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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3. Listen in as they discuss Monad Labsâ $225 million fundraising round led by Paradigm, why developers are excited about Monad, what EVM-compatible blockchains are and how they work, the current chain ecosystem dynamics and how things might look in the future, the FTX estate selling $1.9 billion worth of locked-up Solana, Genesis liquidating GBTC shares to buy Bitcoin to distribute to Gemini Earn creditors, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3. Listen in as they discuss a crypto market recap, which phase of the cycle weâre likely in, whether the recent multi-month memecoin madness could finally be coming to an end, where investors may rotate into next, the series of big raises by crypto VC firms in past weeks, the state of Ethereum post-Dencun upgrade and its sustainability compared to other chains, Coinbaseâs layer 2 Base and valuing the network, Ethena Labsâ new ENA token, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guests Avichal Garg, Co-Founder and General Partner, and Ken Deeter, General Partner, of Electric Capital. Listen in as they discuss the different phases of crypto adoption, how they think about investing in the space and key areas theyâre monitoring, what the future of decentralized finance might look like, the evolution of staking and yield-bearing assets, whether applications will go cross-chain or build out their own appchains, the net result of DeFi ecosystems between different chains, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guest Tim Beiko, Protocol Support of the Ethereum Foundation. Listen in as they discuss a simple explanation of Ethereumâs Dencun upgrade, the sustainability of lower layer two transaction fees, whether thereâs still a need for several different layer two chains, whatâs next on Ethereumâs scaling roadmap, considerations on raising the data throughout on Ethereum, timeline on stateless Ethereum and full sharding efforts, the Ethereum Foundation team and how they operate, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of Web3 with special guest Christopher Giancarlo, the thirteenth Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Senior Counsel of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Listen in as they discuss whether Web3 will be an important agenda topic in upcoming presidential elections, the industryâs ideal regulatory framework they want in the United States, the global race of emerging Web3 hubs, why the CFTCâs work with Bitcoin futures was instrumental for Bitcoin ETF approvals, the origin and meaning behind Chrisâ âmoney is too important to be left to the central bankersâ quote, important considerations and odds of Ethereum ETF approvals, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Sidney Powell, Co-Founder and CEO of Maple Finance. Listen in as they discuss key takeaways from the ETHDenver 2024 conference, the different types of stablecoins, potential lending opportunities that exist with restaking, Mapleâs next growth areas, the size of the on-chain institutional market, the benefits and challenges with lending to protocols, lending with locked tokens of early investors or token treasuries, real-world asset tokenization versus crypto-native lending yields, attractive horizontal and vertical future opportunities, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss this past weekâs Bitcoin-led market rally, their current takes on the crypto market and whatâs next, gaining digital asset exposure through MicroStrategy vs. Bitcoin ETFs, the potential for SEC approval on Ethereum ETFs, the emergence of Bitcoin layer 2s and some exciting projects, Uniswap Foundationâs proposal to distribute protocol revenue to token holders, Coinbaseâs app store ranking and significance, Andrewâs Bitcoin story, Bitcoin reflexivity, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest James Seyffart, ETF Research Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Listen in as they discuss Jamesâ methodology behind the Bitcoin ETF approval odds he set last year, reading between the lines of GBTC and ETHEâs discounts to NAV, the likelihood of Ethereum ETF approvals, how the SEC differs from other nationsâ regulators, the historic flows into Bitcoin ETFs, next cryptoasset to get ETF beyond BTC and ETH, Canadian Bitcoin ETF outflows following U.S. approvals, GBTCâs high 1.50% fee, whether Ethereum staking and leveraged Bitcoin ETFs will come, key dates and deadlines for Ethereum ETF approvals, Bloomberg Intelligence and Jamesâ story, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Rebecca Liao, Co-Founder and CEO at Saga. Listen in as they discuss an update of the past year for Saga, their upcoming $SAGA community genesis airdrop to five different ecosystems, thoughts on crypto loyalty âpointsâ with projects like Blur, the thesis behind modular blockchains and its relevance to Saga, their recent $6.5 million raise plans for the year ahead, if the space is finally ready for consumer crypto