For this edition of Crypto Underground, we are getting together notable companies from the crypto/blockchain space to discuss how you can earn crypto from staking your crytpo and what needs to be done for the ecosystem and network. We look forward to hearing from the below thought leaders:
Rachel Wolfson, Reporter at Cointelegraph
Rachel is a Cointelegraph reporter, public speaker, podcast host and social media influencer. She has over 10 years of experience writing about technology and has been covering the blockchain and cryptocurrency space since 2017, focusing primarily on enterprise blockchain.
Luke Youngblood, Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase Custody
Luke is the founder and CEO of Blockscale, an early pioneer of blockchain and crypto technologies. In 2018, he helped launch the Tezos network by creating the staking infrastructure for the Tezos Foundation, becoming the largest decentralized proof of stake validator in the world overnight. Since then, Blockscale has successfully generated over 20 million XTZ in baking rewards and operates highly available API endpoints for Tezos that are used by major wallet providers. Luke currently works as a staff software engineer at Coinbase Custody, where he launched Tezos Staking Rewards.
Stephen Akridge, Co-Founder of Solana
Stephen is one of the co-founders of Solana. He spends all his time in the codebase and boasts 10 years of critical GPU optimization expertise at Qualcomm and Intel. He is responsible for leading the GPU backend that constantly beat Nvidia.
Jack Zampolin, Director Of Product at Tendermint
Kevin Nielsen, Ecosystem Development at TQ Tezos
Kevin focuses on research and ecosystem development at TQ Tezos to support projects and open-source software being built on Tezos. Since 2016, he has drawn experience strategizing around distributed governance and incentives to better develop effective enterprise and consumer products and UX while at Oracle and Blockfolio.
Maly Ly, CMO at Akash Network
Maly is CMO of Akash Network, the company building the Supercloud, the world's first decentralized peer-to-peer cloud marketplace for compute and services, leveraging PoS. Maly has 18 years of experience accelerating growth, awareness, and acquisition across data-driven platforms, and advanced technologies. Prior to Akash, she led marketing and growth at Relativity Space, YouCaring/GoFundMe, Eventbrite, Sojern, and AdRoll, and brought Star Wars, Tomb Raider, and Nintendo to millions of people globally.
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This event will be live-streamed as usual for our global audience. The live stream is done via Facebook Live and the video can be accessed from the event Facebook page on Tuesday around 6:30pm Pacific.
Thank you Tezos and Blox for sponsoring this event!
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