Welcome to a special Behind the Scenes episode as we wrap up our very first season of the podcast! 

Throughout the season, we’ve explored and demystified many foundational concepts in the Web3 space. Nothing was off-limits, from virtual land sales to cyber security, crypto, and DAOs. Our goal? To create a safe space for traditionally underrepresented people to feel comfortable getting curious and talking about this new revolution. We’re just getting started!

In this conversation, I’m joined by three members of Eve Wealth who have each been a critical part of our podcast team. Mary, Chelsea, Alana, and I talk about why we wanted to start the podcast, how this first experiment with the DAO worked, what it was like for our global community to come together to make this production happen, key challenges and opportunities we uncovered along the way, plans for the future of the show and Eve Wealth, and more.

Highlights

Why we wanted to share what goes on behind the scenes of the podcast

How DAOs are changing the way we think about organizations

The motivation behind creating the Women, Wealth, & Web3 podcast

How being a part of a DAO helped Mary start her angel investing journey

Eve Wealth DAO’s origin story

Some of the highlights that came out from our dive deep into Web3

Challenges and opportunities that came out of decentralized collaboration

Topics we plan to explore and people we’d love to talk to in Season 2

What’s on the horizon for Eve Wealth?

Key terms

DAO (decentralized autonomous organization): A blockchain-based organization that is democratically managed by members through open-source code and typically formalized by self-enforcing smart contracts. DAOs lack centralized management structures/ All decisions are voted upon by network stakeholders. DAOs often utilize a native utility token to incentivize network participation, and allocate proportional voting power to stakeholders based on the size of their stake. As DAOs are built on top blockchains — often Ethereum — their transactions are executed transparently on the underlying blockchain.

Definition source: https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/

Connect with DAO Contributors

Alana Podrx on Twitter @AlanaPodrx / LinkedIn

Mary Colpo on Twitter @MaryColpo / LinkedIn

Chelsea Burns on Twitter @Chelsea27744471 / LinkedIn

Patty Kan on Twitter @PKanEats / LinkedIn

Connect with Eve Wealth DAO

Go from crypto-curious to crypto-confident with the DeFi Curious Course https://www.evewealth.com/defi-curious

Check out our social channels at @evewealthhq:

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/eve-wealth-hq/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/evewealthhq/

Twitter https://twitter.com/evewealthhq

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/evewealthhq

Eve Wealth Website https://www.evewealth.com/

Blockchain technology allows us to collaborate to create solutions that would otherwise be impossible.

Today we’re excited to be joined by Roselyne Wanjiru from Nile Capital to explore the opportunities created by blockchain technology’s ability to move money across the African continent faster and cheaper than traditional finance solutions.

Roselyne is an economist and blockchain strategy consultant. She is the Lead Research Analyst at Nile Capital, a digital assets advisory platform that enables investors to leverage financial opportunities in emerging technology platforms. She has served as the Director of Growth and User Acquisitions at Pesabase, a premier payments and remittance solutions provider in Africa. Roselyne is also a keynote speaker and thought leader in Africa’s budding blockchain ecosystem. She’s passionate about the need for innovation in and adoption of emerging technologies for economic efficiency and the creation of new opportunities for youth in Africa as contributors, not just consumers in the global digital economy.

In this conversation, Roselyne and I talk about the new opportunities created by blockchain in emerging markets, how the remittance and payment transfer spaces have evolved in the last decade, the ways digital finance solutions help underbanked communities, blockchain solutions that are increasing financial inclusion, and more.

