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). Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our interviews, first! - Show Notes (1:36) – (First Question) How Mona El Isa started in Crypto (5:47) – Melon’s backstory (9:44) – Melon, a protocol t...
Oct 28, 2020•36 min
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) –...
Oct 27, 2020•52 min
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...
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 6 min
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 M...
Oct 21, 2020•32 min
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...
Oct 19, 2020•35 min
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) – Un...
Oct 12, 2020•42 min
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 ...
Oct 07, 2020•51 min
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...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 14 min
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/...
Oct 01, 2020•32 min
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.co...
Sep 28, 2020•59 min
Chain Reaction Hosts Tom Shaughnessy and Yan Liberman are joined by Chad Barraford of Thorchain . The three discuss the genesis of Thorchain, why cross-chain liquidity pools will revolutionize value transfer, and why RUNE's token econ makes sense long term vs quick yield farming plays. Delphi’s RUNE Report: https://www.delphidigital.io/reports/thorchain/ Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: Guest’s Twitter: https...
Sep 23, 2020•56 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 05 of Metaverse Musings with Marguerite deCourcelle , more commonly referred to as Coin Artist, who is the Founder and CEO of Blockade Games . She is widely respected as the inventor of crypto puzzles, and continues to help architect detailed trails to this day. Most recently, she launched her own social token called $COIN that will play an exciting role in her upcoming cyberpunk RPG - Neon District . Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happ...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Macro Matters host Kevin Kelly sits down with Dan Morehead , CEO & Co-CIO of Pantera Capital. Dan brings a wealth of experience in both traditional markets and crypto, having previously served as the Head of Macro Trading and CFO for Tiger Management before founding Pantera Capital back in 2003. In this conversation, Dan and Kevin discuss the early days of Pantera’s first Bitcoin fund, the growing trend towards decentralized finance, the sectors and projects him and his team are focusing on ...
Sep 21, 2020•50 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy is joined by 0xMaki of SushiSwap. The two discuss how SushiSwap vampire attacked UniswapProtocol, SushiSwap's roadmap, plans, and much more. This is a repost of our live podcast. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: 0xMaki’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xMaki Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi More Our Vi...
Sep 17, 2020•29 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy moderates a panel during the Binance Summit, featuring Rune from MakerDAO, Robert from Compound Labs, Stani from Aave, and Kain from Synthetix. This power group led to a compelling discussion on the rise of DeFi. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: Rune's Twitter: https://twitter.com/RuneKek Robert's Twitter: https://twitter.com/rleshner Kain's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kai...
Sep 14, 2020•47 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Mason Borda, the Co-Founder and CEO of Tokensoft . In the past 30 days, Tokensoft launched two (Arcoin and INX Ltd) of the first SEC-registered, publicly-traded security tokens on the public Ethereum blockchain. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: Tokensoft website: https://www.tokensoft.io/ Mason's Twitter: https://twitter.com/masonic_tweets Tom's Twitter: http...
Sep 11, 2020•38 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Dan Gunsberg and Rob Levy, the founders of HXRO . The three discuss HXRO's gamified derivatives platform, user growth, and leveraging decades of finance experience to create the platform. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: HXRO: https://hxro.io/ Dan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/hxrobtc Rob's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robbylevy Tom's Twitter: https://twitte...
Sep 02, 2020•45 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Cooper Turley , editor at Defirate and one of the closest people to the fast moving world of yield farming. In one hour Cooper covers everything - what is yield farming, how the craze is attracting massive amounts of capital and attention, specific projects and where he thinks this is all headed. Oh my, what an episode. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: Cooper...
Aug 28, 2020•57 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down with Andrew Steinwold the Founder of Zima Red for Episode 04 of Metaverse Musings. His newsletter and podcast have shed light on a number of exciting projects emerging around NFTs, blockchain-based games, and the gradually emerging decentralized Metaverse. In this episode, Andrew makes his first podcast appearance outside of his own to share his story and perspective on the market. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi fo...
Aug 26, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Anton Bukov , the co-founder of 1InchExchange . This is the go-to episode on 1inch as a DEX aggregator, scaling to handle over $1B in volume in a short period of time and the launch and benefits of Mooniswap - a next generation AMM protocol. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: Anton's Twitter: https://twitter.com/k06a 1InchExchange: https://1inch.exchange/#/ETH/...
