

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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Jan 28, 2019 • 57min
Zilliqa’s CEO Xinshu Dong: Ready, Set, Mainnet
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research (www.51pct.io) is joined by Zilliqa's CEO Xinshu Dong.
Zilliqa is branded as the scalable blockchain for high throughput consensus computing. The project has gotten a lot of buzz and is set to launch its mainnet this week, so this is a very timely episode.
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51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcasts are to the point discussions with crypto leaders for analysts, funds and institutions. Make sure to add your email on 51pct.io
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, DCR, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in Parity. This content is strictly informational.
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Jan 24, 2019 • 56min
Spartan Group’s Jason Choi: An Insider’s Take On The Asia Crypto Scene
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research (51pct.io) is joined by Spartan Group's Jason Choi, for An for an Insider’s Take On The Asia Crypto Scene.
Jason gives us the entire low down on the crypto scene in Asia. He informs us on the differences vs the West on crypto funds’ involvement in governance, their investment focus, and an insightful look into the entire scene.
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51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcasts are to the point discussions with crypto leaders for analysts, funds and institutions. Make sure to add your email on 51pct.io
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, DCR, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in Parity. This content is strictly informational.
Spartan Capital Disclosures: For full disclosure, at the time of this podcast recording, Spartan Capital has a small exposure to Ziliqa, which is mentioned briefly in the episode. Spartan has a negligible position (

Jan 21, 2019 • 1h 10min
Noah Pierau on Blockchain Governance: Decred, Bitcoin, Dash, Ethereum
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Noah Pierau, a governance researcher and community manager at cryptocurrency Decred.
Following 51pct.io's research report on Decred, Noah joins Tom to discuss everything Decred and its innovative apporach to governance through a hybrid PoW/PoS system and its approach to solving on-going funding through a treasury. This conversation is a must-listen for anyone interested in Decred, Governance and the future of decision making in the crypto sphere.
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Relevant Posts
Decred: Governance and Funding Reimagined
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Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, DCR, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in Parity. This content is strictly informational.
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Jan 14, 2019 • 1h 23min
Blocknet’s Arlyn Culwick: Interoperability and the Race To Connect Crypto (Blocknet, Cosmos, Polkadot)
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Arlyn Culwick, the co-founder of Blocknet.
The conversation covers interoperability in crypto, the various players (Blocknet, Cosmos, Polkadot), the state of the market, the benefits of interoperability and what the future holds.
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Relevant Posts
Dfinity: Cloud Three Point Oh?
Privacy Coin War: Short-Term Monero and Long-Term Zcash With Grin/Beam As Wild Cards
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Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, DCR, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in Parity. This content is strictly informational.
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Jan 11, 2019 • 42min
Beam Privacy’s Beni Issembert: Mainnet Launch Takeaways
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Beni Issembert, the CMO at Beam Privacy.
Beam is a privacy coin, based on the MimbleWimble protocol that just launched on the first week of January. Our conversation is not technically focused but is an impromptu one focused on the key takeaways on Beam following its launch.
We covered Beam, Grin, Zcash and Monero in-depth in our latest privacy coin report.
Relevant Posts
Privacy Coin War: Short-Term Monero and Long-Term Zcash With Grin/Beam As Wild Cards
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Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, DCR, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in Parity. This content is strictly informational.
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Jan 8, 2019 • 1h 11min
Hedera Hashgraph’s Mance Harmon: Mainnet Launch, A $6B Valuation and A Radically New Consensus Mechanism
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent Crypto Research is joined by Mance Harmon the CEO and Co-Founder of Hedera Hashgraph for the most in-depth dive into the project to date.
For those who don’t know, Hedera Hashgraph is a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications.
The project has gained a lot of interest and has raised $124M at a $6B valuation.
Our conversation covers the dynamics of the platform, an update on their mainnet launch, governance in Hedera and where the project fits into the ever-growing world of crypto.
Relevant Posts
Decred: Governance and Funding Reimagined
Privacy Coin War: Short-Term Monero and Long-Term Zcash With Grin/Beam As Wild Cards
Ethereum’s Serenity: A Potential ~10x Increase In Demand For Gas and Increasing Scarcity Could Both Drive ETH’s Price Higher
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51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcasts are to the point discussions with crypto leaders for analysts, funds and institutions. Make sure to add your email on 51pct.io
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in Parity. This content is strictly informational.
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Dec 23, 2018 • 1h 3min
Securitize’s Carlos Domingo: Why The Market for Security Tokens Will Increase 10x in 2019
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by Carlos Domingo who is the Founder and Managing Partner at SPiCE VC and Founder and CEO at Securitize.
