At SmartCon 2022, Chairman of Steel Perlot and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Chainlink Cofounder Sergey Nazarov sat down for a fireside chat.

Featuring:
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO.
Sergey Nazarov, Chainlink Cofounder.


0:00 Introduction
0:10 Web3 Has Gotten Big
0:22 Welcoming Eric Schmidt
1:00 What Attracted Eric to Web3
2:30 How Tokens Change the Economics of Businesses
5:21 The Challenges of CrossChain for Building a Scalable Business
7:41 New Industrial System Powered by Blockchains, Smart Contracts, and Oracles
9:33 Eric Believes in the Vision of Web3 but Is Skeptical About Some of Its Claims
10:23 How Web2 and Web3 Will Converge
11:00 ZeroKnowledge Proofs and Cryptographic Truth Are Major Contributions To Computing
12:29 What New Services Are Enabled by Web3?
14:31 The Possible Intersection of Web3 and AI
17:05 How Eric Sees Web2 and Web3 Systems Interacting
19:44 Questions Surrounding Web3 and Regulation
22:17 Similarities Between the Evolution of Web2 and Web3 Infrastructure
27:58 Parallels With Early Internet Business Tactics
29:51 New Business Models Enabled by Web3
31:18 How Eric Thinks About Web3 Infrastructure
33:56 Eric Is Interested in Use Cases That Aren’t Possible in Web2
35:14 “A Little Piece of Google in Everyone’s Computation”
37:24 What Attracted Eric to Chainlink and Oracles
38:02 Eric’s Advice for People Thinking About Joining the Web3 Industry

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Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink oracle networks provide smart contracts with a way to reliably connect to any external API and leverage secure offchain computations for enabling featurerich applications. Chainlink currently secures tens of billions of dollars across DeFi, insurance, gaming, and other major industries, and offers global enterprises and leading data providers a universal gateway to all blockchains.

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