Let’s be honest. Crypto has a compliance problem. Blockchain is a global, permissionless, borderless digital technology that expands beyond geography. Yet, regulatory bodies exist in every nation, state, and locality — making it hard for industry players to know what’s legal and what’s not. 

After witnessing political volatility and moving to the U.S. from Moscow in the early 1990s, Anastasia decided as a child that she wanted to create world change through technology. 

There are not enough hours in the day for Marek Olszewski. As co-founder and CTO of cLabs and president of Valora, Marek, along with partners, is developing a crypto ecosystem (Celo) that is not only profitable but of service to people. 

The cryptocurrency market has taken quite a nose dive recently. But while the market is down, new innovations are happening with blockchain so that DeFi may one day be widely adopted. 

Since first investing in Bitcoin, Aziz Zainuddin aka Atticus has always been interested in cryptocurrency. But given his traditional financial background, he saw practical limitations in developing crypto products within conventional corporate structures. 

The web3 space is new and exciting — but there’s still room for improvement and creativity. Mark Dawson, along with Co-Founder Daniel Stratton, saw that there was a need for artists to be able to sell their work on Optimism, a place where an NFT marketplace did not yet exist.

The complexity of blockchain scalability is one of the biggest barriers to adoption. Yan Martins, the CEO of Hathor Labs, along with his partners, are working to solve this issue.

What started as a school project at Princeton University became Arbitrum, an Ethereum scaling solution platform allowing you to make low-cost but highly secure transactions.

As the crypto industry works to accommodate the Ethereum merge, the founders of Kadena are taking a different approach.

Born from visionary ideas that pre-date Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper, Kadena is committed to building a scalable Proof-of-Work blockchain for both enterprise and individual use.   

That’s where people like Anastasia Bez, Director of Operations at Kadena, step in. She and the rest of the team at Kadena are ensuring the architects of crypto’s future can keep building, sourcing future crypto leaders from diverse backgrounds and demystifying crypto for non-experienced users.

In a recent episode of Masters of Web3, Anastasia shared some of the key ways Kadena are achieving all this, including:

• Redesigning Proof of Work to tackle network congestion and scalability issues 
• Improving security and simplifying crypto for newer users
• Implementing a grant program designed to keep builders building