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Grant Blaisdell

Grant Blaisdell is a leading personality in blockchain and crypto.
Grant Blaisdell
Nationality
American
Residence
Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation
Blockchain leader, entrepreneur, lifelong musician and hip-hop artist
Social Media

Summary
Biography
Vision
Recognition and Award
References
Summary

Grant Blaisdell is a leading personality in blockchain and crypto and a pioneer of both technologies applied to different sectors. Grant has been creating ventures at the intersection of new technologies and media between the US and Central Europe since his late teens. 

An early innovator in applying blockchain technology to various industries, companies Grant has co-founded include the leading Blockchain Analytics and AML company Confirm and the marketplace for digital Space assets, Copernic Space. As a lifelong musician and hip-hop artist known as GB Savant, Grant also applies his technological work to his music with upcoming projects such as Mr Crypto.

Biography

Grant Blaisdell has been creating models and ventures at the intersection of tech, media, and branding from Los Angeles to Europe since his teens. Grant is an early innovator in applying blockchain technology to various industries, and companies. As an entrepreneur, Grant has co-founded the leading Blockchain Analytics and AML company Confirm and the digital asset marketplace for the Space industry Copernic Space. As a lifelong musician and hip-hop artist known as GB Savant, Grant also applies his technological work to his music with upcoming projects such as the album Mr. Crypto and the ticketing platform Tixy. 

Recently he has focused on applying his has been working on multiple projects and research on art, culture, music and blockchain. Grant was involved in the cryptocurrency ecosystem from a very early stage and played a vital role in establishing Coinfirm as the leading global RegTech firm. Founding CMO and Swiss Army knife that built the company brand into a global leader in its field with minimal resources. Responsible for the creation and management of Coinfirm’s marketing, social media, PR, AMLT token sale and Network, as well as responsible for a large amount of partnerships and client acquisition globally.

Vision

He helped build Coinfirm into an 8 figure company within a few years and continue to provide new opportunities both from a PR as well as business development end. Grant frequently speaks at the top conferences such as TokenFest in San Francisco or London Blockchain Week and is recognized as one of the top influencers in the RegTech and blockchain space.

Recognition and Awards
In a recent interview for citiesabc, Grant Blaisdell said the following about blockchain, cryptocurrencies and the impact on different industries: Artists and blockchain. Becoming an entrepreneur in the music industry is a complex task and a daily struggle. There are so many things to take care of despite the creation process itself. Trying to build a blockchain platform and introduce blockchain while being an artist myself talking about all these topics is a struggle. I am involved in various projects using blockchain in the music industry with the concert agency BIG IDEA such as a ticketing application called Tixy and a blockchain based digital label called Mr. Crypto. Both take advantage of various tokenization models. About blockchain and AML. I don’t have a regulatory background myself but have an innate capability to quickly connect the dots and comprehend related markets. To simplify the case of Coinfirm and AML, if you believe that crypto will be a part of the mass market then it will have to eventually fall under certain regulatory structures of today, most specifically AML. In the beginning, Coinfirm had a bit of backlash from influencers and companies in the space saying that what we built didn’t have any future and now some of those companies are among our global portfolio of clients. About crypto. The reality is that the value and utility of many digital assets is non-existent and if it has no value or utility it’s not only dead weight but a reputational risk on the industry. Speculation isn’t what interests me about crypto so I am more interested in using crypto and blockchain technology to provide real value and solutions to real problems and needs. Over the past few years and especially during the ICO boom the convergence of industry players trying to explore and sell blockchain-based solutions which have very little knowledge about blockchain and crypto focused people trying to sell this complex technology to industry leaders. And I don’t think that helped either as the majority of these ventures failed and further added to reputational risk. We are still in early stages and scratching the surface at applications of this technology and it has already come a very long way. About decentralization. What we saw in the early days of blockchain and crypto is the ideological sale of total decentralization and privacy etc. As we’ve seen the capital quickly centralized into whales and various entities. Centralization is just part of human nature. But I believe that blockchain can actually bring a new layer of decentralization and promote trust among all parties involved in a given transaction. In the music industry, for example, Spotify is a centralized platform that “controls” and provides trust to users and artists. What I believe is that through a blockchain platform we can still provide that needed trust by leveraging a conversation between users and artists directly and thus fostering a decentralized focused system.
References
Grant Blaisdell
Nationality
American
Residence
Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation
Blockchain leader, entrepreneur, lifelong musician and hip-hop artist
Social Media