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From Blockchain to Generative AI: Deep Dive with JB Benjamin

Kashif Manzoor — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:20:00 +0000

Imagine navigating the ever-evolving tech landscape, from blockchain to AI, and building successful products along the way – how do you manage it all?

In the ever-evolving world of technology, staying ahead of the curve requires innovation and a deep understanding of the trends shaping our digital future. From blockchain to artificial intelligence and Smart contracts to Generative AI, the landscape is shifting unprecedentedly.

In this episode, I am thrilled to have JB Benjamin, the visionary Founder and CEO of Kryotech Ltd & Akuma Engineering, join us. He’s here to share his invaluable insights on various topics, from smart contracts in blockchain to the challenges and triumphs of launching new tech products.

Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a budding entrepreneur, or just curious about the journey of a tech leader, this episode is tailor-made for you. It’s a unique opportunity to gain insights from a tech leader and explore the future of technology together.

So, tune in, and let’s embark on this exciting journey!

Episode # 142

Today’s Guest:

JB Benjamin, Founder/CEO, Kryotech Ltd & Akuma Engineering

JB is not just an entrepreneur but an exceptionally technically proficient lead UI/UX developer. His imaginative approach has led to the development of multiple successful digital businesses.

Website: Kryotech
Twitter/X: JB Bengamin

What Listeners Will Learn:

How to effectively validate a product before launching it to the market.
Being a technical founder is essential for building a tech product.
Hard lessons learned during the journey of a tech entrepreneur.
How to transition from working in blockchain to navigating the AI landscape.
Comparisons between the blockchain bubble and the current AI hype.
Specific use cases where blockchain technology is most effective.
The one thing the guest wishes they knew before diving into the tech industry.
What smart contracts are in blockchain, and how do they function?

Resources:

Kryotech

72-Benefits of Decentralized Finance on Blockchain Platform with Jason Wu

Kashif Manzoor — Sun, 31 May 2020 06:55:53 +0000

Emerging technologies (blockchain, AI, IoT) helping the Governments to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak ranging from helping track the epidemic, clean hospitals, deliver supplies, and develop vaccines. Another way to look is during the COVID-19 pandemic, and technologies are playing a decisive role in keeping our world running wherever we all are lockdowns and quarantines. The patterns emerging from this situation by the use of these technologies will have a long-lasting impact beyond COVID-19.

Technological innovation has continuously increased efficiency, lowered costs, and created new opportunities for businesses to meet customer, consumer, and citizen demands with digitization and transformation. Blockchain is at the forefront to provide alternatives to fight Covid-19 by offering organizations an opportunity to utilize blockchain technologies to achieve and provide services in these unpredicted times.

World Economic Forum has published toolkit with supply chain focus “Redesigning Trust: Blockchain Deployment Toolkit.” The toolkit is prepared for individuals and organizations to follow the set of processes to develop and deploy a Blockchain-based solution. The kit covers the necessary tools, resources, and guidelines for organizations who are initiating blockchain projects.

Some of the earlier post on blockchain technologies on OTechTalks if you are new to the Blockchain, you can head over to Introduction to Blockchain Technology, and When Not to Use Blockchain, Blockchain is a Solution for Every Business Problem, 11 things that lead to Blockchain initiatives failure and Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service

Today our guest speaker will be talking on the DeFi, or decentralized finance, DeFiner to effortlessly lend, borrow, and earn digital assets, a platform based on Blockchain with the ambition to disrupt the traditional financial system by offering a platform on public Blockchain which is Ethereum, open-source platform for decentralized applications.

Today we have our guest speaker & special thanks to Jason Wu for joining me this week. Until next time!

Today’s Guest

Jason Wu, Founder & CEO, DeFiner Inc.

How the journey so far, starting in the first quarter of 2018 when there was no industry at all on decentralized finance and how it is growing by tenfold? Learn strategies from the owner of a startup, how he overcomes the blockchain challenges to build a platform for trust.

Website: definer.org
Twitter: JasonDeFiner

You’ll Learn:

Learn from the fonder for advice if you are a fresh graduate and you want to embark on a journey of solving business problems.

Coming from a non-technical background and building a platform on the blockchain technology to offer a decentralized finance solution. You will hear the process outlined, from writing the white-paper to start coding the MVP and what are the major challenge they have faced after launching the product.

Speaker has shared his experience on how smart contracts are changing the fin-tech industry and helping them to build a financial trust system.

Resources:

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Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service

Kashif Manzoor — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:55:15 +0000

Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service p-assembled and Managed PaaS are generally available from July 16^th, 2018. In this session let’s review today the common features available and metric of Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service, please note all the info which we are going to discuss and share from the public documents of Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service.

Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service metric is 500 Transactions Per Hour,

500 Transactions Per Hour means 500 Blockchain Transactions attempted in an Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service instance in one hour.
Blockchain Transactionmeans a ledger query, an attempted endorsement transaction (irrespective of the outcome of transaction – success or failure), or an attempted commit transaction (irrespective of the outcome of transaction – success or failure) for each peer in the blockchain cloud service instance. A peer represents an entity (organization registered on the blockchain) executing Blockchain Transactions. One entity can have multiple peers. Customers specify the number of peers at provisioning time and can dynamically start additional peers.

A founder’s role is to creates and maintains the network in Blockchain network and participants that join the network. All organizations included in the network are called “Members”

Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service is a “permissioned Blockchain”, which provides a closed ecosystem where only invited organizations (or participants) can join the network and keep a copy of the ledger. Permissioned blockchains use an access control layer to enforce which organizations have access to the network. The founding organization, or blockchain network owner, determines the participants that can join the network. All nodes in the network are known and use a consensus protocol to ensures that the next block is the only version of the truth.

