The Index Podcast

Episodes

Sept. 9, 2022

Web3 and Building the Foundation for a Better Internet with Al Morris

This week host Alex Kehaya joins Web3 Futurist Al Morris, CEO of Koii. The Koii team is building the foundation for a more fair, community owned internet with a decentralized protocol and storage - bringing true decentralizat...

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Aug. 27, 2022

Web3, Empowering Black Artists, and the Future of NFTs with Iris Nevi…

This week host Alex Kehaya joins Iris Nevins, co-founder of Umba Daima, an NFT Studio building and curating community in Web3. Umba Daima creates virtual galleries featuring multicultural projects by artists worldwide, includ...

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Aug. 13, 2022

Building More Sustainable Open Source Projects with Uri Goldshtein

This week host Alex Kehaya joins The Guild founder Uri Goldshtein. The Guild is the largest group of open source developers in the GraphQL ecosystem. It's a deep dive on how Web3 and open-source projects are paving the way fo...

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July 29, 2022

Next Generation of Employment and the Decentralized Future with John …

This week host Alex Kehaya joins John Paller, Founder and Steward of Opolis is a next generation ecosystem for the self-sovereign worker. John is also the founder of ETH Denver, the largest Ethereum hackathon in the world. It...

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July 15, 2022

Web3, Digital Identity, and Building Self Custody Solutions with Zhen…

This week host Alex Kehaya joins Zhen Yu Yong, a former developer at Ethereum and the current CEO and Co-Founder of Web3Auth that is a distributed private key management solution. We take a deep dive to talk about the future …

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June 30, 2022

All About the Merge and Future of Ethereum with Tim Beiko

This week host Alex Kehaya joins Tim Beiko who leads AllCoreDevs at the Ethereum Foundation to talk about the future of Ethereum and the upcoming Merge. A truly exciting conversation about the Ethereum vision – more scalabili...

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June 15, 2022

Blockchain and the Economic Empowerment of Women with Olayinka Odenir…

This week host Alex Kehaya, talks with Olayinka Odeniran, CEO of CybSecWatch, and the founder of the Black Women Blockchain Council, a community designed to support and inspire black women pursuing careers in blockchain and f...

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June 1, 2022

Wisdom Age and the Evolution of Society with Rhys Lindmark

This week host Alex Kehaya joins Rhys Lindmark, CEO and co-founder of Roote, a nonprofit startup studio building the Wisdom Age. A great conversation about the Web3 ecosystem, why capitalism needs marriage counseling, and the...

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May 18, 2022

Inside Look at the Semantic Web, Future of AI, and Web3 with James He…

This week host Alex Kehaya joins Professor James Hendler, one of the originators of the semantic web and the Director of the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications and the Tetherless World Professor for Computer, Web...

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May 4, 2022

Web3's Evolution and Twitter's Decentralized Future with Avichal Garg

This week Alex Kehaya joins Avichal Garg, Co-founder, and Partner at Electric Capital, an early-stage venture firm. Avichal shares his thoughts on the evolution of Web 3.0, how developers can build a better Internet, and Twit...

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April 20, 2022

Web3, the Power of DAOs and Transforming the Internet with Nik Kalyani

This week host Alex Kehaya joins Nik Kalyani, co-founder, and CEO of Decentology, who are building the future of decentralized apps on the Hyperverse. A great conversation on the power of DAOs, onboarding developers to Web3, ...

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April 6, 2022

Web3 Ecosystem and Building a Better Internet with Joseph Al-Chami, F…

This week host Alex Kehaya joins Joseph Al-Chami, Product Manager for Figment one of the world's largest blockchain infrastructure providers and core developers for the Graph. A great conversation on how Figment is helping de...

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March 23, 2022

Web3 Revolution and the Future of Data Ownership with Jon Poole

Host Alex Kehaya joins Jon Poole, Community Lead and Business Development at the Oasis Protocol Foundation. A great conversation on the Web3 revolution, privacy in the metaverse, and the future of data ownership.

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March 9, 2022

Digital Sovereignty and Decentralized Government with Julian Zawistow…

Host Alex Kehaya joins Julian Zawistowski, Director of Golem Foundation. Julian, who lives in Poland, talks about his country's cultural and economic ties with Ukraine, and the critical role Poland is playing during this hum...

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Feb. 24, 2022

Looking Into the Future of VR, Holograms and the Metaverse with Shawn…

What is the future of holograms? Host Alex Keyaha joins Shawn Frayne, Co-founder and CEO of the Looking Glass Factory, a Brooklyn-based startup that's designed the world's first desktop holographic display for 3D creators. We...

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Feb. 9, 2022

DeFi, Metaverse, and the Next Wave of Web3 with Aya Kantorovich

Host Alex Kehaya joins Aya Kantorovich, Head of Institutional Coverage at FalconX a digital trading asset platform. A great conversation on what's next for DeFI, the crypto economy, and why the metaverse is the next wave of W...

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Jan. 26, 2022

Web3 and the Token Revolution with Shermin Voshmgir

Host Alex Kehaya joins author Shermin Voshmgir, the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and the founder of BlockchainHub in Berlin. They take a deep dive into decentral...

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Jan. 12, 2022

Future Trends for Web3, NFTs, and the Metaverse with Anne Ahola Ward

Host Alex Kehaya kicks off The Index's new season with Anne futurist Ahola Ward, founder, and CEO of CircleClick Media. Anne has been dubbed "The Mother of Startups" by CNN, is an entrepreneur, and published O'Reilly Author. ...

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Dec. 15, 2021

Human Rights and Restoring Trust in the Digital Age with Jonathan Dot…

Host Alex Kehaya joins Starling Labs Jonathan Dotan, a Fellow at Stanford's Center for Blockchain Research, and is the writer & producer of HBO's Emmy Award-winning series SILICON VALLEY. A great conversation on restoring tru...

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Dec. 1, 2021

How to Build a Bridge Across the Digital Divide with Dragana Kaurin

Host Alex Kehaya joins Dragana Kaurin, a human rights researcher and Founder of The Localization Lab, an organization fighting for equal access to information. A great conversation on how to build a bridge across the great di...

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Nov. 17, 2021

The Self-Sovereign Internet of Things with Raullen Chai

Alex Kehaya joins Raullen Chai, co-founder and CEO of IoTeX, a decentralized network for the Internet of Things. A great conversation on Raullen's vision of the decentralized future where self-sovereign users can control thei...

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Nov. 3, 2021

Big Tech's Impact on Society and the Debate Over Data Ownership with …

Host Alex Kehaya joins Kean Birch, an expert in technoscience and Professor at York University. They take a deep dive into big tech's impact on society, the current debate over personal data ownership, and the future of Web3.

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Oct. 20, 2021

Crypto Revolution, NFTs, and Web3's Decentralized Renaissance

Host Alex Kehaya joins Josh Rosenthal, a former historian, and partner at 6ixth Event Cataclysmic Capital. They take a deep dive into Web3's decentralized renaissance, the NFT revolution, and how crypto is breaking down barri...

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Oct. 6, 2021

Web3, IoT, and Stepping Into the Digital Future with Eliott Teissonie…

Host Alex Kehaya joins Eliott Teissoniere, Chief Blockchain Officer for Nodle the world’s largest ecosystem of connected devices that provides infrastructure, software, and access to date for the Internet of Things. They take...

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