MikoBits Blockchain NFT and DeFi show

In this episode we have John Reynolds, Product Manager of Aleo as they sponsor this year Zprize. ZPrize is the sophisticated contest that's used for advanced technology only focused on enhancing the industry's use of zero knowledge proofs and the new mathematics of cryptography. Know more about ZPrice on their website https://www.zprize.io/ or Follow their official X account at @z_prize , @Aleo_HQ Let's connect on socials! @mikojava on X (twitter) Miko Matsumura on LinkedIn

Join us as we speak about Decentralized Identity with Disco's Co-founder and CEO, Evin McMullen Disco is a tool that allows you to securely store your data in web3 while retaining full ownership and control. Start you backpack at https://www.disco.xyz/about or follow Disco's social profiles at X (Twitter) : @discoxyz Instagram @disco.identity Linkedln https://www.linkedin.com/company/disco-xyz/ ---- Let's connect on socials X (Twitter) @mikojava LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikomatsumura/

n this episode we have Åke André , Founder & CEO of Crypto Rogue Games (CRG), to unveil the future of gaming. Crypto Rogue is set to launch a web3 game Crystals of Naramunz by early next year. Crystals of Naramunz is an upcoming free-to-play action RPG set in the post-apocalyptic steampunk world of Naramunz. Check the game here https://www.naramunz.com/ and follow their twitter for more information @naramunz @AkeAndre

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology advances, the threat of deep fakes and the subsequent loss of trust are very concerning. Who can verify the authenticity of what is real versus what is fake? Lagrange labs have developed cryptographic proofs that allow chains to interact with each other securely without relying on opaque intermediaries. Check out Lagrange Labs at https://www.lagrange.dev/ Twitter @lagrangedev Ismael Twitter @Ismael_H_R Follow us on Twitter: @mikojava

Franklin Payroll is a Hybrid Cash & Crypto Payroll solution. Join our discussion with Megan Knab, CEO of Franklin Payroll. Know the latest updates at their official Twitter account at @franklinpayroll Official website https://www.hellofranklin.co/ Let's Connect! @mikojava on Twitter https://miko.com/https://www.gumi-cryptos.com/

We have Elena Nadolinski, the founder and CEO of Iron Fish, join us as we discuss ZK-Proof technology, bridging, and trusted set-up which are all integral pieces in building the Iron Fish security system. Iron Fish is a Layer 1 blockchain that offers the highest levels of privacy for every transaction. Visit their website at https://ironfish.network/ and follow their official Twitter accounts @ironfishcrypto @leanthebean (Elena) --- Let's connect on socials Twitter @mikojava Miko Matsumura on Linkedin @GumiCryptos https://www.gumi-cryptos.com/

We discuss the problems solved by Mangrove Exchange in Liquidity and the cost of failure. With co-founder Vincent Danos. Get started with Mangrove Exchange now at https://www.mangrove.exchange/ and follow their official Twitter account @MangroveDAO to know the latest updates Let's connect on socials @mikojava on Twitter@GumiCryptos Miko Matsumura on Linkedin

A zero-knowledge proof is a cryptographic proof that can verify and prove the validity of certain information that is not known but can prove that with just a few information that is known Let's explore more more about ZKP or Zero-Knowledge Proof with expert analyst and investor from Fenbushi Capital, Yuki Yuminaga. Follow him on Twitter @ballsyalchemist 00:57 What is Zero-knowledge proof (zkp) and how this can be used? 5:12 Business used of data compression 10:28 Different approaches in ZK 18:30 What is the future of Layer2 scalability? 22:15 Rollups vs App chains 24:17 ZKP rollups as exchange 35:09 ZK optimization 37:00 Is the future of bridging the ZK? 47:40 the future of ZK for scalability Let's connect! Twitter: @mikojava Website: https://miko.com/ www.gumi-cryptos.com/

In this episode, we have Barney Mannerings, Founder of Vega Protocol Official website https://vega.xyz/ Twitter @vegaprotocol Let's connect! Twitter: @mikojava Website: https://miko.com/

Opolis is a member-owned digital employment cooperative for solopeneurs and independent workers Know more about Opolis at https://opolis.co/ and follow on Twitter: @opolis

