In this episode, we spoke with Elston Sam, a seasoned web2 entrepreneur who gambled on bringing the next billion users to the web3 sector through a revolutionary gaming platform. Having learned about NFTs in 2017, he describes how he and his co-founders developed Ethlas the following year in 2021. Their goal is to provide smoother transitions between web2 and web3 technologies through the development of gaming and security solutions in the web3 sphere.

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00:00:51 - CryptoKitties made me do it!

00:02:29 - Life before Ethlas

00:04:00 - The right time getting into the space

00:07:07 - Ethlas’ 2 vertical arms: Gaming arm and Security arm

00:09:15 - Putting an B2B2C element 

00:12:05 - Being the Bridge to Ease Adoption

00:14:30 - More focused on Improving Efficiency

00:16:28 - Games Were the most Widely Adopted Web3 App

00:18:18 - Promoting Web3 Through Gaming

00:20:09 - Ethlas Resonates Interoperability and Incentive Structure

00:23:53 - Gaming Use Cases as the Universal Factor for Web3 Adoption

00:25:21 - Ethlas’ gaming portfolio

00:26:05 - Mobile first approach

00:27:00 - Finding the Perfect Position for Every New Game

00:28:39 - Emphasizing first on safety and trust

00:31:57 - Ethlas Also Provides Strict Security & Recovery

00:36:09 - Bridging and Pushing User Adoption into Web3 Space

00:38:08 - General On-Chain Transaction Security is Crucial

00:41:06 - The Builder Season

00:42:22 - Leverage the Bear Market to Identify Strong Firms

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In this episode, we discussed the following topics:

1. Discover why digital content selling for thousands of dollars on the web intrigued one founder to dive into Web3.

2. Uncover how one startup is leveraging the gaming industry to bridge Web2 and Web3.

3. Explore why games are the lowest common denominator for adoption into the Web3 space.

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Connect with Nigel Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-lee-35bb2247/

Connect with Elston Sam and Ethlas: 

Elston Sam on Linkedin: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/elstonsam

Elston Sam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elstonsam/?hl=en

Elston Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elston_ethlas

Ethlas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ethlas_Official

Ethlas (Website): https://ethlas.com/

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In this interview, Nathanael shares about his experience moving from being a lawyer, where he was helping companies during the ICO in 2017 to founding Avium. He also shares his views about how the current economy is broken, with a lot of centralization across platforms. Avium was born to solve the issue of helping game studios get from 0 to 1, by creating an ecosystem of ​​people, distribution, capacity, financiers for gaming and esports companies. By creating a community around the respective game studios, Avium serves to refine D2C - “direct to community”. He believes that the down period is the moment to redefine things, and where social movements will take place.

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00:02:10 - Web3 is Mostly Uncontrolled and It Needs To Be Improved

00:03:36 - Understanding web3 is a technique to give individuals business's market-valued asset

00:05:16 - Describing web3 is technological adoption and cultural trend

00:07:50 - Web3 develops communities and aligns incentives

00:09:09 - How attention economy monetizes ads and sponsorship

00:13:13  - Avium tries to leverage web3 to provide communal ownership

00:14:20 - A gaming and media publisher, that’s Avium

00:17:13 - Avium uses web3 to locate the genuine community that wants to connect with material by giving them an NFT

00:19:46 - Avium constructs NFTs that represent the studio-user connection

00:21:54 - What’s the edge of Avium among other studios?

00:23:29 - Factors that Nathanael’s considered before making his crazy move to Avium

00:24:58 - Avium’s Ecosystem and how it benefits the stakeholders

00:28:40 - How Avium construct their workflow

00:31:33 - Solidifying community and partnerships

00:34:31 - Blockchain technology builds confidence in a trustless environment

00:36:44 - In the young market, meeting the appropriate people and having nice discussions is the greatest way to learn

00:39:04 - Avium is combining web2 discipline with web3 and seeing how to construct

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In this episode, we discussed the following topics:

1. How Web3 technology enables people to build communities and align incentives among them to succeed together.

2. How Avium is combining esports teams, media, and animation studios to bring them to Web3 and publish with the community.

3. What it means to own an NFT, and the experiential journey it provides from comic to video game to big screen.

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Connect with Nigel Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-lee-35bb2247/

Learn more about Nathanael Lim and Avium:

Nathanael Lim on Linkedin: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/nathanael-lim-0bb690a3

Avium on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aviumworld?lang=en

Avium Origins: https://mint.aviumorigins.com/

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An avid gamer since childhood, Renz Chong pursues his passions for gaming and blockchain by joining BreederDAO project, a venture that strives to empower users with their own digital asset ownership, creating an ironic twist to the traditional concept of true ownership. He has experience in consulting, startups, ecommerce, fintech, and decentralized finance. He rediscovered cryptocurrency and blockchain and became interested in decentralized finance applications. Renz discovered asset creation and the concept of blockchain gaming and now assists with empowering users and creators to construct and change objects through his work with BreederDAO.

