Messari's Unqualified Opinions

Ask Messari Copilot "What were the largest AI fundraises in Q3 2024?" Crypto fundraising in Q3 2024 was something of a mixed bag. But there were important developments in AI, DePIN and the APAC region. Andrew Dyer is here to break it all down - and hand out some awards. Hosted by Maartje Bus (https://x.com/maartjebus) Written and Produced by Steve Bichimer Based on "Q3 224 Fundraising Report", by Andrew Dyer (https://messari.io/report/q3-2024-fundraising) Follow Messari on Twitter Follow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify Follow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts ____ Your next hire could come from anywhere - a recruiter, a job board, a referral network, or a conference. Hirechain manages hundreds of candidate sources for you, so you only see relevant applications and can focus on picking the best person for your team. On average, our customers fill open roles twice as fast as with traditional recruiters. Leading companies like the Graph and Messari already use Hirechain. So get your time back - talk to Hirechain today and hire the best, fast. Visit https://hirechain.io/Messari for prioritized onboarding. ____ This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.

Ask Messari Copilot "Explain Helium's Carrier Offload offering." The Fully Diluted Podcast with Messari Research brings you insightful, no-hype takes on what actually drives value in crypto. Subscribe to get weekly episodes with the best builders and researchers in crypto. 00:00 Intros 05:05 Opportunities 09:40 Transitions 13:12 Services 19:22 Successes 26:14 Future Hosted by Dylan Bane and Seth Bloomberg of Messari Follow Messari on Twitter Follow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify Follow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts ____ This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.

Ask Messari Copilot "Explain how Doodles and Pudgy Penguins use crypto to grow their brands." The Fully Diluted Podcast with Messari Research brings you insightful, no-hype takes on what actually drives value in crypto. Subscribe to get weekly episodes with the best builders and researchers in crypto. 00:00 Intros 04:49 Community 10:04 Global Audience 11:29 Web3 21:47 Financial Alignment & Ownership Culture 30:04 Mainstream Adoption 37:07 Future Hosted by Chris Davis and Seth Bloomberg of Messari Follow Messari on Twitter Follow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify Follow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts ____ This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.

The headline numbers for DeFi weren't pretty in Q3 - and Kinji Steimetz isn't here to deny that. But there were some bright spots - and an honest take on Unichain. Ask Messari Copilot "What is Unichain?" Hosted by Maartje Bus (https://x.com/maartjebus) Written and Produced by Steve Bichimer Based on "State of DeFi Q3 2024", by Kinji Steimetz Follow Messari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto Follow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uG5qpwFg67zTt0VQRTaZ7?si=13163cbebe01415e Follow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messaris-unqualified-opinions/id1455666979 ____ Your next hire could come from anywhere - a recruiter, a job board, a referral network, or a conference. Hirechain manages hundreds of candidate sources for you, so you only see relevant applications and can focus on picking the best person for your team. On average, our customers fill open roles twice as fast as with traditional recruiters. Leading companies like the Graph and Messari already use Hirechain. So get your time back - talk to Hirechain today and hire the best, fast. Visit https://hirechain.io/Messari for prioritized onboarding.____ This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.

Ask Messari Copilot "What are the most popular games on the Ronin chain in 2024?" In 2021, Ronin’s flagship game, Axie Infinity, propelled Web3 gaming into the global spotlight. But when the broader crypto market crashed in 2022, Axie’s highly inflationary token design was exposed, and users abandoned Axie Infinity, and to a large extent, Ronin itself. But recently, Ronin has made something of a comeback.  3 New games - Pixels, Apeiron and Wild Forest have each shown strong growth in the past several months - reminiscent of the early days of Axie Infinity.  So the question is - what has Ronin learned from the Axie experience? And what outside factors may contribute to the success - or plateau - of Ronin’s rebirth? Hosted by Maartje Bus (https://x.com/maartjebus) Written and Produced by Steve Bichimer Based on "$RON It Back⁠", by Chris Davis (https://x.com/capradavis) Follow Messari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto Follow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uG5qpwFg67zTt0VQRTaZ7?si=13163cbebe01415e Follow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messaris-unqualified-opinions/id1455666979 ____ Your next hire could come from anywhere - a recruiter, a job board, a referral network, or a conference. Hirechain manages hundreds of candidate sources for you, so you only see relevant applications and can focus on picking the best person for your team. On average, our customers fill open roles twice as fast as with traditional recruiters. Leading companies like the Graph and Messari already use Hirechain. So get your time back - talk to Hirechain today and hire the best, fast. Visit https://hirechain.io/Messari for prioritized onboarding. ____ This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.

Ask Messari Copilot: "What services does Dephi Digital provide?" https://messari.co/4gOkure Bringing you insights and stories from specialist teams providing consulting, risk advisory, treasury management, strategic finance, and everything crypto protocols need. Today's guest is Anil Lulla from Delphi Digital. Learn more about Messari Protocol Services at https://messari.io/protocol-services Follow Messari on Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/MessariCrypto⁠ Follow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0uG5qpwFg67zTt0VQRTaZ⁠7?si=13163cbebe01415e Follow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messaris-unqualified-opinions/id1455666979⁠ This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.

