Genesis Block

By Sid Shah, Yash Palod & Sid Sanghvi

Genesis Block is a podcast and newsletter critically analysing and breaking down crypto protocols and themes🎙📰.

Hosted by Sid Shah, Yash Palod, and Sid Sanghvi, Genesis Block has 2 types of epis... more

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The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.

Genesis Block episodes:

November 02, 2023 #35: Genesis Block Interviews - Growth & Capital Markets at Maple Finance
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our 12th guest interview is with Sid Sheth, Growth & Capital Markets at Maple Finance.
Maple provides the technology for credit experts to start and scale a lending businesses. Their marketplace is where capital allocators participate in a growing range of yield opportunities offered by credit experts.
We interview Sid about his journey from TradFi to DeFi, and dive into exactly how Maple works and how it is better than the current status quo.
To learn more, listen on!
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47min
October 09, 2023 #34: Genesis Block Interviews - Adam Helfgott, Co-Founder of Valence
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our 11th guest interview is with Adam Helfgott, Co-Founder of Valence.
Valence is a data enablement company that leverages public blockchains to connect businesses to consumer data. They aim to drive new revenue streams and innovation opportunities by helping all parties receive value for data transactions while remaining secure. Their solutions allow users to store, trade, authenticate and prove origin of data and assets, no matter where the data or the user transacts.
We interview Adam about his journey as a serial entrepreneur, dive into exactly how Valence works and the benefits it brings to the wider data ecosystem, and Adam's broader thoughts about the blockchain space and how he sees it evolving over the next few years.
To learn more, listen on!
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48min
August 22, 2023 #33: Genesis Block Interviews - Halcyon Price, DeFi Derivatives Lead at Chainlink Labs
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our 10th guest interview is with Halcyon Price, DeFi Derivatives Lead at Chainlink Labs.
Chainlink, one of the core infrastructural components in the blockchain realm, enhances smart contracts by connecting them to real-world data sources and off-chain computation - via a technology known as Oracles - across any blockchain, and provide global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains.
We speak to Halcyon about his experience in the crypto space, the future of Chainlink, and a lot more!
To learn more, listen on!
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42min
July 01, 2023 #32: Genesis Block Interviews - Phillip Kassab, Growth Lead at Sei Network
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our 9th guest interview is with Phillip Kassab, Growth Lead at Sei Network.
Sei is an open-source Layer 1 blockchain specialized for trading, optimizing every layer of the stack to offer infrastructure for trading apps of all types. Leveraging a novel consensus mechanism and technical breakthroughs, Sei claims to be the fastest blockchain in existence.
The team behind Sei Network has raised over $30M from investors including Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, and Coinbase Ventures.
We speak to Phillip about his experience in the crypto space, what it takes to grow a Web3 protocol, and how Web3-native growth tooling is constantly evolving and maturing.
To learn more, listen on!
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54min
June 15, 2023 #31: Genesis Block Interviews - Chris James Murphy, Founder of Klink Finance
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our 8th guest interview is with Chris James Murphy, founder of Klink Finance.
Klink Finance is a gamified crypto asset management platform created to enable a completely new approach toward creating wealth among its user populations in a sustainable and exciting way. Klink's prize-linked deposit account aims to reward users with the chance to win $1M in USDC every week, for holding funds as little as $25. While this may sound too good (and risky) to be true, the idea itself is innovative and draws upon existing financial mechanisms.
To learn more, listen on!
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51min
May 28, 2023 #30: Genesis Block Interviews - Aki Balogh, Founder of DLC.LINK
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our seventh guest interview is with Aki Balogh, founder of DLC.LINK.
DLC.link enables self-custodied Bitcoin to be safely used in collateralised lending. It eliminates the need for third-party intermediaries such as custodians, wrapped tokens or bridges (which have led to over $140 billion in lost assets to date).
They've raised $1 million in funding from leading Web3 companies and VC funds, and their team includes professionals from Twitter and Goldman Sachs.
To learn more about Aki and DLC.LINK, start with their website: https://www.dlc.link/.
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51min
May 14, 2023 #29: Web3 Social Media
Social media built on Web3 wants to make the relationship between all stakeholders – creators, users, and the social media platform – more mutually beneficial, and make the presence of a highly extractive middleman obsolete.
Web3 social is a fundamentally new approach at re-architecting the traditional Web2 social media stack, where closed databases and opaque algorithms become open networks where users and creators own their data and there are transparent free market dynamics in algorithm and application feature development.
Listen to learn more!
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48min
April 20, 2023 #28: Zero Knowledge Proofs
ZKPs let someone prove that they know, have, or are something without giving up any information about what they know, have, or are.
At their core, ZKPs have strong cryptographic guarantees, with the use of cryptographic techniques like digital signatures and hashing providing assurances that the underlying data has not been accessed, modified, or disclosed in an unauthorised manner.
Watch on to learn more!
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March 06, 2023 #27: Genesis Block Interviews - Harshal Madnani, Founder of Xade Finance
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our sixth guest interview is with Harshal Madnani, founder of Xade Finance.
Xade aims to be the 'The Revolut of DeFi', providing all traditional banking services powered by in-house DeFi Protocols with the user experience of a digital bank, through a mobile application intended to be a SuperApp.
Xade is a moonshot. Harshal, only 16, is ambitious. This is just the beginning of a great story.
To learn more about Harshal and Xade's mission, start with their website: https://www.xade.finance/.
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59min
February 22, 2023 #26: Genesis Block Interviews - Florian Strauf and Mason Fasco of Tokenomics DAO
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our fifth guest interview is with Florian Strauf and Mason Fasco, co-founders and core members of Tokenomics DAO.
Tokenomics DAO is a community of individuals who explore and collaborate on the tokenomics of Web3 protocols and blockchain applications. They produce content and offer services and tools to help builders and investors get a better understanding of tokenomics.
Here are a few links to explore their offerings further. Join their Discord if you're interested in diving deep into this growing new field of token design!
- https://tokenomicsdao.xyz/
- https://www.youtube.com/@UCg5rYXKh2dX1P6lYNVnq6SQ
- https://tokenomicsdao.substack.com/
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How many episodes does Genesis Block have?

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