Best Chjango Unchained Podcasts (2023)

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DeFi Decoded

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DeFi Decoded - From NASA’s Lab to Web3’s Frontier: A Cosmic Journey with Chjango Unchained of Interchain.FM 35:10

12d ago35:10

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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of DeFi with special guest Chjango Unchained, Host of Interchain.FM. Listen in as they discuss Chjango’s incredible journey into Web3, experience working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, the importance of an ecosystem development role, what’s happening in Web3, exciting projects in Cosmos, Interchain.FM’s aud…

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DeFi Decoded - Casting an Encrypted and Compliant Blockchain with Elena Nadolinski of Iron Fish 33:54

9h ago33:54

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Elena Nadolinski, Founder and CEO of Iron Fish. Listen in as they discuss Elena’s incredible journey from working at Microsoft and Airbnb to Web3, private yet compliant-friendly protocol designs, exciting types of potential new use cases and applications, Iron F…

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Interchain.FM

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ATOM 2.0 - Why the Founder of Cosmos Opposes a Proposal to Improve $ATOM Utility 54:52

1h ago54:52

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ATOM 2.0 is the latest and greatest development to come out of Cosmos as of late. It proposes an updated roadmap for $ATOM, the token housed on the Cosmos Hub. So why does the very creator of Cosmos, the visionary behind BFT Proof-of-Stake itself, vehemently oppose this new roadmap for the Cosmos Hub? We explore what's at stake for the future of Co…

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DeFi Decoded - Opening Your Eyes to Sam Altman’s WorldCoin Crypto Project 30:38

17h ago30:38

30:38

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi. Listen in as they discuss a roundup of current macroeconomic themes, the looming debt ceiling situation in the United States, potential Bitcoin selling pressure resulting from the U.S. government’s Silk Road seizure, newfound popularity of Bitcoin ordinals, and all things OpenAI …

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Interchain.FM

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Circle - Native $USDC Comes to Cosmos Amid Silicon Valley Bank Uncertainty 52:46

17m ago52:46

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✨About USDC ✨ $USDC is the second most liquid stablecoin that powers crypto asset-to-stablecoin swaps for both CeFi and DeFi protocols alike. USDC will be a keystone stablecoin for the Interchain, especially as it emerges from the ashes of the $UST de-peg. As part of the go-to-market plan, Circle will be issuing USDC from an asset issuance chain, s…

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DeFi Decoded - Is America Closing its Doors to Web3? With Sheila Warren of the Crypto Council for Innovation 43:08

8h ago43:08

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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of DeFi with special guest Sheila Warren, CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation. Listen in as they discuss Sheila’s Web3 origin story, experience spearheading blockchain at the World Economic Forum, day-to-day work at the Crypto Council for Innovation and its source of funding, root causes of the bankin…

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Interchain.FM

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Interchain Accounts - Deep Dive: Understand ICA in Under 30 Min 30:59

18d ago30:59

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✨About Interchain Accounts ✨ ICA unlocks a greater surface area for designing cross-chain applications. Cross-chain TXs currently speak very basic language: token swaps. But by being able to control an account of another chain, you can potentially unlock a vibrant multichain world of dynamic DAO management, file transfers, KYC-less identity verific…

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DeFi Decoded - Consensus Time - What’s Going on in Web3 32:19

7d ago32:19

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi. Listen in as they discuss Alex’s insights from the Consensus 2023 conference, the state of venture capital funding, a macroeconomic market analysis, factors that may impact crypto moving forward, Bitcoin’s halving less than a year away, Coinbase’s international perps exchange, an…

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Interchain.FM

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Sunny Aggarwal Explains the Difference between Mesh Security vs Atom 2.0 Interchain Security 34:02

8d ago34:02

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✨About mesh security✨ It's just an idea for now! Mesh security is a bi-lateral agreement between two chains agreeing to secure the other chain with its native staking token. Network topology of a mesh secured network looks like a distributed set of chains rather than hub and spoke, arguably a more decentralized architecture. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Blog…

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Interchain.FM

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Levana Finance - Trading Options and Perpetual Swaps on JUNO 49:57

16d ago49:57

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✨About Levana✨ Levana builds innovative decentralized finance solutions designed to make leverage trading accessible to everyone. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Socials: https://twitter.com/levana_protocol ______________ 💟 SUPPORT iFM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to my channel. If you use Osmosis, Umee, and/or …

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DeFi Decoded - Sky’s the Limit: The Potential of Web3 Gaming with Aleksander Larsen of Sky Mavis 34:36

