Thorchain Launch Party: The Magic Experience of Swapping Assets Cross Chain In A Few Clicks

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy and DV MP Yan Liberman host an expert group for a fun and exciting conversation on Thorchain’s Multi-Chain Chaosnet Launch. Thorchain now enables real, trustless, non-wrapped exchange of assets, cross chain. Guests Include:

• Chad Barraford: Technical Lead At Thorchain
• Erik Voorhees: Founder of Shapeshift
• Yan Liberman: MP at Delphi Ventures
• Tushar Jain: MP of Multicoin Capital
• Rob Paone: Founder Proof of Talent
• Michael Perklin: Chief Information Security Officer of ShapeShift.com
• Jon: Co-Founder and former COO of ShapeShift.com
• Tyler Reynolds: Angel Investor and Founder of HackalertIO

As a reminder, we originally hosted Chad on our Podcast back in September 2020 for a technical deep dive, and our foundational thesis on RUNE from Dec, 2019 can be accessed here.

Delphi Ventures and members of the team are long $RUNE.

We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, Kava, and Secret use Cosmos and the Cosmos Hub to connect to every other chain in our network. The Cosmos Hub is the port city that delivers Inter-Blockchain Communication today. Learn more at cosmos.network.

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Show Notes:

(1:57) - (First Question) Jon's Background. (2:14) - Michael's Background. (2:45) - Erik's Background. (3:36) - Rob's Background. (4:09) - Chad's Bakground. (4:31) - Yan's Background. (4:44) - Tushar's Background. (5:10) - What is Thorchain / Impact of the multichain launch. (6:35) - How does Thorchain work with ShapeShift. (9:36) - Tushar and Michael thoughts on Thorchain. (13:54) - Chad thoughts on multichain launch. (16:43) - Overview of the different stages that THORChain has been in. (21:18) - RUNE’s token. (28:34) - How the validators work. (32:46) - Use of the Cosmos SDK for Thorchain / Benefits. (40:27) - Difference between how Thorchain liquidity pools work and how Atomic swaps work. (44:33) - Thoughts on Wrapped Assets. (54:17) - Thoughts on Thorchain in the future. (01:00:39) - Chad’s thoughts on Yield Farming. (01:02:40) - The project Decentralizing the Community / Timeline / Who takes over. (01:22:00) - Thorschain's biggest competition. (01:29:10) - Closing thoughts.

Other Resources:

• Tom’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
• Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi