Token Talks – Interviews with the Best Projects in Crypto

Token Talks – Interviews with the Best Projects in Crypto

By Zach DeWitt, Wing VCBusinessTechnologyInvesting
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Token Talks – Interviews with the Best Projects in Crypto episodes

  • Castle Island Ventures: Investing in Infrastructure
    Hear from some of the smartest investors in the space: Nic Carter and Matt Walsh of Castle Island Ventures.
    Key takeaways:
    Castle Island believes the most compelling investment opportunities in crypto are in public blockchain infrastructure and applications;
    Nic talks about public-private key management and potential businesses built around this industry;
    In addition to interest in infrastructure and application, Nick and Matt are bullish on non-sovereign, censorship-resistant store of value.
    41 min
  • Oasis: A Privacy-First Smart Contract Platform
    The internet has fundamentally changed our lives, but along with the benefits, what kinds of challenges has it created?
    Key takeaways:
    One of the primary concerns around today’s general purpose smart contracting platforms is the lack of privacy-preserving technologies;
    Oasis is a platform with improved scalability and privacy-preserving smart contracts;
    Privacy-preserving smart contracts have the potential to eliminate data silos by improving the coordination and access controls around data.
    46 min
  • Set Protocol: Bundle Your Tokenized Assets
    Felix Feng, founder of Set Protocol, talks decentralized finance and what it means to bundle your tokenized assets.
    Key takeaways:
    Felix is most interested in crypto’s potential to transform the financial services industry;
    Set is an important layer in the decentralized financial stack, along with other protocols like 0X, Dharma, Compound, and dYdX;
    Set is going after the $4 trillion currently invested in ETFs by allowing tokenized assets to be bundled in creative ways.
    33 min
  • Spacemesh: A Blockmesh Operating System
    Tomer Afek of Spacemesh on how the Proof of Space Time consensus protocol is built on fairness and what that means in the creation of a cryptocurrency.
    Key takeaways:
    Proof of Work blockchains suffer from known scalability issues and energy waste and Proof of Stake solutions risk compromised decentralization and security;
    Spacemesh is creating a protocol and token for money use-cases ;
    Spacemesh aims to create money that is energy efficient, highly decentralized and democratic, and fair.
    38 min
  • Figure: Home Equity on the Blockchain
    Figure's Mike Cagney is applying blockchain technology to traditional financial services in compelling new ways.
    Figure will offer faster, cheaper home equity products to consumers;
    Figure will abstract a way to use blockchain technology to the consumer, integrating with a new native blockchain called Provenance;
    Offering faster and cheaper loans is a practical use case for blockchain technology that is going after a $100 billion market;
    Mike is one of the smartest minds in financial services.
    38 min
  • OpenSea: A Marketplace for Non-Fungible Assets
    The CryptoKitty craze brought some attention to non-fungible tokens, but what else is possible for this type of crypto asset?
    Key takeaways:
    Scarce digital collectibles, known as non-fungible assets are one of the exciting use cases enabled by blockchains;
    OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace for crypto goods, like an Ebay for crypto assets;
    Although usability and adoption are early, there is a lot of potential for non-fungible assets to be one of the killer use cases for crypto.
    40 min
  • Ledger: Secure Hardware Wallets
    Thomas France, co-founder of Ledger, explains the simple steps to using Ledger and why it’s the most popular hardware wallet.
    Key takeaways:
    It is important to understand our self-custody options when it comes to cryptocurrencies, and a hardware wallet is a popular option
    Ledger is a leading hardware wallet that has sold over a million wallets
    Ledger has recently launched new product lines including its consumer Ledger Live product and its more enterprise focused Ledger Vault product
    Full show notes at http://wing.vc/
    36 min
  • dYdX: Decentralized Derivatives and Margin Trading
    Learn how dYdX makes decentralized financial derivatives and margin trading possible, and what the future may hold for the crypto counterpart of the most massive market in the world.
    Key takeaways:
    Antonio believes the most interesting area in crypto is the financial stack that is being built out
    dYdX has recently launched a margin trading protocol with the ability to short assets and go leverage long
    dYdX has plans to launch an options protocol to write, buy, or trade options on any token
    Full show notes at http://wing.vc/
    35 min
  • Electric Capital: Investing in Programmable Money
    Avichal Garg of Electric Capital on the team's crypto investment strategy and why programmable money is the foundation.
    Key takeaways:
    Electric Capital believes that the most compelling investment opportunity in crypto today is in programmable money.
    They define programmable money as potential monetary stores of value, private transactions, and smart contracts.
    Electric believes that programmable money is the most promising segment because it's useful today has a huge potential market size.
    Full show notes at http://wing.vc/
    37 min
  • Basis: A Stable, Scalable Cryptocurrency
    Zach is joined by Nader Al-Naji of Basis, to discuss scalable, stable crypto.
    Key takeaways:
    There are many benefits to cryptocurrencies, but the volatility may be a major friction to widespread adoption.
    Basis is a stablecoin project that uses an on-chain, algorithmic central bank to stabilize its price.
    The stablecoin market is becoming increasingly competitive with new projects emerging, but Basis has the most scalable model and is the most capitalized stablecoin project to date.
    Full show notes at http://wing.vc/
    38 min

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Join Zach DeWitt as we highlight the best emerging projects in crypto through unbiased and exclusive interviews with blockchain technology founders. Token Talks intends to make the cryptocurrency…