DAO Talks by Tim Delhaes @grindery.io

In this podcast, Tim interviews Marcus and Stefan, the founders of Gnosis Pay, an innovative payment solution bridging the gap between crypto and traditional payments. They discuss the background of Gnosis Pay and the problem it aims to solve, targeting both crypto-native users and banks/neobanks. The founders explain the benefits of using Gnosis Pay, such as easy spending of crypto assets and enh...

In this episode of DAO Talks, Tim is joined by Rahul Sethuram, the Co-Founder and CTO of Connext. Connext is an interoperability protocol that enables fast, fully-trustless communication between blockchains that’s aimed at developers looking to build secure bridges and other natively cross-chain applications. As for Rahul, he describes himself as an Ethereum developer, game theory enthusiast, phys...

In this episode of DAO Talks, Tim is joined by Philipp Zentner, CEO and Founder of LI.FI, a groundbreaking platform that aims to aggregate and abstract DeFi infrastructure across multiple blockchains. A true pioneer in the field, Philipp brings a fresh perspective to the world of decentralized finance and the web3 ecosystem. Together, Tim and Philipp dive into the intricacies of multi-chain scalab...

In this episode of the DAO Talks podcast, host Tim Delhaes sits down with Ivo Georgiev, the Co-Founder and CEO of Ambire, the visionary web3 company behind the revolutionary self-custodial smart contract wallet, Ambire Wallet. Ambire was launched in 2017 after a crowdfunding campaign that raised 40,000 ETH ($12 million) in under eight hours. Their aim is to make self-custody easy and secure for ev...

In this episode of DAO Talks, host Tim Delhaes is joined by Bradley Miles, the Co-Founder and CEO of Roll. Launched in 2017, Roll is a social token infrastructure for the creator economy that provides infrastructure and APIs enabling digital communities to create and integrate social tokens into financial systems and social platforms. Based in New York, Bradley started his career as a venture capi...

In this episode of DAO Talks, Tim is joined by Ayman Hariri, the Co-Founder and CEO of Vero. Launched in 2015, Vero is a social media platform that markets itself as an ad-free and algorithm-free social media network. It operates on responsible technology principles and focuses on helping people connect without employing the techniques known to promote addiction. Ayman believes that “free” social...

In this episode, Tim welcomes Michael Feng, the Co-Founder of Hummingbot, to the podcast. Hummingbot is an open-source software that helps build high-frequency crypto trading bots that specialize in market making and arbitrage strategies. Through the power of community, Hummingbot aims to give everyone access to the tightly-guarded algorithms of the most secretive Wall Street hedge funds. Despite...

In this episode, Tim is joined by Karl Blomsterwall, the CEO of Nibiru Software. Nibiru are a Sweden-based game developer on a mission to become the largest ecosystem in Web3 and gaming. Karl also oversees the development of Polygon's top game, Planet IX. Within a year, Planet IX has become the biggest game on Polygon by transaction. The game has close to 54,000 weekly active wallets. The NFT-...

In this episode, Tim is joined by one of the most influential people in the Metaverse , Hrish Lotlikar , to discuss how technology is bringing together our physical and virtual lives. Hirsh is the Co-founder and CEO of SuperWorld , an augmented reality virtual platform that allows users and brands to create, discover and monetize content. Previously, Hrish co-founded Rogue Initiative Studios , a H...

In this episode, Tim is joined by James Young, from Collab. Land and Abridged. Collab. Land a digital concierge for tokenized communities and a pioneer of the token gating system. It was created by Abridged, a platform that aims to give everyone, including non-coders, access to building applications using blockchain technology. James has over a decade of experience in the tech industry, having pre...

In this episode, Tim is joined by Alexei Falin, Co-Founder and CEO of Rarible, a community-centric NFT marketplace that allows users to create and sell digital collectibles secured with blockchain. Over the course of the show, Tim and Alexei discuss the recent Silicon Valley Bank collapse, why the current bear market might actually benefit NFTs, and the latest innovations in the NFT space.  To fin...

In this episode, Tim is joined by Michael Mazur, the COO at Colu, a fintech start-up that fosters urban livability and economic prosperity on a local level. By connecting and engaging local governments, local businesses, and citizens, Colu’s objective is to create a better city for the people, by the people. Michael is also the Co-Founder of UrbanChange, a company which uses web3 tools to reward r...