Explore the world of Momoguro with Maureen Fan, CEO and Founder of Baobab Studios. Website: Momoguro.com Follow on Twitter @momoguroNFT

In this episode, we talk about the future of DeFi with Yubo Ruan, founder of Parallel Finance. Let's connect on twitter @mikojava

In this episode, we have, Kiefer Zang, Associate Crypto-Economics Consultant of Economics design, where we talk about elements of the functional model for Crypto gaming and Blockchain gaming and what economics design fits for the project Kiefer Zang Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kieferzang/ Twitter: @KieferZang

Joining us today at the Mikobits show is the founder and CEO of subQuery Network, Sam Zou. SubQuey is an Open, Flexible, Fast, and Universal data indexing framework for web3. Know more about subQuery by visiting their website https://subquery.network/ or follow them on social media Twitter: @SubQueryNetwork Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/subquery/ SamZou : @zoujialiu

We have Varun Kumar, Founder & CEO of Hashflow, talks about Decentralized Exchange, Capital efficiency, and Money. 0:00 Intro 1:20 What does Hashflow solve? 4:16 Concept of Wholesaling 8:02 Capital Efficiency 10:22 The power of tech 18:46 Blockchain visibility 22:39 Varun Kumar's Journey in Crypto & Blockchain 29:02 Evolution of money 37:52 Proof-of-stake & Etherium concept by Varun 43:44 What does Varun looking forward For more information on Hashflow visit their website at https://www.hashflow.com/ or follow Varun on his social accounts Twitter: @GandalfTheBr0wn Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunvruddhula/ Let's connect on socials! Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikojava Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikomatsumura/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MikoBits-103971848039634 Website: https://miko.com/

We have Rupert Barksfield, Project Lead at Amulet Protocol on the MikoBits show. Amulet protocol is a decentralized insurance protocol developed on the Solana blockchain. Watch now exclusive on the Mikobits Blockchain, NFT and DeFi Show https://youtu.be/2sfmy5GFh5k or listen to Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/7o3gqvWirfVzVoBK6Fr75J?si=d13e9e1b68164638

In this episode, we have Calista Wu also known as CaliStar as an artist who is an Asian-American recording artist, a lawyer, and a founder of the entertainment company Cali Star Entertainment, LLC, and we will talk about the NFTS: art, music, and the possibilities of web3 space in the industry. We also talk about how she got her degree as a Lawyer, and how she started in crypto and NFTs in particular. You can listen to her music on youtube or Spotify Calista - Ethereal Lover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8degESi6Mc Don't Give Up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzeqZgjPDfU st0rm ft CaliStar-Enter the Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ItEXbNNkbw

In this video, we have Greg Tanaka, a member of Palo Alto City Council and running for the U.S. House California District 16. He is a pro-crypto candidate for Silicon Valley's House seat. Here he discusses legislation in connection with his plans in technology, blockchain, finance, and overall plans if he will hot the seat. You can follow him on his website and social accounts Website: https://www.gregtanaka.org/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gltanaka/ Twitter: @greglintanaka Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greglintanaka/?hl=en

In this episode, we have our guest Brooks Brown who is a visionary game designer and storyteller. We're going to be learning quite a lot about his exciting project relating to things like NFT, permanence, mortality, immortality, life, and death, many themes I'm super interested in. So you know, let's just jump right in.

A conversation with Steven Cho, head of play at Mechanism Capital about the future of metaverse and how does this can create an economy for content creators. Here we discuss: Steven Cho on Apple game business and his advice to game developers engaging in Apple App Store. The rise of a metaverse and how does an open metaverse can transport from the physical environment to a new dimension potentially creating tremendous jobs for content creators and artists.

