Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 26 of Metaverse Musings with Mark Laursen , the founder and CEO of Bright Star Studios who are building a game called EmberSword. Mark has a deep background in video games, having spent much of his life playing them professionally as well as creating them. From as early as 2016 he had a strong vision of how crypto could infuse with game economies to liberate the evident demand for open, unrestricted trade. Resources: Game Website: https://embersword.com...
May 07, 2021•40 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts a galaxy brain group of leading Cosmos builders to discuss the Cosmos Network , value accrual, IBC, comparisons to other Layer-1s and much more. Zaki Manian: Co-Founder of IqLusion and SommFinance Sunny Aggarwal: Co-Founder of SikkaTech Jelena: Working on InformalInc and Cosmos Joe Dirtay: Communications at Cosmos Ethan: CEO of Informal and Co-Founder of Cosmos Jack Zampolin: Co-Founder of SommFinance and Pylon Validator We ...
May 05, 2021•58 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Antonio Juliano , the founder of dYdX , the decentralized derivatives exchange for perpetual swaps and margin trading. We talk scaling on Starkware to the sheer size of this market to economic attack vectors and everything in between. We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, Kava, and S...
Apr 27, 2021•59 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts an all star crew of all of the leading Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup scaling projects for an in-depth debate. See the transcript on our site as well. Ed Felten , Fo-Founder of Off-chain Labs (Arbitrum) Eli Ben-Sasson , Co-Founder of Starkware Alex Gluchowski Founder of zkSync Liam Horne , Contributor to Optimism Mark Tyneway , Systems Lead at Optimism Ben Simon , Investment Analyst at Mechanism Capital We would like to thank Cosmo...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 24 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy and DV MP Yan Liberman host an expert group for a fun and exciting conversation on Thorchain’s Multi-Chain Chaosnet Launch. Thorchain now enables real, trustless, non-wrapped exchange of assets, cross chain. Guests Include: Chad Barraford : Technical Lead At Thorchain Erik Voorhees : Founder of Shapeshift Yan Liberman : MP at Delphi Ventures Tushar Jain : MP of Multicoin Capital Rob Paone : Founder Proof of Talent Michael Perklin ...
Apr 17, 2021•1 hr 35 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy and Can Gurel , analyst at Delphi Ventures, host Sam Williams the Founder of Arweave. Arweave is a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing users and developers to truly store data forever – for the very first time. As a collectively owned hard drive that never forgets, Arweave allows us to remember and preserve valuable information, apps, and history indefinitely. By preserving histo...
Apr 13, 2021•54 min
Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 25 of Metaverse Musings with Arif Khan , the founder and CEO of Alethea. Arif posseses a rare blend of technical excellence and philosophical grounding that has allowed him to execute upon such an interesting project. It seems clear that artificially intelligent media is going to play a large role in our digital future, and it's great to see a project leveraging blockchain technologies to enable it early on. Resources: Project’s Twitter: https://twitter...
Apr 11, 2021•57 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy , hosts the Tokemak team ( Carson Cook , Paul , Craig and Bruno ) to discuss Tokemak, the decentralized liquidity engine for DeFi. We discuss why Tokemak may be one of the most important future pieces of crypto infrastructure. This episode was a recording of our clubhouse episode with the group. As a refresher, our original tweet storm can be viewed here . We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through thei...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 24 of Metaverse Musings with Fabian Vogelsteller , the author of the ERC-20 standard and founder of LUKSO. Fabian draws upon a deep technical background having been a core contributor to Ethereum. He possesses a strong vision for how these technologies could evolve, and is actively architecting the world he wants to see. Resources: Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/feindura Piers' Twitter: https://twitter.com/pierskicks Delphi Podcast Twitter: https:...
Apr 03, 2021•59 min
The Delphi Podcast Hosts Yan Liberman and Colm Buckley have Kieran Warwick and Aaron Warwick , Co-Founders of Illuvium, on the podcast to discuss the upcoming launch of their new game. The group discuss Kieran and Aaron’s story to better understand the genesis of Illuvium. Afterwards they go into all aspects of the game, ranging from token econ to long term vision. We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos.network is on a mission, link one m...
