Venture Node: Recent Episodes
Adrien and Michael
Venture Node Twitter: https://twitter.com/venture_node
Lightning Swap / James Andrew: https://twitter.com/pixelrouter
Lightning Swap founder James Andrew joins us to discuss the origins of high frequency trading, VR, Bitcoin Lightning, market making and Lightning Swap. DeFi onboarding is extremely complex having to go through centralized exchanges with most never withdrawing from the original platform itself. Lightning Swap solves this by connecting the onboarding process directly to DeFi applications through bitcoin lightning. Lightning has been adopted by widely used platforms such as Cashapp and Strike. The only connection that hasn't been made is from Bitcoin lightning to chains such as Ethereum and Solana. This is what James Andrew is setting out to solve.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions
6:52 High frequency trading in crypto vs Early 2000s
16:27 The Future of VR and AR
19:30 Trade Mango and trading interfaces
22:41 Pivoting from Trade Mango to Lightning Swap
26:36 The separation of bitcoin lightning and DeFi
27:57 How Lightning Swap works
41:15 Bitcoin Lightning maturity and risks
47:46 Current progress
51:21 Conclusion and advice for founders
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Venture Node: https://venturenode.xyz/
Adrien: https://twitter.com/adrien_nav
ShineDAO: https://shinedao.finance/
Disclaimer:
Opinions presented in this video are not financial advice.
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Pogbet: https://www.pogbet.gg/
Pogbet Twitter: https://twitter.com/PogbetApp
Pogbet founder Eric Hovagim joins us to discuss a Solana / web3 based live stream gambling solution. While live streaming has been gaining immense popularity over the past couple of years, creator tooling has been lagging. Pogbet aims to tackle this by providing streamers with a way to increase retention and community engagement while earning additional revenue by gamifying their streams.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions
6:11 Dropping out + Pivoting from sports betting
14:31 Gamers do not like crypto and nfts
19:03 Building on Solana
26:37 Working with live streamers
30:26 Machine learning for live gambling odds
37:02 Attracting talent
41:27 Conclusion and advice for founders
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Venture Node: https://venturenode.xyz/
Adrien: https://twitter.com/adrien_nav
ShineDAO: https://shinedao.finance/
Disclaimer:
Opinions presented in this video are not financial advice.
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H2O Data: https://www.h2odata.xyz/
H2O Data Twitter: https://twitter.com/H2O_data
H2O Data founder Sebastian and contributor Marek from New Order DAO discuss the data economy and how it ties into the H2O stable asset. Data and data mining are internet native commodities and the marketplace for data can be vastly improved upon through web3. H2O utilizes data tokens such as OCEAN in order to back their unique reflexer inspired asset. Their goal is to become the standard currency in the data market in addition to a speculative opportunity for those who hope to ride the growth in the demand for data sets.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions
6:17 New Order Protocol
12:45 What makes data valuable
19:42 Reflexer RAI and H2O
31:24 Un-Governance
40:26 Partnerships and H2O Integration
45:19 Development Progress
49:20 Conclusion and advice for founders
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Venture Node: https://venturenode.xyz/
Adrien: https://twitter.com/adrien_nav
Kilonova Ventures: http://www.kilonova.ventures
Disclaimer:
Opinions presented in this video are not financial advice.
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DAOLens: https://www.daolens.com/
DAOLens Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaoLens
DAOLens founder Yashvardhan Chauhan joins us to talk about how DAOLens is tackling the DAO onboarding process and the importance of DAOs in web3. Business structures have historically been extremely stagnant and DAOs have the potential to disrupt that. However, currently many DAOs only adopt the technology to increase their valuation without giving much care to onboard community talent. DAOs are still at an extremely early stage and are ready to be innovated upon.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions
3:10 What are the present day issues with DAOs
12:00 How DAOs improve upon traditional business structures
17:42 DAO contributor job security
24:18 How DAOs can create value
27:58 Constitution DAO and successful DAO onboarding
34:55 Conclusion and advice for founders
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Venture Node: https://venturenode.xyz/
Adrien: https://twitter.com/adrien_nav
Michael: https://twitter.com/MichaelRay90
ShineDAO Incubator: https://shinedao.finance/
Disclaimer:
Opinions presented in this video are not financial advice.
