The Delphi Podcast

Host Tom Shaughnessy welcomes on a very special guest, Emin Gün Sirer, for a far-reaching and extremely engaging crypto discussion. The conversation covers Emin's view on the problems current blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS) face and how he is addressing them with his radical new blockchain platform; Ava. The discussion covers the latest on Ava, the future of crypto and Emin's though...

With all of the media's attention on Ripple, Wietse Wind joins Tom Shaughnessy to discuss building on XRP (the cryptocurrency) beyond Ripple (the company) Wietse has significant experience here as he has built the XRPTipBot which allows users of social media sites (Twitter) to send XRP while staying on the site. So far the tipbot has handled $50K in volume and the site has had 30k+ unique vis...

Mike Kane, the co-founder and CEO of Hydrogen joins us to discuss how the platform company is enabling the next generation of financial applications. Hydrogen's API's and connections offer a one-stop-shop bringing together all of the pieces needed to build an application (identity, documents, authentication, AI, payments) versus integrating numerous different companies for each piece (i....

Anthony Lusardi, a director of the Ethereum Classic cooperative joins us to give a full update on whether Ethereum Classic (Ticker ETC, $1B) is dead or alive, and the interplay with the larger Ethereum chain (Ticker ETH $21B). Beyond the engaging discussion on Ethereum Classic; this episode is perfect for those looking to understand what happens to crypto communities, governance, network effects,...

Following the delay in Ethereum's next hard fork and all of the noise going on between scaling, security, proof-of-stake and sharding (Shasper), Eric Conner joins us for the ultimate conversation into a complete Ethereum update.  We discuss why the hard fork was delayed, the future for Ethereum under proof-of-stake, throughput with sharding and what the future holds. For the first time we als...

Today on the podcast we have Josh Stein, the CEO of Harbor. Harbor is one of the most well-known names in the security token world.   This episode is the most comprehensive deep dive on security tokens, and is a must listen.   The use cases of Security tokens, the benefits, and secondary trading. How security tokens can help lower the illiquidity discount for real-world assets that runs between 40...

Following Tether (USDT) losing its peg to the USD and dipping to $0.92, we have the Founder and CEO of MakerDAO Rune Christensen on the podcast to discuss MakerDAO's Dai stablecoin and the MKR token.  The conversation deep dive into how the MKR system works, how Dai maintains its peg, Andreessen Horowitz's investment in MKR and the future of the system.   - Dai vs Tether; how Tether will...

Pascal Gauthier, President of Ledger, the provider of the popular crypto hardware wallet to update us on the future of the company. Topics include Komainu (Ledger partnered with Nomura to create a full-service institutional crypto service), Ledger Vault and the future of the company.   - Ledger has sold 1M+ hardware wallets; whats next on the roadmap and functionality.   - A discussion on Ledger V...

Today on 51percent's Institutional Podcast we have Myles Snider, the CEO of Aurora EOS a candidate block producer for EOS. Myles was also previously head of research at Multicoin Capital.  EOS has faced intense scrutiny over the past few weeks, and we take a detailed and unbiased look under the hood.   Unbiased deep dive covering everything EOS   Myles’ response to the massive controversy reg...

Andrew Keys, the Co-Founder of ConsenSys Capital discusses all things blockchain and the future of both ConsenSys and Crypto - a must listen to episode. - ConsenSys Capital Overview (token Foundry, consensus digital securities, consensus ventures, Trustology, Balan3e)   -Custodianship is the main factor for institutional adoption, through Trustology.   - What types of investments ConsenSys Venture...

In the first episode of 51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcast, we have the co-founder and CEO of Polymath, Trevor Koverko. Polymath is one of the most well know and largest security token platforms, and is leading the charge to securitize potentially trillions in assets.  In this episode we dive into - The creation of Polymath State of security token platforms Size of the security token ma...