Crypto Unstacked
By Leslie Lamb
Crypto UnstackedJun 19, 2020
EP 58: Unstacking with Charged Particles | Creating Yield-Bearing NFTs
This week, I chat with Ben Lakoff, Co-Founder of Charged Particles, a smart wallet that allows users to turn their favorite NFTs into yield-generating investments.
We unstack:
- The new class of yield-bearing aka “charged” NFTs
- How charged NFTs can drive NFT financialization
- Diverse use cases for Charged Particles
- Growing a NFT DeFi project (learning from the Discord community)
+more!
LINKS
Gitcoin Kernel Program
Charged Particles Lepton
Charged Particles Use Cases
FOLLOW OUR GUEST
Ben's Twitter: @benlakoff
Ben's podcast: The Alt Asset Allocation Podcast
Charged Particle's Twitter: @DefiNft
Website: www.charged.fi
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DISCLOSURE
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #ChargedParticles #NFT #CryptoUnstacked
EP 57: Unstacking Archegos Capital | The Tiger Cub who saw himself as Tiger King
Despite the fallout of Bill Hwang's family office Archegos Capital Management, there seems to be minimal impact on the broader equity markets, as well as the crypto markets with Bitcoin rebounding from its lows around $50k last week to $58k at the time of recording.
Tune in for high-level details about what we know so far.
LINKS:
Coindesk Market Wrap: Bitcoin, Ether Gain After Visa Deal as Stocks Struggle With Archegos Margin Call
Reuters: Archegos margin call share dump ripples across markets
The Street: Archegos Capital Fire Sale Triggers Billions in Investment Bank Losses
Forbes: The Firm Behind The $30 Billion Firesale Shaking Financial Markets Disclosed Almost Nothing
Bloomberg News: Archegos Drama Hardly Ruffles a Market That's 'Drunk on Risk'
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DISCLOSURE:
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #MacroNews #Markets #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 56: Unstacking with EulerBeats | Mathematical Art on an NFT Substrate
THIS WEEK'S EPISODE:
This week, I chat with Constantin Kostenko, Senior Director for Blockchain Solution Architecture & Strategy with ConsenSys Mesh for Treum, the team behind EulerBeats. We unstack:
► The Sacramento Kings' live blockchain-powered auction platform
► The Circular Economy
► Generative audio: from Swether to EulerBeats
► EulerBeats as a game theory experiment
► ERC 1155 v. ERC 721 standards
► EulerBeats milestones and the Enigma LP auction on March 29, 2021
► How EulerBeats looks to fundamentally change the music industry wrt royalties
+ more!
LINKS:
iFirebrand Blog
Treum.io
Constantin's Twitter: @iFirebrand
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DISCLOSURE:
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #EulerBeats #NFT #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 55: Unstacking with Ampleforth | The Elastic Base Money Driving the Web 3 Value Highway
THIS WEEK'S EPISODE:
This week, I chat with Evan Kuo, Co-Founder and CEO of Ampleforth and Manny Rincon-Cruz, Researcher at the Hoover Institute and Advisor to the Ampleforth team.
Ampleforth (AMPL) is a monetary innovation and primitive building-block for the decentralized finance ecosystem. Like Bitcoin, it is uncollateralized. Unlike Bitcoin, the Ample eschews a fixed supply schedule and instead automatically adjusts supply in response to price-exchange rate. The Ampleforth protocol receives exchange-rate information from trusted oracles, and propagates that to holders of its units (Amples) by proportionally increasing or decreasing the number of tokens each individual holds.
The unique incentives, movement pattern, and monetary qualities of AMPL, make it ideally suited to: 1) add value to baskets of digital assets, reducing aggregate volatility, 2) be useful as a building block in broader decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, much as physical commodities were building blocks in the historical financial system.
In this episode, we unstack:
► Influential economic thinkers
► Failed currency pegs
► Monetary trilemma: adaptive supply, durable value, stable peg
► The base money problem v. the fiat problem
► How AMPL stacks up to Ampleforth's initial goals
► Rebasing tokens v. coupon-based tokens
► Comparing single token v. multi-token model
► Is the goal of AMPL stability?
► AMPL's stable contracts utility
► Evolution of debt in the crypto market
+ more!
EPISODE LINKS:
Ampleforth: A New Synthetic Commodity
Central Banks — A Bad Influence on Decentralized Finance
Algorithmic stablecoins aren’t really stable, but can the concept redeem itself?
Synthetic Commodity Money (2013)
Risk and Return of Cryptocurrency (2018)
Stability, Elasticity, and Reflexivity: A Deep Dive into Algorithmic Stablecoins
The Letter and Spirit of Composability
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DISCLOSURE:
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #Ampleforth #BaseMoney #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 54: Unstacking with Blockchain Capital | NFT and the Financialization of Internet Culture
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
This week, I chat with Kinjal Shah, Investor at Blockchain Capital
We unstack:
► The NFT tech stack: horizontalization + verticalization
► Appraising NFTs on platforms such as Upshot
► Monetizing niche communities
► Financialization of internet culture; everything is investable
► NFTs as schelling points
► Community as art
► NFTs as a distribution channel & new economic model for creators
+more!
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
When Consumer Meets Crypto
Introduction to Upshot (NFT appraisal platform)
The Goodtime Show with Metakovan
Kinjal's Twitter: @_Kinjalbshah
Blockchain Capital's Twitter: @blockchaincap
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Email: contact@ambergroup.io
Website: https://www.ambergroup.io/
▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #BlockchainCapital #NFT #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 53: A Little NFTy Story | Part 2
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
A Little NFTy Story is a mini-series all about... you guessed it... NFTs, also known as Non-Fungible Tokens! Over the coming weeks I'll be covering the dizzying world of NFTs and speaking with artists, collectors, investors and enthusiasts!
