Inchained

In this podcast we chat with Mehak who is an NFT Artist from India. She is part of the Guild NFT and her work can be found on all major NFT marketplaces. Link to her twitter profile : https://twitter.com/MehakJainArt Interview Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:49 Mehak’s journey of becoming a crypto artist 02:45 Are there any passionate investors 04:00 NFT marketplaces - Rarible, Opensea, Superrare 06:04 Technical barriers for crypto artists 08:39 Role of marketing for crypto artists 12:19 Current investors in crypto art 14:16 How has crypto art changed your life 16:38 Type of artists joining the crypto game 19:13 NFT Hype and effect on price 24:10 DeFi x NFTs 28:32 Price point of crypto art NFTs 31:09 Closing thoughts

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Imran Khan, who is a Partner at Volt Capital and is the lead at DeFi alliance. Imran has been backing founders building at the cutting edge of DeFi and in this episode we dig deeper on his learnings doing the same. We talk about regulations in DeFi, getting larger financial institutions and market makers involved in crypto and DeFi as well as the current trends of crypto in Africa. 00:00 Introduction 00:28 Background story and overview of Volt Capital 02:47 Investing in companies like Buycoins in Africa and crypto trends in Africa 07:30 DeFi activity in Africa and potential of stablecoins like USDC in Africa 11:30 Background on DeFi Alliance, getting traditional liquidity providers in crypto 15:18 Learnings from running a DeFi accelerator 17:52 Overview on the DeFi Alliance program 20:49 Regulation for DeFi startups 23:48 Interesting trends in DeFi 27:27 Getting traditional liquidity providers to do market making in crypto and DeFi 30:48 NFT space and NFTxDeFi 36:05 Interesting trends in crypto in general - magic labs and others 40:20 Geographical trends in crypto and closing thoughts Imran's Twitter : https://twitter.com/lmrankhan DeFi alliance : https://defialliance.co/ Volt capital : https://www.volt.capital/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Jake Brukhman, Founder at CoinFund. Jake is heavily involved in the NFT space - investing in NFT companies as well as creating and collecting digital art. We talk about various things related to NFTs like current and future use-cases, financial products for NFTs like NFT loans, fractionalization etc. We also touched upon the learnings from the DeFi summer and where are things headed in the future. 00:00 Introduction 00:26 Jake's background and how he started CoinFund 02:12 How did Jake fall down into NFT rabbit hole 04:56 NFT sector segments - Issuers, Issuance Platform, Marketplaces, Financial Services 08:05 NFT Financial Services - Liquidity, Loans, Fractionalization 13:01 Deeper Dive into NFT Fractionalization 15:53 How to Make NFTs more useable - L2, meta-transactions, better key management 21:17 Mainstream adoption of NFTs - Democratization of supporting artists 25:53 Secondary markets and revenue sharing in NFTs 28:52 Art auctions houses getting into NFTs 32:48 Suggestions for retail investors looking to invest in NFTs 36:45 Other crypto areas coinfund is looking at - oracles via API3, 43:13 Learnings from DeFi Summer 49:17 Closing Thoughts CoinFund Website : https://www.coinfund.io/ Jake's Twitter : https://twitter.com/jbrukh Jake's Personal Website : http://www.brukhman.com/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Priyanka (https://twitter.com/pridesai), who is involved with The LAO, FlamingoDAO and Seedclub. The LAO is being organized in the spirit of The DAO, as a member-directed venture capital fund organized in the United States. Flamingo is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for NFTs. She is also the VP of Operations at OpenLaw, which is a Consensys project that allows one to create blockchain legal contracts. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:20 Priyanka’s background and projects she’s involved in currently 05:10 Projects using OpenLaw, Aave credit delegation 10:49 How do OpenLaw contracts work 13:26 Status of The LAO 19:06 LAO vs DAO 21:50 LAO decision and reward process 25:39 Overview on FlamingoDAO and NFTs 29:36 Curating NFT projects 31:13 Status of FlamingoDAO and roadmap 33:53 Social token thesis and Seedclub hackathon 40:03 Closing thoughts Links: OpenLaw : https://www.openlaw.io/ The LAO : https://www.thelao.io/ FlamingoDAO : https://flamingodao.xyz/ Seedclub : https://seedclubhacks.com/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Pranav (https://twitter.com/pransharma), Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Woodstock Fund (https://woodstockfund.com/). Pranav outlined Woodstock's investment thesis and we went deeper into tokenization, financial engineering, NFTs. Pranav shared his experience backing projects in India and around the globe. 00:00 Introduction 00:42 Backstory of Woodstock Fund 08:01 Surviving the 2018-19 bear market 12:00 Investment thesis of Woodstock - public DLT, DeFi, Tokenization, Web3.0 protocols 20:27 Diving deep into tokenization 27:02 Diving deep into NFTs 32:57 DeFi and financial engineering 41:51 Investing in Indian crypto projects and geographical trends 47:45 How does Pranav stay updated in crypto 52:35 Closing thoughts

