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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…

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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…

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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…

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DeFi Yield Farming with Joshua Lapidus

A fun discussion about pickle and a number of other DeFi projects and the state of Yield Farming. As you know, ETH gas prices are down and it seems that there is a decreased amount of yield farming going on. He is @JSLapidus on twitter, please check him out! He’s working on a cool project…