Episode Index:

1) Timing and Exponential growth of NFTs Art, Collectibles, Games, Financial Assets: history going back to "rare Pepes" and timing

2) Art could be a breakthrough for non-blockchain mass adoption. Non-technical and non-blockchain artists are joining and making a full-time living

3) Coinfund's investment thesis around NFT--liquid Intellectual Property: the wholesale migration and transformation of the Internet model towards ownership

4) Lessons learned from operating the first edition.XYZ Jake's Digital Art Gallery online: Authenticity, counterfeit art, true ownership

5) How far are we in rebuilding the Internet around ownership? Gateways to the real world, advertisement? CryptoVoxels, Decentraland, Async

6) Politics, Trust, Privacy, Fake News, Voting, Authenticity: NFT's as a way of tackling some of the hard issues facing society

7) How is authenticity handled in the real-world art world historically? 40-page documents that certify authenticity that you still can't even trust

8) How camera hardware makers could use digital signatures to authenticate photography

9) Provenance, immutable digital history, ownership history, intellectual property supply chains 10) Browser cookies for the real world: Grateful Dead mixtapes, tickets, proof of attending events

11) Miko: Relics and Authenticity

12) How many people REALLY attended Trump's inauguration? How digital authentication, anonymity, privacy, cryptographic signatures, NFTs, Blockchain can help with problems like this.

13) Miko: How the gaming world, AR, VR, are providing leadership for these new experiences: World of Warcraft

14) Digital Scarcity

15) When does Banksy come into NFTs and what would he do?

16) What are the most expensive and valuable examples of digital art NFTs?

17) Elitza Rodriguez, POC, Osavage

18) How much do NFT digital artists cater or pander to Bitcoin fans?

20) What about the Music and Audio segment of the NFT industry?

21) The Adult content, porn and NFT Spank Chain, OnlyFans, Patreon

Index:

1) It's Different This Time: Criminal Indictment of BitMex 

2) DOJ is involved so Jail Time 

3) Contents of the Sealed Indictment 

4) Implications of BSA Enforcement for DeFi 

5) What happens to privacy coins and privacy tech

6) DEX isn't Safe: How they got EtherDelta 

7) Custody and Money Laundering 

8) Binance could be next 

9) Why IP Blocking isn't Enough 

10) BZX UPDATE 

11) Anonymity and DeFi 

12) Three Levels of DeFi Involvement 

13) Security and Battle Tested Smart Contracts 

14) Self Insurance: Incentive Problems with Nexus Mutual 

15) BZX, the largest self-insurance payment in DeFi 

16) Next Steps for BZX Liquidity 

17) The Future of Governance Tokens: Cash Flow 

18) Art is just money laundering for the rich: 

19) Ponzis are a growth catalyst for DeFi 

Great conversation with Aya Kantorovich from FalconX.

Discussion of the state of regulation, CeFi vs DeFi, BitMex, AML, AMM, liquidity etc.

* DeFi opening finance and democratizing market accessibility for retail

* CEX, DEX, or the same? Crypto juggling labels and what it means for traders.

* Liquidity! Centralized and decentralized, what differentiates AMMs (Automated Market Makers) from centralized liquidity providers

* The global landscape, we cover Cold War, Geopolitical tensions in Africa, China-US relations, and more

* And finally, everyone's favorite, regulation! What does regulation mean for institutions, what questions should protocols ask themselves, what are good resources and next steps?

About Aya Kantorovich

Aya has spent the last few years scaling FinTech companies and currently drives Strategy and Operations at FalconX, an institutional digital asset trading platform backed by Accel Partners, Flybridge Capital and Lightspeed Ventures. Previously, Aya worked at Pantera Capital, the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States, founded in 2013, directly supporting Dan Morehead, CEO as well as Bill Healy, Pantera’s President. Aya has worked intimately with over 60 portfolio companies prior to joining FalconX to expand adoption in the ecosystem. Prior to Pantera Capital, Aya was an Investment Manager at Tegus, a buy-side investor research startup focused on TMT investments, joining as the team’s first-hire and scaling offices in both San Francisco and Chicago. Aya graduated with a double major in International Affairs and Finance from George Washington University.

A discussion with Josh Fraser who is a founder of Origin Protocol. Origin has launched oUSD which is a stable coin with very interesting properties.

