Blockchain Builders
People building on Ethereum, Bitcoin and other chains, in their own words. What they are making and why they think it should exist.
The same pieces, as a playlist on YouTube.
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16 pieces on it.
Length 1:13:25
2023
Nikki Bean on Decent, "The Box" & the Future of Web3 Music | No-Code NFT Platform for Artists
Length 30:00
Denver Unfiltered, Denver, 30 min
Onchain science, proof of knowledge: DeSci World.
Length 1:00:47
Let's Talk About Eth, Online, 61 min
Let's Talk About Eth: Around the World, with Saltorius.
Length 12:08
Bitcoin Pizza Day, Philadelphia, 12 min
William Entriken, lead author of ERC-721.
Length 1:53
ETH Global, New York, New York, 2 min
Blockchain: the next foundation of finance. ETH Global NYC, the trailer.
Length 3:16
Single dispatches, Online, 3 min
Six months after quitting the nine to five.
Length 2:13
Single dispatches, New York, 2 min
Builder reputation onchain: Philippe of Talent Protocol.
Length 3:56
ETH Global, New York, New York, 4 min
One builder’s perspective on Bitcoin, Chainlink, and Ethereum.
Length 5:13
ETH Global, New York, New York, 5 min
Estonia ran government records on a blockchain first.
Length 15:52
ETH Global, New York, New York, 16 min
Income verification, onchain lending, and neobanks.
Length 15:26
ETH Global, New York, New York, 15 min
Arikia Millikan, on licensing journalism peer to peer.
Length 12:31
ETH Global, New York, New York, 13 min
Crypto, privacy and global finance at ETHconf: Maggie of Unlink.
Length 4:31
ETH Global, New York, New York, 5 min
ETHConf: AI agents that shop for you.
Length 9:44
ETH Global, New York, New York, 10 min
ETHConf: ETH as digital oil, and a school anyone can teach at.
Length 5:20
ETH Global, New York, New York, 5 min
ETHConf: you don't have to be technical to start in crypto.
Length 3:54
ETH Global, New York, New York, 4 min
ETHConf: blockchain en más de 40 universidades argentinas.
17 more that touch on it.
Length 3:58
Nigeria, Abuja, 4 min
A Lisk ambassador on teams, equity and failing.
Length 4:11
Nigeria, Lagos, 4 min
An app that pays utility bills in crypto.
Length 5:01
Nigeria, Lagos, 5 min
A cohort member building against property fraud.
Length 8:24
Nigeria, Lagos, 8 min
A front-end developer who wanted to build, not consume.
Length 6:02
Nigeria, Lagos, 6 min
A cohort member on brotherhood and building on chain.
Length 4:36
Nigeria, Lagos, 5 min
Four months that took a Web2 developer apart.
Length 5:44
Nigeria, Lagos, 6 min
A Web3Bridge cohort member who forgot he had applied.
Length 7:44
Nigeria, Lagos, 8 min
A developer on what smart contracts are for.
Length 6:17
Nigeria, Jos, 6 min
A designer turned builder on winning with two people.
Length 13:30
Nigeria, Jos, 14 min
Why a first edition conference was built around products.
Length 45:52
2025
By Trade a Software Engineer, By Heart an Artist
Length 1:01:45
Let's Talk About Eth, Online, 62 min
The Marxist case for Bitcoin, from a Bitcoin maximalist.
Length 10:14
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 10 min
A Kenyan developer explains the chain from the ground up.
Length 23:13
Kenya, Nairobi, 23 min
A developer building digital IDs for people without papers.
Length 4:08
Ethiopia, Ethiopia, 4 min
A pitch for one place to find builders and money.
Length 3:57
Ethiopia, Ethiopia, 4 min
A pitch for credit that does not need a bank.
Length 3:06
Ethiopia, Ethiopia, 3 min
A pitch for a supply chain you can check.
Other topics
- Web3 Governance 18
- Crypto 44
- Pan-African Web3 37
- The Engaged Citizens 14
A piece can sit in two topics: first under the one it is mostly about, and again under one it touches on. Every piece keeps its place and its project.