22d ago34:36

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Aleksander Larsen, COO and Co-Founder of Sky Mavis. Listen in as they discuss Aleksander’s intersection of gaming and Web3, experience with and learning lessons from Axie Infinity, exciting blockchain-based gaming applications, the response from large traditiona…

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Interchain.FM

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Galois - How Galois Capital Made the Big $LUNA Short, is One of a Few Crypto Hedge Funds Who Came out on Top 2:05:38

23d ago2:05:38

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✨About Galois✨ Galois Capital is a long-standing crypto hedge fund run by a Bitcoin OG, Kevin Zhou. He goes over his highly controversial takes about Ethereum moving to PoS, base layer neutrality, his framework for reasoning about different classes of tokens, and where he believes the space is headed should there be an OFAC chain and permissionless…

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DeFi Decoded - Web3 vs Climate Change: Carbon Credits Go Digital with Gregory Landua of the Regen Network 44:46

27d ago44:46

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Gregory Landua, CEO and Co-Founder of the Regen Network. Listen in as they discuss Gregory’s discovery of Web3 as a potential solution for ecological and social regeneration, overcoming critiques surrounding blockchain energy consumption, addressing counterparty…

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Interchain.FM

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Comdex - Interchain DeFi, $CMST Stablecoin + Airdrop Alpha? 44:50

30d ago44:50

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✨About Comdex✨ Comdex is a commodities DEX that's rapidly building a vertically integrated DeFi experience in the Interchain. It's an Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)-enabled Cosmos appchain with a native staking token, $CMDX. In this episode, we're interviewing Siddarth Patel about their upcoming stablecoin, Composite ($CMST), yield bearing va…

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DeFi Decoded

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DeFi Decoded - Disrupting the Creator Economy Through Decentralization with pplpleasr of Shibuya 36:28

1M ago36:28

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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of DeFi with special guest pplpleasr, a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on Web3, NFTs, crypto, DAOs, and philanthropy. Listen in as they discuss pplpleasr’s fascinating Web3 origin, Shibuya’s story, the evolving IP model landscape, their recent $6.9 million funding round, next steps for the studio an…

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Interchain.FM

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Crescent DEX - to create DeFi blue chip derivatives to let you trade options 54:24

1M ago54:24

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✨About Crescent Network ✨ Crescent is a Cosmos DEX appchain that is designed as a hybrid orderbook/automated market maker (AMM). Hyung from B-Harvest talks to Chjango Unchained about the problem that Crescent DEX solves and what they're building to improve the DeFi speculating experience. 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ► Socials: https://twitter.com/CrescentHub …

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DeFi Decoded - The New Frontier of Web3 Credit Scores with Sishir Varghese of Spectral Finance 33:08

2M ago33:08

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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of DeFi with special guest Sishir Varghese, CEO and Founder at Spectral. Listen in as they discuss Sishir’s journey into crypto, Spectral Finance’s founding, how the Spectral protocol works, its different customer use cases, reactions from traditional credit bureaus, the future of Spectral, and more! Sishi…

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DeFi Decoded - Inside the World’s Largest Web3 Gaming Guild with Beryl Li of Yield Guild Games 42:36

1M ago42:36

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Beryl Li, Co-Founder at Yield Guild Games (YGG). Listen in as they discuss Beryl’s journey into Web3, YGG’s inception, the community’s rebranding, Web3 gaming genres, game development trends, the open metaverse, the future of YGG, and more!…

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Interchain.FM

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Composable Finance - Building cross-ecosystem contract calls (XCVM) b/w the Interchain & Polkadot 1:04:18

1M ago1:04:18

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✨Composable Finance ✨ In this livestream, Chjango will be interviewing 0xbrainjar at Composable Finance to discuss their bridging technology between two of the largest ecosystems in blockchain. We'll cover Composable Finance, a parachain on Polkadot, and Picasso, their canary network for a suite of DeFi apps hosted on Kusama. Picasso is their betan…

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DeFi Decoded - How Web3 Empowers Arists and their Fans with Roneil Rumburg of Audius 43:03

2M ago43:03

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Roneil Rumburg, CEO and Co-Founder at Audius. Listen in as they discuss Roneil’s ride to founding Audius, how music consumption has evolved from traditional forms, $AUDIO’s tokenomics, critical considerations for Audius’ three-sided marketplace, what’s in store …

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Interchain.FM

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Wynd - an autocompounder to double your staking APY & lower unbonding period to 0 days 1:07:40

