If you were on the internet for the past 6 months, chances are you have realized that we’re entering into the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and maybe even experimented with ChatGPT   As investors, you might have also considered what’s the best way for you to capitalize on this paradigm shift - Jake Brukhman is here to answer that   Jake is the Founder of CoinFund, one of the earliest crypto funds, and has a reputation for being extremely early to large trends. In this episode, he shares with us: Thesis on the Intersection of AI x Crypto Interesting Use Cases for AI in Crypto Will AI Destroy Humanity   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Crypto x AI (00:04:26) – Convergence of AI x Crypto (00:11:19) – Jake’s thesis on AI x Crypto (00:16:18) – Decentralizing computing for AI (00:25:42) – Interesting intersections of AI x Crypto (00:32:12) – Future of AI models (00:35:41) – AI disrupting investing (00:38:59) – Is open source dangerous for humans (00:41:58) – Problems AI builders should be solving     Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Read the full 30-page report on the future of Filecoin written by Blockcrunch over here: https://bit.ly/41gLdUm     More Resources: Guest Jake Brukhman’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jbrukh Jake’s post on Jargon: https://bit.ly/45aSNCU Jake’s article on AI x Web 3: https://bit.ly/435ZTa0 CoinFund’s Website: https://www.coinfund.io/   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

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The AI and Crypto Episode You've Been Waiting For - Jake Brukhman, CoinFund, Ep. 241

Despite complaints about privacy and exploitative revenue sharing, social media giants like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter still dominate the social media landscape after more than a decade   Why aren’t users and creators exploring other platforms? Well, they simply can’t since these giants own their data and audiences, and moving means losing all the progress they’ve built   In this Blockcrunch episode, Ryan Li, Co-Founder of CyberConnect, a decentralized social graph protocol trying to revolutionize the relationship between social media platforms and users, shares with us Why Web 3 social graphs are necessary Why you should switch over to Web 3 platforms The future of social media Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to CyberConnect (00:03:48) – History of CyberConnect (00:10:03) – Problems with Web 2 social platforms (00:13:28) – What is a social graph (00:16:00) – Incentives for building on CyberConnect (00:19:47) – Better monetization for creators (00:25:30) – Ownership and composability of data (00:31:57) – Why not social tokens (00:34:53) – Web 3 social graph landscape (00:42:13) – Are social graphs competitive or complementary (00:43:33) – CyberConnect’s monetization model (00:46:18) – Convincing users to switch over from Web 2     Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Ryan Li’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanli_me CyberConnect’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/cyberconnecthq Link3’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/link3to   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

Ex-BitTorrent CTO on Decentralized Social Networks: Overlooked or Overhyped? - Ryan Li, CyberConnect, Ep. 240

NFTs today are mostly static profile pictures. What if we could create more engaging experiences with dynamic NFTs in a decentralized manner? Tableland, a database protocol is revolutionizing data management in Web 3, allowing developers to build dApps in a Web 3-native manner while overcoming the limitations of existing databases  In this Blockcrunch episode, Andrew Hill, Co-Founder of Tableland shares with us Problems with existing databases Use cases unlocked by Tableland Entering Web 3’s data era Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Tableland (00:04:08) – Evolving NFTs with Tableland (00:07:53) – Limitations of blockchain as databases (00:10:22) – History of decentralized databases (00:14:58) – Where Tableland comes in (00:23:07) – Tableland vs blockchains (00:25:54) – Tableland vs Dune (00:27:30) – Tableland’s Rigs NFTs (00:31:12) – Tableland & Filecoin (00:36:05) – Tailwinds driving Tableland’s future     Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Andrew Hill’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewxhill Tableland’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tableland__ Tableland’s Website: https://tableland.xyz/   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

"This will change NFTs forever" - Behind Tableland, the New Web 3 Database for NFTs - Andrew Hill, Tableland, Ep. 239

P.S You can find our full report on stablecoins at https://bit.ly/3AtuuCl   Stablecoins, as the name suggests, were thought to be stable - that is, until the recent USDC depeg drama where the supposedly rock-solid stablecoin traded from one dollar to eighty five cents as one of the major custodial banks went under   Can we still trust major stablecoins like USDC or USDT? If not, what are some alternatives?   In this episode, Michael who wrote a 20-page research article on stablecoins for our Blockcrunch VIP subscriber breaks down for us Issues with current stablecoins Up and coming decentralized stablecoins Relevance of stablecoins in 2030   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.      Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Spencer (00:03:30) – What are stablecoins (00:07:11) – Different types of stablecoins (00:14:59) – Commentary on Liquity Protocol  (00:17:52) – Frax vs Liquity (00:19:53) – Dominance of USDT & USDC (00:24:22) – Path to decentralization  (00:27:51) – Gyroscope stablecoin (00:31:27) – Aave’s GHO & Curve’s crvUSD (00:35:24) – Relevance of stablecoins in the future     Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Michael Li: https://twitter.com/michael_lwy   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

