Chain Reaction Hosts Tom Shaughnessy and Piers Kicks host Jess Sloss , of Seed Club, and Cooper Turley , of Audius, to discuss social tokens and their must read 2020 social tokens post . Social tokens are a nascent and budding opportunity in crypto and frankly, there are limited sources of information right now. To combat that and unveil the opportunity we had on two experts to help educate the Delphi Community on social tokens and their importance. The four talk numbers, use cases, key launches...
Jan 26, 2021•48 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 14 of Metaverse Musings with John the Founder and CEO of SuperRare. His project is one of the earliest crypto art platforms built on Ethereum, and leads the sector by on-chain volume. We talk through the unique considerations when building a crypto art platform, how to humanise the experience, how he thinks over $200M of art will be sold this year, and how intuitive content-oriented crypto such as NFTs could be the consumer-facing onboarding funnel the indu...
Jan 25, 2021•37 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Teddy Woodward and Jeff Wu of Notional Finance . Notional is a protocol on Ethereum that facilitates fixed rate, fixed-term lending and borrowing of crypto-assets via a novel financial primitive called fCash. Fixed rate financing touches all corners of the modern financial markets. The majority of US debt is issued at fixed interest rates because they provide certainty and minimize risk for market participants. Notional brings this capability to the dece...
Jan 21, 2021•38 min
Chain Reaction Hosts Tom Shaughnessy and Medio Demarco host Joey Santoro , the founder and architect of FEI protocol. This is the third episode in our algorithmic stablecoin series. Joey talks through the creation of FEI, direct incentives for reducing and increasing supply, protocol controlled value, direct incentives, and much more. Our other episodes in this series Empty Set Dollar FRAX Finance Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our memb...
Jan 19, 2021•53 min
Delphi Digital analyst Jonathan Erlich hosts Do Kwon , Co-Founder and CEO of Terraform Labs, to discuss all things Terra . The conversation dives into Terra’s vision and impressive 2020, as well as into Chai and some exciting recent developments such as Mirror and Anchor . The full interview transcript is available here ! Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcripts. Join today to get our int...
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Chain Reaction Host Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Stani Kulechov - Founder & CEO of Aave . Aave is one of the leading DeFi protocols with nearly $3B in TVL and $4B in loans originated. Originally known as ETHLend, Aave launched its ICO in 2017 and unlike most, built through a brutal multi-year bear market that saw its price drop >90%. The team’s persistence was rewarded with a truly epic 2020 as TVL grew 1000x (from $300K to $3B) and market cap grow ~150x (from $10M to $1.5B). Most imp...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 13 of Metaverse Musings with Dan and Gauthier , the founders of Nonfungible. Their company provides data tools for the emerging NFT landscape, and each year they author a comprehensive industry report. The pair suggest that their upcoming report is the most in-depth and broad to date, with a number of exciting takeaways... Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our interviews, first. - Re...
Jan 13, 2021•50 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Sam Kazemian , the Founder of Frax Finance to discuss the project. This is the second in a series of podcasts on Algorithmic stablecoins. The trio discuss Frax’s creation, technicals around expansion/contraction of supply, competition, risks and much more including why Frax could be the most stable vs its competitors. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview ...
Jan 05, 2021•56 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Dan Elitzer : Co-Founder of Nascent and previously of IDEOVC and Lewis Freiberg , an Independent Developer to discuss Empty Set Dollar . This is the first in a series of podcasts on Algorithmic stablecoins. The trio discuss ESD’s creation, technicals around expansion/contraction of supply, competition, risks and much more. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full inter...
Dec 31, 2020•51 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Brian Flynn , the founder of Rabbithole . RabbitHole is pioneering the future of on-chain work, giving users opportunities to earn tokens based on their on-chain data. Its’s an incredible platform to educate the world on crypto and help projects target future contributors Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcripts. Join today to get our interviews, ...
