Emma Channing: A Level 103 WoW Draenei Hunter Who Designs Blockchain Platforms
From a text-based MMPORG gamer obsessed with in-game economies to advising on STOs and capital markets at ConsenSys
Emma Channing began her career 20 years ago in major international law firms, including Skadden and Simpson Thacher, focusing on international M&A and capital markets. Admitted as an attorney in the UK, CA, CO, and NY, Emma holds an LLB in Law from Durham Law School (UK) and LLMs in Law from Durham Law School and Stanford Law School.
Within ConsenSys, Emma works as a FINRA registered representative at ConsenSys Digital Securities LLC, she contributes to the Codefi STO issuance platform architecture design and testifies before the Wyoming Blockchain Task Force–the leader of blockchain legislation progression in the United States. Emma shares with us her story from gamer to blockchain law advisor.
How did blockchain and Ethereum pop on your radar?
My childhood and teenage years involved endless hours designing and playing games. MMORPGs from early days, transaction-based games like Elite, coding in forgotten languages like BBC Micro. I graduated to the text-based games like ZombieMud, before moving onto WoW and Diablo III. I inevitably became a customer of Internet Gaming Entertainment for WoW gold only.
I have predominantly always played a Druid, but I have found it tough to find good raiding guilds on the US servers in the last 10 years or so, and so now my highest level character is a Hunter as I tend to solo (still bow or staff though). That being said, time to play in the last two years has been hard to find!
Thanks to blockchain technology, those two parts of my life were really about to collide.
Read the rest of Emma’s story at the official ConsenSys blog.
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