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Teller Finance is a company I've been watching for almost a year; I think it could arguably become one of the most important DeFi platforms ever. Imagine something like a decentralized FICO score that is portable and universally accepted. That's kind of what Teller is up to. Listen and learn. About our sponsor, Coinbase: Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and financial institutions. Through their professional trading platform, deep and diversified liquidity, and Coinbase Custody, Coinbase Prime is built for institutions. Learn more at prime.coinbase.com.

Welcome back! After an unexpected hiatus from yours truly we are back! What better way to come back then talking with Stani from Aave who has been instrumental in DeFi massive growth in the last year. Aave is an open-source and non-custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets with a variable or stable interest rate. It also enables ultra-short duration, uncollateralized flash loans designed to be integrated into other products and services. We talk about how this all works, their new AMM (automated market maker), how their decentralized governance is working compared to others, NFT's and how we get the next 10 million users into DeFi. About our sponsor, Coinbase: Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and financial institutions. Through their professional trading platform, deep and diversified liquidity, and Coinbase Custody, Coinbase Prime is built

Did you know Morgan Stanley had a Head of Digital Assets? Well you do now! Such a great episode with Andrew who is incredibly knowledgeable about the space. We discuss the global macro narrative that has been the draw to Bitcoin for many institutions; going beyond Bitcoin and what DeFi's role could be in further growing; the role Corporations are playing in terms of buying Bitcoin and Digital Assets and much more.

It's been a little over two years in the making but we have reached our 200th episode! What a special one with Meltem in which we have a no holds bar conversation about the world we live in and the role Bitcoin is playing in it. **Note: unlike in previous episodes, I do drop a few curses here; it was right after the attempted insurrection at the Capitol and I was heated** We talk about the role Bitcoin is playing; is it ok to spend your Bitcoin or should it be in the narrative of store of wealth? So much more; just listen!

The legendary Raoul Pal joins me for an absolutely epic conversation in which we touch on global macro issues, including last week's attempted insurrection in the United States, yields and the debt markets around the world, the continued narrative of Bitcoin among institutional investors and more. We also spend a lot of time discussing second level thinking (coined by investors like Howard Marks, Ray Dalio and others) in Digital Assets; how to look beyond the meme's and those who call digital assets derogatory names and more. Raoul and his team have been producing amazing content at Real Vision on traditional markets and now Digital Assets; check it out here: https://www.realvision.com/ About our sponsor, Coinbase: Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and financial institutions. Through their professional trading platform, deep and diversified liquidity, and Coinbase C

Matt joins us to kick off 2021 with a great discussion on mempools; for those unfamiliar a mempool is a Digital Asset node’s mechanism for storing information on unconfirmed transactions. It acts as a sort of waiting room for transactions that have not yet been included in a block. One is able to gather very interesting observational data with this and Blocknative is at the forefront of it. Learn more about what they are doing here: https://www.blocknative.com/ About our sponsor: Coinbase Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and financial institutions. Through their professional trading platform, deep and diversified liquidity, and Coinbase Custody, Coinbase Prime is built for institutions. Learn more at prime.coinbase.com.

Legendary recording! Peter is the Managing Director of Jump Capital, a highly seasoned investor in both traditional and digital assets. He and his team have been investing in Digital Assets for about 7 years now and he's seen it all. We talk about his 2021 predictions which include Bitcoin hitting $50,000 and why that is a more reachable target today than ever before. Additionally we talk about DeFi having a continuance of a breakout in 2021, stablecoins, will CBDC's take off and so much more. Time to take notes! About Coinbase, our partner: Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and financial institutions. Through their professional trading platform, deep and diversified liquidity, and Coinbase Custody, Coinbase Prime is built for institutions. Learn more at prime.coinbase.com.

Tim joins me back on the show to update everyone Staked which for the last few years has been facilitating what I call the emergence of fixed income in Digital Assets. Essentially Staked helps investors earn yield from staking and DeFi without taking custody of crypto assets; some of the yields on the platform are high 10's and 20's. We talk about the how this works, what goes into staking and the emergence of ETH2 and why this is potentially a watershed moment.

Richard, the founder of Numerai, joins me for a great podcast to discuss how they are building a blockchain based hedge fund using crowdsourced predictions. Numerai, founded in Dec. 2015, is building a blockchain based hedge fund that utilizes artificial intelligence and crowdsourced stock market predictions. The platform relies on a monthly machine learning and data science “tournament” where users, primarily data scientists, can submit trading algorithms about the stock market. Numerai then employs artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze the predictions, and the best are included in Numerai’s “meta-model” which combines all the underlying inputs on which it will trade the stock market. About Coinbase and Coinbase Prime, our sponsor: Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and financial institutions. Through their professional trading platform, deep and diversifie

