Over Lunch with Marieke Flament, CEO of NEAR Foundation

Debating the blockchain trilemma in a hawker centre in Singapore was not on former NEAR Foundation CEO Marieke Flament’s 2023 bingo card. But it happened anyway! 🤷 In the first episode of Over Lunch – a series where we chat with various crypto people over a meal – Coinlive editor Clement Ooi brings Marieke to Maxwell hawker, where they wax philosophical about crypto, decentralisation and the NEAR ecosystem. All while indulging in some fried carrot cake. Note: this interview was conducted one week before Marieke announced that she was stepping down as CEO. So we called dibs on the last interview with her! 😉