Flywheel DeFi

This week, Charlie Curran dives into how Memecoins are an avant-garde art form and what his experiences in the trenches has been like since the launch of pump(dot)fun.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction & Background

07:19 From Fashion and Film to Crypto

10:40 Finding Pump(dot)fun

13:20 Memecoins vs Culture coins

15:35 $P*SSYINBIO Lore

20:55 Community and Cult Formation

24:00 Cultural Shifts and CT Blindspots

30:49 Avant-Garde Art and Crypto Culture

37:10 The Rise of Ball Up Top

42:46 Ball Up Top Community vs P*SSYINBIO

47:28 Trying To Fork Culture

50:30 Ethereum vs Solana

54:54 Future of Culturecoins & Memecoins

1:02:07 Celebrities & Memecoins

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This week we hosted Kyle Chayka, author of Filterworld. We dive into his key findings on how algorithms flatten culture, impact the crypto industry and more.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction and Background

03:47 Writing Filterworld

05:55 Stuck Culture: The Rise of Mainstream Social Internet

08:00 Understanding How Algorithms Work

11:35 Different Flavours of Algorithms

14:47 Flattening

16:20 TikTok’s Optimized Algorithm

21:45 The Homogenization of Culture

22:40 Taste or Algorithmic Recommendations?

24:37 Platform-Based Cultures

30:45 Ineffable Taste vs Data-driven Recommendations

34:00 Sandcastle Platforms & Non-Algo Platforms

36:17 Better Regulation for Social Networks

45:00 AI Further Flattening Culture and Creativity

53:13 Balancing Novelty and Taste in Content Consumption

56:35 Post-Game Show

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This week we invited Reffo, the co-founder of Puffpaw, the only vape-to-earn crypto project with a unique gamified twist.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction and Background

07:25 Choosing to build on Berachain

12:12 Vaping-to-quit Tokenomics

15:00 The Encrypted ‘Smart Vape’

16:55 3 Core Game Factors

17:40 What Happens When You Quit?

20:46 Cutting Out The Middle Men

22:57 How Vapes Really Work

28:32 In-House Vape Production

32:00 GTM and Web3 Onboarding

36:30 Pitching Vape-to-earn

40:20 Target Market/Consumer

41:56 PuffPaw Business Model

48:59 Berachain Eco

57:29 Post-Game Show

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This week we dive into Initia, a permissionless interwoven system of rollups that aims to support the next generation of appchains.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction and Background

07:30 The Initia Idea

10:47 Building a Permissionless Interwoven Ecosystem

12:15 Initia’s Apple Design Influence

15:53 The 3 Pillars of Initia

19:54 Enshrined Liquidity, initUSDC Pool and Fees

24:48 Rollbacks and Fraud-proofs

26:16 Instant Bridging w/ MinitiaSwap

31:35 Building on the L1 vs L2

34:28 Attracting and Incubating Appchains

43:00 Aligned Interwoven Projects and Users

46:39 The Origin of “Interwoven”

49:37 Community Alignment and Long-Term Success

51:54 Initia’s Comprehensive Product Suite 55:05

VIP Program: Rewarding Engagement and Loyalty

1:08:06 Memetic and Communication Strategy 1:13:24 Post-Game Show

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In this week’s episode, Stuti from Kraken Ventures shares her journey into crypto and what winning GTM strategies for stablecoins looks like.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction and Background

10:00 Go-to-Market Strategies for Stablecoins

13:00 The Signal Waterfall

19:09 DeFi Builders and Apps

21:00 The Brain Surgeons of DeFi

22:04 Crypto Institutions

26:19 The Degens

32:46 General Consumers

38:25 How to “Stay in The Market”; Long-Term Success

41:40 Scaling and Competing with Established Stablecoins

43:14 The Success Metrics of Stablecoin Projects

51:07 What Does Success Mean?

54:04 Exploring Potential Angles to Take Market Share

1:03:04 Post-Game Show

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Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.

