James Haft is co-founder of DAIS.global (the Decentralized AI Society). Since 1996, through his company PALcapital, he has focused exclusively on building and advising digitized businesses, decentralized protocols, distributed ledger technologies based companies, and businesses based on open source software. James co-founded CryptoMondays in 2016 and founded DLTx ASA, the first publicly-listed Web3 company in 2020. He was also the founding Chairman of ClimateCoin, the first attempt to tokenize carbon credits. Prior to 1996, James focused on emerging markets investment banking, including heading Asian investment banking for BearStearns and Latin American equity capital markets for INGbarings.