There are three steps to consensus protocol:

Endorsement — This step determines whether to accept or reject a transaction.
Ordering — This step sorts all transactions within a time period into a sequence or block.
Validation — This step verifies that the required endorsement are gotten in compliance with the endorsement policy and organization permissions.

Key features in the following 5 sections:

1-Build Trusted Business Networks

2-Automate with Smart Contracts

3-Conduct Private Transactions

4-Integrate Blockchain Transactions with core business Applications

5- Administration and Monitoring

You’ll Learn:

Features of Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service
Oracle blockchain cloud metric
Basics roles definition (endorser, order-er, validator)

Blockchain Resources:

Oracle Autonomous Blockchain Cloud Service

Previous Session on Blockchain:

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When Not to Use Blockchain

Kashif Manzoor — Fri, 18 May 2018 11:49:35 +0000

I Want a Blockchain! Do you really need a blockchain? Asking yourself this very important question can lead you on the right path to an answer and before embarking on a blockchain for business journey You have to get through with this.

When Not to Use Blockchain

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology but it is not always the right tool for the job at hand. If you are contemplating using blockchain technology, be sure to evaluate the problem fully and reach a conclusion that what business problem you are going to solve through blockchain technology.

The following conditions are not currently well suited to blockchain-based solutions (reference Edx course on Blockchain):

The process involves confidential data
The process stores a lot of static data, or the data is quite large
Rules of transactions change frequently
The use of external services to gather/store data
In this session we have covered the following topics:

This session is in continuation of our previous session Basics of Blockchain. In this session of the podcast we are going to cover:

You’ll Learn:

When not to use Blockchain
When to use Blockchain
Decision Tree/Model/Framework – when do you need Blockchain?

Blockchain Resources:

Do You Need a Blockchain?
Blockchain Beyond the Hype A Practical Framework for Business Leaders
11 questions will help you decide if blockchain is right for your business
Mapping Global Transformations by World Economic Forum – Bockchain
Medium article When do you need blockchain? Decision models

Now we are going to cover here different Decision Trees/Models to decide on Blockchain Technology:

These 11 questions will help you decide if blockchain is right for your business

Source: World Economic Forum

Birch-Brown-Parulava model

Suichies Model:

Lewis model

Sebastien Meunier model

DHS Model

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Future Blockchain Summit 2018 Dubai Recap

Kashif Manzoor — Sat, 05 May 2018 06:28:38 +0000

I had a chance to attend Future Blockchain Summit May 2-3, 2018 Dubai, these are some of the notes from the Blockchain summit. H.H. Dr. Aisha bin Bishr kicked off the Summit by highlighting how the government agency has prioritized Blockchain as the foundation of the emirate’s digital infrastructure. Michael Owen, former English footballer for Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Manchester United on the second day of the inaugural Future Blockchain Summit has announced that he teamed up with Global Crypto Offering Exchange (GCOX) to release his “OWN” Token and spoke about ‘Enhancing the Understanding of Token Economy.’

Everipedia, the world’s first encyclopedia on the blockchain, was also launched

You’ll Learn:

Dubai Blockchain strategy
What happened at Future Dubai Summit?
What are the projects launched by Dubai or working on Blockchain?

Blockchain Resources:

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Introduction to Blockchain Technology

Kashif Manzoor — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:59:42 +0000

“The technology most likely to change the next decade of business is not the social web, big data, the cloud, robotics, or even artificial intelligence. It’s the blockchain …” —Harvard Business Review “The Impact of Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services,” May 2016

In Dubai Future Blockchain Summit is scheduled on 2-3 May, the first summit where 17 worlds first blockchain projects are gone be presented… I am excited to attend this and hear from the 17 of the world’s first blockchain pioneers.

In this session i will be covering introduction to Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology.

According to hyperledger.org,“A blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger forged by consensus, combined with a system for “smart contracts” and other assistive technologies. A blockchain is a specific form or subset of distributed ledger technologies, which constructs a chronological chain of blocks, hence the name ‘block-chain’. A block refers to a set of transactions that are bundled together and added to the chain at the same time.

A distributed ledger is a type of data structure that resides across multiple computing devices, generally spread across locations or regions. Distributed Ledger Technology includes blockchain technologies and smart contracts. While distributed ledgers existed prior to Bitcoin, the Bitcoin blockchain marks the convergence of a host of technologies, including timestamping of transactions, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, cryptography, and shared computational power, along with a new consensus algorithm.

Business Blockchain Frameworks Hosted with Hyperledger (our focus is on Fabric)

Burrow: Provides a modular blockchain client with a permissioned smart contract interpreter partially developed to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) specification.

Fabric: An implementation of blockchain technology intended as a foundation for developing blockchain applications or solutions.

Iroha: A blockchain framework designed for simple and easy incorporation into infrastructure projects requiring distributed ledger technology.

Sawtooth: A modular platform designed for building, deploying, and running versatile and scalable distributed ledgers.

Indy: A distributed ledger that provides tools, libraries, and reusable components for creating and using independent, decentralized and digital identities.

You’ll Learn:

What is blockchain technology?
What is distributed ledger technology?
How does blockchain work?
What are smart contracts?
Types of blockchain networks
Benefits of blockchain

Blockchain Resources:

Hyperledger org
Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service from Oracle
Certified Blockchain Expert from Blockchain Council
Blockchain essentials course from IBM
IBM Blockchain foundation developer course from IBM
Blockchain for Business – An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies from Edx

My Learning:

I have achieved following certificates so for…and this learning continues…

Certified Blockchain Expert from Blockchain Council
Blockchain for Business from Edx
IBM Blockchain Essentials
IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer

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