This episode was made with help from Kinjal Shah, Investor at Blockchain Capital and Constantin Kostenko from EulerBeats and the Treum.io team.
Full episodes with Kinjal and Constantin dropping in the coming days!
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
NFT-linked stocks: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-18/nft-frenzy-lifts-auction-sites-to-shipping-cos-getting-onboard?srnd=cryptocurrencies
Scott Belsky, The Furry Lisa: https://scottbelsky.medium.com/the-furry-lisa-cryptoart-the-new-economy-of-digital-creativity-6cb2300ea081
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▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
▬ MUSIC CREDITS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Operatic 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXdrz1pB35Q&list=PLwJjxqYuirCLkq42mGw4XKGQlpZSfxsYd&index=25
Floating Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHYOBwzT4u4&list=PLwJjxqYuirCLkq42mGw4XKGQlpZSfxsYd&index=25
EulerBeats Genesis LP 26 Unofficial Remix: https://soundcloud.com/ur01/eulerbeats-genesis-lp-26-unofficial-remix
#AmberGroup #NFT #CryptoUnstacked
EP 52: A Little NFTy Story | Part 1
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
A Little NFTy Story is a mini-series all about... you guessed it... NFTs, also known as Non-Fungible Tokens! Over the coming weeks I'll be covering the dizzying world of NFTs and speaking with artists, collectors, investors and enthusiasts!
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
New York Times NFT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/business/nft-nba-top-shot-crypto.html
Open Sea NFT guide: https://opensea.io/blog/guides/non-fungible-tokens/
A Bullish Case for NFTs: https://kpmoroney.medium.com/the-bullish-case-for-nfts-dff21f79b22c
Rare Pepe Wallet & The Birth of CryptoArt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MBEW2NxNJ4
Logan Paul on Clubhouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE01rJyDLcI
Beeple's Christie's auction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8p1B8NHLFQ
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▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
▬ MUSIC CREDITS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Nyan Cat Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4
Power up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7SwiFWOQqM&list=PLwJjxqYuirCLkq42mGw4XKGQlpZSfxsYd&index=6
Pixelland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUCjaaQR6cs&list=PLwJjxqYuirCLkq42mGw4XKGQlpZSfxsYd&index=14
#AmberGroup #NFT #CryptoUnstacked
EP 51: 7 Lessons I Learned from Crypto Podcasting (and *Special Announcement*)
This week celebrates Crypto Unstacked's recent 50th episode milestone! This is a special mini-episode where I reflect on 7 important lessons I learned in my journey as a crypto podcaster.
1. Hitting record is hard. Pressing publish is harder.
2. Research is a form of respect.
3. You are there for your audience.
4. Talk less, not more.
5. Study other podcasters.
6. Podcasting is a powerful brand-building tool.
7. Growth is a step function.
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▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
EP 50: Unstacking with Multicoin Capital | China crypto: User behavior, information flow, and cultural mentality
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
This week, I chat with Mable Jiang, Partner at Multicoin Capital
We unstack:
► Multicoin’s open finance thesis
► What are decentralized super networks?
► Web 2.0 apps in the West v. superapps in China
► How is WeChat used as a crypto community building tool in China?
► Structure of information flow across Western and Chinese social media platforms
► Cultural mentalities shaping crypto market structure
► What contributes to building an "unforkable moat"? Uniswap v. Sushiswap case study
► Core parts of DeFi ecosystem Mable thinks will be around/be disrupted
► Is there a strong NFT movement in China?
+ much more!
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
How Cultural Differences Drive User Adoption in DeFi
Bridging Cultural Gaps in 2021: Crypto in China and the US
Exploring the Design Space of Liquidity Mining
Mable's Twitter @Mable_Jiang
Multicoin's Twitter @multicoincap
▬ FOLLOW AMBER GROUP ▬▬
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Email: contact@ambergroup.io
Website: https://www.ambergroup.io/
▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #Multicoin #OpenFinance #DeFi #China #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 49: Unstacking with Luxor Tech | When Bitcoin Mining Meets DeFi
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
This week, I chat with Ethan Vera, Head of Finance at Luxor Technologies
We unstack:
► What is the financialization of hashrate?
► Why have we not seen liquid hashrate markets?
► How does counterparty risk change for hashrate token holders?
► How are hashrate tokens different from cloud mining contracts?
► What are some valuation frameworks for pricing hashrate tokens?
+ much more!
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Luxor Technologies
Mining & Hashrate Substack
When Bitcoin Mining meets DeFi
The Alchemy of Hashpower
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▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #Luxor #Binance #Poolin #Tokenized #Hashrate #Finance #DeFi #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 48: Unstacking with bloXroute | Solving the Scalability Bottleneck with Layer 0
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
This week, I chat with Uri Klarman, Co-Founder of bloXroute.
We unstack:
► Looking at blockchain scalability from the networking v. cypherpunk angle
► The Layer 0 value proposition: making the internet of blockchains faster
► DeFi tools: taking advantage of arbitrage/collateral liquidation opportunities; front-running protection
► Misconception behind gas fees and winning trading opportunities
► Project Eagle: Aligning miner incentives with the Ethereum ecosystem
+ much more!
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Website: www.bloxroute.com
Uri's Twitter: @uriklarman
bloXroute Twitter: @bloXrouteLabs
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Email: contact@ambergroup.io
Website: https://www.ambergroup.io/
▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #bloXroute #Scalability #Blockchains #DeFi #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 47: *Bonus Episode* | Beyond Bitcoin and Space with Elon Musk on Clubhouse
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
In this bonus episode, I share my two satoshis on Elon's Clubhouse livestream. If you haven't had the chance to tune in, click on the full stream below for Elon's insights on Mars, aliens, memes, Bitcoin, monkey brains, and the Covid-19 vaccine. Oh, and he grills Robinhood CEO at the end.
