The Delphi Podcast

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...

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...