In this episode, Tim is joined by Don Gossen, the Founder & CEO of Nevermined, a web3 company that provides tools to read, write and own your digital assets. With ChatGPT very much at the forefront of the zeitgeist, and with Google Bard on the horizon, Tim and Don discuss what the impacts of this proliferation of content could be, the battle for data, and why, as time passes, we might be merel...

In this episode, Tim is accompanied by Sam Huber, the Founder and CEO at LandVault, a metaverse real estate company focused on helping brands establish a presence in blockchain-based platforms such as Sandbox and Decentraland. Over the course of the episode, Tim and Sam discuss what drives land value in the metaverse, the fundamental differences between Web2 and Web3, and the race for the Alpha Ge...

In this episode, Tim is accompanied by Will Papper, the Co-Founder of Syndicate. Syndicate is a decentralized investing protocol and social network that's transforming how the world creates value. Simply put, Will’s DAO knowledge is second to none. His DAO story began with him investing $10, which he got for signing up to Coinbase, into the Ethereum presale. And he has been fascinated with DAOs ev...

For the first episode of 2023, Tim is joined by Frédéric Chesnais, the former CEO of Atari. He is now the Founder and CEO of Crypto Blockchain Industries (CBI), where Frédéric and his team are creating AlphaVerse, a gateway to many metaverses. In the episode, Tim and Frédéric delve deep into the metaverse, question whether Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are going to stay the course, and discern what Fré...

For the final episode of 2022, Tim is joined by Gregory Di Prisco, the former Head of Business Development at MakerDAO, one of the oldest, most innovative and biggest DeFi projects, with roots that go back to BitShares. Greg is a man of many talents and a particular passion for protocols. On the show, Tim and Greg discuss the ins and outs of MakerDAO, how DAOs can lead to dysfunctionality, and an...

This time, Tim is joined by Aaron Soskin, the Founder and CEO of Govrn, a platform where users can track, record, and manage their DAO contributions. Aaron became intrigued by crypto over a decade ago. Since discovering DAOs, which he described as “the Holy Grail", Aaron has founded Govrn and is also a contributor to RaidGuild. In the episode, Tim and Aaron discuss the importance of empowering and...

This time, Tim is joined by Alexander Salnikov, the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Rarible, a community-centric NFT marketplace that allows users to create and sell digital collectibles secured with blockchain. Alexander is a blockchain trailblazer and an active developer in the crypto space since 2012. In the episode, Tim and Alexander discuss Rarible’s new DAO, potential pitfalls to av...

Tim Delhaes is joined by Novell Loh and Amy Soon, the Co-founders of Blu3 DAO. Earlier this year, the sisters formed the DAO in order to empower women to achieve financial freedom through learning, exploring and building their careers in the Web3 space. However, recently, the organization has come under scrutiny regarding allegations of financial mismanagement. In recent articles, including one pu...

On this episode, host Tim Delhaes is joined by Eric Mack, the Co-founder of JournoDAO. Eric is an experienced journalist who's seeking to upgrade journalism with the help of Web3 tools. He has also been involved in a handful of other DAOs over the past few years, including Re-Public and Factland. Over his career, Eric has contributed to publications such as Forbes and CNET, covering topics that ra...

In this episode, Tim is joined by Christina Garnett, Principal Marketing Manager, Offline Community and Advocacy at Hubspot. She is also the Founder, Marketing Strategist, and Consultant at Marketing Media Maven LLC in Roanoke, VA. Due to her dedication and grit, she was ranked among the top 100 CMA in VA. She uses her experience in teaching and counseling to help entrepreneurs build their busines...

Yalor Mewn enjoys traveling and networking like no other; which gives him the opportunity to share his experiences with communities and DAOs all over the world. Yalor is a DAO-native builder and the co-creator of RaidGuild, a premier design and developer DAO. In 2019, he became part of MetaCartel, a pioneering grant DAO at the epicentre of Web3 innovations and crypto experiments. In his role, Yalo...

A former chef, Daniel learned early on in his career that the people doing all the work in the kitchen, have great ideas that are seldom ever heard This led him on a journey in organizational design, where he discovered Web3 and DAOs. Seeing a lot of duplication of efforts in the ecosystem, he founded RnDAO - A research and development DAO with the goal of doing research on behalf of DAOs and publ...

Eric is an architect at Dora Factory- a DAO-as-a-Service infrastructure for on-chain governance, and the founder/CEO of DoraHacks -  a global hacker movement and one of the most active hackathon communities in the world. We’ll be talking about the inspiration behind the name, the genesis behind Dora, and about building grant DAOs.