The chapter emphasizes the significance of retail investors engaging in early token sales and the regulatory hurdles that hinder this involvement in the US. It also delves into the exclusion of US retail investors in successful projects, regulatory risks in air drops, and strategies teams use to navigate the evolving regulatory environment. Additionally, advertisements for Cello, Cartesi's developer-focused solutions, and Arbitrum's Ethereum scaling technology are featured later in the chapter.
------ Today we explore the frontier of Venture Capitalists vs Retail Investors, are they at war? That’s exactly what we debate on the show with crypto writer and VC Regan Bozman.
Lots of questions to be asked on this episode: - Is crypto experiencing an identity crisis? - Are memecoins a reaction to VCs - Why is the current wave of Airdrops broken?. - Is attention more important than fundamentals? - Where do we go from here?
It’s about time to gain some clarity into what’s really happening in the crypto space.
0:00 Intro 6:10 Crypto Identity Crisis 17:15 Stories 25:18 Terminal Liquidity 20:14 VCs vs Retail 38:33 Token Sales 46:22 Airdrops 52:27 The Attention Economy 1:02:03 Solutions 1:09:31 Regulatory Hurdle 1:12:28 The Weirdness of It All 1:14:41 Memecoins 1:16:17 Where do we go from here?