Highlights

Welcome Roselyne Wanjiru

Roselyne’s journey to working in the digital asset space

Positive changes with more women sharing their voice

Understanding the context in which M-Pesa was launched

How M-Pesa helped to increase financial inclusion across Africa

Pesabase’s mission to reduce the cost of remittances

Opportunities for and obstacles to the widespread adoption of these types of solutions in emerging markets

Why a public ledger is more secure than traditional solutions

How Africa’s growing youth population is set to impact the Web3 space

Tackling the problem of scamming

Get started with investing in crypto

Connect with Roselyne Wanjiru

Roselyne Wanjiru on Twitter https://twitter.com/wroselyne_

Roselyne Wanjiru on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/roselyne_w/

Roselyne Wanjiru on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Roselyne-Wanjiru-103874438560991

Roselyne Wanjiru on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN8EWetpVydsQxM_oUC7jZA

Roselyne Wanjiru’s Book | Blockchain For You: Talking about tech should be as easy as about food! https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-You-Talking-about-should-ebook/dp/B09F5VTNDT/

Nile Capital https://nilecapital.cc/

Mentioned in this episode

Yvonne Kagondu https://www.instagram.com/yvonnekagondu/

M-Pesa https://www.vodafone.com/about-vodafone/what-we-do/consumer-products-and-services/m-pesa

Pesabase https://pesabase.com/

Connect with Eve Wealth DAO

Go from crypto-curious to crypto-confident with the DeFi Curious Course https://www.evewealth.com/defi-curious

Check out our social channels at @evewealthhq:

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/eve-wealth-hq/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/evewealthhq/

Twitter https://twitter.com/evewealthhq

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/evewealthhq

Eve Wealth Website https://www.evewealth.com/

The utopian future of blockchain promises a future of more inclusion for the underserved and unbanked. But in a world where it’s been reported that 9% of accounts hold 80% of the NFT market and 2% of accounts hold 95% of Bitcoin - is inequality being solved?

Blockchain technology has created new opportunities for emerging markets, including digital finance solutions to help communities access affordable credit, insurance, and savings in the informal economy.

Today we’re excited to be joined by Sofie Blakstad, founder of hiveonline to talk about the financial inclusion gap and how they are giving rural smallholder farmers access to credit and markets through decentralized finance.

In this conversation, Sofie and I talk about the complex barriers that have kept so much of the world’s population unbanked and without access to financial services, why infrastructure matters, what decentralized finance means, and why it’s a good solution for creating access, how hiveonline leverages existing social systems to work with local cooperatives and farmers in Mozambique, the opportunities to connect DeFi with centralized banking systems, and more.

Highlights

Welcome Sofie Blakstad

Sofie’s accidental entry into technology and banking

How lack of infrastructure impacts populations

The complex reasons why many people around the world remain unbanked

Bridging the financial inclusion gap with decentralized finance (DeFi)

Why Sofie wanted to focus on working with cooperatives in Africa

How DeFi reduces costs for end users

Some of the issues with preexisting FinTech solutions

Leveraging existing social systems to allow access without infrastructure

The founding premise of Hiveonline

How traditional savings groups work

Connecting DeFi with centralized banking systems

Hiveonline’s plans to digitize alternative value systems

The difficulty with validating whether protocols and ecosystems are truly green

Key terms

Decentralized finance (DeFi): a major growth sector in blockchain that offers peer-to-peer (P2P) financial services and technologies built on protocols such as Ethereum, Cardano, Polkadot, and Solana. DeFi loans, investments, trades and swaps are typically transparent, permissionless, trustless, and interoperable.
Smart contract: a self-executing code or protocol that carries out a set of instructions verified on the blockchain. These contracts are trustless, autonomous, decentralized, and transparent; they are irreversible and unmodifiable once deployed.

Definition source: https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/

Connect with Sofie Blakstad

Hiveonline https://www.hivenetwork.online/

MyCoop.online https://mycoop.online/AboutUs

Sofie Blakstad on Twitter https://twitter.com/sofieblakstad

Connect with Eve Wealth DAO

Go from crypto-curious to crypto-confident with the DeFi Curious Course https://www.evewealth.com/defi-curious

Check out our social channels at @evewealthhq:

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/eve-wealth-hq/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/evewealthhq/

Twitter https://twitter.com/evewealthhq

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/evewealthhq

Eve Wealth Website https://www.evewealth.com/