The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with John Crain, Founder & CEO of SuperRare, a marketplace to collect and trade unique, single-edition digital artworks. The two discuss SuperRare, decentralizing the platform through community-driven curation and the RARE token, differentiating from OpenSea, and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Cosmos : Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand p...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 2 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Jake Brukhman , Founder & CEO at CoinFund , a blockchain-focused investment firm based in Brooklyn, New York. The two spend over two hours discussing all things NFTs, including NFT liquidity, judging NFT communities, CryptoPunks, fractionalization, scarcity, DAOs, pricing NFT assets, the future of NFTs, and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Cosmos : Cosmos is on a m...
Aug 25, 2021•2 hr 29 min
The Delphi Podcast co-host and co-founder of Delphi Digital, Kevin Kelly , sits down with Tom Lombardi, Managing Director at 3iQ and adjunct professor of Finance at Pepperdine University, to get his take on several important trends in crypto and markets. The two discuss a wide array of topic areas ranging from the rise of DeFi and its growing popularity among institutional investors to the evolution of liquidity mining programs and how proper token incentives can better align stakeholders to cre...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 18 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Allen Lee , Founder at Beta Finance , the first permissionless money market protocol for shorting any crypto asset. The two discuss Beta’s use cases, shorting long tail assets, being part of the Alpha Launchpad Incubator, and more. We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Cosmos : Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, Kava, and Secret...
Aug 03, 2021•46 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Jimmy McNelis , Co-founder and CEO at nft42 , the company that built Nameless , a platform empowering brands and creators to launch professional, custom NFT projects in a completely visual way with zero code. The two discuss other NFT platforms, partner networks, traditional brands and NFT experiences, and more. We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Cosmos : Cosmos is on a mission, li...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Micky Watkins , Alan Omnet and Andrew Soper from World Mobile . World Mobile is seeking to tackle one of the biggest challenges globally: connectivity. This is not your typical crypto native project, but rather a new kind of telecoms network which leverages and combines a range of technologies like mesh networking, hybrid spectrum, and renewable energies, with blockchain being used to grow and distribute its infrastructure. It also happens to be the first token o...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 12 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Santiago Santos , General Partner at Parafi Capital , an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets. The two discuss game theory, psychology in crypto, finding that fund-returning play, and more. We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Cosmos : Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, Kava, and S...
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 20 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Andrew Kang , Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mechanism Capital , a fund interested in all aspects of the crypto ecosystem with a focus in DeFi. The two discuss token economics, value accrual, incentives for teams, and more. We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Cosmos : Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, Kava, and Secret use...
Jul 22, 2021•59 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Michael Jordan , Vice President at Galaxy Digital , a diversified financial services and investment management innovator in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sector. The two discuss types of investments, adding value to portfolio companies, token economics, and more. We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Cosmos : Cosmos is on a mission, link one million bloc...
Jul 21, 2021•48 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Jason Choi , General Partner at Spartan Group , one of Asia’s first DeFi focused funds. The two discuss biggest wins and losses, due diligence, traits of successful crypto communities, and more. We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Cosmos : Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, Kava, and Secret use Cosmos and the Cosmos Hub to con...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Arthur Cheong , founder & portfolio manager at DeFiance Capital , Asia's largest DeFi focused crypto fund. The two discuss biggest wins and losses, effective due diligence, traits of successful crypto communities, and more. We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Cosmos : Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, Kava, and Secret use...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 2 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Tyler Ward and Tim Kang , co-founders of Universe , a community bootstrapping engine designed to embed community building mechanics into the way you mint and monetize NFTs. The three discuss how Universe is aggregating all NFT media components to launch an NFT community, iterating faster with a community-driven approach, and much more. We would like to thank Kava for making this podcast possible through their sponso...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr
Jose Maria Macedo and Jonathan Erlich sit down with Yenwen Feng and Nicholas Tong to discuss all things Perpetual Protocol , the largest decentralized perpetuals trading platform by volume. They explore Perpetual’s success to date and dive into all the details behind the upcoming Perpetual Protocol v2. We would like to thank Kava for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Kava gives you the ability to earn more by connecting the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and f...
Jul 13, 2021•49 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Seb Audet , co-founder of Zapper to discuss user growth, benefits to offering DeFi education, integration speed, communities without a token, and more. 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 Secret use Cosmos and the Cosmos Hub to connect to every other chain in our network....
Jul 12, 2021•43 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Tascha Pan , co-founder of Alpha Finance Lab , which aims to be a forefront DeFi lab through building and incubating a number of DeFi ecosystems and products that capture unaddressed demand in an innovative and user-friendly way. The two discuss the Alpha Launchpad (the first-ever DeFi incubator program), the Alpha Universe and Ecosystem, value accrual to $ALPHA, and much more. We would like to thank Cosmos for maki...
Jul 09, 2021•31 min
Host Piers Kicks , sits down for Episode 31 of Metaverse Musings with Artur Sychov , the Founder of Somnium Space , to cover his immensely exciting virtual reality project. It really feels as though Artur is already living in the future, as he constantly strives to push the boundaries of what virtual reality has to offer with his deep passion for the sector. Resources: Project Website: https://somniumspace.com/ Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASychov Piers' Twitter: https://twitter.com/pier...
