Koji Conversations

On this episode of Koji Conversations, Jack chats to the Fabricant founder, Kerry Murphy.

Our social world has become increasingly Web 3 enabled, and soon the Metaverse will become the all encompassing epicentre of our social identities. Digital Fashion will form a foundational layer in how we express ourselves online. Unlike the physical fashion industry, the digital industry is accessible, scaleable, and sustainable. Everyone will have the tools to be a digital fashion designer, curate their social identity, and express their style in the Metaverse.

The Fabricant is operating at the forefront of this burgeoning corner of Web3. A tool where users can create, sell, market, and buy their digital fashion wares.

In the same way that smart phones gave everyone the tools to become content creators, the Fabricant will unlock users creativity in the Metaverse.

In this conversation, Jack and Kerry discuss the vision for The Fabricant, the sustainability problems that digital fashion solves, how traditional fashion companies are adopting to the landscape, how Facebook's "meta" announcements complicates the narrative, and what our Web3 enabled fashion future looks like.

Join this Koji Conversation, with Kerry from the Fabricant.

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Find Kerry on Twitter: @k3rrymurphy

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Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

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It's important to remember that none of the contents of this podcast or the podcast itself constitutes any kind of investment advice

Join David for a conversation with David and Đorđe from Tempus Finance. Tempus is building the DeFi native version of interest rate swaps powered by an Automated Market Maker (AMM). It is a protocol used for risk reallocation between different market participants who are exposed to the same assets.

In traditional finance, interest rate swaps are highly customised, non-collateralised and made between a counter party and the bank. In DeFi, non collateralised interest rate swaps haven't been achievable because you need to know who the counter party is. Tempus is solving this problem.

Everyone interacts with interest rate swaps in TradFi in some form or another. For example, in a fixed-rate mortgage there are interest rate swaps between your bank and its counter-parties. Since their mainstream adoption in the 1970s, interest rate swaps have grown to be the largest kind of derivative in TradFi. Judging from this market evolution, as the DeFi market matures, Tempus is well positioned to capture the market demand.

00:05 You guys want to give a bit of background on Tempus, who you are and how you got started?

01:30 What was the context for your meeting?

02:51 What is the scene like in Eastern Europe? Is there something brewing in that part of the world?

04:08 Going into the initial story of Tempus, how would you describe at a high level what the protocol is trying to achieve? Give the soundbite description of Tempus in as much detail as you like

07:24 For the uninitiated, could you please give a description of what zero-coupon bonds do and how they're typically used in finance?

10:45 Why in general is this important to users and why is this an important aspect of de-fi that needs to be built?

12:38 Looking back at where you started and where you are now, what are key milestones for you and the project in general that you have identified so far?

14:20 What has been your experience in the aspect of team building and how have you gone about team building for your project?

15:53 What are the big things that people need to be looking out for in the future and where can they go and find these updates?

Join this Koji Conversation, with David and Đorđe from Tempus Finance.

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Find David and Đorđe on Twitter: @davgarai and @mijovic88

Find Tempus on Twitter: @TempusFinance

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Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

Discord: https://discord.gg/MThFGFfuRa (https://discord.gg/MThFGFfuRa)

It's important to remember that none of the contents of this podcast or the podcast itself constitutes any kind of investment advice.

Join Jack for a conversation with Guillaume and Olivier from Sonar Watch, your DeFi dashboard for the Solana ecosystem.

Like so many successful DeFi projects, Sonar was built from the ground up when Olivier started developing a tool to track his personal wallets. After sharing the tool with the community and receiving a groundswell of positive feedback Olivier kept iterating and building out features. Eventually switching to the project full time and joining forces with Guillaume brings us to today where Sonar has bootstrapped its product alongside the community and released a fully integrated V2 Beta. It's a feel good DeFi origin story.

Guillaume and Olivier's vision for Sonar is to become a fully integrated interface for the Solana ecosystem, and they are well on their way to achieving it. Sonar sports a clean visualisation of your total portfolio, as well as an ecosystem page which allows you to find farms with high APRs and discover new protocols. With an active community of users behind them, the team continue to release new features at lightning speed.

Tune in to learn more about their V2 Beta, how to join the community, and tokenomics design.

Join this Koji Conversation, with Guillaume and Olivier from Sonar Watch.

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Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

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It's important to remember that none of the contents of this podcast or the podcast itself constitutes any kind of investment advice.

Join Jack for this conversation with Justin and Jonas from Quantum Art, an NFT photography platform giving power back to creators. Justin is the creator of Twin Flames, one of the most successful NFT photography projects to date and Jonas is a member of Flamingo DAO, one of the leading NFT collectors. They've joined forces to create Quantum Art, which will be a powerhouse curated collection of photography NFTs spotlighting artists in the space.

In the current model, great artists and their work are being exploited by Web2 platforms that prioritise consumerism, capitalism, and advertising revenues that see value flow to intermediaries and big corporates. Quantum Art will utilise the decentralised value of Web3 to bring value back to artists.

Join this Koji Conversation, with Jonas and Justin from Quantum ART.

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Find Justin and Jonas on Twitter: @justinaversano and @jonaslamis

Find Quantum Art on Twitter: @QuantumNFT

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Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

It's important to remember that none of the contents of this podcast or the podcast itself constitutes any kind of investment advice.

