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Building a Global, Multi-Strat Crypto Fund with Hypersphere Ventures | Jack Platts + Mehdi Farooq

Follow Proof of Coverage Media: https://x.com/Proof_Coverage Connor and Sal are joined by Jack Platts and Mehdi Farooq to explore the evolving landscape of crypto investment, venture capital, and deep tech. They discuss strategies for unlocking value in crypto assets, the critical role of NAV in investment decisions, and the rise of micro strategies in deal-making. The conversation also covers the resurgence of ICOs, the importance of disciplined evaluation of investment vehicles, and the global perspectives shaping today’s crypto markets. Jack and Mehdi share insights on how podcasting drives research and networking, while emphasizing the transformative impact of deep tech on robotics and AI. The episode wraps with a look at why community building remains essential for startup success in decentralized ecosystems. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:47 - The Value of Podcasting   03:12 - Podcasting as a Platform for Founders   04:11 - Jack's Perspective on Podcasting   05:47 - Micro Strategy and Investment Trends   06:18 - Understanding Capital Markets   07:56 - Evaluating Investment Vehicles   11:07 - Natural Buyers for Investment Vehicles   16:00 - Long-term NAV Multiples   20:50 - 21 Capital Investment Insights   24:02 - Expanding Beyond Bitcoin   30:53 - Global Investment Perspectives   34:09 - Lessons from Polkadot   40:06 - The ICO Meta and Community Building   46:04 - DePIN Investments and Future Outlook   Disclaimer: The hosts and the firms they represent may hold stakes in the companies mentioned in this podcast. None of this is financial advice.

21: Geoffrey Litt: Software You Can Shape

Geoffrey Litt (Website, X) is a designer, engineer, writer, and researcher at Ink & Switch, where he champions malleable software: the idea that ordinary people should be able to mold the digital tools they rely on every day. Ink & Switch is an independent research lab focused on how computers can help us think and work. While researching and writing, Geoffrey and team also build products and prototypes to explore how their ideas can exist in practice. Geoffrey got his PhD at MIT CSAIL, where he built on his inspiration around computational media like spreadsheets, hoping to push more software toward the ethos of end-user programming, but without the technical complexity. In a sense, why should using software and changing it be any different? Previously, he built software for teachers at Panorama Education, which he joined out of school as one of the first employees.Geoffrey and collaborators recently published a definitive piece on malleable software and we discussed it in detail. We dig into why most modern apps feel like sealed boxes rather than flexible tools and environments, and what changes when your app, document, or workspace, feels more like Lego than machinery. Geoffrey makes his case that we want software tooling to feel like a chef knife, not an avocado slicer, and we talk about how the best designed tools help users up a smooth slope of learning and ability. He argues in favor of deeper understanding, illustrated by one of my favorite ideas: The Nightmare Bicycle. We talk about how LLMs are enabling malleable software and how local tinkerers might be able to build systems for themselves and their team or communities that understand their needs more deeply than any professional designer could. Finally, Geoffrey lays out a call to arms for founders: build products that treat users as co-authors who understand their own needs, not just consumers.On one level, this is a conversation about software and design. But it is really about agency. I hope it inspires you to pop open the hood on various aspects of your life, look at what's inside, and trust yourself to tinker. As Steve Jobs said many years ago, "the minute you can understand that you can poke life, and if you push in, then something will pop out the other side; that you can change it, you can mold it—that's maybe the most important thing."All links and transcript: https://dialectic.fm/geoffrey-litt---This episode is brought to you by Hampton, a private, highly vetted membership for founders. Hampton surveyed over 100 members with net worths of $1M-100M to create its 2024 Wealth Report. They asked about financial goals, spending habits, how much founders themselves, investment portfolio breakdowns, risk tolerance, estate planning and philanthropy, and more. Visit https://joinhampton.com/community to access the report.---Timestamps2:12: Agency in a Digital World and Geoffrey's Creative Medium: Software12:17: Intro to Malleable Software20:42: "Popping Open the Hood" & The Nightmare Bicycle: A Case for Understanding How Systems Work27:47: Computational Media, Spreadsheets, and Digital Informality34:01: Legos and Home Cooking as Metaphors for Software42:30: Two Types of Malleable Software: Modular-by-Design and Hacking48:35: Hampton50:13: Designing for a Smooth Slope58:20: Unbundling Apps into Environments and Tools1:17:58: Why Do the Work at All When AI Can Do It? When Should We be in the Details?1:29:22: Empathy & Design: Enabling "Local Developers" Who Know Their and Their Community's Needs1:38:23: A Case for Optimism About Human Agency1:51:09: AI's Impact on Malleable Software1:59:03: Commercial Incentives and Ecosystem Change2:04:17: Research and Ink & Switch2:11:46: ChatGPT as a Muse2:15:34: Working at MUBI and Solving the "Too Many Things to Watch" Problem2:18:27: Japan's Culture of Care2:22:15: Mastery and Variety2:24:34: Joy and Clarity as a Parent2:25:30: Expressing Care Through What we Make

