Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Muneeb Ali the CEO and Cofounder of Blockstack PBC. Blockstack is a high profile project in the space, with the goal of creating a decentralized computing network and app ecosystem. To differentiate this episode vs other podcasts, I wanted to focus on Blockstacks’ end goals - being potentially creating a new decentralized version of Amazon Web Services which hosts basically the worlds business and consumer workloads and apps....
Jun 17, 2019•59 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Jake Yocom-Piatt, an original co-founder of the cryptocurrency Decred. It's incredible to speak with Jake and learn about how he built Decred with its anonymous co-founders, all of their struggles and success and where the crypto is going. We go into Decred’s hybrid consensus mechanism, its on-chain treasury, easy voting on consensus changes and the use of the treasury through the wallet decredition and so much more. While De...
Jun 08, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Tyrone V. Ross Jr , a managing partner at Noble Bridge Wealth Management. The long story short is Tyrone is the crypto wealth manager of the future. Tyrone has decided to differentiate his practice by offering his wealth management services to the general public, unlike the majority of wealth managers and financial advisors who not only won’t help or touch crypto assets, but frankly most are not up to speed on the space. It’s...
Jun 03, 2019•57 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Tor Bair, Head Of Growth at Enigma. For those new to Enigma it is described as a decentralized secure computation protocol, where “secret nodes” in the network perform computations over encrypted data. Enigma brings privacy to any kind of computation - not just transactions. Our conversation covers the desire for privacy despite consumers being ok giving away their data for free, if the incumbents (facebook/google can be disp...
May 28, 2019•57 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Joe Lubin the co-founder of Ethereum and thee founder of ConsenSys . For those new to the space, ConsenSys is a global blockchain technology company building the infrastructure, applications, and practices that enable a decentralized world. ConsenSys has over 50 spokes building on Ethereum ranging from infrastructure like Infura and Metamask to platforms and applications like OpenLaw and Airswap. After having numerous guests ...
May 06, 2019•41 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Even Feng, the Founder and CIO of Tapestry Capital. I wanted to have Evan on since he has a storied career in finance and incredible insight given his positions with Barclays’ investment banking department to Citadel and then to Point 72 before creating tapestry capital. Evan is able to link the legacy financial world, with Crypto, and he able to explain the differences between the two worlds. We close as Evan describes Tapes...
May 02, 2019•45 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Scott Army, the Founder and CEO of Vision Hill Group . While institutions are starting to warm up to crypto today, Scott began work on his Crypto fund of funds years ago, and its first strategy successfully launched over 6 months ago. Since then, Scott is growing Vision Hill into a full service Crypto company focused on adding new strategies, providing research and advisory services as well. Scott has unparalleled insight int...
Apr 29, 2019•47 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Andy Bromberg, the Co-Founder and President of CoinList. Andy is one of the most insightful guests I’ve had on, his ability to distill everything happening in crypto into digestable and understandable pieces is remarkable. On this episode we covered so much, including the future of funding, developer focused community building, a complete rundown on CoinList, and how CoinList only accepts 0.02% of the projects it is approache...
Apr 12, 2019•53 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Ajit Tripathi, a partner at ConsenSys focused on the solutions segment. We cover how tokens will invade enterprises in full force, building liquid and efficient private markets through tokenization, the benefits to various market participants and so much more. To access all of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your device and sign up now. Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Ajit on Twitter @...
Apr 09, 2019•46 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by CENT's co-founder's Cameron Hejazi to hear the story of two relentless co-founders and their vision to create a new social income network. The conversation covers the current CENT platform, how users are earning money seeding, why the two co-founders built on Ethereum, and so much more. To access all of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your device and sign up now. Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy1...
Mar 26, 2019•51 min
In this episode, Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital ( www.DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Chris McCoy the co-founder of Storecoin and co-founder and CTO Rag Bhagavatha. The conversation covers the new settlements platform layer Storecoin is building and the co-founder's goals of also building a cloud layer on-top of this layer. Its a differentiated and novel episode and worth a listen. To ensure you’re able to submit questions moving forward and receive our analysts calls like clock-work, vi...
