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DROPS E19: Cyrille Contributor f(x) Protocol and AladdinDAO (STABLE, LEVERED) - How DeFi can deliver true transparency and sustainability in finance Cyrille explains how f(x) Protocol is redefining Stablecoins with fully on-chain, audited systems - no middlemen, no VC influence, and organic yield powered by real activity. We talk...

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E164 - GSR - $30 trillion is coming on-chain Xin Song is CEO of GSR - 12 years in, bootstrapped with $20K, still standing after FTX - and he thinks in decades, not quarters. A masterclass in market structure, what's actually broken about token launches, and why the $30 trillion tokenization opportunity still needs a demand side. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:02 Sleep & Age Banter 3:15 Advantage Of Age & Maturity 7:33 Who Is Xin Song? 9:23 What Did You Learn From Your Parents 12:47 Partnerships: Jupiter KAST 13:27 What’s Happening With Crypto Right Now Considering The Market 16:12 What Broken Market Structure Means 19:18 Why Crypto Companies Shouldn’t Be Competing With Each Other 21:27 What Shocks You That People Don’t Understand With Crypto vs TradFi 26:42 What’s The Incentive To Make These Changes 28:41 GSR Explained To Your Mom 32:51 Partnerships: Ethena Sumsub 33:53 Why Do Market Makers In Crypto Have Bad Reputations 36:48 How To Fix The Crypto Market Makers Reputation 40:09 What Does It Mean That GSR Wants To Become The Goldman Sachs Of Crypto 42:05 Example: Goldman Sachs Worked With Coca Cola & How GSR Reflects That In The Web 3 World 44:50 Why Is It Necessary For GSR To Become The Goldman Sachs Of Web 3 48:34 You Made 2 Major Acquisitions, Why? 51:49 Partnerships: Trezor Bitwise Sui 52:45 Why Is Now The Best Moment For Focusing On Tokenization 56:24 What Must Happen For 10% Of $300 Trillion To Be On Chain 59:20 Katana ⚔️ Explained Simply 1:12:18 Closing Thoughts
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E164 - GSR - $30 trillion is coming on-chain Xin Song is CEO of GSR - 12 years in, bootstrapped with $20K, still standing after FTX - and he thinks in decades, not quarters. A masterclass in market structure, what's actually broken about token launches, and why the $30 trillion tokenization opportunity still needs a demand side. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:02 Sleep & Age Banter 3:15 Advantage Of Age & Maturity 7:33 Who Is Xin Song? 9:23 What Did You Learn From Your Parents 12:47 Partnerships: Jupiter KAST 13:27 What’s Happening With Crypto Right Now Considering The Market 16:12 What Broken Market Structure Means 19:18 Why Crypto Companies Shouldn’t Be Competing With Each Other 21:27 What Shocks You That People Don’t Understand With Crypto vs TradFi 26:42 What’s The Incentive To Make These Changes 28:41 GSR Explained To Your Mom 32:51 Partnerships: Ethena Sumsub 33:53 Why Do Market Makers In Crypto Have Bad Reputations 36:48 How To Fix The Crypto Market Makers Reputation 40:09 What Does It Mean That GSR Wants To Become The Goldman Sachs Of Crypto 42:05 Example: Goldman Sachs Worked With Coca Cola & How GSR Reflects That In The Web 3 World 44:50 Why Is It Necessary For GSR To Become The Goldman Sachs Of Web 3 48:34 You Made 2 Major Acquisitions, Why? 51:49 Partnerships: Trezor Bitwise Sui 52:45 Why Is Now The Best Moment For Focusing On Tokenization 56:24 What Must Happen For 10% Of $300 Trillion To Be On Chain 59:20 Katana ⚔️ Explained Simply 1:12:18 Closing Thoughts

