The Delphi Podcast

The Delphi Podcast brings on Guy Lawrence from the legendary electronic music duo Disclosure to discuss NFTs, its impact on the music industry, and their recent Face sale on Zora (which Delphi actually won)! NFTs are unlocking completely new ways for artists to connect with fans, with our recent purchase allowing us to go to any Disclosure show for life as long as we’re holding the NFT. While this...

Hosts Piers Kicks and Anil Lulla sit down for Episode 21 of Metaverse Musings with Jack Spallone , one of the leading thinkers at the intersection of music and crypto. It is clear he has a tremendous depth of knowledge around this industry, and thoroughly understands the exciting areas of application as well as the technology’s shortcomings. Resources: Guests' Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jac...

The Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Mike Novogratz, the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Galaxy Digital . This interview was recorded live in NYC. The two discuss crypto bull runs, scaling Galaxy Digital into the empire it is today, NFT hype and value accrual vs the traditional world, criminal justice reform, advice Mike gives to Galaxy employees and so much more. Mike is an industry titan w...

Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy   hosts an expert panel to discuss their top DeFi/Crypto plays for 2021.  This conversation originally occurred on Clubhouse (recorded with guest permission) and be sure to follow Tom Shaughnessy on Clubhouse for any future rooms! Ryan Zurrer - Founder of Dialectic AG Dan Elitzer - Co-Founder of Nascent Andrew Kang - Founder of Mechanism Capital  Sasha Fleyshman...

Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts a clubhouse of 13+ experts to discuss non-fungible tokens. The experts discuss their favorite NFTs, the difference between following NFT projects and individual creators, the benefits of NFTs over the traditional world of collectibles and much more. This podcast aired first on Clubhouse on March 1, 2021 and all speakers gave their consent to e recorded. Fo...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 20 of Metaverse Musings with David and Dan, the Co-Founders ECOMI that created VEVE, a next-generation collectibles experience where users can own their favourite characters and IP as NFTs. The project has seen strong growth recently, with their mobile app trending in the app store and a very full content pipeline. The pair offer excellent insight into the wo...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 19 of Metaverse Musings with Nicolas Julia , the Co-Founder & CEO of Sorare, a global fantasy football game where you trade and collect players as NFTs. The project has seen massive traction and rapid growth as appetite for these game assets has soared. Sorare has just announced their latest funding round of $50M led by Benchmark, with participation from...

Podcast Show Notes: Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 18 of Metaverse Musings with Justin Banon , the founder of Boson Protocol. The protocol is a pioneer of the concept of “dCommerce”, which aims to recreate the entire ecommerce stack independent of any centralized intermediaries. For the first time, natively digital value can be transacted for real world goods and services in an entirely tr...

Host  Piers Kicks  sits down for Episode 17 of Metaverse Musings with  Breck Stodghill  from the Zora team. They recently launched their new protocol that extends the ERC-721 standard allowing for markets to be embedded alongside NFTs themselves. The project has given rise to the concept of  cryptomedia  unlocking the next generation of creator empowerment. – Resources: Resources mentioned:  https...

Delphi Digital analyst  Jonathan Erlich  hosts  Julien Bouteloup , CEO of StakeDAO and Curve crew member, to discuss all things  StakeDAO ,  Rekt ,  BlackPool  and  Curve . The conversation dives into StakeDAO’s vision to become the Disneyland of DeFi, Rekt’s upcoming V2, BlackPool DAO and Curve’s recently launched cross-asset swaps. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as an audio interview for...

Host Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Maple Leaf Capital , an anonymous investor and analyst in the space who has quickly made a name for himself with some excellent reports on DeFi and sharp takes on crypto twitter. In our view, Maple Leaf has one of the most cogent, well-articulated theses for crypto as a whole and for DeFi and Web 3.0 specifically. In this wide-ranging conversation, we dive int...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 16 of Metaverse Musings with Roham Gharegozlou the Founder & CEO of Dapper Labs who built Crypto Kitties and NBA Top Shot. Most recently, they launched a new chain built entirely from the ground up after being dissatisfied with the scaling solutions available. Roham and his team are perhaps best positioned to comment on taking blockchain mainstream after...

