Roshun Patel is a partner at the Web3 venture capital firm HackVC.

In this episode, Chaparro and Patel discuss the recent crypto market volatility and the trends shaping crypto's venture capital landscape.

OUTLINE

00:00 Intro

08:11 Market Volatility

25:57 Caution in the Funding Market

32:18 The Intersection of AI and Crypto

43:05 The Future of Tokenomics

Li Jin is a co-founder and general partner at the crypto VC firm, Variant.

In this episode, Li analyzes the memecoin phenomenon that has recently swept over the crypto market, and explores how different types of memecoins capture and monetize attention.

OUTLINE

00:35 Memecoin Zeitgeist

04:04 The Attention Economy

10:58 Classifying Memecoins

17:40 Trading Memecoins

21:05 Are Memecoins Productive?

23:14 Memetic Analysis

29:10 Memecoins & Marketing Strategies

34:42 Closing Thoughts

Professor J.W. Verret teaches corporate and securities law and financial accounting at George Mason Law School.

In this episode of The Scoop,  Verret discusses the potential legal challenges that Uniswap may face from the Securities and Exchange Commission and highlights the similarities between the Coinbase case and the possible claims against Uniswap.

Verret says the charges the SEC is likely to bring against Uniswap could include operating as an unlicensed broker dealer, operating an unregistered exchange, and/or selling unregistered securities.

Brandon Mulvihill is the co-founder and CEO of Crossover Markets.

In this episode of The Scoop, Mulvihill discusses crypto's changing market structure and the role of Crossover as an execution-only trading venue.

OUTLINE

00:00 Introduction and Background

01:07 The Role of Crossover in the Market

04:04 FX & Crypto Trading Similarities

08:22 ECN vs. CLOB Differences

18:30 The Importance of Fee Compression

22:33 Crypto Flash Crashes

26:15 Crypto Market Structure Maturity

29:27 Institutional Credit

34:02 Closing Thoughts

Austin Reid is the global head of revenue and business at FalconX.

In this episode of The Scoop, Reid discusses why we are still at the 'early stages' of institutional adoption of crypto, and the role retail traders have played in the market's current rally.

OUTLINE

00:00 Introduction

04:12 Market Overview

08:06 FalconX Volume

12:03 Crypto Derivatives

15:55 Interest Rates

19:19 Institutional Adoption

22:10 ETF Flows

26:49 Retail Flows

32:51 Market Maturation

35:06 Exchange Improvements

39:25 Closing Thoughts

Haseeb Qureshi is a managing partner at the crypto VC firm Dragonfly.

In this episode of The Scoop, Qureshi explains how the crypto VC landscape has changed during his five years at Dragonfly and why he believes 'points' are a more useful mechanism than airdrops for incentivizing user behavior.

OUTLINE

00:00 Introduction

05:41 Dragonfly Early Days

09:45 Early Crypto VC

13:14 Competing in Layer-1s

26:11 Old Blockchains

29:26 Points

31:47 Airdrop Mechanism Design

37:38 Closing Thoughts

Craig Burel is a partner at Reciprocal Ventures.

In this episode of The Scoop, Burel explains how the recent market rally caused sidelined venture capitalists to return to the crypto industry in earnest.

OUTLINE

00:00 Introduction

07:38 Nuances of Crypto VC

10:05 Crypto Venture Maturation

13:12 Valuations in the Bull

19:15 Solana Conviction

23:15 Navigating Market Cycles

28:17 Consumer Crypto Apps

32:22 Improving Tokenomics

38:00 Closing Thoughts

Mike Belshe is the co-founder and CEO of BitGo.

In this episode of The Scoop, Belshe discusses the growth and challenges of the custody market in the crypto industry, and explains what it will take to make crypto's market structure more robust.

OUTLINE

00:00 BitGo Background

05:15 Institutional Crypto Custodians

10:41 New Market Participants

14:36 Market Structure

24:09 Bullish Catalysts

32:08 Crypto Robustness

41:58 Closing Thoughts

Muneeb Ali is the CEO of Trust Machines and the co-creators of Stacks — a layer-2 that enables smart contracts and decentralized applications to utilize bitcoin for base-layer security.

In this episode of The Scoop, Ali discusses the growth and importance of Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions. He emphasizes the need for BTC capital to be deployed in L2s and the potential for Bitcoin L2s to become a significant category in the crypto industry.

According to Ali, creating more on-chain uses for bitcoin will ultimately make the asset more valuable:

“Bitcoin rails can be upgraded through layer-2s... There can be all sorts of use cases that that are deployed there and BTC the capital can be more productive — it will make bitcoin more valuable.”

This episode of The Scoop explores the technical headwinds and security challenges faced by the crypto industry.

Blockaid co-founder Raz Niv discusses common scams and phishing attacks in the crypto space, and emphasizes the importance of good on-chain hygiene and best practices for engaging with different protocols.

Just last month, Metamask integrated Blockaid-powered security alerts by default across multiple chains.