The Delphi Podcast

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Kurt Watkins, a partner at MG Miller Law to discuss everything crypto from a straightforward legal perspective. We discuss Kurt's work in the crypto legal field, run through some examples, and discuss so much more.   To access the insights package of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your dev...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Gregory Rocco from ConsenSys Alpine Group and Jacob Arluck from TQ Group, a group with the goal of advancing the Tezos Ecosystem, on for an episode to discuss Rocco’s recent post on Tezos’ social contract and for recent updates on Tezos. We go into the origins of Tezos’ social contract, what it all means, and how these merits a...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by my partner and and a co-founder of Delphi Digital itself, Kevin Kelly . Given Kevin cut his teeth as an equity strategist with Bloomberg, he offers unique and differentiated insights on the institutional and macro argument for Crypto and Bitcoin. Kevin offers his take on the global backdrop, everything from underfunded pensions...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Nick White , the co-founder of Harmony Protocol Harmony is described as a fast and secure blockchain and it leverages a lot of newer tech such as Proof of Stake, Sharding and cross shard communications, granted not all of this tech is fully launched yet.  We discuss Harmony’s ultimate goal to create an open infrastructure for t...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by  Nelson Chu , The Founder and CEO of Cadence. For those new to cadence, the company is a Technology-driven securitization platform connecting retail and institutional investors with short term structured private credit investment opportunities. Cadence is using Blockchain Technology to open up this market to smaller investors,...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Alex Wearn, the Co-Founder & CEO of IDEX .   This is a very interesting episode as we discuss how IDEX, a sleeping giant, grew to become the largest decentralized exchange and smart contract on Ethereum. We discuss competition with other DEXs, centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase and hybrid competition.  We also...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Dillon Chen of Commonwealth Labs to discuss Edgeware. As a reminder Polkadot is an interoperability platform which is set to launch in a few months, and Edgeware’s goal to bring smart contracts to Polkadot itself.  This would bring smart contract functionality to polkadot, and allow it to compete with Ethereum, Tezos, EOS and o...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Andrew Keys and James Slazas of DARMA Capital to discuss DARMA's $100M Ether Fund.   This episode was recorded on the day of Andrew’s announcement that he was was joining DARMA, after an impactful career at ConsenSys. DARMA's flagship fund is a $100M Ether optimized long strategy with $100M under management, which is...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Muneeb Ali the CEO and Cofounder of Blockstack PBC. Blockstack is a high profile project in the space, with the goal of creating a decentralized computing network and app ecosystem. To differentiate this episode vs other podcasts, I wanted to focus on Blockstacks’ end goals - being potentially creating a new decentralized versi...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Jake Yocom-Piatt, an original co-founder of the cryptocurrency Decred.  It's incredible to speak with Jake and learn about how he built Decred with its anonymous co-founders, all of their struggles and success and where the crypto is going. We go into Decred’s hybrid consensus mechanism, its on-chain treasury, easy voting...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by  Tyrone V. Ross Jr , a managing partner at Noble Bridge Wealth Management.  The long story short is Tyrone is the crypto wealth manager of the future. Tyrone has decided to differentiate his practice by offering his wealth management services to the general public, unlike the majority of wealth managers and financial advisors w...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Tor Bair, Head Of Growth at Enigma. For those new to Enigma it is described as  a decentralized secure computation protocol, where “secret nodes” in the network perform computations over encrypted data. Enigma brings privacy to any kind of computation - not just transactions. Our conversation covers the desire for privacy despi...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Joe Lubin the co-founder of Ethereum and thee founder of ConsenSys .  For those new to the space, ConsenSys is a global blockchain technology company building the infrastructure, applications, and practices that enable a decentralized world. ConsenSys has over 50 spokes building on Ethereum ranging from infrastructure like Infu...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Even Feng, the Founder and CIO of Tapestry Capital. I wanted to have Evan on since he has a storied career in finance and incredible insight given his positions with Barclays’ investment banking department to Citadel and then to Point 72 before creating tapestry capital. Evan is able to link the legacy financial world, with Cry...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Scott Army, the Founder and CEO of Vision Hill Group . While institutions are starting to warm up to  crypto today, Scott began work on his Crypto fund of funds years ago, and its first strategy successfully launched over 6 months ago. Since then, Scott is growing Vision Hill into a full service Crypto company focused on adding...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Andy Bromberg, the Co-Founder and President of CoinList. Andy is one of the most insightful guests I’ve had on, his ability to distill everything happening in crypto into digestable and understandable pieces is remarkable. On this episode we covered so much, including the future of funding, developer focused community building,...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Ajit Tripathi, a partner at ConsenSys focused on the solutions segment. We cover how tokens will invade enterprises in full force, building liquid and efficient private markets through tokenization, the benefits to various market participants and so much more.   To access all of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit Delp...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by CENT's co-founder's Cameron Hejazi to hear the story of two relentless co-founders and their vision to create a new social income network. The conversation covers the current CENT platform, how users are earning money seeding, why the two co-founders built on Ethereum, and so much more.   To access all of Delphi'...

In this episode, Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital  ( www. DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Chris McCoy the co-founder of Storecoin and co-founder and CTO Rag Bhagavatha. The conversation covers the new settlements platform layer Storecoin is building and the co-founder's goals of also building a cloud layer on-top of this layer. Its a differentiated and novel episode and worth a listen. ...

In this special episode, the entire Delphi Digital  ( www. DelphiDigital.io ) analyst team shares our monthly analyst call, which is usually for institutional clients only. We dive into our massive Ethereum report, an update on Enjin which we released, a breakdown of smart contract competition following the launch of Cosmos and so much more. This call happens monthly for our institutional clients,...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital  ( www. DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Zac Prince, The Co-Founder and CEO of BlockFi. BlockFi provides basic financial products in the blockchain ecosystem including high-interest crypto accounts and low cost credit products to clients globally.     Follow Tom on Twitter  @Shaughnessy119 Follow Zac on Twitter  @BlockFiZac    Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns ...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital  ( www. DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Max Bronstein of the Dharma Protocol. Dharma enables users to instantly borrow and lend crypto-assets in high volume. This is a two-part DeFi series, stay tuned for part 2 next week.    Follow Tom on Twitter  @Shaughnessy119 Follow Max on Twitter  @max_bronstein    Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, DCR, MK...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital  ( www. DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Gregory Rocco of ConsenSys' Alpine group. Tanner Hoban of ConsenSys Digital securities and Sam Corso who runs Techsuite.io and is an advisor to Delphi digital.   Follow Tom on Twitter  @Shaughnessy119 Follow Rocco on Twitter  @Obstropolos  Follow Tanner on Twitter  @tehoban1  Follow Sam on Twitter  @samc621    Disc...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital  ( www. DelphiDigital.io ) is joined by Nathaniel Whittemore Nathaniel is in my opinion not only the best story-teller in the space, but has the best ability at synthesizing down the intent and goal of projects into digestible and understandable words. If someone was explaining rocket science I would want it to be Nathaniel. Follow Tom on Twitter  @Shaughness...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research  ( www.51pct.io) is joined by the Web3 Foundation's Jack Platts. Jack covers the Web3 foundation; and we focus the majority of the conversation on Polkadot which is connected to Web3. Polkadot is a major interoperability protocol set to launch and we cover the mechanics of the protocol, security, parachains, competition (Cosmos, Ethereum et al...