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Omar Bohsali is the CEO and cofounder of Center. Center is attempting to index and organize every NFT on every chain, 120 million NFTs on its books so far. Center has raised $11MM with Thrive Capital and Founders Fund leading. Angel investors include big names in crypto like Balaji, Emilie Choi, and Dan Romero. Prior to Center, Omar was Entrepreneur in Residence at the Crypto Native venture firm, Paradigm. Prior to Paradigm, Omar was an engineering manager at Coinbase.

In this episode we discuss Omar's time at Priceonomics, working for Balaji at Coinbase, his experience as an EIR at Paradigm, and his founder's journey starting Center.

Learn more about Omar and Circle:

• Omar's Twitter: @omarish
• Omar's Website: https://omarish.com
• Center's Twitter @centerapp
• Center's APIs: https://center.dev 
• Center's NFT Search: https://center.app 

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Robin Ji is the CEO and Cofounder of Liquifi. Liquifi helps Web3 companies automate token vesting and manage token cap tables. Liquifi raised a $5MM seed round from some of the biggest names out there. Dragonfly Capital, Alliance , Nascent, 6th Man Ventures. With participation from investors and operators in crypto including Balaji, Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano, Not Boring’s Packy McCormick, Ryan Selkis from Messari.

Liquifi has become the renowned expert on automated token vesting and token cap tables. With a star-studded list of customers that are using their product to solve their operational pain.

In this episode we discuss:

• What is a token?
• Why tokens?
  • Distributed ownership w/ a host of web3 benefits.
  • To interact with the blockchain?
  • Ownership in a protocol, company, etc.
• Core reasons to use tokens as equity:
  • Automatically get many financial services
  • Instantly a liquid market
  • Ability to interact with crypto native applications (contracts) - aka instant financial services
    • Attracts speculation
    • Creates perverse incentives
  • Different tokens can interact with each other
• Tokens = programmable ownership
  • Buying, selling, voting, attaching conditions
• Ask yourself why do you want a token:
  • Why do people want this?
  • Why would there be demand?
  • Why are we creating a token?
  • Does a governance token make sense?
  • A bet on what might happen in the future? Something unlocks with the token’s capability.
• Minting tokens and giving them out:
  1. Get a lawyer and ensure you’re compliant.
  2. How to raise money
  3. How to mint the token
  4. How to distribute the token
  5. Automated token vesting
• What Liquifi does:
  • Prevents mistakes
  • Allows you to configure distributions on a per person basis
  • Automates distribution
  • Automates legal
• The future of tokens
  • Automated value & transfer changes.
  • More inter-twined actions
• Parts of the Liquifi product:
  • Gathering addresses for how to distribute
  • Set up any grant
  • Lock ups
  • Vesting
  • Cost basis accounting
  • As an employer investor
• How Liquifi works with companies
• Everything it takes to set up a token:
  • Clear why for the Token
  • Landing ideal tokenomics
    • Launchpads: Ava launch, Binance (start and launch a token)
    • Do any people come to mind?
  • Marketing plan
  • Token distribution plans and strategies
  • How to launch
  • What exchanges to launch on
  • How to provide liquidity
  • How to drive perception
  • Launch preparation
    • Cap table set up
    • Gather wallet addresses
    • Run KYC
  • Set up infrastructure - accounting, taxes - so all pieces in place
  • Employee policies
  • Preventing insider trading
  • Community comms
  • Governance & change requests
  • Set up with Snapshot / Tally
  • Token road map
• How can tokens enable new models of work?

Learn more about Robin and Liquifi:

• Robin's Twitter: @robindavidji
• Liquifi's Twitter @liquifi_finance
• Liquifi's Website: https://www.liquifi.finance

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Anand Agarawala is the CEO and Cofounder of Spatial and Peter Ng is VP of Design. Spatial is a metaverse platform that allows you to host virtual galleries and events in beautiful artist-built spaces. In VR, mobile, and web.  This is Peter’s second time on the podcast, we had him on last year when Spatial pivoted into NFTs last year.

