In episode 3 of the XTZ.News Tezos podcast, Vince Ferraiuolo interviews Alan Blair on why REI Capital chose the Tezos blockchain to tokenize $100 million worth of real estate equity and debt. Alan is the Founder and CEO of REI Capital Growth and has over forty years of experience in commercial real estate, finance, property management and business. REI Advisors have advised in the sale and purchase of over $60 million in real estate since 2011. Alan is also a former Marine Corps Captain & Helicopter Pilot.

In episode 2 of the XTZ.News podcast, Vince Ferraiuolo interviews Kevin Mehrabi | Tezos DeFi Industrialist. Kevin discusses the Tezos DeFi scene and how it's evolving through the introduction of key building blocks such as lending applications and stablecoins. Kevin grew up in Philadelphia, moving to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California where he earned both a BA in Film and Television, and a BS in Business Administration. Subsequently, Kevin earned his MBA from UCLA Anderson School for Management. Kevin is an experienced entrepreneur and product manager by trade, skilled in the full product triad of design, engineering, and business management. Kevin is the Founder of StableTech (Tezos Stable Technologies) and CEO of Wealthchain, Inc. StableTech, in coordination with Wealthchain, Cryptonomic, and Tokensoft launched the first USD stablecoin on Tezos USDtez (USDtz), and just launched its second stablecoin on Tezos, called ETHtez (ETHtz). StableTech is expected to deploy a dozen more stablecoins for release in 2021, more imminently, the first Compound/Aave-like automated lending platform on Tezos, called TezFin (Tezos Finance) to launch in Q1 of this year.

In this very first XTZ News podcast episode, Vince Ferraiuolo interviews the CEO of Vertalo Dave Hendricks. In this episode, Dave Hendricks explains why Vertalo chose the Tezos to help provide innovation and utility through the use of blockchain technology to the real estate industry.

Hendricks was named one of New York's top technology innovators by Business Insider, is the founder and CEO of Vertalo, a fintech company focused on connecting and enabling the digital asset economy. Prior to founding Vertalo in 2017, Dave co-founded LiveIntent, the largest programmatic email advertising platform in the world with more than 3000 publisher clients serving real-time email ads to more than 100 million daily average uniques. A long-time innovator in 1st-party data management solutions, Dave was EVP Sales and Marketing for CheetahMail, where he and Vertalo co-founder William Baxter helped create the world's largest email service provider, later selling it to Experian in 2004. Before CheetahMail, Dave ran Oracle's world-wide partnership with accounting firm Arthur Andersen where previously Dave worked on several large securitization projects. Dave's first experiences in securitization of real world assets came from a major project with JE Robert and Goldman Sachs, where Dave led the tech team building securitization databases for the Resolution Trust Corporation to help clean up the mess created by the Savings and Loan crisis in the 1990s.