MR SHIFT 🦁

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LIVE NOW: Why Vaults Are a Ticking Time Bomb | ilemi from Herd 🦬 DeFi vaults make yield feel simple. Behind one deposit can sit dozens of markets, recursive wrappers, leverage, curators, and risk assumptions most users never see. Andrew Hong joins David Hoffman to tell us about: • Why vaults are becoming crypto’s one-click financial layer • How Coinbase and institutions could take them mainstream • Where risk creep and hidden dependencies enter • Why transparency must come before ratings --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introducing DeFi Vaults 2:20 From Yearn to Morpho 3:58 Why One-Click Yield Is Growing 9:02 Coinbase Earn and the Safer End of Vaults 11:40 How Vaults Rebalance Capital 14:38 Leverage, RWAs, and Higher Yields 18:28 When Strategies Go Seven Layers Deep 20:43 The Summer Finance Exploit 23:56 The Incentive to Take More Risk 27:59 An Inevitable but Unstable Product 29:45 Regulation and the Role of Curators 34:10 The Transparency Gap 39:32 Misaligned Incentives and Liability 41:48 What Happens When Vaults Reach Mainstream Users 46:22 What the Vault Sector Needs 51:13 How to Evaluate a Vault 53:41 Did DeFi Reinvent the Bank? 58:01 What to Watch Next 1:03:44 What Herd Is Building
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LIVE NOW: Why Vaults Are a Ticking Time Bomb | ilemi from Herd 🦬 DeFi vaults make yield feel simple. Behind one deposit can sit dozens of markets, recursive wrappers, leverage, curators, and risk assumptions most users never see. Andrew Hong joins David Hoffman to tell us about: • Why vaults are becoming crypto’s one-click financial layer • How Coinbase and institutions could take them mainstream • Where risk creep and hidden dependencies enter • Why transparency must come before ratings --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introducing DeFi Vaults 2:20 From Yearn to Morpho 3:58 Why One-Click Yield Is Growing 9:02 Coinbase Earn and the Safer End of Vaults 11:40 How Vaults Rebalance Capital 14:38 Leverage, RWAs, and Higher Yields 18:28 When Strategies Go Seven Layers Deep 20:43 The Summer Finance Exploit 23:56 The Incentive to Take More Risk 27:59 An Inevitable but Unstable Product 29:45 Regulation and the Role of Curators 34:10 The Transparency Gap 39:32 Misaligned Incentives and Liability 41:48 What Happens When Vaults Reach Mainstream Users 46:22 What the Vault Sector Needs 51:13 How to Evaluate a Vault 53:41 Did DeFi Reinvent the Bank? 58:01 What to Watch Next 1:03:44 What Herd Is Building

Bankless

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Even though Plume just launched its mainnet in June, it already has $5B assets in the pipeline and over half of all RWA holders in crypto Its cofounder Chris Yin shares on Talking Tokens Podcast how Plume went from a product app to a full chain, why most tokenized assets fail, and what it takes to make RWAs usable. Timestamps 0:00 – What is Plume Network? 1:32 – Chris’s background: DeFi summer, yield farming, and app-layer insights 2:15 – Why most tokenized assets fail: no usage, no velocity 4:03 – Why Plume had to build its own chain 5:42 – Tokenization isn’t enough — here’s what else matters 8:01 – RWAs as crypto’s biggest opportunity (bigger than all DeFi) 9:33 – Stable yield, composability, and how users interact with assets 12:16 – What makes tokenized assets actually usable 14:00 – Top-down vs bottoms-up tokenization 16:00 – Mineral Vault: onboarded 80K holders in a month 19:12 – Plume’s Phase 2: onboarding non-crypto users 20:30 – Why real traction > flashy launches 22:41 – The real numbers behind RWA growth 25:50 – Plume’s 2025 goal: $1B in clean, onchain RWA value 27:48 – Structured products will unlock the next wave 30:50 – Long-term vision: an onchain BlackRock 32:10 – It’s not about one asset — it’s the full stack 36:36 – Honoring Co-Founder Eugene Chen 39:25 – Final advice: focus long-term, but adapt fast
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Even though Plume just launched its mainnet in June, it already has $5B assets in the pipeline and over half of all RWA holders in crypto Its cofounder Chris Yin shares on Talking Tokens Podcast how Plume went from a product app to a full chain, why most tokenized assets fail, and what it takes to make RWAs usable. Timestamps 0:00 – What is Plume Network? 1:32 – Chris’s background: DeFi summer, yield farming, and app-layer insights 2:15 – Why most tokenized assets fail: no usage, no velocity 4:03 – Why Plume had to build its own chain 5:42 – Tokenization isn’t enough — here’s what else matters 8:01 – RWAs as crypto’s biggest opportunity (bigger than all DeFi) 9:33 – Stable yield, composability, and how users interact with assets 12:16 – What makes tokenized assets actually usable 14:00 – Top-down vs bottoms-up tokenization 16:00 – Mineral Vault: onboarded 80K holders in a month 19:12 – Plume’s Phase 2: onboarding non-crypto users 20:30 – Why real traction > flashy launches 22:41 – The real numbers behind RWA growth 25:50 – Plume’s 2025 goal: $1B in clean, onchain RWA value 27:48 – Structured products will unlock the next wave 30:50 – Long-term vision: an onchain BlackRock 32:10 – It’s not about one asset — it’s the full stack 36:36 – Honoring Co-Founder Eugene Chen 39:25 – Final advice: focus long-term, but adapt fast