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00:02:10 - Renz’ first startup experience at a local ride hailing company

00:04:35 - Rediscovering blockchain and crypto in a different light

00:06:30 - Falling in love with the concept of NFTs

00:08:20 - Being involved in the space to gain ownership of entities

00:10:26 - Endless possibilities you can do in blockchain gaming

00:15:21 - Empower users and provide them with the necessary tools to craft or modify their own assets

00:18:24 - Exploring metaverse: a chance for a second life

00:20:00 - Bringing ideas to life, bringing ideas to assets

00:23:01 - The contribution to the space is focused on the asset side

00:24:58 - In a unique position to be able to capture a huge market

00:26:34 - Bridging merchants or bringing brands into this metaverse via games

00:28:32 - Getting into the flow with BreederDAO

00:30:04 - Creating a space where people will be able to use machines to craft their own items

00:32:16 - The biggest challenge is how the industry will mature

00:34:37 - Adoption is a growing challenge for new innovations

00:36:05 - Influencing every asset that exist in the digital world is BreederDAO’s goal

00:38:24 - Separating good projects from bad is one advantage of the bear market fiasco

00:42:20 - The best things about the crypto industry

00:43:15 - How to get in touch with Renz Chong

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In this episode, we discussed the following topics:

1. Earning Money through gaming: Discover how gamers can earn money through blockchain applications and explore the innovative features of blockchain gaming.

2. Asset Creation in Metaverse: Learn how to create assets in the crypto world and what it means to have true ownership in the digital world.

3. Bridging the Digital and Physical Worlds: Uncover how to bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds and bring ideas to life.

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Connect with Nigel Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-lee-35bb2247/

Learn more about Renz Chong and BreederDAO:

Renz Chong on Linkedin: https://ph.linkedin.com/in/renz-chong

BreederDAO.io :https://www.breederdao.io/

BreederDAO on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BreederDAO

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Robbie is Co-Founder & President of Immutable. He is also a Thiel Fellow with The Thiel Foundation. Along with his brother James, they have both been building tech companies together for the majority of the last decade. They also grew up as massive gamers — playing Runescape, Maplestory, Neopets — basically anything with an economy growing up. After a couple of startups they built together like a self-wagering application for League of Legends, and a machine-learning Shopify competitor which automatically optimized your store, they came across Bitcoin in 2014 and Ethereum in 2015. Robbie was instantly obsessed with Ethereum and the possibilities that could be built from it.

In 2018, Immutable was born—a global blockchain technology company with a mission to bring asset ownership and commerce alive in digital worlds through the power of immutable NFTs. The Immutable Group consists of Ethereum-scaling Layer 2 platform ImmutableX and Immutable Games Studio with leading titles Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians.

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00:00:40 - How it all began

00:01:20 - Getting into Bitcoin and being obsessed with Ethereum

00:03:26 - They launched their first blockchain multiplayer game Etherbots

00:04:59 - Explaining Web3 without referring to Web3

00:05:50 - Gods Unchained was built, a game in which you can own your cards digitally

00:07:05 - Why blockchain gaming?

00:09:50 - Immutable redefined

00:11:00 - What is Immutable’s goal 

00:12:06 - Traction today for Immutable - investors, market share, cash

00:13:48 - But where do we want to go?

00:16:51 - Empowering individuals to own their stuff

00:19:27 - Immutable and the bear market

00:20:18 - More exciting things coming up for Immutable

00:22:51 - How do you advise them to get into the space

00:25:18 - Why should someone be interested in web3 with the downturn, the fiasco?

00:27:45 - Taking web2 talent and helping them to be successful in web3 is Immutable’s pride

00:28:34 - More opportunities at Immutable

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In this episode, we discussed the following topics:

1. How gaming companies are exploiting players for their money, and how web3 technology can change this to allow for digital ownership of in-game items.

2. How Immutable has grown from fifth to first in market share for web3 gaming, and the massive investments in this tech category over the last two years.

3. The challenge of predicting and surviving the macro environment, and the potential of web3 technology to redefine ownership in the world of AI 

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Connect with Nigel Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-lee-35bb2247/

Learn more about Robbie and Immutable: 

Robbie Ferguson on Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/robbieferguson

Immutable on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Immutable

Immutable: https://www.immutable.com/

Immutable on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/immutable-1/

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Tascha is Co-Founder & CEO of Alpha Finance. She studied Economics at UC Berkeley before starting her career in Investment Banking at Jefferies in San Francisco then in London. 

