Builders Block E24: Adedayo Akinpelu - “Right now, our technology is great, but the recognition is still catching up. I believe there’ll come a point where we break out exponentially and are recognized alongside the likes of Fireblocks” @haroldsphinx is the Founder and CEO of @blockopsx and a seasoned engineer with over 10 years of experience across technology and infrastructure. Over the years, Dayo has worked across companies and protocols including Zama, Filecoin, Dapper Labs, Obol, Flow, Quidax and Composable, building expertise across distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure and platform engineering. Blockops provides the underlying infrastructure and developer tooling for nodes, APIs, staking, indexing, wallets and other critical components needed to build and operate blockchain-based financial products at scale. In this episode, we get into: - Dayo's journey from discovering coding at an early age to becoming an infrastructure engineer - His career across some of the biggest companies and protocols in crypto - What it actually takes to build a blockchain infrastructure company - Building BlockOps and Onchain Stacks - AI and how it is changing the way we build - The institutional opportunity for blockchain adoption in Africa - Building infrastructure from Africa for a global market And so much more. Podcast is out now. Watch Below