Jacquelyn Melinek

24,633 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

NEW POD - r-r o'leary ⛛ 🕊️ – core developer of DarkFi Squad – joins me to articulate how privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure can unlock new forms of anonymous coordination, DAO governance, and capital allocation. We pulled the threads on the philosophical underpinnings of the Lunarpunk and how privacy-first systems like DarkFi can empower communities to define new futures through encrypted trust. 00:00 – Intro 03:06 What Is DarkFi? 08:47 Why Privacy Matters 12:48 Upcoming DarkFi Releases 14:44 What Mining DarkFi Means 18:47 Vision for DarkFi’s Future 23:07 Applications Only Possible with Privacy 26:57 Working Anonymously with a Team 27:11 Inside the DarkFi DAO 36:56 DAO Privacy Levels & Voting 39:55 Evolution of DAOs with ZK Tech 40:56 No EVM Compatibility, Simplicity Philosophy 52:32 Building on ZK with Low-Level Language 53:07 Where to Learn More About DarkFi At we are building capital allocation for the next internet. Learn more @
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NEW POD - r-r o'leary ⛛ 🕊️ – core developer of DarkFi Squad – joins me to articulate how privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure can unlock new forms of anonymous coordination, DAO governance, and capital allocation. We pulled the threads on the philosophical underpinnings of the Lunarpunk and how privacy-first systems like DarkFi can empower communities to define new futures through encrypted trust. 00:00 – Intro 03:06 What Is DarkFi? 08:47 Why Privacy Matters 12:48 Upcoming DarkFi Releases 14:44 What Mining DarkFi Means 18:47 Vision for DarkFi’s Future 23:07 Applications Only Possible with Privacy 26:57 Working Anonymously with a Team 27:11 Inside the DarkFi DAO 36:56 DAO Privacy Levels & Voting 39:55 Evolution of DAOs with ZK Tech 40:56 No EVM Compatibility, Simplicity Philosophy 52:32 Building on ZK with Low-Level Language 53:07 Where to Learn More About DarkFi At we are building capital allocation for the next internet. Learn more @

