S5E3 - Part 2 - How to Reshape Water Markets (and Beyond) Using Blockchain Technologies - a podcast by Antoine Walter

with 🎙️ Katrina Donaghy - CEO & Co-Founder of Civic Ledger

💧 Civic Ledger is an award-winning blockchain company that builds trust layer solutions for the markets of tomorrow

This is the second part of this discussion around blockchain and Water Ledge, where we covered: 

❌ How today's water management often resembles a market failure  

💧 How water markets are often not optimized and hence water doesn't flow to its best use

🦘 How the Australian water markets in particular are an example of a scattered, financialized, and opaque set-up

₿ How blockchain could turn water into a non-fungible token - and how that could be good news

💰 How a crypto exchange platform would look like, and how it would work

💸  How leveraging cryptocurrencies, blockchain and water ledgers, we could decentralize water finance

₿ How Katrina's Bitcoin encounter was a serendipitous moment

🤝🏿 How you can't go 100% blockchain from the get-go and how Civic Ledger splits smart contracts into two

🤲 How integrating water markets with blockchain finally brings 23 markets together with a common real-time source of truth

🚚 How water is non-fungible because of its heavy and hard-to-transport long-distance nature

📟 How the next frontier would be to couple blockchain trading with a hydrologic digital twin (and why)

🔋 How ironic it is to blame blockchain's energy consumption while altogether avoiding the point with gold and physical money

🌎 Interlinking with mineral flows and ESG investment, Competing with centralized trading in this new ESG realm, Working with the World Economic Forum, developing patent NFTs... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

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