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    'Dressing digitally' pins hope on blockchain to clean up fashion's carbon footprint | The Crypto Mile

    On The Crypto Mile this week, our host Brian McGleenon is joined by Louise Laing, founder of PhygitalTwin, an ecologically-minded fashion marketplace that turns digital designs into reality, using web3 innovations such as NFTs and virtual environments, such as the metaverse.Laing discusses how the innovations of blockchain technology could transform the fashion industry and make it emit a fraction of the carbon emissions it is currently responsible for.She claims the existing fashion system is broken, pointing to studies that show the industry is responsible for between 2% and 8% of global CO2 emissions, greater than all international flights and global shipping combined.The founder states that web3 innovations can cut waste from overproduction by using blockchain-based solutions to streamline workflows and allowing customers the ability to try on clothing in virtual environments before committing to making a purchase.

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    Women of Web3: Funding tips and how not to undersell your startup | The Crypto Mile

    Female entrepreneurs who want venture capital funding for their web3 start-up face an overwhelmingly male-dominated environment.Studies suggest less than 5% of crypto-entrepreneurs are women, women-founded web3 firms account for only 2% of venture capital funding, and out of 121 leading crypto companies only 5 were founded by females.On this week's episode of The Crypto Mile, our host Brian McGleenon speaks to Lauren Ingram, founder of podcast and community Women of Web3, for tips on how to access funding, and ways to redress this gender imbalance.

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    Islamic finance principles could have averted Crypto collapse in 2022' | The Crypto Mile

    On this week's episode of The Crypto Mile our host Brian McGleenon speaks to Junaid Wahedna, founder of investment platform, Wahed. This episode looks at the multitude of calamitous crypto-implosions of 2022, through the lens of Islamic finance. Wahedna described how Sharia-compliant wealth management and investing could have averted the dramatic collapses of Terra's UST algorithmic stablecoin, crypto-hedgefund Three Arrows Capital, and the once prestigious FTX exchange. The founder of Wahed bank highlighted the Islamic finance principles of no leverage, no speculation, no derivatives, and synthetic assets or instruments as key ways to avoid the boom and bust cycles that have been a dramatic fixture in the burgeoning crypto industry and part of the global financial system as a whole.