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Elon Musk on Clubhouse (Full Stream)
Elon Musk's interview with Robinhood CEO
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▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Amber Group does not own any audio clips of Elon Musk.
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #ElonMusk #Clubhouse #Bitcoin #Space #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 46: Unstacking with Amber Group | The Retail Gilded Age: Amber Earn, Yield Boost, WallStreetBets, Robinhood
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
This week, I chat with Jeff Wang, Head of Americas at Amber Group. We unstack:
► Current crypto market flow and positioning
► Deep dive on Amber's yield enhancement products: Earn and Yield Boost
► Implications of the Gamestop $GME and Robinhood saga
+ much more!
▬ LINKS ▬▬
Amber Pro institutional platform
Download Amber App
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Email: contact@ambergroup.io
Website: https://www.ambergroup.io/
▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #Yield #Retail #App #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 45: Free Form Friday | Buffett, Bezos, & Yearn
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
In this week's Free Form Friday #4 on #CUP, we explore Buffett, Bezos, & Yearn
Capital allocation is probably one of the most underrated topics that gets discussed. Yet, disciplined capital allocation is key to managing a successful company.
Questions:
►How are traditional capital allocation strategies applied to decentralized crypto networks?
►What are unique properties of decentralized crypto networks that make capital allocation decisions more challenging?
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
► Capital allocation: portfolio or platform?
► Yearn Proposal: Rethinking capital allocation
► Yearn Proposal: A cohesive strategic framework for yearn
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The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #FreeFormFridays #Capital #Allocation #Platform #Business #Buffett #Amazon #yEarn #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 44: Unstacking with Quantstamp | The Golden Rubber Stamp Protecting Your $$
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
This week, I chat with Richard Ma, Founder of Quantstamp, a leading auditor of blockchain security in the crypto space. We unstack:
► Early trends observed from auditing various projects from DeFi to Layer 1s and NFTs
► Richard's thoughts on the various economic attacks of smart contracts we saw in 2020
► How Quantstamp is bundling insurance into their suite of services
+ much more!
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https://twitter.com/Quantstamp
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Email: contact@ambergroup.io
Website: https://www.ambergroup.io/
▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #Quantstamp #Auditing #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 43: Unstacking with Aave | Celebrating Aaveversary and $2.7 Billion+ TVL
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Season 2 of CUP kicks off with Stani Kulechov, founder of Aave, a decentralized, non-custodial money market protocol. We unstack:
► V2 features: stable/variable rate borrowing, enhanced flash loans, credit delegation
► Aave on other L1 and L2 chains
► Response to Fred Ehrsam's governance minimalism
► Creating new money markets & private money markets
▬ FOLLOW OUR GUEST ▬▬
https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov
https://twitter.com/AaveAave
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▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #Aave #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 42: Unstacking with Maple Leaf Capital | Web 3, DeFi, and 2021 Predictions
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
On the last episode of Season 1, Maple Leaf Capital joins us on the show to unstack:
► Emerging permissionless and permissioned valuenets
► Tools for a multi-chain world
► Smart contract insurance models
► Category-leading coins + 2021 predictions
(and so much more!)
▬ FOLLOW OUR GUEST ▬▬
https://twitter.com/MapleLeafCap
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Email: contact@ambergroup.io
Website: https://www.ambergroup.io/
▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #MapleLeafCapital #Web3 #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 41: Unstacking with Kerman Kohli & ARC | Making $$ by Unlocking Value in Illiquid Assets
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Kerman Kohli, Founder of ARC and DeFi Weekly, joins us on the show to unstack:
► ARC's value proposition unlocking the liquidity of long tail assets
► Stablex - leveraged yield-bearing stablecoins that allow users to access liquidity and earn higher returns in DeFi
► Gamifying network participation through "ARC Levels"
► The social finance #SoFi revolution and being an early personal token pioneer ($KERMAN)
▬ FOLLOW OUR GUEST ▬▬
Twitter: @Kermankohli
DeFi Weekly: https://defiweekly.substack.com/
DeFi Weekly (YouTube Channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksmBX-Jj_FGYX3EJahKW3Q
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▬ DISCLOSURE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
#AmberGroup #ARCx #DeFiWeekly #KERMAN #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked
EP 40: Free Form Friday | 10 Things You Need to Know About The STABLE Act
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
In this week's Free Form Friday #3 on #CUP, we explore the hotly debated #STABLE (Stablecoin Tethering and Bank Licensing Enforcement) Act!
10 things we discuss:
1. What is the STABLE Act?
2. What does the bill define as a stablecoin?
3. What does the current version of the bill propose?
4. What does Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire think about the proposed legislation?
5. What is the purpose of this Bill?
6. What do bill advocates have to say about tech companies assuming the role of a currency issuer?
7. Are stablecoins a tool of regulatory arbitrage and evasion?
8. Does this bill regulate decentralized networks?
9. What are the systemic risks that the bill focuses on?
10. Will the STABLE Act pass?
*Bonus* What do I think this STABLE Act is really about?
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
► https://tlaib.house.gov/sites/tlaib.house.gov/files/STABLEAct.pdf
► https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/tlaib-garcia-and-lynch-stableact
► https://www.forbes.com/sites/seansteinsmith/2020/12/09/cryptocurrency-legislation-is-on-the-rise--what-the-proposed-stable-act-could-mean-for-crypto/?sh=16d1e367633d
► https://www.coincenter.org/the-unintended-consequences-of-the-stable-act/
► https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1336487497505923072
► https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1334277525044940800
► https://twitter.com/rohangrey/status/1335280373358465026
► https://twitter.com/ronwhammond/status/1334279937767993349?s=21
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EP 39: Free Form Friday | Bitcoin Flipping the Pareto Principle of Power Distribution
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
This is the 2nd Free Form Friday episode on #CUP, short episodes dedicated to exploring topics tangential, but relevant to crypto.