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Jamie (https://twitter.com/jamie247 ), Founder & CEO at Outlier Ventures (https://outlierventures.io). Jamie outlined why NFTs would go mainstream in the coming months and how the legos we have been building with DeFi will be used with NFTs. Outlier Ventures is a Web3 accelerator investing in the space from 2013. Jamie also runs his own podcast "Founders of Web3" : https://outlierventures.io/podcasts/ 00:00 Introduction 02:02 Outlier Ventures overview and investment thesis 07:01 Crypto accelerators and insights running Outlier’s accelerator 16:27 Predictions for the market and bull case for NFTs 27:38 How would NFTs go mainstream 35:14 Using NFTs as collateral in DeFi 41:54 Timeframe for the NFT Bull run 48:11 How one can get involved with NFTs currently 52:19 Trends in DeFi 59:56 Evolution of crypto VCs 1:09:22 Ideal token distribution structure 1:13:29 Closing thoughts

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Peter (https://twitter.com/pet3rpan_ ), who works at Metacartel (https://www.metacartel.org) and 1kx. Metacartel is a community with multiple arms - grants program, venture investments (https://metacartel.xyz/), dapp podcast etc. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:37 Origin story for metacartel 04:32 Current state of metacartel 11:47 Metacartel DAO 14:51 Venture DAO and metacartel ventures 17:50 Interesting stats around metacartel - teams funded, grants given, partners 21:01 Fair launches and evolution of crypto VC with community driven projects 27:01 Incorrect narrative around crypto VCs dumping 30:18 Trends in NFT ecosystem 32:35 DeFi predictions 35:20 Governance ideas coming from DeFi 37:32 Geographical trends in crypto 39:45 Closing remarks and where are we headed

In this episode of Inchained we chatted with Alexander Zaidelson, CEO of Beam. Beam (https://www.beam.mw/) is a Mimblewimble based privacy coin which going live on mainnet on January 3rd, 2019. We chatted on a variety of topics ranging from 'How does mimblewimble work' to Beam's monetary policy. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Relevant Links : Beam's Twitter : https://twitter.com/beamprivacy Beam website : https://www.beam.mw/ ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬●

In this episode of Inchained, we chatted with the anonymous co-founder of Local Monero - Alex. Local Monero (https://localmonero.co/) is a website on which people can Buy /Sell Monero with cash or online. It is the most used platform for cash trading of Monero and is quite similar to localbitcoins. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Relevant Links : Alex's Reddit : https://www.reddit.com/user/Alex_LocalMonero Localmonero Twitter : https://twitter.com/localmoneroco?lang=en Localmonero website : https://localmonero.co/ ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬●

Topics Discussed : 1) Introduction [00:00] 2) Alena's Background To Crypto [2:48] 3) How Will Crypto Adoption Kick In [6:30] 4) Story Of Trezor - Crowdfunding, Building a Brand... [9:03] 5) Challenges of Building a Hardware Product [17:05] 6) Alena's Journey With Casa [21:58] 7) Casa's Key Management Service & Vision [24:25] 8) Casa's Lightning Node [33:25] 9) Casa's Marketing Strategy [34:15] 10) B-Foundation & How To Reach Out To Interesting Projects [41:15] 11) B-Foundation & Providing Education Material [46:30] 12) B's Roadmap & Funding Model [53:15] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● In this episode, we chatted with Alena Vranova also known as Alena 'Satoshi'. She is currently working on Casa as head of strategy (https://keys.casa/) where she is driving their Lightning Node product as well as a key management system for high net worth crypto individuals! We chatted on a variety of topics ranging from Alena's time as CEO at Trezor, Crypto Anarchy, Casa Lightning Node, Casa Key Management System, B-Foundation & much more... ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Relevant Links : Casa website : https://keys.casa/ B-Foundation website : https://theb.foundation/ Trezor Website : https://trezor.io/ ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬●

In this episode, we chatted with Pierre Rochard, who co-founded Nakamoto Institute & co-hosts the noded podcast. We chatted on a variety of topics ranging from the evil of keynesian economics to Lightning Network & so much more. Topics Discussed : 1) How Pierre Got into Bitcoin [ 00:50 ] 2) Pierre’ Journey of Nakamoto Institute & Noded Poscast [ 7:00 ] 3) Where does Keynsian economics fail? [ 9:25 ] 4) Lightning Network & steps to ensure that centralisation doesn’t come into play [ 15:57 ] 5) How Important Is Lightning For Bitcoin To Succeed [ 19:52 ] 6) Lightning residency & cool projects seen there [ 22:37 ] 7) Biggest threats to Bitcoin adoption & possible government interception [ 29:22 ] 8) Key management wallets [ 39:19 ] 9) What’s hampering Bitcoin growth [ 44:36 ] 10) What’s the role of Bitcoin maximalism [ 51:17 ] 11) Altcoins [ 1:01:30 ] 12) Institutional Interest & how do they view Bitcoin [ 1:05:40 ] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Relevant Links : Nakamoto Institute : https://nakamotoinstitute.org/ Noded Poscast : https://noded.org/ Pierre's Twitter : https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬●

