DeFi for the Diaspora.
A book by Kamal Hubbard
Kamal runs research for We Them Media. His book, first published in 2021, goes through the history of money, where it has left Black communities around the world, and how decentralized finance could be used to change that.
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Paperback · 150 pages · CageChain Media Group, 2023 · ISBN 978-1736709740
What it is about.
One-part Black history, one-part Black futurism, “DeFi for the Diaspora” examines the history of money to underscore the economic predicament of the global Black collective in the face of the “Great Reset.” People of African heritage are confronted with a threat and a choice after years of financial maltreatment & discrimination. This book presents how technology can be leveraged to bring equity and sustainability to the global Black economy.
Who Kamal is.
Kamal is a lawyer by training, certified in fraud examination, cybersecurity and decentralized finance. He founded CageChain Media Group, which publishes the book, and he hosts Crypto with Kamal, a show of conversations with people working in crypto.
He testified before the California Senate Banking Committee on the basics of blockchain and Bitcoin. With the Blockchain Advocacy Coalition he backed two California bills, AB 2658 and SB 838, which gave blockchain a definition in state law and let businesses transfer equity on a distributed ledger.
At We Them Media he runs the research behind our coverage and co-writes The We Them Weekly, our newsletter.
How he met Maceo.
Kamal interviewed Maceo in September 2023 at the sixth annual Black Blockchain Summit, on the Howard University campus in Washington, DC. It was Maceo’s first time at the summit. They talked about how Maceo got into crypto, music NFTs and his podcast.
Find Kamal.
- Every episode of Crypto with Kamal, with transcripts on this site
- kamalrhubbard.com his site
- Crypto with Kamal YouTube
- Kamal Hubbard LinkedIn
- @kamalrhubbard X