Mission DeFi - EP 27 - Simone Pomposi from Fantom - Driving forward one of the fastest growing chains in DeFi

<p>Guest Info</p> <p>Name of Guest: Simone Pomposi</p> <p>Name of Project: Fantom Blockchain</p> <p>Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/theotherpomp</p> <p>Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN</p> <p>Project URL: https://fantom.foundation/</p> <p>Project/Guest Description: Simone is the CMO for Fantom</p> <p>Why they are a guest: Fantom is a fast, high-throughput open-source smart contract platform for digital assets and dApps.</p> <p>## Show Notes</p> <p>Background:</p> <p>20 years in advertising</p> <p>Commercial and art</p> <p>Phillips auction house</p> <p>Creative production</p> <p>Worked at Ferrari</p> <p>Photographer</p> <p>What it is like being a CMO of a crypto project.&nbsp;</p> <p>Andre Cronje - yearn</p> <p>Speaking in 2017 at iota, holochain event with Fantom</p> <p>Involved at beginning as advisor</p> <p>A few months later her became heavily involved</p> <p>Core team members with Michael Chen and Chong</p> <p>Co-authored consensys</p> <p>DeFi at early stages Andre</p> <p>Why is Fantom’s community so passionate?&nbsp;</p> <p>Born in bear market</p> <p>People invested and then helped to grow it</p> <p>Originally &nbsp;created in Korea</p> <p>Just a few months after the sale</p> <p>Consensus mechanism</p> <p>Gaming is a big focus upcoming for Fantom and they are seeing more and more game devs coming to them.&nbsp;</p> <p>How got into crypto:</p> <p>2013 Co-worker - Mark</p> <p>Talked about bitcoin</p> <p>Tech background</p> <p>Bought on coinbase</p> <p>Michael Chen CMP</p> <p>Joined Fantom community early</p> <p>Meetup in NYC Andre Cronje</p> <p><br></p> <p>How involved is Andre?</p> <p>Not hard core developing.</p> <p>Author of the consensys mechanism</p> <p>Major decision maker</p> <p>Artium.</p> <p>Michael Kong CEO</p> <p>What is powerful about Fantom?</p> <p>1 second</p> <p>Use case - Reaper.farm</p> <p>Auto compounding vaults</p> <p>How do people fund apps on Fantom</p> <p>Recruiting developers</p> <p>Tech vs users</p> <p>Austin - Community members</p> <p>FTM alerts</p> <p>Proje