Get 20% off your ticket to Messari Mainnet with code "messaripod" at https://events.messari.io/mainnet2024 In Q2 of 2024, Tether reported a Net Income larger than Visa, MasterCard and Goldman Sachs - and with only 125 employees. Stablecoins are one of the primary crypto use cases that have ascended the realm of mere speculation. And as you’d expect, there are a number of challengers - and they’ve had a good year too. So Andrew Dyer dove deep into the year stables have had - and can now give an update on the major categories of stablecoins, the protocols rising within them, their design choices, and the tradeoffs they face in attempting to breach Tether’s moat. Declutter Your Browser. Use Messari Lite as your customized crypto news feed. Hosted by Maartje Bus (https://x.com/maartjebus)Written and Produced by Steve BichimerBased on "Experiments in Stablecoins", by Andrew Dyer (https://x.com/0xSynthesis1) Follow Messari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MessariCryptoFollow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uG5qpwFg67zTt0VQRTaZ7?si=13163cbebe01415eFollow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messaris-unqualified-opinions/id1455666979____Your next hire could come from anywhere - a recruiter, a job board, a referral network, or a conference.Hirechain manages hundreds of candidate sources for you, so you only see relevant applications and can focus on picking the best person for your team. On average, our customers fill open roles twice as fast as with traditional recruiters.Leading companies like the Graph and Messari already use Hirechain. So get your time back - talk to Hirechain today and hire the best, fast. Visit https://hirechain.io/Messari for prioritized onboarding.____This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.

Get 20% off your ticket to Messari Mainnet with code "messaripod" at https://events.messari.io/mainnet2024 Introducing The Protocol Services Podcast with Jack Purdy! Bringing you insights and stories from specialist teams providing consulting, risk advisory, treasury management, strategic finance, and everything crypto protocols need. Today's guest is Adrian CV from Steakhouse Financial. ADCV tells stories about Steakhouse's approach to financial advisory, the practical applications that show why it makes more sense to run financial infrastructure on chain, and his view on the future of financial advisory. https://messari.io/protocol-services Follow Messari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MessariCryptoFollow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uG5qpwFg67zTt0VQRTaZ7?si=13163cbebe01415eFollow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messaris-unqualified-opinions/id1455666979 This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.

Get 20% off your ticket to Messari Mainnet with code "messaripod" at https://events.messari.io/mainnet2024Like much of crypto, it’s been hard to paint a clear picture of Base this year. The Coinbase-developed layer 2 launched with high expectations, and by many metrics has certainly met them. But if you listen to Crypto Twitter, you may hear a much different story. You’ll often hear things like “the apps are dead!”, and “all of its volume is driven by memecoins”. Sunny Shi thinks Base is doing just fine - and can tell you how its leading exchange, Aerodrome, is driving some huge progress.Declutter Your Browser. Use Messari Lite as your customized crypto news feed.(00:00) - Hire with Hirechain (00:40) - Intro (01:58) - Mainnet is Coming! (02:38) - Base and Aerodrome Hosted by Maartje Bus (https://x.com/maartjebus)Written and Produced by Steve BichimerBased on "A Valuation of Aerodrome", by Sunny Shi (https://x.com/defi_monk)Follow Messari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MessariCryptoFollow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uG5qpwFg67zTt0VQRTaZ7?si=13163cbebe01415eFollow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messaris-unqualified-opinions/id1455666979____Your next hire could come from anywhere - a recruiter, a job board, a referral network, or a conference.Hirechain manages hundreds of candidate sources for you, so you only see relevant applications and can focus on picking the best person for your team. On average, our customers fill open roles twice as fast as with traditional recruiters.Leading companies like the Graph and Messari already use Hirechain. So get your time back - talk to Hirechain today and hire the best, fast. Visit https://hirechain.io/Messari for prioritized onboarding.____This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.

One of the fundamentally unique pieces about crypto business models is the concept of token unlocks - or, the idea that rewards for contributions to the project, while fixed in total number, become available in large unlocks of sections over time.But there’s still a fair amount of inconsistency in how these unlock schedules are designed - and therefore what behavior surrounds unlock events.So, with several large token unlocks coming up in the rest of 2024, Andrew Dyer dove deep into the historical performance of token prices around unlocks - both large and small - and can now tell you, at least historically, the impact of markets around token unlock events.Get 20% off your ticket to Messari Mainnet with code "messaripod" at https://events.messari.io/mainnet2024Declutter Your Browser. Use Messari Lite as your customized crypto news feed.(00:00) - Hire with Hirechain (00:40) - Intro (02:07) - Mainnet is Coming! (02:47) - Token Unlocks and the Markets Hosted by Maartje Bus (https://x.com/maartjebus)Written and Produced by Steve BichimerBased on "Don't Look Down: Navigating Markets Around Token Unlocks", by Andrew Dyer (https://x.com/0xSynthesis1)Follow Messari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MessariCryptoFollow Unqualified Opinions on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uG5qpwFg67zTt0VQRTaZ7?si=13163cbebe01415eFollow Unqualified Opinions on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messaris-unqualified-opinions/id1455666979____Your next hire could come from anywhere - a recruiter, a job board, a referral network, or a conference.Hirechain manages hundreds of candidate sources for you, so you only see relevant applications and can focus on picking the best person for your team. On average, our customers fill open roles twice as fast as with traditional recruiters.Leading companies like the Graph and Messari already use Hirechain. So get your time back - talk to Hirechain today and hire the best, fast. Visit https://hirechain.io/Messari for prioritized onboarding.____This episode and its contents do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Messari, Inc. Hosts and guests may hold cryptocurrencies discussed in this content. This content is meant for informational purposes only. It is not meant to serve as investment advice. You should conduct your own research, and consult an independent financial, tax, or legal advisor before making any investment decisions. Nothing contained in this content is a recommendation or suggestion, directly or indirectly, to buy, sell, make, or hold any investment, loan, commodity, or security, or to undertake any investment or trading strategy with respect to any investment, loan, commodity, security, or any issuer. This content should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security or commodity. Messari does not guarantee the sequence, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information provided in this content.