Apr 02, 2021•58 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Tascha Punyaneramitdee of Alpha Finance . The two discuss Alpha’s token economic plan (staking and unlocked features per product), value accrual, backstopping risk in the platform, growing to take on DeFi giants while staying nimble and releasing cutting edge products, AlphaX’s perpetual product and much more. Tascha is a magical founder. As a recap, we originally hosted Tascha on December 4, 2020 - view this episode here . ...
Apr 01, 2021•46 min
The Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy , The Spartan Group’s Jason Choi and Paul Burlage of Delphi host Scoopy Trooples , the co-founder of Alchemix . The conversation covers Alchemix as a project, how the protocols loans repay themselves over time, the ALCX token and value accrual, audience questions and much more. This episode was originally aired live on Clubhouse. Disclosure: Delphi Ventures is long ALCX tokens. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital S...
Mar 29, 2021•59 min
Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 23 of Metaverse Musings with Jake Brukhman , the Founder and CEO of CoinFund which was one of the earliest institutional crypto investors in the world. Jake is an incredibly insightful thinker who marries a strong technical background with creative passion. Some of his writing linked below has been highly influential in the NFT ecosystem and has established him as a leading commentator for this evolving landscape. Resources: Guests' Twitter: https://twi...
Mar 28, 2021•58 min
The Delphi Podcast Hosts Anil Lulla and Jose Maria Macedo chat with the one and only Mark Cuban about everything crypto. The conversation covers everything from Mark’s view on the Internet bubble vs crypto right now, DeFi, NFTs, and more! Although he needs no introduction, Mark Cuban is the billionaire start-up investor, Dallas Mavericks owner, and everyone’s favorite shark on ABC’s Shark Tank. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members...
Mar 26, 2021•58 min
Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 22 of Metaverse Musings with Drew Harding and Metadreamer , two pioneers of “digiphysical apparel”. The pair perfectly embody the core ethos of the space with ambitious plans for the future of fashion and the cultural components of Web3. METAFACTORY represents a truly mind-blowing illustration of the power of these technologies and how, increasingly, they are going to make their way into our physical lives too. Resources: Guests' Twitter: https://twitte...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 5 min
The Delphi Podcast brings on Guy Lawrence from the legendary electronic music duo Disclosure to discuss NFTs, its impact on the music industry, and their recent Face sale on Zora (which Delphi actually won)! NFTs are unlocking completely new ways for artists to connect with fans, with our recent purchase allowing us to go to any Disclosure show for life as long as we’re holding the NFT. While this episode can be listened to alone, we highly recommend you first check out our recent episode with M...
Mar 19, 2021•48 min
Hosts Piers Kicks and Anil Lulla sit down for Episode 21 of Metaverse Musings with Jack Spallone , one of the leading thinkers at the intersection of music and crypto. It is clear he has a tremendous depth of knowledge around this industry, and thoroughly understands the exciting areas of application as well as the technology’s shortcomings. Resources: Guests' Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackSpallone Piers' Twitter: https://twitter.com/pierskicks Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/Podc...
Mar 16, 2021•51 min
The Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Mike Novogratz, the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Galaxy Digital . This interview was recorded live in NYC. The two discuss crypto bull runs, scaling Galaxy Digital into the empire it is today, NFT hype and value accrual vs the traditional world, criminal justice reform, advice Mike gives to Galaxy employees and so much more. Mike is an industry titan who has an immense amount of knowledge and alpha to share. This interview was extremely exciting and ...
Mar 16, 2021•52 min
Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts an expert panel to discuss their top DeFi/Crypto plays for 2021. This conversation originally occurred on Clubhouse (recorded with guest permission) and be sure to follow Tom Shaughnessy on Clubhouse for any future rooms! Ryan Zurrer - Founder of Dialectic AG Dan Elitzer - Co-Founder of Nascent Andrew Kang - Founder of Mechanism Capital Sasha Fleyshman - Junior PM, Special Situations at Arca Dan Matuszewski - CMS Holdings Hassan Bassiri - VP, Portfolio M...
Mar 11, 2021•57 min
Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts a clubhouse of 13+ experts to discuss non-fungible tokens. The experts discuss their favorite NFTs, the difference between following NFT projects and individual creators, the benefits of NFTs over the traditional world of collectibles and much more. This podcast aired first on Clubhouse on March 1, 2021 and all speakers gave their consent to e recorded. Follow us on Clubhouse here. The full interview transcript is available below! Every Delphi Podcast is...
