The Delphi Podcast

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 12 of Metaverse Musings with Devin Finzer , the CEO of OpenSea and author of their “Non-fungible Token Bible”. His company provides foundational infrastructure to the NFT ecosystem, and it’s safe to say that they’ve entrenched themselves as a core part of the space for the foreseeable future. Devin provides insight into their philosophy as a business and how...

Chain Reaction Host Jose Maria Macedo hosts Aaron Wright , cofounder of OpenLaw , The LAO and now Flamingo DAO. Aaron is a professor at Cardozo Law School and is at the forefront of DAOs, having been involved in Bitcoin since 2011, and Ethereum since 2015. Before this, Aaron was a successful entrepreneur, having sold his first company to Wikia - the for-profit version of Wikipedia, which he grew t...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Jake Ryan , the Founder and CIO of Tradecraft Capital and the Author of Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy . The two discuss Jake's new book: How we are in a new long wave economic cycle Jake describes as the Age of Autonomy enabled by crypto since it allows us to transfer value without humans 🤖. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a...

Chain Reaction Host  Tom Shaughnessy  hosts  Leo Cheng  of CREAM Finance . The two discuss how Cream started from forking compound/balancer to listing the long tail of assets for borrow/lending, plans around Cream V2, and a partnership with Yearn Finance. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transc...

Chain Reaction Host  Jose Maria Macedo  hosts  Glen Weyl , economist and Principal Researcher at  Microsoft . Glen Weyl famously wrote Radical Markets, one of the most original and creative economic treatises of our time. One of the book’s most  vocal  fans was Vitalik himself, and Vitalik and Glen have since collaborated on multiple initiatives, including the original  Quadratic Funding  paper wh...

Chain Reaction Host  Tom Shaughnessy  hosts  Tascha  of  Alpha Finance . Alpha Finance Lab (Alpha) is a cross-chain DeFi lab that focuses on building an ecosystem of cross-chain DeFi products to capture unaddressed demand in an innovative and user friendly way. The two discuss leveraged yield farming, AlphaX (perpetuals) and much more in this dive into Alpha Finance. Every Delphi Podcast is droppe...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 11 of Metaverse Musings with Colin Goltra , an avid Crypto Art collector and Head of Growth for Binance Philippines. Colin has a deeply considered passion for the space, and touches upon various interesting philosophical modes of interpretation. He provides commentary on the beating heart of blockchain gaming adoption, where games like Axie Infinity are provi...

Chain Reaction Host  Tom Shaughnessy  hosts  Robbie Heeger , the CEO and President of  Endaoment . Endaoment is a new Community Foundation & public charity offering Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) built atop the Ethereum blockchain, allowing you to donate to almost any U.S. nonprofit organization. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members...

Macro Matters host Kevin Kelly sits down with Sunayna Tuteja , Head of Digital Assets & DLT at TD Ameritrade . In this conversation, Sunayna and Kevin discuss: Consensus among traditional investors and sentiment towards Bitcoin and digital assets. The growing demand among RIAs to understand Bitcoin and its potential role in a multi-asset portfolio context. The rise of DeFi and digital assets a...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Colin Evran (Ecosystem Lead at Protocol Labs) and ZX (Cryptoeconomics Lead At Protocol Labs) for a technical deep dive into the cryptoeconomics of Filecoin’s native token (FIL).  The trio discusses the use cases for Filecoin, the minting mechanism (simple and baseline minting), storage pledges (initial pledge and consensus pledges), issuance, reward locks,...

Chain Reaction Host  Tom Shaughnessy hosts Alex Miles and Zac McClure, the co-founders of TokenTax . The team answers our most nuanced crypto tax questions and get into detail on how the founders are scaling their tax software. This was a must-listen episode for anyone filling their crypto taxes. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members...

Chain Reaction Host  Tom Shaughnessy hosts Frank Mong , the COO of Helium . The two discuss Helium’s plans to grow nodes from ~12K much higher and globally, HIP20 which will hard cap supply while allowing the network to run and future plans of WiFi and 5G. We previously covered Helium in a post in December 2019. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscrib...