applications, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss Tetherâs 2023 Attestation Report, GoDaddyâs partnership with Ethereum Name Service to bridge domain names with crypto wallets, FTXâs desire to sell 8% Anthropic stake as part of its liquidation process to help make customers âwhole,â Farcasterâs frenzy of activity following its frames launch last, the prospect of Twitter as a Web3 protocol, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss an update on Bitcoin ETF flows after their first two official trading weeks, Bitcoinâs fast-approaching halving in less than 75 days, Bitwiseâs decision to publicly disclose their Bitcoin wallet address, Bitcoin ETF issuersâ fee competition and pledge differentiators, our Bitcoin beard commitment, Nobleâs $100 million milestone, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Jelena Djuric, Founder and CEO of Noble. Listen in as they discuss an update following Nobleâs launch of bringing USDC to Cosmos, key metrics they use to measure their success, dYdXâs impact on the ecosystem, exciting upcoming projects within Cosmos, some fun facts encompassing demand for the U.S. dollar, Nobleâs new partnership with Hashnote, their decision to transition to Interchain Security, whatâs next for Noble, Jelenaâs Bad Kid NFT, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss a roundup of the current crypto market post-ETF approval, the potential for a revenge rally from original alternative layer-1 chains, possible attention shift from underlying fundamentals toward growth, the chance of Ethereum ETFs taking longer than expected, how the stablecoin market could amass to $200 billion by year-end, why enterprise adoption of public blockchains could accelerate in 2024, whether a âD Everythingâ market will occur this year, and more.
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Sunny Aggarwal, Co-Founder of Osmosis. Listen in as they discuss the Bitcoin ETF approvals and their potential implications, the state of Web3 and Osmosisâ role within it, the impact of having native USDC on Cosmos, exciting narratives circulating within the ecosystem, Osmosisâ DEX market share, the prospect of a successful crypto native stablecoin, and more.
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Charles dâHaussy, CEO of the dYdX Foundation. Listen in as they discuss Charlesâ journey into crypto, the history of dYdX, the thought process behind and decision to migrate, the reasoning for Cosmos SDK selection, their rare situation and chance at becoming a profitable protocol, experience moving exchange and users from one network to another, dYdX buildersâ product focus moving forward, future growth opportunities for dYdX, Cosmos USD liquidity, some fantastic blockchain analogies, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of Web3 and gaming with special guest Justin Swart, Principal, Investment Team of BITKRAFT Ventures. Listen in as they discuss BITKRAFTâs discovery of Web3 gamingâs potential, the significance of property rights in gameplay and gaming economics, the gaming marketâs biggest opportunity moving forward, the âthird placeâ and its relevance to an increasingly immersive shared internet reality for humanity, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Leo Mindyuk, Co-Founder and CEO of ML Tech. Listen in as they discuss an overview of ML Tech, Leoâs trading experience and journey into the crypto space, differentiating features from first-generation firms within the decentralized quant trading movement, potential opportunity to become a software provider, popular crypto trading strategies and key differences to those in traditional finance (tradFi), how ML Tech thinks about and manages counterparty risk, which types of investors theyâve had the most traction with, current challenges with deploying institutional capital in DeFi protocols, growth drivers in 2024, interchangeability of strategies, the crypto marketâs efficiency moving forward, asset tokenization future market size, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss Bitcoinâs âsilentâ rally beyond $44,000 and its driving forces, crypto market trajectory predictions based on past cycle experiences, interesting metrics regarding retail investor sentiment and Bitcoin supply, the intersection of AI and blockchain as seen in Alexâs AI stack, the growing popularity of Web3 social, how decentralized exchangesâ on-chain trading volumes could surpass CEXs, sustainable growth models, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss the crypto market rally following Binanceâs $4B settlement last week, key signals of growing confidence in Bitcoin ETF approvals, the controversy encompassing Ethereum layer-2 (L2) Blast, the potential upcoming Cosmos fork, and more!
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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss OpenAIâs history and structure, Sam Altmanâs firing, the importance of decentralized artificial intelligence, Binanceâs $4 billion settlement and CZ resignation, NVIDIAâs impact on the crypto space, and more!
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