Welcome to this second and final installment of this deep dive on institutional cryptoasset staking, staking as a service, and leveraging staking to generate returns. My guest today is Joe Buttram, founder and CEO of EON Staking.

This two-part deep dive is divided into four chapters: 

- Chapter One: What staking is and a step-by-step process for doing it
- Chapter Two: The ins and outs of the institutional “staking-as-a-service” business model 
- Chapter Three: The regulatory landscape around staking and how the IRS, the SEC, and the CFTC view staking 
- Chapter Four: What the future of staking and staking based blockchains might look like

Chapters 1 and 2 were covered in the previous episode. In today's episode, we finish up chapter 2 and dive into chapters 3 and 4.

We discuss:

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Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.

Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at [email protected].

Welcome to this two-part deep dive on institutional cryptoasset staking, staking as a service, and leveraging staking to generate returns. My guest today is Joe Buttram, founder and CEO of EON Staking. 

This two-part deep dive is divided into four chapters: 

- Chapter One: What staking is and a step-by-step process for doing it with tokens you may be holding
- Chapter Two: The ins and outs of the institutional “staking-as-a-service” business model 
- Chapter Three: The regulatory landscape around staking and how the IRS, the SEC, and the CFTC view staking
- Chapter Four: What the future of staking and staking based blockchains might look like

In this episode, we cover chapters 1 and 2.

We discuss:

Sponsors

Nexo

Nexo is the world’s largest & most trusted crypto lender offering automated instant crypto credit lines, which allow you to use your crypto (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether, XRP) as collateral to get cash in 45+ fiat currencies & stablecoins without selling your cryptoassets. Nexo also offers interest earning accounts yielding up to 6.5% per year for stablecoins & Euros. Interest is paid out daily & you can add or withdraw funds at any time.

Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.

Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at [email protected].

Today’s episode is the second and final installment of our 2-part exploration on investing for Bitcoin accumulation with Tuur Demeester from Adamant Capital. Before Adamant Capital, Tuur was the Editor in Chief for Adamant Research, a global macro investment research firm.

While most investment strategies seek returns in US Dollars, Tuur focuses on generating returns in BTC. He also measures his success against Bitcoin, a much higher bar than investing for USD returns. There is a growing number of crypto fund limited partners who are looking for funds denominated in BTC, and which charge fees based on returns in BTC. Tuur's general approach is in line with this philosophy.

This deep dive is broken up into 4 chapters. In episode #44, we covered Chapters 1 and 2:

- Chapter 1: Why one would invest to accumulate BTC vs. USD.
- Chapter 2: How Bitcoin accumulation investment methods differ from methods for generating returns against the US Dollar.

In today’s episode, we focus on Chapters 3 and 4:

- Chapter 3: Methods of investing for Bitcoin accumulation.
- Chapter 4: Tuur’s unfiltered thoughts on Ethereum and his take on the future of Bitcoin.

In this episode we discuss:

Sponsors

Nexo

Nexo is the world’s largest & most trusted crypto lender offering automated instant crypto credit lines, which allow you to use your crypto (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether, XRP) as collateral to get cash in 45+ fiat currencies & stablecoins without selling your cryptoassets. Nexo also offers interest earning accounts yielding up to 6.5% per year for stablecoins & Euros. Interest is paid out daily & you can add or withdraw funds at any time.

Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.

Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at [email protected].

I'm joined by Tuur Demeester from Adamant Capital. We discuss investment strategies for accumulating BTC and generating returns against BTC (instead of USD). 

While most investment strategies focus on generating returns in US Dollars, Tuur focuses on generating returns in BTC. He measures his success against Bitcoin, which over the course of Bitcoin's short history, is a much higher bar for an investor. There is a growing number of crypto fund limited partners looking for funds denominated in BTC, and which charge fees based on returns in BTC.

Our deep dive into investing for Bitcoin accumulation will be covered in two parts and split into four chapters:

- Chapter 1: Why one would invest to accumulate BTC vs. USD
- Chapter 2: How Bitcoin accumulation investment methods differ from methods for generating returns against the US Dollar
- Chapter 3: The methods of investing for Bitcoin accumulation
- Chapter 4: Tuur’s unfiltered thoughts on Ethereum and his take on the future of Bitcoin

In today’s episode, we focus on Chapters 1 and 2.

