Joseph Harrell / CageChain
Joseph Harrell on blockchain consulting at CageChain
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Today on Blockchain interviews, we dive deep with Joseph Harrell from CageChain, a Blockchain Consulting and research firm. We learn how their Californian commuities are coming together to spread the word of blockchain technology with their conference, Blockchain for All.
- CageChain started as a blockchain learning community and evolved into a consulting firm providing services to blockchain-based businesses globally with partners in Europe and Asia.
- The firm's competitive advantage stems from its two-person founding team combining finance expertise and legal background to navigate blockchain industry challenges.
- CageChain advises clients on blockchain selection based on specific use cases rather than defaulting to Ethereum, noting enterprise blockchains like Quorum and Hyperledger as formidable competitors.
- Blockchain for All is an April 12, 2019 event in Oakland designed to include underrepresented communities in blockchain conversations with $20 tickets supporting local nonprofits.
- The event features sponsors including Hedera Hashgraph and Digital Reserve, with panel discussions and speaker presentations focused on blockchain utility and cryptocurrency adoption.
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could you please give us an overview of the project and tell us a little bit about the support that you guys have received so far awesome thank you so cage chain is for the most part a community at this point we started out as a opportunity to learn about blockchain technology fundamentals and to learn about cryptocurrency trading starting out and
this has grown organically into what we have now as a community and during this growth and during this starting out phase we've we've built our branding through Partnerships and Services providing services to other blockchainbased businesses and using the
blockchain platform to raise awareness regarding its trustless and to increase adopters and we have turned out adopters and we look forward to continuing our work in the space that's great Joseph and is KM right now actively marketing its
services out to just the California Community or how far do your services extend to yes our services are at this point Global we have new syndication Partners internationally geographically located in European Union for example in Asia we have we have Partners as well and we've
entertained conversations from you know other parts of Asia and look forward to breaking into the Africa Market on the media side were fit that's great and what would you say makes cage chain most different from the other competitors that are in the same space I think the leadership our leadership is unlike any other firm
out there we have it's it's a twers founding team and myself and Kamal Kamal hubard is the other co-founder of cage chain I have a background in finance and since leaving the traditional Finance world I chose to take my talents and expertise to the blockchain crypto
industry and Kamal has a background in legal and he is a lawyer by training and has been a tremendous help for me on the legal side of things and then you know me with my natural grit and natural hustle to want to challenge the limits of the blockchain industry
through business traditional business we've been a force to be reckoned with but yeah yeah did I did I answer your question yeah that's great and you know are you guys working with all different types of blockchains or is it really been clients that are using ethereum there's definitely a lot of other blockchain Alternatives coming out now that are starting to compete with
ethereum right on the advisement side of things it's it's it's down to use cases it's down to it being a caseby casee situation some some projects operate better on different blockchains and the Enterprise level of blockchains out there right now I say I
must say are art are forc to be reckoned with because they have the money to put in place the tools that even the retail or the start the smallest startup out there can find Value in so it's it's it's it used to be an arena where you can design your own your own protocol and you know it's the best thing that adds the greatest value for
for a particular Community but the qums and the hyper lgers absolutely are forces to be reckoned with when some of the smaller guys come up and say they have an idea all they have to do is flip a switch say yeah we do that too and you know it's it's it's big Bank take take little bank at that point so definitely I agree and it really does depend on the use case
and the industry and different blockchains have different specific purposes as well so it's always good to study everything that's going on to know what best fits for your project now we originally met at an event that was in San Francisco a blockchain event you know near the beginning of 2018 and I know that cage chain and yourself are still involved deeply in the event space
cryptocurrencies and one of our ma most major Media Partners is a local radio radio station rank number 10 by Arbitron in the Bay Area 10th rank B radio station in Bay Area to host an event that brings into the blockchain technology conversation those that have
been left out in Silicon Valley there are a there is a large demographic of people that can afford to be in this environment that have the resources to flourish in this environment and it's it's up to me or it's up to you know cage chain to let let you know some of the less fortunate