Tascha has always been interested in technology and finance and was immediately drawn into Bitcoin and blockchain when she got introduced to them in 2016. In 2020, she founded Alpha Finance with Nipun from MIT, who is ranked the third in mathematics globally. Alpha Finance Lab builds decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, such as Alpha Homora, which has become a popular tool in the new economy of blockchain. Through these products, Alpha Finance strives to innovate DeFi solutions and pioneer new standards towards sustainable and scalable financial infrastructure on blockchain. Tascha believes that the hardest part of being a founder is being aware and adapting quickly towards the right direction amidst the changing nature of the industry.

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Timestamps: 

00:00:35 - How did Tascha's Web3 journey begin?

00:01:53 - Alpha Finance Lab, also known as Alpha Ventures DAO was founded in 2020

00:03:17 - Tascha has the ideal recipe to leverage from others

00:04:51 - Alpha Venture DAO's domain

00:08:49 - The difference between a centralized and a decentralized crypto company

00:13:34 - DeFi is going to be the core of a lot of things

00:15:21 - Developing DeFi protocols that truly address the fundamental issue

00:17:55 - Solving scalability problem in DeFi with a new product

00:19:21 - Alpha Homora also tackles the scalability challenges in DeFi

00:22:26 - Facing different phases of challenges

00:25:34 - Eyeing on the metrics

00:27:49 - Web3 is the future

00:30:26 - Don’t limit yourself and look out for any opportunities

00:32:38 - There’s  growth opportunity on Web3

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In this episode, you will learn the following:

1. How the decentralized blockchain economy offers new opportunities for lending, borrowing and margin trading
2. How Alpha Finance Lab is tackling the scalability issues of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
3. What challenges founders may face as their  company transitions  from early to  later stages.

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Connect with Nigel Lee on Linkedin: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-lee-35bb2247/

Get in touch with Tascha

Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tascha-panpan/

Twitter: @tascha_panpan

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Talent@Web3 is excited to bring you its first exclusive interview series with Web3 founders from SEA and Australia!

Through this series, we will take a deep dive into the origin story of these founders and the unique #Web3 projects they are building in this bear market.

This will also give you an intimate peek into their unique thoughts and hence an improved understanding about web3.

Hosted by Nigel Lee of Immutable, it promises to be an insightful and thought-provoking series, and we can't wait to share the untold stories of these 6 founders over the next few weeks.

We hope you will enjoy this series as much as we enjoyed producing it for you!

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In this interview, Giang talks about how he had no qualms that web3 is inevitable for all of us. He went from ex-consultant and financial professional to co-founding ReneVerse.io, simplifying the process for web2 gaming studios to embrace web3 for further growth. Being a long time gamer, he saw the benefit of the blockchain technology in the ownership of game items and the reduction in scam. Hence the creation of a starter kit to help web2 gaming studios understand the benefits of web3 and allow them to transition effortlessly. 

In this episode, we discussed the following topics:

1. The pain of trading assets in web2 games and the benefits of web3

2. How blockchain technology can create a new layer of ownership for gamers

3. Exploring the possibilities of web3 for established web2 studios with ReneVerse software

4. The impact of the bear market on web3 adoption

[00:01:10] - Interest in web3 and the technological aspect instead of trading transaction on NFTs

[00:03:07] - Blockchain can be used to create a trustless system for gamers to trade assets easily

[00:06:48] - The real battleground for blockchain, particularly in gaming, is ownership

[00:08:55] - The practical applications of blockchain technology

[00:11:49] - What exactly is Reneverse, and where does it fit in the web3 space?

[00:14:11] - The Reneverse roadmap

[00:17:45] - Migrating the current technology into something with blockchain capabilities

[00:20:46] - Reneverse offers software that assists users in migrating projects from web2 to web3

[00:25:38] - Ease of adoption and trust as the main feature of web3 blockchain

[00:30:25] - Reneverse's second phase is interoperability

[00:32:56] - Developing SaaS solutions for studios to easily integrate web3 into the gaming stack using traditional architecture

[00:39:14] - Reneverse offers a range of services, from hands-off to hands-on, depending on the client's needs

[00:41:40] - Maintaining financial and operational discipline is the biggest challenge

[00:45:19] - Reneverse’s North Star

[00:46:46] - How to get started with Reneverse

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Connect with Nigel Lee:

Nigel Lee on Linkedin

Learn more about Giang and ReneVerse:

Giang Nguyen on Linkedin

ReneVerse

ReneVerse on Linkedin

Get in touch with talent@web3 on:

Telegram: t.me/talentatweb3

Website: talentweb3.co

Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/talent-web3/

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