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The team behind Freemitization

In this post we will do a quick run down of Vivid IoV Labs who are the team behind the Freemitization project.

Team

The startup formed from the winning team of UCL and Ripple’s Block-Sprint 2019. Vivid IoV Labs are focused on consumer-facing applications of micropayments and creating a more inclusive internet by leveraging web 3 technologies.

1-minute intro video to the team is available at: https://vimeo.com/416381733

Founders

Ike Iwumene - Web monetization enhancements, platform development
Yo-Der Song - Research and technical architecture
Greg Hannam - Product management and commercial operations
Ben Marshall - Partnership lead and project management

Wider team

Daniele Bolla - Front-end development and design
Nikos Tziralis (TBC)- Back-end developer and blockchain
Dean Macgregor - Graphic designer
Mahfuz Ahmed - Content marketing

Experience

The team has the following experience of Web Monetization and Interledger:

-- Utilised ILP and the XRP Tipbot to create micropayment streaming connected to video for demo purposes during the two hackathons we entered and won: UCL and Ripple’s Block-Sprint 2019 and the Future of Blockchain 2020: Near Protocol UX Challenge, along with picking up an award at Ripple's Block-Sprint PayString 2020 hackathon where we integrated the PayString technology too

-- Attended events, including one to one tuition on XRPL/ILP with engineers at Ripple during Block-Sprint and the Deconstructing Defi event in London (Xpring and Vega Protocol - XRPL seminar and hack workshop)

-- Coil users - daily use and experience of Web Monetization

-- Researching and following developments of the Interledger Protocol and related ecosystem, including blogs, podcasts and video content

Stay Tuned

Over the next few days we will be posting more about us and our project culminating in our grant progress report on Friday.

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Chris Lawrence

Love the podcast!

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Casey Herd

Good times! Looking forward to listening to the other podcasts!