The Delphi Podcast

In this episode, we sit down with DAO pioneer Simon Judd from Index Coop , a community-led initiative that makes crypto investing simple and accessible through on-chain crypto funds. We dive into Index Coop’s structure, operations, and people, specialization within DAOs, treasury management, and much more!  Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction / Simon’s background. (00:07:46) – The entities &amp...

Brooks Brown , CEO and Co-Founder of  NOR , kicks off the first episode of DISRUPTORS with a presentation on the immanent experience of play and how it translates into meaningful game design for Web3. Brooks has more than 18 years of creative and strategic development in interactive content for the world’s most successful brands and franchises, including Lucasfilm, Lucasarts, Lightstorm Entertainm...

In this episode, we sit down with Emin Gün Sirer , Founder and CEO of Ava Labs , the team behind Avalanche , the smart contracts platform with the fastest time-to-finality in the blockchain industry. We discuss Avalanche subnets, enterprise use-cases, valid criticisms of crypto and much more! Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:04:40) – What are Subnets?  (00:13:13) – Enterprise use-cases...

Sohrob Farudi , CEO and Co-founder of Fan Controlled Football , gives us an inside look into FCF and its new Ballerz Collective NFT project that puts fans in control of real life professional sports teams. We cover democratising gameplay decision-making, redesigning the stadium and game rules, introducing social dynamics, and much more! Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:01:43) – Issues w...

In this episode, we sit down with Aron Beierschmitt , the CEO and Co-founder of Laguna Games , the team behind Crypto Unicorns , a blockchain game centered around unique Unicorn NFTs that players utilize in a fun farming simulation and Battle Loops including Jousting, Racing, and Team RPG. We discuss building a sustainable play-and-earn economy, integrating social gameplay through neighborhoods, t...

In this episode, we dive deep with DAO power users Ori Shimony and Nestor Amesty from dOrg , a full-stack Web3 development collective, covering DAO ontology and taxonomy, the trade-offs of DAO structures, the future of DAO tooling, and much more! Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:00:47) – Guests’ backgrounds.  (00:04:47) – What is a DAO?  (00:07:52) – The non-hierarchical nature of DAOs....

In this episode, we sit down with Tamara Frankel , Founding Partner of D1 Ventures , a crypto asset focused investment and advisory firm that is powering the future of the open economy. We dive into how the Polkadot ecosystem stacks up against Cosmos, the next generation of DeFi (DeFi 3.0), the state of DAOs, and much more! Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:01:11) – Tamara’s background....

In this episode, we sit down with Justin Aversano , the creator of Twin Flames and Co-founder of Quantum Art , an on-chain curation platform focused on photographers and their work. We discuss the differences between the crypto art space and the traditional art world, the case for on-chain photography, the collector’s experience on Quantum Art, and much more!  Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introductio...

In this episode, we sit down with Ryan “Fwiz” Wyatt , Head of Gaming at YouTube , who brings years of experience having worked in Major League Gaming, Machinima, and as a competitive gamer himself. Hear from Ryan on the role of Big Tech in the Web3 movement, how the world will transition to blockchain games, Web3’s impact on the creator economy and much more! Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Tarun Chitra , Founder of Gauntlet , a financial modelling platform that uses battle-tested techniques from the algorithmic trading industry to inform on-chain protocol management. The two discuss the intricacies of Gauntlet’s risk models, the future of governance, the state of artificial intelligence, and much more!...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Sahil Lavingia , Founder of Gumroad , a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform that helps creators monetize digital products and memberships. The two discuss Sahil’s decision to leave Pinterest, Web3’s edge over Web2, decentralizing Gumroad and shifting to a Web3 model, and much more! Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Intr...

The Delphi Podcast Guest Host and NFT/Gaming Analyst Jeremy Parris sits down with Vitomir Jevremovic and Jovan Tisma , Co-founders of ALL.ART , foundational NFT infrastructure built on the Solana blockchain. They discuss metadata, infrastructure, and intellectual property issues around NFTs, the $AART token IDO and NFT drop, VR ALL.ART and much more!  Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:01...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures  Tom Shaughnessy  sits down with  Francesco George Renzi , CEO and Co-founder of  Superfluid , a protocol building programmable money streams. The two discuss how streaming solves payment problems today, the potential of streaming as a DeFi primitive, using future cash flow for on-chain credit scoring, and much more. Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Intro...

Head of Delphi Labs Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Hyperion , General Manager of PRISM , a protocol that “refracts” digital assets into yield and principal components, enabling the next level of DeFi composability. The two discuss the potential of interest rate derivatives in crypto, projections for principal and yield tokens, the composability of these refracted assets, and much more! Show Note...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with angel investor and pseudonymous online persona Bored Elon Musk . Bored started out as an Elon Musk parody account and has grown to having over 1.7M followers today. The two discuss the journey of growing a pseudonymous account, traditional gaming versus Web3 gaming, effective integration of artificial intelligence (AI...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures  Tom Shaughnessy  sits down with the Lau brothers –  Darren ,  Daryl , and  Zachary Lau , also known as  Not3Lau Capital . They discuss the importance of finding your tribe, how to work effectively with founders, staying up to speed with the markets and much more! Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:01:34) – Guests’ backgrounds. (00:04:43)...

Director of Delphi Research Ashwath Balakrishnan and Delphi Ventures Analyst Avi Zurlo , sit down with Pat Doyle and Greg Magadini , Co-founders of Pink Swan Trading, a crypto data studio. They have in-depth discussions around their products DeGenData , a de-generative NFT data lab, and Genesis Volatility , an institutional grade crypto options analytics platform, and much more! Show Notes:  (00:0...

Delphi Digital’s cross-chain experts, Avi Zurlo and Can Gurel sit down with co-founders, Bryan Pellegrino (CEO) and Ryan Zarick (CTO), of LayerZero Labs , a trustless omnichain interoperability protocol. They discuss building the future of cross-chain communication, solving the bridging trilemma, and Stargate , a cross-chain liquidity network. Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:00:47) – G...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with members of PleasrDAO Jamis (Chief Pleasing Officer), Andy (founder of Fractional ), and gmoney ( INFINFT Partner). PleasrDAO is a collective focused on acquiring culturally significant art pieces, creating value from the essence of the pieces and sharing them with the community. Topics discussed include the origins of...

Head of Delphi Labs Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Managing Partner of Delphi Ventures Yan Liberman to discuss all things Delphi Labs . The two discuss the origin and goal of Delphi Labs, design considerations around Mars and Astroport token economics and lockdrop mechanisms, and much more! Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:02:21) – The genesis of Delphi Labs.   (00:04:10) – Working on...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Gregg , Instigator and Genesis Team of SquiggleDAO , a DAO foundry for on-chain generative art. The two discuss the role of Squiggles within the community,  bootstrapping its treasury, incentivising DAO work, and much more! Show Notes:  (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:00:17) – What is a Squiggle? (00:01:29) – How Gregg...

The Delphi Podcast Guest Host and NFT/Gaming Analyst Jeremy Parris sits down with David Beiner (CEO) and Jay Stolar (Chief Artist Officer) of Hume , an upcoming virtual media studio creating “Virtual Artists” who perform, release content, and engage with the masses like any other artist. They discuss the paradigm shift for artists, how a virtual artist studio functions, the role of virtual artists...

Guest Host and Head of Delphi Labs Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Sawit Trisirisatayawong , General Manager of Nebula Protocol , a community governed protocol that enables customized dynamic ETFs (clusters) and indices on Terra . The two discuss Nebula’s dynamic rebalancing design, the governance process for clusters, potential use-cases for cluster tokens, and much more!  Every Delphi Podcast i...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Jeff Dorman , Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Arca , an asset management firm offering institutional-calibre products for sophisticated investors to gain exposure to digital assets. The two discuss Arca’s SushiSwap proposal, merging traditional finance and crypto, Jeff’s biggest lessons as a CIO, and much more. We w...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy and Delphi’s Head of Research, Medio Demarco , are joined by Eli Ben-Sasson , and Uri Kolodny , Co-Founders of StarkWare , a suite of validity-based blockchain scaling and privacy solutions. Topics discussed include how StarkWare stacks up against other scaling solutions, achieving low transaction costs, developing a vibrant StarkNe...