Joe Lallouz, the CEO of Bison Trails, comes back on Base Layer for an epic conversation about the role Bison Trails is playing in Digital Assets; prior I've equated them to being the Wix of 2006, bringing the ability of the non-technocrat to build websites/e-commerce sites and more. Upon reflection of this chat I am now equating them to Oracle, that infrastructure layer that has been so incredibly important to the build of internet 1 & 2 that not many people non-technocratic people understand what they do but they just know they may things work: that's what Bison Trails is becoming. We discuss ETH2 and their role and QT, a new release they put out a few weeks ago and much more. Find out more here: https://bisontrails.co/ About Coinbase & Coinbase Prime (Base Layer partner) Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and financial institutions. Through their professional trad

Peter, the CEO of Blockchain.com joins me on Base Layer for a very interesting conversation about the role his company plays in the overall ecosystem as a wallet provider, a data analytic and a source of yield for those depositing their digital assets. Peter has been involved in this new emerging asset and asset class for almost 10 years - we talk about how it's changed, institutional investors, the importance of data and analytics that have matured and much more. You can find out more about the company at: https://www.blockchain.com/

Skale is a piece of infrastructure in the Ethereum ecosystem that is designed to enable higher throughput and performance, potentially assisting in ushering in billions of users on Ethereum based applications in the coming years. Jack comes back to discuss how Skale works in the various sub sectors of Ethereum such as DeFi & Gaming. We give new comers to Digital Assets lots of metaphors and imagery on how it works and it's value proposition. Skale also announced some massive news on Dec 1st - hear more about it here. A note on our sponsor: Coinbase Prime is one of the leading prime brokerages for digital assets. Coinbase provides the bridge to the crypto world for institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and financial institutions. Through their professional trading platform, deep and diversified liquidity, and Coinbase Custody, Coinbase Prime is built for institutions. Learn more at prime.coinbase.com.

Sid joins me from Arbol in what I think is one of the most interesting conversations I've had in a while. Arbol utilizes decentralized blockchain technology for parametric insurance. Parametric insurance pays out based on the value of predetermined metrics, instead of based on damages measured by physical inspections. Hence, blockchain technology is used to ensure that predetermined metrics are transmitted from a range of third-party data providers in an immutable, reliable and transparent manner to the insurance coverage enforcing smart contracts. With close to $200B in economic loses associated with natural disaster forecasted for 2020 industry's around the world are trying to get a handle on how to get ahead of the curve and Arbol could be leading the pack. More info on Arbol here

Chris, the COO of Pixelmatric, joins me for a great show to discuss the work this studio is doing to bring the future of Bitcoin gaming to the masses. We discuss the history of blockchain based gaming, the current phase and what the future holds. We also discuss an important split in gaming: the pay to play and the play to earn; Pixelmatic and there new MMO Infinite Fleet is an example of this powerful play to earn model.

Kevin joins me on Base Layer to discuss Rally, an emerging blockchain ecosystem focused on giving Creators new ways to build their businesses and achieve deeper engagement with their communities, with better fan alignment and more control than they have ever had before. The Rally Network is providing Creators with tools to build virtual economies that extend their brands while also providing community benefits and new economic incentives for fans to engage with their favorite Creators. We discuss the growth of influencers like Mr. Beast, Ninja and more and how this could pave a way for new economies for many of them.

Fredrik, the co-founder of Dune Analytics joins me on Base Layer to discuss how they have become one of the key players in Digital Asset data analysis. With their boards that are created by community members they have been a flash point of analysis on DeFi and many of the sub sectors of Digital Assets. We discuss this and much more.

Aleksander joins me on Base Layer for one of the most interesting conversations we've had about the intersection of digital collectibles, gaming and digital asset based ecosystems that are becoming incredibly mature. We discuss how Axie Infinity was born, how it's becoming the Pokemon of Digital Assets and what the future has in hold for the game and its community participants. Must listen to episode!!

Diane joins me to discuss one of the most talked about new projects in DeFi: DODO. After raising a round led by some of the biggest investors in Digital Assets DODO is working to build upon their next generation on-chain liquidity provider platform which leverages the Proactive Market Maker algorithm (PMM) to provide pure on-chain and contract-fillable liquidity for everyone. Great conversation on what could be one of the key pieces to the future of DeFi.

Sergey, the Co-Founder of Chainlink, joins me again for a tremendous conversation about the role smart contracts are beginning to play in society, helping unbanked people become banked, helping those with identification become part of a larger technological society and much more. We also discuss the evolution of smart contracts and the need for real world data to make them work and the role Chainlink plays in that very important part of the equation.

Mounir joins us to discuss Paraswap, a new platform that aggregates multiple decentralized exchanges into one place so that the rates often beat the market price. We discuss the role that aggregators are beginning to play in DeFi, how the incentive models work for liquidity providers and the underlying technology that makes this work. You can find more about Paraswap here: https://paraswap.io/#/