Hosted by Frank Chaparro
Michael Bentley is the co-founder and CEO of Euler Labs.
In this episode, Bentley reflects on last year's $200 million Euler hack and the recovery process and walks through the steps taken to enhance security in Euler V2.
Euler V2 is a modular and composable lending platform that allows users to create flexible and secure lending pools.
Roshun Patel is a partner at the Web3 venture capital firm HackVC.
In this episode, Chaparro and Patel discuss the recent crypto market volatility and the trends shaping crypto's venture capital landscape.
OUTLINE
00:00 Intro
08:11 Market Volatility
25:57 Caution in the Funding Market
32:18 The Intersection of AI and Crypto
43:05 The Future of Tokenomics
Li Jin is a co-founder and general partner at the crypto VC firm, Variant.
In this episode, Li analyzes the memecoin phenomenon that has recently swept over the crypto market, and explores how different types of memecoins capture and monetize attention.
OUTLINE
00:35 Memecoin Zeitgeist
04:04 The Attention Economy
10:58 Classifying Memecoins
17:40 Trading Memecoins
21:05 Are Memecoins Productive?
23:14 Memetic Analysis
29:10 Memecoins & Marketing Strategies
34:42 Closing Thoughts
Professor J.W. Verret teaches corporate and securities law and financial accounting at George Mason Law School.
In this episode of The Scoop, Verret discusses the potential legal challenges that Uniswap may face from the Securities and Exchange Commission and highlights the similarities between the Coinbase case and the possible claims against Uniswap.
Verret says the charges the SEC is likely to bring against Uniswap could include operating as an unlicensed broker dealer, operating an unregistered exchange, and/or selling unregistered securities.
Brandon Mulvihill is the co-founder and CEO of Crossover Markets.
In this episode of The Scoop, Mulvihill discusses crypto's changing market structure and the role of Crossover as an execution-only trading venue.
OUTLINE
00:00 Introduction and Background
01:07 The Role of Crossover in the Market
04:04 FX & Crypto Trading Similarities
08:22 ECN vs. CLOB Differences
18:30 The Importance of Fee Compression
22:33 Crypto Flash Crashes
26:15 Crypto Market Structure Maturity
29:27 Institutional Credit
34:02 Closing Thoughts
Austin Reid is the global head of revenue and business at FalconX.
In this episode of The Scoop, Reid discusses why we are still at the 'early stages' of institutional adoption of crypto, and the role retail traders have played in the market's current rally.
OUTLINE
00:00 Introduction
04:12 Market Overview
08:06 FalconX Volume
12:03 Crypto Derivatives
15:55 Interest Rates
19:19 Institutional Adoption
22:10 ETF Flows
26:49 Retail Flows
32:51 Market Maturation
35:06 Exchange Improvements
39:25 Closing Thoughts
Haseeb Qureshi is a managing partner at the crypto VC firm Dragonfly.
In this episode of The Scoop, Qureshi explains how the crypto VC landscape has changed during his five years at Dragonfly and why he believes 'points' are a more useful mechanism than airdrops for incentivizing user behavior.
OUTLINE
00:00 Introduction
05:41 Dragonfly Early Days
09:45 Early Crypto VC
13:14 Competing in Layer-1s
26:11 Old Blockchains
29:26 Points
31:47 Airdrop Mechanism Design
37:38 Closing Thoughts
Craig Burel is a partner at Reciprocal Ventures.
In this episode of The Scoop, Burel explains how the recent market rally caused sidelined venture capitalists to return to the crypto industry in earnest.
OUTLINE
00:00 Introduction
07:38 Nuances of Crypto VC
10:05 Crypto Venture Maturation
13:12 Valuations in the Bull
19:15 Solana Conviction
23:15 Navigating Market Cycles
28:17 Consumer Crypto Apps
32:22 Improving Tokenomics
38:00 Closing Thoughts
Mike Belshe is the co-founder and CEO of BitGo.
In this episode of The Scoop, Belshe discusses the growth and challenges of the custody market in the crypto industry, and explains what it will take to make crypto's market structure more robust.
OUTLINE
00:00 BitGo Background
05:15 Institutional Crypto Custodians
10:41 New Market Participants
14:36 Market Structure
24:09 Bullish Catalysts
32:08 Crypto Robustness
41:58 Closing Thoughts
Muneeb Ali is the CEO of Trust Machines and the co-creators of Stacks — a layer-2 that enables smart contracts and decentralized applications to utilize bitcoin for base-layer security.
In this episode of The Scoop, Ali discusses the growth and importance of Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions. He emphasizes the need for BTC capital to be deployed in L2s and the potential for Bitcoin L2s to become a significant category in the crypto industry.
According to Ali, creating more on-chain uses for bitcoin will ultimately make the asset more valuable:
“Bitcoin rails can be upgraded through layer-2s... There can be all sorts of use cases that that are deployed there and BTC the capital can be more productive — it will make bitcoin more valuable.”
This episode of The Scoop explores the technical headwinds and security challenges faced by the crypto industry.
Blockaid co-founder Raz Niv discusses common scams and phishing attacks in the crypto space, and emphasizes the importance of good on-chain hygiene and best practices for engaging with different protocols.
Just last month, Metamask integrated Blockaid-powered security alerts by default across multiple chains.
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