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Mona El Isa: From Chasing Waves To Enabling Active Fund Management on Ethereum Oct 28, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Mona El Isa, the Co-Founder of Avant Garde Finance and Lead Developer for Melon. We dive into enabling active management on Ethereum, the future of Melon (MIP7, Tokenecon, Integrations and more).

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Show Notes

(1:36) – (First Question) How Mona El Isa started in Crypto

(5:47) – Melon’s backstory

(9:44) – Melon, a protocol that allows to set up a fund for $50

(11:58) – Mona El Isa’s first assumption in DeFi

(14:27) – Why not a Major Crypto fund

(17:00) – From start to finish, How to deploy a fund with Melon / v1.0 & v2.0

(22:35) – v1.0 & v2.0, on a scale from 1 to 10

(25:23) – Melon, aiming to do as a management infrastructure

(28:51) – Will Melon expand to the Institutional world

(30:26) – Melon’s role as a Token within the protocol / MIP #7

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mona_El_Isa
Melon’s Website:https://melonprotocol.com/
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8
Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/
Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/

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.

Tyler Ward: How BarnBridge is Tokenizing Risk and Attracting $200M In TVL In 48 Hours Oct 27, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnnessy hosts Tyler Ward, the Co-Founder of BarnBridge. The two discuss Attracting $200M in yield farming deposits in 48 hours and tokenizing risk via smart alpha (fractional ownership with different risk/rewards) and smart yield (interest rate vol mitigation).

Show Notes

(1:09) – Quite a Week for BarnBridge!

(3:47) – Tyler Ward Background

(6:32) – Conceptualizing BarnBridge

(14:06) – Having a Dream Team

(15:04) – What’s BarnBridge / BarnBridge products

(27:21) – Retail Crowd or Institutional Crowd

(32:12) – Smart Yield product

(38:19) – What’s the formula behind the Tranches

(41:12) – How BarnBridge makes a valuable protocol

(48:08) – What is next on the road for BarnBridge

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/LordTylerWard
BarnBridge’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/barn_bridge
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8
Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/

Steve Lee: From Traditional Finance Into Crypto, NFTs, and Beyond — Metaverse Musings 07 Oct 22, 2020

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Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 07 of Metaverse Musings with Steve Lee, who is the Head of Asia and an Investment Director at BlockTower—one of the older funds on the block. With roots in traditional finance after a long international investment banking career, Steve now bridges the East/West corridor for BlockTower across a variety of areas. Most recently, the firm has announced plans to triple down on their NFT investment thesis and expects to allocate significantly more capital to the theme in the near future.

Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our interviews, first.

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/xxstevelee
Piers' Twitter: https://twitter.com/pierskicks
BlockTower’s Website: https://www.blocktower.com/
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://tinyurl.com/ycvsp75h
Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/
Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/

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 Delphi 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.

Diane Dai: DODO The Proactive Market Maker 🐣 Oct 21, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Diane, the co-founder of DODO. They discuss DODO, the proactive market maker that's competing with Uniswap and others AMMs. DODO has $100M in its pools, but Diane explains why it's much more efficient vs peers.

Show Notes

(1:31) – (First Question) How Diane Dai started in Crypto

(3:25) – Dodo’s Elevator Pitch

(4:01) – Insights about Dodo’s Competitors

(4:57) – Dodo’s Status

(5:55) – Today’s Dodo Assets

(7:21) – Proactive Market Makers vs. Automated Market Makers

(9:26) – How Dodo provides contract-fillable liquidity

(14:09) – Handling Impermanent Loss

(16:37) – Dodo, a PMM algorithm beating Uniswap

(19:25) – The importance of Single Risk Exposure for Dodo

(21:08) – Dodo, a cute cause for the community

(22:57) – Dodo Token function

(25:17) – Thinking through competing for the community

(27:45) – The future of Dodo

(29:52) – The 3 keys focus of Dodo

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Diane_0320
Dodo’s Website: https://app.dodoex.io/
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8
Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/

Eric Chen: Injective, The Decentralized Derivatives Exchange Protocol Oct 19, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Eric Chen, the co-founder of Injective Protocol. The two discuss Eric's journey creating a fully decentralized derivatives exchange, competition, scaling and much more.

