Caitlin Long talks about her new venture, Avanti Bank, which will be a Wyoming special-purpose depository institution, what that means, and how that could bypass the New York Bitlicense. She[…]
Category: 2020
How 2 DeFi Attacks Made Almost $1 Million in Profit
Lev Livnev, a formal verification researcher at dapp.org and a founding partner at Symbolic Capital Partners, talks about the two attacks on bZx in the last week. He describes what[…]
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on Her Safe Harbor Proposal
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce discusses her proposal for a three-year safe harbor period for token sales. We talk about what problems she hopes to solve with this suggestion, the conditions[…]
Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, on the Launch of Loop
Elizabeth Stark, cofounder and CEO of Lightning Labs, talks about her company’s two big announcements this week: the beta launch of its first paid product, Lightning Loop, and the company’s[…]
Want a Job in Crypto? Exchanges Are Hiring
Frank Chaparro of The Block discusses the report released by his firm and the Blockchain Association on employment trends in the blockchain industry. He covers how the demand for such[…]
How DeFi Liquidators Make Money With Just Bots
Tom Schmidt, junior partner at Dragonfly Capital, talks about how liquidators are making money in DeFi — on which protocols, how liquidations work, and how much money they’re making. He[…]
PoolTogether: Save Money, With a Chance to Win
Leighton Cusack, CEO and cofounder of PoolTogether, describes how the Ethereum-based no-loss lottery applies the psychology of winning a prize to the action of saving money, to get more people[…]
Why Bitcoin Outperformed Most of the Crypto Assets in 2019
Nate Maddrey, senior research analyst of Coin Metrics, gives an overview of how the major crypto networks ended 2019. We discuss how Bitcoin outperformed most other crypto assets last year,[…]
Kyle Samani on How 2020 Will Be the Year of Small Success Stories
Kyle Samani, managing partner of Multicoin Capital looks ahead to 2020 based on how the space changed from 2018 to 2019. He talks about how the space has matured and[…]