We're back with another Roundtable episode! Today Jason and Sanat discuss:

• Apps: the changing user onboarding landscape
• App vs Infra investment flows
• Fee taking business model vs token value accrual
• Regulation: incentive alignment
• And much more!

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(04:56) 2017 user onboarding motives vs today

(07:12) App vs Infra

(18:16) Market’s Infra preferences

(25:53) Fee taking vs token value accrual

(31:19) Regulation: incentive alignment

(34:21) User retention

(41:02) Infra differentiations 

(43:55) Impacts of opaque regulation

(45:55) App x AI use cases 

(46:53) Investment landscape

(49:48) Outro

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Links: Galaxy article: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/crypto-and-blockchain-venture-capital-q2-2024/

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