The DeFi Decoded Podcast

On Today's episode, Alex and Andrew sit down with Maxim Galash, CEO of Coinchange. Coinchange is a fintech company providing simple and frictionless access to DeFi for institutional and retail investors. Coinchange currently has over 20 institutional clients using their services for treasury management, and has ambitious plans to roll out to other customers and markets. Max talks about the origins of Coinchange and how he identified an opportunity to simplify and democratize the complex but lucrative DeFi industry. He explains why it's important for DeFi's long term success that it be an equal opportunity market, not one where Wall Street and industry insiders exploit all the best opportunities. Max tells us about the process of becoming a regulated DeFi provider, why he thinks "RegDeFi" is the place to be, and how he plans to rapidly scale his model. This is a great listen for traditional finance and DeFi folks alike who want to better understand the convergence of retail fintech, traditional finance and DeFi, told through the story of one start-up.

On this episode, Andrew and Alex discuss the stunning growth of UST, a so-called algorithmic stablecoin. Stablecoins are cryptoassets pegged to the US dollar. Historically, stablecoins have been centralized, that is issued by a corporation and backed by deposits in a bank. However, the fastest area of growth today is in decentralized stablecoins or "algorithmic stablecoins," which are collateralized by cryptoassets held in smart contracts. UST leads this pack. The stakes of this race are significant: UST's ascent has caused the layer 1 protocol on which it runs- Terra- to 100x in value in a year. Other layer 1s are now playing g catch-up with NEAR and Tron announcing their own copycat stablecoins. Other protocols like Avanche are content to let their coins be used as collateral for UST, rather than create their own. Cosmos ATOMs are being used as collateral for UST, but that's more complicated. Andrew and Alex dig into all of this and more. Buckle up!

On this week's episode Alex and Andrew talk about the historically high inflation roiling markets, and its implications on the crypto asset class. Plus, they discuss the recent update on the Ronin Bridge hack where over $600 million was stolen. Later, Andrew sits down with the CEO of FRNT Financial, Stephane Ouellette, to discuss the global macro environment, institutional investor adoption of crypto, and the competing perspectives on DeFi vs. CeFi. We also discuss FRNT's upcoming IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

On this week's episode Alex and Andrew sit down with trader, investor, and host of the popular "The Wolf of All Streets" podcast Scott Melker to discuss ETH, Global Macros, Bonds and more.

On this episode of DeFi Decoded, Andrew and Alex speak to Adrian Brink, founder of Anoma Labs, which is a truly novel blockchain design. Anoma is a set of protocols for private human coordination with as much privacy as possible. Essentially, Anoma allows any digital asset to function as means of exchange or payment, which all things being equal can create greater liquidity, less slippage, and more privacy in transactions.

Bitcoin and other cryptoassets like Ether are proving their worth as frictionless peer-to-peer money and playing a key role in funding the Ukrainian war effort with over $100 million USD in crypto donations raised. Alex and Andrew cut through the fog and talk the truth about what's happening.

In this episode, Andrew and Alex sit down with Ben Lee, CEO and co-founder of Blowfish Studios. Blowfish is a games developer and publisher that has successfully launched a myriad of games across standard gaming consoles. Now, Blowfish Studios is now taking the leap forward in the blockchain through its soon-to-be-released Phantom Galaxies. Phantom Galaxies, likely the first playable AAA blockchain game, is expected to shake up the industry by integrating NFTs, P2E and other blockchain concepts into an immersive, fun and engaging game for all kinds of gamers. The game is expected to be released in Q2 2022 with the developers releasing Starfighter NFT drops and generative avatars in Q1 2022. The studio distributed NFTs in the form of an airdrop to its early adopters and will host a public sale of in-game planets also known as "PGToken". With a strong history of delivering high caliber games ambitions to revolutionize blockchain gaming, Blowfish and Phantom Galaxies should be on all gamers' radars.

The crypto bull market is back on as investors weigh the long-term implications of the Ukrainian conflict. On this episode, Charlie shares his perspective on current events and how they illustrate the value of censorship resistant money. What makes Charlie really bullish long-term, though, are Developers, Developers, Developers! Charlie recently attended ETH Denver, a giant global con-fab of crypto programmers, entrepreneurs and influencers. Over 12,000 people attended the event, representing all the major cryptoasset ecosystems such as Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Polkadot, Avalanche and more. Charlie describes how the event was brimming with talent, new ideas and concepts. One example from the episode: At one point while queuing for a COVID test, he met two young entrepeneurs who were there with their dad and who have 100k twitter followers and a new DAO! Lots of great morsels from this one. Check it out!

On this episode of DeFi Decoded, Andrew and Alex break down these major news events and discuss the long term implications for Bitcoin, DeFi and the broader cryptoasset market.