In episode 176, we’re excited to welcome Kitty Horlick, Director of RariLabs, the organization advancing the privacy first ZK protocol Rarimo. We explore how zero-knowledge proofs can enhance privacy and protect data, Rarimo’s Freedom Tool that empowers citizens living under oppressive regimes, their Proof of Humanity Aggregator that defends against Sybil attacks, and the future of ZK tools.

In episode 145, we’re excited to welcome Luke Mulks, VP of Business Operations at Brave and Basic Attention Token, a software ecosystem dedicated to rebuilding the internet by putting power back in the hands of users. We discuss how blockchain can built a safer, more user-driven internet, Brave’s success onboarding millions to crypto, creating an accessible user experience in Web3, and more.

In episode 140, we’re excited to welcome Lars Seier Christensen, Chairman and Founder of Concordium, a Layer1 blockchain on a mission to create a future based on trust, privacy, and safety. We discuss Zero-knowledge proofs and some of their use cases, the role of blockchain in protecting individual identity and data sovereignty, some of the projects building on Concordium, and much more.

In episode 115, we’re excited to welcome Ali Husain, Advisor at Navigate, a Web3 organization using blockchain, AI, and crowdsourcing to optimize global mapping. We discuss how they’re using next generation technologies to improve mapping data, the power of decentralized communities to crowdsource data, using Web3 tools to incentivize community participation, and much more.

In episode 103, we’re excited to welcome Yuan Su, Founder and CTO of Metis, an Ethereum Smart Layer-2 dedicated to solving the trilemma of security, scalability, and decentralization, and Nuvo, a middleware platform that bridges the gap between Web2 and Web3 development. We discuss how Web3 can enable data privacy and ownership, the exciting potential of a decentralized digital identity, and how it can help the 1B unbanked around the world, and much more!

In episode 98, we’re excited to welcome Jenny Diggles and Dr. Michael Nova, Co-Founders of JennyCo, the world’s first Web3 healthcare data exchange. We discuss how blockchain can give patients ownership over their healthcare data, using crypto tokenomics to reward patients for their participation in the healthcare data economy, how Web3 can disrupt the massive healthcare sector, and much more.

In this blog post, we dive into the world of data sovereignty, discuss some of the challenges that currently exist around user data collection, and how web3 can help build a fairer, more open internet for everyone.