The Blockcrunch Podcast

DAOs have grown 660% in the past 2 years, with ~1M DAO members globally controlling over $17B in treasury assets.

Surprisingly, there isn’t a a platform to manage DAOs financially...until now.

Utopia Labs, fresh off a raise from Coinbase, is building the OS for DAOs.

We discuss:

• Employees vs. contractors: what type of labor do DAOs need?
• Major players in the DAO infra space
• Why Web 2 incumbents (Gusto, Stripe) can’t compete in Web 3
• Secrets of onboarding DAOs

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

Enso, a DeFi project allowing users to create their own index funds, is launching a vampire attack against 6 projects.

By providing incentives for users of other products to port over, Enso is planning to "steal" over $400M in deposits from rival protocols.

Will this work? Co-founder Connor Howe joins me in discussing:

• How to pull off a vampire attack
• The future of social and gamefied investing
• What vampire attacks mean for open source innovation

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

Did you know there are more than 50 bridging projects in crypto today? With DeFi, NFTs growing on blockchains outside of Ethereum, it makes sense for cross-chain bridges to receive the attention of investors and users alike.

I'm excited to have Philipp Zentner, founder of bridge aggregator Li-Finance, explain:

• The different types of crypto bridges
• Why aggregation is needed in crypto bridges
• Being a B2B bridge vs. a B2C bridge

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

This week, we discuss the most controversial and exciting DeFi proposal to date...a plan to merge two protocols worth $1 BILLION combined: Fei and Rari.

In this cross-production with the I Pledge Allegiance podcast, joined by Derek Hsue (Reverie), Joey Santoro (Fei Protocol) and Jai Bhavani (Rari Protocol) break down:

• Why is Fei merging with Rari?
• How to combine two mature DeFi communities
• How do you merge two tokens? Will $RGT lose its value?
• Pushbacks and comments from community

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

Multi chain is now a reality. Cross-chain infrastructure - which allows developers to build applications across blockchains like Ethereum and Solana - is receiving millions in venture funding. To understand how this unfolds, I spoke with Bryan Pellegrino, co-founder of LayerZero Labs on:

• How tomorrow's dapps will be completely different
• Why bridges today are insufficient
• Why future dapps will use multiple chains
• Trade offs between IBC, custodial bridges, light clients

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

At the core of DeFi 2.0 - the term that's coined by many in crypto to describe a new wave of DeFi protocols - is a project called Fei.

Sitting on a treasury of $1B+, Fei has championed many new concepts in DeFi, including novel ways to achieve capital efficiency.

Founder Joey Santoro (@joey__santoro) joins me in sharing:

• The largest public raise in DeFi...and how it all went wrong
• How Fei will be the stablecoin for all DAOs
• "Protocol controlled liquidity" and DeFi 2.0
• What Fei plans to do with its $1B treasury

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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HBAR FOUNDATION: Fund your project quickly and easily with the HBAR Foundation. Apply for a grant and be put on the fast track to success at https://www.hbarfoundation.org/apply

------------ Disclosures -------------

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

Are social tokens the next big thing in crypto? Facebook stepping into the Metaverse is just the beginning; we are about to see creators and consumers alike step into Web 3 in a scale never seen before. To explore what social tokens are, we invite Bradley Miles, founder of Roll, to discuss:

• The creator economy: what is it?
• What is the emerging social token stack
• How creators are using social tokens today

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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HBAR FOUNDATION: Fund your project quickly and easily with the HBAR Foundation. Apply for a grant and be put on the fast track to success at https://www.hbarfoundation.org/apply

------------ Disclosures -------------

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

Beta Finance is building a permissionless protocol for people to easily short overheated tokens. Incubated by Alpha and Binance Launchpad, Beta recently garnered a lot of attention by allowing users to short NFD, a fractionalized NFT of a doge painting.

I'm joined by founder Allen (@handle) to talk about

• The importance of shorting in DeFi
• How Beta works vs. Rari Fuse, Sushi's Kashi and other protocols
• Miner-extractable value in shorting onchain

Host: mrjasonchoi. Not financial advice. Disclaimer: Spartan Capital is an investor in Beta Finance and holds Beta tokens.

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HEDERA HASHGRAPH: Fund your project quickly and easily with the HBAR Foundation. Apply for a grant and be put on the fast track to success at https://www.hbarfoundation.org/apply

------------ Disclosures -------------

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

What is the cost of decentralization? Are VCs bad for crypto?

Sushiswap's legendary CTO @JosephDelong joins us for an in-depth discussion on the controversial proposed fundraise for Sushi, known as "Phantom Troupe", as well as the latest developments in Sushi. We discuss:

• How do decentralized projects decide what to build?
• How does Sushi balance community governance and efficiency?
• Why does DeFi seem to hate VCs?

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries

DAOs are the next big opportunity in crypto. This week, full time DAO advisor @Cooopahtroopa joins us for a definitive crash course in DAOs. We discuss:

• What makes a DAO, who are the main players?
• 30+ tools and tactics to create your own DAO
• Common pitfalls facing DAOs today
• 11 DAOs to watch out for

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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PARASWAP is the best place to trade your tokens and get the best price in DeFi today. Get started on paraswap.io/blockcrunch

------------ Disclosures -------------

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries