The Delphi Podcast

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...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Gregory Rocco and Wayne Chang , Co-founders of Spruce , an ecosystem of open source tools to enable user-controlled identity anywhere. In this episode, they discuss the importance of decentralized identities, how Sign-in With Ethereum works, the use-cases of cross-chain reputations, and much more. Every Delphi Podcast...

Jose Maria Macedo and Yan Liberman sit down with Vol and Sam , co-founders of Orion Money , a cross-chain stablecoin bank built on Terra . Discussed topics include Orion’s features and roadmap, $ORION tokenomics, achieving cross-chain trustless governance and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Kava : Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrenc...

Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Stanford Liu (Head of Research) and Joe Lim (Product Manager) of Terraform Labs, the team behind Mirror , a protocol that enables the trading of fungible assets, “synthetics,” that track the price of real-world assets. The trio discuss Mirror’s synthetics architecture, implementing concentrated liquidity for mAssets ("mirror" versions of real-world assets...

Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Matthew J Cantieri , General Manager of Anchor Protocol , a money market on the Terra blockchain that offers an attractive stable yield for depositors. The two discuss Anchor’s yield mechanisms and sustainability, bringing Anchor to traditional finance, the impacts of the Columbus-5 upgrade and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Zhivko Todorov , co-founder of EnterDAO , a DAO focused on building products to enable new markets within the Web3 metaverse economy. The two discuss Landworks’ potential as a metaverse land rental marketplace, the utility of MetaPortal as a single entry point across the metaverse, the benefits of going DAO-first, and...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Gabriel Shapiro , General Counsel at Delphi Labs , Delphi’s very own project incubator. The two discuss legal differences between traditional businesses and crypto, the motivations of regulatory bodies, regulation on centralized and decentralized stablecoins and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for makin...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Alex Salnikov , co-founder and CPO at Rarible , the first community-owned NFT marketplace. The two discuss open-sourcing the Rarible Protocol stack, the benefits of having marketplace features on-chain, the $RARI token distribution and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Ka...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Haseeb Querishi , managing partner at Dragonfly Capital , a cross-border crypto venture fund. The two have a philosophical discussion on the topic of decentralization, covering its core purpose, the costly trade-offs, the declining marginal utility of pursuing decentralization and much more! We would like to thank our...

Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Jonathan Caras , Head of Communications at Levana, a protocol on the Terra blockchain that allows any asset to be leveraged. The two discuss decentralizing perpetual swaps, leveraged tokens versus margin trading, the Levana Lore and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Kava : Kava connects the world's largest cryptoc...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Aaron and David McDonald , founders of Altered State Machine (ASM) , a world-first decentralized platform for developers and NFT owners to create, train and own intelligent NFTs. They discuss integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into NFTs and gaming, use cases for AI in DeFi, the infrastructure of ASM brains and m...

Jose Maria Macedo sits down with Do Kwon , Co-Founder and CEO of Terraform Labs, the team behind the Terra blockchain, a fully decentralized and programmable money for the internet. The two discuss decentralized stablecoin mechanisms and pitfalls, Terra’s core ethos, regulatory risk for Terra, and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Kava : Kava connects...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Jeremy Allaire , Co-founder and CEO of Circle , a payments and treasury infrastructure for the internet and issuer of USD Coin (USDC). The two discuss building successful companies in new technologies, the regulatory climate for stablecoins, the future of Circle and much more. We would like to thank our sponsors for m...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Notion, also known as Adam, Lead at GEN.ART , a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on shaping the future of generative art. The two discuss GEN.ART’s membership model, community involvement in projects, curating artists and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possibl...

Guest host Can Gurel from Delphi Research sits down with Chris Whinfrey , co-founder of Hop Protocol , a prominent token bridge for Ethereum’s layer-2 ecosystem that allows users to quickly send tokens from one rollup or sidechain to another. The two discuss the utility of Hop Bridge in a rollup centric Ethereum world, diving into its design properties, security model and much more! We would like...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Sasha Fleyshman , Junior Portfolio Manager and Special Situations Analyst at Arca , an asset management firm offering institutional-calibre products for sophisticated investors to gain exposure to digital assets. The two discuss the future of crypto gaming, blockchain vs. real-world art, PFP communities and adoption,...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with VonMises , a member of the Art Blocks curation board and an avid NFT collector. The two discuss managing a large collection, the Art Blocks curation process, future of generative art and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Kava : Kava connects the world's largest crypt...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Erick Calderon , a.k.a. “Snowfro,” founder of Art Blocks , a platform focused on genuinely programmable on demand generative content that is stored immutably on the Ethereum Blockchain. The two discuss Art Blocks from the artist and curator perspective, how generative art is minted, CryptoPunks, and much more! We woul...

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Cooper Turley , crypto strategist lead at Audius , and manager of social DAO Friends With Benefits . The two discuss the culture and community around projects, DAOs and NFTs, value flows in NFTs and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Kava : Kava connects the world's l...