What problem is solved by SOLV Protocol? (1:24) SOLV is Opensea equivalent, but for financial, NFT's (2:58) So, financial NFT is just, you know, the NFT expression of that financial contract. So, you see that we actually using NFT technology to represent the complex conditions and intelligence of a financial contract. (3:49) So, we are actually upgrading smart contracts by tokenizing it tokenizing them, we tokenize smart contracts so that it can be visualized, it can be owned by somebody, it can be transferable, it can be, you know, composable and divisible. So, I think we are doing something very, very significant, very, I should say, exciting in this industry. - Yan Meng, co-founder of SOLV Protocol

A conversation with Wil Robinson, Core contributor from Alliance DAO. In this conversation, we talk about the structure and sustainability of different games specifically blockchain games, and the role of DAO in these. The word Playbour" is coined as this is half play + half labour. We talked about: How alliance DAO formed Why Will joined Dao Alliance, How does a professor in philosophy turn into gaming and DAO? Transmedia: Game & entertainment How do game economies do better as an industry? The Playbour Different player types Are DAO models just pay to win? Decentralization as a process What does Wil & DAO is looking forward to?

NEAR: A Mass Adoption Platform for Blockchain Our approach in general is about kind of making a infrastructure and a platform, that mass adoption applications can actually then be built on. Right. And so kind of our origin stories, you know, I was actually trying to build something on Ethereum. And realizing that like, it's not possible even that at like back, then it's way lower prices and way lower kind of demand that was back then. And really trying to focus on how do we build kind of a developer platforms that developers are excited, you know, to build on kind of innovative solutions, how to build a platform infrastructure, a blockchain, that normal users, right, people who do not know what private keys are, can kind of just pick it up and use, right. And obviously, kind of the scalability issue, this thing that everybody's talking about, like that's just a part of the story, because like, developers should not worry about that, you know, the capacity of their network will run out after some application hits mainstream. So so really kind of how do we solve this problems and provide something that is like friendly, like, and actually introduces, like this concepts that we all believe in to mass adoption in a way that really provides a better product to really kind of product focus, you know, vision of the future of like that three becoming kind of dominant platform, but through better products, not just philosophy. Decentralized technologies will be powering kind of future of software. And one of the core reasons why I believe in that is because by giving control back to the user, by giving control back to the kind of business or whoever generates and controls original kind of data and action, you actually allowing all applications all things to cooperate, quick to interact, right. And the decentralization is your guarantees that all those things will actually work together, right, the open source, open state, all those things that we kind of like to say, like those are guarantees of really things working for the user. And so this is just a better way to build software, this is a better way to build applications.

0:00 Intro 1:00 Tipatat into the metaverse of virtual reality 3:29 How Tipatat got into VR, AR & AI 7:07 Going back into the Arcade 10:08 Is 2022 the year of VR? 18:45 The Future of VR, AR & AI 22:04 Monetizing digital economies 37:53 VR, AR role in metaverse 40:37 Democratizing 3D creation & AI 47:02 Outro

Has it ever crossed your mind to build a very strong character, add cool and useful items to the games you are playing? In a way that you just want to play that game forever? Then, you can also play and earn? If so, find out here how these games can be economically sustainable for both players and developers with Ryan Foo of Delphi Digital 0:00 Welcome 0:12 Introduction to Ryan Delphi Digital 1:02 How do game developers design games to monetize from traditional gaming to play-to-earn NFT 6:45 Relationship of developers to games, a driving force on developing games? 11:41 NFT's and developer mindset 14:36 Sustainability: Game developers as an economic designers provide ways for players to earn 17:15 Characteristics of the game for players retention 21:33 Conversion of playtime of players to analytical resource 26:09 Hot mechanisms and core loop 35:36 Game environment: Rule-based environment vs. a good gameplay 45:12 Gamer centric transmedia: Business vs Art

0:00 Welcome 0:07 David Sneider from Lit Protocol Introduction 0:56 What does LIT Protocol solves 4:08 Decentralized Access Control capacity 6:55 Where to access the LIT Protocol 8:47 How secure LIT protocol is 13:03 What's the most valuable asset on the internet 15:15 Cryptography on open source software 18:17 David Sneider role in this project 21:46 Building New Systems: inspiration and motivation that drives David 26:29 Journey of entrepreneurship in the tech world 29:06 The Big Idea 30:51 Coordination of Financial Energy and user-centric transmedia 37:19 Is this the possible exponential solution: Coordination of consent, financial power, and cryptography 41:44 10,000 NFT free giveaway launching 43:40 Outro