Video Index:

1) How did Origin and OUSD get started? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=104

2) How does OUSD work? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=299

3) Can the OUSD balance also go down? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=403

4) How does gas cost work with OUSD? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=614

5) How OUSD plans to compete with Tether https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=793

6) What new mechanisms will you add to OUSD? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=954

7) What other currencies will you add to OUSD? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=994

8) How will OUSD strategies be managed? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1091

9) How will OUSD be governed? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1248

10) How does OUSD defend against vampiric forks? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1412

11) Anonymous DeFi Founders https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1565

12) Why stable coins? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1761

13) Origin Protocol and eCommerce https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1844

14) Why is Origin DShop better than Shopify? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1941

15) How much traction for DShops? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=2029

16) Current OUSD TVL and traction https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=2145

17) OUSD Contract Audits by Trail of Bits https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=2209

First and foremost, OUSD is a stable coin that is pegged to the value of the US Dollar.

But the amazing thing about OUSD is that they are using very novel mechanisms in Ethereum DeFi to update your balance without costing you any gas fees. This technique was pioneered by AmpleForth (AMPL) and involves calling an Update Balance method as opposed to sending tokens to the wallet.

The result is that you hold stable coins pegged to the US Dollar--and as the OUSD treasury increases as a result of holding and farming yields in DeFi through fairly stable and well-known protocols like Compound Finance (COMP). The increases in the value of the treasury are then distributed to holders of OUSD. So the actual number of OUSD you hold should increase (or decrease possibly) over time depending on the size of the OUSD treasury.

A fun discussion about pickle and a number of other DeFi projects and the state of Yield Farming. 

As you know, ETH gas prices are down and it seems that there is a decreased amount of yield farming going on.  

He is @JSLapidus on twitter, please check him out! 

He's working on a cool project called PoolParty. http://pool-party.club

Joshua and I have a nice conversation about the state of DeFi and what's going to happen next.

Video Index:

1) Arthur Breitman shares his origin story of Tezos https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=85

2) Kathleen Breitman shares her origin story https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=206

3) Arthur: Tezos as "Coordination Mechanism" for Open Source governance https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=347

4) Governance and Fair Funding of Open Source https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=507

5) Miko: "Loot Drama" has existed since before the Bronze Age https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=660

6) The DAO Hack, SUSHI DeFi rug pull other problems https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=736

7) Gaming--how crypto people learn about economics first hand https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=950

8) Arthur comments on Societie Generale and their Central Bank Digital Currency project on Tezos https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1059

9) Kathleen on CDBC https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1125

10) What about DeFi on Tezos? https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1279

11) Kathleen: Opportunities for NFT https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1387

12) Arthur: DeFi what will "die" and what will survive https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1405

13) Arthur: A bit on self-custody and the metaphor of crypto as a nation, what are its imports and export products? https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1580

14) the ficticious Oracle Problem in blockchain https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1812

15) What is Zero-Sum vs Positive Sum in blockchain? https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=2162

16) What happens next in DeFi and Tezos? https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=2261

Interesting piece where Arther Breitman and Kathleen Breitman the founders of Tezos talk about their perspectives on DeFi.

it's quite rare to get an appearance of both of the founders in one sit down!

I do want to let viewers know that this show is about a conversation, not an interview. So we all talk and enjoy one another's company. We just happen to be sharing this conversation with the public.

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YFI is one of the dominant DeFi protocols. Mark Jeffrey was early into YFI and has deconstructed the inner workings of the YFI vaults. He explains this and much more about YFI governance and culture.

Interview with RenBTC

This is an interview with Hassaan from Arca, a leading hedge fund. We get a professionally researched perspective on some of the emerging giants in the DeFi space.

Today we talk about how to use the 1inch. exchange DEX aggregator to swap tokens or ETH for tokens.  

For example, this link allows you to swap DAI for BZRX https://1inch.exchange/#/DAI/BZRX. 

Keep in mind several things, obviously, you will need to connect a wallet like Metamask. Also, keep in mind this isn't investment advice, do your own homework. Also, be aware of gas prices, so sometimes swapping isn't very smart because the GAS price is too high and the amount you are swapping may be below. 

No point in paying 10$ to swap 1$ worth of tokens. Anyhow lots to learn, please subscribe if you find it interesting.