

The Delphi Podcast
The Delphi Podcast
Conversations with Crypto Gigabrains. Hosted by Tommy, Co-Founder and Founding Partner at Delphi Ventures
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Jun 25, 2019 • 41min
Edgeware’s Dillon Chen: Bringing Smart Contracts to Polkadot and ~$650M In Lockdrop
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Dillon Chen of Commonwealth Labs to discuss Edgeware.
As a reminder Polkadot is an interoperability platform which is set to launch in a few months, and Edgeware’s goal to bring smart contracts to Polkadot itself.
This would bring smart contract functionality to polkadot, and allow it to compete with Ethereum, Tezos, EOS and other smart contract platforms.
Edgeware is currently running an innovative alternative to a raise, known as a lockdrop. Instead of raising money from investors, Edgeware is allowing holders of Ether to lock their ETH up and receive Edgeware tokens in the future or to signal their intent to back the project, without locking to earn edgeware tokens. This is a really innovative approach to not only garner a large potential stakeholder base which is critical for a project's success, but also to increase the value of Edgeware’s future treasury without raising money from investors.
Currently there is 881k ETH locked and 1.2M ETH signaled, or $273M and $372M in value respectively.
Edgeware is a high profile project, and this is hopefully the most in-depth discussion to date on Edgeware with a ton of great color on Polkadot as well.
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Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Tom personally owns tokens in ETH, BTC, LEO, XTZ, DCR and MKR
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Intro music by Chris Zabriskie

Jun 19, 2019 • 42min
DARMA Capital’s Andrew Keys and James Slazas: $100M Ether Fund Launches - Largest of 2019
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Andrew Keys and James Slazas of DARMA Capital to discuss DARMA's $100M Ether Fund.
This episode was recorded on the day of Andrew’s announcement that he was was joining DARMA, after an impactful career at ConsenSys.
DARMA's flagship fund is a $100M Ether optimized long strategy with $100M under management, which is sizeable for the space.
On this episode we go into the strategy, both James and Andrew’s careers, their results, goals and so much more. The brain power between James and Andrew is remarkable.
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Follow Andrew on Twitter @AndrewDARMACAP
Follow James on Twitter @DARMA_Slazas
Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Tom owns tokens in ETH, BTC, XTZ, LEO, DCR, VRA.
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Intro music by Chris Zabriskie

Jun 17, 2019 • 59min
Blockstack’s Muneeb Ali: Building A Decentralized AWS To Host A Potential Facebook Killer
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Muneeb Ali the CEO and Cofounder of Blockstack PBC.
Blockstack is a high profile project in the space, with the goal of creating a decentralized computing network and app ecosystem.
To differentiate this episode vs other podcasts, I wanted to focus on Blockstacks’ end goals - being potentially creating a new decentralized version of Amazon Web Services which hosts basically the worlds business and consumer workloads and apps.
Creating this platform could in turn host a viral app on top of it, such as a facebook killer.
To access the insights package of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your device and sign up using coupon code CHAINREACTION
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Follow Muneeb on Twitter @muneeb
Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Tom owns tokens in ETH, BTC, XTZ, LEO, DCR, VRA.
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Intro music by Chris Zabriskie

