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In 2003, the first whole human genome sequencing cost totalled to roughly $2.7 billion. With rapid advancements in new tools, research and sequencing technologies, a new wave of techies is on the rise taking engineering principles to the biological domain. In this cast we talk to one such Co-Founder, Zack Abbott, about the rise of Synthetic Biology, his company, ZBiotics, and their work to build a probiotic product to alleviate hangovers.

Does a bar really need to know your full name and address or just that you're over 21? With growing technical and social engineering, something as simple as a leaked driver's licence can be lethal from an privacy standpoint. Should these analog identities have digital equivalents? In this cast we chat with Alex Ortiz, Chief Blockchain Evangelist at LifeID about how we are atomizing our identity. The future is wild.

Cannabis consumption is set to legalize nation wide in Canada on October 17 2018. However, behind the scenes entrepreneurs and companies are busy at work building this new industry for products ranging from recreational use to non-psychoactive ancillaries like medical treatments, additives and more. In this cast, we chat with serial entrepreneur and Motif Cannabis Co-Founder Ian Haase, about navigating this new industry in Canada.

Price volatility is one factor limiting growth in the blockchain space. In this cast we talk to Co-Founder and CTO Phil Elsasser about his team's goal to build an underlying open source blockchain derivatives protocol. We touch on this problem of price volatility, bringing shorting to digital asset contracts, oracles for stock data and more!

Don't skip this one. With more automation, productivity tools, and cloud storage solutions the tricky question of, "how do we make all of this work together for the knowledge worker?" is becoming increasingly important. Layer on AI and the data used to improve these processes and we start asking slightly more concerning questions like, "Can you trust AI?" In this cast we talk to Rob May, CEO of Talla and angel investor in the AI world about exiting from his previous company Backupify, observations in AI world and his work with Talla and Botchain to create a new a standard for autonomous agents, Human-AI interactions, and more.

Come along with Rob as he interviews the buidlers, developers and entreprenuers of the Ethereum community and beyond at The Community Ethereum Development Conference (EDCON) on May 3 - 5, 2018.

With the advent of the internet the media industry has taken a complete turn in the 21st century. In this cast we talk to Co-Founder and CEO Igor Lilic of the Cellarius Network, a Consensys project, attempting to reinvent the nature of story telling through crowd sourced contributions. Cellarius hopes to unlock the thousands of untold stories of humanity, and create some new ones a long the way with this epic story of humanity and AI.

"Your $100 million ICO is not a success. It is a debt to the community. You owe us a $100 billion protocol. Good luck delivering." Richard Burton is CEO of Balance.io, a new weapon in the Ethereum tool arsenal. The twist? It's focused specifically on getting crypto on track by solving some of Ethereum's toughest usability problems. In this cast we discuss all matters of the crypto world, from "protocolism" to critiques of the community and state.

There are a handful of metaphors to describe the evolution and future of blockchain development. One is the internet protocol layer specification, and another is one I've been exploring lately called the "decentralized architecture model". In this cast we talk to COO Robbie Bent of TrueBit about the scaling solution for crypto and beyond.

"HODL" has been an iconic meme in the crypto world, but with a growing realization that Blockchain technology could be bigger than finance, communities and developers are rising to the challenge to BUIDL the future as they see fit. In this cast, we talk to one such Founder Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin (Consensys Mesh) on his mission to push open source forward and bring Web3 into developer work life and beyond.

"Universities today are selling a piece of paper at great cost and telling people that buying it is the only way they can save their souls". In this cast we talk to GP Danielle Strachman of 1517 Fund on her dedication to dispelling the "diploma illusion" of one size fits all education. Her focus on relationships first venture capital, and her time at Thiel Fellowship with inspiring founders like Ethereum creator Vitalik Butern.

Reflection and integration of new information and lessons is a critical in a startup environment from product feedback to regulating founder psychology. In this cast we chat with Nima Tahami & Mohsen Mohsenpour about their founder lessons and goal of turning car sharing into an on-demand experience with ShiftRide.

Decentralized systems are, by nature... well.. a bit chaotic. While many investors in the 2017 ICO craze have been burned by more questionable offerings, 2018 continues to been the year of infrastructure and governance development. In this cast we chat with CEO Alan Wunsche of TokenFunder on their new platform for bringing investor protections and regulatory considerations for ICOs and more.

"Hey Siri, put out a request to anyone in Barcelona for a weekend apartment rental at $100 a night". In this cast we talk to Founder Mark Beylin about his company The Bounties Network and his thoughts about it's applications to incentivizing humans to make progress in new ways environmentally, socially, and economically.

Identity is one of the key components in building inclusive financial services for an increasingly global world. Duncan Brown of DIID talks about using behavioural data in emerging markets to build digital identities.

The feigned herd of institutional money and investors just waiting on the side lines to get into the new world of digital assets is proclaimed far and wide among cryptocurrency investors. But results have been slower than forums have thought. In this episode we chat with founder and CEO Ali Hassan, who is leading the charge with Crescent Crypto in providing access to institutional level investors to the highly desired returns from digital assets with his passive crypto index fund.

Utility tokens are by use, the glue that binds together protocols in cryptocurrency land and projects, giving rise to the so called "Fat Protocol Thesis". How should we go about thinking of utility and protocol tokens in the ethereum and cryptocurrency world?

Technology is developing at an unimaginable speed but have you ever stopped to ask the question, "How is this going to impact us and the evolution of humanity as a whole?". In this cast, we chat Ian Pilon on his opinions in this wacky world of Sensors, Blockchains, and AI.

Finding quality blockchain engineers for cryptocurrency based projects is among one of the most challenge pursuits right now in the crypto world - Mahesh Murthy wants to solve that with Zastrin Labs.

Scaling applications in the Ethereum ecosystem is among one of the hottest debates today. Matt is Co-Founder of the Loom Network, and joins us to discuss how Loom plans to scale Ethereum Apps to Twitter like size, and provides his thoughts as a blockchain entrepreneur.