Steven Kokinos (Steven Kokinos) is an experienced Web entrepreneur who first started his business in 1999 with hundreds of millions of dollars in startup capital. Now, he's CEO of Algorand, where he's commercializing the innovations of one of the godfathers of modern cryptography and Turing Award winner Silvio Micali. In this installment, we discuss how to decide on and execute a general Layer 1 protocol "go-to-market" strategy, and the potential of DeFi, security tokens, and CBDCs (central bank digital currencies).