Jun 8, 2019 • 1h 6min
Decred’s Co-Founder Jake Yocom-Piatt: Governance-First Crypto Aims to Challenge Bitcoin
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Jake Yocom-Piatt, an original co-founder of the cryptocurrency Decred.
It's incredible to speak with Jake and learn about how he built Decred with its anonymous co-founders, all of their struggles and success and where the crypto is going.
We go into Decred’s hybrid consensus mechanism, its on-chain treasury, easy voting on consensus changes and the use of the treasury through the wallet decredition and so much more.
While Decred is a smaller crypto $250M market cap, but Jake explains why he believes Decred is not only competitive to BTC but could over take it.
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Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in BTC, ETH, DCR, MKR, XTZ and Loom. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. Delphi Digital was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode other than Podbean's advertisers. This content is strictly informational and is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security or token.
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Jun 3, 2019 • 57min
Noblebridge’s Tyrone V. Ross: Crypto Wealth Management
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Tyrone V. Ross Jr, a managing partner at Noble Bridge Wealth Management.
The long story short is Tyrone is the crypto wealth manager of the future. Tyrone has decided to differentiate his practice by offering his wealth management services to the general public, unlike the majority of wealth managers and financial advisors who not only won’t help or touch crypto assets, but frankly most are not up to speed on the space.
It’s great to hear Tyrone’s journey, his unreal energy, and how he helps clients across the spectrum with their crypto assets. While normal routines like crypto custody, buying/selling, and what to do in certain situations is easy for crypto natives to understand, Tyrone is serving the needs of the wider population outside of the crypto echo chamber. We need to educate and help the global population who are not crypto native get involved with crypto, and thats what Tyrone is doing every day.
To access the insights package of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your device and sign up using coupon code CHAINREACTION.
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Follow Tyrone on Twitter @TR401
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in BTC, ETH, DCR, MKR, XTZ and Loom. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. Delphi Digital was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode other than Podbean's advertisers. This content is strictly informational and is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security or token.
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May 28, 2019 • 57min
Enigma’s Tor Bair: Disrupting Facebook and Solving Privacy for Web 3.0
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Tor Bair, Head Of Growth at Enigma.
For those new to Enigma it is described as a decentralized secure computation protocol, where “secret nodes” in the network perform computations over encrypted data. Enigma brings privacy to any kind of computation - not just transactions.
Our conversation covers the desire for privacy despite consumers being ok giving away their data for free, if the incumbents (facebook/google can be displaced) and the entire mission of Enigma, an overview of how the protocol works and what Enigma offers.
To access the insights package of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your device and sign up using coupon code CHAINREACTION.
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Follow Joe on Twitter @TorBair
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in BTC, ETH, DCR, MKR, XTZ and Loom. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. Delphi Digital was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode other than Podbean's advertisers. This content is strictly informational and is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security or token.
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May 6, 2019 • 41min
ConsenSys’ Joe Lubin: Ethereum’s Competition Isn’t Even Close
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Joe Lubin the co-founder of Ethereum and thee founder of ConsenSys.
For those new to the space, ConsenSys is a global blockchain technology company building the infrastructure, applications, and practices that enable a decentralized world. ConsenSys has over 50 spokes building on Ethereum ranging from infrastructure like Infura and Metamask to platforms and applications like OpenLaw and Airswap.
After having numerous guests on the podcast from ConsenSys, from Gregory Rocco to Andrew Keys and others, it was excellent to have Joe on to explain his take on the space.
We cover the goals of blockchain, Ethereum’s competition and its future under Serenity, the past, present and future of ConsenSys and so much more.
Joe is by far one of the most plugged in people to the space, as such this was a very insightful conversation.
To access the insights package of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your device and sign up using coupon code CHAINREACTION.
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Follow Joe on Twitter @ethereumJoseph
Photo Credit Zaza Weissgerber
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in BTC, ETH, DCR, MKR, XTZ and Loom. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. Delphi Digital was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode other than Podbean's advertisers. This content is strictly informational and is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security or token.
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Advertisers: To advertise on this podcast, email Tom@DelphiDigital.io
Potential Guests: If you're interested in appearing on the podcast, email Tom@DelphiDigital.io
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May 2, 2019 • 45min
Evan Feng: From Citadel and Point72 To Founding Tapestry Capital
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Even Feng, the Founder and CIO of Tapestry Capital.
I wanted to have Evan on since he has a storied career in finance and incredible insight given his positions with Barclays’ investment banking department to Citadel and then to Point 72 before creating tapestry capital.
Evan is able to link the legacy financial world, with Crypto, and he able to explain the differences between the two worlds.
We close as Evan describes Tapestry capital, how he plans to differentiate, and so much more.
To access the insights package of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your device and sign up using coupon code CHAINREACTION.
Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119
Follow Evan on Twitter @EvanTheFeng
Visit Tapestry Capital
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in BTC, ETH, DCR, MKR, XTZ and Loom. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. Delphi Digital was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode other than Podbean's advertisers. This content is strictly informational and is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security or token.
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Advertisers: To advertise on this podcast, email Tom@DelphiDigital.io
Potential Guests: If you're interested in appearing on the podcast, email Tom@DelphiDigital.io
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Apr 29, 2019 • 47min
Vision Hill Group’s Scott Army: Digital Asset Management of the Future
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Scott Army, the Founder and CEO of Vision Hill Group.
While institutions are starting to warm up to crypto today, Scott began work on his Crypto fund of funds years ago, and its first strategy successfully launched over 6 months ago. Since then, Scott is growing Vision Hill into a full service Crypto company focused on adding new strategies, providing research and advisory services as well.
Scott has unparalleled insight into the crypto fund scene since Vision Hill is conducting extensive research into these managers, and the data they are compiling is also massive
To access the insights package of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your device and sign up using coupon code CHAINREACTION.
Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119
Follow Scott on Twitter @scottarmy_
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in BTC, ETH, DCR, MKR, and XTZ. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. Delphi Digital was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode other than Podbean's advertisers. This content is strictly informational and is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security or token.
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Advertisers: To advertise on this podcast, email Tom@DelphiDigital.io
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Apr 12, 2019 • 53min
CoinList’s Andy Bromberg: The Future of Funding and Community-Building In The Crypto Space
Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Andy Bromberg, the Co-Founder and President of CoinList.
Andy is one of the most insightful guests I’ve had on, his ability to distill everything happening in crypto into digestable and understandable pieces is remarkable.
On this episode we covered so much, including the future of funding, developer focused community building, a complete rundown on CoinList, and how CoinList only accepts 0.02% of the projects it is approached by. We also discussed governance, competition and regulations.
To access the insights package of Delphi's leading crypto research, visit DelphiDigital.io on your device and sign up using coupon code ChainReaction.
Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119
Follow Andy on Twitter @andy_bromberg
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, DCR, MKR, and BTC. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. Delphi Digital was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode other than Podbean's advertisers. This content is strictly informational and is not a solicitation to buy or sell any security or token.
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Advertisers: To advertise on this podcast, email Tom@DelphiDigital.io
Potential Guests: If you're interested in appearing on the podcast, email Tom@DelphiDigital.io
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