From the Front Page - Chain Reaction
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Chain Reaction Podcast - GK8’s Lior Lamesh: The Rising Crypto Custodian Technology Provider Whose Clients Manage $1B+
December 4th, 2019 by
BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Lior Lamesh, Co-Founder & CEO at GK8. Lior is a cyber security expert and on this episode we discuss GK8's crypto security offering that the company believes is the most secure on the market for enterprises, firms and funds. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - bZx’s Kyle Kistner: Exploring The Protocol for Tokenized Margin Trading and Lending
December 1st, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Kyle Kistner, co-founder of bZx Protocol. For the podcast, we try our best to locate early stage projects in the space. We noticed bZx's total value locked on DeFi pulse grew from $1M in September to near $3.5M in late November. While small in absolute numbers, the increase is notable, and with the launch of Fulcrum and Torque, we believed having the team on the podcast would be worthwhile for our listeners. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Invictus’ Matthew Finlayson: Tokenized Funds and Financial Inclusion
November 25th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Matthew Finlayson, Head of Product and a co-founder of Invictus Capital. On this episode we discuss how Invictus Capital is democratizing access to investment opportunities through its blockchain-based asset management platform. The platform already supports 4 tokenized funds (ERC-20 tokens), with two more planned (emerging markets solar fund and a real estate fund). Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Digital Assets Data's Mike Alfred: Enterprise Grade Crypto Data and Running 100 Mile Ultramarathons
November 21st, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Mike Alfred, the CEO and Co-Founder of Digital Assets Data. On this episode we discuss Mike's journey from a successful exit of BrightScope to founding Digital Assets Data and how he runs 100 mile marathons. We also dive into what separates Digital Assets Data from other data providers, and the answers are compelling. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Messari’s Ryan Selkis: Bringing Radical Transparency To Crypto
November 17th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Ryan Selkis, the founder of Messari Crypto, which provides research, news, metrics and live data for crypto. This podcast was recorded one week ago, and since then Messari closed a $4M round. We dive into Ryan's past, his time in the space, the state of information and transparency in crypto, how Messari is bringing real transparency and data tools to users and so much more. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Synthetix's Kain Warwick: How Ethereum Will Absorb a Trillion Dollar Market
November 11th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Synthetix's founder Kain Warwick, and this episode it co-hosted by Delphi's Medio Demarco. On this episode we do a deep dive into Synthetix, the protocol that providers exposure to decentralized synthetic assets and is gaining massive momentum in the DeFi space. On this episode we cover the intricate details of the protocol, the synthetx.exchange, Mintr, their dashboard, and what's planned for the future. Before launching Synthetix, Kain built the largest cryptocurrency payment platform in Australia, with tens of millions in transaction volume. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Amentum's Steven Mckie on Sustainable Crypto Fund Investing
November 6th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Steven McKie, the GP and MD at Amentum. In this episode we go through Steven's career, why he started Amentum, his process for selecting investments, what he looks for in founders and so much more. This episode is a deep dive into the minds of one of the earliest investors in the space, and how he built his fund. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Diogo Monica on How Anchorage Can Secure Trillions In Crypto
November 3rd, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Diogo Monica to discuss Anchorage, a leading crypto custodian that is built to secure trillions in assets. Anchorage was founded on the belief that technical problems require technical solutions. To help financial institutions invest securely in digital assets, we are building the first crypto-native custodian. Follow Tom on Twitter [@Shaughnessy119](https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119) Follow Diogo on Twitter [@diogomonica](https://t... Read More -
Chain Reaction: Vitalik Buterin on ETH 2.0
October 24th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum to discuss his recent post titled: Eth2 shard chain simplification proposal. On this episode we discuss Vitalik's view on how simplified sharding, and optimistic rollups could drive 100k transactions per second in one year. Read More -
Chain Reaction: Network Lifecycle Investing with Jake Brukhman
October 22nd, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Jake Brukhman, the founder of Coinfund a crypto fund launched in 2015. On this episode we discuss Jake's investing thesis, what he's most interested in now, and his entire stance on Network Lifecycle Investing. If you're looking to learn from the best, this is the episode for you. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Going Down the Bitcoin Mining and Security Rabbit Hole with Harry Sudock and Nick Sandomeno
October 14th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Harry Sudock, a director of strategy at Griid Infrastructure (Bitcoin Mining Firm) and Nick Sandomeno who is a financial planning analyst at Astorino Financial Group. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Alex Lindgren: Crypto Regulatory Complexities and Consequences
October 1st, 2019 by BTCMedia Host [Tom Shaughnessy](https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119) of [Delphi Digital](DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Alex Lindgren, a Partner at Lindgren, Lindgren, Oehm & You LLP. On this episode we discuss the legal complexities projects and teams in the space have to navigate, as well as the consequences. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Joey Krug: Predicting Augur's Future and Pantera's Investment Thesis
September 24th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host [Tom Shaughnessy](https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119) of [Delphi Digital](DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Joey Krug, the co-founder of the predictions protocol Augur and the Co-CIO of Pantera, one of the space's largest group of funds. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Cosmos' Sunny Aggarwal: Byzantine Battalion Is Hacking Projects For The Greater Good
September 15th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Sunny Aggarwal, a researcher and core developer at Tendermint and Cosmos and the founder of the Byzantine Battalion. We discuss Sunny's latest project: how the Byzantine Battalion is hacking projects for the greater good. The Battalion can hack projects to test their merits, security and so much more. Read More -
Chain Reaction: Ren's Loong Wang and co-host Medio Demarco on Unchaining Liquidity with Private Interoperability
September 5th, 2019 by BTCMedia Ren is described as the first and only open protocol that provides access to inter-blockchain liquidity for all decentralized applications. The protocol allows users to transfer tokens between any blockchain, is ~100x faster than atomic swaps and integrates into existing infrastructure. Read More -
Chain Reaction: SKALE’S Jack O'Holleran on Elastic Sidechains Enabling Massive Scale For dApps on Ethereum
September 3rd, 2019 by BTCMedia On this episode, we dive into how SKALE's elastic sidechains can enable massively scalable decentralized applications. Read More -
Chain Reaction - A Multi-Strategy Fund Seeking Alpha and The LEO Bull Case with Kyle Davies
August 23rd, 2019 by BTCMedia This was an excellent discussion into Kyle's storied finance background and how he is using that to drive alpha in Crypto. Three Arrows Capital goes way beyond long and short positions so it was great to hear all of the ways the fund is driving returns across an array of methods. We also get into the case for LEO, Bitfinex's native token. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Arca's Jeff Dorman: Wall Street Veteran Co-Founds A Crypto Fund
August 16th, 2019 by
DSholla On this episode, we discuss Jeff's experience at Lehman, Merril, Citadel, and now as the co-founder and CIO of Arca, a crypto-focused fund. This episode cover's Jeffs immense focus on bringing his experience at prior firms to the crypto realm. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Hasu and Ryan Sean Adams: Bitcoin & Ethereum: A Rational Conversation Between Two Bulls
August 13th, 2019 by DSholla Between the echo chambers of crypto twitter and the pointless yelling matches on other mediums, this was a thoughtful and constructive conversation between two bulls on the similarities and differences on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Ryan Zurrer: Response To Tom's Polkadot Report, Web3 and Lessons Learned In China
August 5th, 2019 by DSholla This was an awesome episode where we discuss everything from how the Web3 foundation is ushering in the decentralized web where users control their data to Polkadot, a high profile interoperability project. I recently wrote a post on Polkadot exploring my concerns, so it was great to discuss them with Ryan. The post is linked in the show notes below. Read More
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