This week we hosted Joey Roth, the founder of Dyad, “The first capital efficient overcollateralized stablecoin”. We dive into Joey’s journey in building DYAD througout the bear and its unique stablecoin design. We dive into the the Kerosene flywheel, building a user friendly platform, how DYAD plans to scale in the future.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction

03:00 Building Dyad in the Bear Market

13:30 Introducing DYAD: Enhancing Capital Efficiency

22:27 The Liquidation Process for Undercollateralized Positions

29:42 Understanding Notes as NFTs

33:01 XP Boosts

36:00 The Secondary Market for Notes

43:17 The Kerosene Flywheel 45:00 Airdrops

48:45 Raising the Right Amount of Funding

49:30 DYAD GTM

52:33 What a DYAD Anchor would look like

1:00:18 Solving The Stablecoin Trilemma

1:06:09 Buying Bananas at The Supermarket w/ DYAD

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This week we hosted Anon of Apollo DAO. He shares his origin story, his involvement in the Cosmos ecosystem, and much more. He discusses the challenges he faced during the fall of Terra his spot-on predictions of the collapse of FTX, and what he is up to now in the land of Cosmos.

Timeline:

00:00 Introduction and Background

02:59 Into the Cosmos and Apollo DAO

10:00 Challenges and Decisions During the Collapse of Terra

15:00 Navigating Crisis and Rebuilding

18:07 Skepticism Towards FTX Before Their Collapse

25:27 Challenges in the Cosmos Ecosystem

28:35 What Are Conflict of Interests

30:56 The Need for Transparency and Competition

36:15 Customizability and Interesting Tech in Cosmos

45:30 Promising Projects in the Cosmos Ecosystem

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In this week’s episode Sam Williams, founder of Arweave & AO, dives into the the concept of permanent storage on blockchains and the importance of user rights in cyberspace. Sam explains how Arweave was built to provide decentralized replication of data sets that can't be easily censored. In addition, Sam shares some spicy takes on Ethereum and restaking.

Timeline

00:00 Introduction to Arweave and Permanent Storage

06:49 The Philosophy of User Rights in Cyberspace 10:45 Ethereum Hot Take

21:30 The Future of Arweave

25:36 Introduction to AO and its Approach

38:02 Building with Purpose and Passion

41:30 The Technical Details of AO

49:21 Security and Scalability in AO

54:34 Payment Options and Conclusion

56:18 Token Mint Model for Incentivizing Growth

01:11:35 Rapid Growth in TVL

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In this week's episode, Cindy shares her journey from prop trader to builder and all the trials and tribulations that come with being a founder. She goes into what Drift is, how it works, and the future roadmap they have in store.

Timeline

00:00 Introduction to Drift and Solana DeFi

03:04 Building on Solana and the Challenges Faced

07:21 Early Days of Building on Solana

09:54 Navigating the Bear Market and Building Through the Dark Times

18:12 Positioning Drift in the Meme Coin Craze

21:14 The Inflection Point and Grounded Organic Interest

26:04 Drift's Vision and Capturing the Entire Asset Lifecycle

31:11 The Role of Smaller Market Makers in Solana's Liquidity

33:13 The Liquidity Trifecta 35:42 The Backstop AMM for Less Liquid Markets

37:27 Just-in-Time Liquidity for Market Orders

40:32 Lessons Learned from LP Pool Marketing

43:41 Exploring the Architecture of Drift v3

46:39 The Ideal Future for Drift's Execution Environment

53:15 Dealing with the Influx of Airdrop Farmers

55:32 Drift's Metrics and Future Goals

58:54 Recommended Guest: FP from Sanctum

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In this week's episode, 0xSami reveals the first major news in Redacted's metamorphosis into Dinero with ipxETH, a first-of-its-kind income fund from Nomura's Digital Asset Unit, Laser Digital Group. 0xSami reveals how the collaboration was forged and emphasizes the importance of distribution for DeFi.

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Timestamps

02:28 DeFi Growing Up and Recognizing the Market

05:22 Introducing ipxETH: An Institutional Staked ETH Income Fund

08:54 Going the Institutional Route to Scale and Onboard Capital

16:03 How ipxETH is Structured

25:34 Building the Rails for Institutional Capital

33:38 DINERO Token Migration

43:17 Separate Tokens and Distribution of Yield

48:37 Distribution Strategy for Dinero

51:46 Vision for Dinero

54:00 Berachain Updates