Dec 22, 2020•33 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 12 of Metaverse Musings with Devin Finzer , the CEO of OpenSea and author of their “Non-fungible Token Bible”. His company provides foundational infrastructure to the NFT ecosystem, and it’s safe to say that they’ve entrenched themselves as a core part of the space for the foreseeable future. Devin provides insight into their philosophy as a business and how he sees NFT evolving into an integral part of the future web. Resources: Guest’s Twitter: https://tw...
Dec 22, 2020•52 min
Chain Reaction Host Jose Maria Macedo hosts Aaron Wright , cofounder of OpenLaw , The LAO and now Flamingo DAO. Aaron is a professor at Cardozo Law School and is at the forefront of DAOs, having been involved in Bitcoin since 2011, and Ethereum since 2015. Before this, Aaron was a successful entrepreneur, having sold his first company to Wikia - the for-profit version of Wikipedia, which he grew to be one of the largest websites on the internet. Aaron provides a DAO masterclass, discussing what ...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Jake Ryan , the Founder and CIO of Tradecraft Capital and the Author of Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy . The two discuss Jake's new book: How we are in a new long wave economic cycle Jake describes as the Age of Autonomy enabled by crypto since it allows us to transfer value without humans 🤖. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcript...
Dec 15, 2020•28 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Leo Cheng of CREAM Finance . The two discuss how Cream started from forking compound/balancer to listing the long tail of assets for borrow/lending, plans around Cream V2, and a partnership with Yearn Finance. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcripts. Join today to get our interviews, first. Thank you to our sponsor LVL, which is launching the fir...
Dec 14, 2020•45 min
Chain Reaction Host Jose Maria Macedo hosts Glen Weyl , economist and Principal Researcher at Microsoft . Glen Weyl famously wrote Radical Markets, one of the most original and creative economic treatises of our time. One of the book’s most vocal fans was Vitalik himself, and Vitalik and Glen have since collaborated on multiple initiatives, including the original Quadratic Funding paper which later spawned Gitcoin. Glen has also founded a social movement called RadicalxChange Foundation which se...
Dec 11, 2020•56 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Tascha of Alpha Finance . Alpha Finance Lab (Alpha) is a cross-chain DeFi lab that focuses on building an ecosystem of cross-chain DeFi products to capture unaddressed demand in an innovative and user friendly way. The two discuss leveraged yield farming, AlphaX (perpetuals) and much more in this dive into Alpha Finance. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full intervi...
Dec 09, 2020•38 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 11 of Metaverse Musings with Colin Goltra , an avid Crypto Art collector and Head of Growth for Binance Philippines. Colin has a deeply considered passion for the space, and touches upon various interesting philosophical modes of interpretation. He provides commentary on the beating heart of blockchain gaming adoption, where games like Axie Infinity are providing emerging markets with rich economic opportunities for those alive to the possibilities. - Resou...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Robbie Heeger , the CEO and President of Endaoment . Endaoment is a new Community Foundation & public charity offering Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) built atop the Ethereum blockchain, allowing you to donate to almost any U.S. nonprofit organization. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcripts. Join today to get our interviews, first. Show Notes: Br...
Dec 03, 2020•45 min
Macro Matters host Kevin Kelly sits down with Sunayna Tuteja , Head of Digital Assets & DLT at TD Ameritrade . In this conversation, Sunayna and Kevin discuss: Consensus among traditional investors and sentiment towards Bitcoin and digital assets. The growing demand among RIAs to understand Bitcoin and its potential role in a multi-asset portfolio context. The rise of DeFi and digital assets as a kind of “Mayday” event. The importance of explaining the “how to” when it comes to education as ...
Nov 30, 2020•51 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Colin Evran (Ecosystem Lead at Protocol Labs) and ZX (Cryptoeconomics Lead At Protocol Labs) for a technical deep dive into the cryptoeconomics of Filecoin’s native token (FIL). The trio discusses the use cases for Filecoin, the minting mechanism (simple and baseline minting), storage pledges (initial pledge and consensus pledges), issuance, reward locks, token distribution, FIP changes, and more. View Full Transcript here: https://www.delphidigital.io/p...
