In this podcast we chat with Mehak who is an NFT Artist from India. She is part of the Guild NFT and her work can be found on all major NFT marketplaces.

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Imran Khan, who is a Partner at Volt Capital and is the lead at DeFi alliance. Imran has been backing founders building at the cutting edge of DeFi and in this episode we dig deeper on his learnings doing the same. We talk about regulations in DeFi, getting larger financial institutions and market makers involved in crypto and DeFi as well as the current trends of crypto in Africa.

00:00 Introduction

00:28 Background story and overview of Volt Capital

02:47 Investing in companies like Buycoins in Africa and crypto trends in Africa

07:30 DeFi activity in Africa and potential of stablecoins like USDC in Africa

11:30 Background on DeFi Alliance, getting traditional liquidity providers in crypto

15:18 Learnings from running a DeFi accelerator

17:52 Overview on the DeFi Alliance program

20:49 Regulation for DeFi startups

23:48 Interesting trends in DeFi

27:27 Getting traditional liquidity providers to do market making in crypto and DeFi

30:48 NFT space and NFTxDeFi

36:05 Interesting trends in crypto in general - magic labs and others

40:20 Geographical trends in crypto and closing thoughts

Imran's Twitter : https://twitter.com/lmrankhan

DeFi alliance : https://defialliance.co/

Volt capital : https://www.volt.capital/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Jake Brukhman, Founder at CoinFund. Jake is heavily involved in the NFT space - investing in NFT companies as well as creating and collecting digital art. We talk about various things related to NFTs like current and future use-cases, financial products for NFTs like NFT loans, fractionalization etc. We also touched upon the learnings from the DeFi summer and where are things headed in the future.

00:00 Introduction

00:26 Jake's background and how he started CoinFund

02:12 How did Jake fall down into NFT rabbit hole

04:56 NFT sector segments - Issuers, Issuance Platform, Marketplaces, Financial Services

08:05 NFT Financial Services - Liquidity, Loans, Fractionalization

13:01 Deeper Dive into NFT Fractionalization

15:53 How to Make NFTs more useable - L2, meta-transactions, better key management

21:17 Mainstream adoption of NFTs - Democratization of supporting artists

25:53 Secondary markets and revenue sharing in NFTs

28:52 Art auctions houses getting into NFTs

32:48 Suggestions for retail investors looking to invest in NFTs

36:45 Other crypto areas coinfund is looking at - oracles via API3, 

43:13 Learnings from DeFi Summer

49:17 Closing Thoughts

CoinFund Website : https://www.coinfund.io/

Jake's Twitter : https://twitter.com/jbrukh

Jake's Personal Website : http://www.brukhman.com/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Priyanka (https://twitter.com/pridesai), who is involved with The LAO, FlamingoDAO and Seedclub.  The LAO is being organized in the spirit of The DAO, as a member-directed venture capital fund organized in the United States.  Flamingo is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for NFTs.  She is also the VP of Operations at OpenLaw, which is a Consensys project that allows one to create blockchain legal contracts.

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Pranav (https://twitter.com/pransharma), Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Woodstock Fund (https://woodstockfund.com/). Pranav outlined Woodstock's investment thesis and we went deeper into tokenization, financial engineering, NFTs. Pranav shared his experience backing projects in India and around the globe.  

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Jamie (https://twitter.com/jamie247 ), Founder & CEO at Outlier Ventures (https://outlierventures.io). Jamie outlined why NFTs would go mainstream in the coming months and how the legos we have been building with DeFi will be used with NFTs.

Outlier Ventures is a Web3 accelerator investing in the space from 2013. Jamie also runs his own podcast "Founders of Web3" : https://outlierventures.io/podcasts/

00:00 Introduction

02:02 Outlier Ventures overview and investment thesis

07:01 Crypto accelerators and insights running Outlier’s accelerator

16:27 Predictions for the market and bull case for NFTs

27:38 How would NFTs go mainstream

35:14 Using NFTs as collateral in DeFi

41:54 Timeframe for the NFT Bull run

48:11  How one can get involved with NFTs currently

52:19 Trends in DeFi

59:56 Evolution of crypto VCs

1:09:22 Ideal token distribution structure

1:13:29 Closing thoughts

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Peter (https://twitter.com/pet3rpan_ ), who works at Metacartel (https://www.metacartel.org) and 1kx. Metacartel is a community with multiple arms -  grants program, venture investments (https://metacartel.xyz/), dapp podcast etc.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:37 Origin story for metacartel

04:32 Current state of metacartel

11:47 Metacartel DAO

14:51 Venture DAO and metacartel ventures

17:50 Interesting stats around metacartel - teams funded, grants given, partners

21:01 Fair launches and evolution of crypto VC with community driven projects

27:01 Incorrect narrative around crypto VCs dumping

30:18 Trends in NFT ecosystem

32:35 DeFi predictions

35:20 Governance ideas coming from DeFi

37:32 Geographical trends in crypto

39:45 Closing remarks and where are we headed

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Ashwin (https://twitter.com/ashwinrz ), crypto investor at Dragonfly Capital ( https://www.dcp.capital ) , a global crypto venture fund with offices in the US and China. Previously, Ashwin was a core engineer and researcher at ThunderCore (a layer-1 blockchain) where he worked on the design and implementation of the PoS consensus module.

00:00 Introduction

00:42 How Ashwin joined Dragonfly to become a crypto VC

03:05 Dragonfly investment thesis and change over time (can be clubbed with point below)

05:25 Change in Dragonfly’s thesis over time

06:31 Projects that will kick off in next few months

09:15 Evolution of crypto governance models 

11:39 Interesting projects that will bring the next generation of people into crypto

14:44 Geographical trends in crypto

17:38 Possible countries for registering crypto companies

19:20 Changes in early stage capital in crypto - accelerators etc.

21:24 Crypto VC ecosystem vs traditional VCs

24:22 Things that crypto VCs look at and crypto dealflow

27:30 L2 trends, death of plasma, optimistic rollups

31:20 Advice for founders building in crypto

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In this episode of Inchained we chatted with Alexander Zaidelson, CEO of Beam. Beam (https://www.beam.mw/) is a Mimblewimble based privacy coin which going live on mainnet on January 3rd, 2019.

We chatted on a variety of topics ranging from 'How does mimblewimble work' to Beam's monetary policy.

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