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George Harrap is the co-founder of Step Finance, a platform for Solana DeFi users to track their portfolio performance. Before Step, George was the CEO of Bitspark.

00:29 About George Harrap and mining

05:03 From Bitcoin to DeFi, how can crypto solve currency issues in the world

18:27 STEP Finance’s vision for the next five years

21:20 Censorship resistance and layer 1s

27:11 Hackathon: what would you like to see created?

30:30 Thoughts on Rust and why it was the better choice for Solana

38:08 Why you can’t innovate in the traditional financial system

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Kevin Rose is a partner at True and a serial entrepreneur best known for founding Digg and Revision3. Most recently, he founded Oak, a guided meditation app, and Zero, an app for tracking intermittent fasting.

00:08 – Introduction of Kevin Rose, Modern Finance and the story of Reddit vs. DIGG

06:04 – From DOS to Windows, where are we in the evolution of crypto

07:50 – Crypto is here to stay. Could we see countries getting into it in the future?

14:47 – The NFT craze

19:58 – NFT: dynamic art and encrypting mystery over time

23:08 – Blockchain is persistent and permanent; how will this impact NFTs in art and games?

32:49 – From investing into educating people on crypto

39:35 – Discussing the repercussion of Christie’s endorsement of NFTs

43:22 – Kevin Rose’s investing philosophy

49:34 – Kevin’s advice: test features

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Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, one of Asia’s first crypto funds. As Spartan Capital’s first employee, Jason helped scale the fund from $9M to $200M within 3 years, and supported the launch of Spartan’s $50M DeFi-only venture fund to back world-class teams shaping the future of finance.

00:23 – Getting into crypto and about Spartan Capital

04:33 – How does Spartan Capital invests?

11:47 – Next wave: building for current users vs future adopters?

19:47 – DeFi and the yield farming phenomenon

30:36 – From CeFi to DeFi for the mainstream adopters

43:33 – The NFT craze and where it could lead us

51:37 – Thoughts on the next wave? DAOs? Social Networking?

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We are excited to have Dan Gunsberg, Co-Founder of Hxro, sitting down with us for Episode 41. During this discussion, Dan talks about his history in traditional finance, how this experience guided him to building out Hxro, the importance of community, and the powerful disruptions he believes are going to happen over the next few years.

00:25 – Dan’s crypto story and what’s Hxro?

05:38 – Centralized crypto exchanges vs legacy exchanges

15:07 – Community capitalism

24:11 – Community building around projects

35:23 – Closing thoughts and what’s next for Hxro

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In this episode, AlphaRay discusses the origin of Raydium, working with Solana and FTX, fusion Pools, the importance of communities, and the future of decentralized governance.

00:25 - The story behind Alpha and Raydium

10:26 - What are Fusion Pools?

15:07 - Teaming up with FTX/Serum and being among the first to build on the Solana blockchain

19:29 - Solana communities

25:52 - Thoughts on future governance features

29:57 - Closing thoughts, what’s next?

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Anatoly and Santiago sit down to cover the stages of crypto, the major benefits of decentralized finance, on-chain transparency, the future of decentralized collaboration, and plenty more. ☀️

00:31: Who is Santiago Santos, and why crypto?

09:07: At what stage are we in crypto? Are finance applications the equivalent of the internet in the 90s?

14:32: DeFi benefits: crypto lending, automatic investor profiles, transparency, and more

31:43: Is decentralization the future of collaboration?

38:45: Closing thoughts: porting vs. innovating. Stay open-minded

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Michael Wagner and Anatoly Yakovenko sit down to talk all things Star Atlas. Star Atlas is a grand strategy game of space exploration, territorial conquest, and political domination being built on Solana.

00:48: Who is Michael Wagner and What is Star Atlas?

18:34: ATLAS and POLIS: Development of game economy

23:12: Developer ecosystem

25:40: Roadmap

34:19: Metaverse and VR

38:11: Decentralization of Star Atlas

43:29: Future Concerns

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Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts the power back into the hands of content creators. In this episode, Roneil talks about the creation of Audius, the need for empowering artists, how blockchain technology and cryptocurrency can completely disrupt the music industry, and more.

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