Exploring the Blockchain

George Tsiolis joins us to talk buying Bored Apes, building ReidarDAO, and the confluence of AI and NFTs.

00:00 - Introduction

04:38 - Buying Bored Ape

09:29 - Future of NFTs

14:44 - Building ReidarDAO

38:27 - Recruiting talent and members

43:29 - George’s Tweets

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Richard Zhang, the President of Blockchain at USC joins us to talk about DAOs, crypto use cases, and working in venture capital.  

00:00 - Introduction

01:48 - Building the Blockchain at USC Club

03:25 - Best way to learn about crypto

06:55 - Correlation between building and prices

08:44 - VC impact in crypto space

11:40 - Particular categories Dragonfly looks at

13:21 - Richard’s presents a use case of crypto

18:27 - Identity management

21:20 - Community

25:20 - When will we see real use cases? 

27:00 - Richard’s tweets

32:30 - Diversity in Web3 

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Lili Wang joins the Exploring the Blockchain podcast to talk about investing in crypto, gives advice to new traders, discussing crypto regulation, and talks about investing in blockchain projects.

(00:00) - Introduction

(03:12) - Investing indicators

(06:28) - Advice for new traders

(07:44) - Differences in traditional finance and crypto

(10:12) - Will crypto become less volatile?

(12:23) - Regulation

(14:20) - Hype vs technology

(18:32) - Future of NFTs

(20:40) - Investing in blockchain projects

(25:40) - Blockchain adoption

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In this episode, Alex from Footprint Analytics talks to us about blockchain analytics, GameFi, NFTs, and tokenomics.

(00:00) - Introduction

(03:04) - What is Footprint Analytics

(09:17) - What is GameFi

(14:25) - Tokenomics of GameFi

(20:28) - Do we need NFTs in gaming

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Felix joins us to talk about DAOs, tokens, governance, and using DAOs for good.

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:36) - What is a DAO?

(04:50) - What is Juicebox?

(08:07) - Does more money mean more power?

(11:13) - DAO vs regular nonprofit

(12:55) - Tracing money

(16:12) - Token ownership benefits

(18:00) - DAOs for good

(21:05) - Types of people in DAOs

Felix: https://twitter.com/RealFelixander

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Today we talk to James Healy about crypto use cases, what it's going to take for mainstream adoption, bitcoin as an inflation hedge, and educating people about Web3.

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:45) - Do we even need crypto?

(04:24) - Mainstream adoption

(08:40) - Fundraising

(10:14) - Crypto and the government

(12:23) - Inflation hedge

(15:10) - Banks in DeFi

(17:52) - Collateral in DeFi

(19:50) - Educating people about Web3

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Today we are joined by Colby from GET Protocol to talk about using NFTs as tickets.

(00:00) - Introduction to GetProtocol

(01:45) - Value of NFT ticket

(04:05) - Drawbacks to NFT ticketing

(07:45) - Why NFT tickets are necessary

(12:30) - Other Web3 ticketing platforms

(15:10) - Web2.5

(17:40) - NFTs as more than art

(21:23) - Future of GetProtocol

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In this episode, we talk to Jai Bhavnani, founder of Rari Capital. Rari ultimately managed over $1.5b, and has since merged with the Fei Protocol to create TribeDAO.

(00:00) - Introduction

(00:35) - Jai’s background and how he got started

(03:40) - What is DeFi

(05:00) - What is a yield aggregator and what Rari Capital does

(06:53) - Where does the yield come from

(09:35) - What is Fuse

(10:50) - Current markets

(12:05) - Using Twitter

(14:00) - Autonomous Philanthropy Machine

(15:16) - What’s next for Jai

(17:00) - How Jai manages school, business, mental health

(18:00) - Does Jai go to classes

(19:51) - Crypto regulation

(22:00) - Does location matter

(22:56) - Founding story of Rari Capital

(25:10) - DAOs

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Today we are joined by Dr. Vincenzo Quadrini, who is a macroeconomist and professor of Finance and business economics at the Marshall School of Business. We talk problems with traditional finance, decentralized finance, and liquidity in crypto markets.

(00:00) - Introduction

(02:12) - Drawbacks of traditional finance

(05:37) - Drawbacks of DeFi

(09:16) - Future of DeFi

(14:53) - Regulation

(18:16) - Teaching crypto

(24:01) - Current crypto market

(26:20) - Liquidity in crypto

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Luca Cordova Stuart joins us to talk about making money with NFTs, play to earn gaming, and what he has his eye on in the current market.

(00:00) - Introduction

(02:27) - Finding projects/evaluating NFTs

(04:00) - Indicators in an NFT project

(06:08) - Using Twitter

(07:56) - NFTs in the future

(09:34) - Governments using the blockchain

(11:56) - Play to Earn

(17:45) - Moving platforms

(19:18) - NFT mass adoption

(21:52) - What Luca has his eye on

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