Nick Tomaino, general partner of 1confirmation, discusses his firm’s recently announced third fund of $125 million and gives his perspective on many hot crypto topics, such as NFTs, Layer 2 solutions, Polkadot, DAOs, and more. Show highlights:
- why Nick became interested in crypto and his background
- what drives 1confirmation’s investment thesis
- why he Nick believes NFTs have taken off in popularity this year
- why NFTs are currently in a bubble
- what we might do with NFTs in the future
- how competition between different NFT marketplaces will shake out
- how music NFTs could work
- the feasibility of charging royalties in the secondary sale of NFTs
- why environmental concerns over crypto mining to only be a short-term issue
- why Nick is not an Ethereum maxi and how he feels about the fragmentation of Layer 2 solutions on ETH
- why Polkadot is such an exciting project
- whether, as an early Coinbase employee, he would say the fat protocols thesis is true
- what new trend Nick is keeping an eye on for 2021 and beyond
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Episode Links
Nick Tomaino
Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/NTmoney
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- Writing
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- Introducing 1confirmation Fund 3
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- WSB optimism
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- His journey from Coinbase to 1confirmation
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- Guest Appearances/Quotes
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1confirmation
Basics
- Website/Portfolio
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- Twitter
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- Recently announced fund
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Recently, 1confirmation has funded...
- Notional Finance
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- SuperRare series A
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- Nexus Mutual
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- dYdX series B
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- Acala
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Miscellaneous
- Meebits
- Polkadot governance
- Unchained podcast discussing the petrodollar
- Fat Thesis
- ZED Run
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