In this Lightnode Podcast episode, we'll catch up with Danish Choundry of Paper Ventures as he shares his journey from TradFi to the Web3 space. With a rich background, Danish can boast of working for BlackRock before they became world-famous and spearheading Bitcoin.com in the early days of its adoption. Most importantly, however, we'll learn about his investment strategy as part of Paper Ventures and how the team chooses who to add to their portfolio! 

One of the most exciting narratives spearheaded in 2024 is DePin, which aims to bridge the blockchain sphere with that of tangible physical objects. This brings us to  Alessandro de Carli, co-founder of Acurast, a project that recycles old smartphones into nodes for a decentralized cloud-computing network.

This addition to the Aleph Zero Podcast is a meetup with Syncra, one of the projects building on the Aleph Zero network in cooperation with the Ecosystem Funding Program. Throughout the episode, we'll dive deep into what DAOs are and how they democratize Web3, as well as Syncra's unique no-code solutions for building this kind of online community.