Our conversation covers security tokens, securitize, and why Carlos believes the security token market across all of its metrics will increase by 10 times in 2019.
We discuss the competitive landscape, and Carlos provides information on the competitive landscape for security token platforms since we now have so many today.
Carlos unloads a ton of great information on virtually every aspect of the security token market, securitize, and the future of crypto.
Relevant Posts
Privacy Coin War: Short-Term Monero and Long-Term Zcash With Grin/Beam As Wild Cards
Ethereum’s Serenity: A Potential ~10x Increase In Demand For Gas and Increasing Scarcity Could Both Drive ETH’s Price Higher
Tezos Deep Dive: The Only Viable Ethereum Competitor In The Smart Contract War
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51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcasts are to the point discussions with crypto leaders for analysts, funds and institutions. Make sure to add your email on 51pct.io
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in Parity. This content is strictly informational.
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Dec 18, 2018 • 50min
Parity’s Afri Schoedon: Clients, Serenity, Görli and Private Blockchains
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by Afri Schoedon of Parity for a wide-ranging discussion that includes an overview of Parity's Ethereum Client, Ethereum's Serenity upgrade, Parity's new Görli testnet, the use case for private blockchains and more.
Afri shares a ton of invaluable information and is on the front lines of Ethereum, making this a must listen to episode.
Relevant Posts
Did Ethereum Reach 1TB Yet
Etherum Archival Node Sizes
Ethereum’s Serenity: A Potential ~10x Increase In Demand For Gas and Increasing Scarcity Could Both Drive ETH’s Price Higher
Tezos Deep Dive: The Only Viable Ethereum Competitor In The Smart Contract War
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51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcasts are to the point discussions with crypto leaders for analysts, funds and institutions. Make sure to add your email on 51pct.io
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in Parity. This content is strictly informational.
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Dec 13, 2018 • 60min
Tezos’ Jacob Arluck: The Future of Governance
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by Jacob Arluck, a governance research at Tezos. This is a timely episode since governance is becoming more and more important given recent events with Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and of course with Tezos itself over the long term.
Jacob gives us a complete rundown on how the innovative governance structure at Tezos works and compares it to Ethereum and Bitcoin. The discussion includes the importance of governance at the base blockchain layer, how this effects everything built on top (applications) and the problems with a bad governance structure.
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Relevant Posts:
Tezos Deep Dive: The Only Viable Ethereum Competitor In The Smart Contract War
Ethereum’s Serenity: A Potential ~10x Increase In Demand For Gas and Increasing Scarcity Could Both Drive ETH’s Price Higher
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Jacob's post on Tezos' Amendment Process
Tezos' Website
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51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcasts are to the point discussions with crypto leaders for analysts, funds and institutions. Make sure to add your email on 51pct.io
Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in Tezos or XTZ tokens.
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Dec 6, 2018 • 1h 12min
Alpine’s Rocco and Jacob: Creative Token Destruction and Evolution
Host Tom Shaughnessy of 51pct.io is joined by Gregory Rocco and Jacob Blish, two token designers and engineers as ConsenSys' Alpine Spoke. The conversation covers everything from the use cases and design of utility tokens, to designing for governance and positive incentives and even token doomsday scenarios.
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Topics covered include
How the two design tokens for crypto projects
How to decide which projects actually need a token
The use cases of tokens (payments, voting, work, and representative) tokens.
Why we don't need so many utility tokens, we can just use Ethereum.
Convincing enterprises why shared infrastructure through token usage is the future, and convincing them how to use work tokens.
Why Brave doesn't need its BAT token
0x Project and MakerDAO token dynamics
The idea of futility tokens, and how projects that issued tokens that don't need them will pivot.
designing tokens that offer real foundational governance
How to design token governance the right way
Doomsday scenarios; how changes to the base protocol of blockchains can negatively impact all of the decentralized applications and smart contracts built on top of it.
We also detail Rocco's posts; The Death of Decentralization (the buzzword).
How to design for decentralization
Debating whether a project having a centralized leader is a good thing or a bad thing
How to handle token voting.
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ConsenSys' Website
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Disclosure: Tom Shaughnessy owns tokens in ETH, MKR, ZRX, HYDRO, CVC, POLY and GLA. This podcast is NOT investment advice and is only informational. Do not make investment decisions based upon this podcast. 51percent was not compensated by any party for this podcast episode. Tom has no investment stake in ConsenSys or PegaSys.
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