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[…]
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Spencer Bogart on the $20 Trillion in Store-of-Value Assets
Spencer Bogart, general partner at Blockchain Capital, the first VC firm to tokenize one of its funds, talks about how well offering tokenized shares has worked out, why it didn’t[…]
Olga Feldmeier on Why Switzerland Has Welcomed Crypto
Olga Feldmeier, CEO of SmartValor, describes how her upbringing in Ukraine when it was undergoing 10,000% and 5,000% annual inflation helped her understand the potential in Bitcoin years later, and[…]
Pantera Capital: How Bitcoin Could Reach $356,000 in a Few Years
Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, and Joey Krug, co-chief investment officer of Pantera and founder of Augur, discuss where we are in the development cycle of blockchain[…]
Why Crypto Regulation Is Surprisingly Cypherpunk
Lawson Baker, head of operations and general counsel at TokenSoft (disclosure: a previous sponsor of the podcast), explains the significance of this week’s SEC statement on broker-dealer custody of digital[…]
Not Sure a Cryptoeconomic System Will Work? Gauntlet Can Help
Tarun Chitra, cofounder and CEO of Gauntlet, describes how his company enables crypto teams to run through simulations to see how their design choices will affect the project once it[…]
Token Economy’s Stefano Bernardi on How DAOs Could Create a Less Capitalist World – Ep.029
In this wide-ranging conversation, the Token Economy newsletter coauthor Stefano Bernardi talks about fully digital security tokens — security tokens with no relation to real world securities like companies and[…]
All Things Cryptoeconomics, Pt. 1, With Olaf Carlson-Wee and Ryan Zurrer of Polychain Capital
In an intermittent series on cryptoeconomics, Olaf Carlson-Wee and Ryan Zurrer of crypto hedge fund Polychain Capital describe what cryptoeconomics is, what goals it typically helps networks accomplish and what[…]
Will Warren of 0x on Why Decentralized Exchanges Are the Future
Will Warren, cofounder of decentralized exchange protocol 0x, was working on building tokenized derivatives for Ethereum when he and his cofounder realized there would be no place to trade them.[…]
Naval Ravikant On How Crypto Is Squeezing VCs, Hindering Regulators And Bringing Users Choice
The executive chairman of AngelList and partner at crypto hedge fund MetaStable explains how blockchains are changing the entrepreneurship model, his philosophy for crypto investing, and what kind of threat[…]