We're excited to share a conversation with Sid Powell, CEO and Founder of Maple Finance. The team at Maple is tackling one of the most risk involved and challenging issues of Decentralized Finance, undercollateralized lending. Sid is a unique founder in the web3 space, as he comes with a background in banking, not software development. We hope you find plenty of interesting ideas to chew on throughout this conversation.  https://twitter.com/sidbpowell 

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Deep Dive 12: DAOs, Defi, and the Evolution of Capital Markets with Sid Powell

This episode is another deep dive with an impressive builder of the ecosystem. James Prestwich has been involved in the ecosystem pre-Ethereum. He's a serial entrepreneur and developer, currently focused on cross chain interactions. Learn more about his experience in the links below! https://prestwi.ch/about-me/ https://twitter.com/_prestwich

Deep Dive 11: James Prestwich and Crypto Culture

The podcast launch this week was recorded in February as Square 1 was just forming as a concept. We talk with Griff Green, who has been a crypto nomad for about a decade. Griff brings with him a wealth of stories and experiences describing some of the early events that shaped the crypto ecosystem (such as the DAO hack). Learn about his experience, as well as his ongoing projects (links below). https://tecommons.org/ https://twitter.com/Givethio https://commonsstack.org/

Deep Dive 10: the Web3 Experience with Griff Green

This week we speak to the humble leader of Aave, a 5+ billion dollar lending protocol on Ethereum.

Deep Dive 9: the importance of Defi with Stani

Santi comes from Argentina and began building Democracy Earth in a YC cohort. This project continues to evolve, and at the time of the podcast he had just launched an experiment in Universal Basic Income called Proof of Humanity. If you’d like to take a first step into the crypto ecosystem, this would be a very interesting experiment and community to participate in (and you get streamed money for doing so!).

Deep Dive 8: Democracy Earth and Santiago Siri

In this episode we chat with two Australian Defi founders Sid and Kerman about their perspective on decentralized finance. We break Defi down into four primary functions: exchanges, lending services, derivatives, and insurance. This ~should~ be relatively encompassing of the different applications you can find in the ecosystem today.

Deep Dive 7: digging into Defi with Sid Powell and Kerman Kohli

This week we discuss the experience of Luke Duncan as a builder of the DAO space throughout the ecosystem. Luke started his work with Aragon, a generalized DAO framework that builds composable systems for voting and resource management. While at Aragon he was involved with developing a community called 1Hive. This is a group of builders that came together through a common token economy $HNY. Originally a valueless token used to represent contributions in the community, $HNY now has a $20 million dollar market cap. This path of tokenomic formation came in a very unique way and provides an interesting contrast to the typical flow of progressive decentralization. Learn more by finding Luke and 1Hive below! Luke: https://twitter.com/lkngtn 1Hive: https://twitter.com/1HiveOrg

Deep Dive 6: Exploring DAOs and 1Hive with Luke Duncan

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of the foundational concepts pioneered by those in the crypto ecosystem. The idea for these new forms of organizations have served as inspiration for idealists with visions of more equitable governance structures. All decentralized protocols and cryptocurrency networks wrestle with the question of governance both on the technical and the human level. While DAOs today generally imply the use of governance of cryptocurrency systems, Zargham makes the point that this question of decentralized governance is as old as human coordination. This is one of our favorite concepts to explore in this crazy world of magic Internet money. We're including a slew of links below. DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide, Vitalik Buterin https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide/ Thinking in Systems Donella Meadows, https://wtf.tw/ref/meadows.pdf Engineering a Safer World, Nancy Leveson, http://cs.utep.edu/isalamah/courses/5371/Engineering-a-Safer-World.pdf Small is Beautiful, Ernst Schumacher, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117634.Small_Is_Beautiful A theory of Justice, John Rawls, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129237.A_Theory_of_Justice Exit, Loyalty and Voice, Albert Hirschman, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149033.Exit_Voice_and_Loyalty Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/478.Bowling_Alone The Ethnography of Infrastructure, Susan L Star https://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi/GameLab/Recommended%20Readings/ethnography-infrastructure-Star-1999.pdf Governing the Commons, Elinor Ostrom https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1048424.Governing_the_Commons Coutnerintuitive Behavior of Social Systems, Jay Forrester https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-988-system-dynamics-self-study-fall-1998-spring-1999/readings/behavior.pdf (Excerpt From) The Cybernetics of Cybernetics, Margaret Mead https://asc-cybernetics.org/CofC/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/mead.html 

Deep Dive 5: Unpacking decentralization and autonomy in DAOs with Michael Zargham

Listen to the latest @Square1_pod as we talk to @paulgambill about the way crypto economics applies to the carbon removal market, and how @nori is pioneering a carbon negative economic system!

Deep Dive 4: Crypto and climate change with Paul Gambill from Nori

Cooper came from the music business and developed a passion for crypto as he traveled around the world creating content for artists at music festivals. He comes with a rich background in contributing to the ecosystem from a non-technical frame, focused on communication and human coordination. We discuss a broad swath of topics including yield farming, social tokens, NFTs, Defi summer, DAOs, and the collaborative nature of the environment facilitated by this technology. Find him on twitter or instagram at @coopahtroopa.

Deep Dive 3: Crypto Coordination and Entrepreneurism with Cooper Turley

Jordan Ellis is a very accomplished builder in the space. He transitioned from Microsoft game development to Ethereum in 2019 due to the promise decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) technology provided.  In traditional organizations, much of the work created dies. Only projects that make it to market become useful. In this open source ecosystem, this problem doesn't exist. The purpose of open source comes from sharing knowledge and information. Further, DAO systems provide opportunities for new methods of resource management to exist. These structures contradict the traditional corporate hierarchy to form a more flexible, flat management system. If you'd like to learn more about Jordan, find him here. We hope you enjoy the latest episode of Square 1!

Deep Dive 2: OS Systems and dGov with Jordan Ellis

We’re back. This week we’ll release two intro episodes. We’ve been thinking deeply about the way to best orient listeners. There will be a variety of intro episodes as well as deep dives. As you listen send feedback! We’d love to create the content you find most valuable. Disclaimer: none of this is legal nor investment advice. Find an advisor.

Intro to Crypto 1: Uncovering ideas in decentralized finance.

This week we’ll release two intro episodes. We’ve been thinking deeply about the way to best orient listeners and will do so via publishing a variety of intro episodes as well as deep dives. As you listen send feedback! We’d love to create the content you find most valuable. Disclaimer: none of this is legal nor investment advice. Find an advisor.

Intro to Crypto 1: What is Bitcoin and Ethereum?

This is the first episode of Square 1 season 1 where we talk to Andy Tudhope. Andy is a hacker-anthropologist and comes to the table with incredibly deep insights on the history of money, it's relevance to society, and how cryptocurrency continues to evolve this ancient form of communication.   Takeaways: The moment language appeared in history is the singularity for humankind. Money precedes written language. The concept of money is fundamentally "the water in which we swim" and requires awareness (please see David Foster Wallaces speech). Cryptocurrency is an evolution to the order of language, in order to push the boundaries of the infinite game.   Links: Finite and Infinite Games - https://wtf.tw/ref/carse.pdf This is Water - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMIDebt The First 5000 Years - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs

Deep Dive 1: Where does cryptocurrency come from?

Comments and ideas on the way ecosystems develop. Particularly interested in blockchain, Ethereum, the furture of work, and new economies.

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