Fireblocks: How MultiSig & MPC Works and Digital Asset Solutions | Omer Amsel Head of Web3

In this episode, the yWhales team speak with Omer Amsel, Head of Web3 Products at Fireblocks, an easy to use all-in-one platform for building your digital business, creating new blockchain based products, and securing trillions in digital assets every month. Omar shares how Fireblocks has already facilitated over $4 trillion worth of digital asset transfers and talks about the need for robust security and UX when it comes to incorporating crypto assets into corporate businesses. He also discusses Fireblock’s mission to provide a collaborative and confidential community centered around cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology and shares tips for those wanting to dip their toes into the web3 space.

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About Guest

 

Omer Amsel is Fireblocks’ Head of Web3 and Director of Product Management. As Head of Web3, Omer is responsible for the strategy and product development enabling access and building of the emerging digital economy, including DeFi, NFTs, and GameFi, via the Fireblocks platform. For over a decade, Omer has been adapting cutting edge technologies, such as blockchain, solar energy, machine learning, and computer vision, to create products that solve real-world challenges. Prior to Fireblocks, Omer led product at UVeye, which developed automated inspection systems for vehicles, working with the firm’s most high-profile clients including a Fortune 5 company. He also co-founded Slice RE, a blockchain-based real estate equity crowdfunding platform focused on high-growth, large-scale urban real estate developments. Omer met Fireblocks’ Co-founder & CTO Idan Ofrat at Generaytor, a solar energy community created to accelerate solar adoption through the sharing economy model, where he worked with Idan to bring the product to market. 

 

Omer graduated with a BA in Computer Science from IDC Herzliya (formerly Reichman University).

 

You’ll learn about:

• The history of Fireblocks: evolution from crypto native focus to banking
• How multi sig and MPC works
• Why the past successes and failures of deFi can apply to non-financial applications

Timestamps

0:36 Jay’s intro

2:06 Clifton’s intro

3:20 Omer’s background

6:03 Tokenized security vs security token

13:34 The evolution of crypto custody

22:22 Fireblocks’ intensive onboarding process

26:44 Fireblocks for enterprises

34:26 Marketing in Web3

38:06 How Fireblocks’ security works

45:06 Use case

51:42 Clifton’s takeaways

55:57 Where is the web3 space headed?

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allows for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.

 

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