The Digital Village Show

Hedera Hashgraph will change how you do business // Rob Allen

Digital Village

Every enterprise will one day use the Hedera network… It’s a bold claim but one that Rob Allen backs with unwavering conviction. 

Rob has often been drawn back to Hedera Hashgraph throughout his career due to its ability to solve technology problems that other blockchains or distributed ledgers could not. 

Now in his role as the HBAR Foundation (Hedera’s native cryptocurrency) SVP of Ecosystem Acceleration, he is armed with a $5billion war chest to empower entrepreneurs to build economies on the Hedera network.

During the fascinating hour-long chat, Rob discusses how the hashgraph consensus powered ‘3rd generation public ledger’ is not constrained by the Blockchain Trilemma, achieves the highest-grade of security possible, offers trail-blazing speeds and is truly decentralising the future.

Rob Allen Bio

Rob is a value-driven entrepreneur, engineer, technologist, startup founder, conservationist and author. After 30 years in enterprise technology and consultancy in the banking, technology and military sectors he is now HBAR Foundation’s SVP of Ecosystem Acceleration.

He also leads nodl.io - an impact-focused technology consultancy specialising in innovation and the application of decentralised technology to address financial democratisation, sustainable development and environmental issues.


Time Stamps

1:15 - 4:00 // Introduction to Rob Allen.

4:00 - 8:33 // Hedera solving the Blockchain Trilemma.

8:33 - 11:41 // HBAR Foundation.

11:41 - 13:18 // HBAR’s $5billion ‘war chest’.

13:18 - 16:49 // Creating the right experience for founders.

16:49 - 20:53 // Hedera’s mind-blowing transactional throughput.

20:53 - 25:00 // Vision for the future & Brisbane 2032.

25:00 - 28:00 // Gossip vs gossip & virtual voting.

28:00 - 33:42 // Achieving asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance.

33:42 - 34:00 // Becoming a 100 year company.

34:00 - 37:28 // Leaving a legacy.

37:28 - 48:00 // Forming a sustainability ecosystem.

48:00 - 49:24 // Hedera open source/ open review.

49:24 - 54:07 // Thoughts on CBA offering crypto services.

54:07 - 1:00:30 // Forming a truly decentralised governing council.

1:00:30 - // Outro.