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...

Jun 23, 2020

Lasse Clausen (@lalleclausen), co-founder of Berlin-based token fund 1kx, joins me in discussing the latest trends in crypto.

• Is "liquidity mining" a fad?
• 3 trends investors should be tracking
• What assets are Lasse bullish on and why?
• What is 1kx's most contrarian thesis in crypto?

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). If...

Jun 16, 2020

Polkadot is live! Joe Petrowski (@joepetrowski), research analyst at Parity Technologies, joins us in discussing what this means for the ever competitive layer 1 space.

• What's actually build on Polkadot today?
• How does Polkadot plan to compete with Ethereum?
• Polkadot's go-to-developer strategy
• What is the "meme" for...