Nov 27, 2020•43 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Alex Miles and Zac McClure, the co-founders of TokenTax . The team answers our most nuanced crypto tax questions and get into detail on how the founders are scaling their tax software. This was a must-listen episode for anyone filling their crypto taxes. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcripts. Join today to get our interviews, first. - Show Note...
Nov 24, 2020•45 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Frank Mong , the COO of Helium . The two discuss Helium’s plans to grow nodes from ~12K much higher and globally, HIP20 which will hard cap supply while allowing the network to run and future plans of WiFi and 5G. We previously covered Helium in a post in December 2019. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcripts. Join today to get our interviews, fi...
Nov 20, 2020•50 min
Tom Shaughnessy hosts 3LAU and Cooper Turley who came on the pod to discuss Audius 🎶 We discussed how Audius is completely reinventing music streaming - granting content creators and the majority of revenue and control over the platform and distribution. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our interviews, first! Thank you to our sponsor Delta Exchange ! Delta Exchange is one of the leading crypto derivatives exchange; offe...
Nov 18, 2020•37 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Red , a community manager at Harvest Finance . Harvest automatically farms the highest yields in DeFi. We chatted reaching $1B in TVL at its height, scaling a community over time, competition between aggregators, the recent hack 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 (1:31) – (First Question) Red or Redemption (2:05) – Harvest Finance...
Nov 17, 2020•44 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Andrew Keys and James Slazas, the founders of DARMA Capital and LiquidStake for a timely 15-minute interview on LiquidStake's release which helps bootstrap ETH 2.0 staking by removing a key staking hurdle - allowing users to receive a loan against the ETH they lockup in the staking contract. Check out LiquidStake: https://liquidstake.com/ Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our inte...
Nov 16, 2020•16 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 10 of Metaverse Musings with Ryan Gill & Toby Tremayne , the Co-Founders of Crucible . Both Ryan and Toby are two of the highest conviction operators working towards the Metaverse. Their strong sense of purpose and appreciation for the philosophical aspects of the world of tomorrow inform their unique mindset and approach. The business focuses on building infrastructure across the “in between” spaces for Web 3.0 technology, as well as tailoring the exis...
Nov 13, 2020•1 hr 29 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 09 of Metaverse Musings with Jamie Burke , the Founder & CEO of Outlier Ventures . Jamie shares deep insights gleaned from his experience with the rise of Web 2.0, and how they relate to its successor and the growing digital asset space more broadly. Having started his blockchain investment firm in 2013, Jamie has seen all sorts come and go and it was fascinating to learn how his theses on topics such as DeFi, NFTs, and more have evolved. We discuss how...
Nov 06, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Patrick Manfra , the co-founder of Outlet Finance . The two dive into Outlet Finance which is creating a brand new yield account linking the traditional world and crypto for users. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our interviews, first. - Show Notes (1:10) – (First Question) Patrick’s Manfra Background (1:53) – Walkthrough Outlet Finance (2:36) – Outlet Finance vs. BlockFi (3:24)...
Nov 03, 2020•30 min
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Colin Evran of Filecoin and Protocol Labs. The two discuss Filecoin's launch, why the project is a storage layer that transcends borders to persist for generations, and why Filecoin is way more than just storage! Filecoin raised $200M+ in an ICO and is one of the space’s most anticipated projects. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our interviews, first. - Show Notes (1:02) – Final...
Nov 02, 2020•41 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 08 of Metaverse Musings with Robbie Ferguson, who is a Co-Founder of Immutable —the company behind Gods Unchained and the upcoming Immutable X exchange. Robbie has some fascinating ideas about what the future of media and ownership will look like. We cover plenty of ground such as the new design space being unlocked in video games, financial markets for virtual goods, the current lack of robust commercial incentives for metaverse interoperability, and why t...
Oct 29, 2020•56 min