Aug 20, 2020•43 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down with DuckM the Co-Founder of FancyHire for Episode 03 of Metaverse Musings. His operation is one of the most fascinating early examples of how the internet can unlock extreme economic niches, and the types of behaviours we can expect to develop with the emergence of the Metaverse. In this episode, DuckM walks us through the exciting bitcoin-enabled multi-million dollar businesses that are forming around large video game economies. Join us to learn more about what it ta...
Aug 19, 2020•44 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Kurt Watkins, the founder of Watkins Lega l. The two have a broad legal conversation on token generation events, DAOs (open law, Aragon and others), DeFi, privacy, GDPR, CEXS vs DEXs and more. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: Watkins Legal: https://watkins.legal/team Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com...
Aug 17, 2020•51 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Erik Voorhees, a bitcoin OG and the CEO of Shapeshift. The two discuss Shapeshift's exchange, how its not Bitcoin vs Ethereum but Digital Assets vs the world, and what a crypto future looks like in terms of rebuilding the world in the face of a coming potential major currency debasements. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! This episode was released first for Delphi Digital subscribers! ht...
Aug 11, 2020•43 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down Ben Forman, Managing Partner of ParaFi Capital and Santiago , a Partner at ParaFi capital. The three discuss ParaFi's thesis on DeFi and they get into the weeds on several interesting topics. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! This episode was released first for Delphi Digital subscribers! https://www.delphidigital.io/ - Resources: ParaFi's Twitter: https://twitter.com/paraficapital ParaFi's W...
Aug 07, 2020•45 min
Sri Thiruvadanthai, the director of research for The Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, and Kevin Kelly discuss today’s extraordinary policy regime, the growth profile of the US vs. the rest of the world, why the US dollar could be poised for further strength, the struggles and headwinds facing the European economy, and how the post-COVID world is likely to look.
Aug 05, 2020•58 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down with CZ , Founder and CEO at Binance Exchange. The two discuss: The early days of Binance, and how CZ overcame specific barriers and struggles. What scares CZ most about the space and his biggest mistakes that he had to overcome. Competing against centralized exchanges and decentralized versions (AMMs, DEXs, etc). Managing a decentralized team of 1,500 (up from 500) and plans to decentralize even further over time. Scaling Binance to be able to handle trillions in ...
Aug 03, 2020•55 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy sits Anthony Pompliano , Co-Founder and Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets. The two discuss Pomp's creation of one of the largest crypto newsletters, his leading podcast, Morgan Creek Digital investing 9 figures in the crypto space, Bitcoin, the decentralization spectrum and much more. Looking to trade Crypto Futures and Options? Check out Delta Exchange ; where you can trade Futures on Bitcoin and leading Altcoins with up to 100x leverage. Delta also offers Options on B...
Jul 30, 2020•45 min
Host Jose Maria Macedo sits down with economist Laurence Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University, president of Economic Security Planning, New York Times best-selling author and 2x presidential candidate. We discuss the US's fiscal state, $200T in off balance sheet liabilities, MMT as well as Laurence's solutions to the problems facing the US. We also spend some time discussing digital assets and the role they may play in this. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this h...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 27 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down with Ryan Gill the Founder and CEO of Crucible for Episode 02 of Metaverse Musings. Both Ryan and his Co-Founder Toby Tremayne have been hard at work laying the foundations for an exciting chapter in the evolution metaverse. Keep an eye on Crucible as more information comes online in the coming weeks as the company officially moves out of stealth. We talk through Ryan's White Mirror philosophy, their blueprints for the open metaverse, and the worlds of tomorrow. Stay t...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy sits down Viktor Bunin , a protocol specialist at Bison Trails . The two discuss Viktor's journey in crypto, how Biston Trails is powering the leading crypto projects through providing easy to use node infrastucture globally and so much more. Bison - Twitter: Viktor's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ViktorBunin Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Chain Reaction Twitter: https://twitter.com/chainpodcast Support The Show Thank you to our sponsor AltoIRA for making t...
Jul 20, 2020•35 min
