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Conversations with industry insiders from the crypto, Bitcoin, Ethereum, NFT, DeFi and web3 space. Find your edge straight from the source. This is simply for entertainment purposes, not financial advice.
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In this episode, we dive into market-making with a real yield product. Jedi has a chat with Philip Forte, the Founder of Elixir Network, where they go deep into market-making strategies, order books, and what sets Elixir apart in the market landscape. They also unpack Elixir’s unique customer reward program, The Apothecary, and all the perks it brings. And of course, they peek into the crystal ball to see what lies ahead for Elixir, including its mainnet launch and roadmap. Don't forget to spread the love - give us a thumbs up, leave your thoughts below, and hit that subscribe button to stay tuned for more enriching conversations!
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In this episode of Founder Series, Jedi teams up with Kasian, CEO of Vector Space Biosciences for an enlightening conversation. They take a deep dive into what makes Vector Space Biosciences stand out as a Decentralized Science company, and how they're harnessing the power of AI.
They cover it all from practical uses of language modeling to its impact on space exploration. And of course, they don't shy away from talking about the bottom line – the profit side and the business buzz around crypto and protocols.
If you vibed with this chat as much as we did, show some love by hitting that like button, spreading the word, and subscribing for more!
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In today’s episode Grant sits down with io.net’s COO Tory Green. The two kick things off by breaking down the GPU gold rush & centralized cloud challenges, io.net's value-prop, as well as the Web3 efficiencies of cloud-compute.
Tory then outlines io.net’s rates, drops a date on wen $I0 token, and the two discuss the future of the Solana ecosystem. They then discuss IO Ventures and the advantages of compute-for-equity for early stage startups. Tory also breaks down the go-to-market strategy for cloud services in Web2 vs Web3. This one is back-to-back with valuable insights so be sure to listen out for gems throughout.
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Bridged assets are out, and Cloned assets are in. In this episode of the Blocmates podcast, Jedi catches up with the dynamic duo behind Clone protocol: Mark and Ku. Together, they dive deep into what sets Clone apart and how it's adding value to the Solana ecosystem, especially with its USDC-backed liquidity. Plus, they look at the fascinating influence of meme coins in attracting fresh faces to the platform and what it might spell out for Solana down the road. Don't forget to show some love - give us a like, drop a comment, and hit that subscribe button for more insightful content!
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In this episode of Beramates, Grant dives into a one-on-one chat with Kevin from Ooga Booga. They delve deep into Ooga Booga's impact on the Berachain Ecosystem as a native liquidity aggregator.
They explore everything from Ooga Booga’s distinctive features to the competitive landscape within the dex aggregator realm. Plus, they dissect the dynamics between trade execution mechanisms and the ever-growing market demand for streamlined trading solutions.
It's a conversation with insights and perspectives you won't want to miss.
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Today Jedi is joined by Peprika Inferno, Founder of PepperDEX. PepperDEX is a community-driven perpetuals and expiring futures DEX platform, offering Trading Vaults, Zero-Day Futures and utilizing the SPANDEX Risk Engine, and a Dexterity Order Book. Jedi and Peprika sit down to discuss Trading Vaults, PepperDEX’s user-acquisition strategy, the maturation of Solana, revenue generation and fee model, oPEP, future roadmap, $PEP token, and much more—enjoy!
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Today Jedi is joined by Smilee Finance Co-Founder Albiwara to discuss all things derivatives — this is THE on-chain derivatives trading episode you’ve been waiting for. The two discuss; Resolving DeFi’s biggest crux: Impermanent Loss & the Impermanent Gain infrastructure, Smilee's value-prop, Lending/Borrowing roadmap, LP incentives, Smilee’s Product features, the future of Options Trading in crypto, and much more—enjoy!
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Grant is joined by Sling Money Co-Founder Simon Amor to discuss the power of blockchain banking and why now is the time to bring banking into the 21st century.
Simon shares his early days at FinTech behemoth, Monzo, Sling’s origin story, Sling’s blockchain rails, the next iteration of FinTech UI/UX, Sling’s roadmap, and much more! For those interested in exploring a true crypto use case, this episode is not one to miss.
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Grant was joined by MXM and BowTiedBart from Beradrome on the second episode of the Beramates series.
