Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “NFTs: Hype or Future?”

Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “NFTs: Hype or Future?”

Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “NFTs: Hype or Future?”

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique, identifiable digital assets whose exchange between the creator and the buyer, via the financial transaction of a cryptocurrency such as Ethereum, is logged for anyone to view. In this panel, Jan Karnath (Timeless), Michael Spitz (360X), Alireza Siadat (Annerton), Lasse Clausen (1kx), Sebastian Blum (Greenfield One), Florian Glatz (Bundesblock), Shirin Marquart (360X) and Philipp Sandner (Frankfurt School Blockchain Center) discuss whether NFTs are just hype or are here to stay.

Watch this video on YouTube (ca. 36 min.).

About the lecturers

Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner has founded the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC). In 2018 and in 2019, he was ranked as one of the “top 30” economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a major newspaper in Germany. Further, he belonged to the “Top 40 under 40” — a ranking by the German business magazine Capital. Since 2017, he is member of the FinTech Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. The expertise of Prof. Sandner includes blockchain technology in general, crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, the digital programmable Euro, tokenization of assets and rights and digital identity. You can contact him via mail (email@philipp-sandner.de), or via:

LinkedIn profile of Philipp Sandner

Michael Spitz gained more than 6 years of experience at Commerzbank, last as Co-Head of BlockchainLab. From 2017 to 2021 he was CEO of Main Incubator GmbH, a subsidiary of Commerzbank. Since 2021 he is the founder and Co-CEO at 360X, a fintech that focuses on tokenization for assets like art and real estates. Tokenized real assets are mapped on the blockchain to make it easier for investors to access and also to be able to split the underlying asset.

LinkedIn profile of Michael Spitz

Jan Karnath is Co-Founder and CEO of Timeless, the first platform in Germany that buys limited collectibles like sneakers, watches, or Oldtimer and then splits them up into shares. Timeless offers an app, where everyone can build his own portfolio of collectibles as an alternative asset class.

LinkedIn profile of Jan Karnath

Alireza Siadat is Partner at Annerton, an independent law firm specializing in regulatory law in the financial industry. He is an expert in banking regulations and compliance when it comes to market entry. Specialized in blockchain technology, he is also counseling financial markets service providers on regulatory and compliance matters as well as on M&A and Commercial Law.

LinkedIn profile of Alireza Siadat

Lasse Clausen is the Founding Partner of 1kx, a token network fund with the thesis of extrapolating Bitcoin's success to embed crypto incentives into everything e.g. transactions, computation, storage, prediction, and power.

LinkedIn profile of Lasse Clausen

Sebastian Blum gained more than 20 years of experience in Venture Capital, last as Co-Founder & Partner at Greenfield One, a company that makes long-term bets on early developer teams towards an open, decentralized, and more robust architecture of tomorrow's web.

LinkedIn profile of Sebastian Blum

Florian Glatz is for more than five years Co-Founder of Legal Tech Center, a company that hosts a series of European legal tech events, inviting legal professionals and technology innovators to participate in industry-challenging hackathons and conferences. He is also Co-Founder and Blockchain Advisor at Cinemarket.io, such as Founding President of Bundesblock, a german blockchain association.

LinkedIn profile of Florian Glatz

Shirin Marquart previously led the German operations of the auction house Phillips. In these seven years, she gained lots of experience in the global art market and so she joined the Westend Bank AG as Director of Art Loans in 2014. Since 2021 she is CEO of 360X Art, a fintech that focuses on tokenization for art.

LinkedIn profile of Shirin Marquart

 

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