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A new web is emerging that goes well beyond just Bitcoin, Ethereum, and money, but promises an entirely new computing paradigm, and data economy. The Metaverse Podcast is a series co-hosted by Outlier Ventures Founder & Chairman Jamie Burke and Partner & Board Member Rumi Morales, where they introduce you to the founders, entrepreneurs, investors, and the policymakers that are shaping Web3, the Open Metaverse, and the future of digital interaction.
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Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Unbundling Amazon through dCommerce & NFTs, Justin Banon of Boson Protocol
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Justin, a physicist and seasoned executive from the loyalty industry (where he built a billion dollar unicorn), has developed a novel cryptographic game and foundational primitive for Web 3 using ‘stateful NFTs’, with some of the world’s leading game theorists, that removes the need for arbitration in the fulfilment of digital to physical redemption.
We discuss NFTs as loyalty mechanisms, and how an emergent dCommerce Stack could one day unbundle Amazon.
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Blockchain Enabled Gaming and Content-as-the-Platform, Sebastien Borget
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Sebastien, a serial entrepreneur and gaming veteran talks about his vision for an Open Metaverse. Enabled by blockchain and new models, like play-to-earn, to allow economics between creator supply, user demand and virtual consumption.
We discuss the idea of content-as-the-platform and user created, and owned, NFTs as virtual goods, how that interacts with DeFi (Decentralised Finance) and how it promises new levels of financial education, and literacy, to the next generation.
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
DeFi-lization of Non Fungible Tokens, Whale Shark of $WHALE
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Whale Shark is the pseudo-anonymous founder of the $WHALE NFT collector community, with the largest social currency by market cap in the world, built in just 12 months, and backed by the world's largest collection of non-fungible tokens.
We talk about the difference between NFTs, from gaming collectibles to digital fine art, how they can be used to collateralize an asset backed crypto currency, and the power of principle based communities in Web 3.
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Monday Sep 21, 2020
Why We’ve Only Just Got Started in Web 3, Joseph Lubin of Consensys
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Joseph Lubin, Co-Founder of Ethereum and Founder & CEO of Consensys, talks about his continuous mission to improve Web 3’s fledgling but critical ‘trust layer’ for the Internet and how it can bring about ‘granular governance’.
We cover his early background in machine learning and autonomous systems research and why he believes creating ‘AI Lego’ is as important to Web 3 as Money Lego. As well as the benefits and challenges of being a fast follower, the promise of ETH2 and improvements to Meta Mask as well as the roll out of their Ethereum Enterprise proposition Quorum - he also hints at an exciting new DeFi stack...
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Building a Responsible Data Economy, Dawn Song of Oasis Labs
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Dawn is founder & CEO of Oasis Lab & Network, as well as an award-winning professor at Berkeley, working on world leading research in applied cryptography, security, blockchain and machine learning - as well as being a serial entrepreneur.
We talk about spinning out deep tech startups from academia as well as her important mission to create a more responsible data economy based on privacy and user centricity.
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Creating the DeFi Substrate for Polkadot, Bette Chen of Acala Network
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Bette co-founder of Acala Network talks us through her teams passionate belief in a multichain universe, being inspired by Gavin Wood, and why they believe Polkadot will both relieve Ethereum of some of its economic load and allow a greater democratisation of DeFi to grow the pie for Web 3.
We talk about the DeFi paradox of yield vs efficiency, the challenges and sustainability of yield farming, ‘progressive decentralisation’ and the creation of the world's first trustless decentralised sovereign wealth fund.
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Curating the Social Layer for Crypto Art & NFTs, John Craine of SuperRare
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Join some of the world’s most exciting elements of the Web 3 ecosystem, for one-day virtual demos, panels, and more, September 15th & 16th 2020: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/diffusion-digital-september
We talk to John Craine about the mission, purpose and growing pains of scaling the world’s leading NFT (Non Fungible Token) platform. We explore how they are breaking out of the ‘crypto art’ niche to become a social layer, and network, for the curation of digital fine art.
We look at the market for this new asset class, its experiments in growing forms of multimedia, and its experience in both the physical and virtual world.
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Bermuda is one of the only environments with regulatory equivalence with the US and EU and the ‘Risk capital’ of the world, for insurance and reinsurance.
Their Premier, the youngest in his country's history, and with a masters in IT from George Washington, holds a uniquely high level of technical literacy talks with refreshing nuance about creating an innovation first environment to evolve Web 3 startups, in particular in Digital Assets and DeFi, without the licensing overhead burden whilst still maintaining a world beating standard in compliance. We look at how opacity hinders crypto, and why choosing a ‘transparency focused jurisdiction’ like Bermuda vs ‘privacy jurisdiction’ is key for Web 3 startups to be accepted by industry and capital markets.
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Applying a Vertically Driven Approach to Web 3 and DeFi, Stani Kulechov of Aave
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020