In this episode we discuss:

Sponsors

Nexo

Nexo is the world’s largest & most trusted crypto lender offering automated instant crypto credit lines, which allow you to use your crypto (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether, XRP) as collateral to get cash in 45+ fiat currencies & stablecoins without selling your cryptoassets. Nexo also offers interest earning accounts yielding up to 6.5% per year for stablecoins & Euros. Interest is paid out daily & you can add or withdraw funds at any time.

Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.

Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at [email protected].

My guest today is Stephen McKeon. Stephen is a visiting fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, a finance professor at the University of Oregon, and most relevant to this podcast, a partner at Collaborative Fund where he’s leading a dedicated effort called Collab Crypto.

This is Stephen’s 3rd appearance on the podcast, making him our most frequent guest. His other two appearances were on episode 19, “The Economics of Cryptoasset Markets” and our very popular security token audio documentary entitled, “Tokenize The World.”

Professor McKeon is back on the show to explore the state of crypto-focused venture capital, Collab Crypto's thesis and approach to structuring investments, and what Stephen believes to be the biggest investment opportunities.

In this episode we discuss:

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Veil Project

Veil defines itself as ‘privacy without compromise’ — providing anonymity through a combination of technologies like Zerocoin and RingCT. Having launched this year with over $1 million in seed funding, Veil boasts an experienced team, including members working on Ravencoin, PIVX, and more. Before its launch, the Veil team released the X16RT mining algorithm, which has been adopted by projects seeking resistance to ASICs and FPGAs.

Veil’s hybrid Proof-of-Work & Proof-of-Stake consensus lets users mine the coin, stake with Zerocoin, or both. Find Veil on leading data feeds like Nomics, CoinMarketCap, Blockfolio, & CoinGecko. To learn more about Veil, check out their website here.

Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.

Today, instead of an interview, you’ll hear a short public service announcement about tax-loss harvesting.

Right now, during this period between the bear market and a potential bull market, where prices are going sideways, it would behoove a lot of people to consider doing some tax-loss harvesting

To explain tax-loss harvesting in more detail, you’ll hear from my friend, Zac McClure, co-founder of TokenTax.

I personally go to Zac for help with this stuff.

In this short episode, you’ll learn:

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Veil Project

Veil defines itself as ‘privacy without compromise’ — providing anonymity through a combination of technologies like RingCT. Having launched this year with over $1 million in seed funding, Veil boasts an experienced team, including members working on Ravencoin, PIVX, and more. Before its launch, the Veil team released the X16RT mining algorithm, which has been adopted by projects seeking resistance to ASICs and FPGAs.

Veil’s hybrid Proof-of-Work & Proof-of-Stake consensus lets users mine the coin, stake or both. Veil states that staking allows Veil users to earn rewards anonymously by holding coins in their wallets. Find Veil on leading data feeds like Nomics, CoinMarketCap, Blockfolio, & CoinGecko. To learn more about Veil, check out their website here.

Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.

In this episode, we explore privacy coin investing with our guest, Jordan Clifford, Co-founder and Managing Director at Scalar Capital. Before Scalar, Jordan was a lead growth engineer at Coinbase and a business analyst at Capital One. 

Hear Jordan & Clay discuss the fungibility of cryptoassets, the privacy coin landscape, and how macrotrends in society will lead to increased interest in privacy-centric cryptoassets.

In this episode we discuss:

Sponsors

Veil Project

Veil defines itself as ‘privacy without compromise’ — providing anonymity through a combination of technologies like Zerocoin and RingCT. Having launched this year with over $1 million in seed funding, Veil boasts an experienced team, including members working on Ravencoin, PIVX, and more. Before its launch, the Veil team released the X16RT mining algorithm, which has been adopted by projects seeking resistance to ASICs and FPGAs.

Veil’s hybrid Proof-of-Work & Proof-of-Stake consensus lets users mine the coin, stake with Zerocoin, or both. Veil states that staking with Zerocoin allows Veil users to earn rewards anonymously by holding coins in their wallets. Find Veil on leading data feeds like Nomics, CoinMarketCap, Blockfolio, & CoinGecko. To learn more about Veil, check out their website here.

Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.

