GEN C: Sony's Blockchain Bet: Empowering Creators in the Web3 Era
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sota Watanabe dives into how Sony's foray into Web3 with Sonieum, tackling issues like royalty payouts while aiming to make Web3 more user-friendly.
Sota Watanabe, Director of Sony's blockchain initiative and CEO of Startale, joins the show to discuss Sonieum, Sony's new blockchain project. He shares insights on how blockchain technology could revolutionize the entertainment industry by empowering creators and solving issues like royalty distribution. Watanabe also discusses the challenges of achieving mainstream adoption of Web3 technologies and why Asia is at the forefront of blockchain innovation.
Links mentioned from the podcast:
- Social Platform Friend.tech Shuts Down, Creators Walk Away with $44M
- Second Assassination Attempt Barely Moves Trump's Polymarket Odds
- OpenAI’s New o1 Model Leverages Chain-Of-Thought Double-Checking To Reduce AI Hallucinations And Boost AI Safety
- Sota’s Twitter
- Sonieum Website
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"Gen C" features hosts Sam Ewen and Avery Akkineni. Executive produced by by Uyen Truong. Our theme music is "1882” by omgkirby x Channel Tres with editing by Doc Blust. Artwork by Nicole Marie Rincon.
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| 0:51.4 | Web 2. We don't have any global IT company, like maybe Google, X, |
| 0:57.9 | meta, and so on. And I think Web 3 is the pretty new platform which empower the individual |
| 1:04.0 | rather than, you know, nations or, you know, companies and so on. I think Japanese government |
| 1:09.1 | made Web 3 as a national strategy because of this |
| 1:11.9 | background. So it makes sense for me to see a lot of the Japanese company work on Web3 seriously. Hello, Sam. How are you doing? |
| 1:35.7 | Hello, Avery. Happy Gen C. Day. So nice to see you. |
| 1:39.0 | Best day of the week. Best day of the week. Yeah, really, it truly is. We've had some exciting |
| 1:43.8 | conversations this past week, which we're not going to tell anyone about, but I'm just very excited for the future of Gen C is all I'm going to say. Yeah, I'm excited. How was your weekend? What's this week looking like? Tell me everything. |
| 1:55.1 | It's a beautiful fall week. I am very pumped up about some of our recent conversations and the evolution and future of Gen C |
| 2:01.6 | hitting new formats potentially. So we'll leave that with our listeners in our community. |
| 2:06.8 | We are hoping. We are hoping. It's going to be an action-packed sprint to the end of the year. |
| 2:11.2 | I feel like everyone, when we get into sort of fall, they start thinking about 2025 and next year, |
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