Mar 21, 2019•1 hr 13 min
In this special episode, the entire Delphi Digital ( www.DelphiDigital.io ) analyst team shares our monthly analyst call, which is usually for institutional clients only. We dive into our massive Ethereum report, an update on Enjin which we released, a breakdown of smart contract competition following the launch of Cosmos and so much more. This call happens monthly for our institutional clients, will be for members only moving forward, and includes all 5 analysts at Delphi Digital; Tom Shaughnes...
Mar 19, 2019•43 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital ( www.DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Zac Prince, The Co-Founder and CEO of BlockFi. BlockFi provides basic financial products in the blockchain ecosystem including high-interest crypto accounts and low cost credit products to clients globally. Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Zac on Twitter @BlockFiZac Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, DCR, MKR, ZRX and HYDRO. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not...
Mar 11, 2019•50 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital ( www.DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Max Bronstein of the Dharma Protocol. Dharma enables users to instantly borrow and lend crypto-assets in high volume. This is a two-part DeFi series, stay tuned for part 2 next week. Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Max on Twitter @max_bronstein Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, DCR, MKR, ZRX and HYDRO. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment deci...
Mar 01, 2019•57 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital ( www.DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Gregory Rocco of ConsenSys' Alpine group. Tanner Hoban of ConsenSys Digital securities and Sam Corso who runs Techsuite.io and is an advisor to Delphi digital. Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Rocco on Twitter @Obstropolos Follow Tanner on Twitter @tehoban1 Follow Sam on Twitter @samc621 Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, DCR, MKR, ZRX and HYDRO. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only...
Feb 25, 2019•1 hr 26 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital ( www.DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Nathaniel Whittemore Nathaniel is in my opinion not only the best story-teller in the space, but has the best ability at synthesizing down the intent and goal of projects into digestible and understandable words. If someone was explaining rocket science I would want it to be Nathaniel. Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Nathaniel on Twitter @nlw Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, DCR, MKR, ZRX, HY...
Feb 18, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research ( www.51pct.io) is joined by the Web3 Foundation's Jack Platts. Jack covers the Web3 foundation; and we focus the majority of the conversation on Polkadot which is connected to Web3. Polkadot is a major interoperability protocol set to launch and we cover the mechanics of the protocol, security, parachains, competition (Cosmos, Ethereum et al) and so much more. Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Jack on Twitter @web3jp - Related Posts: ...
Feb 11, 2019•50 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research ( www.51pct.io) is joined by Tokensoft's co-founder and CEO Mason Borda TokenSoft enables small businesses, enterprises, and financial institutions to meet compliance requirements at issuance, distribution or exchange. This is a great episode as we have already had on numerous STO companies, so Tokensoft rounds out our STO coverage! Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Mason on Twitter @masonic_tweets - 51percent's Institutional Crypto Po...
Feb 04, 2019•55 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research ( www.51pct.io) is joined by Zilliqa's CEO Xinshu Dong. Zilliqa is branded as the scalable blockchain for high throughput consensus computing. The project has gotten a lot of buzz and is set to launch its mainnet this week, so this is a very timely episode. - Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Xinshu on Twitter @xinshudong - 51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcasts are to the point discussions with crypto leaders for analysts, funds an...
Jan 28, 2019•57 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research ( 51pct.io) is joined by Spartan Group's Jason Choi, for An for an Insider’s Take On The Asia Crypto Scene. Jason gives us the entire low down on the crypto scene in Asia. He informs us on the differences vs the West on crypto funds’ involvement in governance, their investment focus, and an insightful look into the entire scene. - Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Jason on Twitter @mrjasonchoi - 51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcast...
