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Devin Finzer: What Lurks Beneath The OpenSea — Metaverse Musings Ep 12 Dec 22, 2020

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Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 12 of Metaverse Musings with Devin Finzer, the CEO of OpenSea and author of their “Non-fungible Token Bible”. His company provides foundational infrastructure to the NFT ecosystem, and it’s safe to say that they’ve entrenched themselves as a core part of the space for the foreseeable future. Devin provides insight into their philosophy as a business and how he sees NFT evolving into an integral part of the future web.

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dfinzer
Devin’s NFT Bible: https://opensea.io/blog/guides/non-fungible-tokens/
Piers' Twitter: https://twitter.com/pierskicks
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

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A DAO Masterclass with Aaron Wright Dec 21, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Jose Maria Macedo hosts Aaron Wright, cofounder of OpenLaw, The LAO and now Flamingo DAO. Aaron is a professor at Cardozo Law School and is at the forefront of DAOs, having been involved in Bitcoin since 2011, and Ethereum since 2015. Before this, Aaron was a successful entrepreneur, having sold his first company to Wikia - the for-profit version of Wikipedia, which he grew to be one of the largest websites on the internet.

Aaron provides a DAO masterclass, discussing what they are, why they matter, and his vision for DAOs as the next evolution in a long history of human organization dating back to Ancient Rome.

Thank you to our sponsor LVL, which is launching the first free Bitcoin exchange in North America. Users buy and sell Bitcoin with no trading fees or hidden spreads. Visit them at lvl.co

Show Notes:

(2:06) – Aaron Wright Background.

(4:35) – Organizations: History, Concepts and Functions.

(7:25) – Insights about DAO / Long-term Vision.

(12:47) – Experimenting with Types of Organizations in the real world.

(14:26) – DAO main categories.

(15:41) – Insights about Fund Structures.

(19:14) – DAO’s interaction with the Traditional Legal System.

(25:32) – Why a Delaware LLC.

(26:43) – Insights about DAO legal compliance.

(30:35) – LAO, OpenLaw big Use Case.

(35:11) – Why build on Moloch.

(36:49) – Credit Delegation System Background / Walkthrough.

(41:33) – OpenLaw, merging the Traditional World with Crypto.

(44:40) – The Future of the Legal System.

(49:07) – The Security in Off-chain Assets Settlements.

(56:21) – Insights about Governance Tokens value / DAO projects.

(1:03:41) – Exciting things happening in the DAO Space.

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/awrigh01
Guest’s Website: https://www.openlaw.io/
Jose's Twitter: https://twitter.com/zemariamacedo
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

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Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service. Delphi’s transparency page can be viewed here.

Jake Ryan: The Age Of Autonomy Into 2040 and Beyond Dec 15, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Jake Ryan, the Founder and CIO of Tradecraft Capital and the Author of Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy.

The two discuss Jake's new book: How we are in a new long wave economic cycle Jake describes as the Age of Autonomy enabled by crypto since it allows us to transfer value without humans 🤖.

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Thank you to our sponsor LVL, which is launching the first free Bitcoin exchange in North America. Users buy and sell Bitcoin with no trading fees or hidden spreads. Visit them at lvl.co

Show Notes

(1:56) – (First Question) - How did Jake started in Crypto

(3:27) – The Idea behind the book “Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy”

(6:30) – What is Tradecraft Capital

(7:13) – Diving into “Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy”

(9:54) – Insights about a new world / Age of Autonomy

(13:13) – Is the World aware of Crypto Age of Autonomy

(15:06) – Crypto's role in the Real World

(17:21) – US dollar Currency Status in the New Era of Technological Evolution

(20:24) – Insights about Investing in Crypto / Frameworks

(22:56) – Insights about the Long-term Investment horizon in the Cryptocurrencies

(24:47) – What was the hardest thing about writing “Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy”

(27:19) – “Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy” Launch

Resources:

Tradecraft Capital: https://www.tradecraft.capital
Jake’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TradecraftJake
Jake’s Writing, Medium: https://medium.com/@TradecraftJake
Crypto’s Role in the Age of Autonomy: https://hackernoon.com/cryptos-role-in-the-age-of-autonomization-2bf414ceb5d2
Autonomy 2040 Summit: https://www.autonomy2040.org/
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

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Leo Cheng: CREAM Listing The Long-Tail Assets for Borrow/Lending, Cream V2 and A Yearn Finance Partnership Dec 14, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Leo Cheng of CREAM Finance. The two discuss how Cream started from forking compound/balancer to listing the long tail of assets for borrow/lending, plans around Cream V2, and a partnership with Yearn Finance.

