Peeling back Web3

Welcome back after Thanksgiving! This week we meet Robin, Co-founder of Liquifi.Finance. Liquifi is building token vesting, token cap tables, and the “Carta for crypto / web3” We talk about everything from tokenomics, to Liquifi's product roadmap, to the Future of Work. Enjoy!

This week we talk to Berke (Chief Business Officer) and Daniel (Co-founder) at Vela Exchange. Vela Exchange is On-chain derivative trading platform, empowering DeFi traders with fast execution, cheap transactions, advanced trading features and self-custody.We talk about everything from FTX, centralised vs. Decentralised trading platforms and Vela's product roadmap!

Today's guest is Blake West, Co-founder and CTO of Goldfinch. Goldfinch is on a huge mission to expand access to capital by creating a single global debt market. Goldfinch does this through a decentralized credit protocol on Ethereum that allows anyone to be a lender, not just banks. In January of this year Goldfinch raised a $25M round led by a16z, with the aim to match the 154x growth the protocol saw in its first year of operation. Over the last year, the protocol crossed over $100M in active loans, reaching over 1M people and businesses across 20+ countriesWe get into the detail of Goldfinch's business model, how the company works and Blake's candid advice for future crypto founders.

Today's guest is Chandan Lodha, Co-founder of  CoinTracker ($1.3bn), a tool that helps make crypto taxes simple and easy to do. This is a wide ranging conversation and super upbeat. We talk about everything from how Chandan got into crypto, his experience at Google, his thesis on how the crypto market will evolve, and his advice for anyone looking to jump into founding a company in crypto.Check out CoinTracker today: www.cointracker.io

This week we talk to Alex Poon, CEO & Co-Founder of Charmerse, a startup building the Web3 version of Notion. We talk about everything from Charmverse's early user adoption, building in Web3 vs. Web2 and Charmverse's roadmap at he intersection of Web3. 

This week we talk to YC OG Chris Castig, Co-founder of Console.xyz.Console is a crypto-native chat platform for Bitcoin and Ethereum, and a place where decentralized communities go to thrive. We had a particularly interesting conversation on some of the issues with current web3 communication, including widespread security vulnerabilities and how Console is solving this! 

Today's guest is Nikhil Raghuveera, Head of Strategy & Innovation at Celo. We talked to him about the role of defi in creating a regenerative financial system, including hyper local currencies, community focused finance, and universal basic income. We hope you enjoy!Celo's mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity—for everyone. Find out more here. 

This week we meet Multis Co-founder and CEO Thibaut Sahaghian. Multis wants to build the financial backbone of crypto-native organizations and has been backed by the likes of Sequoia to bring this vision to life. We talk about everything from financial infrastructure problems in the web3 space to Thibaut falling down the web3 rabbit hole while working on the French presidential election.Check out multis today: multis.comCorporate cards & accounting software to help web3 teams spend crypto treasury. We approve US businesses within a day!

Today's guest is Helena Merk, Founder of Spirals Protocol, a protocol which redirects block rewards to climate impact. We chat with Helena, a member of Orange DAO on how the protocol works and why it's a key step toward building a regenerative economy. Enjoy!Follow Helena on Twitter here and check out Spirals Protocol here. 

Today's guest is Jeffrey Zirlin, better known as JiHo. JiHo is one of the co-founders of Axie Infinity, the #1 game on Ethereum by daily and monthly active users, and last October Axie raised $150m at a $3bn valuation.We talk about everything from Axie's meteoric rise to 2.5million daily active users, to the $600m hack that nearly brought Axie to its knees, and what is next in web3 gaming. 

In this episode we speak to Jerry co-founder of Lofty.ai, an Orange Fund portfolio company.Lofty are the first web3 way for people to invest in real estate, providing fractional ownership of rental properties for as little as 50 USD.We talk about Lofty's early adopters, their decision to build on Algorand and building on web3 vs web 2. Lofty recently launched on product hunt and received national US coverage from Forbes, NBC and Business Insider.

Humans of Orange: Meet Arian - Orange DAO Season 1 governance committee member and Product Manager of Passport. Passport is Orange DAO's first public good and the easiest way around for communities to issue soul bound tokens for their members via email. Get in touch with us at @orangedaoxyz on Twitter

This week we talk to Orion Parrott (@OrionParrott), General Partner at Orange Fund, a $50m  web3 fund.In this episode, we talk with Orion about the beginnings of Orange DAO and raising a $50m venture capital fund in just three months. We touch on everything from the current state of the venture market for web3 startups, to some of the exciting startups being funding by Orange Fund, to where Orion sees the future of Orange DAO going. 

Today's guest is a Amira Valliani (@amiravalliani). As Policy Lead at the Solana Foundation (@SolanaFndn), Amira is at the forefront of relations between government entities and the crypto economy in the US.In this episode, she explains how each side views the other, what her challenges are in telling the story to both sides and why she thinks crypto can be a huge opportunity for the US economy.Amira is also spearheading a project called Jane DAO to fight for reproductive rights in the United States. You can find the account at Jane DAO on Twitter (@JaneDAOxyz)

Our guest today is James Sinka (@jamessinka), an Orange DAO member who's at the forefront of a movement called DeSci - decentralized science. The goal of DeSci is to use web3 tools to build a more open, fair and verifiable ecosystem for science and scientists. In this episode, James explains how he himself came into the space and how DeSci could fundamentally change the process of scientific discovery and collaboration.For anyone who's interested to jump into this very nascent, but growing movement - James is hosting DeSci Boston this September: https://www.desciboston.com/

This week we meet Brett Gibson (@brettdg), a Partner at Initialized Capital. Brett is an OG Y Combinator alum, a former founder and software engineer, and now a venture capitalist focused on investing in crypto. Tune in for Brett's thoughts on how to meaningfully change the financial system. We cover everything from what YC was like in the early days, to the current state of the crypto markets, to DAOs as a new model of VC and, of course, Brett's giant cat (which Gary Tan told us to ask him about)!Get in touch with us at podcasts@orangedao.xyz with any feedback or speaker recommendations.

In our very first episode we meet Cryptpalsingh (@Cryptpalsingh), Orange DAOs very first employee. Cryptpalsingh leads internal comms for the Orange DAO and in his former life, he was a YC startup founder. We speak about how Cryptpal fell into web3 and dive deeper into DAOs: what are DAOs, how do they work and why he thinks they'll change the future for everyone, everywhere. 

In this episode we meet serial entrepreneur Ben Huh (@Ben.Huh), CEO of Origami and General Partner in Orange Fund. Ben is a YC alum, as the founder of Social Construct, a venture-backed technology company that is transforming the construction site into an efficient, scalable assembly line.Previously, Ben was the founder and CEO of Cheezburger, the parent company behind the popular Internet culture phenomena sites like I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, and Know Your Meme. Cheezburger is the company that popularized memes for the masses starting in 2007.We talk about his involvement with early internet memes, his entrepreneurial journey to date, what's made him so bullish on web3, and why he thinks orange Dow itself could be a unicorn.He still loves cats.

Welcome to the Orange Podcast: a podcast for the crypto curious specifically about how web3 can solve big, real-world problems. Orange Podcast is the official podcast of Orange DAO - a DAO of over 1200+ Y Combinator alumni. https://www.orangedao.xyz/ @OrangeDAOxyz 

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