A conversation with Graham Novak 0:00 Welcome 0:12 Introduction to Grahan Novak from constitution DAO. 1:17 What is DAO 2:05 How DAO was formed 9:10 Aspects of DAO : media property & gamified aspect 11:01 Crticial Moments & Junctures of Constitutional DAO 12:56 Individual Freedom in crypto 20:20 How Grahan Novak started in cryptocurrency 24:11 The auction night 29:33 Loosing the auction night and how how it was redeemed 37:40 The people DAO 39:58 What must been done to continue the project 49:24 The lesson behind this events 52:45 Outro

Charles Hoskinson on Meditation Hey guys, this is NOT A CARDANO episode. We do NOT FOCUS ON CARDANO. This is a friendly chat with Charles about meditation, life, freedom and blockchain technologies. It may give you a better feeling for who Charles Hoskinson is, but it's definitely not focused on ADA or Cardano but more focused on Charles and his experiences and thoughts. With that out of the way, please enjoy this show! 0:00 Welcome to the Mikobits Show 0:10 Greetings and Introduction to Charles Hoskinson 0:29 Charles Hoskinson on meditation 1:32 Meditation camp in Shambhala Mountain 6:52 Self-love and Self-compassion vs Narcissism 13:58 Perfect moments in Zen tradition or Buddhist tradition 16:14 The Sand Mandala Idea 22:27 The tale of two movies: Starwars versus Interstellar: The idea of expectations 28:22 Time Preference: The game of Bitcoin 33:11 Bitcoin: Don't hate the game, hate the players, right? 37:34 Life liberty in pursuit of Happiness: Individual liberty vs Liberty bound by rules 39:22 Rules & consent in cryptocurrency space: the core of the revolution of cryptocurrency 46:08 Limitations and the organization bodies 48:51 Synthetic social laws of physics on Crypto 52:30 Outro

Great discussion with WhaleShark top NFT investor. Whale Shark has bought 210,000 NFTs, including some well-known ones. “The Whale” – who prefers pseudo-anonymity – is 38, originally from the U.K., lives in Hong Kong and, more importantly, he owns a whopping 210,000 NFTs. It's possible he owns the most valuable trove of NFTs on the planet, or maybe it's number two or three. (He's confident it's in the top five and happily agrees to independent audits from Nonfungible.com.) The Whale likes helping newcomers understand NFTs. Sometimes that means working with Paris Hilton, whom he spoke with a day before our call. “I'm just helping onboard them [Paris and her fiancé, Carter Reum] into the deeper areas of NFTs,” says Shark. “She's very excited and very enthusiastic as well as already very knowledgeable about NFTs.” (She had just announced on Twitter she's “getting ready to go big in NFTs.”)

https://onchainmonkey.com/ 0:00 WELCOME 1:30 Start Here ONCHAIN MONKEY From our research, we believe OCM is the first PFP (profile photo) NFT collection created completely on chain with one transaction. Our mission is to empower communities to be catalysts for positive collective action. Our core values are RISE: Respect - we treat everyone with respect Integrity - we strive for the highest ethical standards Sustainability - we create for the future Experimentation - we try new things to find better solutions SHOW LESS

A conversation with John Wolff and Tontachi, crypto pigs take over the metaverse in Augmented Reality.

A conversation with Connor Reily head of VCU Blockchain Club talks blockchain, crypto and metaverse

About DeHorizon DeHorizon is providing playful fun and to earn crypto games. Not like the traditional crypto games in a space, they're more purely focused on earning and more like on the financial side. Usually, normal players all they all want to focus on the fun side, right. So that's why I want to combine fun and earn together to make sure our game can be can provide players fun ability and playability to the max. And we are wrapping this DeHorizon game as an MMO and RPG. With different gameplay, for example, you can, you can make your own monster, you can do battle, a Quiddich-like racing game, we actually provide different kinds of gameplay. I want to make sure people can have fun, and then make money off of the game.

