The Delphi Podcast

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 29 of Metaverse Musings with Alex Masmej , the Co-Founder of Showtime to talk through the future of social media in a world of Web 3.0 and NFTs. Alex has an awesome background and exploded into the crypto space by being the first person to ever tokenize themselves in order to finance his move to San Francisco... Resources: Game Website: https://twitter.com/tr...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Simon Harman , the founder of Chainflip , a cross chain native AMM.  In this episode we discuss Simon’s journey, the need for a cross-chain native exchange, competitive differences, timelines, economic security, value accrual for FLIP, concentrated liquidity, signature schemes, and much more. We also cover why Delphi Ventures...

Yan Liberman  and  Paul Burlage  of Delphi Digital host  Ulysse ,  Gaspard  and  Antoine  of  ApWine  to discuss how the project allows you to speculate on the evolution of the yield generated by different DeFi protocols. ApWine also allows you to hedge your risk on your passive revenue, converting it into futures. Disclosure: Delphi Ventures is an investor in ApWine. We would like to thank Cosmos...

Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 28 of Metaverse Musings with Mark Donovan , the founder and CEO of Epics.gg who are operating a next-generation NFT infrastructure stack focused on the mainstream consumer. Beyond their esports and streaming focus with Epics.gg, they have rolled out a brand called Kolectiv which pays homage to the cultural heritage of crypto with beautiful thematic artwor...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Jess Sloss , the instigator of Seed Club . We discuss the creator economy, social tokens, seed club’s vision and much more! We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, Kava, and Secret use C...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures  Tom Shaughnessy  hosts  Kevin Owocki , The founder of  Gitcoin  who covers the entire Gitcoin story, from quadratic funding to the future of public goods. Kevin also dives into GTC, its use and decentralizing the project 🦄 We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos is on a mission, link one mi...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Andy , the founder of Fractional , the project leading the charge on Fractionalizing NFTs. The two discuss Andy’s journey from MakerDAO, to being an early NBA top shots collector to creating Fractional. They dive into the Fractional project on the reasons behind breaking an NFT into pieces, the process, putting the puzzle back...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Ganesh Swami the CEO and Founder of Covalent . The two discuss how Covalent is enabling traditional and crypto developers to leverage data from any blockchain through a no code implementation that plans to decentralize over time. We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos i...

Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 27 of Metaverse Musings with Nick Emmons , the founder and CEO of Upshot who are building a protocol that leverages peer prediction to incentivise people to answer subjective questions honestly. Upshot’s early application is around NFT appraisals, generating price feeds for esoteric, low velocity assets. The protocol is an incredibly powerful primitive, a...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Gmoney to discuss his journey from spending $150K on a cryptopunk to launching Delphi INFINFT, an on-chain NFT fund with us at @Delphi_Digital . We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, K...

Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 26 of Metaverse Musings with Mark Laursen , the founder and CEO of Bright Star Studios who are building a game called EmberSword. Mark has a deep background in video games, having spent much of his life playing them professionally as well as creating them. From as early as 2016 he had a strong vision of how crypto could infuse with game economies to liber...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts a galaxy brain group of leading Cosmos builders to discuss the Cosmos Network , value accrual, IBC, comparisons to other Layer-1s and much more.  Zaki Manian: Co-Founder of IqLusion and SommFinance Sunny Aggarwal: Co-Founder of SikkaTech Jelena: Working on InformalInc and Cosmos Joe Dirtay: Communications at Cosmos  Ethan: CEO...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Antonio Juliano , the founder of dYdX , the decentralized derivatives exchange for perpetual swaps and margin trading. We talk scaling on Starkware to the sheer size of this market to economic attack vectors and everything in between. We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cos...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts an all star crew of all of the leading Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup scaling projects for an in-depth debate. See the transcript on our site as well. Ed Felten , Fo-Founder of Off-chain Labs (Arbitrum) Eli Ben-Sasson , Co-Founder of Starkware Alex Gluchowski Founder of zkSync Liam Horne , Contributor to Optimism  Mark Tyneway , Syst...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy and DV MP Yan Liberman host an expert group for a fun and exciting conversation on Thorchain’s Multi-Chain Chaosnet Launch. Thorchain now enables real, trustless, non-wrapped exchange of assets, cross chain. Guests Include:  Chad Barraford : Technical Lead At Thorchain Erik Voorhees : Founder of Shapeshift Yan Liberman : MP at Delph...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy and Can Gurel , analyst at Delphi Ventures, host Sam Williams the Founder of Arweave.  Arweave is a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing users and developers to truly store data forever – for the very first time. As a collectively owned hard drive that never forgets, Arweave allows...

Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 25 of Metaverse Musings with Arif Khan , the founder and CEO of Alethea. Arif posseses a rare blend of technical excellence and philosophical grounding that has allowed him to execute upon such an interesting project. It seems clear that artificially intelligent media is going to play a large role in our digital future, and it's great to see a projec...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy , hosts the Tokemak team ( Carson Cook , Paul , Craig and Bruno ) to discuss Tokemak, the decentralized liquidity engine for DeFi. We discuss why Tokemak may be one of the most important future pieces of crypto infrastructure. This episode was a recording of our clubhouse episode with the group. As a refresher, our original tweet st...

Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 24 of Metaverse Musings with Fabian Vogelsteller , the author of the ERC-20 standard and founder of LUKSO. Fabian draws upon a deep technical background having been a core contributor to Ethereum. He possesses a strong vision for how these technologies could evolve, and is actively architecting the world he wants to see.    Resources: Guest’s Twitter:   h...

The Delphi Podcast Hosts Yan Liberman and Colm Buckley have Kieran Warwick and Aaron Warwick , Co-Founders of Illuvium, on the podcast to discuss the upcoming launch of their new game. The group discuss Kieran and Aaron’s story to better understand the genesis of Illuvium. Afterwards they go into all aspects of the game, ranging from token econ to long term vision. We would like to thank Cosmos fo...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures  Tom Shaughnessy  hosts Tascha Punyaneramitdee of Alpha Finance . The two discuss Alpha’s token economic plan (staking and unlocked features per product), value accrual, backstopping risk in the platform, growing to take on DeFi giants while staying nimble and releasing cutting edge products, AlphaX’s perpetual product and much more. Tascha is a ma...

The Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy , The Spartan Group’s Jason Choi and Paul Burlage of Delphi host Scoopy Trooples , the co-founder of Alchemix .  The conversation covers Alchemix as a project, how the protocols loans repay themselves over time, the ALCX token and value accrual, audience questions and much more. This episode was originally aired live on Clubhouse. Disclosure: Delphi Ventures...

Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 23 of Metaverse Musings with Jake Brukhman , the Founder and CEO of CoinFund which was one of the earliest institutional crypto investors in the world. Jake is an incredibly insightful thinker who marries a strong technical background with creative passion. Some of his writing linked below has been highly influential in the NFT ecosystem and has establish...

The Delphi Podcast Hosts Anil Lulla and Jose Maria Macedo chat with the one and only Mark Cuban about everything crypto.  The conversation covers everything from Mark’s view on the Internet bubble vs crypto right now, DeFi, NFTs, and more!  Although he needs no introduction, Mark Cuban is the billionaire start-up investor, Dallas Mavericks owner, and everyone’s favorite shark on ABC’s Shark Tank. ...

Host Piers Kicks and sits down for Episode 22 of Metaverse Musings with Drew Harding and Metadreamer , two pioneers of “digiphysical apparel”. The pair perfectly embody the core ethos of the space with ambitious plans for the future of fashion and the cultural components of Web3. METAFACTORY represents a truly mind-blowing illustration of the power of these technologies and how, increasingly, they...