our speaker and guest for today. So yeah, we'll wait two or three minutes and we'll get started.
Hey, Jeff, I sent you the co-host invite so you should be able to talk normally. Let me know.
Hey, hey, and you want to ontology? Or can you go speak? Yeah, so it was just loading up still but I'm here and working now
Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome. Yeah, I mean, we'll wait a few more minutes and we'll start. How does that sound? Sounds perfect. Ready whenever you are. Happy to hold on for a few minutes. Awesome.
All right, I guess you can start. So yeah, thanks everyone for being here today for this AMA with ontology network. G of happy to have you. I guess the, you know, a good way to start would be
Just a bit of an intro on on you what you're doing at ontology and yeah, like how do you get into crypto like a small small review? Yeah, yeah, so thanks for having me in the first place great to be here good to have a chance to talk to different people and just have a chat about ontology
So I'm Jeff, I guess I'll start with how I got into crypto right and it was very strange. I knew about crypto. I was hanging around looking at it, thinking about it and then I moved to Singapore about three and a half, four years ago and Singapore's just this hub
of crypto activity is really hard to escape it is. There's lots of conversation, lots of people in crypto, lots of excitement, lots of people building things. And so that's when I really got into crypto and started looking at different things and started looking at different projects and I always been interested in
I love the idea of staking mechanisms, proof of stake, and that's when I came across ontology in the first place and started looking at staking. And then I found out what they were building in terms of identity and things like that. So ontology was actually one of the first, certainly first three crypto projects I even looked at.
Before that, a sort of can't-to-singer pole to work in academia as a climate scientist, strangely enough, before moving into Web 3 full-time last year. So it's been quite the transition. But yeah, really enjoy the space. And for ontology, I saw a thermoharbe
In the first instance, there are a group of people who work really hard to help out the community. Everybody who does things under the banner of a Harbinger do, a lot of things the community writing articles, making sure that people have questions answered safely, explaining things like
how the stake in mechanism works, explaining what the idea is, and they work really hard. So I work alongside some great people doing that. I run a node as well because, as I say, I do like the proof of staking concept. So I run a node and operate a node as well. And then just do lots of work in and around the community.
just trying to do a bit of outreach talking to people about what we do, about what we're putting out there, what we're working on, why ontology solves problems and isn't just sat there as a blockchain, sort of not really doing a lot. So I think that's really important and getting that communication along, which is why I'm here chatting to you.
Yeah, awesome. I mean, yeah, it's a really good point about Singapore. Yeah, I mean, there's just like a lot of crypto projects coming out of Singapore and Southeast like in general. I guess yeah, a lot of entrepreneurs have, you know, are living there, but also I think like regulatory wise.
It's obviously not as tense in the US or other parts of the world. I guess it's just a good place to start a company and we actually have a lot of projects that are based there.
What can you tell us about ontology? If I remember correctly, ontology is one of the OJ projects from the ICO era, if I'm not mistaken, so it has