2M ago1:07:40

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✨About Wynd ✨ Wynd is a smart contract that autocompounds your staking yield so that you can set it and forget it. Any CosmWasm-enabled layer 1 blockchain that has Wynd smart contract deployed can offer this feature to its users. This new dApp can lower your unbonding time to 0 while allowing you to maximize your rewards by abusing a neat mathemati…

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DeFi Decoded - What’s Next on the Ethereum Roadmap with Tim Beiko, Ethereum Core Developer 47:39

2M ago47:39

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Tim Beiko, a core developer and key figure in the Ethereum Foundation. Listen in as they discuss Tim’s Web3 origin story, events leading up to and after The Merge, the significance of the Shanghai Fork, and more!By Alex Tapscott & Andrew Young

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Interchain.FM

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Quasar - Cross-chain Yield Aggregator for the Interchain 25:54

2M ago25:54

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✨About Quasar ✨ Quasar is the home of next-generation DeFi investment opportunities, powered by expert and community driven strategies. For the everyday person, Quasar is the gateway to multi-chain DeFi Investment opportunities, offering sustainable, sovereign, and ergonomic investment vehicles. For experts, Quasar offers powerful tools and infrast…

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DeFi Decoded

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DeFi Decoded - Mapping the World - One HONEY Token at a Time with Ariel Seidman of Hivemapper 49:58

2M ago49:58

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Tune in to the 85th DeFi Decoded episode to hear Alex, Andrew, and Ariel discuss all things Hivemapper and how they are revolutionizing map creation via ownership. How did non-crypto native Ariel find himself at the epicentre of a decentralized mapping platform? What noteworthy aspects from Helium and Waze does Hivemapper leverage? Which global reg…

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Interchain.FM

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Thorchain - $RUNE Mainnet Launch, Security Model and Tokenomics Deep Dive 59:07

2M ago59:07

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✨About Thorchain✨ Thorchain (RUNE) is one of the earliest Cosmos-based DEXs aimed at solving decentralized BTC exchange on Bitcoin L1. In this Thorchain 201 deep dive, I try to poke holes in the Thorchain security model. My guest is Chad Barraford, the technical lead at Thorchain, who breaks down RUNE tokenomics and safety short circuits the protoc…

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DeFi Decoded - Exploring the Potential of Web3 in Africa 26:25

2M ago26:25

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Tune in to the 84th DeFi Decoded episode to hear Alex and Andrew discuss all things DeFi and learn more about the crypto landscape in Africa. What is going on in South Africa? Why might Africa play a leading role in Web3? How can Africa potentially leap frog its legacy financial infrastructure to tap into Web3?…

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Interchain.FM

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Celestia Rollkit - Modular frameworks, for real or for narrative? 38:41

2M ago38:41

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✨About Rollkit ✨ Rollkit is a new application development framework that lets developers roll their own L2 rollup on top of any data availability (DA) layer that they choose. Going forward, developers could deploy a rollup on top of Celestia, Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, or any compatible underlying Cosmos chain. Rollkit is a watershed tool for building ne…

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DeFi Decoded - “What Chains Are Worth Betting On” With Jake Hannah of SX Bet 35:28

3M ago35:28

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Join Andrew Young as he decodes the world of DeFi with special guest Jake Hannah, Co-Founder of SX Bet. Listen in as they discuss the NFT regulatory environment, exciting perpetual future projects, layer-2 blockchains, EVM-compatible chains, Polygon’s financial health, and the overall value capture of many of the top projects.…

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Interchain.FM

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WosmosNFT - Osmosis Alpha Leak: Native Wosmongton NFTs & NFT Marketplace $OSMO 18:46

3M ago18:46

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✨About WosmosNFTs✨ Many of you long-time listeners of this show are well familiar with the iconic Wosmongton figurehead—the mad scientist of the Osmosis Lab. Well, to no one's surprise, this in-demand icon will be turned into a native NFT PFP (profile pic) project to Osmosis. There's a caveat though. Unlike your garden variety NFT PFP jpeg collecti…

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DeFi Decoded - "Making Polygon DeFi More Accessible Than Running Water", with Hamzah Khan of Polygon Technologies 39:14

3M ago39:14

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Hamzah Khan, Head of DeFi at Polygon Technologies. Listen in as they discuss Polygon, the future of DeFi, app chain trends, and more! Polygon is a layer 2 Ethereum scaling solution that enables developers to build scalable, user-friendly, and secure decentralize…

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Interchain.FM

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Juno - The real story behind Juno's controversial Prop 16 vote & next-gen governance tooling w/ DAO DAO 59:59

