Life in the Fast Chain: A Blockchain Podcast from R3

Episode 23: Dave Hudson mic drops about 5 times

February 20th, 2019  |  46 mins 56 secs

blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain

Todd McDonald and Dave Hudson are on the podcast! Todd discusses stablecoins, Corda settler and the news about JPM Coin. Dave Hudson then joins to talk about why enterprise blockchains are important, why the open source community is important, what it means to shrink nodes (and why thats valuable), business network tools, Corda trials, why choose Corda over other platforms, scalability, privacy, and much more. Listen on your favorite podcast app!

Episode 22: The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance's Christopher McDaniel on insurance use cases on blockchain (specifically Corda). We aren't biased thoooo

February 1st, 2019  |  24 mins 10 secs

blockchain, catherine rutter, christopher mcdaniel, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain

RiskBlock's Christopher McDaniel joins the podcast to talk about what he's doing with blockchain (Corda, specifically) and Ryan Rugg joins the podcast to discuss the Insurtech Challenge! Interestingly enough, they started out building their blockchain application using Ethereum, then decided to switch to Corda after realizing Ethereum wasn't a good fit! Listen on your favorite podcast app!

Episode 21: Announcing Corda Network.... anddddd James Carlyle was lost at sea for a month. Say what?!

January 16th, 2019  |  34 mins 26 secs

blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, corda network, corda network foundation, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, james carlyle, life in the fast chain

Listen on your favorite podcast app!

Episode 20: What is blockchain famous? Ft. James Graham

January 10th, 2019  |  40 mins 46 secs

blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain

James Graham, CEO and President of GuildOne is on and he talks about royalty ledger, oil & gas and the music industry, how Canada is adapting to blockchain, and many other blockchain, related topics. Then we have an announcement for graduate students. Listen on your favorite podcast app!

Episode 19: Cryptography with Kostas

December 28th, 2018  |  42 mins 44 secs

blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, crypto, cryptography, dlt, kostas chalkias, r3

Konstantinos Chalkias and Catherine sit down with beer and discuss how cryptography comes into play with blockchain.

Episode 18: Corda Settler. A hip chat with Todd McDonald, Roger Willis, and David Nicol.

December 7th, 2018  |  19 mins 50 secs

blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda settler, david nicol, dlt, r3, roger willis, todd mcdonald, xrp

Todd McDonald, Roger Willis, and David Nicol join for a casual conversation about our recently released Corda Settler.

Episode 17: Blockchain 101

December 6th, 2018  |  23 mins 55 secs

ai, blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, corda platform, daniel eidan, distributed ledger, dlt, emerging technologies, future, r3, smart technology

Daniel Eidan comes on the podcast to discuss the basics of blockchain.

Episode 16: "If I'm gonna bet my job on this new blockchain application....."

November 15th, 2018  |  28 mins 52 secs

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Worldwide Director for blockchain, Raphael Davison from HPE comes on to discuss how he got thrown into the world of blockchain, how he works with different blockchains (including Corda) and expands on his Mission Critical DLT app. Sarah Lynch from the partner management team at R3 talks about Microsoft's announcement (11/15/2018) about the Azure Blockchain Development Kit.

Episode 15: All things Tokens - Todd, Richard, and Kevin from R3 all hit us with some #TOKENTALK

October 30th, 2018  |  53 mins 20 secs

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Episode 14: Blockchain hot topic alert: Insurance with Ryan Rugg

October 11th, 2018  |  21 mins 38 secs

ai, austin moothart, blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, corda platform, distributed ledger, dlt, emerging technologies, flow, future, insurance, r3, ryan rugg

Ryan Rugg comes on to talk about the insurance industry and what she's doing here at R3. Austin Moothart is on again to discuss what "flows" are.

Episode 13: Catherine learns about nodes via Tupperware containers and Kochava CEO Charles Manning calls in from Idaho!

September 26th, 2018  |  36 mins 24 secs

austin moothart, blockchain, blockchain for business, business, catherine rutter, chain, charles manning, code, coding, consortium, corda, daily rolling chain, developer, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, drc, enterprise, fintech, kochava, network, partner, tech, technews, technology, xchng

Austin drops knowledge about nodes and Charles Manning discusses Kochava and XCHNG

Episode 12: Austin drops more knowledge and Aishwarya Balaji joins the pod!

August 30th, 2018  |  29 mins 24 secs

ai, aishwarya balaji, austin moothart, blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, corda platform, distributed ledger, dlt, emerging technologies, float, future, impact chain lab, r3, smart technology

Austin Moothart goes over what a "float" is in regard to Corda Enterprise and Aishwarya Balaji from Impact Chain Lab joins to discuss what her company does and their new project Bystander.

SPECIAL: A small window into Mike Hearn's brain - Corda, blockchain, Starbucks, AI, car loans, IoT....

August 17th, 2018  |  27 mins 18 secs

ai, artificial intelligence, bitcoin, bitcoin app, blockchain, cars, corda, cordalove, developer, distributed ledger, dlt, emerging technologies, future, internet of things, iot, mike hearn, r3, smart technology

Catherine sat down this week with Mike Hearn and talked about the Corda platform, the Corda network, his vision for the future of Corda and they talk about the potential future intersection of blockchain, IoT, AI and other emerging technologies.

Episode 11: Blogs, Blobs, and Block(chain)s. Kari Larsen from Reed Smith joins #LitFC to talk FinTech and RegTech.

August 1st, 2018  |  29 mins 29 secs

austin moothart, blob, block, blockchain, blockchain for business, blog, business, catherine rutter, chain, code, coding, consortium, corda, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, doorman, enterprise, fintech, kari larsen, network, partner, r3, recent news, regtech, tech, technews, technology, todd mcdonald, tokens, tokens on enterprise

Todd McDonald talks about his recent blogpost on tokens in the enterprise, Austin Moothart is on to discuss some technical terms that Catherine is unfamiliar with, and special guest Kari Larsen from Reed Smith comes on to talk about regulatory matters and compliance risks in regard to blockchain / bitcoin / fintechs / etc.

Episode 10: Corda Enterprise is here - Exclusive Ep. with R3's Richard Gendal Brown. #BLOCKCHAIN

July 10th, 2018  |  32 mins 55 secs

block, blockchain, blockchain for business, blog, business, catherine rutter, chain, code, coding, consortium, corda, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, enterprise, fintech, gendal, interoperability, network, partner, recent news, rgb, tech, technews, technology, todd mcdonald

Richard is here to talk about all things Corda Enterprise.

Episode 9: The interns are drinking the Kool-Aid and how lucky are we, Perianne Boring Joins #LitFC

June 21st, 2018  |  45 mins 53 secs

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Catherine and Todd talk recent news (R3 has been in it quite a bit recently!), Catherine has two R3 interns, Kelly and Gabriella in the studio to talk about their take on blockchain, and Perianne Boring from the Chamber of Digital Commerce is on!