people know that there is opportunity and this looks like hosting an event that allows any and everyone to attend and to basically bring the conversation of blockchain Technology mainstream we've gone to events where I met you and it's everyone's crypto everyone has traded crypto everyone has invested in crypto everyone gets gets
the gist of it all and we all build our communities and build our networks to make them stronger with like-minded people so we've taken it upon ourselves to put in the forfront there are people out there that don't have the resources that we've had to grow to the levels that we've that we're at right now how can we bring them into the fold and it's an event and
Dar hashgraph is one of our biggest sponsors needless to say you know they have they have they have corporations sponsoring their nodes Global globally so that's that's a conversation for another day but they're forced to be reckoned with the digital Reserve is a is a strong supporter of cage chain and in our continued success they're a
digital cryptocurrency Lending platform I look forward to their success they Jamari Peterson's an awesome person he's going to be at the event as well awesome and other other you know cryptocurrency projects will be showcased during this event focusing focusing on bringing those that want to be in a conversation the conversation we're
bringing the conversation to you and we absolutely appreciate the support from the kapor center if I if I have a chance to mention some names as well that's awesome so it's yeah April 12th it's called blockchain for all we're bringing any and everyone that have been left out of the conversation of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies to the to the table
we're going to Showcase we're going to have panel the standard the standard for the crypto industry will have panel discussions they're going to be solo solo speaking times for people that are prepared to share compelling stories of success or a or share a project or a finding this is the this is the this is a forum to be at April 12th
2019 it's a Friday from 2 to 7 I look forward to seeing seeing you there that's amazing Joseph I really appreciate what you guys are doing with this financial inclusion and the name says it all right blockchain for all and really in traditional Finance there's been that level of financial literacy that if you just aren't there you're really not in the in the group right so
being able to have this ideology of decentralized Nature and full you know any everybody is allowed to be included for blockchain for all that sounds amazing so we're glad to support that event myself and I'm looking forward to seeing the success of it so this is one of your guys's first events I believe do you guys are you doing many events
or well I want to make sure I put in here as well that ticket sales are going to going to support local Comm local nonprofits so and we made it affordable $20 tickets get you in the house I think people sneeze $20 accidentally so I think it's $20 tickets and these
tickets are going to going to support local nonprofits black girls code is one nonprofit on board the alliance for Bay Area entrepreneurship is on board board the social engineer with Kevin Nichols is on board and we're in talks with a couple others to confirm their their attendance and participation but we absolutely are making sure this is
a an affordable event and for those that don't need that can not afford the ticket charge to get in we are sponsoring students so if you're a student you're viewing this interview you're looking for a next career you're looking to graduate soon you're looking for some ideas or some potential companies to work for this
is absolutely the event to be at UC Berkeley Stanford Laney College Meritt College San Francisco State University University of San Francisco all Bay Area colleges are we invite your students to come out have a good time and if you cannot afford it and you're a student let me
know and I will definitely def definitely get some sponsorship so especially CL campus clubs if there's any you know viewers of this that are part of a Campus Club or organization on campus and you have your your Club is prepared to go go to any event to maybe get some extra credit or something like that on campus let me know or let let Ashton know and we will
definitely make a way for your Club to be present at this event absolutely that's very kind of you Joseph thank you so much and I will leave the event page details in the description box below of the video and if people are looking to find out more about cage chain what's the best way for them to learn more cage chain.io follow us on Twitter cage chain
media our research is distributed through in the in the form of an email newsletter and we actually have released our 80th email newsletter Edition our 80th edition of our email newsletter this past week so this that the email newsletter campaign is going to continue and we look for we appreciate the
support we appreciate everyone that appre that loves the letter everyone that appreciates the content we're going to keep that going but you can sign up for our email newsletter through our website cage chain.i find us at the event the event is blockchain forall doio you can get your tickets through that through blockchain for all. and you
and yeah you got it thank you so much Joseph for the time today and I'm looking forward to speaking with you again right on
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