Mar 10, 2021•55 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 20 of Metaverse Musings with David and Dan, the Co-Founders ECOMI that created VEVE, a next-generation collectibles experience where users can own their favourite characters and IP as NFTs. The project has seen strong growth recently, with their mobile app trending in the app store and a very full content pipeline. The pair offer excellent insight into the world of licensed collectibles off the back of their extensive experience in the physical collectibles...
Mar 09, 2021•47 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 19 of Metaverse Musings with Nicolas Julia , the Co-Founder & CEO of Sorare, a global fantasy football game where you trade and collect players as NFTs. The project has seen massive traction and rapid growth as appetite for these game assets has soared. Sorare has just announced their latest funding round of $50M led by Benchmark, with participation from famous players such as Pique, Schurlle, Ferdinand, and Griezman. Resources: Guest’s Twitter: https:/...
Feb 25, 2021•39 min
Podcast Show Notes: Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 18 of Metaverse Musings with Justin Banon , the founder of Boson Protocol. The protocol is a pioneer of the concept of “dCommerce”, which aims to recreate the entire ecommerce stack independent of any centralized intermediaries. For the first time, natively digital value can be transacted for real world goods and services in an entirely trustless manner. We cover everything from where blockchain could meet simulation theory, to how Boson...
Feb 24, 2021•49 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 17 of Metaverse Musings with Breck Stodghill from the Zora team. They recently launched their new protocol that extends the ERC-721 standard allowing for markets to be embedded alongside NFTs themselves. The project has given rise to the concept of cryptomedia unlocking the next generation of creator empowerment. – Resources: Resources mentioned: https://nfttok.com/ , https://aurra.gallery/ , https://zora.fm/track/438 , https://zora.gallery/ Guests’ Twitter...
Feb 10, 2021•50 min
Delphi Digital analyst Jonathan Erlich hosts Julien Bouteloup , CEO of StakeDAO and Curve crew member, to discuss all things StakeDAO , Rekt , BlackPool and Curve . The conversation dives into StakeDAO’s vision to become the Disneyland of DeFi, Rekt’s upcoming V2, BlackPool DAO and Curve’s recently launched cross-asset swaps. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as an audio interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcripts. Join today to get ou...
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Host Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Maple Leaf Capital , an anonymous investor and analyst in the space who has quickly made a name for himself with some excellent reports on DeFi and sharp takes on crypto twitter. In our view, Maple Leaf has one of the most cogent, well-articulated theses for crypto as a whole and for DeFi and Web 3.0 specifically. In this wide-ranging conversation, we dive into that and his thoughts on investing in the space more generally, including Maple’s crypto and DeFi ...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 16 of Metaverse Musings with Roham Gharegozlou the Founder & CEO of Dapper Labs who built Crypto Kitties and NBA Top Shot. Most recently, they launched a new chain built entirely from the ground up after being dissatisfied with the scaling solutions available. Roham and his team are perhaps best positioned to comment on taking blockchain mainstream after not one, but two breakout successes with even more ambitious plans ahead of them. - Resources: Guest...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Psykeeper , the founder of Saffron Finance . Psykeeper shared his incredible story as an anonymous founder and the benefits of being anon. He also dove into how Saffron tranches risk for users, tranche dynamics, token econ plans and use cases, what the future holds and so much more. This was our first episode where a founder used a voice changer to protect his identity, and we are more than happy to host founders, known or anon, to share their stories. S...
Feb 03, 2021•34 min
Co-hosts Jose Maria Macedo and Yan Liberman sit down with Azeem and Robert from Armor Finance . Armor Finance is a new project building a smart insurance aggregator for DeFi. Armor seeks to make DeFi safer by streamlining the insurance UX, providing a ‘Pay as you Go’ and ‘Only pay what you owe’ coverage for users across various protocols, starting with the majors but expanding coverage over time. We see them as the insurance “distribution” layer on top of the “underwriting” layer provided by NXM...
Feb 02, 2021•38 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 15 of Metaverse Musings with Miles Anthony the Founder of Decentral Games who are building casinos across virtual worlds. His project is the first to pioneer this concept and thus far there is little in the way of competition. We talk through the unique considerations when building in this strange space, replacing The House with a community-owned protocol, and the interesting observations he has made on stimulating engagement thus far. Every Delphi Podcast ...
Jan 27, 2021•44 min
