The Blockcrunch Podcast

Ryan Zurrer, Director of the Web3 Foundation and former Principal at Polychain Capital, joins us in discussing one of the most important questions in crypto: how should we govern?

We touch on:

• How should blockchains be governed? 
• What are the different models of governance?
• How do we prevent plutocracies?
• How does Polkadot further the governance debate?

Not finance advice. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi)

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Intro music by Phortissimo.
Outro music by Garreth Chan.

Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch podcast series is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Conduct your own research and invest at your own risk.

Decentralized exchanges have a problem with liquidity.

Kyber Network, a Singaporean based on-chain liquidity project, raised ~$50M in their ICO to tackle this with a unique model.

Where are they today?

Are people using them?

I caught up with Anton Buenavista, senior developer at Kyber, to find out:

• Kyber's unique approach to managing liquidity
• How Kyber compares to 0x and other dex projects 
• Where value accrues at the dex layer
• What is on Kyber's roadmap

Not finance advice. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi)

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Show links:

• Libsyn link
• Apple Podcast
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Intro music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo
Outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/

Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch podcast series is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Conduct your own research and invest at your own risk.

Projects like MakerDao, dYdX and Dharma are creating a future of decentralized finance. Beyond the ideology and tech - how likely is "DeFi" to succeed?

Marc Weinstein and Roy Lerner - investors from Wavemaker Partners, a VC fund with over $265M in AUM - to discuss:

• An honest critique of DeFi today
• How DeFi may be recreate the same problems we have in our legacy financial system
• What institutions think of DeFi projects 

Not finance advice. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi)

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Show links:

• Libsyn link
• Apple Podcast
• Stitcher
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Intro music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo
Outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/

Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch podcast series is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Conduct your own research and invest at your own risk.

How do institutional investors look at crypto?

What do they look at that amateurs miss?

What are common pitfalls for investors researching crypto?

We're kicking off a new year of the Blockcrunch Podcast with Tom Shaughnessy, founder of 51 Percent Research, to discuss how institutional investors evaluate cryptoassets. 

Not finance advice. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi)

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Show links:

• Libsyn link
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Intro music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo
Outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/

Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch podcast series is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Conduct your own research and invest at your own risk.

DDEX, one of 0x's largest relayers, just left 0x.

Why did they fork? What does this mean for 0x and decentralized exchanges? What's wrong with current dex's, and how can we build better ones?

We chat with Tian Li, co-founder and CEO of Hydro Protocol and DDEX, to discuss the fork and the tough questions it raises.

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Not finance advice. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi)

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Show links:

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Intro music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo
Outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/

Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch podcast series is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Conduct your own research and invest at your own risk.

In this episode of our DeFi series, we chat with Polychain-backed Bloqboard's founder, Vitaly Bahachuk about some hard questions around crypto loans and decentralized finance:

• Is value captured at the protocol (Dharma) level, or at the platform (Bloqboard) Level?
• Is DeFi making finance more inclusive, or just building tools for Wall Street traders?
• What is the point of crypto-loans? Who uses them?

Please rate and subscribe to help us get this podcast to more people!

Not finance advice. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi)

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Show links:

• Libsyn link
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Intro music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo
Outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/

Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch podcast series is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Conduct your own research and invest at your own risk.

What are the common traps facing crypto investors?

In this special episode of Blockcrunch, we speak with a roster of crypto investors from Asia at Singapore's Blockshow to get their thoughts on the crypto winter and the idiosyncratic risks of crypto investing. Featuring:

• Dovey Wan (Primitive Ventures)
• John Ng Pangilinan (Signum Capital) 
• Ella Qiang (Kenetic)
• Kenrick Drijkoningen (Lunex Ventures)
• Alexander Tkachenko (VNX)

Rate + subscribe to stay up to date! This is not financial advice.

Host: @mrjasonchoi

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• Transition music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo
  
• Sound and outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/

Former quant trader and founding team member at Messari, Qiao Wang, joins us for a casual conversation about decentralized exchanges. We talk about:

• The problem with latency on dexes
• Whether dexes will be as big as centralized exchanges
• Dex token valuation and whether they make sense.

Rate + subscribe to stay up to date! Not financial advice.

Host: @mrjasonchoi

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• Transition music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo
  
• Sound and outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/

Want to diversify across any 20 cryptocurrencies of your choice and short your favorite sh*tcoins...by investing in one token?

With Set, you can. As part of the new Decentralized Finance (#DeFi) series, we chat with Set Protocol, a project for decentralized asset basketing. 

Founder Felix Feng joins us for a fun conversation on how basketing works, how Set differs from traditional ETFs, and the unexpected ideas people are building with Set.

Rate + subscribe to stay up to date! Not financial advice.

Host: @mrjasonchoi

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• Transition music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo
  
• Sound and outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/

Margin trading is a risky business, usually reserved for experienced traders. They're a crucial part of our financial markets - but how does it work in crypto?

As part of the new Decentralized Finance (#DeFi) series, we chat with dYdX, a protocol for decentralized derivatives.

Founder Antonio Juliano joins us for a deep dive on the implications of derivatives for crypto, and how the sETH (short Ethereum) token works.

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Host: @mrjasonchoi

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• Transition music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo
  
• Sound and outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/