"Building for People, Not Wallets" with Privy cofounder Henri Stern | ZEROPOD S2 E16

What if crypto products weren’t built for wallets, but for people? In this episode of ZEROPOD, Privy.io founder Henri Stern joins host Toady Hawk to talk about building user-first infra, why account abstraction matters, and what it’ll take to onboard the next billion. From his Parisian roots to Protocol Labs and now Privy, Henri shares sharp takes on fragmentation, EIP-7702, and why most crypto apps still miss the point. Come for the insights, stay for the travel tips and Italian bread slander. TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - Intro: Meet Henri Stern, founder of Privy01:44 - Henri’s backstory: Growing up in Paris, moving to NYC03:55 - Adjusting to life in New York and early education04:32 - Choosing Stanford over the French education system06:00 - Discovering computer science and why it stuck07:54 - Founding Shout: a peer-to-peer marketplace experiment10:01 - What went wrong with hyperlocal marketplaces12:20 - Filecoin and Protocol Labs: Henri’s next chapter13:49 - What Filecoin taught Henri about zk, consensus, and infra19:00 - Falling in love with crypto, then falling out of it for a bit20:06 - The origin of Privy: starting with privacy, landing on onboarding24:00 - What Privy does today: abstracting onboarding, not just accounts26:10 - The nuance of account abstraction vs. 4337/770228:30 - Privy’s internal values: focus, experimentation, ownership33:00 - Wallet sprawl and the identity fragmentation dilemma36:00 - Wallets as identity tools, not just money holders39:00 - Why crypto infra must be built now, not later41:00 - Notable partnerships: Farcaster, Pump.fun, Hyperliquid & more45:10 - Privy's current roadmap: chains, funding UX, identity UX47:02 - EIP-7702: What it is and why it matters50:00 - Speculation vs stability: the real bifurcation in crypto52:40 - Henri’s vision for 2025 and hiring at Privy54:08 - Rapid-fire round: food, music, tech, travel, and more1:04:28 - Where to find out more about Privy and wrap-up--- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Produced by Zero Rights Media. This content is zero rights reserved (cc0), please remix and reuse it in any way you like! #base #onchain #ethereum #privy #crypto #stripe

Onchain Media Episode #011 with XMAQUINA | DAOs, Robotics & AI | Hosted by Rachel Onchain

In our latest episode of Onchain Media, we’re joined by Mauricio, one of the founders of XMAQUINA 🤖🧠💥 This one’s for the builders, the dreamers, and anyone curious about what happens when you combine robotics, artificial intelligence, and decentralized governance. In this episode, we explore: ➡️ How XMAQUINA is reimagining the future of robotics using onchain infrastructure ➡️ What it means to structure a robotics project as a DAO — and why that matters ➡️ The practical implications of open, autonomous systems powered by AI ➡️ How token incentives, contributor dynamics, and governance frameworks play into it all ➡️ The team’s long-term vision to build a decentralized robotics network governed by the people who use and contribute to it If you’re excited about the intersection of intelligent machines and collective ownership, this conversation is your gateway into the next evolution of onchain coordination. Tune in as we unpack how XMAQUINA is pushing the boundaries of what's possible at the edge of autonomy, AI, and DAO innovation. 🔔 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more deep dives from the frontiers of the onchain world. — 🌐 Resources & Links: 🔗 XMAQUINA Website – https://xmaquina.xyz 🔗 Join the DAO – https://discord.gg/xmaquina 🔗 Follow XMAQUINA – https://x.com/xmaquina_xyz 🔗 Learn More – https://xmaquina.xyz/whitepaper — 🎥 Produced by: Onchain Media 📍 Join the conversation: http://t.me/letstouchbase

