DeFi JavaScript Smart Contracts with Agoric
Talk with Dean Tribble CEO of Agoric Timestamps 0:00 Welcome 1:19 History of Agoric 2:06 The First Smart Contracts 3:20 What is a Smart Contract? 4:51 Code is Law 6:04 Automated Economy 8:53 Coordination of Economic Activity 11:35 Pluggable Governance 14:10 Sex 16:41 Recombinant Money Legos 24:11 Zero Knowledge 28:39 Smart Contracts in JavaScript 33:01…
DeFi & CeFi: Simply Earn Interest on Bitcoin with Celsius
Here I interview Alex Mashinsky and Nuke Goldstein of Celsius Network. Disclosure: I am an advisor to Celsius. Celsius (CEL) is a simple way to earn interest on Bitcoin, Ether and many other popular cryptocurrencies. It features a simple mobile app. For those folks for whom self-custody is too complicated and DeFi is too complicated,…
How to be a VC and not act like an entitled douchebag
Hi, Miko here. This blog post is supposed to be a guide on how do your job as a Venture…
Apply for funding
Hello. We do get a lot of requests for funding. Because of this we make an effort to save as…
Delta
0:00 Welcome 2:10 How did you get started with Delta? 5:09 Size of Derivatives Market 10:03 Why Derivatives Exist 14:50 Financial Assurance 16:21 Puts and Calls 19:49 Insurance 24:27 Sharpe Ratio 29:05 Derivatives and Institutional Capital 30:37 The Need for Liquidity 35:13 Yield, no free lunch. 37:17 XRP vs XLM Tether vs USDC 38:37 On…
NFT meets DeFi Yield Guild Games: Play to Earn Gaming
⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ 0:00 Welcome 0:51 What is YGG? 2:17 yEarn is king 3:17 Compound Finance 4:00 Compound Blockchain 5:11 Origins of YGG: Axie Infinity 8:11 Games waste your time 9:28 UBI and Andrew Yang 10:46 Play to Earn Gaming 13:03 Pokemon, Magic and eSports 14:50 Scaling to Millions of blockchainers 17:11 $100k USD Axies 19:29 Building…
DeFi Governance with Consensys Ventures Praneeth
⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ 0:00 Welcome 4:16 Governance and Nature 10:30 Inevitability of Collapse 14:18 Isolation vs Coordination 18:19 Coordination 21:31 Fiduciaries 27:06 Dictatorships vs Democracies 33:15 Reputation Systems 36:36 But it will collapse anyway 37:56 Transparency 40:30 KYC and Persistent Identity 41:37 Voting and Contribution History 49:15 Fairness 52:52 Predatory Behavior
DeFi Opium Decentralized Derivatives Exchange
opium is a long running and exciting Derivatives exchange. Learn more from founder and CEO of Opium and get two announcements about the new Insurance products! 0:00 introduction 1:53 How Opium Started 3:43 Why switch from CeFi to DeFi 9:09 Announcing Insurance Products 15:41 Where can users buy Opium Insurance 16:47 What if Tether Collapses?…
Blockchain Scaling Ethereum with SKALE CEO Jack O’Holleran
SKALE is a novel EVM and Ethereum compatible scalability layer. Video INDEX: 1) What is SKALE https://youtu.be/NQo1KDkodKM?t=44 2) Current SKALE network status 135 nodes https:/) outu.be/NQo1KDkodKM?t=167 3) Ethereum compatible scaling, pay in ETH https://youtu.be/NQo1KDkodKM?t=255 4) Why developers should choose SKALE for ETH scalability https://youtu.be/NQo1KDkodKM?t=351 5) Killer Applications for SKALE https://youtu.be/NQo1KDkodKM?t=559 6) Applications for the real…
NFTs with CoinFund’s Jake Brukhman
Index: 1) Timing and Exponential growth of NFTs Art, Collectibles, Games, Financial Assets: history going back to “rare Pepes” and timing https://youtu.be/dZKyRPxXG4w?t=97 2) Art could be a breakthrough for non-blockchain mass adoption. Non-technical and non-blockchain artists are joining and making a full-time living https://youtu.be/dZKyRPxXG4w?t=252 3) Coinfund’s investment thesis around NFT–liquid Intellectual Property: the wholesale migration…
DeFi BZX Kyle Kistner Third Episode
Index: 1) It’s Different This Time: Criminal Indictment of BitMex https://youtu.be/hXbBK85tYdg?t=107 2) DOJ is involved so Jail Time https://youtu.be/hXbBK85tYdg?t=268 3) Contents of the Sealed Indictment https://youtu.be/hXbBK85tYdg?t=448 4) Implications of BSA Enforcement for DeFi https://youtu.be/hXbBK85tYdg?t=752 5) What happens to privacy coins and privacy tech https://youtu.be/hXbBK85tYdg?t=967 6) DEX isn’t Safe: How they got EtherDelta https://youtu.be/hXbBK85tYdg?t=1277 7) Custody…
DeFi both Institutional and Retail
Great conversation with Aya Kantorovich from FalconX. Discussion of the state of regulation, CeFi vs DeFi, BitMex, AML, AMM, liquidity etc. * DeFi opening finance and democratizing market accessibility for retail * CEX, DEX, or the same? Crypto juggling labels and what it means for traders. * Liquidity! Centralized and decentralized, what differentiates AMMs (Automated…
DeFi OUSD Origin Protocol Yield Stable Coin
A discussion with Josh Fraser who is a founder of Origin Protocol. Origin has launched oUSD which is a stable coin with very interesting properties. Video Index: 1) How did Origin and OUSD get started? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=104 2) How does OUSD work? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=299 3) Can the OUSD balance also go down? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=403 4) How does gas…