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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February 15, 2023 #25: The State of NFTs
Commencing in the summer of 2021, NFTs have successfully widened the scope of “crypto” to a much larger audience. The primary reason for this is the technology’s ability to blend media and culture into the existing financial components of blockchain technology.
Given this, NFTs – implemented in their many forms – are meant to be the gateway to help onboard mainstream internet users. Not just the next 10 million, but 1 billion. Thus, it is important to occasionally take a pulse of the market so that we may recalibrate and reassess where we are in the adoption timeline.
Literature mentioned:
https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-year-ahead-for-nfts
https://medium.com/collab-currency/storing-value-in-digital-objects-a92f54fa98cc
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1h 12min
February 07, 2023 #24: Analysing New Order DAO, a Venture Incubator DAO
New Order DAO is a Venture Incubator DAO that aims to build and grow DeFi protocols.
They provide selected early stage startups with growth opportunities, networking, fundraising, and functional and technical support.
To date, New Order DAO has incubated [REDACTED], OptyFi, H2O, Frogs Anonymous, and Y2K Finance, and is in the process of bringing Motherboard, Sector Finance, and Wynd into the fold.
Note: We initially indicated in the podcast that New Order would be incubating IVX. However, this is no longer the case and they will now be incubating Sector Finance instead.
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1h 17min
December 25, 2022 #23: The Creator and Ownership Economy
The creator economy refers to the rise of individuals or groups who produce media with educational and/or entertainment value, in order to grow and monetise an audience.
This is in contrast to the ownership economy, which refers to the use of Web3 technology to enable participants of a platform, product, or network to gain ownership stakes in said platform, product, or network.
It is the intersection of the two that we discuss today.
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1h 13min
December 07, 2022 #22: Genesis Block Interviews - Vokkant Thakkar, Research Associate at Woodstock Fund
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our fourth guest is Vokkant Thakkar, a research associate at Woodstock Fund, India's first Web3-native venture fund.
Vokkant primarily focuses on the infrastructure and gaming verticals of Web3, but is well versed across various sectors in this nascent space of ours.
We discuss topics like the inner workings of a Web3 fund, the future of Bitcoin, scrutiny of tokenomics, the current market environment, and more!
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47min
November 24, 2022 #21: Analysing FRAX, a Partially-Collateralised Algorithmic Stablecoin
FRAX is a permissionless DeFi protocol that offers a range of DeFi products and services. Its primary product is a partially-collateralised algorithmic stablecoin that enables liquidity systems and lending markets.
FRAX also offers three other products:
- FRAX Swap, an Automated Market Maker (like Uniswap)
- FRAX Lend, a Lending Market (similar to Compound or AAVE)
- FRAX Ether, an Ethereum Liquid-Staking Derivative (similar to Lido stETH)
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1h 17min
November 15, 2022 #20: Market Update: FTX, Crypto's Enron?
Today's episode is an open discussion in light of the events of the last week.
We discuss FTX, SBF, the state of the market, and what comes next for our industry as a whole.
This episode structure will not be routine, and will only be called upon when there are pivotal developments in the market.
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November 07, 2022 #19: Genesis Block Interviews - Paul J Lei, Protocol Program Manager at Gauntlet
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our third guest is Paul J Lei, a protocol program manager at Gauntlet, one of the premier DeFi and crypto risk simulation platforms.
After having completed his undergraduate studies in Statistics from Harvard University, Paul worked in a couple of TradFi roles at investment banks like Jefferies and Goldman Sachs, where he advised the Financial Services sector, including banks, FinTechs, and hedge funds.
In these jobs, Paul noticed an undercurrent of how DeFi would replace TradFi, and that problems that FinTechs were trying to solve were burdened by legacy infrastructure, whereas crypto was built on a parallel infrastructure. DeFi combined his interests in statistics and computer science, and proved to be a perfect fit for his interests and educational background.
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56min
October 30, 2022 #18: Real World Assets
From the point of view of an insider, it may seem as if the Web3 space is moving at warp speed, with a Cambrian explosion of innovation in all directions -- L1s, L2s, infrastructure, NFTs, DeFi, GameFi, and so on.
But the fact remains that the majority of the value on-chain is generated by "crypto money games", with little to no influence on the physical world.
For blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies to really fulfil its potential in a meaningful manner, as an industry, we are going to have to move towards a reality where assets in the physical world interoperate with the on-chain world.
Today, we discuss this very topic -- the tokenisation of real world assets.
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1h 6min
October 16, 2022 #17: Genesis Block Interviews - Carlos Saavedra, Co-Founder of Fyde (Treasury Management Protocol)
As part of Genesis Block's guest interviews series, our second guest is Carlos Saavedra.
Born and raised in California, Carlos has spent most of his career in traditional finance. From working in investment banking to venture capital to even portfolio management at Deutsche Bank. His crypto journey started way back in 2014 when he first bought Bitcoin, and since, has been actively angel investing, consulting and advising in this space.
His latest project is Fyde -- a treasury management protocol he co-founded. Find out more about them on https://www.fyde.fi/!
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59min
October 09, 2022 #16: Web3 Music
Music is an industry rife with conflicts of interest and shocking contradictions.
While the top most followed individuals in the world are music artists, the industry collectively generates less revenues than it did 2 decades ago.
However, NFTs and other Web3 technologies are promising to change this unfortunate reality.
Today, we dive into the history of the Music industry, promises of Web3 through the lens of music, and the current industry landscape.
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