19: Henrik Karlsson - Cultivating a Life that Fits

Full transcript and all links: dialectic.fm/henrik-karlssonHenrik Karlsson (Substack, X) is an independent writer focused on "writing a few good essays." Two of them are among my most consistently recommended: on designing your life and finding your wife (or husband).Henrik's always written, but lived a winding path across software programming, music, poetry, biology, an art gallery, and other odd jobs. A few years ago, Henrik and Johanna picked up their life in Sweden to move to a small island farm in Denmark so they could homeschool their daughters. He now writes on Substack full-time and lives an unusual dual-life: one is remote and intimate; the other is connected and wide. My favorite theme of his writing is self-cultivation: introspection and action, designing a life that fits you by experimenting, how to think and how to learn, embracing being wrong and seeing past your blindspots, and living in concert with past and future selves.I also love his writing on relationships: how to find your life partner, why writing helps others see the inside of your head, how to use the internet as a serendipity machine for finding your people, teaching and parenting, and what its like to be around exceptional people who make your world bigger.He also writes about education, self-organizing systems, AI, exceptional childhoods, and more. But I find the topic rarely matters—all of his writing expands me. What a gift. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. May we all embrace the burden of freedom—freedom to iteratively unfold into a life we never could have imagined. If you enjoy the episode, please consider supporting Henrik's writing, as he is fully reader-supported.---This episode is brought to you by Hampton, a private, highly vetted membership for founders. Hampton surveyed over 100 members with net worths of $1M-100M to create its 2024 Wealth Report. They asked about financial goals, spending habits, how much founders themselves, investment portfolio breakdowns, risk tolerance, estate planning and philanthropy, and more. Visit https://joinhampton.com/community to access the report.---Timestamps2:36: Self-Cultivation, Introspection, and Larry Gagosian8:46: Writing to Think16:05: Using Strong Opinions as an Opportunity to Learn (and Willingness to Look Stupid)21:53: "Not That" vs. "Maybe this?": Creativity and Formulating a Positive Possible Future25:12: Self-Criticism and Kindness to Your Past Self and Ideas28:44: Eclectic Interests (Poetry, Programming, Music) and a Winding Path to Becoming a Writer Pulling on the Threads of "Dead Ends"33:10: Introspection, Agency and Being Sentenced to Freedom38:09: "Fit," Unfolding, Making Contact with Reality, and Designing Your Life with Experiments49:06: Seeing Past Blindspots and Listening to Feedback the World Gives Us1:04:16: The Role of Ambitious Goals in the Context of Unfolding1:10:06: Hampton1:11:41: Escaping Flatland and People Who are "Spheres": Meeting People Who Help You Expand What is Possible1:26:53: Asking Questions that Push People Past their Cache1:31:12: Embracing, Being Seen By Strangers, and Finding Your Corner of the Internet1:48:55: Ruthless Prioritization and Making Time to Get Better1:57:05: Initial Spark and Connecting with People2:05:58: Collaborating with Henrik's Wife Johanna2:09:46: Living a Barbell Life Inside and Outside of the Computer and Henrik's Scale of Ambition2:16:48: Sacrifice2:18:57: Pseudonymity and Playing with Identities2:20:57: Self-Organizing Systems2:22:51: Learnings from Homeschooling His Kids, Reading Adult Books with the 3-Year-Old, and Becoming a Mentor to Help Them Unfold2:33:13: Writers Who Help Us See Ourselves2:35:13: Writing and Thinking in Swedish vs. English2:37:44: Kindness and Gratefulness to Our Past Selves and Generosity to Our Future Selves – And Modeling That For OthersJoin the ⁠telegram channel for Dialectic⁠Follow ⁠Dialectic on Twitter⁠Follow Dialectic on Instagram