Analyst Hour: Michael Li on Stablecoins

Have you ever wondered how professionals invest and trade NFTs?   How is it that some are seemingly able to time the market perfectly and accurately value something that supposedly trades on cultural relevance and memetic desire?   In this Blockcrunch episode, Spencer Sand-Gordon, Founder of Spencer Ventures, an NFT-only crypto fund demystifies NFT trading and shares with us: Entering and exiting NFT positions How to build investment theses for NFTs Future of NFT markets   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Spencer (00:03:13) – Spencer’s background  (00:06:30) – Starting an NFT-only fund (00:11:09) – Trading NFTs as a fund (00:17:07) – Sizing positions on NFTs (00:25:13) – Underwriting different collections (00:35:29) – NFT investing based on quantitative data (00:38:20) – Different NFT investment instruments Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Spencer Sand-Gordon’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sgsand1 Spencer Ventures’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/venturespencer Spencer Ventures’ Website: https://www.spencer.vc/   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

Finding 3x vs 200x bets: Secrets of a NFT Trading Fund - Spencer, Spencer Ventures, Ep. 238

In 2021, Axie Infinity took the world by storm as the world’s most popular Play-to-Earn game with 2.7 million concurrent users at its peak.   It also shocked the world a 2nd time in March 2022, albeit for a negative reason as its Ronin bridge suffered the largest bridge exploit of all time with $600M lost, Though users were made whole, confidence levels are inadvertently impacted   Despite everything and the current lull period for crypto-gaming, Sky Mavis has been diligently building behind the scenes and recently launched a few critical updates that could kickstart the next wave of crypto-games.    Today on Blockcrunch, Aleksander, Co-Founder of Sky Mavis shares with us Making users whole after the $600M exploit Decentralization of Ronin  Future of Ronin & crypto gaming   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Ronin (00:03:32) – Recent Games Developer Conference (00:05:18) – $600 million Ronin bridge exploit (00:10:48) – Making users whole (00:13:41) – Partnership with 5 new game studios (00:17:39) – Onboarding millions of users into GameFi (00:21:29) – Ronin’s strategy for the 1st cohort (00:31:08) – Structure of Ronin & game studio partnership (00:35:41) – Allocating resources across Axie Infinity, Ronin & partners (00:38:31) – Ronin vs other gaming chains (00:44:23) – The future of crypto gaming     Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Aleksander’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Psycheout86 Sky Mavis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkyMavisHQ Axie Infinity's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AxieInfinity Ronin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ronin_Network     Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about

Why 2023 Is the Year for Ronin - Aleksander Larsen, Sky Mavis, Ep. 237

Crypto has been always been likened to an echo chamber, where crypto-natives reinforce their beliefs over and over again with others on Twitter   Contrarian and long-term thinkers are rare, and today on Blockcrunch we have just the guest to talk about investing in frontiers that most crypto-natives have yet to pick up   Anirudh Pai, Partner at Dragonfly, shares with us: What it means to invest at the frontier Building an actual city with Praxis 2 overlooked verticals that are likely to take off in the future   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.   Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Ani (00:05:28) – Investing happens at the frontier (00:10:28) – Decentralized Science (00:19:29) – Ani’s thesis on metaverses (00:25:26) – Building a physical crypto city with Praxis (00:40:17) – The next big crypto verticals (00:44:47) – Successful founders are polymaths Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/   More Resources: Guest Anirudh Pai’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ani_pai     Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

Contrarian Crypto Theses for the Next 20 Years - Anirudh Pai, Dragonfly Capital, Ep. 236

Web 3 champions the ethos of decentralization, wherein users own their data, and services are trustless and permissionless. But ironically, much of Web 3 is built on centralized infrastructure.   Today we have David Choi, Product Manager at Protocol Labs, to share with us how Web3Storage and NFT.Storage allows developers to build on Filecoin to achieve higher levels of decentralization, amongst other benefits over centralized providers.   Watch this episode to learn: Web 2 vs Web 3 storage Why Filecoin should be the go-to-choice for developers Exciting updates and projects utilizing Filecoin   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.    Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Web3Storage (00:03:24) – Storage in Web 2 vs Web 3 (00:10:02) – Why is Filecoin better for data storage (00:13:58) – Web3Storage’s role (00:19:35) – Examples of projects utilizing Web3Storage (00:27:36) – Web3Link and Web3Name (00:31:43) – Truly Decentralized NFTs with NFT.Storage (00:36:36) – Why Filecoin is more suitable than Arweave for NFTs (00:41:50) – Improved services with FVM (00:44:09) – Upcoming exciting updates   Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/   More Resources:   Guest Web3Storage’s Website: https://web3.storage/  NFT.Storage’s Website: https://nft.storage/ Filecoin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Filecoin Filecoin’s Website: https://linktr.ee/filecoinio   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi   Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about

