Episode 59: Today I’m speaking with Cathy Barrera, Founding Economist at Prysm Group, an economic consulting firm that specializes in incentive design, monetization, token economics, and governance design for startups, enterprises, institutions, and governments working with blockchain and digital assets. As you may already know, Cathy and the team at Prysm Group have done research and consulting on The Graph.
Cathy is a brilliant economist. Her academic credentials are world-class, including a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. As you will hear during the interview, Cathy has unique expertise that enables her to explore the intersections of emergent technology, like blockchain, incentive design, and economics.
During our discussion, Cathy and I talk about her background and path into blockchain, her ideas on how blockchain, crypto, and Web3 are impacting the economic landscape, and some of her thoughts on The Graph.