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Naoris Protocol: https://naoris.com/
Naoris Twitter: https://twitter.com/NaorisProtocol
Naoris protocol founder David Carvalho joins us to talk about his vast cyber security experience and how his project is connecting blockchain to the cyber security world. Naoris is creating their own blockchain utilizing specialized sharding, a custom consensus algorithm and much more which is covered throughout the episode. The $CYBER token will launch alongside the project in order to incentivize node operators and users to have skin in the game throughout the ecosystem.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions
4:41 Cyber Security Industry
19:50 Blockchain and Cyber Security
35:07 Naoris Protocol
58:02 Current Progress and Token
1:03:11 Advice for Founders and Wrap-up
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Venture Node: https://venturenode.xyz/
Adrien: https://twitter.com/adrien_nav
Michael: https://twitter.com/MichaelRay90
DuckDAO Incubator: https://duckdao.io/
Disclaimer:
Opinions presented in this video are not financial advice.
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Standard Protocol: https://standard.tech/
Standard Twitter: https://twitter.com/standardweb3
Standard Docs: https://standard-protocol-wiki.super.site/
Standard Protocol founder Hyungsuk Kang shares his experience and opinions on Polkadot, Terraform Labs and Cosmos. Standard Protocol is attempting to tackle the decentralized stablecoin market through their USM token. Incorporating algorithmic features, collateralized debt positions and chain fluidity.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction and Background
11:33 Terra LUNA and UST
18:06 What is Standard Protocol
20:18 Polkadot and Kusama
27:55 USM Stablecoin
35:33 Advice for Founders and Wrap-up
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Venture Node: https://venturenode.xyz/
Adrien: https://twitter.com/adrien_nav
Michael: https://twitter.com/MichaelRay90
ShineDAO Incubator: https://shinedao.finance/
DuckDAO Incubator: https://duckdao.io/
Disclaimer:
Opinions presented in this video are not financial advice.
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Evmos: https://evmos.org/
Evmos Twitter: https://twitter.com/EvmosOrg
Evmos Airdrop: https://gotrekt.com/
Evmos is a cosmos based EVM that provides the infrastructure for projects to gain the benefits of the tendermint consensus engine, IBC, and fast transaction finality. Evmos just recently launched with their RektDrop that distributes a large portion of the token supply to users who have been "rekt" in the past based on pre-defined criteria. On this episode of Venture Node, Federico Kunze, the Co-Founder and CEO of Evmos and Tharsis provides an in-depth overview of Evmos and the benefits it provides to both users and developers.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions -- The History Of Evmos
8:18 What is Evmos
23:07 Cevmos + Celestia
28:26 Tokenomics and Airdrop
39:08 Governance
42:28 Partnerships
49:37 Conclusion
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Venture Node: https://venturenode.xyz/
Adrien: https://twitter.com/adrien_nav
Michael: https://twitter.com/MichaelRay90
ShineDAO Incubator: https://shinedao.finance/
DuckDAO Incubator: https://duckdao.io/
Disclaimer:
Opinions presented in this video are not financial advice.
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RociFi: https://roci.fi/
RociFi Twitter: https://twitter.com/rocifi
RociFi Co-Founder Chris Brookins and CPO Konstantin Zagaynov join us to discuss their crypto and finance experience as well as their current venture, RociFi. RociFi is tackling under-collateralized crypto loans entirely on chain. On this episode we discuss constructing credit scores using entirely on chain data, the feasibility of under collateralized loans and liquidations.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions
3:07 Quant / Finance and Previous Credit Experience
18:03 Crypto Startup vs Traditional Finance
25:13 On Chain Identity
35:34 Under-Collateralized Loans
49:03 Liquidations
56:34 Future Of RociFi
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Venture Node: https://venturenode.xyz/
Adrien: https://twitter.com/adrien_nav
Michael: https://twitter.com/MichaelRay90
ShineDAO Incubator: https://shinedao.finance/
Disclaimer: Opinions presented in this video are not financial advice.
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Kassandra DAO: https://kassandra.finance/
Heimdall Research: https://heimdall.land/
Kassandra DAO creates tokenized data-driven investment funds on the AVAX blockchain and is soon to become chain agnostic. Heimdall Research is an alternative crypto social data company that is the backbone to Kassandra's current social investment fund ETF.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions / Background
6:15 Heimdall Research and the Crypto Social Index
30:18 Launching on AVAX and Becoming Chain Agnostic
44:27 Becoming a DAO
49:00 Opportunities in On-Chain Money Management and Oracles
1:01 The Future Of Kassandra DAO
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ShineDAO Incubator: https://shinedao.finance/
Disclaimer: Opinions presented in this video are not financial advice.