How Does Storage in Web 3 Work and Why It Is Important? - David Choi, Protocol Labs, Ep. 235

In the past month, the banking sector experienced its most turbulent period since 2008. Major crypto-friendly banks, including Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature, have gone under, while the 170-year-old Credit Suisse stands on the brink of being absorbed by its main competitor, UBS.   Are we witnessing a reenactment of the 2008 financial crisis? Will the BTFP Fed program ignite another bull run? Or, could we be entering a phase of hyperinflation where Bitcoin's value surges to $1 million within 90 days, as predicted by Balajis, the former CTO of Coinbase?   Today on Blockcrunch, we have Ram, CEO of Lumida who was also previously the Head of Crypto at Cross River, one of the remaining crypto-focused banks, and also the Vice President at Merril Lynch to help us separate signal from noise: Overview of the entire banking situation Will BTFP introduce liquidity into the market What will happen to the crypto markets   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Ram (00:04:14) – Why are banks falling? (00:08:55) – Deliberate crypto crackdown (00:15:59) – Is BTFP actually Quantitative Easing (00:24:18) – FED’s ability to continue rate hikes (00:29:21) – Can Bitcoin hit $1m in 90 days (00:32:29) – What is going on with Credit Suisse (00:38:57) – Tying everything back to crypto Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Ram Ahluwalia’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ramahluwalia     Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

What Silvergate & SVB Crisis Means for Crypto, According to Crypto Bank Insider - with Ram Ahluwalia, Lumida, Ep. 234

These few weeks have been turbulent for the markets to say the least, with 3 of the largest banks that support crypto winding down, USDC stablecoin de-pegging and more developments happening in real time.   Is this the end for crypto, or are we on the cusp of another bull-run?   Today we have Hal Press, founder of North Rock Digital who is known on Twitter for his timely and accurate calls, such as  the ETH Merge trade and more recently, his thesis on why USDC will return to peg. In this episode, he shares with us: Thoughts & how to navigate the recent market situation Outlook for BTC vs ETH Thesis on Stacks How to identity and assess narratives like a pro   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to the US banking situation (00:09:13) – Is Bitcoin a credible Store-of-Value? (00:15:59) – Balaji’s prophecy of $1M BTC in 90 days (00:20:25) – Thoughts on BTFP (00:23:49) – Will Bitcoin de-correlate from equities? (00:27:05) – Outlook for BTC vs ETH (00:31:17) – Impacts of upcoming BTC Halving (00:33:38) – Thesis on Stacks (00:44:19) – Tips on identifying narratives early Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Hal Press’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NorthRockLP North Rock Digital’s Website: https://northrockdigital.com/   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

Navigating Chaos as a Crypto Trader - Hal Press, North Rock Digital, Ep. 233

Opinion on DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations is split between 2 camps - those that don’t believe that decentralized organizations can be effective, and those that swear its the business model of the future To end the debate, there’s no one better to ask than DAO experts Anthony and Timour, who operate and invest in DAOs at the same time on: Why and when a DAO structure is better than traditional organizations Lessons learned in operating & investing in DAOs 2 promising up and coming DAOs Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Stacks (00:03:36) – 2 Favourite DAOs (00:07:16) – Why invest in DAOs (00:17:24) – Landscape of DAOs (00:23:46) – DAOs over conventional organizations (00:30:13) – Nouns DAO (00:33:11) – Examples where DAOs wouldn’t work  (00:37:13) – 2 promising up-and-coming DAOs (00:40:49) – Lessons learned in DAO investing (00:46:06) – Hallmarks of good DAO tooling Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Seed Club’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/seedclubvc Anthony’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/antavedissian Timour’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/timourxyz   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about

Why We're Investing $20M into DAOs - Anthony & Timour, Seed Club Ventures, Ep. 232

Recently, a new phenomenon called Ordinals, known as NFTs on Bitcoin reignited interest in Bitcoin and got people wondering - what else is possible and is this the start of something bigger?   At the center of this discussion is Stacks, a smart-contract layer built on Bitcoin that is working to unlock the $500 billion Bitcoin capital via DeFi, NFTs, and more.    In this Blockcrunch episode, Muneeb, co-creator of Stacks shares with us: How Stacks is going to unlock the potential of Bitcoin Why build on Bitcoin over other ecosystems Stack’s upcoming upgrades   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Stacks (00:03:24) – Stacks over the years (00:07:28) – Path to becoming 1st SEC-approved token offering  (00:11:48) – History of Bitcoin and blockchains (00:18:53) – Ordinals drawing attention back to Bitcoin (00:30:37) – Why some Bitcoin Maxis hate Ordinals (00:36:38) – Ordinal’s use-cases  (00:40:49) – What exactly is Stacks (00:47:58) – Use-case of Stacks token (00:51:26) – Why build on Bitcoin over other ecosystems (00:57:08) – How Ordinals benefits Stacks     Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Stacks’s Website: https://www.stacks.co/ Stacks’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Stacks Muneebs’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/muneeb   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