Join Jack for this Koji Conversation with CJ and Rev from Atlantis world, who are developing a gamified interface for the Web3 space. Users can interact with DAOs, Defi, blockchain bridges and the wider crypto community. "We are building a world where you can live, work, play and earn, all at the same time whilst also accessing Web3 building blocks in a super fun gamified and interactive way".

Join this Koji Conversation, with CJ and Rev from Atlantis World.

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Experience the Atlantis World beta: demo.atlantis.world

Find CJ and Rev on Twitter: @cjhtech and @revrfg

Find Atlantis World on Twitter: @atlantis0x

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Website: koji.capital

Email: [email protected]

Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

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It's important to remember that none of the contents of this podcast or the podcast itself constitutes any kind of investment advice.

Join Jack and Angelo Alessio who is the founder of build_, a co-working first, real estate second DAO. The project is reimagining co-working for the decentralised future. He goes into detail about how build_ hopes to solve the problem brought to the fore by COVID-19: "No one wants to return to the office yet no one wants to work solely from home, we all crave human interaction."

They are currently searching for like-minded community members so join the discord for your opportunity to build this project from the ground up. Their white paper is also open-source so make sure to check that out too.

Join this Koji Conversation, with Angelo Alessio.

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Find Angelo on Twitter: @angelo_a_jr

Find build_ on Twitter: @joinbuild_

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Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

Discord: https://discord.gg/MThFGFfuRa (https://discord.gg/MThFGFfuRa)

Disclaimer: It's important to remember that none of the contents of this podcast or the podcast itself constitutes any kind of investment advice.

Join David and Jack for a chat with Auryn Macmillan about decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs). Auryn is product lead at Gnosis, who are building new market mechanisms for decentralised finance as well as DAO tooling. He goes into detail about the meritocratic rise of DAOs, as well as the benefits of their transparency for particular organisations. Auryn also talks about the pitfalls of DAOs when it comes to smaller decision making, and potential opportunities to troubleshoot it.

Gnosis has created a malleable DAO framework (GnosisDAO) in which its mechanism can be easily changed as required through one transaction. Auryn also teases some exciting future projects, including a potential Ethereum lite client written in solidity.

Join this Koji Conversation, with Auryn MacMillan.

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Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

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"Longevity has the potential to be to traditional medicine what crypto is to traditional finance." Balaji Srinivasan, 2021 (@balajis).

Tyler Golato is co-founder of VitaDAO, which is shifting the paradigm on the science of ageing by prioritising research into preventative and pre-emptive medical interventions.

Some longevity researchers contest that the first person to live to 1,000 is alive today. Tyler is more modest in his prediction but maintains that longevity research will unlock vast advancements in human life span.

Currently, it is more profitable for businesses to manage chronic conditions than to cure them leaving little incentive for longevity research funding. VitaDAO seeks to remedy this by offering a decentralised framework to fund, research, and commercialise longevity projects.

They are a decentralised community of academics, researchers, service providers and individuals that are utilising the DAO framework to democratise the BioPharma industry. The first of its kind, VitaDAO is a fascinating use case for future deployments of the model in the medical industry and beyond.

Tyler also goes into detail about his company Molecule (co-founded with Paul Kohlhaas (@paulkhls)), a framework that enables DAO revolution in Biopharma. Molecule aims to allow decentralised entities to interact with intellectual property to fractionalise it, effectively decentralising drug development.

Join this Koji Conversation, with Tyler Golato.

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Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

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The DAO Hack is arguably the most impactful moment of Ethereum's history to date. 15% of all circulating ETH was vulnerable, millions of ETH was hacked and the chosen path forward for Ethereum caused blockchain ideologies to clash, dividing the Ethereum and Bitcoin communities.

In this episode Jack and David speak with Griff Green. He is Community Manager of The DAO, Co-Founder of the White Hat Group and was at Ground Zero as the events of The DAO Hack unfolded. Step by step, Griff walks us through the key moments, key decisions and the lasting consequences of The DAO Hack. With the benefit of hindsight, we look back to see how things could have been handled differently and reflect on one of the most profound events to ever occur in the Crypto world.

Join this Koji Conversation, with Griff Green.

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Find Griff on Twitter: @thegrifft

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Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

Discord: https://discord.gg/MThFGFfuRa (https://discord.gg/MThFGFfuRa)

Cameron Robertson is bridging the gap between the real world and crypto by reducing the friction between the Meatspace and Metaverse.

2017 was when Cameron first had his eye on crypto, in particular, he was interested in hardware wallets. By observing this space, he noticed that the people developing and using this technology were tech natives and therefore, the innovation was tailored for their skill level, leaving a large unaddressed market gap for those who were not. With a background in hardware and a commitment to drive the mass adoption of Ethereum, Cameron went all in on and started building accessible crypto experiences.

First came Kong Cash, bringing crypto to a physical medium that everybody understands, cash. Next came collaborations with Metafactory and Mattereum bridging the gap between Ethereum and consumer good. Now comes Kong land, a DAO focused on providing hardware support for any project looking to make the bridge between the Meatspace and Metaverse. Over time, Cameron has realised that their grand vision is more-so to present a framework on how things could be made to exist in the real world. They don't necessarily have to build them all.

Join this Koji Conversation, with Cameron Robertson.

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Find Cameron on Twitter: @ccamrobertson

Find Kong on Twitter: @Kongiscash

Twitter: @koji_capital

Discord: https://discord.gg/D2T6CHYT (https://discord.gg/D2T6CHYT)

Website: koji.capital

Email: [email protected]

Hosts: @Jack_Kji and @David_Kji

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