

The DeFi Decoded Podcast
Alex Tapscott & Andrew Young
Weekly market commentary and conversations on crypto and the future of finance. Co-hosts Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young break down market trends and interview the founders, investors, and leaders shaping the industry. Where Wall Street and crypto converge.
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Jul 27, 2023 • 37min
DeFi Decoded - Be Mobile Africa's Plan to Lift 100 Million People Out of Poverty Using Blockchain and DeFi
Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Dr. Cédric Jeannot, Co-Founder and CEO of Be Mobile Africa. Listen in as they discuss Cédric's journey into the blockchain space, Be Mobile Africa's mission and role, addressing off-ramp implementation challenges, back-end liquidity structure, determining which blockchain to build on, neobank design and functionalities, imperative regulatory considerations, the firm's long-term vision, market size and growth metrics, Cédric's experiences with central banks and the existing educational gap, and more!

Jul 21, 2023 • 29min
DeFi Decoded - Investing in Web3 Part 2 with Alex Tapscott
Join Alex Tapscott and Michael Hainsworth as they engage in an in-depth conversation that explores what using Web3 technology will look like, early enterprise adopters, the impact of decentralization on government and governance, whether lawmakers will get regulation right, examples of successful first-mover companies, gaining exposure to the Web3 asset class, and more!

Jul 14, 2023 • 41min
DeFi Decoded - Simpler Transactions and Mobile-First Approach Will Fuel Mass Adoption Says Crypto VC Charlie Morris
Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Charlie Morris, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of CMCC Global. Listen in as they discuss the current crypto market cycle phase and next catalyst, the importance of intent-centric designs for Web3 transactions, improving wallets with account abstraction, channels to gain exposure to the user experience adoption thesis, dYdX's testnet launch on Cosmos, defining MEV, an analogy to the Sovereign Individual, embracing a mobile-first approach, Charlie's Solana cellphone, thesis area developer activity, and more!

Jul 7, 2023 • 26min
DeFi Decoded - Investing in Web3 part 1 with Alex Tapscott
Join Alex Tapscott and Michael Hainsworth as they engage in a high-level, beginner-friendly, and educational episode that breaks down Web3 in simple terms, discusses its applications and disruptive potential on financial markets, introduces the Ninepoint Web3 Innovators Fund (TSX: TKN; TKN.U), and more!

Jun 30, 2023 • 35min
DeFi Decoded - Alex Shares a Big Announcement. Also: DeFi's Growth and Innovation Over the Years
Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi. Listen in as they discuss Alex's big announcement on his new book, "Web3: Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier," its structure and focal points, concepts from Niall Ferguson's "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World," asset types that hold the greatest disruptive power in a Web3 world, an FTX customer fund recovery update, evaluating innovation within the DeFi space, insuring decentralized protocols, and more!

Jun 23, 2023 • 52min
DeFi Decoded - Bringing Real World Assets into the Digital World – The Noble Approach
Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guests Jack Zampolin of Strangelove and Jelena Djuric of Noble. Listen in as they discuss Noble's emerging role in the Cosmos ecosystem onboarding USDC, how they pitched themselves to Circle and won the partner role for Cosmos, the chain's underlying business model, tokenizing other real-world assets (RWAs) beyond stablecoins, exciting DeFi trends to monitor this upcoming year, the sustainability of different chains' reward incentives, earning yield by holding stablecoins, and more!

Jun 16, 2023 • 27min
DeFi Decoded - Our 100th Episode! UK Goes all in on Web3, plus the market reacts to the US Regulatory Crackdown
We are celebrating our 100th Episode! Thanks to our listeners and fans for your loyalty, feedback and support. It's been quite a ride, but just like the industry we cover, the future for DeFi Decoded is bright and we're only getting started! Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi. Listen in as they discuss an insightful macro roundup and its implications for crypto, Bitcoin's newfound divergence from traditional asset classes, current venture capital cheque sizes into Web3 projects, institutional investor sentiment, how the SEC lawsuits last week are affecting altcoins, a16z's international expansion to the United Kingdom, all-things crypto regulation in the United States, what market phase we may be at, and more!

Jun 9, 2023 • 40min
DeFi Decoded - U.S. Crackdown on Crypto Intensifies. Plus: Making Bitcoin Fun Again!
Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest FarmerJoe, an OG Bitcoin Ordinal Whale. Listen in as they discuss the definition of a Bitcoin Ordinal, their growth and evolution, their impact on the Bitcoin network, how they take on those that critique them, the sustainability of their demand, whether the network has the capabilities to support them at greater scale, whether Ordinals can bring value and serve as a price catalyst for Bitcoin, the SEC's recent lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase, and more!

Jun 2, 2023 • 37min
DeFi Decoded - Unpacking Beijing's Web3 White Paper, Circle's Euro Coin, and Crypto's Course
Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi. Listen in as they discuss Beijing's recently released "Internet 3.0 Innovation and Development White Paper," the current standpoint of China's crypto ecosystem, Circle launching Euro Coin (EUROC) on the Avalanche blockchain, a macroeconomic roundup, predicting the next big crypto market catalyst, assessing Web3 project economics and cost structures, and more!

May 25, 2023 • 34min
DeFi Decoded - Casting an Encrypted and Compliant Blockchain with Elena Nadolinski of Iron Fish
Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi with special guest Elena Nadolinski, Founder and CEO of Iron Fish. Listen in as they discuss Elena's incredible journey from working at Microsoft and Airbnb to Web3, private yet compliant-friendly protocol designs, exciting types of potential new use cases and applications, Iron Fish's asset issuance functionality and tokenomics, $IRON utility, the network's node running sustainability, and more!