This week's episode talks about:
- The Pareto Principle
- Jack Ma's view of the "2-8" principle and focusing on the 80%
- Wealth distribution of Bitcoin and how it can flip the top-down social power distribution
▬ LINKS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
[1] https://fs.blog/2018/09/mental-model-winner-take-all/
[2] https://hbr.org/2017/02/ai-is-going-to-change-the-8020-rule
[3] https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-2d3
[4] https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-rally-2020-vs-2017
[5] https://bytemaster.medium.com/decentralizing-in-spite-of-pareto-principle-eda86bb8228b
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EP 38: Unstacking with CoinFLEX | flexUSD - The world's first interest-bearing stablecoin?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Sudhu Arumugam, Chief Risk Officer at Polychain-backed CoinFLEX, joins us on the show to unstack:
► Introducing flexUSD - the world's first natively interest bearing stablecoin
► Disrupting the borrow/lend space and making it more efficient via orderbooks
► The magic of physical delivery enabling flexUSD holders to earn perp funding through CoinFLEX repo
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EP 37: Unstacking the BCH Fork | Checkmate - The King (ABC) is Dead
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
This is a special episode covering the recent November 15th BCH hardfork with insights drawn from conversations with and writings from active BCH supporters: George Donnelly, Founder of BCH-remittance platform Panmoni, and Mike Komaransky, founder of crypto trading firm Grapefruit Trading.
Quick takeaways:
- The incumbent ABC team’s controversial funding plan proposal posed massive implications for the utility and development for BCH down the line.
- BCHN’s win over ABC preserves the decentralized nature of the BCH blockchain
- The fact that miners largely had consensus for the BCHN protocol design means that it should be a forcing function for smoother blockchain development going forward.
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https://coin.dance/
https://read.cash/@georgedonnelly/amaury-sechet-is-forking-bitcoin-abc-away-from-bitcoin-cash-8734adc1
https://news.bitcoin.com/prepping-for-an-airdrop-prominent-bch-community-members-bid-bitcoin-abc-devs-farewell/
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EP 36: Free Form Friday | Business-as-a-Game (BAAG)
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Introducing Free Form Fridays on #CUP, short episodes dedicated to exploring topics tangential, but relevant to crypto. Engage in raw conversation with @leslamb0!
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https://notboring.substack.com/p/secure-the-baag
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EP 35: Unstacking with Huobi DeFi Labs | The Price is Right! Or is It?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Sharlyn Wu, Chief Investment Officer at Huobi, joins us for EP 6 of the #Investor Insights Series to unstack:
► Emergence of information symmetric world
► First principle of financial product design
► AMM designs (Uniswap v. CoFix) + advantages of a decentralized price oracle (Nest)
► Current DeFi logic holes: pricing risk and risk management
+more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
6:00 Credit risk and volatility risk
8:30 Information symmetric world of DeFi
12:00 Deconstructing financial structures
19:40 Fundamental problem with Uniswap
20:50 CoFix - generalized MM model
25:10 Price discovery in CeFi and DeFi
29:20 Verifying prices in Nest
36:30 Incentivising liquidity providers
38:08 Huobi DeFi Labs’ vision
43:45 Choosing not to build DeFi products in-house
46:50 Can DeFi enable financial inclusion?
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The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
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EP 34: Unstacking with Dovey Wan | China, the Superpower Winning the Global CBDC Race?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Dovey Wan (@Doveywan), Founding Partner at Primitive Ventures, joins us for EP 5 of the #Investor Insights Series to unstack:
► DeFi cults v communities
► YFI core and the Chinese YFII community
► How FUD is spread in the Chinese retail community
► How the "Withdrawal Movement" in China is like the "Enlightenment Movement"
► Digital yuan experiment in China
+more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
4:30 Advantage of being a crossborder venture fund
16:40 From paper governance to community-driven governance
24:00 DeFi cults v communities
28:15 YFI core and Chinese YFII community
33:00 FUD in Chinese retail community
36:00 "Withdrawal Movement" in China from centralized exchanges to DeFi (and back?)
41:30 Digital yuan experiment in China
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The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
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EP 33: Unstacking with ParaFi Capital | How Does an Interdisciplinary Investor Think?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Santiago Roel Santos @SantiagoRoel, Partner at ParaFi Capital, joins us for EP 4 of the #Investor Insights Series to unstack:
► Values over fixed objectives
► The investor’s Pokemon temptation
► Crypto as an "O-ring" industry & Silicon Valley state of mind
► Investment highlights: new credit primitive + on-chain auction market
+more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
4:38 Values and fixed objectives
9:30 The Pokemon temptation
16:05 Being adaptable to long-term thesis
18:12 Forking: cannibalistic or synergistic?
22:00 Crypto as an "o-ring" industry
25:50 The WHY of crypto
33:45 Barnbridge
39:45 Bounce.Finance
42:05 NFT market
45:05 Something Santiago's over/underestimated in crypto
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The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
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EP 32: Unstacking with Polychain Capital | Betting Early on Crypto Capital Coordination?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Sherwin Dowlat @realSherwinD, Portfolio Manager at Polychain Capital, joins us for EP 3 of the #Investor Insights Series to unstack:
► Market structure impact on making short and long-term investments
► Understanding token supply structure and liquidity concentration
► Evolution of “capital coordination” in crypto
► Polychain’s most successful bets
+more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
02:21 First sell-side research on Bitcoin
05:47 Polychain’s fund structure: Hedge fund, Venture, Labs
11:30 Understanding market structure to make better trading decisions
18:20 Alternative forms of community-driven fundraising
24:00 Metrics for market analysis
30:00 Macro trends
35:17 Polychain’s most successful bets
38:03 Takeaways and lessons for new crypto analysts
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The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.