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Thank you to our sponsor LVL, which is launching the first free Bitcoin exchange in North America. Users buy and sell Bitcoin with no trading fees or hidden spreads. Visit them at lvl.co

Show Notes

(1:47) – (First Question) – A little bit about Leo Cheng

(2:45) – CREAM Finance Background

(4:59) – CREAM vs Compound and Aave

(9:12) – Community could play a good role in deciding which assets to list

(12:43) – CREAM product roadmap

(17:07) – The art of Incentivizes without the Token becoming valueless

(20:07) – Keeping CREAM Morale up

(23:30) – Binance Smart Chain Walkthrough

(26:57) – CREAM merger partnership

(31:11) – Insights about CREAM v2

(36:16) – What are the benefits of Partnerships

(39:39) – Insights about the Individual Tokens

(43:03) – How is Taipei

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/leokcheng
Guest’s Website: https://twitter.com/creamdotfinance
Tom’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

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Glen Weyl: New Economic Ideas For Unprecedented Times Dec 11, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Jose Maria Macedo hosts Glen Weyl, economist and Principal Researcher at Microsoft. Glen Weyl famously wrote Radical Markets, one of the most original and creative economic treatises of our time. One of the book’s most vocal fans was Vitalik himself, and Vitalik and Glen have since collaborated on multiple initiatives, including the original Quadratic Funding paper which later spawned Gitcoin. Glen has also founded a social movement called RadicalxChange Foundation which seeks to implement his ideas.

In this conversation, Glen explores his novel economic ideas and how they can be used to create new social technologies that solve some of today’s hardest problems.

Show Notes:

(1:08) – Basic Ideas – Capitalism and Central Planning.

(2:10) – Factors that contribute to The Decline in Productivity, combined with the Inequality (Stagnant Quality).

(4:07) – Inequality, a bigger problem than a feature.

(7:11) – Insights about Property being Monopoly / Solutions.

(12:55) – Quadratic Finance / How do we democratize Markets.

(14:56) – Insights about Private Property as a core part of Capitalism.

(19:24) – Bring Markets to Democracy.

(22:59) – Quadratic Voting.

(28:16) – Systems of Corporations vs Systems of Central Planning.

(30:03) – Governance, the different systems that have existed in the US and UK.

(33:07) – Implementations of Governance in the Crypto Space.

(35:24) – Fund collect goods in order to make Taxation more efficient.

(38:28) – Coercion, a part of supplying Public Goods.

(40:40) – Insights about Data Monopoly / Crypto as a possible solution.

(49:20) – iEmbrace Contradictions!

(50:44) – A global social movement called RadicalxChange.

(53:33) – Books that have influenced Glen Weyl the most.

(54:11) – Favorite Film, Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley.

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/glenweyl
Guest’s Website: https://twitter.com/Microsoft
Jose’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/zemariamacedo
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Yy99ZlQIX9-PdG_xHj43Q
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Alpha Finance’s Tascha: An Ecosystem of Bleeding Edge DeFi Products ✨ Dec 09, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Tascha of Alpha Finance. Alpha Finance Lab (Alpha) is a cross-chain DeFi lab that focuses on building an ecosystem of cross-chain DeFi products to capture unaddressed demand in an innovative and user friendly way. The two discuss leveraged yield farming, AlphaX (perpetuals) and much more in this dive into Alpha Finance.

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Thank you to our sponsor LVL, which is launching the first free Bitcoin exchange in North America. Users buy and sell Bitcoin with no trading fees or hidden spreads. Visit them at lvl.co

Show Notes

(1:51) – How Tascha started in Crypto (3:06) – Alpha Finance Launching (3:29) – Alpha, a suite of products (5:40) – Taking a leveraged Yield Farming position (9:42) – Attracting people to deposit ETH / Risks (14:09) – Will Alpha offer 10x leverage (15:24) – Insights about adding Pools (16:53) – Partnership with Ave (18:28) – How does Alpha handle security (23:11) – Alpha X Launching (26:16) – Alpha X Funding Rate and mechanics (29:47) – Anon manipulable Price Feed (30:44) – Alpha’s Token (34:27) – Alpha’s Competitors (36:48) – Where to follow Alpha Finance

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tascha_panpan
Guest’s Website: https://alphafinance.io/
Tom’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Yy99ZlQIX9-PdG_xHj43Q
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Colin Goltra: Boots on the Ground — Metaverse Musings Ep 11 Dec 07, 2020

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Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 11 of Metaverse Musings with Colin Goltra, an avid Crypto Art collector and Head of Growth for Binance Philippines. Colin has a deeply considered passion for the space, and touches upon various interesting philosophical modes of interpretation. He provides commentary on the beating heart of blockchain gaming adoption, where games like Axie Infinity are providing emerging markets with rich economic opportunities for those alive to the possibilities.

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Goltra
Piers' Twitter: https://twitter.com/pierskicks
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://tinyurl.com/ycvsp75h
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Robbie Heeger: Endaoment’s Donor-Advised Funds Enable Crypto Charitable Donations For 1.5M Organizations Dec 03, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Robbie Heeger, the CEO and President of Endaoment. Endaoment is a new Community Foundation & public charity offering Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) built atop the Ethereum blockchain, allowing you to donate to almost any U.S. nonprofit organization.