Jul 07, 2021•56 min
Guest Host and Research Analyst at Delphi Ventures Can Gurel sits down with John Wu , president of Ava Labs , the creators behind the 3rd generation blockchain platform Avalanche. Avalanche is built from the ground up as a platform to host interoperable blockchains and enable both permissionless and permissioned use cases to bring new financial primitives into crypto. We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos is on a mission, link one millio...
Jul 06, 2021•40 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Barney Mannerings , co-founder of Vega , a protocol for creating and trading derivatives on a fully decentralized network. The two discuss the protocol’s ability to allow for any derivative contract to be built, dynamic incentives, and much more. 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 Ter...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Hosts Piers Kicks , Anil Lulla , and Yan Liberman sit down for Episode 30 of Metaverse Musings with Gabby Dizon , Founder of Yield Guild, to talk through his groundbreaking project directly impacting the lives of thousands of people all over the world. Delphi backed Yield Guild early on and are proud to continue to support the journey. We couldn’t be more excited for what the future holds and firmly believe that the project will revolutionize the way we perceive work. Tune in for a glimpse of th...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 8 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Jean Miao , co-founder of MCDEX , a next-gen, fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps (perps). The two discuss the entire protocol from V2 to V3, the case for decentralized perps overtaking centralized perps and much more. 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 Ter...
Jun 25, 2021•52 min
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 29 of Metaverse Musings with Alex Masmej , the Co-Founder of Showtime to talk through the future of social media in a world of Web 3.0 and NFTs. Alex has an awesome background and exploded into the crypto space by being the first person to ever tokenize themselves in order to finance his move to San Francisco... Resources: Game Website: https://twitter.com/tryShowtime Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMasmej Piers' Twitter: https://twitter.com/piersk...
Jun 19, 2021•46 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Simon Harman , the founder of Chainflip , a cross chain native AMM. In this episode we discuss Simon’s journey, the need for a cross-chain native exchange, competitive differences, timelines, economic security, value accrual for FLIP, concentrated liquidity, signature schemes, and much more. We also cover why Delphi Ventures is such an excited investor in Chainflip. We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possi...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 36 min
Yan Liberman and Paul Burlage of Delphi Digital host Ulysse , Gaspard and Antoine of ApWine to discuss how the project allows you to speculate on the evolution of the yield generated by different DeFi protocols. ApWine also allows you to hedge your risk on your passive revenue, converting it into futures. Disclosure: Delphi Ventures is an investor in ApWine. We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockcha...
Jun 10, 2021•49 min
Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 28 of Metaverse Musings with Mark Donovan , the founder and CEO of Epics.gg who are operating a next-generation NFT infrastructure stack focused on the mainstream consumer. Beyond their esports and streaming focus with Epics.gg, they have rolled out a brand called Kolectiv which pays homage to the cultural heritage of crypto with beautiful thematic artwork of notable events from the industry’s leading artists. Mark intends to leverage this infrastructur...
Jun 07, 2021•46 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Jess Sloss , the instigator of Seed Club . We discuss the creator economy, social tokens, seed club’s vision and much more! 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 Secret use Cosmos and the Cosmos Hub to connect to every other chain in our network. The Cosmos Hub is the port ...
Jun 04, 2021•46 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Kevin Owocki , The founder of Gitcoin who covers the entire Gitcoin story, from quadratic funding to the future of public goods. Kevin also dives into GTC, its use and decentralizing the project 🦄 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 Secret use Cosmos and the Cosmos Hub t...
Jun 02, 2021•47 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Andy , the founder of Fractional , the project leading the charge on Fractionalizing NFTs. The two discuss Andy’s journey from MakerDAO, to being an early NBA top shots collector to creating Fractional. They dive into the Fractional project on the reasons behind breaking an NFT into pieces, the process, putting the puzzle back together and much more. Delphi Ventures is a proud investor in Fractional. We would like to thank C...
May 27, 2021•58 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Ganesh Swami the CEO and Founder of Covalent . The two discuss how Covalent is enabling traditional and crypto developers to leverage data from any blockchain through a no code implementation that plans to decentralize over time. 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 Secret...
May 25, 2021•44 min
Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 27 of Metaverse Musings with Nick Emmons , the founder and CEO of Upshot who are building a protocol that leverages peer prediction to incentivise people to answer subjective questions honestly. Upshot’s early application is around NFT appraisals, generating price feeds for esoteric, low velocity assets. The protocol is an incredibly powerful primitive, and has some compelling longer-term use cases. Nick is a true gigabrain and it’s a privilege to get a...
May 22, 2021•40 min
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Gmoney to discuss his journey from spending $150K on a cryptopunk to launching Delphi INFINFT, an on-chain NFT fund with us at @Delphi_Digital . 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 Secret use Cosmos and the Cosmos Hub to connect to every other chain in our network. The Co...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 6 min