History and Future of DeFi 170 billion in TVL across all the all the different chains. We've come a long way in just one year and even more since since 2017, when a lot of these projects initially started kicking off. I think what's what's important to note is that this has been an iterative process, and in crypto things happen very quickly. So it's been great to invest over the last three years at Gumi cryptos Capital on work with founders who are in this iterative process of improving how either tokens are distributed, how networks are bootstrapped, how talent is sourced and everything in between how DAOs are formed. And so this whole DeFi, boom, you could call it kind of kicked off back in, in June 2020, when compound started the first liquidity mining program, although some people credit synthetix was before. But compound was the first one to really popularize this, back in the day. And since then, we've seen this exponential growth that's been super exciting. And I wrote an article I think, in October 2020, on this distribution mechanism, called the ownership experience, and how that will impact users over the next decade and beyond. How instead of focusing on building a nice UI, you essentially are focusing on how what is the best way to distribute ownership of these protocols that will be user owned and operated in the future. And I think that's a trend we will continue to see. And that's what's leading to this explosive growth in DeFi. In terms of what's really exciting me now, it's the activity in the sidechain layer two space. Essentially, you've got in the last couple of months, you've had a couple networks launch that are starting to gain traction, you've got optimism, and Arbitrum, on the optimistic roll upside, and you've got a starknet and Starkware on the Zk rollup side. And just a high level if people are watching and don't know what these roll ups are. A roll up essentially aggregates transactions that executes them and stores most of the data off chain, and then stores a little bit of the data of the proof of that transaction on the main chain. So optimism, and Arbitrum use optimistic roll ups, which essentially assume that the transactions are correct. And they're essentially it's essentially secured by incentives. Whereas something like Starknet or Starkware zk roll ups, which is essentially enforced by math (zero-knowledge proofs), so there's different ways to have these enforcement mechanisms. But the nice thing is you essentially, get scalability on the second layer while still inheriting the underlying security of layer one. So naturally, a lot of users are migrating to these platforms, including myself, and using the applications built there like AAve and maker DAO and a couple of others are on arbitrum. From you've got synthetic on optimism, I think uni swap is on both at this point, and tons of applications are being built there. And you can see the Gas fees are a lot less, but you're still, you know, inheriting that underlying security. So people are a lot more comfortable moving there. There are other chains like Matic that are super interesting now called polygon, that, that have a little bit different security trade-off. But because of that have a lot lower cost. You also have different blockchains, like Solana that are kind of popping up and offering new DeFi experiences and attracting TVL, but also have similar similar trade-offs on performance and security.

What is Sommelier Finance? Sommelier makes retail liquidity participation in automated market makers (AMM), accessible, understandable, profitable for the masses. We are excited about what is happening in the decentralized exchange (DEX) space, I think there's a tremendous amount of innovation there, but one of the gaps that I observed is that while there's a lot of focus on the trader experience, there's not as much focused on the liquidity provider (LP) experience. And taking all the technologies that I have, I've been worked been working on for all these many years and I'm starting to bring them together to improve the liquidity provider experience. As much as possible.

What is Balancer? Balancer serves sort of three primary groups of users who interact with the protocol. Number one is investors who use balancer as an automated portfolio manager and a mechanism for generating Yield. So you can use balancer as a platform to deposit your crypto assets, and not only deposit them, but to put them into a portfolio that is structured or designed based on specific percentages of how you want to be like holding your assets. So for example, maybe I would want to have a portfolio that's 33%, BTC, 33%, ETH, and 33%, stable coin, or really anything else you can think of balancer will automatically rebalance your positions on a regular basis. And at the same time, you'll be earning Yield through the trading fees that are generated on the platform. And that is a segue into the second group, which is traders. Yep. So traders use the balancer AMM as a way to trade token a for token being any ERC-20 token is compatible with balancer. And each time a trade is made on the balancer. It is a trade between a user and a liquidity pool. And those that liquidity pool consists of tokens that belong to the liquidity providers, the investors that I just mentioned before. And so when traders make those trades, they pay a very small fee, depending on the design of that pool that they have interacted with. And that fee goes to liquidity providers, which helps them grow their portfolio very passively. It's a set and forget type of tool where you deposit your crypto and you go on with your life, and it just does the work for you. And so yeah, traders use it as a liquid market to exchange crypto assets, you know, quickly, easily with minimal slippage, and at a good price. And then the third group is the builders, the developers balancer is not only an exchange, not only a portfolio manager, it's really a lot more than that. It's designed with so much flexibility and customizability. And that makes it act as a DeFi primitive of financial primitive, or a building blocks that you can use to create all kinds of financial products and services with balancer either as sort of an infrastructural layer underneath or as a protocol that is integrated in one way or another into the functionality of your protocol, you as the developer. So there's an entire ecosystem of startups, developers, entrepreneurs, who are building really incredible solutions and have built very incredible solutions using balancer.