3M ago59:59

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✨About Juno✨ Juno is Cosmos L1 that acts as generalized smart contracting layer for CosmWasm dApps. Juno had undergone a controversial governance proposal (Prop 16) which forked out a whale's tokens and redistributed them in an unprecedented move we've not seen done in web3. Our guest on this episode is Jake Hartnell, the founder of Juno and DAO DA…

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DeFi Decoded - “Web3 for Gamers: The Saga Experience” With Rebecca Liao of Saga 39:24

3M ago39:24

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Rebecca Liao, Co-Founder and CEO at Saga. Listen in as they discuss Saga, Rebecca’s incredible past leading into Web3, Web3 Gaming and Entertainment ecosystems, and more! Rebecca Liao is the CEO of Saga, a Web3 protocol for launching dedicated blockchains. Saga …

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Interchain.FM

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Cosmos Q&A - How Kevin Smith can Disrupt Hollywood's Model 3:02:06

3M ago3:02:06

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Kevin Smith recently announced his launch of his "Killroy Was Here" NFT collection, slated to mint on Secret Network. The big idea? The pain point that many Hollywood directors have had with Hollywood has long been about Hollywood taking the lion's share of the profits on any successful film they produce. Meanwhile, their fanbase get a cut of none …

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DeFi Decoded

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DeFi Decoded - Will Algorithmic Stablecoins Ever Work? With Sasha Ivanov of Waves 32:49

3M ago32:49

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Sasha Ivanov, Waves Ecosystem Founder. Today’s topic: algorithmic stablecoins. Will they ever work? Waves is a global open-source platform for decentralized applications launched in 2016, based on proof-of-stake consensus and a community-driven technolo…

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Interchain.FM

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Legendao - Hollywood will be radically disrupted in the next 5 years because of this technology 36:58

3M ago36:58

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A new platform built on Secret Network specialized in minting NFTs. An early pioneer of this technology, Quentin Tarantino, followed by Kevin Smith, are proving that Legendao could be the choice platform for minting and trading NFTs that will be used to democratize the movie making process. While Hollywood traditionally takes the lion's share of th…

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DeFi Decoded - How Should We Value Digital Assets? with Sam Andrew 39:22

3M ago39:22

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On today’s episode of DeFi Decoded, Alex and Andrew sit down with crypto researcher Sam Andrew. Sam cut his teeth as an equity and fixed income analyst at a prominent New York-based hedge fund before turning his attention to Web3. His training on Wall Street has helped him bring a rigour and discipline to analyzing this new asset class. But it also…

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Interchain.FM

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The Graph - Integrated Cosmos Hub 19:31

4M ago19:31

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✨The Graph ✨ Guests: Tegan Kline, Joseph Al-Chami 0:00 intro 0:19 Tegan high-level overview 5:59 Joseph technical overview Please excuse the extensive background noise, as interviews were conducted in the middle of a press room in the middle of a lot of action. ______________ 💟 SUPPORT INTERCHAIN.FM If you enjoy this content, please give it a thumb…

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DeFi Decoded - Ethereum goes Ultra-Sound! Is ETH the New Digital Gold? 24:25

4M ago24:25

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On today’s episode, Andrew and Alex talk about crypto’s stellar start to 2023. Since the beginning of the year, Bitcoin and Ethereum are up more than 20% while some smaller names like Solana have fared even better. Is this a dead cat bounce? Short covering? A macro-driven rally lifting all risk-on boats? Or is this the start of a new bull market? N…

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DeFi Decoded - Solana Survived! Plus: 2023 Crypto Predictions (Part 2)! 39:24

5M ago39:24

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On this episode, Alex and Andrew briefly summarize the situation with Solana. It turns out reports of the death of the once-ascendant Layer 1 blockchain were premature. Then, Alex shares his four Web3 predictions for 2023. First, enterprise adoption of Web3 will accelerate rather than slow down. Second, DeFi will grow beyond the insular crypto comm…

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DeFi Decoded - Can Solana Survive? Plus: 2023 Crypto Predictions! 33:13

5M ago33:13

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Happy New Year! On today’s episode of DeFi Decoded, Andrew and Alex discuss the situation with Solana. The prominent Layer 1 blockchain was heavily backed by disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankamn Fried. Solana was once dubbed an Ethereum killer and at its zenith had a market capitalization of $70 billion. Today it is fighting for its survival. Andrew e…

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DeFi Decoded - 2022: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Plus: 2023 Outlook and More! 49:50

