
Crypto Unstacked
The go-to resource for the crypto curious. Tune in to long-form deep dives with movers and shakers or spend your short coffee breaks with our mini dives, where we unstack interesting insights and market observations.
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Latest episodes

May 15, 2021 • 50min
Deep Dive: Aaron Wright | What are Advantages to the Collective Decision Making Power of DAOs?
We unstack:►The hive mind approach to making decisions►Incentivizing long-term participation in DAOs►Challenges around running DAOs: LAO, FlamingoDAO, NeptuneDAO►Wyoming DAO legislation►Why the US is supportive of innovative and flexible legal structuresLINKSWyoming Bill to recognize the legal status of DAOsFOLLOW OUR GUESTAaron Wright (Twitter | Website)FOLLOW AMBER GROUPTwitter | Email | WebsiteDISCLOSUREThe Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.#AmberGroup #OpenLaw #DAO #CryptoUnstacked

May 7, 2021 • 48min
Deep Dive: Matthew Le Merle | Why is Crypto Important to Building Wealth in the Fifth Era?
We unstack:►Death of the corporate industrial era company model►Generation “Connect” and investing in the Fifth Era►Thoughts on Charlie Munger’s Bitcoin comments ►Escaping from embedded mental models►The “optimum” investment portfolio and why it's outdated►Why traditional financial institutions are not equipped to understand cryptoLINKSWhat Concerns Investors About Bitcoin?FOLLOW OUR GUESTMatthew Le Merle (Twitter | Website)FOLLOW AMBER GROUPTwitter | Email | WebsiteDISCLOSUREThe Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.#AmberGroup #FifthEra #CryptoUnstacked

Apr 27, 2021 • 51min
Deep Dive: Galaxy Interactive | Why is it worth understanding the promise and peril of social tokens?
We unstack:►Galaxy Interactive’s investing theses►Virtual real estate speculation►Social tokens as an extension of status-connoting virtual goods►The promise and peril of social tokens►Building $RNG and the virtual Soho House►The complex future of DAOs►*Bonus: hiring opportunity!*LINKSStream of Social Consciousness (Richard Kim)The Dao of DAOs (Packy McCormick)Status as a Service (Eugene Wei)The Pattern Language (Christopher Alexander)FOLLOW OUR GUESTRichard's Twitter: @galaxyRTKWebsite: www.galaxyinteractive.ioFOLLOW AMBER GROUPTwitter: https://twitter.com/ambergroup_ioEmail: contact@ambergroup.ioWebsite: https://www.ambergroup.io/DISCLOSUREThe Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.#AmberGroup #GalaxyInteractive #Gaming #Social #Tokens #CryptoUnstacked

Apr 21, 2021 • 54min
Deep Dive: Arca | The New Billion Dollar Family Office Bet
We unstack:►What do most people miss about the Paul Tudor Jones letter?►An important shock wave that recently jolted the family office world►The “endowment model” and how it affects the way family offices invest►How is Arca building an institutional asset manager?►Impact of social influencers on crypto adoption and educationFOLLOW OUR GUESTDavid's Twitter: @DavidNageDavid's podcast: Base LayerWebsite: https://www.ar.ca/FOLLOW AMBER GROUPTwitter: https://twitter.com/ambergroup_ioEmail: contact@ambergroup.ioWebsite: https://www.ambergroup.io/DISCLOSUREThe Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.#AmberGroup #Arca #FamilyOffices #CryptoUnstacked

Apr 16, 2021 • 12min
A Little NFTy Story | Part 3
This episode was made with help from Ben Lakoff, Co-Founder of Charged Particles and Richard Kim, Partner at Galaxy Interactive. Full length episode with Richard dropping soon! LINKSEP 52: A Little NFTy Story | Part 1EP 53: A Little NFTy Story | Part 2EP 58: Unstacking with Charged Particles | Creating yield-bearing NFTsNFT Value Capture Equation by Cooper TurleyFOLLOW AMBER GROUPTwitter: https://twitter.com/ambergroup_ioEmail: contact@ambergroup.ioWebsite: https://www.ambergroup.io/DISCLOSURE The Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.MUSIC CREDITSFloating Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHYOBwzT4u4&list=PLwJjxqYuirCLkq42mGw4XKGQlpZSfxsYd&index=25#AmberGroup #NFT #CryptoUnstacked

Apr 14, 2021 • 3min
Celebrating #CUP’s 1 year anniversary!
To our weekly #CUP listeners, thank you all for your support this past year in keeping this show running. To all of our past guests, this show would not be what it is today without your fresh insights and perspectives on all things crypto finance. We can’t wait to roll out more exciting content and showcase new voices this year. To make CUP your #1 crypto podcast, we would love to hear your stories and feedback about what you’ve liked so far and ways we can improve the show. Tune in to see how you can stack sats and help the show level up!Telegram: @leslambEmail: leslie.lamb@ambergroup.io

