Crypto Crime Stoppers! With James Smith of Elliptic

Investment Team

Alex Tapscott, CFA

Managing Director, Digital Asset Group, Portfolio Manager

Alex Tapscott, CFA

Managing Director, Digital Asset Group, Portfolio Manager

Mr Tapscott is an entrepreneur, business author, and seasoned capital markets professional focused on the impact of emerging technologies, such as blockchain and cryptocurrencies, on business, government, and society. His latest book, Web3: Charting the Internet’s Next Economic and Cultural Frontier (Harper Collins), was published September 19th, 2023. Alex is also the Managing Director of the Digital Assets Group at Ninepoint Partners, one of Canada’s leading investment firms, with more than...
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Jake Moodie

Analyst, Digital Asset Group

Jake Moodie

Analyst, Digital Asset Group

Jake Moodie is an Analyst with the Digital Asset Group at Ninepoint Partners. He works directly with Alex Tapscott on the Ninepoint Crypto and AI Leaders ETF and all other Ninepoint Digital Asset Group initiatives. Prior to Ninepoint, Jake was the Co-Founder and CEO of Gigli, an online marketplace platform that connected university students with local residents to complete their household tasks and flexibly earn some spending money. He also served as a Private Wealth Analyst at BMO Financial...
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"People don’t care if it's Bitcoin or Ether - they care about financial relationships. That’s why we rebuilt everything to connect data across 55 blockchains and 300 bridges." - James Smith

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guest James Smith, Co-Founder of Elliptic. Listen in as they discuss the genesis of Elliptic in 2013 and how it’s evolved since, its scaling strategy to support the explosion of new blockchain networks, the current state of onchain crime and whether the claim that only criminals use crypto holds any weight, the rise of geopolitical crypto cyberwarfare following the $90M Nobitex hack, how chain tracing has matured from a simple compliance tool to a form of defense tech, the company’s experience educating traditional financial institutions during the onboarding process, how the intersection of crypto and AI is reshaping threat vectors, predictions for the year ahead, and more.

TIMESTAMPS

[0:00] Introduction
[3:22] The Genesis & Growth of Elliptic
[7:07] Scaling to Meet a Multi-Chain World
[10:44] Onchain Crime: Myths vs. Reality
[13:58] The Rise of Geopolitical Crypto Cyberwarfare
[17:56] Compliance Tool to Defence Infrastructure
[19:36] Onboarding Process with TradFi Institutions
[23:10] New Threats from Crypto x AI
[29:11] Predictions for the Year Ahead
[37:44] Conclusion

Part of Ninepoint’s DeFi Decoded Podcast Series. Available at Google, Apple, and Spotify Podcasts.

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