Lorien is the CEO & Co-founder of Figment, the leading staking provider for over 700 institutional clients with $15B+ in staked assets including asset managers, custodians, exchanges, foundations, and wallets. Figment was most recently valued at $1.4 billion by software investment firm Thoma Bravo, with participation highlighted from Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), Franklin Templeton, and Avon Ventures (Fidelity). Lorien ran multiple divisions at Micron, a Fortune 500 company and spearheaded the exponential growth of UK based tech company, MessageLabs as Global VP Business Development.
Lorien Gabel is founder and CEO of Figment, a crypto infrastructure company that provides comprehensive staking solutions for 250+ institutional clients. Gabel joined Anthony Scaramucci and John Darsie to discuss his eclectic childhood, his path to serial entrepreneurship and his journey to crypto. He explains how irresponsible monetary policy and runaway national debt brought about crypto's inevitable creation, how Figment services the layer-1 ecosystem and Wyoming's role as a home for crypto's future. SALT is a global thought leadership and networking forum encompassing finance, technology, and public policy. To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and show notes, visit https://www.salt.org/talks/about ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ข๐๐: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SALTTube Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/salt-talks/id1553797805 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HGRcJUqJNI496MdE2shIL?si=BFbEkgXN ๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ข๐: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SALTConference Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/salt/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/salt-conference/ Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 3:15 - Lorien Gabel's childhood...
The staking providerโs co-founder and CEO discusses the evolution of staking and its growing adoption in Asia.
Industry leaders are leaning into crypto staking. Staking purely as a consensus mechanism to secure a blockchain network should clearly fall outside the securities laws.