
Diane Dai: DODO The Proactive Market Maker 🐣
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Diane, the co-founder of DODO. They discuss DODO, the proactive market maker that's competing with Uniswap and others AMMs. DODO has $100M in its pools, but Diane explains why it's much more efficient vs peers. - Show Notes (1:31) – (First Question) How Diane Dai started in Crypto (3:25) – Dodo’s Elevator Pitch (4:01) – Insights about Dodo’s Competitors (4:57) – Dodo’s Status (5:55) – Today’s Dodo Assets (7:21) – Proactive Market Makers vs. Automated Market Makers (9:26) – How Dodo provides contract-fillable liquidity (14:09) – Handling Impermanent Loss (16:37) – Dodo, a PMM algorithm beating Uniswap (19:25) – The importance of Single Risk Exposure for Dodo (21:08) – Dodo, a cute cause for the community (22:57) – Dodo Token function (25:17) – Thinking through competing for the community (27:45) – The future of Dodo (29:52) – The 3 keys focus of Dodo Resources: Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Diane_0320 Dodo’s Website: https://app.dodoex.io/ Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8 Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service.
21 Loka 202031min

Eric Chen: Injective, The Decentralized Derivatives Exchange Protocol
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Eric Chen, the co-founder of Injective Protocol. The two discuss Eric's journey creating a fully decentralized derivatives exchange, competition, scaling and much more. - Show Notes (1:57) – (First Question) How Eric Chen got involved with Crypto (7:16) – The need of Derivatives products/What does Injective Protocol offer (10:26) – Contracts for Differences (CFD) (11:36) – Institutional or Retail focus (13:37) – What is Injective Protocol competing for (16:40) – Injective Protocol status (17:20) – The evolution of Injective Protocol products (20:45) – Exploring the Injective Protocol architecture (21:29) – Achieving Scalability (21:55) – The use of Injective Protocol token (24:02) – Insights about the process for token holders (25:18) – The battle between CEFIs and DEFIs for derivatives (28:03) – Why haven't we had an Injective before (29:56) – What does decentralized derivative exchange have that Injective wants (31:33) – Insights about starting Injective as anonymous founders Resources: Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericinjective Guest’s Website: https://injectiveprotocol.com/ Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8 Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service.
19 Loka 202034min

Tor Bair: Secret Contracts Go Way Beyond Privacy Coins
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Tor Bair, the Founder of Secret Foundation. The two discuss building private applications using secret contracts at scale, why this goes well beyond privacy coins and privacy as a human right. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Show Notes (2:00) – (First Question) – What is Secret Network (3:22) – Transactional Privacy vs. Programmable Privacy/Private Smart Contracts (6:39) – Understanding Programmable Privacy (8:31) – Why have not DEFI applications taken advantage of privacy coins (12:26) – The importance of privacy in Traditional Companies and DEFIs (14:36) – Features of a business model for private social applications (18:28) – Privacy, a human right that should be by default (22:05) – Will Ethereum become a Secret Network competitor (25:05) – There is no perfect privacy (27:50) – What have Tor Blair done differently in Secret Network (33:52) – Insights about projects running with anonymous founders (36:37) – Primary functions of Secret coin (39:14) – Secret Network is not a secret anymore Resources: Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/TorBair Secret’s Website: https://scrt.network/ Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8 Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service.
12 Loka 202041min

SBF: Arbitrage, A Quant Fund, And Serum’s Ascent
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts SBF, the CEO of FTX and Alameda Research. The two cover SBF's journey in creating Alameda Research, engaging in arbitrage, and why @ProjectSerum on @solana goes way beyond being a DEX 🚀 Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! Show Notes (2:58) – (First Question) - When did SBF get involved in Crypto (3:36) – Alameda, a non-traditional internal Quant Fund (6:40) – Where does Alameda’s alpha come from (11:26) – Moving fast in a limited information environment (17:48) – The future of launches with figureheads (21:56) – Future of Alameda (24:13) – The thinking behind Serum (30:17) – Serum and Scaling (32:40) – Creating killer apps without a community (35:07) – Goal for Serum/Serum core purposes (39:44) – Serum much more than a DEX. (42:34) – Composability, one of the most important things in DEFI (43:59) – Ethereum vs Serum (45:06) – Serum launchment on a short period of time (47:20) – Making Money or Building (49:00) – SBF biggest competitor Resources: Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda Serum’s Website: https://projectserum.com/ FTX’s Website: https://ftx.com/en Alameda’s Website: https://www.alameda-research.com/ Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8 Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service.
7 Loka 202050min

Richard Kim: Running the World’s Largest Gaming & Interactive Media Fund - Metaverse Musings Ep 06
Host Piers Kicks sits down for Episode 06 of Metaverse Musings with Richard Kim, who is a general partner at Galaxy Interactive alongside Sam Englebardt. Across their sector focus, the fund has been the most active in the world over the last 12 months. Richard shared deep insights that are clearly the product of his unique positioning across the gaming landscape. It’s refreshing to see such strong conviction in the role that digital assets play in the metaverse from a large player with roots in both the traditional finance and video game industries. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! – Resources: Galaxy Interactive: https://galaxyinteractive.io/ Richard’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/galaxyRTK Piers’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pierskicks Delphi Podcast Twitter: Matthew Ball’s essay on MILEs: https://www.matthewball.vc/all/cloudmiles SignalFire Creator Economy Map: https://www.signalfire.com/blog/creator-economy/ Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8 Access Delphi’s Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service.
5 Loka 20201h 14min

Charlie Silver: A Serial Entrepreneur’s Goal To Give Users Control Over Their Data
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Charlie Silver, CEO of Permission.io. The two discuss Charlie's career as an entrepreneur (Large sale of RealAge to Hearst, Oil Franchise to Jiffy Lube) and now Permission to give users control over their data. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! Resources: Guest’s Website: https://permission.io/ Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/PermissionCEO Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8 Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service.
1 Loka 202031min

Andre Cronje: From A Mystical Launch to The Yearn Empire
Chain Reaction Host Tom Shaughnessy hosts Andre Cronje of Yearn Finance. The two discuss the mystical birth of Yearn Finance, Andre’s views on a myriad of interesting topics (fair launches, governance, decentralization, token economics) and much more. Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: Andre’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndreCronjeTech Yearn’s Website: https://yearn.finance/ Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8 Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service.
28 Syys 202058min

Thorchain’s Cross-Chain Liquidity Pools Will Revolutionize Value Transfer
Chain Reaction Hosts Tom Shaughnessy and Yan Liberman are joined by Chad Barraford of Thorchain. The three discuss the genesis of Thorchain, why cross-chain liquidity pools will revolutionize value transfer, and why RUNE's token econ makes sense long term vs quick yield farming plays. Delphi’s RUNE Report: https://www.delphidigital.io/reports/thorchain/ Thank you to our sponsor Crypto.com for making this happen! Visit bit.ly/cryptodelphi for more information! - Resources: Guest’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBarraford Thorchain’s Website: https://thorchain.org/ Network status: https://defi.delphidigital.io/thorchain/chaosnet/network Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://youtu.be/fubeSokngY8 Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Kubera lets you monitor your crypto and traditional portfolios in a single place. Think Coinbase and Fidelity on the same dashboard. All major banks, brokerages, crypto exchanges and wallets supported. https://www.kubera.com/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service.
23 Syys 202056min