How to make blockchain easy for everyone? Gate2Chain’s Joe Holles de Peyer talks to CoinGeek TV
Blockchain is exciting and revolutionary, but it can also be intimidating for new developers and users. This is the challenge Joe Holles de Peyer and his team at Gate2Chain are looking to solve. He joined Patrick Thompson for CoinGeek TV at the BSV Global Blockchain Convention in Dubai to talk about how he makes it easier than ever to deploy blockchain applications and why BSV is the only network that can deliver the blockchain promise.
“At Gate2Chain, we consider ourselves enablers. We build tools to make blockchain easy,” de Peyer described the company where he co-founds and acts as COO. The company also launches Minta, a platform aimed at content creators with products based on NFT -is.
Gate2Chain’s products are already on the market and a number of companies are trying them out. One of these is TRUEWORLD, a start-up from Mallorca, Spain, which focuses on building tools that shed light on the climate change crisis. The start-up platform is the first globally built blockchain that is officially recognized by the UN for monitoring environmental variables. Others who use Gate2Chain’s products are in metrology, social media and more.
de Peyer has worked in the IoT industry for years before switching to the blockchain, and as he said, the two are a perfect match.
“I dare say that IoT without blockchain does not really make much sense, and blockchain without low transaction fees and scalability does not make much sense either. So that really limits it to BSV, he said.
De Peyer’s company will soon launch Minta, a BSV-driven content creation platform that serves as a marketplace for real-world NFTs. Today, content creators are poorly compensated while the major platforms they use, such as YouTube and Facebook, rake in billions of dollars. Minta wants to change this so that users can monetize their content through NFTs.
NFTs, he believes, are here to stay. Today, NFTs are used to represent the more valuable things. But in the near future, as NFTs become easier to access and create, Joe expects them to be used to represent the value of all other things.
“Finally, wouldn’t it make sense for virtually anything to have their digital twin?” he asked.
At Gate2Chain, de Peyer’s mission is simple: “What we are trying to do is give people an access point to the blockchain, to be able to enjoy everything the blockchain has to offer without barriers.”
In line with making blockchain easier, Gate2Chain allows users to deploy apps on the blockchain without requiring them to learn new programming languages. An average JavaScript developer, for example, can quickly deploy a BSV-powered app in a matter of days, Peyer revealed.
One of the big goals is mobile users. Today, many blockchain applications are optimized for computer users, neglecting the mobile sector, which today accounts for close to two-thirds of all Internet use. de Peyer said his company is targeting this sector, with the Minta app being mobile-optimized and promising to release native apps soon.
A major factor that will determine the success of blockchain companies like Gate2Chain is regulation, and de Peyer is all for it. His company is based in Switzerland, a jurisdiction that has one of the most advanced regulations for the industry.
As an illustration of how regulations promote development, de Peyer revealed that his company is in the process of symbolizing its shares. This was only possible in Switzerland, where legislators have formulated rules that allow tokenized shares. Soon, more companies will rely on tokens for profit and not speculation, and regulators must catch up quickly or risk seeing a mass exodus to friendly jurisdictions such as Switzerland and the Middle East, he added.
“We need a clear framework in the end. You need to know what you are allowed to do and what you are not. We go for mass adoption. We want to get over this cryptoanarchic phase, the youth rebellious phase of the crypto world, and it is about having a clear framework, “de Peyer concluded.
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