The Blockcrunch Podcast

Within a month, the total value deposited across Avalanche projects grew over 1000% to $9B.

As an investor, this obviously caught my attention, and I'm excited to have Jay Kurahashi-Sofue (@jkays17) and Nick Mussallem (@_nMoose) from Ava Labs share their learnings on achieving rapid growth in crypto.

• Small UX decisions that grew value by billions
• How to deploy grants for lasting impact
• What email & Uber teach us about abstraction and incentives in Layer 1s
• How to cater to DeFi natives and institutions
• What people underestimate about Avalanche

Host: @mrjasonchoi. Not financial advice.

Since its inception, Multicoin Capital has made multiple highly public and successful bets in crypto including being one of the first and largest investors in Solana.

3 years and multiple 1000x bets later, Kyle Samani (@KyleSamani), Managing Partner at Multicoin, joins me once again to discuss:

• Finding contrarian bets, and when to know you're wrong
• What went right with the Solana bet; what went wrong with the EOS bet
• How Kyle sizes bets and when to double down
• How Multicoin separates decisions and outcomes
• Which 1 ecosystem excites Kyle beyond Solana

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

Many users come to DeFi for its high yields - but are they sustainable?

In this episode, we chat with Teddy Woodward, ex-trader and founder of Notional, a fixed rate protocol offering a new class of financial products for a new class of DeFi users. We explore:

• How to tokenize cash flows, and why it matters
• The emerging fixed rate protocol space
• fCash: a new DeFi primitive
• Whether DeFi yields can sustain over the long term

Host: @mrjasonchoi. No Financial Advice.

Resources:

• https://medium.com/sensefinance/designing-yield-tokens-d20c34d96f56
• https://medium.com/notional-finance/notional-v2-launch-update-b2595990428

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SOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it’s a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more!

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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

Many crypto industry titans - including Vitalik Buterin - believe ZK Rollups are the key to Ethereum's scalability. With DeFi exchange dYdX generating over $2 BILLION in daily volume on Starkware, a ZK Rollup solution, I'm excited to chat with Starkware founders about:

• Why ZK-Rollups are the future vs. other Layer 2s
• Starkware vs. Optimism vs. Arbitrum: who wins?
• Can Fast Layer 1s like Solana compete with Starkware?

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

SOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it’s a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more!

------------ 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

Would you pay $30-$40,000 for a few lines of text against a black background?

That's precisely what buyers of Loot - the latest NFT to capture the attention of the entire crypto space - are doing.

I'm joined by early Loot adopters and crypto investors Jon Kol (@thePalenimbus) and Angie Dalton (@Daltonan).

We discuss:

• Loot's origins and ties to MMORPG games
• "Meta-games": the new wave of crypto gaming?
• Will gaming studios contribute to open source games?
• What's next for Loot

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SOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it’s a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more!

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Musical credits: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA 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

Fresh off a $120M raise, Arbitrum is the latest project to significantly scale Ethereum's capacity.

How does Arbitrum work at a technical level? What is an optimistic rollup and how does it compare with ZK-rollups? What are the trade offs Arbitrum makes? 

Arbitrum (@arbitrum) co-founder Steven Goldfeder (@sgoldfed) and director and AJ Warner (@ajwarner90) join us in one of our most important interviews to date.

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

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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

SOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it’s a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more!

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Musical credits: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA 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 subsidia

The Play to Earn revolution is here!

Yield Guild Games is the largest gaming guild today. Valued at $8B, the DAO supports 5,000 scholars in playing emerging "play to earn" games.

Founder Gabby Dizon (@GabbyDizon) shares his secrets in how YGG works, tactics in how he scaled, and what future games he's excited for besides Axie Infinity.

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

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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

SOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it’s a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more!

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Musical credits: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA 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 subsidia

Fresh off a $11M raise, Qredo (@QredoNetwork) is building the first, truly decentralized custody solution for the crypto industry.

CTO Brian Spector joins us in this mind-blowing conversation spanning decades in cryptography, cryptocurrencies and the current pitfalls of major custody providers today.

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

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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

SOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it’s a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more!

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

Musical credits: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA 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 subsidia

Tranchess (@tranchess) is a new structured DeFi product offering a fixed income and Bitcoin exposure to users.

Within one week of its launch, Tranchess has attracted $500M of capital in the protocol. I invited Tranchess co-founder, Danny Chong, to discuss the tranche product landscape, who are the next big wave of users in DeFi, and the challenges of creating sustainable protocol incentives.

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

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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

SOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it’s a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more!

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

Musical credits: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA 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 subsidia

I'm excited to be joined by my friend Calvin Chu (@calchulus), former core team at Binance. 

At Binance, Calvin helmed initiatives such as Launchpad, and is now leveraging his experience to start IMPOSSIBLE FINANCE, a decentralized incubator for new crypto projects.

We discuss what it takes to launch a successful token, regulatory compliance, and the landscape for decentralized launchpads.

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

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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

SOLANA: The Solana ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace and it’s a great place to build your project or get involved with the community. Go to solana.com/blockcrunch to learn more!

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

Musical credits: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA 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 subsidia