Episodes

  • DeFi Decoded - How Web3 Prediction Markets Outsmarted the Experts This Election Season
    Jul 5 2024

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3. Listen in as they discuss the large disparity in U.S. presidential election odds between general pundits in the mainstream media and peer-to-peer prediction markets, its connection to James Surowiecki’s ‘The Wisdom of Crowds’ novel, SX Network’s recent quarterly report and major updates, USDC’s official compliance with the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework and its implications for the broader stablecoin landscape, Circle Internet Financial’s comeback story and potential IPO on the horizon, the overlooked value of Coinbase Ventures’ investment portfolio, and more!

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    34 mins
  • DeFi Decoded - Why Web3 Mass Adoption is Closer Than We Think with Kendall Cole of Proximity Labs
    Jun 28 2024

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Kendall Cole, Founder of Proximity Labs. Listen in as they discuss Kendall’s journey into the space, his key learnings from working at Consensys, Proximity Labs' purpose and mission, NEAR's unique value proposition and its main types of dApps, creating an open internet of value, the state of DeFi in the NEAR ecosystem, Kendall's conversations with institutions interested in coming onchain, the future of NEAR and its scaling roadmap, the evolution of the NEAR Virtual Machine, breaking through to the next stage of Web3 adoption, and more!

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    43 mins
  • DeFi Decoded - Wall Street Goes All in on Ethereum, Plus Is Token Dispersion Killing Alt SZN?
    Jun 21 2024

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi. Listen in as they discuss Alex’s key takeaways from Coinbase’s Institutional Summit in New York last week, the evolution of Wall Street’s thinking on Web3, the early days of crypto versus airdrops today, whether an institutional L2 frenzy is on the horizon as Coinbase’s Base continues to shine, the idea of altcoin dispersion and its relevance to the current market environment, the emergence of politifi memecoins ahead of the upcoming U.S. election in November, and more!

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    33 mins
  • DeFi Decoded - What the Dot Com Era Can Teach Us About the Future of AI, Crypto and More
    Jun 13 2024

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi. Listen in as they discuss what’s going on in the broader market, NVIDIA’s ever-growing dominance and its comparison to Cisco Systems during the dot com era, the pendulum moving from infrastructure to applications with all these newly announced grant programs, which adoption phase we're likely in, Telegram's TON layer 1 blockchain, the latest on crypto's increasing spotlight in U.S. politics, Alex's Toronto Star article on Canada's once global lead in Web3, the current innovation problem in Canada and why startups are moving elsewhere, and more!

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    38 mins
  • DeFi Decoded - Is the Ethereum ETF Bad for ETH?
    Jun 6 2024

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi. Listen in as they discuss the growing political spotlight on crypto ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November, how this may influence Canada’s approach on the industry, the net impact that the Ethereum ETFs might have, the strong fundamentals of the Ethereum network, whether layer 2s are good or bad for Ethereum, why ETH has underperformed and its potential revenge rally, the value capture of infrastructure versus applications throughout the history of the internet, and more!

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    35 mins
  • DeFi Decoded - How Filecoin Helps Scale AI with Molly Mackinlay of Protocol Labs
    May 31 2024

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, & Research Development at Protocol Labs. Listen in as they discuss Molly’s journey from working at Google to in Web3, Filecoin’s origin and where it stands today, core reasons why projects are using it, the provenance of data within artificial intelligence models, the structure of data DAOs and how they work, some consumer use cases, the importance of Filecoin Virtual Machine and its future, and more!

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    45 mins
  • DeFi Decoded - Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley on Why Crypto is Bursting into the Mainstream of US Politics & Daily Life
    May 24 2024

    Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Hunter Horsley, Co-Founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management. Listen in as they discuss Hunter’s busy week with the Ethereum ETF decision deadline, the accelerating momentum of developing policy around digital assets, the broad bipartisan support for the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, embracing an opportunity mindset on innovative and emerging technologies, Hunter’s experience at Facebook and journey to founding Bitwise, incorporating digital asset exposure into traditional portfolios, Bitwise’s decision to disclose the Bitcoin holding addresses of its BITB Bitcoin ETF, and more!

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    38 mins
  • DeFi Decoded - How Ex-TechCrunch Journalist Jacquelyn Melinek Plans to Solve the Information Gap in Web3
    May 16 2024

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Jacquelyn Melinek, Co-Founder and CEO of Token Relations. Listen in as they discuss Jacquelyn’s experience as a crypto reporter, the craziest story she ever covered, why she left the world of journalism to become a founder, the current problem with projects' communications, how Token Relations help enhance relationships with token holders, how they are approaching business development and partnerships, the rise of key opinion leaders, the value arbitrage opportunity for great tech with lacking communication, the current best practices and what the future will look like, learning resources, and more!

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    31 mins