Raoul Pal: The Journey Man

Heavyweights like Amazon Web Services dominate the cloud space with centralized databases. But Bluzelle, a decentralized storage network, has quickly established itself as a viable alternative for creators. Bluzelle is producing high-quality games, protecting players’ NFTs, and leveraging DeFi yields with its 10,000 TPS Cosmos-based blockchain. Co-founder and CEO Pavel Bains joins Santiago Velez, co-founder and division lead of R&D at Block Digital, to talk about Bluzelle’s product offerings and its rising profile in the world of GameFi. Recorded on April 18, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Delphi Digital, and Real Vision CEO and co-founder Raoul Pal reflect on Web 3.0 and community-driven social tokens. Kelly has spoken with several professionals in this adolescent industry such as Cooper Turley of Friends With Benefits, Jack Spallone of HIFI Labs, Jeff Kaufman of Jump, Jeff Sloss of Seed Club, and creators themselves like Micah Johnson. It’s been a memorable learning experience, and his conviction in the promise of social and community tokens is even stronger than when the series began. Pal and Kelly explore the concept of Bitcoin as a social token and ponder what the future of Web 3.0 looks like, taking the lessons learned over the past months as a foundational starting point. Recorded on November 23, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We continue to see incumbent corporations experimenting with Web 3.0 projects, especially in the NFT space. Jeff Kauffman, founder of Jump, has experience working for one of the largest Web 2.0 social media platforms. However, after having moral disagreements with the prevailing business model, he has transitioned his talents towards the decentralized universe of communities. Kauffman sits down with Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Delphi Digital, to discuss his experience leaving the world of Web 2.0 for the new frontier of Web 3.0. While questions remain concerning whether established tech and finance companies will launch their own decentralized platforms or simply provide seed funding, Kelly and Kauffman speculate on how this anticipated transition will take form. Filmed on October 22, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO and co-founder of Solana, joins Eric Kryski, CEO and co-founder of Bidali, to expound upon the inner workings of Solana, an Ethereum competitor solving for speed and scalability. Yakovenko shares the unexpected journey of how the Solana team came to be and the non-trivial task of developing an entirely new consensus algorithm to differentiate it from typical Proof of Stake chains at the time. Yakovenko and the team pioneered "Proof of History", which involves cryptographic timestamps to accompany each transaction and can be verified internally by the Solana network. This method is combined with Proof of Stake to boost efficiency as well as security. Filmed on August 9, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Exponential Age Asset Management CIO Moritz Seibert probes the mind of Martin Green, CEO and Co-CIO of Cambrian Asset Management. Moritz and Martin discuss different quantitative investment strategies and their application to the digital asset market, a space like no other. Martin shares how he handles trading in the spot market versus the derivatives market, and he explains how data influences crypto trading generally. It’s a fascinating conversation that breaks down the similarities and the differences between the old school and crypto, highlighting key aspects of market structure. Recorded on April 18, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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