In this episode, Matthew and Brileigh sit down with Jacopo from Slice. Slice is a decentralized commerce protocol that lets you sell anything on-chain and dynamically split payments between different addresses. In this episode, we talk about Jacopo’s background and how Slice got started, the synergy between Juicebox and Slice, as well as a glimpse into how Blunt Finance is disrupting the VC funding model.

Chapters:

00:01:06 Jacopo’s background

00:02:03 Transitioning from materials to software engineering and discovering crypto

00:03:11 Jacopo’s interest in the Bitcoin white paper

00:04:00 What is Slice

00:05:03 Origin story of Slice

00:06:01 Jacopo’s interest in finding an objective value in NFTs

00:08:32 How Slice works

00:09:39 What are Superowners and Superowner Slices

00:11:05 How on-chain transactions can be linked to physical goods

00:14:44 Use cases for Slice

00:16:30 The long-term vision for Slice

00:17:31 The value of d-stores & why we should make purchases on-chain

00:19:19 The challenges of building Slice

00:21:44 Merge-to-earn

00:23:04 ERC-20 support for products and Slicers

00:23:52 Why Slice is a DAO

00:25:04 Why Jacopo started a project on Juicebox

00:27:16 What is Blunt Finance

00:31:23 How Slice and Juicebox contracts work together on Blunt Finance

00:32:54 How Blunt Finance is solving issues in the VC model

00:34:49 What's coming next for Slice and Blunt Finance

Topics discussed:

Bitcoin Whitepaper

Slice

Juicebox

Merge to Earn

Villa Penelope

Blunt Finance

Follow Slice on Twitter: @slice_so

Follow Jacopo on Twitter @jj_ranalli

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

cc0 music by Daniel Allan (Collage 0069)