Apr 8, 2021 • 36min
Deep Dive: Charged Particles | Creating Yield-Bearing NFTs
We unstack:►The new class of yield-bearing aka “charged” NFTs►How charged NFTs can drive NFT financialization►Diverse use cases for Charged Particles►Growing a NFT DeFi project (learning from the Discord community)+more!LINKSGitcoin Kernel ProgramCharged Particles LeptonCharged Particles Use CasesFOLLOW OUR GUESTBen's Twitter: @benlakoffBen's podcast: The Alt Asset Allocation PodcastCharged Particle's Twitter: @DefiNftWebsite: www.charged.fiFOLLOW AMBER GROUPTwitter: https://twitter.com/ambergroup_ioEmail: contact@ambergroup.ioWebsite: https://www.ambergroup.io/DISCLOSUREThe Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.#AmberGroup #ChargedParticles #NFT #CryptoUnstacked

Mar 30, 2021 • 8min
[Mini Dive] Archegos Capital | The Tiger Cub who saw himself as Tiger King
Despite the fallout of Bill Hwang's family office Archegos Capital Management, there seems to be minimal impact on the broader equity markets, as well as the crypto markets with Bitcoin rebounding from its lows around $50k last week to $58k at the time of recording. Tune in for high-level details about what we know so far. LINKSCoindesk Market Wrap: Bitcoin, Ether Gain After Visa Deal as Stocks Struggle With Archegos Margin CallReuters: Archegos margin call share dump ripples across marketsThe Street: Archegos Capital Fire Sale Triggers Billions in Investment Bank LossesForbes: The Firm Behind The $30 Billion Firesale Shaking Financial Markets Disclosed Almost NothingBloomberg News: Archegos Drama Hardly Ruffles a Market That's 'Drunk on Risk'FOLLOW AMBER GROUPTwitter: https://twitter.com/ambergroup_ioEmail: contact@ambergroup.ioWebsite: https://www.ambergroup.io/DISCLOSUREThe Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.#AmberGroup #MacroNews #Markets #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked

Mar 29, 2021 • 31min
Deep Dive: EulerBeats | Mathematical Art on an NFT Substrate
We unstack:► The Sacramento Kings' live blockchain-powered auction platform► The Circular Economy► Generative audio: from Swether to EulerBeats► EulerBeats as a game theory experiment► ERC 1155 v. ERC 721 standards► EulerBeats milestones and the Enigma LP auction on March 29, 2021► How EulerBeats looks to fundamentally change the music industry wrt royalties+ more!LINKSiFirebrand BlogTreum.ioConstantin's Twitter: @iFirebrandFOLLOW AMBER GROUPTwitter: https://twitter.com/ambergroup_ioEmail: contact@ambergroup.ioWebsite: https://www.ambergroup.io/DISCLOSUREThe Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.#AmberGroup #EulerBeats #NFT #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked

Mar 25, 2021 • 58min
Deep Dive: Ampleforth | The Elastic Base Money Driving the Web 3 Value Highway
Ampleforth (AMPL) is a monetary innovation and primitive building-block for the decentralized finance ecosystem. Like Bitcoin, it is uncollateralized. Unlike Bitcoin, the Ample eschews a fixed supply schedule and instead automatically adjusts supply in response to price-exchange rate. The Ampleforth protocol receives exchange-rate information from trusted oracles, and propagates that to holders of its units (Amples) by proportionally increasing or decreasing the number of tokens each individual holds.The unique incentives, movement pattern, and monetary qualities of AMPL, make it ideally suited to: 1) add value to baskets of digital assets, reducing aggregate volatility, 2) be useful as a building block in broader decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, much as physical commodities were building blocks in the historical financial system.We unstack:► Influential economic thinkers► Failed currency pegs► Monetary trilemma: adaptive supply, durable value, stable peg► The base money problem v. the fiat problem► How AMPL stacks up to Ampleforth's initial goals► Rebasing tokens v. coupon-based tokens► Comparing single token v. multi-token model► Is the goal of AMPL stability?► AMPL's stable contracts utility► Evolution of debt in the crypto market+ more!LINKSAmpleforth: A New Synthetic CommodityCentral Banks — A Bad Influence on Decentralized FinanceAlgorithmic stablecoins aren’t really stable, but can the concept redeem itself?Synthetic Commodity Money (2013)Risk and Return of Cryptocurrency (2018)Stability, Elasticity, and Reflexivity: A Deep Dive into Algorithmic StablecoinsThe Letter and Spirit of Composability FOLLOW AMBER GROUPTwitter: https://twitter.com/ambergroup_ioEmail: contact@ambergroup.ioWebsite: https://www.ambergroup.io/DISCLOSUREThe Crypto Unstacked Podcast is meant for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice. Nothing expressed in this podcast should be construed as a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement or offer by Amber Group to buy or sell any financial products. Information expressed by the host or guest in this podcast does not necessarily reflect the views of Amber Group.#AmberGroup #Ampleforth #BaseMoney #CUPofCrypto #CryptoUnstacked