Square I

Square 1 interviewed Magenta and Ori from DOrg to discuss a new public good funding system they created called DAO Drops. Hear more about their experience getting into web3 and working amongst DAOs in this episode!

We're excited to share a conversation with Sid Powell, CEO and Founder of Maple Finance. The team at Maple is tackling one of the most risk involved and challenging issues of Decentralized Finance, undercollateralized lending. Sid is a unique founder in the web3 space, as he comes with a background in banking, not software development. We hope you find plenty of interesting ideas to chew on throughout this conversation. 

https://twitter.com/sidbpowell

This episode is another deep dive with an impressive builder of the ecosystem. James Prestwich has been involved in the ecosystem pre-Ethereum. He's a serial entrepreneur and developer, currently focused on cross chain interactions. Learn more about his experience in the links below!

https://prestwi.ch/about-me/

The podcast launch this week was recorded in February as Square 1 was just forming as a concept. We talk with Griff Green, who has been a crypto nomad for about a decade. Griff brings with him a wealth of stories and experiences describing some of the early events that shaped the crypto ecosystem (such as the DAO hack).

Learn about his experience, as well as his ongoing projects (links below).

https://tecommons.org/

https://twitter.com/Givethio

https://commonsstack.org/

This week we speak to the humble leader of Aave, a 5+ billion dollar lending protocol on Ethereum.

Santi comes from Argentina and began building Democracy Earth in a YC cohort. This project continues to evolve, and at the time of the podcast he had just launched an experiment in Universal Basic Income called Proof of Humanity. If you’d like to take a first step into the crypto ecosystem, this would be a very interesting experiment and community to participate in (and you get streamed money for doing so!).

In this episode we chat with two Australian Defi founders Sid and Kerman about their perspective on decentralized finance. We break Defi down into four primary functions: exchanges, lending services, derivatives, and insurance. This ~should~ be relatively encompassing of the different applications you can find in the ecosystem today.

This week we discuss the experience of Luke Duncan as a builder of the DAO space throughout the ecosystem. Luke started his work with Aragon, a generalized DAO framework that builds composable systems for voting and resource management. While at Aragon he was involved with developing a community called 1Hive. This is a group of builders that came together through a common token economy $HNY. Originally a valueless token used to represent contributions in the community, $HNY now has a $20 million dollar market cap. This path of tokenomic formation came in a very unique way and provides an interesting contrast to the typical flow of progressive decentralization.

Learn more by finding Luke and 1Hive below!

Luke: https://twitter.com/lkngtn

1Hive: https://twitter.com/1HiveOrg

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of the foundational concepts pioneered by those in the crypto ecosystem. The idea for these new forms of organizations have served as inspiration for idealists with visions of more equitable governance structures.

All decentralized protocols and cryptocurrency networks wrestle with the question of governance both on the technical and the human level. While DAOs today generally imply the use of governance of cryptocurrency systems, Zargham makes the point that this question of decentralized governance is as old as human coordination.

This is one of our favorite concepts to explore in this crazy world of magic Internet money. We're including a slew of links below.

Listen to the latest @Square1_pod as we talk to @paulgambill about the way crypto economics applies to the carbon removal market, and how @nori is pioneering a carbon negative economic system!