The Delphi Podcast

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...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research  ( www.51pct.io) is joined by Tokensoft's co-founder and CEO Mason Borda TokenSoft enables small businesses, enterprises, and financial institutions to meet compliance requirements at issuance, distribution or exchange. This is a great episode as we have already had on numerous STO companies, so Tokensoft rounds out our STO coverage! Follow To...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research  ( www.51pct.io) is joined by Zilliqa's CEO Xinshu Dong. Zilliqa is branded as the scalable blockchain for high throughput consensus computing. The project has gotten a lot of buzz and is set to launch its mainnet this week, so this is a very timely episode.  - Follow Tom on Twitter  @Shaughnessy119 Follow Xinshu on Twitter  @xinshudong  - 51p...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research  ( 51pct.io) is joined by Spartan Group's Jason Choi, for An for an Insider’s Take On The Asia Crypto Scene. Jason gives us the entire low down on the crypto scene in Asia. He informs us on the differences vs the West on crypto funds’ involvement in governance, their investment focus, and an insightful look into the entire scene.  - Follow Tom...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Noah Pierau, a governance researcher and community manager at cryptocurrency Decred. Following 51pct.io's research report on Decred, Noah joins Tom to discuss everything Decred and its innovative apporach to governance through a hybrid PoW/PoS system and its approach to solving on-going funding through a treasury. This conversatio...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Arlyn Culwick, the co-founder of Blocknet. The conversation covers interoperability in crypto, the various players (Blocknet, Cosmos, Polkadot), the state of the market, the benefits of interoperability and what the future holds. Listeners can use coupon code "Fifty" on 51pct.io for 50% off a retail membership Relevant Posts...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Beni Issembert, the CMO at Beam Privacy. Beam is a privacy coin, based on the MimbleWimble protocol that just launched on the first week of January. Our conversation is not technically focused but is an impromptu one focused on the key takeaways on Beam following its launch. We covered Beam, Grin, Zcash and Monero in-depth in our lates...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Mance Harmon the CEO and Co-Founder of Hedera Hashgraph for the most in-depth dive into the project to date.  For those who don’t know, Hedera Hashgraph is a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications. The project has gained a lot of interest and has raised $124M at a $6B valuation. Our conversation covers the dy...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io  is joined by Carlos Domingo who is the Founder and Managing Partner at SPiCE VC and Founder and CEO at Securitize.  Our conversation covers security tokens, securitize, and why Carlos believes the security token market across all of its metrics will increase by 10 times in 2019. We discuss the competitive landscape, and Carlos provides information on the competiti...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io  is joined by Afri Schoedon of Parity for a wide-ranging discussion that includes an overview of Parity's Ethereum Client, Ethereum's Serenity upgrade, Parity's new Görli testnet, the use case for private blockchains and more. Afri shares a ton of invaluable information and is on the front lines of Ethereum, making this a must listen to episode.   Re...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io  is joined by Jacob Arluck, a governance research at Tezos. This is a timely episode since governance is becoming more and more important given recent events with Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and of course with Tezos itself over the long term. Jacob gives us a complete rundown on how the innovative governance structure at Tezos works and compares it to Ethereum and Bitco...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io  is joined by Gregory Rocco and Jacob Blish, two token designers and engineers as ConsenSys' Alpine Spoke. The conversation covers everything from the use cases and design of utility tokens, to designing for governance and positive incentives and even token doomsday scenarios. Sign up for  51pct.io  using coupon code "Token" for 20% of for the next 2...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io  is joined by the PegaSys team, a spoke of ConsenSys focused on building Ethereum tech for the public-chain community and leading enterprises. The 50 person team is one of ConsenSys' largest teams. Tom is joined by Daniel Heyman a co-founder of PegaSys and Program Director and Faisal Khan whose role is Strategy and Business development at PegaSys. The conversa...

Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent is joined by Kevin Werbach to discuss his newly released book, "The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust".    About Kevin: Kevin Werbach is Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Founder of the technology consulting firm Supernova Group, he has advised the FCC and Department of Comm...

Today on the podcast, the Whiteblock Team joins host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent to discuss their widely circulated technical research report titled; "EOS: An Architectural, Performance, and Economic Analysis Paper". Tom is joined by Zak Cole the CTO of Whiteblock, Nate Blakely a systems developer at Whiteblock and Daniel Choi a blockchain developer at Whiteblock. Why the actual through...

On this episode host Tom Shaughnessy is joined by Scott Andersen, a principal at Finlawyer.com and a former prosecutor at FINRA. In this episode the two discuss everything legal ranging from ICOs to the future of the space   The legality of ICOs Etherdetla, Paragon and Airfox enforcement actions The legality of security tokens and exchanges Will all ICOs have to return investor money How the SEC i...

Eric Olszewskii and Jose Macedo join host Tom Shaughnessy to discuss Ethereum’s fat protocol thesis following Jose’s post on the topic. We also go into depth on everything Ethereum with Serenity, scalability, store of values, future use cases and why ETH prices haven’t yet bottomed. Our conversation also dives into Ethereum's competition, ranging from Bitcoin, NEO, EOS, Litecoin and Tezos.  ...

John Quinn, the Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at StorJ joins host Tom Shaughnessy to discuss the decentralized storage provider.  ----more---- Decentralized (StorJ, Sia, Filecoin, Maidsafe) vs Centralized storage providers (AWS, Azure) How StorJ is more focused on competing with centralized cloud providers over its decentralized peers. What's new in the comprehensive StorJ Version 3.0...

Following Alexander's post comparing the differences between Ethereum's Serenity with Near Protocol, we decided to dive into the platform with the founders (Alexander Skidanov and Illia Polosukhin). The Near Protocol is a new project, and one of our goals is to find these projects first and educate our listeners on them.  We discuss Ethereum’s plan forSerenity (Sharding and Casper), why...