In this episode, Matthew and Brileigh sit down with Jacopo from Slice. Slice is a decentralized commerce protocol that lets you sell anything on-chain and dynamically split payments between different addresses. In this episode, we talk about Jacopo’s background and how Slice got started, the synergy between Juicebox and Slice, as well as a glimpse into how Blunt Finance is disrupting the VC funding model.
Chapters:
00:01:06 Jacopo’s background
00:02:03 Transitioning from materials to software engineering and discovering crypto
00:03:11 Jacopo’s interest in the Bitcoin white paper
00:04:00 What is Slice
00:05:03 Origin story of Slice
00:06:01 Jacopo’s interest in finding an objective value in NFTs
00:08:32 How Slice works
00:09:39 What are Superowners and Superowner Slices
00:11:05 How on-chain transactions can be linked to physical goods
00:14:44 Use cases for Slice
00:16:30 The long-term vision for Slice
00:17:31 The value of d-stores & why we should make purchases on-chain
00:19:19 The challenges of building Slice
00:21:44 Merge-to-earn
00:23:04 ERC-20 support for products and Slicers
00:23:52 Why Slice is a DAO
00:25:04 Why Jacopo started a project on Juicebox
00:27:16 What is Blunt Finance
00:31:23 How Slice and Juicebox contracts work together on Blunt Finance
00:32:54 How Blunt Finance is solving issues in the VC model
00:34:49 What's coming next for Slice and Blunt Finance
Topics discussed:
Follow Slice on Twitter: @slice_so
Follow Jacopo on Twitter @jj_ranalli
Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH
Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money
Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb
Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh
Credits:
Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle
Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle
Engineering: Matthew Brooks
cc0 music by Daniel Allan (Collage 0069)