Hey, good evening everyone. Hello guys. I think we're just missing to make Rocco also a speaker.
Yes, we're in the process. Okay, everyone. Hey. Just also given some time for some more people to join. Happy to have you guys here. Welcome to our guests as well.
be a little car in the local. Hi guys. Yeah. Hi. Thank you for having me. Okay. Let me know when you think we can get started, Petra, whenever you want.
Nice, I think everyone is now a speaker, but maybe let's give a minute or two to see if more people want to join. I saw several people had
put in their calendars so we had around 60 people who said they will join so I think we'll just give them a minute for more people to join.
How's everyone doing? A lot of events happening over the last few weeks in crypto. It's never come week.
Yeah, it's never a calm week in this industry.
Yeah, that's a good and a bad thing. Sometimes it's quite entertaining, but at the same time a lot of work really exhausting. At least it's never boring. Yes, yes, yes.
Alright, I think I mean people might just join as we go along so we can start and let just people allow to join. Okay, cool. Thank you. So I'm Karen. I work for Fiat20.
in Switzerland and this Twitter space today is called What's in a Chain. And we're going to be comparing Polkadot, Thor Chain and Arbitrum. All really popular and by now Arbitrum is also like in the last
six months has become more and more well-known. So it's going to be really interesting. We have speakers here this evening who work with each of the chains in question and we want to take a look at what the similarities and differences are between them, why we've chosen to use them and our companies and
what the advantages and disadvantages are. So maybe we can let each of the speakers here say hello in a quick intro and then we can also get started. So whoever wants to go first can make a quick introduction and say hello.
I guess I'll go. My name is Bill LeBoon. I'm head of education and grants at Web3 Foundation, working on Polkadot. Before this, I taught computer science at the University of Pittsburgh and still am very interested in educating, so happy to be here and doing some of that.
Cool and Pedro maybe you want to say hello. Hi guys, I'm Pedro. I'm one of the co-founders of our 4 wallet. We are a non-custodial wallet using torching technology and yeah, we allow people to do swaps
across chain, among several chains, mainly Bitcoin to Ethereum, and yeah, happy to host the event. My background is in industrial engineering and have been working for startups all my life and in crypto since 2017.
Cool and rocker. Hi guys, my name is Rocker Stradeum. I run blockchain evangelism for NFT today magazine, best in New York. Currently working remotely in South Africa. My back
background is in finance and energy as well as startups. And recently in the last two or three years, just post COVID, I've focused heavily on media, I'm trying to shine a light on the positive light on the crypto space and getting to the real stories and
and just not cut through the noise. Yeah, that's me. Thanks. And yeah, just a quick word, Fiat 24. We use an NFT, which is designated as your account with us and clients get access to cash accounts on the blockchain.
do top-ups via crypto and bank wire, send and receive money to peers in our ecosystem and do instant currency exchanges. And very soon in May, we will be offering our clients a Visa debit crypto card for spending.