Ep 58 - Boombox
Ep 58 - Boombox We’re joined by the co-founders of Boombox - a new app to share your favorite artists and earn BOOM when fans add them too. Now live at app.boombox.fm!
Why EigenLayer Gave Away More Tokens After Widespread Criticism of Its Stakedrop
EigenLayer has been in the news this week after it announced its ‘stakedrop,’ where it will distribute EIGEN tokens to early users of the restaking platform. Sreeram Kannan, founder and CEO of EigenLayer, and Robert Drost, CEO and executive director of the Eigen Foundation, discuss the launch of the token, a “universal intersubjective work token” and how it allows for slashing, or penalizing, for externally observable faults, such as data unavailability. The Eigen Foundation, a non-profit entity based in the Cayman Islands, was also recently established to grow the protocol and assist in creating a decentralized community. They also address criticisms of the token's launch, including geoblocking and the initial non-transferability of stakedrops for the community and explain why they decided to allocate an additional 100 EIGEN tokens for all participants in the stakedrop. Plus, they reveal a target date by when a decision about the token unlock date should be made.
#10: Sefton Kincaid, Cicada Partners | The past, present and future of onchain credit
In our latest podcast, we sat down with Sefton Kincaid of @cicadacredit! We discussed the past, present and future of onchain credit, as well as Cicada’s recent partnership with @TrueFiDAO 🎙️ 00:00 - Sefton’s background 04:40 - The efficiencies of DeFi protocols 09:44 - The history of crypto credit 17:20 - Collateralized vs uncollateralized credit 18:30 - TrueFi and Maple’s appeal 21:55 - Crypto credit today 21:45 - Borrowing from custodians 26:38 - Communication between lenders 29:03 - The pricing of risk 31:25 - Why Sefton stayed in onchain credit 32:20 - Cicada Partners’ founding thesis 33:15 - Asset backed lending 34:48 - The appetite for RWA deals 37:22 - Cicada’s partnership with TrueFi 40:44 - DeFi vs CeFi lending in the future 44:13 - Common misconceptions in onchain credit 47:51 - The future impact of onchain credit 49:38 - Closing thoughts Follow Wallfacer: https://twitter.com/wallfacerlabs And our host, Ryan Rodenbaugh: https://twitter.com/ryanrodenbaugh https://warpcast.com/ryanrodenbaugh And subscribe for all our other content: https://linktr.ee/wallfacerlabs
#9: Regan Bozman, Lattice | Product-market fit, building moats, & picking winners at seed in crypto
Today’s guest is Regan Bozman. Regan is the co-founder of Lattice, an early-stage crypto venture fund. Regan Bozman: Learn more: https://twitter.com/reganbozman https://www.lattice.fund/ 00:00 - Regan’s background 01:56 - ICO takeaways 05:25 - Changes in the crypto investor landscape 13:40 - Improvements in the space 16:33 - Building for the current crypto audience 19:45 - Lattice’s founding thesis and development 21:14 - Non-crypto-native funds returning to crypto 22:55 - Competing with crypto’s biggest funds 24:15 - Exciting areas and contrarian positions 30:18 - Private VC rounds vs market buying 32:08 - Lattice’s perfect deal 34:47 - Having an irrational belief in crypto 36:00 - Making contrarian bets 40:13 - Valuing equity vs tokens 41:14 - Building moats in crypto 43:20 - Types of distribution 45:16 - Organic crypto marketing 46:25 - Lattice’s investing process 48:37 - Examples of failed deals 50:00 - Investing in applications 53:43 - How experience informs how Lattice invests 55:45 - Where the market is going 58:08 - Product-market fit in crypto Follow: https://twitter.com/wallfacerlabs And subscribe for all our other content: https://linktr.ee/wallfacerlabs
Modular March EP 16: Where Eclipse & SVM Fit in The Modular Thesis
Typically, you wouldn’t think of Solana having a strong footing in the modular thesis. After all, the design choices they have elegantly pioneered (credit where credit is due) revolve around scaling a single state machine. This simply won’t scale to billions of users, and they will need to modularize. However, the extremely performant and extensible Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) is an effective tool to build an extremely fast rollup atop Ethereum. We can all be friends here, right? Welcome to today’s Modular March presentation, where we take our first dive as a team into the fascinating world of Eclipse and its modular approach to blockchain scalability and security. For those who’ve been around the block(chain), you know the drill: scalability often comes at the cost of complexity or security. Yet, Eclipse offers high throughput without the mess of state fragmentation via their flexible architecture. They’re mixing the best of both worlds – Solana’s speed and Ethereum’s security, with a splash of Celestia for that decentralized data layer cherry on top. We enjoyed this presentation with Sydney while also trying to understand where the tradeoffs or weaknesses in this design lie. We found some edge-cases but what was most interesting was the application possibilities as a result of using the SVM. We had some solid takeaways, you’ll enjoy this.
Alex Masmej Talks $DEGEN: Fueling Drakula's Growth and the Onchain Creator Economy
Join us in this episode as we sit down with Alex Masmej, the brain behind Drakula and a key player in the farcaster ecosystem. From his early days of conceptualizing Showtime as the 'Instagram of NFTs' to pioneering Drakula, Alex's journey is nothing short of remarkable. Drakula, now making waves as the 'TikTok of Web3', has seen an explosive start with over $30M in transactions in just two weeks, introducing a new and engaging way for fans to support video creators. Alex returns to the podcast to share the lessons learned from pivoting Showtime to creating Drakula, highlighting the strategic moves, go-to-market strategy, and the decision to adopt $DEGEN as the native currency of the app. I hope you enjoy our conversation and our genesis episode on Pods!
Modular March EP 5: Value Accrual in The Modular Thesis with Tarun Chitra
The value accrual model in the modular stack is akin to that of the rise of the early internet. According to Tarun, founder of Gauntlet and a prominent angel investor, we will see more and more specialized usecases for applications which are highly expressive. As a result of this, the need for a modular stack becomes more and more apparent. We really enjoyed this conversation which drew inspiration from the evolution of the internet and computing to paint a clearer picture of the modular future. We’ve been quite deep in the technical weeds during Modular March (exactly where we want to be), so it was refreshing to host a discussion that goes beyond technicalities and instead touches on the practical application layer of modular blockchains. Hope you enjoy and feel free share with your friends who are trying to answer the question “why modularity?” & “where does the value accrue in the modular stack?” for the future of blockchain scaling.
Ep.15: Build v3, Party Rooms, ERC404, Memecoins, Crypto:The Game, Mintstars, +more
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. We'll explore... -1:27 - 500 Builders - Backdrop & Joey DeBruin 15:38 - Party Rooms - PartyDAO 35:55 - ERC404 44:17 - Memecoins 47:53 - Headless Marketplaces 51:17 - Crypto The Game Finale 55:41 - Polymarket 56:35 - Lightning Round / Mintstars and more! Join us live and online on Fridays @ 10AM PST live.seedclub.xyz Hosts: Josh Cornelius and Jess Sloss Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass Development: David Hurley Operations: Merna Makar