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EP 31: Unstacking with DeFiance Capital | Separating DeFi FUD from Fundamentals ?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Arthur Cheong @Arthur_0x, Founder and CIO of DeFiance Capital joins us for EP 2 of the #Investor Insights Series to unstack:
► DeFi FUD and fundamentals
► His valuation framework for assessing tokens
► DeFiance Capital’s portfolio allocation + investment approach
► DeFi as crypto's ultimate product market fit
+ more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
03:15 Story from the early Synthetix community
09:11 DeFi fundamentals
16:35 Effect of short-term volatility on long-term investment thesis
22:08 DeFi bull market vs ICO market craze
31:25 DeFiance Capital fund structure and portfolio allocation
39:16 Real utility of DeFi
49:42 Meaningful way VCs can support early crypto projects
51:21 Greatest risk Arthur’s taken in crypto
53:48 Arthur’s crypto Influences
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EP 30: Investor Insight Series | Unstacking with Pantera Capital
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Paul Veradittakit @Veradittakit, Parter at Pantera Capital, kicks off our #Investor Insight Series to unstack:
► Pantera's wide geographic focus investing in countries outside of the US
► Types of crypto investments in Asia that are appealing to Pantera
► Pantera's evolving thesis around payments, trading infrastructure, speculation and scalability
► The future of scalability protocols like Near, Polkadot, Solana etc...
+ more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
6:47 Pantera's view on crypto in Asia
10:41 Early crypto applications
17:29 Pantera's evolving investment thesis
27:00 How Pantera's LPs prefer to get more exposure in crypto
37:27 Bitcoin as the first DeFi project
41:46 Maturing the DeFi space
47:50 Hardest advice to give entrepreneurs
49:40 Convictions about the future of crypto
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EP 29: Unstacking with Camila Russo | Uncovering DeFi, the Killer Use Case of the Infinite Machine ️🌈 ?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Camila Russo @CamiRusso, Founder of The Defiant and Author of The Infinite Machine, joins us for the final episode in our #DeFi Defined Series to unstack:
► Crazy Stories about Ethereum
► Ethereum's Gifting Culture
► Key evolutions in DeFi
► Camila's worldview on money
► Social money & $CAMI Coin
► Becoming an entrepreneur and running The DeFiant
+ more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
05:06 Stories about Ethereum
09:10 Camila’s 64ETH gift + Ethereum's gifting culture
13:26 Onboarding to DeFi
19:25 Key evolutions in DeFi
27:20 Camila's worldview on money
32:37 Buying Dollars on the black market in Argentina
36:43 Social money + $CAMI Coin
46:14 Being an entrepreneur and running The DeFiant
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EP 28: Unstacking with Qiao Wang | Is DeFi Really a Zero-Sum Game?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Qiao Wang @QWQiao joins us for the eighth episode in our #DeFi Defined series to unstack:
► DeFi fundamentals
► DeFi as zero-sum game
► Value accrual of DeFi tokens
► Information asymmetry between DeFi Asia vs the West
► Decentralizing the DeFi stack
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
02:31 Introduction
06:00 Current space of DeFi
09:18 Siloed CeFi vs Composable DeFi
18:58 DeFi as a zero-sum game
23:49 “Meme” premium
29:20 DeFi in Asia & the West - Information asymmetry
34:04 Decentralizing the DeFi Stack
35:48 Contrarian view
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EP 27: Unstacking with Ren & KeeperDAO | Cross-chain Swaps and Liquidations - Making Money Moves 💰?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Taiyang Zhang @bftzhang, Founder of Ren Protocol and Co-Founder of KeeperDAO, joins us for the seventh episode in our #DeFi Defined series to unstack:
► Republic Protocol
► Pivot to Ren Protocol and current use cases
► Tokenizing assets on Ethereum
► KeeperDAO V1 and what to expect from V2
► Composability and ETH 2.0
+ more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
04:37 Republic Protocol
07:36 Ren Protocol
13:31 Partnership with Acala & Polkadot
14:33 Tokenizing Bitcoin on Ethereum (and other chains)
16:04 KeeperDAO V1
19:46 What to expect from KeeperDAO V2
23:12 Composability and ETH 2.0
26:15 Taiyang’s contrarian view
27:55 Rapid fire
▬ REN RESOURCES ▬▬
https://renproject.io/
https://t.me/renproject
▬ KeeperDAO RESOURCES ▬▬
https://keeperdao.com/
https://discord.com/invite/G9mWtTC
https://github.com/keeperdao/docs/wiki
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EP 26: Unstacking with Alpha5 | Building Infrastructure for Sustainable Liquidity Mining ?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Vishal Shah @ChainShah, Founder of Alpha5, joins us for the sixth episode in our #DeFi Defined series to unstack:
► Bitcoin and Ethereum options flow
► Funding on leveraged exchanges
► Futures swap/spread and liquidity mining
► Alpha 5's tokenized insurance fund & the A5T governance token
+ more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
02:14 Alpha5 founding story
09:18 Crypto options flow
19:40 Funding on leveraged exchanges
25:03 Futures swap/spread & Implied order books
29:45 Liquidity mining on CEX
32:46 Digital options
36:38 A5T governance token
52:29 Vishal’s contrarian view
55:25 Rapid fire Q&A
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EP 25: Unstacking with Lemniscap | Volatility Pools: The Anatomy of a New DeFi Primitive?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ BONUS EPISODE ▬▬
In this bonus episode of the #DeFi Defined series, Nicola and I continue to unstack:
► the world of on-chain options trading
► volatility as an asset class
► volatility pools - a new DeFi primitive?