About IDLE IDLE is a DeFi Yield aggregator and rebalancing protocol, basically solves the problem for our users that instead of having to manually move the files across different Yield protocols, in order to optimize their capital returns, their interest rate returns, they could they have to just like deposit funds into IDLE. And then the protocol will take care and will automatically and algorithmically rebalanced pounds in order to optimize the returns or minimize the risk for our users. So the main problem that is solved is that our users can stay idle and without doing anything, they can optimize their returns. In terms of the underlying protocols that we aggregate with idle, we decided to take a path of getting only like solid and reliable protocols. As for today, we are aggregating compound AAVE and dYdX. So we are optimizing yields across those protocols. And we made it a sort of our culture, we want to give also security to our users who want to bring security to our users. So that's our take on the on the underlying protocols.

Yield Guild Games, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games, is announcing the upcoming public sale of its native token, YGG. The launch of the YGG token will allow Yield Guild to decentralize ownership of the guild to its stakeholders — especially its players — providing exposure to the value created by the NFTs and other crypto assets that Yield Guild invests in. The YGG token will also allow its holders to take an active role in the future governance of the guild. The sale will commence Tuesday, 27 July 2021 at 10:00 AM EST / 10:00 PM SGT on SushiSwap's new token launchpad platform, MISO, and will run for a duration of three days (72 hours) unless tokens are sold out sooner.

0:00 welcome 1:01 What problem does Plasm Solve? 2:37 Scaling 3:35 the gas fee problem 5:32 where are we with Plasm? 9:04 the Plasm programming model 12:42 Multi-VM 18:17 zones 20:56 security 22:45 Kusama vs Polkadot 24:50 a bit on Sota's uniqueness 29:17 Acala and other exciting projects 31:32 Big Idea: A New Internet

What is Gitcoin? Gitcoin is a place that you can get coins, if you are a software developer working on open source software, we are focused on providing funding for open source software. And hopefully, when there's funding for open source software, software developers can stop working their their day jobs in corporate America, or, or, or just generally, and move on to working on open source and pay their mortgage with working on open source software. And so we just want to build rails from people who want to fund open source and are looking for developers to open source software developers.

Star Atlas We really think Star Atlas is something that can be transformative, not only to the gaming community but really to the global population. And that's a really bold statement to come out with, just right at the inception. But, you know, generally speaking, what we're developing out is a grand strategy, space-themed, massively multiplayer online game. And we're coupling that with two things. One, we're integrating blockchain throughout the experience, which comes with a number of benefits for the players. And then we're also you know, long-term taking developing out a metaverse concept, which is a fully integrative alternative virtual reality that people can persist within. And we can talk a little bit about some of the requirements to make that a reality. But yeah, we believe that this can be essentially an alternative life for someone, particularly when coupled with the financial incentives and rewards through blockchain. And then this fully immersive 3d gaming experience that we're building out on the store outside. So yeah, that's kind of high level where we're, what the ambition is.

