The Blockcrunch Podcast

High fees on Ethereum is a persistent problem.

Founders of Ethereum Gas Limit (EGL), Eleni (@EleniThinks) and Uri (@UriKlarman), join us in discussing:

1. How miners control Ethereum's gas limit today
2. How it affects network fees
3. How EGL coordinate gas limit effectively
4. Implications with EIP 1559

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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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

DeFiance Capital is one of the first hedge funds that champion "fundamentals investing" - focusing less on market structure and technical analysis, more on things such as protocol revenues and user growth when formulating their trades.

Founder Arthur Cheong (Arthur0x) joins me in discussing:

• Finding conviction in bear markets
• Finding valuation frameworks that matter in crypto
• How Arthur identifies successful projects
• Why DeFi is Arthur's primary focus

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

Perpetual Protocol, a decentralized derivatives exchange, is processing $100M in volume daily and one of the fastest growing DeFi projects. We invite their team on Blockcrunch to discuss

• Innovations in onchain derivatives design 
• Creating sustainable incentives for adoption
• "Curie": the newest update in Perpetual

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

In our bi-weekly recap for the most important events in crypto, we talk about:

• Mega-deal recap: FTX, Circle, Sorare & OpenSea
• Community vs. Evil VCs: Sushi Strategic Raise
• Ethereum Time Bandit: Existential threat or overreaction?

Hosts: Jason Choi (@mrjasonchoi), General Partner at Spartan Capital, and Saneel Sreeni (@sanlsrini), Junior Partner at Dragonfly Capital. This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

Resources:

• Sushi strategic raise forum 
• MGNR thread on options pricing
• Saneel's post on MEV
• Paradigm's post on Ethereum reorgs

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Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, and Saneel Sreeni is an investor at Dragonfly Capital. All opinions expressed by Jason and Saneel are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group, Dragonfly Capital and/or any of their subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

Mike Sall (@sall) is the co-founder of Goldfinch, a decentralized credit protocol lending to emerging markets and one of my favorite projects in the space. Mike and I discuss:

• Finding conviction as a founder
• How Goldfinch tackles distribution uniquely where others have failed
• Challenges of scaling a decentralized credit fund
• How Goldfinch got to its current traction

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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PERPETUAL PROTOCOL is a fully on-chain exchange built on Ethereum and xDai that allows you to go long or short with up to 10x leverage. Also, they have just released zero-gas-deposits in addition to their near zero gas fees for trading. Visit perp.exchange/blockcrunch today to start trading.

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

Uniswap is now a 10 BILLION dollar behemoth. Hashflow has launched to challenge for the mantle of the leading DeFi exchange. Will it succeed?

Founder Varun Kumar(@GandalfTheBr0wn) and Haseeb Qureshi of Dragonfly Capital (@hosseeb), an investor in Hashflow, joins us in discussing:

• How Hashflow beats Uniswap in pricing
• Hashflow vs. 0x RFQ 
• Trade offs of the Hashflow design
• Why there may be more than one winner in dex's

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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PERPETUAL PROTOCOL is a fully on-chain exchange built on Ethereum and xDai that allows you to go long or short with up to 10x leverage. Also, they have just released zero-gas-deposits in addition to their near zero gas fees for trading. Visit perp.exchange/blockcrunch today to start trading.

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

Regulations are coming for DeFi.

With the recent comments from the SEC, CFTC, FATF and the rest of the regulator alphabet soup - where is DeFi headed? DeFi's star lawyer and Compound Labs General Counsel,

Jake Chervinsky (@jchervinsky) joins us in discussing:

• Why SEC is open-minded about DeFi
• CFTC's hostile stance towards DeFi exchanges
• How FATF's "travel rule" affects everyone Will regulations end DeFi as we know it?

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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PERPETUAL PROTOCOL is a fully on-chain exchange built on Ethereum and xDai that allows you to go long or short with up to 10x leverage. Also, they have just released zero-gas-deposits in addition to their near zero gas fees for trading. Visit perp.exchange/blockcrunch today to start trading.

FIGMENT: If you have crypto that you want to stake and want to manage it in one place, Figment supports 30 blockchains including Ethereum, Polkadot and Solana. Figment supports both funds and individual investors. figment.io

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 and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

In our bi-weekly recap for the most important events in crypto, we talk about:

- China Regulations - should we be worried?

- Mark Cuban rug pulled by Iron Finance - what happened?

- Saddle, Curve and Alchemix - the first protocol lawsuit?

Hosts: Jason Choi (@mrjasonchoi), General Partner at Spartan Capital, and Saneel Sreeni (@sanlsrini), Junior Partner at Dragonfly Capital. This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

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

Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, and Saneel Sreeni is an investor at Dragonfly Capital. All opinions expressed by Jason and Saneel are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group, Dragonfly Capital and/or any of their subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

Fixed income is a hundred trillion dollar industry that's crucial to our existing financial world. Why hasn't fixed income taken off in DeFi yet? Is it the next big opportunity in crypto?

TN (@TN_Pendle), founder of Pendle Finance, joins us in discussing:

• Current landscape of fixed income in DeFi
• How Pendle tokenizes DeFi yield
• The interest rate market opportunity in DeFi
• Product market fit for yield protocols

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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Sponsors

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PERPETUAL PROTOCOL is a fully on-chain exchange built on Ethereum and xDai that allows you to go long or short with up to 10x leverage. Also, they have just released zero-gas-deposits in addition to their near zero gas fees for trading. Visit perp.exchange/blockcrunch today to start trading.

FIGMENT: If you have crypto that you want to stake and want to manage it in one place, Figment supports 30 blockchains including Ethereum, Polkadot and Solana. Figment supports both funds and individual investors. figment.io

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 and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

Alpha Finance is building an incubator for new DeFi projects. Founder Tascha (@Tascha_panpan) joins us in discussing:

• Why Alpha is the Y-Combinator of DeFi
• The compounding token value for $ALPHA
• Projects Alpha are incubating
• Post-mortem of protocol event with Cream 

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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Sponsors

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PERPETUAL PROTOCOL is a fully on-chain exchange built on Ethereum and xDai that allows you to go long or short with up to 10x leverage. Also, they have just released zero-gas-deposits in addition to their near zero gas fees for trading. Visit perp.exchange/blockcrunch today to start trading.

FIGMENT: If you have crypto that you want to stake and want to manage it in one place, Figment supports 30 blockchains including Ethereum, Polkadot and Solana. Figment supports both funds and individual investors. figment.io

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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 and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.