Kev.Ξth, GG24 is live💰✨

12,773 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Today on MCG: ksett | Derive.xyz 99% of people in crypto know perps but few understand options... Ksett breaks down why they are the next frontier, how they will be accessible on-chain, and why $22.3 billion in notional volume is just the beginning 👇 00:46 - Meet Ksett 01:19 - Background 01:37 - From user to team member 02:11 - Most people know perps — why options are the next step 02:48 - Perps limitations 03:36 - What you can build with options 04:42 - The team 05:56 - What Derive offers 08:59 - On-chain benefits 09:33 - Self-custodial 11:53 - How Derive came to be 21:26 - Who is the target audience? 21:55 - The institutional set 22:10 - The broker program 23:47 - Agentic trading 27:05 - A retail agent version 28:32 - Is Derive bridging CeFi to DeFi? 29:38 - Commodities on Derive 41:10 - Coinbase acquisition 42:17 - $22.3 billion in notional volume 43:28 - Governance and tokenomics 45:40 - Options MM program 50:31 - The SEC side and regulation 51:37 - White label opportunities 51:53 - 35% of fees go to buybacks 57:07 - Wrap up and takeaways
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Today on MCG: ksett | Derive.xyz 99% of people in crypto know perps but few understand options... Ksett breaks down why they are the next frontier, how they will be accessible on-chain, and why $22.3 billion in notional volume is just the beginning 👇 00:46 - Meet Ksett 01:19 - Background 01:37 - From user to team member 02:11 - Most people know perps — why options are the next step 02:48 - Perps limitations 03:36 - What you can build with options 04:42 - The team 05:56 - What Derive offers 08:59 - On-chain benefits 09:33 - Self-custodial 11:53 - How Derive came to be 21:26 - Who is the target audience? 21:55 - The institutional set 22:10 - The broker program 23:47 - Agentic trading 27:05 - A retail agent version 28:32 - Is Derive bridging CeFi to DeFi? 29:38 - Commodities on Derive 41:10 - Coinbase acquisition 42:17 - $22.3 billion in notional volume 43:28 - Governance and tokenomics 45:40 - Options MM program 50:31 - The SEC side and regulation 51:37 - White label opportunities 51:53 - 35% of fees go to buybacks 57:07 - Wrap up and takeaways

MCG

10,272 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

E137: From exposing Bitcoin’s biggest weakness to onboarding FIFA and MapleStory - Avalanche🔺 CEO and Founder Emin Gün Sirer🔺⚔️ - founder of Ava Labs 🔺, the company behind Avalanche - shares the journey from building Karma (a pre-Bitcoin digital currency) to pioneering Avalanche, the multi-chain blockchain reshaping crypto's infrastructure. From early academic battles with Bitcoin maxis to onboarding FIFA and MapleStory Universe, this is one of the wildest rides in Web3. Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:59 Opening Comments 2:55 What Is Your Mission 3:39 Who Are You 6:00 Business vs PHD Program 7:21 Chip on The Shoulder 9:32 Partnerships Jupiter, Money Badgers, Mantle 10:27 Chip On The Shoulder (Continued) 11:55 What Is An Internet Currency 13:55 Why Was Bitcoin Better 15:46 Biggest Flaws In Bitcoin 19:17 Is Maximalism A Good Thing 21:18 Does Maximalism Help Bitcoin 22:05 Fascination With Bitcoin & Crypto 23:33 Evolution With Time 25:11 Broader Crypto Use 27:26 Partnerships Trezor Sui 28:15 Avalanche Explained Simply 28:48 Shiny Object, Why People Fall For It 33:08 Moving Towards Show Me Era 34:27 What Emin Did Different 36:45 What Did You Do Wrong 38:10 Does The Best Tech Win 40:03 Avalanche, Home of Layer Ones? 42:10 How Does Avalanche Scale 43:38 The Gaming Blockchain 48:21 Real World Assets on Defy 50:31 How Big Is RWA 50:58 Why Transformation Is Slow 52:36 FIFA On Avalanche Blockchain, Why? 53:28 Endgame For Avalanche 56:48 Personal Difficulties While Building 58:30 What Did You Change Afterwards 1:01:25 Why Live In New York 1:03:40 Debanked After Moving 1:09:05 Crypto Full Mainstream, How? 1:10:43 Biggest Prediction In 12 Months
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E137: From exposing Bitcoin’s biggest weakness to onboarding FIFA and MapleStory - Avalanche🔺 CEO and Founder Emin Gün Sirer🔺⚔️ - founder of Ava Labs 🔺, the company behind Avalanche - shares the journey from building Karma (a pre-Bitcoin digital currency) to pioneering Avalanche, the multi-chain blockchain reshaping crypto's infrastructure. From early academic battles with Bitcoin maxis to onboarding FIFA and MapleStory Universe, this is one of the wildest rides in Web3. Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:59 Opening Comments 2:55 What Is Your Mission 3:39 Who Are You 6:00 Business vs PHD Program 7:21 Chip on The Shoulder 9:32 Partnerships Jupiter, Money Badgers, Mantle 10:27 Chip On The Shoulder (Continued) 11:55 What Is An Internet Currency 13:55 Why Was Bitcoin Better 15:46 Biggest Flaws In Bitcoin 19:17 Is Maximalism A Good Thing 21:18 Does Maximalism Help Bitcoin 22:05 Fascination With Bitcoin & Crypto 23:33 Evolution With Time 25:11 Broader Crypto Use 27:26 Partnerships Trezor Sui 28:15 Avalanche Explained Simply 28:48 Shiny Object, Why People Fall For It 33:08 Moving Towards Show Me Era 34:27 What Emin Did Different 36:45 What Did You Do Wrong 38:10 Does The Best Tech Win 40:03 Avalanche, Home of Layer Ones? 42:10 How Does Avalanche Scale 43:38 The Gaming Blockchain 48:21 Real World Assets on Defy 50:31 How Big Is RWA 50:58 Why Transformation Is Slow 52:36 FIFA On Avalanche Blockchain, Why? 53:28 Endgame For Avalanche 56:48 Personal Difficulties While Building 58:30 What Did You Change Afterwards 1:01:25 Why Live In New York 1:03:40 Debanked After Moving 1:09:05 Crypto Full Mainstream, How? 1:10:43 Biggest Prediction In 12 Months