This episode we interview brilliant digital artist and San Francisco Arts Commission, Yiying Lu, who created many emojis and also the famous Twitter "Fail Whale". She is talking about herself, her art and her upcoming drop on Opensea for some exclusive WhaleShark NFTs. Check out her art at: https://www.yiyinglu.com/ Yiying's new Whale NFT Drops on Opensea, celebrating $Whale Community's 1st Anniversary: https://yiyinglu.com/whale Yiying Lu's NFT Journey So this Whale NFT journey started back in 2009, when I first came to the San Francisco Bay Area. As I created the artwork of a white beluga whale lifted by 8 birds, which eventually became the Twitter "Fail Whale". It was used in the early days of Twitter during around 2008 to 2013. Every time Twitter went down, people will see it. When I initially created the artwork back in 2007, during the time I was living and studying in Sydney, Australia. The artwork was initially created as a personal work, and it was not commissioned by Twitter. As I was living in Sydney, New South "Whales" pun not intended, after my exchange study from London, UK in 2006. I was finishing my final year in college, and I miss my friends in UK, but also miss my friends in China, I was born and raised in Shanghai, China. So it was around the same time when Twitter, Facebook and other social media website became popular. So there is a lot of FOMO as overseas people sent birthday party invites and graduation ceremonies invites from social media, and I couldn't physically be there with them. So I thought, well, what I studied was visual communication, why don't I just communicate this huge wish to be physically there with my friends as a visual metaphor - the Whale. So I created the whale initially, and I caught it "Lifting a Dreamer", it's almost like an impossible dream come true - because in our physical reality, Whales don't fly, but with art, anything is possible. And by serendipity, the co-founder and creative director of Twitter, Biz Stone, found it online and licensed it and next thing, you know, it became Twitter's iconic service breakdown image. Yiying's interview with Milton Glaser, the artist of the Iconic 'I ❤️ NY'. https://youtu.be/hFlWVJ5pY5Q Yiying's youtube channel: https://youtube.com/c/yiyinglu

What is NFTYCO? NFTYCO stands for NFT you can own. And I think that now we're in a cultural gateway point, whereby which people who haven't yet heard of NFTs or technology that brings, they're really curious to how many things can be NFT are viable?. One of the first things that we did at NFTYCO was, you know, turn sneakers into NFT's. And so, we found that by having a representation of, you know, something that's so abstract as not fungible tokens, like what does that even really mean? It helps people to come into the metaverse with us. So we were the first to basically, you know, provide an algorithmic approach to sneaker culture. You know, we took the colorways from NBA 2K, NFL teams, double A team's streetwear brands by Supreme and we tokenize them.

0:00 welcome 4:09 A bit about Evan 7:48 Gamestop GME 20:00 Core DeFi Valuation Metrics 26:14 The Secret 28:30 CoinFund Track Record 36:47 Gaming 49:21 The Big Idea

Who is DeFi Dad? DeFi Dad it's definitely a very genuine reflection, I think of just who I am as a person, except with the added touch of focus on DeFi. So in the last few years, you know, I started in Ethereum, and Bitcoin and crypto in general about three years ago. And then I started working full time in crypto about almost 12 months after I first started learning about crypto, so around July 2018. And it's funny because like I was working as like a general sort of Project Manager, a little bit of marketing across lots of projects at consensus, you know, getting exposure to all these different Ethereum projects like Metamask and truffle and get coin. And then it was, it was in the spring of 2019. Someone who was running the ethereal summit, they they found a new job, they left very abruptly and there was this big gap in the team to run the ethereal summit and the ethereal summit. If anyone's unfamiliar with it. It's this awesome series of global events we used to do through consensus. I believe they're going to start doing those again, just because we've been in the pandemic. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, ETH Denver is another amazing event. So the whole idea was what to celebrate the stories of founders and builders and evangelists and investors in the Ethereum community. And anyways, I just had a blast, like for about a year, I got to work on this full time focus on the storytelling of what's happening in Ethereum. And by doing that, I happened upon how DeFi was, was developing, I had a background working mostly in the Bay Area, in very typical sorts of software startups. So spent a lot of time we actually have we have a lot of commonality here. Like I spent a lot of time evangelizing or selling what we did at different little software startups. So I would live in demos all day long, no show.

What problem does CREAM solve? I think capital efficiency is really the summary of it all. I know, it's very, very broad, like, what the heck does that mean? I think that we're serving the general needs of the DeFi marketplace. So we come at this from the angle of a DeFi user. And you know, really, the genesis of all this is like, we as DeFi users on a team are like, Hey, you know, this whole DeFi summer is great, we're using these things. But why isn't there XYZ in there? Why is why isn't their z, the stuff should exist. And we finally just said, You know what, we should just build it ourselves. So that's really been the kind of guiding light, let's help our users be capital efficient. Let's help our DeFi users get the things they want. That makes sense. And roughly that led to a debt market structure that we have today with other kinds of products that we could talk about later.

