In this Best of 2019 episode, I selected the clips that seemed most representative of what crypto was about this year, which I call, The Year Things Got Geopolitical. My[…]
Tag: Defi
For Your Normie Friends: Answers to the Most Basic Crypto Questions
This fall, I had an idea to do a crypto show for my normie friends, and figured I’d release it over the holidays, when maybe my regular listeners would be[…]
How Synthetix Became the Second-Largest DeFi Platform
Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, talks about synthetic asset issuance platform, which enables people to create tokens that track the price of asset in traditional and crypto finance. We discuss[…]
How MakerDAO Now Features a Risk-Free Rate
Steven Becker, president and chief operating officer of the Maker Foundation, discusses the MakerDAO system’s transition to multi-collateral Dai, what benefits it gets from having multiple collateral types, why it[…]
Nick Tomaino on Why He Is Skeptical Libra Will Be Significant
Nick Tomaino, general partner of 1confirmation, discusses his firm’s second fund of $45 million, announced this week, how prospective LPs have changed from 2017 to 2019, and what types of[…]
To the Moon and Back With Polychain’s Olaf Carlson-Wee
How Polychain is faring during the crypto winter, where we are in the tech cycle, whether he thinks Ethereum 2.0 will deliver and how he views the competition in the[…]
Why Has MakerDAO’s Dai Struggled to Keep Its Dollar Peg?
Ryan Todd and Matteo Leibowitz, research analysts at The Block, discuss why Dai has fallen below $1 in price, how the community has attempted to keep it pegged to $1[…]
How to Earn Money on Collateral in DeFi — and Why That’s Risky
Dan Elitzer, investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, describes a concept he describes as superfluid collateral made possible in the decentralized finance space. We talk about which DeFi projects make this[…]