At Calyptus, we’ve ditched the stale, traditional resume format and built something way more exciting. We use blockchain and AI to revolutionize how people showcase their work experience and skills. Forget boring lists of jobs; we aggregate your Upwork, Fiverr, GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn, Farcaster—basically, anywhere you’ve made an impact. Complete skill assessments and reference checks on top and you’re well on your way to having a game-changing resume that doesn’t just say you’re world-class, but proves you’re world-class.

Optimistic Democracy is designed to manage non-deterministic operations crucial for AI-driven smart contracts. Unlike traditional blockchains, which require every node to produce the same result, AI introduces variability that can cause nodes to generate slightly different outputs. Optimistic Democracy handles this by selecting a subset of validators that propose an outcome.

I saw the wider financial industry inevitably adopting blockchain technology. It’s like a smarter internet, not just for reading and writing data, but for storing immutable logic. This has obvious use cases in finance, starting with eliminating the need for counterparty trust—a major risk in both crypto and traditional finance.

Our approach to decentralisation involves several key strategies. Firstly, we ensure efficient storage by compressing data and distributing it across the network, making it accessible from multiple chains. This setup supports scalability and aligns with web3 values by being permissionless and decentralised. Our network architecture is designed to scale linearly—each new worker node enhances capacity and bandwidth.

The market-making landscape for memecoins has experienced a noticeable slowdown, particularly on the Solana network, possibly due to seasonal factors or the exhaustion following a surge in activity. Many projects have been launched, but there’s insufficient liquidity to support them all, and the trend seems to be waning.

My background has shaped a focus on addressing the needs of retail crypto consumers, beyond just financial use cases. The Cronos ecosystem encompasses decentralised finance (DeFi), NFTs, gaming, and memecoins. Within DeFi, we’ve emphasised the composability of assets and protocols, a key advantage of blockchain technology that sets it apart from traditional fintech.

Public blockchains are designed to securely track their own data and value, requiring consensus among validating nodes for transactions. However, most global data exists outside of blockchains, creating challenges in providing decentralised, reliable access to this data. Third-party blockchain oracles often struggle with high costs, slow speeds, low scalability, and lack of decentralisation when relaying data.

South Africa has led the continent in crypto regulation, and we hope this will continue as the regulatory landscape evolves. At VALR, our aim is to extend our services to as many people as possible, particularly across Africa, where there are significant opportunities for financial improvement. We look forward to expanding our reach within the continent and globally as more countries embrace the crypto economy.