Inchained

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Imran Khan, who is a Partner at Volt Capital and is the lead at DeFi alliance. Imran has been backing founders building at the cutting edge of DeFi and in this episode we dig deeper on his learnings doing the same. We talk about regulations in DeFi, getting larger financial institutions and market makers involved in crypto and DeFi as well as the current trends of crypto in Africa.

00:00 Introduction

00:28 Background story and overview of Volt Capital

02:47 Investing in companies like Buycoins in Africa and crypto trends in Africa

07:30 DeFi activity in Africa and potential of stablecoins like USDC in Africa

11:30 Background on DeFi Alliance, getting traditional liquidity providers in crypto

15:18 Learnings from running a DeFi accelerator

17:52 Overview on the DeFi Alliance program

20:49 Regulation for DeFi startups

23:48 Interesting trends in DeFi

27:27 Getting traditional liquidity providers to do market making in crypto and DeFi

30:48 NFT space and NFTxDeFi

36:05 Interesting trends in crypto in general - magic labs and others

40:20 Geographical trends in crypto and closing thoughts

Imran's Twitter : https://twitter.com/lmrankhan

DeFi alliance : https://defialliance.co/

Volt capital : https://www.volt.capital/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Jake Brukhman, Founder at CoinFund. Jake is heavily involved in the NFT space - investing in NFT companies as well as creating and collecting digital art. We talk about various things related to NFTs like current and future use-cases, financial products for NFTs like NFT loans, fractionalization etc. We also touched upon the learnings from the DeFi summer and where are things headed in the future.

00:00 Introduction

00:26 Jake's background and how he started CoinFund

02:12 How did Jake fall down into NFT rabbit hole

04:56 NFT sector segments - Issuers, Issuance Platform, Marketplaces, Financial Services

08:05 NFT Financial Services - Liquidity, Loans, Fractionalization

13:01 Deeper Dive into NFT Fractionalization

15:53 How to Make NFTs more useable - L2, meta-transactions, better key management

21:17 Mainstream adoption of NFTs - Democratization of supporting artists

25:53 Secondary markets and revenue sharing in NFTs

28:52 Art auctions houses getting into NFTs

32:48 Suggestions for retail investors looking to invest in NFTs

36:45 Other crypto areas coinfund is looking at - oracles via API3, 

43:13 Learnings from DeFi Summer

49:17 Closing Thoughts

CoinFund Website : https://www.coinfund.io/

Jake's Twitter : https://twitter.com/jbrukh

Jake's Personal Website : http://www.brukhman.com/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Jamie (https://twitter.com/jamie247 ), Founder & CEO at Outlier Ventures (https://outlierventures.io). Jamie outlined why NFTs would go mainstream in the coming months and how the legos we have been building with DeFi will be used with NFTs.

Outlier Ventures is a Web3 accelerator investing in the space from 2013. Jamie also runs his own podcast "Founders of Web3" : https://outlierventures.io/podcasts/

00:00 Introduction

02:02 Outlier Ventures overview and investment thesis

07:01 Crypto accelerators and insights running Outlier’s accelerator

16:27 Predictions for the market and bull case for NFTs

27:38 How would NFTs go mainstream

35:14 Using NFTs as collateral in DeFi

41:54 Timeframe for the NFT Bull run

48:11  How one can get involved with NFTs currently

52:19 Trends in DeFi

59:56 Evolution of crypto VCs

1:09:22 Ideal token distribution structure

1:13:29 Closing thoughts

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Peter (https://twitter.com/pet3rpan_ ), who works at Metacartel (https://www.metacartel.org) and 1kx. Metacartel is a community with multiple arms -  grants program, venture investments (https://metacartel.xyz/), dapp podcast etc.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:37 Origin story for metacartel

04:32 Current state of metacartel

11:47 Metacartel DAO

14:51 Venture DAO and metacartel ventures

17:50 Interesting stats around metacartel - teams funded, grants given, partners

21:01 Fair launches and evolution of crypto VC with community driven projects

27:01 Incorrect narrative around crypto VCs dumping

30:18 Trends in NFT ecosystem

32:35 DeFi predictions

35:20 Governance ideas coming from DeFi

37:32 Geographical trends in crypto

39:45 Closing remarks and where are we headed

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Ashwin (https://twitter.com/ashwinrz ), crypto investor at Dragonfly Capital ( https://www.dcp.capital ) , a global crypto venture fund with offices in the US and China. Previously, Ashwin was a core engineer and researcher at ThunderCore (a layer-1 blockchain) where he worked on the design and implementation of the PoS consensus module.

00:00 Introduction

00:42 How Ashwin joined Dragonfly to become a crypto VC

03:05 Dragonfly investment thesis and change over time (can be clubbed with point below)

05:25 Change in Dragonfly’s thesis over time

06:31 Projects that will kick off in next few months

09:15 Evolution of crypto governance models 

11:39 Interesting projects that will bring the next generation of people into crypto

14:44 Geographical trends in crypto

17:38 Possible countries for registering crypto companies

19:20 Changes in early stage capital in crypto - accelerators etc.

