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Unlocking the $80 Trillion Creative Asset Class: SY Lee’s Plan to Fix the Broken IP Economy
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Seung Yoon Lee to discuss the $80 trillion creative asset class, why creators are shut out of the value they generate, and how Story Protocol aims to tokenise and “programme” intellectual property so anyone can legally remix it while paying royalties automatically. Fixing Creator Economics Seung’s path to this problem began with a long apprenticeship in media economics. Fresh out of Oxford, he tried to fix journalism’s b

Kevin Follonier
Nov 65 min read


The Network of Networks: Emin Gün Sirer’s Journey and Why Everything of Value Belongs On-Chain
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Emin Gün Sirer to discuss his journey from Turkish immigrant to Cornell professor...

Kevin Follonier
Sep 104 min read


Solana’s Next Chapter: Acceleration, Mobile, and the Power of Building Fast
In the wake of an industry-wide crash and the collapse of FTX, many expected Solana to vanish quietly into the crypto graveyard. Instead,...

Kevin Follonier
May 94 min read
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