Algorand

Uh, I'll give the, the, the token list for our, our, our audience.

It's obviously XRP, XLM, okay, uh, HBAR, Algorand is another one, uh, Quant, uh, well, Quant, uh, which is K, K, uh, QNT.

XDC is another one.

IOTA, that's, that's an old coin from bloody 2017 days, and even Cardona could, in theory, be thrown into this sort of, uh, part of the market.

Take me back, baby.

Take me back.

Bro, Algorand, I still have some Algo somewhere, um-

Do you? Okay

Everything we just said in tokenization, by the way, means bullishness for crypto prices, because guess how tokenization works on the blockchain.

So Ethereum, Solana, Algorand, Polygon and others, they're all going to be beneficiaries of the movement toward tokenization.

Yeah, that's where this kind of began.

And that's not...

If you're an emotional traitor, you're fucked.

I've talked about Algorand.

I've talked about a hell of a lot of things, man.

which will work out and that is what i'm like my whole thing is i gotta make sure that i got those things not saying that they're gonna work out okay nothing's guaranteed but they are the closest thing to a guarantee let me get my house together here now i can go participate now i can go participate in the meme economy I can participate in all these things.

But yeah.

Anyway, before we push forward though, Near Protocol was a coin last cycle that also did really well along with the old dinosaur coins like Algorand was one, HBAR was another one that did well along with Near Protocol.

But again, there's no good reason in any way, shape or form for Near Protocol to be doing well.

It just happens to have grabbed the attention of the market.

I think you're going to see a series of high profile hacks that are going to come little by little on all kinds of security infrastructure.

Today's guest is William Herkelrath, CEO of Algorand, formerly Managing Director of Chainlink Labs Enterprise Division, and now leading Algorand's push into institutional finance and quantum resistance security.

There's so many features that Algorand has to offer.

Our angle is security.

We know that we can add better security to just about every process out there in the web-free space.

There's a lot going on in the world right now.

And your background very much touches, I think, on some of the most important technologies of our lifetime, of our generation.

And very interesting to kind of bring that into Algorand.

Breaking down the top five, Zcash is the heavyweight champion here with a massive $19.87 billion market cap.

Algorand follows with $878.60 million, then StarkNet at $209.61 million, with Nervos Network right around $58.74 million.

Finally, Cubic rounds it out at $55.95 million, showing how this niche is developing.

Now in order for Bitcoin to be quantum resistant, Satoshi, what do you think are the key steps that need to be involved?

yeah for sure um so i've been in the sport the first time i actually touched crypto was late 2019 yeah i think it was christmas 2019 when covid was happening and uh i remember the first transaction was actually buying dodge uh bought it relatively cheap and then yeah after a week or so i think it 10x so yeah it came for the money but stayed for the tech shall we say But yeah, moving fast forward on to 2021, I was still dabbling around in crypto, but I kind of got serious when I actually made a trip to, it was actually East Denver in, I think it was 2021, East Denver that I went out to.

And I actually bumped into someone there from the Algorand Foundation who was the head of communities back then.

and um the good thing about this space is everyone's very welcoming they're willing to listen uh they're willing to teach you and this particular guy um he literally took me on as an ambassador um and back then yeah i started learning about communities um and ecosystem growth etc and they were like we need an ambassador for the uk um so i got back to the uk i started making my connections here started attending every single crypto event I could find on.

It was Eventbrite back then.

The BD leads were coming strong through as well from the UK.

And then eventually, late 2022, they made me a community manager for the UK.

So yeah, and then eventually I became the head of communities in Europe and then EMEA and then eventually it was global head of communities for Algorand.

So yeah, that was my path into managing communities globally for Algorand.

right? There's just too many things going on.

I've been building the NavBoost lab, the Algorand update lab.

I've been testing different models for copy and design authentication and reliability and stabilization and OPSEC and all sorts of different bits and pieces.

There's it's just a constant uh constant kind of drip of new ideas new products new models new everything and everything she's getting smarter and more capable and then also actually one of the things that i think people don't talk about enough is the integration so everything is getting integrated now to the point where every tool every platform everything that i used to use either has an official MCP or someone has hack-jobbed together an MCP for that specific platform.

So that's a misconception for people.

But some tokens that, or some companies that are compliant are XRP, XLM, HBAR, Chainlink, IOTA, Q and T, Algorand, and then Cardano.

And it's just something that institutions speak about.

And it's one of the first things that I noticed when I started reading institutional documentation from the Bank of the National Settlements to the Federal Reserve, to SWIFT, to JP Morgan, they're all adopting this ISO standard.