MR SHIFT 🦁

93,188 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

E159: Hyperliquid: Housing all of Finance jeff.hl came back on the When Shift Happens Podcast to talk about the Hyperliquid journey since the TGE and what the future holds for one of the most loved and prolific protocols in the space Hyperliquid Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:01 Singapore 2:27 Reminiscing on the Token Launch 5:00 Was This Scale Of Wealth Expected? 6:28 Doing The Right Thing In Crypto 9:07 The Responsibility that comes with Billions of $ 11:10 Jupiter KAST 11:51 Bringing Hyperliquid to the masses 15:21 Pre TGE and Post TGE: Operational difference 20:13 Choices on what to build Internally vs Externally 22:05 How to build a reliable team 24:51 Did the Team celebrate the HYPE wealth Generation event? 26:45 How to test talents for High Integrity 28:31 How much does the Hyperliquid team sleep? 30:05 Employee Vesting Fears 31:41 Dealing with FUD 32:28 How Does Jeff Personally Handle FUD 35:02 Token "Buybacks" critics 37:20 Why Hyperliquid can't have Discretionary "Buybacks" 39:04 HyperEVM, explained Simply 40:00 Paradex Zodl 40:41 HyperEVM: Success so Far? 44:05 HIP-3, explained Simply 47:44 What makes Hyperliquid's approach different 48:19 Why Should People Care? 51:33 Bring All Finance On Chain 52:08 Why Is The Hyperliquid Approach Better? 53:47 Key Numbers showing that Hyperliquid Is Doing it right 59:01 What Has the Unit team demonstrated with spot trading on Hyperliquid in 2025 1:03:29 HIP-4: Outcome Markets 1:08:01 Trezor Sui 1:08:58 What does "Housing All Of Finance" mean? 1:10:51 Why Hyperliquid is not a crypto company 1:12:23 Why Does Hyperliquid have A Stablecoin USDH (Native Markets) 1:14:39 What Is Kinetiq & Why Does It Matter? 1:16:15 Why Is What HyperLend Is Building Important For HyperLiquid 1:23:39 Where did Fairness cost the most? 1:24:47 What should Hyperliquid be Remembered for? 1:25:24 Why should people stay in Crypto when there's an AI brain drain? 1:28:10 Closing Thoughts
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E159: Hyperliquid: Housing all of Finance jeff.hl came back on the When Shift Happens Podcast to talk about the Hyperliquid journey since the TGE and what the future holds for one of the most loved and prolific protocols in the space Hyperliquid Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:01 Singapore 2:27 Reminiscing on the Token Launch 5:00 Was This Scale Of Wealth Expected? 6:28 Doing The Right Thing In Crypto 9:07 The Responsibility that comes with Billions of $ 11:10 Jupiter KAST 11:51 Bringing Hyperliquid to the masses 15:21 Pre TGE and Post TGE: Operational difference 20:13 Choices on what to build Internally vs Externally 22:05 How to build a reliable team 24:51 Did the Team celebrate the HYPE wealth Generation event? 26:45 How to test talents for High Integrity 28:31 How much does the Hyperliquid team sleep? 30:05 Employee Vesting Fears 31:41 Dealing with FUD 32:28 How Does Jeff Personally Handle FUD 35:02 Token "Buybacks" critics 37:20 Why Hyperliquid can't have Discretionary "Buybacks" 39:04 HyperEVM, explained Simply 40:00 Paradex Zodl 40:41 HyperEVM: Success so Far? 44:05 HIP-3, explained Simply 47:44 What makes Hyperliquid's approach different 48:19 Why Should People Care? 51:33 Bring All Finance On Chain 52:08 Why Is The Hyperliquid Approach Better? 53:47 Key Numbers showing that Hyperliquid Is Doing it right 59:01 What Has the Unit team demonstrated with spot trading on Hyperliquid in 2025 1:03:29 HIP-4: Outcome Markets 1:08:01 Trezor Sui 1:08:58 What does "Housing All Of Finance" mean? 1:10:51 Why Hyperliquid is not a crypto company 1:12:23 Why Does Hyperliquid have A Stablecoin USDH (Native Markets) 1:14:39 What Is Kinetiq & Why Does It Matter? 1:16:15 Why Is What HyperLend Is Building Important For HyperLiquid 1:23:39 Where did Fairness cost the most? 1:24:47 What should Hyperliquid be Remembered for? 1:25:24 Why should people stay in Crypto when there's an AI brain drain? 1:28:10 Closing Thoughts