21:24 Crypto VC ecosystem vs traditional VCs

24:22 Things that crypto VCs look at and crypto dealflow

27:30 L2 trends, death of plasma, optimistic rollups

31:20 Advice for founders building in crypto

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Twitter: @ashwinrz

Telegram: @ashwinr14

Medium: @ashwinr14

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In this episode of Inchained we chatted with Alexander Zaidelson, CEO of Beam. Beam (https://www.beam.mw/) is a Mimblewimble based privacy coin which going live on mainnet on January 3rd, 2019.

We chatted on a variety of topics ranging from 'How does mimblewimble work' to Beam's monetary policy.

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In this episode of Inchained, we chatted with the anonymous co-founder of Local Monero - Alex. Local Monero (https://localmonero.co/) is a website on which people can Buy /Sell Monero with cash or online. It is the most used platform for cash trading of Monero and is quite similar to localbitcoins. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Relevant Links : Alex's Reddit : https://www.reddit.com/user/Alex_LocalMonero Localmonero Twitter : https://twitter.com/localmoneroco?lang=en Localmonero website : https://localmonero.co/ ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 👬Groups: Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/inchained/ Telegram group : https://t.me/inchained ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● ♨️Social: Twitter profile : https://twitter.com/arnav_vohra Quora profile : quora.com/profile/Arnav-Vohra-3 Medium profile : https://medium.com/@arnav_vohra Steemit profile : https://steemit.com/@arnavvohra Email : av7tv.channel@gmail.com ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● If you appreciate my work, then please consider making a donation at the address below: ETH Wallet Address: 0x14466d035Ed00533bA245E0E69C04Fa4ACa949e7 ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● DISCLAIMER: This is NOT financial advice. This is just my opinion. I am not responsible for any investment decisions that you choose to make. Thank you for watching.

Topics Discussed : 1) Introduction [00:00] 2) Alena's Background To Crypto [2:48] 3) How Will Crypto Adoption Kick In [6:30] 4) Story Of Trezor - Crowdfunding, Building a Brand... [9:03] 5) Challenges of Building a Hardware Product [17:05] 6) Alena's Journey With Casa [21:58] 7) Casa's Key Management Service & Vision [24:25] 8) Casa's Lightning Node [33:25] 9) Casa's Marketing Strategy [34:15] 10) B-Foundation & How To Reach Out To Interesting Projects [41:15] 11) B-Foundation & Providing Education Material [46:30] 12) B's Roadmap & Funding Model [53:15] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● In this episode, we chatted with Alena Vranova also known as Alena 'Satoshi'. She is currently working on Casa as head of strategy (https://keys.casa/) where she is driving their Lightning Node product as well as a key management system for high net worth crypto individuals! We chatted on a variety of topics ranging from Alena's time as CEO at Trezor, Crypto Anarchy, Casa Lightning Node, Casa Key Management System, B-Foundation & much more... ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Relevant Links : Casa website : https://keys.casa/ B-Foundation website : https://theb.foundation/ Trezor Website : https://trezor.io/ ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 👬Groups: Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/inchained/ Telegram group : https://t.me/inchained ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● ♨️Social: Twitter profile : https://twitter.com/arnav_vohra Quora profile : quora.com/profile/Arnav-Vohra-3 Medium profile : https://medium.com/@arnav_vohra Steemit profile : https://steemit.com/@arnavvohra Email : av7tv.channel@gmail.com ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● If you appreciate my work, then please consider making a donation at the address below: ETH Wallet Address: 0x14466d035Ed00533bA245E0E69C04Fa4ACa949e7 ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● DISCLAIMER: This is NOT financial advice. This is just my opinion. I am not responsible for any investment decisions that you choose to make. Thank you for watching.

In this episode, we chatted with Pierre Rochard, who co-founded Nakamoto Institute & co-hosts the noded podcast. We chatted on a variety of topics ranging from the evil of keynesian economics to Lightning Network & so much more. Topics Discussed : 1) How Pierre Got into Bitcoin [ 00:50 ] 2) Pierre’ Journey of Nakamoto Institute & Noded Poscast [ 7:00 ] 3) Where does Keynsian economics fail? [ 9:25 ] 4) Lightning Network & steps to ensure that centralisation doesn’t come into play [ 15:57 ] 5) How Important Is Lightning For Bitcoin To Succeed [ 19:52 ] 6) Lightning residency & cool projects seen there [ 22:37 ] 7) Biggest threats to Bitcoin adoption & possible government interception [ 29:22 ] 8) Key management wallets [ 39:19 ] 9) What’s hampering Bitcoin growth [ 44:36 ] 10) What’s the role of Bitcoin maximalism [ 51:17 ] 11) Altcoins [ 1:01:30 ] 12) Institutional Interest & how do they view Bitcoin [ 1:05:40 ] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Relevant Links : Nakamoto Institute : https://nakamotoinstitute.org/ Noded Poscast : https://noded.org/ Pierre's Twitter : https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 👬Groups: Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/inchained/ Telegram group : https://t.me/inchained ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● ♨️Social: Twitter profile : https://twitter.com/arnav_vohra Quora profile : quora.com/profile/Arnav-Vohra-3 Medium profile : https://medium.com/@arnav_vohra Steemit profile : https://steemit.com/@arnavvohra Email : av7tv.channel@gmail.com ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● If you appreciate my work, then please consider making a donation at the address below: ETH Wallet Address: 0x14466d035Ed00533bA245E0E69C04Fa4ACa949e7 ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● DISCLAIMER: This is NOT financial advice. This is just my opinion. I am not responsible for any investment decisions that you choose to make. Thank you for watching.

