How TBD is Facilitating Offramp to Africa
Channel: Africa Bitcoin Conference
Date: 2024-01-30

🚀 In this video, explore the transformative TBDex protocol with Angie Jones, Emily Chiu, Chris Maurice, and Phoebe Lew. Learn how TBDex revolutionizes cross-border transactions in Africa, offering faster, compliant, and cost-effective solutions. Discover its technical intricacies, including decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials, and witness firsthand the impact of Bitcoin and stable coins in African economies. 

🧐Who are the Speakers ?

1. Angie Jones (MD) is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the areas of metaverses, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes.

2. Chris Maurice is an entrepreneur, writer, and public speaker who has led early developments in emerging industries and markets. He is the CEO and co-founder of Yellow Card, Africa’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, which in 2021 raised the largest Series A round for any African crypto company. Chris is continuing to expand Yellow Card’s presence across 14 countries on the continent and beyond.  He has spoken everywhere from the U.S. to Ethiopia, sharing insights into digital currencies with a particular focus on the African continent.

Chris’s entrepreneurial ventures started in high school, paying his way through college selling Pokemon cards online and ghost writing for over 200 publications. He started his fall down the crypto rabbithole in 2013, which led him to sell Bitcoin out of a network of Taco Bells before starting Yellow Card. He graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor’s degree in Finance. In his free time, he volunteers at a summer camp for mentally handicapped children and adults in Alabama. He also holds a Black Belt in Taekwondo and has been named an Eagle Scout.

3. Emily Chiu co-founded Block’s crypto business, TBD, to build an open source platform for decentralized financial services.  She leads business, operations, strategy, and product functions for TBD. Over the past 5 years, Emily has held multiple leadership roles across Block.  She led the development and launch of new products and businesses for Cash App, including Consumer Lending and Investing, and also oversaw acquisitions at Square.

4. Phoebe Lew is a software engineer at TBD, a business unit within Block's focused on enabling the decentralized financial world through open software and protocols. She has been developing the tbDEX messaging protocol, building out the open source libraries. Prior to TBD, she held multiple engineering roles on Cash App in the financial reconciliation and machine learning domains.

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