MR SHIFT 🦁

579,432 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

DROPS E29: Ivo Grigorov, CEO at Real - The Trust Layer That Traditional Finance Has Been Waiting For From managing $1.2B in traditional finance to building an institutional-grade L1, Ivo is on a mission to bring real-world assets on-chain and rebuild trust between banks and crypto. We talk about: - Why trust is the missing link in tokenized real-world assets - How Real Finance is designing an L1 for banks and institutions - Turning a $100M guarantee scheme into smart contracts - Why crypto misunderstands sustainability and compounding - Bridging TradFi and Web3 with transparency, validators & on-chain metadata - Raising $29M and onboarding banks before mainnet launch And much more... Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:35 - Founder Life 2:37 - The Mission & Sacrifices 4:10 - Building globally before launch 5:00 - Background & Qualifications 6:23 - Childhood Experiences 09:58 - Co-founders & Partnership 12:55 - Credibility 15:16 - What Crypto misunderstood about TradFi? 19:39 - What TradFi misunderstood about Crypto? 24:26 - The Real Turning Point 26:46 - Credefi to Real Finance 32:00 - What’s RWA? 34:40 - What’s broken with RWAs? 36:58 - Real Finance in simple terms 38:09 - Institutional interest in Real Finance 41:28 - Success & Failures 41:58 - How Global Finance could change 43:02 - Crypto isn’t a slow process 45:35 - Conclusion
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DROPS E29: Ivo Grigorov, CEO at Real - The Trust Layer That Traditional Finance Has Been Waiting For From managing $1.2B in traditional finance to building an institutional-grade L1, Ivo is on a mission to bring real-world assets on-chain and rebuild trust between banks and crypto. We talk about: - Why trust is the missing link in tokenized real-world assets - How Real Finance is designing an L1 for banks and institutions - Turning a $100M guarantee scheme into smart contracts - Why crypto misunderstands sustainability and compounding - Bridging TradFi and Web3 with transparency, validators & on-chain metadata - Raising $29M and onboarding banks before mainnet launch And much more... Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:35 - Founder Life 2:37 - The Mission & Sacrifices 4:10 - Building globally before launch 5:00 - Background & Qualifications 6:23 - Childhood Experiences 09:58 - Co-founders & Partnership 12:55 - Credibility 15:16 - What Crypto misunderstood about TradFi? 19:39 - What TradFi misunderstood about Crypto? 24:26 - The Real Turning Point 26:46 - Credefi to Real Finance 32:00 - What’s RWA? 34:40 - What’s broken with RWAs? 36:58 - Real Finance in simple terms 38:09 - Institutional interest in Real Finance 41:28 - Success & Failures 41:58 - How Global Finance could change 43:02 - Crypto isn’t a slow process 45:35 - Conclusion

MR SHIFT 🦁

40,246 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten