Blockchain Brad is an Australian YouTuber who focuses on crypto.

He is one of the few YouTubers that add value to us as investors and he was an early inspiration for our own channel.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak with Brad about being venture capital in the crypto market, the responsibility of online influencers, scammy ICOs and much more

Listen to this interview and learn:

Why is it so rare to be objective in the crypto world

How to recognize quality teams and investors

Why it takes so long for institutional money to get into crypto

What to look for in white papers

Why so little people do their own research

Mentioned in the episode:

Blockchain Brad Youtube Channel

 

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Kyle Simani runs Multicoin Capital, a crypto asset hedge fund, with his cofounder Tushar Jain.

Kyle previously founded Pristine, raised over $5M in venture capital, built a team to nearly 30, and built the business to 7-figures of revenue.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak with Kyle about the current investment thesis in Multicoin Capital, some of the mistakes institutional investors make, token velocity and much more

Listen to this interview and learn:

How to create a risk-adjusted portfolio

What is the token velocity

What are the types of stable coins and what is their future

More about consensus layer

What is the ideal ratio of technical vs. business development in the team

What are the predictions on the crypto market

Mentioned in the episode:

Multicoin Capital

Blog post Understanding Token Velocity

 

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Aleksandr Bulkin is the founder of Coinfund and ADAPT.

ADAPT is a software SDK for developing and launching decentralized networks. It can also be used to create private data servers as part of non-blockchain networks.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak with Alex about the dapps (decentralized applications) and his unique approach to building blockchain networks.

Listen to this interview and learn:

What is ADAPT

What is the biggest pushback he is facing

How to better solve incentives for miners and validators

How do you measure the usefulness of the token

What tokens does he like

Mentioned in the episode:

Announcing ADAPT article

Alex Bulkin on Twitter

ADAPT official website

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Reuben Yap is a COO of Zcoin.

Ruben was a corporate lawyer for ten years specializing in institutional frameworks. He joined the Zcoin team in October 2016 and has played a pivotal role in shaping Zcoin's strategy and vision. He has always been a strong advocate of privacy technologies especially on the internet having co-founded BolehVPN, a privacy-focused VPN provider who was also the first merchant to accept Bitcoin in Malaysia.

Zcoin is a cryptocurrency focused on privacy on the blockchain and decentralized proof of work.  It differentiates itself from Monero and Zcash by using an original protocol.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak with Rueben about the differences among privacy protocols, future of privacy coins and relationship between privacy coins and regulators.

Listen to this interview and learn:

Difference betweeen privacy coin and privacy protocole

Why most privacy coins started as security protocols on bitcoin

Difference between Zcoin and Zcash

Future of privacy coin and privacy coin protocols

How to build new features in a secure way

Mentioned in the episode:

Rueben Yap on Twitter

Zcoin website

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Amrit Kuma is the head of research at Zilliqa.

Zilliqa is the scalable and secure blockchain platform for hosting decentralized applications. Zilliqa tries to solve the scalability problem of blockchain. They aim to become a serious competitor to Ethereum, allowing for the deployment of smart contracts and dapps on their platform. The key difference is that Zilliqa will have a much higher transaction throughput at a lower cost than Ethereum and many other blockchain platforms.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak with Amrit about the scalability issue, their own smart contract language, guaranteed security and other unique technology around Zilliqa.

Listen to this interview and learn:

What is sharding

How to guarantee security on the platform

Who does Zilliqa cooperate with

What is their roadmap

More about smart contract language Scilla

Mentioned in the episode:

Zilliqa's official website

Amrit Kumar Linkedin profile

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In this podcast episode, Sia interviews Stephen McKeon.

Stephen McKeon is a finance professor at U Oregon studying crypto assets, security issuance, private equity, and M&A. He is an expert in topics related to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, corporate finance, including venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurial finance, mergers and acquisitions.

