It's finally here: Coinbase NFT Marketplace has been released in beta mode for users who signed onto the waitlist. With more than 85 million users, the talk is it will shake up the whole NFT ecosystem. The Defiant’s Camila Russo and Robin Schmidt join Real Vision’s Ash Bennington to offer some perspective. This episode also includes an update on recent market action, a conversation about the Moonbird project, and a review of the Beanstalk Farms drama – a decentralized credit based stablecoin protocol that was attacked, resulting in a theft of $76 million dollars. All the hot takes on headlines only with The Defiant x Real Vision. Recorded on April 20, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How do you distinguish trading signals amid all the noise financial markets create? Technical analyst Dean Carr from C The Light Trading joins Real Vision's Ash Bennington to explain how he spots trends in crypto price action using a wide range of indicators over multiple time frames. "As a technical analyst, I'm trying to smooth out the trend," says Carr, noting that to do so "you need to move on to larger time frames." Carr focuses on Bitcoin, Ethereum, layer 1 protocols, and privacy coins, highlighting the critical resistance levels they must overcome before their technical profiles turn bullish. Carr adds that failure to clear these levels "opens the door for lower prices." Recorded on April 18, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ever wondered what it’s like to manage a crypto investment firm? Leigh Drogen, the CEO of Starkiller Capital, is walking that walk, and he joins Corey Hoffstein, the CIO of Newfound Research, to describe his journey so far. Leigh explains to Corey how, in his experience, TradFi investment trading strategies such as momentum- and/or trend-following can lead to above-average performance in the crypto space as well. Their conversation highlights the importance of a healthy balance between consistency and flexibility, a requirement of those who’d like to successfully navigate any trading environment. Leigh and Corey share key lessons they’ve learned, including coping with high volatility, the importance of open-mindedness, and dealing with uncertainty. And Leigh describes the limitations of traditional investment valuation methods applied to crypto. Recorded on April 4, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brett Harrison is helping one of the world’s richest crypto billionaires, Sam Bankman-Fried, build one of the “most sophisticated derivative products in the world.” Harrison is president of FTX, the crypto exchange Bankman-Fried co-founded in May 2019 with daily trading volume of approximately $14 billion. Harrison joins Real Vision’s Ash Bennington to talk about FTX’s growth strategy, particularly its ambitions in the U.S. He shares his thoughts on how regulation will influence growth, and, yes, that Larry David ad is discussed. Recorded on April 4, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Real Vision senior editor Ash Bennington hosts Silvio Micali, founder of Algorand, to discuss Micali’s journey into crypto, the founding of Algorand, the power of randomness, zero knowledge proofs, and future of evolvability of blockchain protocols. When Micali discovered Bitcoin and Buterin’s blockchain dilemma—that no blockchain can all at once be decentralized, secure, and scalable—he knew there had to be way to solve this problem. He explains that in cryptographic systems, it’s easy to spread communication and messaging, but verifying if a message has been received or achieving common knowledge is difficult, which can prevent the achievement of security and trust in the system. For Bitcoin, Micali states that the blockchain has an ad hoc mechanism to reach agreement on a common block; on the other hand, Algorand uses a Byzantine Agreement on the block, utilizing the strongest form of consensus and mitigating the risk of “bad actors”. It also prevents the block from ever forking and, thereby, ensures that a block appearing on the chain will remain there forever, and this provides users the confidence to transact without worry of loss. Filmed April 16th, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rob Frasca, co-founder and managing partner of COSIMO Ventures, joins Ash Bennington to discuss how his experience in the Navy influenced is career in the tech and finance space and how his company, COSIMO X, is innovating the blockchain community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just how bad is Meta’s plan to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales in its virtual world? Is Coinbase’s partnership for a film trilogy with Bored Ape Yacht Club a sign of things to come? Is Web3 living up to its decentralized and distributed promise, or have corporate influences already corrupted it? The Defiant’s Camila Russo and Robin Schmidt join Real Vision’s Elaine Ly to talk about a wild week of NFT, Web3, and metaverse news, including the launch of Aku’s Akutars and the issue of refunds for digital art purchases. Recorded on April 13, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Exponential Age Asset Management CIO Moritz Seibert welcomes co-founder and CIO Darius Sit for a deep dive into the investment management strategies employed at Singapore-based digital asset trading firm QCP Capital. Sit and Seibert cover a wide range of derivatives-related topics, including options market dynamics, volatility market depth, and cash-and-carry trades. Sit also assesses the crypto market in 2022 and shares his post-ETH 2.0 Ethereum forecast. Recorded on April 5, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's driving the crypto sell-off? Francis Hunt shifts from Market Sniper to Crypto Sniper to sort through the competing narratives on recent price action with Real Vision's Ash Bennington. Hunt emphasizes macroeconomic factors, noting the positive correlation between Bitcoin and tech stocks. "I can't give flagrant moon calls in this environment," says Hunt, adding "a caution to the downside" would be his stance. Hunt and Bennington also break down the DeFi market, highlighting Luna's outperformance versus other digital assets. Recorded on April 11, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What do the brightest minds in the space consider when they think about the design of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)? Anders Brownworth, Principal Software Architect at The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, joins Real Vision's Ash Bennington for a journey through Project Hamilton, a joint initiative between the Federal Reserve and MIT to investigate the technical feasibility of a general-purpose CBDC. One goal of this project is to make them faster than existing legacy systems and new blockchains, including Bitcoin. Visa averages around 1,700 transactions per second, Bitcoin five to 10. One of the transaction processors Project Hamilton tested processed 170,000 transactions per second. Project Hamilton found, however, that by eliminating a "chokepoint," it could reach up to and beyond 1.7 million transactions per second. Tune in to learn how these designs work, why transactions may change in the future, and what new findings are on the horizon. Click here to read Project Hamilton's executive summary and white paper: https://rvtv.io/3rjspV9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices