Consensus Rewind: The Unique Synergy Between Sports and Crypto

Baron Davis, founder of More Than Us, joins Calaxy's Spencer Dinwiddie and Solo Ceesay at Consensus 2022 to discuss the synergy between sports and crypto and their outlook on the common ground.

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ABOUT

There are many ways for creatives to make money while having control of the art they release. Calaxy is an open social marketplace, where creators buy and sell tokens for profit.

In this panel, Baron Davis, former National Basketball Association player and founder of More Than Us, a genesis NFT collection, sits down with Calaxy’s Spencer Dinwiddie and Solo Ceesay to talk about the importance of Web3 being used by everyone. They also discuss social tokens and their importance.

The panel occurred on Friday, June 10, 2022, the second day of CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 festival in Austin, Texas. The moderator is Daniel Nelson, managing editor of news at CoinDesk.

This episode was edited by Nia Freeman. Executive producer for CoinDesk Reports is Jared Schwartz.

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Solo Ceesay

Solo Ceesay is the COO and Co-Founder at Calaxy. Before co-founding Calaxy, Solo held the position of Securitization Investment Banker at Citigroup Global Markets after graduating from the Wharton School of Business. He aspires to bridge the gap between fans and creators that legacy media has created by using the limitless capabilities of distributed ledger technology. Solo is passionate about sports, having spent several years as a member of the football team at UPenn.

Dan Ilett

Dan Ilett writes on tech, money and energy. He advises business on digital strategy and technology messaging for large deals. He is founder of Erbut - an advisory company - and Greenbang - a smart technology research company.

Spencer Dinwiddie

Danny Nelson

Danny is CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

Danny Bradbury

Danny Bradbury has been a professional writer since 1989, and has worked freelance since 1994. He covers technology for publications such as the Guardian.

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