Mike Demarais on Design in Crypto and What Web 3.0 Will Look Like
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Everyone's talking about Web 3.0 (or Web3), but there's a lot of ambiguity about what exactly it's going to look like or even what it is. Nonetheless, there's a lot of enthusiasm about a crypto-based, decentralized internet. So to learn more, we talk to one of the most interesting builders in the space. Mike Demarais is the co-founder of Rainbow.me, which makes an Ethereum wallet that emphasizes high-quality design both in terms of use and aesthetics. He explains his vision for both his company and the broader Ethereum-based future.
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| 0:59.4 | And I'm Tracy Allaway. Tracy, we've obviously done a lot of episodes about crypto, |
| 1:06.6 | probably doing more and more to say the least, but there are still big aspects of the space. |
| 1:11.8 | Like it's so sprawling and broad and maybe ill-defined that there's just a bunch of stuff we |
| 1:17.2 | have yet to cover. Yeah, I mean, there's new stuff happening every day, but certainly one of the |
| 1:22.7 | big things that has been going on recently is this whole idea of Web 3, Web 3.0, NFTs, the idea of |
| 1:32.8 | actually building new worlds, new spaces, new identities on blockchain technology. |
| 1:40.1 | Yeah, exactly right. So we've done a lot about DeFi in the past and maybe, maybe not crypto will |
| 1:45.8 | have some disruptive effect on clear, but then there's this whole other aspect. And as you mentioned, |
| 1:52.0 | like NFTs and Dow's and identity and de facto social networking. And I think a lot of people |
| 1:58.9 | are excited about some alternative to, I guess what I would say is the Web 2.0 tech giants. |
| 2:05.9 | Like there's this anxiety about the power of a centralized company, like Facebook or Twitter, |
| 2:11.6 | and maybe some hope, even if it's still not perfectly articulated, of how something that's |
| 2:16.6 | decentralized and based on crypto or Ethereum specifically could create new spaces, new forms, |
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