We're back with one of our last recordings from NFCastle, with Maria Shen of Electric Capital, an early-stage venture firm focused on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces. Prior to Electric, Maria was CTO and co-founder of Bambify, which helped SMBs easily form supply chains with manufacturers across the globe. She has also worked on search technology at Microsoft, with her features shipped to more than 1 billion devices. Today, Jamie Burke & Maria discuss startup acceleration, funding for Web3 projects, faith in founders, the investment thesis, and the importance of regulators for clarity.  ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

On this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we are joined by Graham Jenkin, CEO of CoinList, a regulated platform giving users access to the best new crypto projects before large exchanges. helping blue chip projects like Filecoin, Solana, Celo, Algorand, and Dapper grow. Graham talks to Outlier Venture's CEO Jamie Burke on the early days of CoinList, the recent capital injection into Web3, tokens as an incentive mechanism, working at AngelList, access to ICOs, working with regulators, and more.  ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

In today’s digitised world, gaming is becoming increasingly more relevant. The average gamer spends 8+ hours per week playing in the digital realm. For today’s SPECIAL EPISODE, we bring you our very own Jan Baeriswyl with the unified audiobook version of his 3 part research piece for Outlier, readable here: https://outlierventures.io/research/p2e-2-0-a-new-economic-model-for-gaming-based-on-crypto-tokens/ We’ll be back after Christmas with your regularly scheduled podcasts, but for now, enjoy! ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

On this Episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we're joined by Ethan Buchman, CEO and Co-founder of the Cosmos Network, an ever-expanding ecosystem of interconnected apps and services, connected using IBC, the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol. Today, Ethan and Jamie discuss making blockchain development available to startups, corporations as representatives of society, platos cave, cybernetic literature, cooperatives and localism, the internet as a revolution of biological communication, and more! ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

On this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we talk to gmoney.eth, a self-described futurist and disruptor, he is the founder of Puertro Rico's first ever summit on NFTs, Metaverso, and The Cutting Edge podcast, which airs live on Twitter spaces before being pulled to all good podcasting platforms. Jamie and Gmoney discuss moving from traditional finance to DeFi and NFTs, the importance of digital identity, acting as an anonymous influencer, putting money at risk to learn about crypto, squiggle fandom, the silent NFT crash, and more. ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

Monday morning Metaverse Podcast, we're with Ryan Condron of Titan Industries & Lumerin Protocol, who are building the hash power marketplace to make Bitcoin and POW crypto mining as highly optimized, efficient, and decentralized as possible.  Ryan and Jamie Burke discuss crypto-mining evolving from a hobby into an industry, its role as secure infrastructure for the metaverse, evolving with renewable energy, the mining crackdown in China, how to tokenise hash-power, and more. ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

This SPECIAL EPISODE is brought to you from the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague, we’re joined by Will Papper, co-founder of SyndicateDAO and creator of $AGLD. SyndicateDAO works as a decentralized investing protocol & social network, that's transforming how the world creates value. In this episode of The Metaverse Show, Jamie Burke and Will Papper discuss the importance of DAOs to a decentralised network, whether Ethereum is a DAO, the overnight success of LOOT and $AGLD, the long term future of NFTs as a collaborative tool, and more. ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!    

Today we talk to Fraser Edwards, founder of Cheqd, a business aiming to design the default payment mechanism for authentic data, increasing the adoption of self-sovereign identity technology. On this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, Jamie Burke and Fraser discuss ecosystem fulfillment, building de-facto standards, dealing with high throughput, the trouble with biometrics, COVID passports, and more. ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

Today we talk to Dean Tribble, founder of Agoric, a Proof-of-Stake chain utilizing secure JavaScript smart contracts to rapidly build and deploy DeFil, comprised of a team who are experts in smart contracts. Agoric was founded on open-source principles which look to build a public economy. During the episode, Dean and Jamie Burke discuss the importance of developer accessibility, composability as more than just a buzzword, moving on from flash and HTTP, scaling for DeFi, DAOs and NFTs utilising decentralised finance, and more! ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

What do you do once you've amassed over 1.7 million followers? How do you host a Metaverse podcast while drinking on a Friday night? Today we answer those questions while talking to Bored Elon, an NFT & crypto investor spawned from a viral Twitter parody account. Bored Elon has invested in a multitude of projects, including Voxies, Sipher and Vidya, while also working on his own project, MetaMars. In this Episode, Jamie and Bored Elon discuss the impact of becoming a Twitter Influencer, how the account was modelled, his growing interest in Web3 Technology, the impact of Elon Musk on crypto, being followed by the founder of Twitter, and much more. Join us! ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!