Hangout 4: Revolutionizing Creator Monetization with Lucas Campbell & Dan Simmons of Pods Media

In this episode of 10 Years of Ethereum, we dive deep into the future of podcasting with Lucas Campbell (CEO) and Dan Simmons (CTO) of Pods Media. Discover how they're solving the podcast industry's biggest challenges through blockchain technology and why they believe we're on the verge of a creator economy revolution. Lucas shares his journey from being the first employee at Bankless to building Pods Media after experimenting with podcast NFTs during the FTX collapse. Dan discusses his transition from Web2 startups to Web3 building and why he bet on Lucas's vision for on-chain content. Together, they reveal how they're tackling the podcasting industry's 20-year innovation gap, why they chose Base blockchain over Ethereum mainnet, and how their "upload once, publish everywhere" model is creating new distribution channels that didn't exist before. What You'll Learn - The Podcasting Opportunity: Why a 27% annually growing industry has seen minimal innovation - How current ad-based monetization fails creators and listeners - The shift from short-form to long-form authentic content - Technical Strategy & Decision Making - The evolution from Ethereum mainnet to Base blockchain - How RSS feeds enable seamless Web2 composability - Building social graphs that unlock new creator-fan relationships Consumer Crypto Reality & honest assessments of current UX challenges - The "girlfriend test" for Web3 applications - Strategies for abstracting complexity while retaining Web3 benefits Distribution Revolution - How on-chain publishing creates infinite discovery surfaces - Farcaster Frames vs traditional social media promotion - The composability advantage of blockchain-native content Key Quotes "Every single podcast episode on Pods is a forever edition... There's no scarcity, there's no speculation. It's just I'm collecting this because I want to support this podcast." - Lucas Campbell "With Ethereum, it's effectively the shared global database that nobody can restrict access to... Any of this social graph that you're creating exists on chain and anybody can build on top of it." - Dan Simmons "Media is in the game of distribution. Whoever has the best distribution wins." - Lucas Campbell Episode Highlights - Lucas's early Ethereum experience (spoiler: it bricked his laptop) - The Bankless podcast NFT experiment that started it all - Why they switched from Optimism to Base - The Mr. Beast giveaway concept using on-chain minting - Vision for Spotify integration and mainstream adoption - Advice for first-time podcast collectors Connect with Our Guests Lucas Campbell - CEO, Pods Media Twitter: https://x.com/0x_Lucas Farcaster: https://farcaster.xyz/0xl Dan Simmons - CTO, Pods Media Twitter: https://x.com/simmons_dan Farcaster: https://farcaster.xyz/simmons Pods Media: www.pods.media - Apply to get your podcast on-chain via the "Become a Creator" link on their website About 10 Years of Ethereum This episode is part of our comprehensive celebration of Ethereum's first decade. We're bringing together the builders, creators, and visionaries who shaped the decentralized future we're living in today. From DeFi Summer to The Merge, from memecoins to Layer 2s, we're documenting the stories that matter. Series Links: Twitter: @10yearsofeth Podcast: https://pods.media/10-years-of-ethereum Email: 10yearsofeth@proton.me Host Information Chinmay Patel Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/chinmaydoteth Twitter: https://twitter.com/chinmaydoteth Basket.farm Marvyn Paul Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/marvp Twitter: https://twitter.com/mpweb3wordsmith Linktree: https://linktr.ee/marvynpaul Host of "Is This the New Internet": https://pods.media/is-this-the-new-internet Subscribe to never miss an episode of 10 Years of Ethereum and join us as we explore the stories that built the decentralized future.This content is for educational purposes. Always conduct your own research before engaging with blockchain platforms or technologies.