Sep 30, 2020
Trent and Brock Elmore, two of the five creators of Yam Finance, a decentralized finance protocol, join the show. In this episode we discuss:
- The inspiration for starting Yam Finance
- The story behind the launch, the initial bug and the subsequent re-launch
- Contextualizing DeFi – what is a fad and what is enduring
- The...
Sep 28, 2020
Chase Lochmiller, cofounder and CEO of Crusoe Energy Systems joins the show. In this episode we discuss:
- Crusoe’s approach to addressing the issue of natural gas flaring by monetizing stranded energy
- The process by which Crusoe turns this stranded energy into Bitcoin
- How Chase sees the compute use cases that can...
Sep 25, 2020
Matt and Nic return for deals and the news of the week. In this episode:
- The OCC clarifies that banks can custody dollars for stablecoin issuers
- Maker's flippening in collateral types, and what that means for the system
- Tether falls below 80% of stablecoin market share
- Two congressional bills propose to federally...
Sep 23, 2020
Jeff Dorman is the CIO at Arca, which is currently engaged in a fascinating standoff with Gnosis, a token project in which they have a position. Arca is asserting that Gnosis has delivered little value to tokenholders and has proposed that they perform a tender offer for GNO tokens with the assets held on their...
Sep 21, 2020
Tom Lombardi, Managing Director at 3iQ Corp, joins the show. In this episode we discuss:
- Tom’s path from traditional finance to the cryptoasset industry
- The enterprise blockchain era: lessons learned and the second order effects of the hype cycle
- The state of institutional exchange infrastructure
- The...