What is VEGA? I spent most of my career in the sort of traditional financial world-building trading systems and working with traders and got super excited when Bitcoin came along. And Ethereum, as well, and so did some mining and got in a very small way on the Ethereum presale, and I was really excited to kind of decentralized finance. So you know, before DeFi, was DeFi, I was excited by that idea. And I looked into the kind of doing some of the things that I'd done around building derivatives protocols. What I realized very quickly was that Ethereum is an incredibly constrained environment, and effectively, with Ethereum DeFi, you currently trying to build these sophisticated products that need risk management and margins and all of that stuff on what is effectively like a kind of pocket calculator. And, and that just means that you make some really big trade-offs that in my view, and you know, our company's view, certainly means that DeFi derivatives on sort of built on a theorem are never going to be kind of accepted in the real world use cases because they won't be efficient enough in terms of capital, they won't be efficient enough in terms of pricing. And often, they may not even be able to offer the same features like the kind of traditional finance equivalents. And so what we were looking to do when we created Vega was to create something that was effectively optimized for the ground up as kind of a scaling layer for derivatives. So you're building an application-specific chain that could optimize derivatives for the decentralized web. So providing a layer of Vega actually plugs into Ethereum and right now and future other blockchains like terror and polka dot and others. But you know, providing that derivatives layer, so you take the same assets, you know, your dye, your ether, your ERC 20s. But I'm able to kind of, you know, move them on to this supercharged trading layer, and start creating and trading derivatives without some of those constraints. And that's really what Vega provides.

Stellar: Stellar is is a platform that connects all the world's currencies. Once a currency is tokenized. And represented on the network, the network infrastructure makes it really easy to hold, transfer, trade, and transmute any kind of currency. But stellar is built. So that essentially, asset issuance is a first class representation on stellar and asset as a first class thing on stellar. So in a few lines of code, anyone can come to issue an asset on the network. And then there are also ecosystem standards that allow people to connect those on an app on network assets to networks to assets outside the network. In other words, it's really easy to build an on-off ramp for fiat currency that connects to stellar. And so essentially, what the stellar model is that all these different organizations, we call them anchors, which are regulated financial institutions, essentially accept consumer deposits via traditional rails and digitize those issue an asset on a stellar network. And once it's on the network, the holder of that asset can take advantage of it, to do these really cheap, fast, easy, and compliant cross currency payments. So the infrastructure itself is great for that. But the connection that is sort of specified in these ecosystem standards, allows the stellar network to connect to other financial infrastructure. And again, traditionally, that's banking rails, but you can also connect it to other cryptocurrency networks, or really, to any asset in the real world that you can redeem, that you can sort of deposit for on network asset and redeem in return for the asset that represents

0:00 welcome 1:44 How Emiliano got into DeFi 10:32 Reviews DAO 16:12 about IDLE finance 22:46 Antifragility and Reliability 29:17 Creative Destruction in DeFi 35:24 What makes DeFi special

On Oracles, trust vs cost: lack of trust is expensive What are Oracles? It's this mechanism for getting data from off of the blockchain onto the blockchain. And, you know, predominantly, those Oracle's are used for prices of things. And most of DeFi right now, right is utilizing credit to some extent, right. So you need to know the prices of things to know how much you should let someone borrow. You know, you need to know the prices of things to know when you need to liquidate right up position. So Oracle is really critical infrastructure to the functioning of DeFi. And so I think he kind of touched on one of the issues, which is, how do you, as a user, trust the data that the Oracle is showing. So that's one of the big problems. I think the other problem is cost. Right. So how expensive is it to run an Oracle? And I think you'll find that frequently, you end up having to make a trade-off there. Right, in terms of the security of the Oracle versus the price?

0:00 Welcome 1:23 What problem does Zerion solve? 2:58 Traction numbers 4:24 What makes Zerion different? 6:22 Where are we in ETH DeFi? 8:42 Layer 2 scalability 11:25 A custodial Zerion? 15:31 DeFi Self Custody 16:49 Binance Smart Chain 18:41 What is your superpower? 20:23 Secrets of Zerion 22:10 Product Roadmap 26:02 DEX Guru 29:47 Governance 33:18 Balancing Governance Centralization 35:43 Fair Launches Arent Always Fair 40:18 Sources of Inspiration