R3 Corda

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I'm sitting down with Todd McDonald, the co-founder of R3.

He has spent the past decade building and blockchain infrastructure for some of the world's largest financial institutions.

There's a lot to talk about today.

in the last 10 years.

So, uh, it's a, it's a world of difference.

I'd say, um, the biggest difference now versus when we started is I would say financial institutions probably were more curious than serious when we s- first started R3.

Yeah.

Today, we're sitting down with Charley Cooper, the new president of Ava Labs.

Charlie has worked at the intersection of Wall Street and blockchain for more than a decade, going back to the early days of R3.

Now, he's helping lead the company behind one of crypto's biggest layer one blockchains.

Charlie, welcome to Crypto in America.

Yeah

... traditional finance, government, crypto.

I know Ellie mentioned in the intro R3.

Yeah.