Anand and Peter first met and worked together on the Android Team at Google in 2011. When Google acquired Anand's first company, Bumptop, and incorporated Bumptop’s touch screen user experience into the Android phone. Peter led Google’s evolution into becoming a design-first company by creating Material Design, prototyping Google Hangouts, Google Now, and Google Keep.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• Anand's first company Bumptop and its acquisition to Google's Android team
• Peter's work redesigning  Google with Material Design
• Peter's prototyping process with Google Hangouts, Google Now, and Uber
• Spatial's story
• How Peter created Instaspatial

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• Anand's Bumptop TED Talk
• Peter's Material Design and Uber work: https://peter.ng/timeline

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Jon Wu is the head of growth at Aztec Network. The privacy layer of Web3. Jon’s in-depth tweets have done a great job explaining what happened Luna/UST, 3AC, Celsius. Prior to Aztec, Jon's experience in strategy consulting at Mars & Co, private equity at Bain, Harvard Business School, and founding his own startups give Jon a unique perspective in explaining things in Web3. Jon helps us understand what zero knowledge proofs are, zk rollups are, and why privacy is important.

Jon's famous Twitter Thread Explainers:

• The $UST Depeg Thread
• The Celsius Thread
• Centralized crypto fintechs are in deep trouble and rumored to be facing insolvency.
• Interviewing a North Korean hacker

Learn more about Jon and Aztec:

• Jon's Twitter: @jonwu_
• Aztec's Website: https://aztec.network
• Aztec's Twitter @aztecnetwork
• Aztec Connect: https://aztec.network/connect

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James Chang is a Taiwanese American that grew up in Brazil. He came to the US by himself at the age of 16, and helped raise his younger sisters. After graduating college, James built a video game distribution company in Brazil. After it failed, James hustled his way into working for free for a Pharmacy. Eventually resulting in starting his own Pharmacy without being a Pharmacist. During Covid, James’ Pharmacy became the top Covid Vaccine distributor in Southern California.

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Seb Audet is the Co-Founder & CEO at Zapper. Zapper is a Web3 asset management platform for DeFi. Its mission is to make Web3 accessible and easy to use. In 2021, Zapper reached 1 million monthly active users, and surpassed $10B in transaction volume.

We discuss what inspired Seb to start Zapper and his vision for the company.

Learn more about Seb and Zapper:

• Seb’s twitter - @sebaudet26
• Zapper’s twitter - @zapper_fi
• Zapper’s Website: zapper.fi

In this episode we discuss:

• The lessons learned in Seb’s early career and how he applied them building Zapper.
• What led Seb to leave ShakePay to found his own company.
• How Seb knew he had product market fit with Zapper.
• Why Seb was so addicted to DeFi? Why did Seb believe DeFi was going to be a 10x change?
• What’s a safe DeFi place right now?
• How does Zapper educate their customers on the evolving world and using Zapper?
• How Seb does his own research.
• What’s the hardest part about building Zapper?
• DeFi is important because it can raise monetary access for people. However, not every one understands finance.
• Insights from running the company Zapper.
• How does Zapper run so lean?
• What is Seb excited about the most?

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Will Chang, Lee Chang, Andrew Hsu, Evan Lai gives an update on the state of the podcast, share behind the scenes, and what they're thinking about next.

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Will brings on Evan Lai to chat about what we learned in Web3 this week. We discuss Will's experience at NFT NYC.

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Noun 53 is the proud owner of the 53rd Nouns DAO NFT.

Nouns DAO is one of the most interesting NFT projects we’ve come across. And Noun 53 is here tell us what Nouns DAO is and it how it works.

Earlier this year, Noun 53 led the effort in naming a new species of Glass Frog discovered in Ecuador Nouns DAO. Helping the Rainforest Trust and Ecominga protect endangered species and conservation efforts.

Learn more about Noun 53 and Nouns DAO:

• Noun 53's Twitter: @Noun_53
• Noun 53’s Auction Page: https://nouns.wtf/noun/53
• Proposal to name a recently discovered species of glass frog after Nouns: https://nouns.wtf/vote/16
• [New Species of Glass Frog Discovered in Ecuador Named Nouns DAO
• Nouns DAO Twitter: @nounsdao
• NounsDAO Website: https://nouns.wtf

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Calvin is the Co-Founder & Head of Business Development for Shrapnel. Shrapnel is the world's first blockchain-enabled AAA first-person shooter game. Spun out from HBO, the Shrapnel team consists of Emmy award–winning talent behind such notable franchises as: HALO, Call of Duty, Madden NFL, Bioshock, Destiny, Star Wars, Hawken, Skylanders, Westworld.

In this episode, we learn how Shrapnel works and why it’s the perfect game for the blockchain.

Learn more about Calvin and Shrapnel:

• Calvin’s Twitter: @metacalvinz
• Shrapnel’s Twitter: @playSHRAPNEL
• Shrapnel’s Website: https://www.shrapnel.com

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