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Builder Spotlight: Checking In With Chekkd
When we first spoke with Chekkd founder Shaun Kimball earlier this year, the company was building a platform designed to bring trust to peer-to-peer transactions through identity verification. Several months later, the team has reached major milestones, including...
Builder Spotlight: David Ring III of Empathease
UBC: Tell us about the project you're building. David: The project I'd really like to talk about is Empathease. The idea is to create a community centered around empathy. We offer training in empathetic communication, nonviolent communication, on-demand empathy, and...
Builder Spotlight: Chris Bramwell, Utah Chief Privacy Officer
When people think about blockchain innovation, they often think about startups, developers, and new technologies. Just as important, though, are the policymakers working behind the scenes to build the frameworks that will shape how these technologies are used in the...
Builder Spotlight: Anthony Derbidge of Proofnet BTC
This month’s Builder Spotlight features Anthony Derbidge of Proofnet BTC, a Utah-based project focused on post-quantum infrastructure, decentralized AI systems, and long-term blockchain security. We spoke with its founders, Anthony and Drew Derbidge, about what...
Builder Spotlight: Austin Patkos, founder of Resolv
Austin Patkos is a self-taught developer who got his start in crypto in 2018 and has been building ever since. After working on everything from NFT-gated content to a decentralized lending prototype, he joined Resolv, a project focused on making stolen crypto...
Builder Spotlight: Shaun Kimball, founder of Chekkd
Shaun Kimball is building Chekkd around a simple but increasingly urgent idea: trust should come before a transaction, not after something goes wrong.
Builder Spotlight: Davis Nunez
In this month’s Builder Spotlight, we sat down with Davis Nunez, founder of Defi Orbit, to talk about what it actually looks like to build in DeFi day-to-day. Davis shares how firsthand experience as a liquidity provider exposed major gaps in portfolio tracking, what...
Builder Spotlight: Daniel Holbrook, Founder and CEO of BitHedge
This month, UBC spoke with Daniel Holbrook, founder of BitHedge, a new principal-protected Bitcoin investment structure backed by commercial real estate equity. Daniel draws on more than a decade of valuation and investment work in commercial real estate to create a...
UBC Builders Spotlight: Q&A with Derek Wride, Founder of CPAI
In this Builder Spotlight, CPAI founder Derek Wride shares how his early fascination with cryptocurrency led to building an AI-powered tax platform, why he’s committed to growing in Utah, and how the state’s strong sales culture shapes its startup ecosystem.