Jul 28, 2020

With the DeFi yield farming craze in full swing, Balancer Labs founder Fernando Martinelli (@fcmartinelli) joins us in discussing one of the hottest projects in the crypto space. We discuss:

• Balancer's origins
• What are "automated market makers"?
• How does Balancer differ from Uniswap?
• Will aggregators destroy value...

Jul 22, 2020

Ben Forman is the Founder and Managing Partner at DeFi focused fund ParaFi, backed by billionaire Henry Kravis among other well known investors. Ben makes his podcast debut and joins us in discussing:

• Is DeFi in a bubble? How can we tell?
• What areas of DeFi are under-invested? What's overhyped?
• Specific projects and...

Jul 14, 2020

John Wu (@john1wu) spent a decade on Wall Street working at some of the top investment firms. Now he heads Ava Labs, the company overseeing the development of a new blockchain backed by the who's who of crypto VCs. With their public sale occurring now, John joins me to talk:

• How 10 years on Wall Street led John to...

Jul 7, 2020

Can Layer 1s make a come back in a market obsessed with apps and DeFi? Illia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon) and Erik Trautman (@ErikTrautman) of NEAR foundation join us this week in discussing

• Why the tipping point for new Layer 1 is now
• NEAR vs. Polkadot vs. ETH 2.0
• How to scale developer communities the right way

Jun 30, 2020

Socios recently sold $1.3M worth of "fan tokens" to fans of soccer club FC Barcelona, with more on the way. Alex Dreyfus (@alex_dreyfus), founder of Socios, joins us in discussing:

• What are fan tokens, and how big is the opportunity?
• Using cryptoassets to engage consumers in B2C businesses
• What the Chilliz token...