Jan 24, 2019•56 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Noah Pierau, a governance researcher and community manager at cryptocurrency Decred. Following 51pct.io's research report on Decred, Noah joins Tom to discuss everything Decred and its innovative apporach to governance through a hybrid PoW/PoS system and its approach to solving on-going funding through a treasury. This conversation is a must-listen for anyone interested in Decred, Governance and the future of decision making in the c...
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Arlyn Culwick, the co-founder of Blocknet. The conversation covers interoperability in crypto, the various players (Blocknet, Cosmos, Polkadot), the state of the market, the benefits of interoperability and what the future holds. Listeners can use coupon code "Fifty" on 51pct.io for 50% off a retail membership Relevant Posts Dfinity: Cloud Three Point Oh? Privacy Coin War: Short-Term Monero and Long-Term Zcash With Grin/Beam As Wild ...
Jan 14, 2019•1 hr 23 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Beni Issembert, the CMO at Beam Privacy. Beam is a privacy coin, based on the MimbleWimble protocol that just launched on the first week of January. Our conversation is not technically focused but is an impromptu one focused on the key takeaways on Beam following its launch. We covered Beam, Grin, Zcash and Monero in-depth in our latest privacy coin report . Relevant Posts Privacy Coin War: Short-Term Monero and Long-Term Zcash With ...
Jan 11, 2019•42 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Mance Harmon the CEO and Co-Founder of Hedera Hashgraph for the most in-depth dive into the project to date. For those who don’t know, Hedera Hashgraph is a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications. The project has gained a lot of interest and has raised $124M at a $6B valuation. Our conversation covers the dynamics of the platform, an update on their mainnet launch, governance in Hedera and where the project...
Jan 08, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by Carlos Domingo who is the Founder and Managing Partner at SPiCE VC and Founder and CEO at Securitize. Our conversation covers security tokens, securitize, and why Carlos believes the security token market across all of its metrics will increase by 10 times in 2019. We discuss the competitive landscape, and Carlos provides information on the competitive landscape for security token platforms since we now have so many today. Carlos unloads a ton of gre...
Dec 23, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by Afri Schoedon of Parity for a wide-ranging discussion that includes an overview of Parity's Ethereum Client, Ethereum's Serenity upgrade, Parity's new Görli testnet, the use case for private blockchains and more. Afri shares a ton of invaluable information and is on the front lines of Ethereum, making this a must listen to episode. Relevant Posts Did Ethereum Reach 1TB Yet Etherum Archival Node Sizes Ethereum’s Serenity: A Potential ~10x Increase In ...
Dec 18, 2018•50 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by Jacob Arluck, a governance research at Tezos. This is a timely episode since governance is becoming more and more important given recent events with Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and of course with Tezos itself over the long term. Jacob gives us a complete rundown on how the innovative governance structure at Tezos works and compares it to Ethereum and Bitcoin. The discussion includes the importance of governance at the base blockchain layer, how this effec...
Dec 13, 2018•1 hr
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by Gregory Rocco and Jacob Blish, two token designers and engineers as ConsenSys' Alpine Spoke. The conversation covers everything from the use cases and design of utility tokens, to designing for governance and positive incentives and even token doomsday scenarios. Sign up for 51pct.io using coupon code "Token" for 20% of for the next 24 hours. Topics covered include How the two design tokens for crypto projects How to decide which projects actually ne...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 12 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by the PegaSys team, a spoke of ConsenSys focused on building Ethereum tech for the public-chain community and leading enterprises. The 50 person team is one of ConsenSys' largest teams. Tom is joined by Daniel Heyman a co-founder of PegaSys and Program Director and Faisal Khan whose role is Strategy and Business development at PegaSys. The conversation spans The use case for enterprise/private blockchains What PegaSys does, and its goals. The release o...
Dec 04, 2018•55 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent is joined by Kevin Werbach to discuss his newly released book, "The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust". About Kevin: Kevin Werbach is Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Founder of the technology consulting firm Supernova Group, he has advised the FCC and Department of Commerce on communication policy. ----more---- Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Kevin on Twitter @kwerb P...
Nov 30, 2018•1 hr