Beradrome is a restaking and liquidity marketplace on Berachain. These guys initially started out as a velodrome fork, but once they saw the DEX space was becoming increasingly crowded they decided to pivot to a unique take on restaking using the Berachain governance token BGT.
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Grant was joined by the EthereansOS team to discuss their full suite of no-code products on top of Ethereum. The Ethereans guys came up during the explosion of ERC404s as they had in fact, built a similar product in early 2019.
In this episode, you will learn about the pros and cons of ERC404 vs "Items" which is the token standard in question.
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Vladimir from Algebra Protocol joins the podcast to discuss the liquidity DEX engine you've never heard of but probably used daily as it powers a number of popular DEXes.
We discuss the comparison against UniSwap, why it's a threat, and how Algebra Plug-Ins differ and compete against UniSwap V4 Hooks.We also dig deep into Integral.
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Today Jedi sits down with API3 DAO member, Ugur Merin to discuss the great blockchain-API unlock. Ugur explains the potential for API3, getting buy-in from Web2 clients, business developments, API3 Perp DEX integration, and much more!
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Introducing Beramates! Today is a special, special episode, as we kick off the first episode of our new series Beramates. Today we’re joined by none other than Smokey The Bera to dive deep on the Berachain ecosystem.
Grant and Smokey jump straight into the Berachain ecosystem and bespoke design principles, before discussing application vs chain value accrual, their tri-token model, liquidity mechanics , future ecosystem expectations and much, much more. Enjoy and be sure to stick with us as the series
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Jedi had the opportunity to meet with Dion, the CEO of Term Labs to discuss the importance of having fixed interest rates on loans in DeFi.
Term is a decentralized non-custodial lending protocol where users can borrow or lend on a fixed rate basis by participating in weekly (Term) auctions.
Potential borrowers submit their bids and potential lenders submit their ask prices to Term, and then the Term auction contract determines some interest rate that clears the market (the clearing rate). All the lenders who asked less than the clearing rate lend and all borrowers who bid more than the clearing rate borrower at the clearing rate.
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Grant sat down with Andy from The RollUp to chat about his thoughts on the modular blockchain thesis, interesting layer2s and rollups that are coming to the market plus some additional crypto infrastructure plays you might want to keep an eye on.
In this episode, we will cover the expansion of modular blockchains and their use of data availability solutions such as Celestia, EigenDA and Avail.
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This clip was taken from our recent live stream, which solely covered ERC404 projects. In this clip, you will learn about the new ERC404 token standard that has taken the crypto industry by storm this week.
You will also learn what the top ERC404 projects are, how to buy them and what to do with your ERC404 NFTs.
Full episode - https://youtube.com/live/F5XO8SyMBnI
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Rich Rines joins Jedi to discuss Core as a layer 1 blockchain that utilizes and supports Bitcoin miners on an EVM-compatible chain to potentially finally solve the blockchain trilemma. This is all made possible thanks to their unique two-way consensus mechanism dubbed ‘Satoshi Plus’. They dive into all the challenges and benefits of how Bitcoin security can be combined with smart contract capability.
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Grant and 563 cover their favourite crypto projects that are coming to market in Q1 2024. Trying to find the best altcoins of 2024 is pretty tricky. Now, we aren't moonboys; these are our favourites for more reasons than number-go-up.
These are the projects we found the most interesting from a crypto narrative perspective, and we will be paying close attention to their upcoming launches.
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Jedi and Justin Bebis talk about building in DeFi and the journey that OATH Foundation and the Byte Masons have been on the last few years. This one's an insightful and informative take on what it takes to build sustainable projects in DeFi.
Byte Masons is driven by a vision to create financial inclusion across different frontiers such as protocols, networks, yield farmers, hedge funds, and even institutional players under one umbrella. The ecosystem is guided by predefined values such as security, decentralization, trust, and fairness.
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Dan is back on the mic and joins Tushar and Mikhill from Persistence Labs, the team behind the LST-Fi Cosmo App Chain Persistence Once.
Cosmos has been heating up recently with the airdrop hype, and the LST-Fi/LRT-Fi hype is only just beginning, with EigenLayer's launch coming soon.
We dig into what Persistence is, what they are building and how they are going to be bringing $BTC over to the Cosmos using Babylon to give Bitcoin a greater use case.
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