5M ago49:50

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On this episode of DeFi Decoded, Alex and Andew sit down with Tom Dunleavy, Senior Research Analyst at Messari. 2022 was crypto’s annus horribilis so they start with post-mortem for a challenging year. There were some huge setbacks, notably the collapse of FTX and other centralized exchanges and lending platforms, but also several major breakthroug…

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DeFi Decoded - How a Renowned Hollywood Screenwriter Became a Web3 Entrepreneur 37:55

5M ago37:55

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Hollywood screenwriter Jesse Nickson-Lopez has brought some of modern TV’s most indelible characters to life. As a founding member of the writing team on Stranger Things, she developed the storyline for the character Eleven and has written for The Outsiders, Narcos: Mexico, and other hit shows. Her next project, Lucia, will be directed by Damian Ch…

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Interchain.FM

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Mars Protocol: How you can borrow and lend Cosmos assets on Osmosis 35:32

5M ago35:32

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Mars Protocol is a DeFi product to come out of Delphi Labs. Jose Macedo and Larry Engineer explain what's on the roadmap for Mars. Hint: they're launching their own hub alongside multiple "outposts" on various Cosmos L1s like Osmosis to offer borrowing and lending of Cosmos assets across the Interchain. Mars protocol was previously deployed on Terr…

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DeFi Decoded - Introducing our New Co-Host, Chat-GPT (Alex, you’re fired!) 23:06

6M ago23:06

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On this week’s episode of DeFi Decoded, Alex and Andrew talk about OpenAI’s smash hit Chat GTP and how Andrew is using it to unlock new capabilities, debug software and accelerate the growth of SX Network. On the topic of SX, Andrew gives us a sneak peek into the roadmap for the SX Network Merge, and shares his vision for how prediction markets can…

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Interchain.FM

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Erik Voorhees, Sunny Aggarwal, Chjango, Haseeb discuss Web3's Lehman Moment w/ CoinDesk 1:14:18

5M ago1:14:18

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The following is recorded from a twitter spaces co-hosted by CoinDesk and Interchain.fm. The conversation was moderated by Sam Kessler, a CoinDesk journalist, and Chjango Unchained spoke alongside Erik Voorhees, Haseeb Qureshi, and Sunny Aggarwal on the ongoing topic of FTX and our latest main character, Sam Bankman Fried. We discussed the failings…

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DeFi Decoded - What are Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) and Wrapped Ethereum (WETH)? 32:09

6M ago32:09

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WBTC and WETH have both been in the news recently. Though they have similar sounding names, they are different in both composition and utility. WBTC is an Ethereum-based token (known as ERC-20) issues by BitGo, backed by Bitcoin. It allows users to use Bitcoin on the Ethereum network. Frequent listeners will recall that Mike Belshe, CEO of BitGo, j…

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DeFi Decoded - Tips on How to Practice Safe CEX 31:53

6M ago31:53

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On today’s episode of DeFi Decoded, Alex and Andrew discuss some of the steps centralized exchanges (CEXes) can take to restore user trust. These solutions split into the “fiat variety” such as better governance, stronger regulation and regular audits and “on-chain variety” such as proof-of-reserves and proof-of-solvency. They also discuss the ongo…

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Interchain.FM

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FTX Contagion: Is Crypto Dead? How does it affect Cosmos? 1:02:47

6M ago1:02:47

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With $10B of value evaporating nearly overnight, was crypto all a scam or has the space simply shed itself of the grifters, leaving room for the legitimate technical progress to make headway? Chjango Unchained explores these questions alongside Cephii, Nick Tomaino, and Tor Bair.By Chjango Unchained

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DeFi Decoded - Mike Belshe, CEO of BitGo, on how to prevent the “Next FTX” 37:46

6M ago37:46

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On this week’s episode of DeFi Decoded, Alex and Andrew sit down with Mike Belshe, Founder and CEO of BitGo, one of the world’s leading firms in institutional staking, custody and trading firms, holding over $20 billion for some of the world’s largest cryptoasset investors and many companies. Mike gives his perspective on the collapse of FTX, addin…

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DeFi Decoded - Crypto on the Precipice Following Spectacular FTX collapse 28:48

7M ago28:48

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FTX, a top global exchange that counts supermodel Giselle Bundchen as a spokesperson, and was once valued at over $30 billion USD, is on the brink of collapse following a historic liquidity and solvency crisis that left the company scrambling to raise capital or sell itself to rivals. Founder SBF, who we once compared to J. Pierpont Morgan for his …

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