On March 19, 2019, Bitwise, a crypto asset management firm, filed a report with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) in hopes of getting approval for their Bitcoin ETF. In the report, Bitwise asserted that 95% of exchange volume was fake and only 10 exchanges had "real volume." 

This report spread like wildfire throughout crypto Twitter.

Today, I'm joined by Nathaniel Whittemore, curator of Long Reads Sunday and coauthor of the 6,000-word mammoth on our blog entitled, "Crypto Market Cap: An In-Depth Review & Survey Of Emerging Alternatives." In this episode, we turn the tables as he interviews me about my take on the Bitwise report. 

Please enjoy this conversation between myself and Nathaniel Whittemore.

In this episode we discuss:

Sponsor: Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.

Welcome to the second and final installment of this two-part case study on fund tokenization. This case study is an addendum to our security tokenization audio documentary, entitled "Tokenize The World," which has +100k downloads. If you haven't heard it yet, check it out at securitytokendocumentary.com.

About this episode:

In this case study, our guest Rob Nance from CityBlock capital is brutally honest about the arduous process of issuing his fund's NYCQ security token.

(Note: if he’d known from the outset how difficult the journey would have been, he might never have started... especially given the bear market, the immaturity of legal precedent, etc.).

Here’s some real talk: I regularly hear people who have never actually issued a security token advising companies to tokenize. In fact, on at least 10 occasions, people have suggested that Nomics -- the company that runs this podcast -- tokenize our equity (as if it were a simple process). Nothing could be further from the truth.

As far as I know, this is the first published end-to-end case study and deep dive on what it actually takes to tokenize.

This case study is broken up into three chapters: 

- Chapter 1: Tokenized funds – what they are, how they work, and the benefits they provide.
- Chapter 2: The five steps required to launch a tokenized fund.
- Chapter 3: Rob’s take on what the future looks like.

In the previous episode, we covered Chapter 1 and the beginning of Chapter 2. In today’s episode, we will finish exploring Chapter 2 and conclude with Chapter 3. 

In this episode we discuss:

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Currency.com

Currency.com is the world’s first regulated tokenized securities exchange that allows you to use your Bitcoin or Ethereum holdings – and even fiat – to trade the world’s biggest markets through tokenized securities. Choose to trade with up to 100x leverage or buy and sell assets of your choice from over 200 tokenized securities. Crypto traders are able to trade traditional financial assets without putting their holdings under price pressure or exchanging to fiat. Of course, this is all possible with the security, trust, and precision of blockchain technology. It’s simple: trade with crypto, profit in crypto.

Sign up using our special link here.

Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets, instead of identifying opportunities, or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.

This case study is an addendum to our security tokenization audio documentary, entitled "Tokenize The World," which has +100k downloads. If you haven't heard it yet, check it out at securitytokendocumentary.com.

About this episode:

In this case study, our guest Rob Nance from CityBlock capital is brutally honest about the arduous process of issuing his fund's NYCQ security token.

(Note: if he’d known from the outset how difficult the journey would have been, he might never have started... especially given the bear market, immaturity of legal precedent, etc.).

Here’s some real talk: I regularly hear people who have never actually issued a security token advising companies to tokenize. In fact, on at least 10 occasions, people have suggested that Nomics -- the company that runs and runs this podcast -- tokenize our equity (as if it were a simple process). Nothing could be further from the truth.

As far as I know, this is the first published end-to-end case study and deep dive on what it actually takes to tokenize.

This case study is broken up into three chapters:

- Chapter 1: Tokenized funds – what they are, how they work, and the benefits they provide.
- Chapter 2: The five steps required to launch a tokenized fund.
- Chapter 3: Rob’s take on what the future looks like.

In this episode we discuss:

Our Sponsors:

Currency.com

Currency.com is the world’s first regulated tokenized securities exchange that allows you to use your Bitcoin or Ethereum holdings – and even fiat – to trade the world’s biggest markets through tokenized securities. Choose to trade with up to 100x leverage or buy and sell assets of your choice from over 200 tokenized securities. Crypto traders are able to trade traditional financial assets without putting their holdings under price pressure or exchanging to fiat. Of course, this is all possible with the security, trust, and precision of blockchain technology. It’s simple: trade with crypto, profit in crypto.

Sign up using our special link here.

Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API

The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets, instead of identifying opportunities, or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.