► anatomy of a volatility pool
► uses cases for volatility pools
+ more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
03:26 DeFi vs traditional options trading
14:09 Delta hedging strategy
24:52 Buyers and Liquidity providers in a volatility pool
28:36 Risks of a volatility pool
31:21 Anatomy of a volatility pool
34:45 Options term structure in a volatility pool
40:50 Broadening the design space for on-chain options trading
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EP 24: Unstacking with Lemniscap | From Uniswap to Mooniswap - Automated Market Makers in the New Age?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Nicola Santoni @Realsantos1905, Principal at Lemniscap, joins us for the fourth episode in our #DeFi Defined series to unstack:
► The evolution of automated market makers
► CFMMs and other iterations
► On-chain options trading protocols
► Categories of DeFi Token designs: Derivatives, Lending/Borrowing, AMMs, Cross-chain
+more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
06:03 What are AMMs
07:37 CFMMs and other iterations
13:50 Mooniswap
20:29 Bancor V2
34:13 DeFi options protocols: Opyn & Hegic
44:54 Limitations of DeFi Options
50:13 DeFi token design
54:11 Aavenomics
58:10 KeeperDAO
1:03:05 Lemniscap
1:06:00 Nicola's contrarian view
1:08:30 Rapid Fire Q&A
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EP 23: Unstacking with Volt Capital | Forming an Institutional Alliance in DeFi?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Imran Khan @lmrankhan, Investor at Volt Capital, joins us for the third episode in our #DeFi Defined series to unstack:
► Volt Capital’s investment thesis as a pre-seed equity fund
► Two of their portfolio companies: Dharma & Valiu
► DeFi capital, DeFi yield aggregators, and Bitcoin in DeFi
► The founding story behind the Chicago DeFi Alliance
► The new DeFi accelerator backed by institutional trading firms such as Jump Trading, DRW and CMT Digital + more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
2:25 Imran's early days as an entrepreneur
5:50 Being a strategic investor and active network participant
8:26 Volt's Investment Thesis
13:58 Yield farming bringing in new users to DeFi?
18:07 DeFi Yield Aggregators
24:46 Bitcoin in DeFi
32:00 Chicago DeFi Alliance
40:00 Bitcoin's future
42:12 Rapid Fire Q&A
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► Chicago DeFi Alliance: https://chicagodefi.org/
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EP 22: Unstacking with Mechanism Capital | From Maker to Tendies: New Forms of Grand Economic Systems?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Andrew Kang @rewkang, Investor at Mechanism Capital, joins us for the second episode in our #DeFi Defined series to unstack:
►Evolution of liquidity mining from the OGs to newbies
►Impact of decentralized governance on next-generation tokenomics
►Protocols incentivizing user behavior
►DeFi funny money
►Asian v. Western DeFi projects + more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
02:30 Introduction
03:45 Entry into DeFi
08:48 Synthetix & liquidity mining
16:00 Balancer v. Compound
18:55 Protocols incentivizing user behavior- Thorchain v. Uniswap
20:32 Thorchain's incentive pendulum
31:20 Effect of decentralized governance on tokenomics
36:24 YFI forks & token value accrual
40:44 DeFi East
44:40 Mechanism Capital
46:00 Andrew's contrarian view
47:25 Andrew's favorite funny money #Tendies
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EP 21: Unstacking with Spartan Capital | Madness? This is DeFi!
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
Crypto Unstacked is excited to kick off our new #DeFi Defined series with Jason Choi, Head of Research at Spartan Capital, a long/short crypto hedge fund based in Hong Kong. In this episode, we chat:
► How DeFi fits into Spartan’s investment thesis and the fund’s due diligence process for evaluating DeFi projects and tokens
► Yield farming 101, his observations on the different market participants involved, the risks, and what to look out for
► Are people in for the governance or the eye-popping yields?
► Base layers like Solana competing against Ethereum
► Drivers of the recent ETH and BTC rally?
► DeFi in Asia + more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
02:38 Introduction
07:24 What is Spartan?
12:26 DeFining #DeFi
17:18 Base layer competition v. Ethereum
19:49 ETH v ETH 2.0
22:39 Synthetix and Curve
26:04 Yield Farming 101
30:33 Governance tokens
33:06 Drivers of recent ETH and BTC rally
36:34 Pricing inefficiency of low cap & low liquidity crypto
40:35 DeFi in Asia
43:18 Jason's contrarian view
44:57 Rapid fire Q&A
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EP 20: Unstacking with Animoca | What's the Future of Blockchain Game Design?
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
▬ THIS WEEK'S EPISODE ▬▬
This week we unstack with James Ho, Senior Business Strategist at Animoca Brands, a leading public game publisher headquartered in Hong Kong. Animoca leverages gamification, blockchain, and AI to develop and publish a broad portfolio of gaming titles such as The Sandbox, F1 Delta Time, Garfield Games, Doremon Games etc. In this episode, we chat:
► Animoca’s vision for the blockchain gaming ecosystem, a burgeoning subset within a $150billion gaming industry
► The current centralized free-to-play gaming model, which he describes is a walled garden approach to gaming
► Ways open-sourced blockchain games will disrupt this model, such as offering user-generated NFTs and ultimately enabling true digital ownership of virtual assets
► Token-based incentive mechanisms of blockchain games
► Gaming in Asia + much more!
▬ TIMESTAMP ▬▬
05:55 How blockchain gaming will disrupt the current free-to-play model
08:14 The “walled-garden” state of gaming
09:55 Animoca’s gaming alliances and investments
12:09 Gameplay with non-fungible tokens (NFT)
20:35 Monetization of blockchain gaming in a $150Bn industry
29:20 Looking into the future: financial services in gaming?