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Show Notes:

Broad Topics:

Educate about DAFs and how they work.
Share process of opening a DAF with Endaoment.
Discuss why DAFs can be advantageous.
Talk about Endaoment’s origin, mission and vision.
Share about future roadmap and long term vision for the technology behind Endaoment.
Discuss the charitable/philanthropic space inside of the crypto/defi industry.

Endaoment Background & Roadmap:

Created by Robbie Heeger in 2019 originally as hacking project as I was teaching myself to code.
Recieved 501(c)(3) – the first public charity on chain – in June 2020.
Released MVP DAF product in October 2020, audited by Open Zeppelin.
Built to be a DAF that is powered by smart contracts.
Accepts over 135 different ethereum assets + ETH.
Lowest cost, lowest donation minimum DAF provider in US.
Built atop Uniswap’s open source front end, Gidestar API + USDC API.
Enables giving to 1.5 million + US organizations.
Consider our current DAF product an MVP of what’s possible using Ethereum/DeFi to power charitable giving
Down the road, User will choose either giving to Pooled Capital Community Fund (Endaoment Community Fund) or to an individual Endaoment DAF.
Endaoment Community Fund to be the first DAO powered Community Foundation & Endowment Fund where token holders choose investment allocations across yield farming strategies in DeFi, grant awards to nonprofits and select Endaoment policies and board members using tokens.
Looking to bring those same investment options to the individual Endaoment DAF as well, without the same token based voting weights.

DAF History/Background:

Donor Advised Funds are charitable accounts owned and managed by a public charity.
Allows a donor to donate an asset to charity without selling it first.
Over 750k DAFs in the US.
Fastest-growing method to give to charity in the united states in 2019.
Over 120 BN in DAF assets in the US.
DAFs can be controversial … many people park assets there, take the deduction and let it sit. Many people think DAF capital should more quickly flow into communities.

Crypto Giving Landscape Background:

Several large DAF providers accept “blue chip” crypto, but no long tail of tokens.
Most crypto giving platforms either are crowdfunding derivatives, public goods funding projects, or going one organization at a time to support giving.
Many community foundations in the US are still running off paper checks and desire to modernize their financial infrastructure but are intimidated by crypto.
Many organizations are intrigued by crypto but scared away by the fluctuation in value and unknowns about custodianship…delivering grants in USD is prime concern.

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieHeeger
Guest’s Website: https://endaoment.org/
Tom’s Twitter:

Sunayna Tuteja from TD Ameritrade: The Next Wave of Bitcoin Investors Nov 30, 2020

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Macro Matters host Kevin Kelly sits down with Sunayna Tuteja, Head of Digital Assets & DLT at TD Ameritrade. In this conversation, Sunayna and Kevin discuss:

Consensus among traditional investors and sentiment towards Bitcoin and digital assets.
The growing demand among RIAs to understand Bitcoin and its potential role in a multi-asset portfolio context.
The rise of DeFi and digital assets as a kind of “Mayday” event.
The importance of explaining the “how to” when it comes to education as crypto starts to seep into mainstream conversation.

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Show Notes

(2:21) – TDA’s stance on Digital Assets

(7:29) – The rise of Digital Assets and DeFi leading to the next Mayday event

(13:23) – DeFi as a multidisciplinary ecosystem

(15:20) – TD’s core client & the demographic of TD’s target audience

(22:40) – TD’s Clients, struggles with Digital Assets Space concepts

(27:47) – The growth in Bitcoin and digital asset interest among traditional investors

(33:12) – The mainstream movement

(39:09) – The biggest deterrents still holding investors back & the necessary tools still needed to accelerate widespread adoption

(44:29) – Importance of education & what we in the crypto community can do to better inform traditional investors and RIAs of the opportunities and risks in this space

(49:18) – Closing thoughts

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sunayna?s=20
Guest’s Website: https://twitter.com/TDAmeritrade?s=20
Kevin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevin_kelly_II
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

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Colin and ZX: A Technical Dive Into Filecoin’s Tokeneconomics Nov 27, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Colin Evran (Ecosystem Lead at Protocol Labs) and ZX (Cryptoeconomics Lead At Protocol Labs) for a technical deep dive into the cryptoeconomics of Filecoin’s native token (FIL).

The trio discusses the use cases for Filecoin, the minting mechanism (simple and baseline minting), storage pledges (initial pledge and consensus pledges), issuance, reward locks, token distribution, FIP changes, and more.

View Full Transcript here: https://www.delphidigital.io/podcasts/colin-and-zx-a-technical-dive-into-filecoins-tokeneconomics-video-and-transcript/

We previously had Colin on to discuss Filecoin overall: https://www.delphidigital.io/podcasts/colin-evran-filecoin-ushers-in-a-new-generation-of-cloud-storage/

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Resources:

Colin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/colinevran
Zx’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/zixuanzh
Guest’s Website: https://filecoin.io/
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

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