It's not you, it's crypto with Steph Bell

What crypto builders need to consider and what newbs have to look forward to… As an industry, we have chosen to create linguistic and physical barriers to entry and organizations building in crypto will need to adopt a change in perspective if they want to bring more than just technical experts to use their platforms. The original intention of crypto was to shift traditional power structures in the name of a frictionless global economy. The first step crypto platforms must take towards creating a more inclusive system is to reduce the barriers to access that are prolific within the industry today. My talk walks through the following: 1. A brief background of my career in digital and financial inclusion, having been responsible for driving user onboarding and adoption of complex technologies (anecdote: I’ve taught the Amish how to do business transactions with iPads) 2. What is financial inclusion? 3. Why something like Defi has the innate power to reduce barriers to access 4. The gap between where crypto is today vs its potential (spoiler alert: we’re far from it) 5. How far? (show examples of how todays technologies use sophisticated reading levels, countless acronyms, a crypto-specific lexicon that doesn’t exist in the dictionary. 6. Decentralized platforms = decentralized support (and 5 reasons why this is inhibiting growth and adoption) 7. What can builders do about this? Aka what can users expect in the next year or two? 1. Relatable stories that explain the real-word use cases (that people *actually* get excited about) 2. Increased usability 3. More accessibility 4. Nurture trust and security https://twitter.com/stevibiel