In this episode, we chatted with Jameson Lopp, who is currently working on Casa (https://keys.casa/), personal key system for securely storing your funds & is a Cypherpunk! We chatted on a variety of topics ranging from Bitcoin fund security, privacy in crypto, Lightning Network, mining centralisation, government intervention on Bitcoin as well as future of Bitcoin. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Topics Discussed : 1) What Jameson is Upto & how he got into Bitcoin [00:40] 2) Getting Crypto used by 'non-technical' people [5:15] 3) Keeping Funds Safe [10:10] 4) Fund security for normal person [12:45] 5) Technical Things Jameson Is Most Excited About (Privacy, Usability, Governance...) [17:10] 6) Things Jameson Is Excited About In Lightning [25:15] 7) Challenges In-front of the Bitcoin Ecosystem [31:03] 8) Mining Centralisation [34:40] 9) Thoughts on Proof Of Stake [37:34] 10) Ethereum, Monero & altcoin projects [40:00] 11) Institutions approach to altcoin projects [44:20] 12) A Crypto protocol as a driver of humanity [47:05] 13) Stablecoins - DAI, USDT, GUSD[53:35] 14) Bitcoin Price Predictions [56:10] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Relevant Links : Jameson's website (Useful resources) : https://lopp.net/ Casa website : https://keys.casa/ Statoshi : https://statoshi.info/ Grin, MimbleWimble : https://grin.mw/up/ ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● ♨️Social: Twitter profile : https://twitter.com/arnav_vohra Quora profile : quora.com/profile/Arnav-Vohra-3 Medium profile : https://medium.com/@arnav_vohra Steemit profile : https://steemit.com/@arnavvohra Email : av7tv.channel@gmail.com

In this episode, we chatted with Marco Peereboom, Decred Systems Development Lead & CTO of Company Zero. I was joined by Vishal as my co-host for this interview. We discussed about core technical features of Decred & things planned for the future. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Topics Discussed: 1) Initial Days of Decred & How Marco Got Into Crypto [0:00] 2) Politeia - Technical Architecture & Layer 2 Voting [8:45] 3) Bitcoin & Decred [18:20] 4) Decred Grant Structure [19:40] 5) Politeia Use-Cases & Real World Election On It [21:30] 6) DCR-Time & Storing Docs On Decred Blockchain [28:10] 7) Decred & Lightning Network [34:40] 8) Getting Decred Used By Normal People [36:40] 9) Getting Developers To Develop For Decred [41:30] 10) Future Roadmap - Decentralised Exchange, Schnorr signatures, Privacy release, Decentralized Autonomous Entities [49:00] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● 👬Groups: Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/inchained/ Telegram group : https://t.me/inchained ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● ♨️Social: Twitter profile : https://twitter.com/arnav_vohra Quora profile : quora.com/profile/Arnav-Vohra-3 Medium profile : https://medium.com/@arnav_vohra Steemit profile : https://steemit.com/@arnavvohra Email : av7tv.channel@gmail.com

Topics Discussed: Background [00:40] History & applications of prediction markets [6:54] Real utility of GNO Token [19:20] Bringing adoption with other products: Gnosis DutchX & Safe [24:50] Development status of prediction markets and other products [43:33] Life after Gnosis ICO & Future Roadmap [51:33] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● In this episode, we chatted with Stefan George, Co-Founder & CTO of Gnosis. Gnosis builds new market mechanisms to enable the distribution of resources-from assets to incentives, and information to ideas. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Links mentioned in the episode: Gnosis website : https://gnosis.pm/ Gnosis Whitepaper : https://gnosis.pm/assets/pdf/gnosis-w... Gnosis DutchX (Testnet) : https://dutchx-rinkeby.d.exchange/ Gnosis Safe (beta) : https://safe.gnosis.io/ Gnosis Timeline : https://gnosis.pm/timeline.html ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos.

In this video, we talk with Nash Foster, who is the CEO of Pyrofex. Pyrofex in a strategic partner of Rchain & builds high-performance distributed development tools that are easy to use, secure, and continuously reliable. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Things discussed in the episode: 1) Background 2) Overall vision of Pyrofex

 3) Pyrofex’s involvement with projects - Rchain, pyr8, cryptofex 
4) Current status of development of Rchain 5) Where does Rchain fit in overall picture 
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