35:25 Rapid fire Q&A
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EP 19: Unstacking with LedgerPrime | Prime Time for Crypto Derivatives?
Crypto Unstacked Podcast | Your cryptocurrency questions unstacked weekly
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
This week on Crypto Unstacked we chat with Shiliang Tang, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of LedgerPrime, a quantitative crypto hedge fund based in New York. In this episode, Shiliang and I cover LedgerPrime’s view on the regulated and unregulated crypto derivatives space, the future of the Bitcoin ETF, DeFi yield farming and broader DeFi risks, and the role and future of stablecoins.
1:55 LedgerPrime's founding story
8:20 View on the crypto derivatives space
20:10 Bitcoin ETF and Grayscale Investment Products
23:18 WorldCover - Parametric insurance in Africa
29:23 DeFi yield and risk
33:23 Tether and the future of stablecoins
37:55 Rapid Fire Q&A
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EP 18: Unstacking with Skew | More Than Just the Next Bloomberg of Crypto?
Crypto Unstacked Podcast | Your cryptocurrency questions unstacked weekly
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
This week of Crypto Unstacked we chat with Emmanuel Goh, Co-Founder of SKEW, a leading data analytics and crypto trade execution platform. In this episode, Emmanuel and I cover the founding story behind SKEW, SKEW’s most recent product launch, and his thoughts on the latest market trends. How does SKEW make it easy for people to visualize and consume data? Why is SKEW best positioned to be the Bloomberg of crypto? What is SKEW’s thought process behind getting into the trade execution game and how does leveraging a regulated inter dealer broker allow them to scale their product offering? Tune in to find out!
02:03 Introduction and background
04:01 Skew’s founding story
14:46 How Skew secured investors like Kleiner Perkins
17:18 How Skew’s data analytics are different from its competitors
26:42 Skew’s latest $5m funding round
30:16 Introducing skewTrage and the Kyte Brokering partnership
35:10 Emmanuel’s take on stablecoins and other crypto market trends
40:06 Rapid Fire
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EP 17: Unstacking with Coindesk | Why Do Publicly Listed Crypto Mining Companies Struggle?
Crypto Unstacked Podcast | Your cryptocurrency questions unstacked weekly
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
This week we unstack with Matt Yamamoto, Research Analyst at Coindesk. Matt and I chat about his work building up Coindesk’s institutional research arm and his goal to cover research for all publicly listed crypto companies. We talk about why mining companies decide to go public and focus our conversation around Hut8, a Canadian mining company. Matt gives his take on Hut8’s financial health, credit exposure, accounting practices, and plans to scale for the long term. Tune in!
02:01 - Introduction and background
07:52 - Interesting crypto mining companies that have gone public
09:45 - In-depth analysis of Hut 8 Mining
27:56 - Why margins for mining manufacturers will contract
34:29 - Ebang’s public listing
38:59 - Rapid Fire: LA Edition
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EP 16: Unstacking with Sparkpool | The World's Largest Ethereum Mining Pool ?!
Crypto Unstacked Podcast | Your cryptocurrency questions unstacked weekly. In this episode we unstack with Xin Xu, Founder of Sparkpool, the world’s largest Ethereum mining pool.
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
Xin talks about the origin story that led him to founding Sparkpool. He shares his thoughts on the major differences between the GPU and ASIC mining industries, why GPU hardware offers a more diversified revenue stream beyond mining itself, and how Ethereum’s impending switch to Proof-of-Stake (POS) may impact the business model of large scale GPU miners.
02:02 - Introduction and background
07:02 - EthFans origin story and how Sparkpool started
15:39 - GPU mining vs. ASIC mining
23:35 - Mining pool vs. individual miners’ mining infrastructure strategy
25:39 - Risks of operating Ethereum mining pool
27:02 - Effect of mid-March selloff on Sparkpool
28:32 - Ethereum miners’ need for financial services
32:14 - What’s next for Sparkpool
34:53 - Rapid Fire
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EP 15: Unstacking with Hash House | What's Inside Kirk's Enterprise?
Crypto Unstacked Podcast | Your cryptocurrency questions unstacked weekly
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
This week we unstack with Kirk Su, Founder of Hash House based in China.
In this episode, we have a special chat with an OG Bitcoin miner who's operated mining facilities in the West and the East. He shares his thoughts on a variety of topics including: coal as the preferable energy source for miners in China, partnering with private vs. state-owned Chinese enterprises, and why mining is not as profitable as some people think. Tune in to learn more!
01:56 - Introduction and background
03:32 - Kirk the Montana Miner
05:30 - Hardware procurement challenges in the U.S.
10:51 - How Kirk’s mining company was acquired
12:22 - What Kirk learned from mining in the West
16:16 - Why Chinese miners use coal power
21:47 - Private vs. public power plants in China
25:23 - Relationship with Bitcoin.com
27:05 - Community-building in crypto (and Kirk’s whiskey bar)
29:18 - Mining myths
31:29 - Rapid Fire
Guest Website: www.hashhouse.pro
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EP 14: Unstacking with GRIID | What's Happening off the GRIID?
Crypto Unstacked Podcast | Your cryptocurrency questions unstacked weekly.
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
This week I chat with Harry Sudock, Director of Strategy at Griid, one of the preeminent mining infrastructure companies in North America. In this episode, Harry talks about his team’s year long global search for the right mining location and why they ultimately chose to come back to the U.S to set up their mining facility. Harry also shares deep insights on topics including Griid’s process for evaluating infrastructure partners, his take on the ridiculous way that mining hardware is currently priced, why he is not that bothered by mining centralization, and his global macro take on Bitcoin.