Delphi Podcast Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Psykeeper , the founder of Saffron Finance . Psykeeper shared his incredible story as an anonymous founder and the benefits of being anon. He also dove into how Saffron tranches risk for users, tranche dynamics, token econ plans and use cases, what the future holds and so much more.  This was our first episode where a founder used a voice changer to protec...

Co-hosts Jose Maria Macedo and Yan Liberman sit down with Azeem and Robert from Armor Finance . Armor Finance is a new project building a smart insurance aggregator for DeFi. Armor seeks to make DeFi safer by streamlining the insurance UX, providing a ‘Pay as you Go’ and ‘Only pay what you owe’ coverage for users across various protocols, starting with the majors but expanding coverage over time....

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 15 of Metaverse Musings with Miles Anthony the Founder of Decentral Games who are building casinos across virtual worlds. His project is the first to pioneer this concept and thus far there is little in the way of competition. We talk through the unique considerations when building in this strange space, replacing The House with a community-owned protocol, an...

Chain Reaction Hosts Tom Shaughnessy   and Piers Kicks host Jess Sloss , of Seed Club, and Cooper Turley , of Audius, to discuss social tokens and their must read 2020 social tokens post .  Social tokens are a nascent and budding opportunity in crypto and frankly, there are limited sources of information right now. To combat that and unveil the opportunity we had on two experts to help educate the...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 14 of Metaverse Musings with John the Founder and CEO of SuperRare. His project is one of the earliest crypto art platforms built on Ethereum, and leads the sector by on-chain volume. We talk through the unique considerations when building a crypto art platform, how to humanise the experience, how he thinks over $200M of art will be sold this year, and how in...

Chain Reaction Host  Tom Shaughnessy   hosts Teddy Woodward and Jeff Wu of Notional Finance .   Notional is a protocol on Ethereum that facilitates fixed rate, fixed-term lending and borrowing of crypto-assets via a novel financial primitive called fCash. Fixed rate financing touches all corners of the modern financial markets. The majority of US debt is issued at fixed interest rates because they...

Chain Reaction Hosts Tom Shaughnessy   and Medio Demarco host Joey Santoro , the founder and architect of FEI protocol. This is the third episode in our algorithmic stablecoin series. Joey talks through the creation of FEI, direct incentives for reducing and increasing supply, protocol controlled value, direct incentives, and much more.  Our other episodes in this series Empty Set Dollar FRAX Fina...

Delphi Digital analyst  Jonathan Erlich  hosts  Do Kwon , Co-Founder and CEO of Terraform Labs, to discuss all things  Terra . The conversation dives into Terra’s vision and impressive 2020, as well as into Chai and some exciting recent developments such as  Mirror  and  Anchor . The full interview transcript is available here !  Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delph...

Chain Reaction Host Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Stani Kulechov - Founder & CEO of Aave . Aave is one of the leading DeFi protocols with nearly $3B in TVL and $4B in loans originated. Originally known as ETHLend, Aave launched its ICO in 2017 and unlike most, built through a brutal multi-year bear market that saw its price drop >90%. The team’s persistence was rewarded with a truly epic...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 13 of Metaverse Musings with Dan and Gauthier , the founders of Nonfungible. Their company provides data tools for the emerging NFT landscape, and each year they author a comprehensive industry report. The pair suggest that their upcoming report is the most in-depth and broad to date, with a number of exciting takeaways... Every Delphi Podcast is dropped firs...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Sam Kazemian , the Founder of Frax Finance to discuss the project. This is the second in a series of podcasts on Algorithmic stablecoins. The trio discuss Frax’s creation, technicals around expansion/contraction of supply, competition, risks and much more including why Frax could be the most stable vs its competitors. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first...

Chain Reaction Host  Tom Shaughnessy  hosts  Dan Elitzer : Co-Founder of Nascent and previously of IDEOVC and  Lewis Freiberg , an Independent Developer to discuss  Empty Set Dollar . This is the first in a series of podcasts on Algorithmic stablecoins. The trio discuss ESD’s creation, technicals around expansion/contraction of supply, competition, risks and much more. Every Delphi Podcast is drop...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Brian Flynn , the founder of Rabbithole . RabbitHole is pioneering the future of on-chain work, giving users opportunities to earn tokens based on their on-chain data. Its’s an incredible platform to educate the world on crypto and help projects target future contributors Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscri...