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NFT Gaming with Axie Infinity

Video Index: 0:00 Welcome 1:23 What is Axie Infinity? 3:07 Why play Axie? 6:10 Crypto Kitties and Origins 8:24 The Future of Axie 10:23 Gas Prices and Friction 12:55 Geography and Users 18:40 DeFi and Axie 21:55 Incentives 24:18 Governance 45:03 Ronin, new Axie Blockchain What is Axie? Axie is a movement disguised as a…

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DeFi DEX Aggregator Paraswap with founder Mounir

0:00 Welcome 2:37 What does ParaSwap do? 5:39 Traction numbers 7:30 Competitive Advantage vs 1Inch or similar 12:02 ZK or Optimistic Rollup for L2 scalability 24:19 What’s the big idea? 27:38 Motivated by fairness 33:35 Shout outs to awesome DeFi people 34:56 DeFi Gems including Melon/Enzyme and AAVE 37:24 Roadmap What is ParaSwap? How are…

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kava Cross-Chain blockchain with founder Brian Kerr

Video Index 0:00 welcome 2:08 Macroeconomics 4:52 What problem does KAVA solve? 6:29 COSMOS SDK and Tendermint 8:05 On Cross Chain Bridges 13:25 Traction numbers for KAVA 16:02 Amazing previous career with Fnatic eSports 19:45 Kevin Chou at Forte started GenG 21:10 eSports is very social 22:29 Inspiration: Nassim Taleb 25:06 Shout Outs: Greg from…

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Akash Network, Cloud Computing on Blockchain

What is Akash? Akash is a peer to peer marketplace for cloud computing resources, and a deployment platform for for modern distributed workloads. The big difference of the big value it provides compared to the incumbent (Amazon Web Services or AWS), it’s designed for a very modern developer. So what takes normally 10s of hours…

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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…

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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…

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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

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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…

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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?…

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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…