Irina is the Head Ambassador for Western Europe at Polkadot and Kusama Networks, she is also the  London’s Regional Co-Chair to FIBREE (Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise), and Recently, Irina also co-founded Design B2C, a crypto fintech boutique advisory with focus on DeFi, Web 3.0 services, NFT’s, and real estate tokenization. Irina began her career as an architect and worked on the award-winning Piano di Governo del Territorio (Land Management Plan) at Comune di Desio, Italy, and. She was a contributor to the research for the book Trans Eurasian development corridor “Razvitie” and has experience as an Architect at Michele Arcarese Architetto (MAA), and an Architect at Regional Institute of Regional & Town Planning Design, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Irina is a strategic thinker who focuses on Blockchain technology implementations for business, she advises real estate companies, family offices, fintech companies and runs lectures and workshops for universities and private clients. In this episode we covered the basics of Polkadot project, and then we took a deep dive on NFTs, what they are, what they are used for as well as the current challenges that NFTs face. We also discussed some interesting future applications of NFTs and focused specifically on real estate and some exciting developments within that area. ------ You can get in touch with Irina on her LinkedIn | Twitter ------ Projects mentioned https://polkadot.network/ https://kusama.network/ https://www.designb2c.com/ https://bit.country/ https://usetech.com/unique/  ------ Cointelligence Academy e-Book: The Cointelligence Guide to Decentralised Finance Check our website for latest updates and free Blockchain courses Join our Telegram group and start meeting people in Blockchain and Crypto ------ PUBLC Web 3.0 Search Engine Check out what is PUBLC here ------ If you are interested in sponsoring the show or have any other questions, please feel free to drop me an email on: lora@cointelligence.com