In this episode, we chatted with Jameson Lopp, who is currently working on Casa (https://keys.casa/), personal key system for securely storing your funds & is a Cypherpunk! We chatted on a variety of topics ranging from Bitcoin fund security, privacy in crypto, Lightning Network, mining centralisation, government intervention on Bitcoin as well as future of Bitcoin. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Topics Discussed : 1) What Jameson is Upto & how he got into Bitcoin [00:40] 2) Getting Crypto used by 'non-technical' people [5:15] 3) Keeping Funds Safe [10:10] 4) Fund security for normal person [12:45] 5) Technical Things Jameson Is Most Excited About (Privacy, Usability, Governance...) [17:10] 6) Things Jameson Is Excited About In Lightning [25:15] 7) Challenges In-front of the Bitcoin Ecosystem [31:03] 8) Mining Centralisation [34:40] 9) Thoughts on Proof Of Stake [37:34] 10) Ethereum, Monero & altcoin projects [40:00] 11) Institutions approach to altcoin projects [44:20] 12) A Crypto protocol as a driver of humanity [47:05] 13) Stablecoins - DAI, USDT, GUSD[53:35] 14) Bitcoin Price Predictions [56:10] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Relevant Links : Jameson's website (Useful resources) : https://lopp.net/ Casa website : https://keys.casa/ Statoshi : https://statoshi.info/ Grin, MimbleWimble : https://grin.mw/up/ ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● ♨️Social: Twitter profile : https://twitter.com/arnav_vohra Quora profile : quora.com/profile/Arnav-Vohra-3 Medium profile : https://medium.com/@arnav_vohra Steemit profile : https://steemit.com/@arnavvohra Email : av7tv.channel@gmail.com

In this episode, we chatted with Marco Peereboom, Decred Systems Development Lead & CTO of Company Zero. I was joined by Vishal as my co-host for this interview. We discussed about core technical features of Decred & things planned for the future. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Topics Discussed: 1) Initial Days of Decred & How Marco Got Into Crypto [0:00] 2) Politeia - Technical Architecture & Layer 2 Voting [8:45] 3) Bitcoin & Decred [18:20] 4) Decred Grant Structure [19:40] 5) Politeia Use-Cases & Real World Election On It [21:30] 6) DCR-Time & Storing Docs On Decred Blockchain [28:10] 7) Decred & Lightning Network [34:40] 8) Getting Decred Used By Normal People [36:40] 9) Getting Developers To Develop For Decred [41:30] 10) Future Roadmap - Decentralised Exchange, Schnorr signatures, Privacy release, Decentralized Autonomous Entities [49:00] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬●

Topics Discussed: Background [00:40] History & applications of prediction markets [6:54] Real utility of GNO Token [19:20] Bringing adoption with other products: Gnosis DutchX & Safe [24:50] Development status of prediction markets and other products [43:33] Life after Gnosis ICO & Future Roadmap [51:33] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● In this episode, we chatted with Stefan George, Co-Founder & CTO of Gnosis. Gnosis builds new market mechanisms to enable the distribution of resources-from assets to incentives, and information to ideas. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Links mentioned in the episode: Gnosis website : https://gnosis.pm/ Gnosis Whitepaper : https://gnosis.pm/assets/pdf/gnosis-w... Gnosis DutchX (Testnet) : https://dutchx-rinkeby.d.exchange/ Gnosis Safe (beta) : https://safe.gnosis.io/ Gnosis Timeline : https://gnosis.pm/timeline.html ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos.

In this video, we talk with Nash Foster, who is the CEO of Pyrofex. Pyrofex in a strategic partner of Rchain & builds high-performance distributed development tools that are easy to use, secure, and continuously reliable. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Things discussed in the episode: 1) Background 2) Overall vision of Pyrofex

 3) Pyrofex’s involvement with projects - Rchain, pyr8, cryptofex 
4) Current status of development of Rchain 5) Where does Rchain fit in overall picture 
6) Roadmap for Pyrofex and details about Hiring! ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Subscribe to "Inchained" : http://youtube.com/arnavvohra7 for future videos on Blockchain & Cryptos. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬●

Prysmatic Labs is building out the first sharding implementation for the Geth (go-ethereum) client, allowing the system to process transactions at over 10x - 100x of its current speed! In this video we chat with Raul Jordan, who is the co-lead at Prysmatic Labs. ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Things discussed in this episode: Background [ 0:47 - 2:01 ] Prysmatic Labs Overview [ 2:02 - 5:48 ] Sharding Overview [ 5:49 - 12:09 ] Sharding In-Depth [ 12:10 - 22:54 ] Prysmatic Sharding approach [ 22:55-24:41 ] Other Sharding Approaches [ 24:42 -31:16 ] Research Funding Space [ 31:17 - 34:02 ] Scalability Space [ 33:03-37:59 ] How To Get Involved? [ 38:00-40:13 ] ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Links mentioned in this episode: Prysmatic Labs Website : https://prysmaticlabs.com/ Prysmatic Labs Github : https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm Prysmatic Labs Chat (Gitter) : https://gitter.im/prysmaticlabs/prysm?source=orgpage