“This is the Most Important Thing on Bitcoin in the Past 5 Years” - Stack’s Muneeb Ali on Bitcoin Ordinals, Ep. 231

Over the past few months, there has been a steady uptick in activity on Arbitrum, an Optimistic Layer 2 scaling solution on Ethereum.  Today, Arbitrum is home to popular DeFi dApps and GameFi projects like GMX and Treasure and owns more than 50% of the market share against other Layer 2s like Optimism and Metis. In this Blockcrunch episode, A.J Warner, Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs shares with us: How the rollup landscape has evolved Difference between Arbitrum One, Arbitrum Nova and Optimism How Arbitrum became the top Layer 2 Path towards decentralization Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.   Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Arbitrum (00:03:19) – Rollup landscape NOW vs a year ago (00:06:34) – Arbitrum One gas fees vs Ethereum (00:09:16) – Arbitrum Nova; Arbitrum chain for social and games (00:14:19) – Trade-off of Arbitrum One vs Nova (00:17:43) – Apps verticalizing into their own app roll-ups (00:20:53) – Partnership with Reddit & social use-cases (00:25:17) – Arbitrum latest upgrade - Stylus (00:29:26) – Arbitrum vs Optimism (00:32:03) – Value accrual across different blockchain layers (00:35:34) – Path toward decentralization (00:38:26) – Changing from Optimistic to ZK rollup   Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/   More Resources: Guest Arbitrum’s Website: https://arbitrum.io/ Arbitrum’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/arbitrum A.J. Warner’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajwarner90   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

Arbitrum: Everything You Need To Know About The Top Layer 2 - A.J. Warner, Offchain Labs, Ep. 230

This is a sponsored episode from our collaboration with Filecoin Huddle01 is a decentralized video-meeting platform built to be scalable and secure from the get-go and features web 3 functions such as NFT-gated meetings and decentralized storage for meeting recordings.   In 2022, it hosted over 30,000 meetings that lasted over 500,000 minutes on its platform.    Today on Blockcrunch, Huddle01’s Co-Founder Ayush shares with us: Huddle01’s 3-pronged approach to decentralizing communication Problems with existing video-conferencing platforms How Huddle01 uses Filecoin as its backend Path to decentralizing real-time communication worldwide   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.   Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Huddle01 (00:03:21) – 3-pronged approach to decentralizing communication (00:07:22) – Problems with Zoom & Google Meets (00:14:49) – Infrastructure behind Huddle01 (00:17:22) – Importance of decentralized file storage (00:19:01) – Huddle’s moat over existing offerings (00:21:07) – What Filecoin Virtual Machine unlocks for dApps & users (00:27:29) – Path to decentralizing real-time communication (00:30:50) – Huddle01’s go-to-market strategy   Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/   More Resources: Guest Huddle01’s Website: https://www.huddle01.com/ Huddle01’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/huddle01com Ayush’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ranjan3118   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi   Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

How This Project Built “Zoom for Web 3” - Ayush Ranjan, Huddle01, Ep. 229

Ryan Breslow dropped out of Stanford to found payment startup Bolt, which later on raised $1.3 billion dollars at an $11 billion valuation - making Ryan one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires (according to Forbes)   Now, Ryan is on the mission of improving the health and wellness of the world with alternative medicine like natural remedies, by making them more accessible to all and giving them the credibility they need via clinical trials.  Today on Blockcrunch, Ryan shares with us: What exactly is Love DAO Why a DAO over the traditional company structure How Love fits in with crypto Tips for founders that are raising   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.   Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Ryan Breslow (00:05:04) – Journey to founding Love DAO (00:08:18) – Funding health products with Love DAO (00:18:00) – LoveDAO as an impact organization (00:25:22) – DAO as the optimal organizational structure   (00:28:49) – How LoveDAO fits in with crypto (00:30:28) – Difference between running a DAO & regular company (00:32:23) – Ryan’s tips for raising funds (00:35:48) – LoveDAO’s upcoming roadmap   More Resources: Guest Love’s Website: https://www.love.com/ Ryan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryantakesoff   Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi   Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about  

28-Year-Old Billionaire Launches DAO to Fund Health Research - Ryan Breslow, Love, Ep. 228

The crypto native's podcast for DeFi, NFTs, and Web 3. . Jason Choi (@mrjasonchoi), full-time crypto investor since 2018, goes deep into the technology and economics behind crypto projects to dissect trends and themes in a global context. Nothing on this show is financial advice. Blockcrunch and its personnel may hold positions in assets discussed on the show.

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