02:13 - Introduction and background
05:35 - Griid’s mining business model
07:52 - Process for evaluating infrastructure partners
09:24 - Hardware - pricing and procurement
12:19 - Energy - sources and sustainability
17:44 - Harry on mining centralization
22:06 - Hashrate futures market
25:02 - Harry’s global macro-take on Bitcoin
28:07 - Why you should get exposure to mining
30:04 - How Griid plans for the future
32:03 - Rapid Fire
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EP 13: Let there be Luxor⚡️
Crypto Unstacked Podcast | Your cryptocurrency questions unstacked weekly.
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
This week I chat with Ethan Vera, CFO and Co-Founder of Luxor Technologies, one of the largest Bitcoin and altcoin mining pools in North America. We cover topics including: mining pool business model, the Luxor profit switching pool, their enterprise partnerships, and the volatility of mining luck . Ethan breaks down the anatomy of hashrate and the emergence of hashrate as an asset class and how that is fast becoming an important topic of conversation within the crypto finance world. He also gives his take on whether the top 3 Chinese exchanges: Binance, Huobi, and OKEx will eventually get into the hashrate futures game now that they all own mining pools. Tune in to find out!
02:29 - Introduction and background
04:16 - Mining Pool 101
08:57 - Profit Switching in Mining Pools
12:00 - Institutional Demand
13:52 - Assessing Mining Pool Risk
15:06 - Anatomy of Hashrate
15:58 - Hashprice - The Value of Hashrate
18:16 - Volatility of Hashprice
21:44 - New Mining Pools - Binance, Lubian
24:19 - Hashrate Futures Market
30:43 - Rapid Fire
Guest Twitter: @LuxorTechTeam
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EP 12: Unstacking John McAfee (Part 2)
Crypto Unstacked Podcast | Your cryptocurrency questions unstacked weekly
Amber Group presents #CUPofCrypto, covering everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
This week we continue with Part 2 of our conversation with the one and only - John McAfee.
1:13 McAfee on Crypto: “By the end of this month, the GHOST Exchange will be up and running with the ability to cash out into fiat if you want.”
20:39 McAfee on being a #BTC Bear: “They’re investing in all the thousands of cryptocurrencies hoping to make a quick buck rather than using them to free themselves from financial slavery.”
36:12 McAfee on the inception of McAfee Anti-Virus: “That was just a fluke, simply an opportunity.”
42:11 McAfee on Canning Plans: “If you have a plan, burn it, throw it away and do something else, because what creates companies is not a plan, is not an idea.”
Guest Twitter: @officialmcafee; @GhostbyMcAfee
Guest Websites: www.ghostbymcafee.com; www.mcafeedex.com
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EP 11: Fighting Fire with Fireblocks
Crypto Unstacked Podcast covers everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
In 2019, Fireblocks came out of stealth mode raising $16m from investors including Eight Roads (the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International), Swisscom Ventures, and Tenaya Capital. By January 2020, Fireblocks announced that they were securing $9bn+ in assets and that number has now surpassed $30bn as Fireblocks continues to grow its network of 50+ institutional clients including exchanges, wallets, custodians, brokerages, and OTC desks. As the first adopter of MPC technology in Asia, Amber Group is proud to be a Fireblocks partner.
This week we chat with Amy Zhang, Vice President of Asia Sales, and Stephen Richardson, Head of Product Strategy, about how Fireblocks is changing the narrative around custody and security. Fireblocks' secure transfer environment is enabling both a smoother operational experience between crypto native market participants as well as with legacy financial institutions entering the digital asset ecosystem.
6:09 Introduction to Fireblocks - the early days addressing scalability gaps
8:39 The growing Fireblocks network
12:57 Trends in the crypto capital markets
16:10 Leveraging Fireblocks for security and operational efficiency
24:29 What is MPC and the differences between MPC and Multi-sig
38:04 Fireblocks integration with decentralized finance
39:23 Fireblock’s tokenization platform
42:45 What’s next for Fireblocks in Asia
Guest Twitter: @FireblocksHQ
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EP 10: Unstacking John McAfee (Part 1)
Crypto Unstacked Podcast covers everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
This week #CUP welcomes a very special guest - the one and only - John McAfee.
In this episode, we chat about the military industrial complex, Shakespeare's "insolence of office", his fascination with drugs and hallucinogenics, his early start in entrepreneurship from the age of 11, his view on crypto and open source technology. Tune in to Part 1!
01:24 McAfee on Politics “I’m concerned and unless that is addressed, this isn’t going to go away, people.”
15:03 McAfee on Hallucinogens: “The 60s were the days when if people were passing through a town and handing out a pill, we just popped it.”
20:37 McAfee on Early Entrepreneurship: “Entrepreneur-ism is taking advantage of opportunities that lend themselves to potential money-making activity.”
25:52 McAfee on Crypto: “It came from the people.”
Guest Twitter: @officialmcafee; @GhostbyMcAfee
Guest Websites: www.ghostbymcafee.com; www.mcafeedex.com
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EP 9: Your Layer1 "Liegl" Counsel
Crypto Unstacked Podcast covers everything from crypto finance to global macroeconomics.
This week we chat with Alex Liegl, CEO at Layer1 Technologies.
Layer1 Technologies is the Peter Thiel-backed Bitcoin mining company based in West Texas. In this episode, Alex unstacks the process of converting energy into money, how Layer1 plans to achieve supply chain independence, and the philosophy behind mining from first principles. Tune in to hear Alex’s take on Layer1’s grand vision to become a vertically-integrated, sustainable Bitcoin mining facility and what they’re doing to push the boundaries of a typical crypto mining company.
Guest Twitter: @alexanderliegl; @LAYER1OFFICIAL
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