In today’s episode, we’re joined by Yele Bademosi, the Co-founder and CEO of Nestcoin, and Will White, the COO of WalletConnect, to talk about a critical piece of crypto infrastructure: Wallets.

When talking about wallets here, we’re talking about non-custodial wallets - where users have full access and control over their private keys, unlike a custodial wallet which relies on and trusts third parties.

In the context of web3, we’re excited by the opportunities enabled by connecting a wallet and a user’s tokens or transaction history to a decentralized application. At the same time, we hear a lot about user experience challenges in the crypto ecosystem and wallets, of course, are central to that conversation.

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03:11 - Intro to Yele, Nestcoin and Onboard.
04:05 - Intro to Will and WalletConnect.
06:45 - WalletConnect as web3 infrastructure.
11:04 - The UX challenges with non-custodial wallets.
22:48 - The question of localization in the global crypto sector.
27:40 - The crypto ecosystem’s focus on Africa.
38:39 - Use cases.
50:13 - Follow Yele on Twitter.
50:36 - Follow Will on Twitter.
51:01 - Follow crypto@scale on Twitter.