Tom Shaughnessy hosts 3LAU and Cooper Turley who came on the pod to discuss Audius 🎶 We discussed how Audius is completely reinventing music streaming - granting content creators and the majority of revenue and control over the platform and distribution. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our interviews, first! Thank you to...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Red , a community manager at Harvest Finance . Harvest automatically farms the highest yields in DeFi. We chatted reaching $1B in TVL at its height, scaling a community over time, competition between aggregators, the recent hack and more! 🧑‍🌾 Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Andrew Keys and James Slazas, the founders of DARMA Capital and LiquidStake for a timely 15-minute interview on LiquidStake's release which helps bootstrap ETH 2.0 staking by removing a key staking hurdle - allowing users to receive a loan against the ETH they lockup in the staking contract.  Check out LiquidStake: https://liquidstake.com/ Every Delph...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 10 of Metaverse Musings with Ryan Gill & Toby Tremayne , the Co-Founders of Crucible . Both Ryan and Toby are two of the highest conviction operators working towards the Metaverse. Their strong sense of purpose and appreciation for the philosophical aspects of the world of tomorrow inform their unique mindset and approach. The business focuses on building...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 09 of Metaverse Musings with Jamie Burke , the Founder & CEO of Outlier Ventures . Jamie shares deep insights gleaned from his experience with the rise of Web 2.0, and how they relate to its successor and the growing digital asset space more broadly. Having started his blockchain investment firm in 2013, Jamie has seen all sorts come and go and it was fas...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Patrick Manfra , the co-founder of Outlet Finance . The two dive into Outlet Finance which is creating a brand new yield account linking the traditional world and crypto for users.  Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our interviews, first. - Show Notes (1:10)    – (First Question) Pa...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Colin Evran of Filecoin and Protocol Labs. The two discuss Filecoin's launch, why the project is a storage layer that transcends borders to persist for generations, and why Filecoin is way more than just storage! Filecoin raised $200M+ in an ICO and is one of the space’s most anticipated projects. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video inter...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 08 of Metaverse Musings with Robbie Ferguson, who is a Co-Founder of Immutable —the company behind Gods Unchained and the upcoming Immutable X exchange. Robbie has some fascinating ideas about what the future of media and ownership will look like. We cover plenty of ground such as the new design space being unlocked in video games, financial markets for virtu...

Chain Reaction Host  Tom Shaughnessy hosts Mona El Isa , the Co-Founder of Avant Garde Finance and Lead Developer for Melon . We dive into enabling active management on Ethereum, the future of Melon (MIP7, Tokenecon, Integrations and more). Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Join today to get our interviews, first! - Show Notes (1:36)    – (F...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnnessy  hosts Tyler Ward , the Co-Founder of BarnBridge . The two discuss Attracting $200M in yield farming deposits in 48 hours and tokenizing risk via smart alpha (fractional ownership with different risk/rewards) and smart yield (interest rate vol mitigation). - Show Notes (1:09)      – Quite a Week for BarnBridge!   (3:47)      – Tyler Ward Background (6:32)     ...

Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 07 of Metaverse Musings with Steve Lee , who is the Head of Asia and an Investment Director at BlockTower—one of the older funds on the block. With roots in traditional finance after a long international investment banking career, Steve now bridges the East/West corridor for BlockTower across a variety of areas. Most recently, the firm has announced plans to...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Diane , the co-founder of DODO . They discuss DODO, the proactive market maker that's competing with Uniswap and others AMMs. DODO has $100M in its pools, but Diane explains why it's much more efficient vs peers. - Show Notes (1:31)    – (First Question) How Diane Dai started in Crypto (3:25)   – Dodo’s Elevator Pitch (4:01)   – Insights about Do...

Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Eric Chen , the co-founder of Injective Protocol . The two discuss Eric's journey creating a fully decentralized derivatives exchange, competition, scaling and much more.  - Show Notes (1:57)    – (First Question) How Eric Chen got involved with Crypto (7:16)   – The need of Derivatives products/What does Injective Protocol offer (10:26)   – Contracts...