The Delphi Podcast

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...

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...