Show Notes

(1:57) – (First Question) How Eric Chen got involved with Crypto

(7:16) – The need of Derivatives products/What does Injective Protocol offer

(10:26) – Contracts for Differences (CFD)

(11:36) – Institutional or Retail focus

(13:37) – What is Injective Protocol competing for

(16:40) – Injective Protocol status

(17:20) – The evolution of Injective Protocol products

(20:45) – Exploring the Injective Protocol architecture

(21:29) – Achieving Scalability

(21:55) – The use of Injective Protocol token

(24:02) – Insights about the process for token holders

(25:18) – The battle between CEFIs and DEFIs for derivatives

(28:03) – Why haven't we had an Injective before

(29:56) – What does decentralized derivative exchange have that Injective wants

(31:33) – Insights about starting Injective as anonymous founders

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericinjective
Guest’s Website: https://injectiveprotocol.com/
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8
Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/
Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/

Tor Bair: Secret Contracts Go Way Beyond Privacy Coins Oct 12, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Tor Bair, the Founder of Secret Foundation. The two discuss building private applications using secret contracts at scale, why this goes well beyond privacy coins and privacy as a human right.

Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information!

Show Notes

(2:00) – (First Question) – What is Secret Network

(3:22) – Transactional Privacy vs. Programmable Privacy/Private Smart Contracts

(6:39) – Understanding Programmable Privacy

(8:31) – Why have not DEFI applications taken advantage of privacy coins

(12:26) – The importance of privacy in Traditional Companies and DEFIs

(14:36) – Features of a business model for private social applications

(18:28) – Privacy, a human right that should be by default

(22:05) – Will Ethereum become a Secret Network competitor

(25:05) – There is no perfect privacy

(27:50) – What have Tor Blair done differently in Secret Network

(33:52) – Insights about projects running with anonymous founders

(36:37) – Primary functions of Secret coin

(39:14) – Secret Network is not a secret anymore

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TorBair
Secret’s Website: https://scrt.network/
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8
Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/
Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/

SBF: Arbitrage, A Quant Fund, And Serum’s Ascent Oct 07, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts SBF, the CEO of FTX and Alameda Research. The two cover SBF's journey in creating Alameda Research, engaging in arbitrage, and why @ProjectSerum on @solana goes way beyond being a DEX 🚀

Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information!

Show Notes

(2:58) – (First Question) - When did SBF get involved in Crypto

(3:36) – Alameda, a non-traditional internal Quant Fund

(6:40) – Where does Alameda’s alpha come from

(11:26) – Moving fast in a limited information environment

(17:48) – The future of launches with figureheads

(21:56) – Future of Alameda

(24:13) – The thinking behind Serum

(30:17) – Serum and Scaling

(32:40) – Creating killer apps without a community

(35:07) – Goal for Serum/Serum core purposes

(39:44) – Serum much more than a DEX.

(42:34) – Composability, one of the most important things in DEFI

(43:59) – Ethereum vs Serum

(45:06) – Serum launchment on a short period of time

(47:20) – Making Money or Building

(49:00) – SBF biggest competitor

Resources:

Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda
Serum’s Website: https://projectserum.com/
FTX’s Website: https://ftx.com/en
Alameda’s Website: https://www.alameda-research.com/
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8
Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/
Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/

Richard Kim: Running the World’s Largest Gaming & Interactive Media Fund - Metaverse Musings Ep 06 Oct 05, 2020

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Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 06 of Metaverse Musings with Richard Kim, who is a general partner at Galaxy Interactive alongside Sam Englebardt. Across their sector focus, the fund has been the most active in the world over the last 12 months. Richard shared deep insights that are clearly the product of his unique positioning across the gaming landscape. It’s refreshing to see such strong conviction in the role that digital assets play in the metaverse from a large player with roots in both the traditional finance and video game industries.

Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information!

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Resources:

Galaxy Interactive: https://galaxyinteractive.io/
Richard’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/galaxyRTK
Piers’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pierskicks
Delphi Podcast Twitter:

Matthew Ball’s essay on MILEs: https://www.matthewball.vc/all/cloudmiles
SignalFire Creator Economy Map: https://www.signalfire.com/blog/creator-economy/

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8
Access Delphi’s Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/

Charlie Silver: A Serial Entrepreneur’s Goal To Give Users Control Over Their Data Oct 01, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Charlie Silver, CEO of Permission.io. The two discuss Charlie's career as an entrepreneur (Large sale of RealAge to Hearst, Oil Franchise to Jiffy Lube) and now Permission to give users control over their data.

Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information!

Resources:

Guest’s Website: https://permission.io/
Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/PermissionCEO
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8
Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/
Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/

Andre Cronje: From A Mystical Launch to The Yearn Empire Sep 28, 2020

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Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Andre Cronje of Yearn Finance. The two discuss the mystical birth of Yearn Finance, Andre’s views on a myriad of interesting topics (fair launches, governance, decentralization, token economics) and much more.

Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information!

Resources:

Andre’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndreCronjeTech
Yearn’s Website: https://yearn.finance/
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi

Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8
Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/

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