He wrote an article on asset-backed tokenization which caught our interested so we wanted to learn more.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak about security tokens and tokenization of real-world assets, utility tokens vs securities and much more.

Listen to this interview and learn:

How did Stephen get into crypto

What does it mean tokenization of assets

How could a digital token be used to represent a stake in any conceivable asset

What are the legal obligations for traditional securities market and secondary market trade

How can you sell tokenized assets

Mentioned in the episode:

Stephen's Medium profile

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In this podcast episode, Dan interviews Kain Warrick and Marcus Ochmann.

Kain is the founder of Havven and the CEO of blueshyft. Havven is a decentralised payment network and stablecoin.

The Havven ICO proposes a decentralised payment network built on a stablecoin to capture all the benefits of a permissionless system, while also eliminating volatility. Havven plans to achieve price stability by pegging the value of the token to fiat, while simultaneously introducing a decentralized collateral system to provide confidence in the value of the tokens.

Independent Reserve, the Australian Digital Currency exchange, has opened Australia’s first over-the-counter trading desk for institutions wanting to make large digital currency trades. Their mission is to transform digital currency technology into secure, robust and regulated financial services.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak about over-the-counter (OTC) trading, how it helps institutions put money into crypto space and why the stability is such a big challenge.

Listen to this interview and learn:

Why stablecoins are critical to the adoption of cryptocurrencies

The concept of market maker in crypto

Who are the typical OTC customers

What is the ICO market at the moment and when will the institutional money get to the market

and much more

Mentioned in the episode:

Independent Reserve OTC exchange

Havven

Miko Matsumura founded crypto exchange Evercoin, is a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital, a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is a token holder in FileCoin, Brave, CIVIC, Propy, Polymath and an investor in Lyft. As chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform he participated in the first wave of the Internet, and is now fully engaged in Internet of value.

He leads the Crypto Underground meetup in San Francisco and is a well-known speaker at many cryptocurrency and blockchain events.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak with Miko about investing strategies and patterns in the market, future of crypto-market and how do you create value in crypto-world

Listen to this interview and learn:

How did he get into crypto?

A relationship between open source software and crypto

Liquidity issues of crypto exchanges

What is the reason for creating the investment fund that is located in Japan but invests outside Japan

and much more

Mentioned in the episode:

Miko's personal website

Miko's thoughts published on Evercoin blog

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Don Ho runs business development for Quantstamp.

Quantstamp is an automated security auditing protocol for smart contracts. The team is currently focused on Ethereum smart contracts, but the protocol they are building is meant to be malleable enough to be transferred to other platforms such as EOS, NEO, QTUM and ADA. Quanstamp’s competitors are mostly manual smart contract auditing teams. Quantstamp is working towards full automation. Using formal verification coupled with manual auditing techniques for extensive audits.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak with Don about smart contracts,  security in crypto space, full automated audits Don's favorite projects and contrarian thoughts and much more.

Listen to this interview and learn:

why security should be prioritzed over scalability

how does Quantstamp audit smart contracts

what are some known bug of smart contracts

what is safe math library

how are smart contracts different from mobile apps in term of updating security

Mentioned in the episode:

Quantstamp official website

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Seth Rubin is the founder of Market Protocol.

Market Protocol has been created to provide a secure, flexible, open source foundation for decentralized trading on the Ethereum blockchain. It provides the pieces necessary to create a decentralized exchange, including the requisite clearing and collateral pool infrastructure, enabling third parties to build applications for trading.

In this episode of The Crunch we speak with Seth about derivatives, not just in crypto context but Seth explains us a lot about how they work  and what they are. We also discuss the future of crypto market, at what stage it is compared to other asset classes and what kind of investors are there.

Listen to this interview and learn:

What are derivatives and how do they work

What will they bring to crypto market

What kind of investors are in crypto space and how will that change

What is the oracle and what is its functionality

Mentioned in the episode:

MARKET Protocol

 

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