A frequent guest on Jerry's other podcast, Art of Automation, DJ can be counted on to bring unique perspectives that are often overlooked by humans.

Digital Jerry

Welcome to Think Blockchain - A podcast for those curious about blockchain’s evolution to a Web3 future. This is it… The start of a new podcast… hosted by Jerry Cuomo that covers on topics covered in his new book of the same name.


The Genesis Block

Think Blockchain - The Genesis Block

Attention all Think Blockchain fans! Get ready for an exciting bonus episode with a big announcement.We are thrilled to reveal that the Think Blockchain podcast is merging with the Art of Automation podcast, creating a brand-new show titled "The Art of AI." This podcast will be your go-to destination for exploring the world of trustworthy AI for businesses.In this episode, we'll discuss how the concepts and techniques from blockchain can be put to excellent use in building trust within AI systems. We'll delve into why AI has taken the lead in innovation investment budgets, leaving blockchain in the back seat, and how this merger creates a unique opportunity to leverage the best of both technologies.Stay tuned for the inaugural episode of "The Art of AI," where we'll dive deep into the exciting world of AI with a sprinkle of blockchain's cryptography. Don't miss out - tune in to the Art of AI now!Catch this bonus episode and watch out for more updates on our brand-new podcast adventure. Thank you for being part of our loyal audience, and we can't wait to explore the Art of AI with you!<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4CLOddf8rBxTnO3Hw1DKEX" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to the Art of A.I. podcast here!</a>

Jerry Cuomo

IBM Fellow

Welcome The Art of A.I. Podcast!

In short bonus episode, Jerry Cuomo discusses the relationship between AI and blockchain, debunking the notion that the combination is hyped and stating that they both enforce each other. Cuomo highlights how blockchain provides authentic data, bringing trust to AI and augmenting decision making, while AI brings intelligence to data. Cuomo also mentions how the combination of AI and blockchain could benefit industries such as healthcare and finance by providing better data and identity protection. Cuomo suggests starting with incremental steps and dreaming big to improve everyday life. Ultimately, the combination of AI and blockchain can lead to authenticity, augmentation, and automation.

In short bonus episode, Jerry Cuomo discusses the relationship between AI and blockchain, debunking the notion that the combination is hyped and stating that they both enforce each other. 


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