Crypto Adoption Curve

Avalanche is building a fast finality proof of stake smart contract blockchain that settles transactions in sub-seconds. 

The frequent high gas prices on the Ethereum have shut out many crypto users and congested the network.  With users and project teams both looking for alternatives, Avalanche has recently announced a massive $600mil incentive program to encourage more builders and users to try out its super fast L1 solution.  

In this episode, Jay, the VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, explores with us the Avalanche ecosystem and popular dapps that we can use on Avalanche. To find more, please visit https://ecosystem.avax.network/

Have you ever traded a perpetual swap because it allowed you to gain a 10x capital efficient exposure to an asset or allowed you to implement a basis trading strategy. Why does decentralised perpetual swaps not work on Ethereum L1 yet found much success on a higher performant chain such as Ethereum L2s. What are some of the use cases of perpetual swaps in a crypto native setting?  

In this episode I chatted with Eric Chen, the founder of Injective Protocol, a Cosmos and EVM compatible purpose built blockchain for derivatives creation and trading. We dived deep into the technology stack and cryptoeconomic incentives enabling market making, security and trading activities on the chain.  

What do Vega, Terra, 1inch and Agoric have in common? They all have Rockaway Blockchain Fund as their investor. Based in Europe while investing globally, Rockaway has built an impressive portfolio. With corporate backing and an experienced and entrepreneurial team behind it, Rockaway is making bets on projects that aim to define the crypto space of the future.  

In this episode, I talked with David Rakusan, Investment Manager at Rockaway Blockchain Fund, to dive into its investment process and focus.

What does it take to go from zero to billions of dollars in tractions? The chart climbing L1 project Terra is seeing explosive growth in its ecosystem and product usage. Supported by real world as well as crypto users and tier-1 VCs such as Binance and Galaxy, Terra is setting its sight firmly on user adoption and value accrual for the Luna holders.   

In this episode, I talked with the CEO and Founder Do Kwon about his journey and plans for the future. 

In today's nascent regulated digital securities market, very few players can offer a suite of fully integrated services that spans the whole lifecycle of digital securities.

Securitize, backed by Coinbase, has been pioneering and expanding its offerings in the space. Imagine if Coinbase would like to issue digital securities in the US to provide better liquidity for its shareholders prior to its IPO.

In this episode, I spoke with Jamie Finn to better understand the market and future plans.

Built for blockchain game developers, players and NFT creators in fashion and art - Enjin aims to tackle the broad NFT ecosystem with its enabling tools and markets.  Through its Dapp wallet, game development tools, upcoming L2 solution and ecosystem partners, Enjin is building the infrastructures for the intersections of blockchain gaming and NFT assets.  In this episode I spoke with Alex Russman from Enjin to look at the origin, progress and future plans of the project.

Where do you go to create and sell your NFT artworks or insurance? What is the process for transforming traditional paintings to collectibles on blockchain? How do you program a unique unlockable feature for your NFT item? Who are the biggest selling artists in NFT space? Enter Rarible. 

Backed by Coinfund, Rarible has been busy building an art focused NFT marketplace. In this episode I spoke with Alex Salnikov to look at the origin, progress and future plans of the project.     

ShuttleOne, backed by MakerDao and CMT Digital, is solving the $1.5trillion gap in SME trade financing. By integrating with Calista, GeTS’ cross-border logistics, compliance and financial requirements interface for supply chain stakeholders, ShuttleOne has processed over $1 million trade finance solutions since its entry into the market mid 2020.  

In this episode I spoke with HongZhuang Lim, the CEO, to look at the history, progress and future ambitions of the company. Do follow @shuttle_one for updates   

DoDo (https://dodoex.io), backed by Coinbase, Pantera and Binance, is solving Uniswap’s billion dollar problem. Uniswap has over $2billion liquidity staked to the platform. But almost all of it is suffering from impermanent loss that is far more than the trading fees generated. This inefficient use of capital is a major block to AMM’s efficiency.

Enter DoDo’s Proactive Market Maker, the smart AMM that takes Chainlink oracle price updates, concentrates liquidity around the market price and re-balances liquidity composition so that liquidity providers can always take out the same number of the tokens they put in.

In this episode I spoke with Diane Dai, the CMO, to look at the progress that has been made in making AMM’s far more efficient.

Would you prefer going through 10 clicks to use a single DeFi product or clicking a single button from a mobile app that allows you to buy, sell, vote, sign and stake?

Frontier is tackling the complex landscape of DeFi product fragmentation and clunkiness by allowing users to execute DeFi functions from its simple mobile app.

In this episode I spoke with Ravindra Kumar, Founder and CEO, to look at the technologies and features that aggregate DeFi functionalities all in one place. To learn more please visit their website at https://frontier.xyz/

How much value can be unlocked if there is a way to enable collateralised lending in trade finance through improving transparency and efficiency of existing processes that have oiled the wheels of global commerce for hundreds of years? Answer: trillions. 

Consul Freight is tackling the antiquated trade finance market using blockchain enabled technologies to free up trillions of liquidity in the global supply chain. 

In this episode I spoke with Ernesto Vila, Founder and CEO, to look at the technologies and blockchain applications that solve pain points for millions of SMEs involved in the global supply chain. To learn more please visit their website at https://www.consolfreight.io/

What is a layer 2 scalable smart contract platform that provides EVM compatibility to Ethereum Dapps and offers Optimistic Rollups as a scalability solution. Welcome to Plasm Network (http://plasmnet.io/)

Plasm Network, backed by , is tackling vertical scalability problems on Polkadot with its EMV compatible Rollup solutions.

In this episode I spoke with Sota Watanabe to dive into the concept, development and future plans of the project. Join their Telegram group (https://t.me/PlasmOfficial) to learn more and get involved.

What if an application can allow you to upload important legal documents, photos and articles to a cloud storage permanently so they cannot be lost or sensored? Welcome to ArDrive. (http://ardrive.io/)

ArDrive is building an access layer on the ArWeave’s (backed by Coinbase Ventures, A16z and Union Square Ventures) Permaweb to provide a decentralised, pay-once and permanent online storage for consumers.

In this episode I spoke with Philip Mataras to dive into the concept, development and functionalities of the project. Please join their discord (https://discord.gg/BdZfUcZ) to learn more and get involved.

Welcome to 9Lives Arena, the Blockchain NFT Gaming pioneer that was here before NFT was in vogue. In this episode I spoke with Ralph Laemmche of 9Lives Arena (https://www.9livesarena.com/) - the well esteemed MMO PvP game - to look at the features and mechanisms that enable a Play to Earn in-game economy where savvy players can earn thousands.  

The project is in closed alpha but has already seen the value of its limited items skyrocket in the marketplace. As it moves towards Steam Early Access, we look at upcoming additional features and gauge the outlook.