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Sei is a Layer 1 blockchain built for trading. It was co-founded by Jay, who was inspired to create a decentralized trading platform after working at Robinhood during the GameStop trading fiasco. Sei is designed to offer the best trading experience possible, with fast finality, high throughput, and specialization for its core focus.

Sei achieves its goals through a number of innovative technologies. These include frequent batch auctions, twin turbo consensus, and parallelization. Frequent batch auctions prevent front running and ensure that everyone gets the same trade price. Twin turbo consensus achieves faster time to finality and eliminates the risk of re-orgs. Parallelization increases throughput and allows for more transactions to be processed per second.

Sei is still in its early stages, but it has the potential to revolutionize the way we trade. It is a powerful new tool that could give traders more control over their assets and make the markets more fair and transparent. 

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Jayendra Jog
Tommy Shaughnessy

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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 and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi’s transparency page can be viewed here.

As an additional disclosure Delphi Ventures is an investor in Sei. 

In this episode, Jose Macedo offers an inside look into the world of Delphi Labs' recently launched Incubator and valuable advice for startups.

Episode Overview


Insights into project selection process
Delphi Labs' multi-decade commitment to lasting legacy
Comparison between Delphi Labs Incubator and Y-Combinator model
Technical process to guide projects towards success

Jose provided valuable insight into the decision-making process behind selection projects for incubation, touching on first principles thinking and inbound ideas from founders. He also discussed how Labs balances incubating projects with near-term profit potential versus those focusing on long-term, game-changing technologies. 

Jose shared his unique views on the future of capital formation, the importance of founders building up their EQ to handle the highs and lows of the startup world, and Labs' multi-decade approach that gives founders confidence that they will be a part of a long-lasting brand.

Additionally, we delved into the topic of how Delphi Labs compares and contrasts with Y-Combinator's successful incubator model, considering aspects to emulate or avoid. Jose shared his thoughts on building a supportive network for startups, including the importance of adapting and evolving the incubator's model, resources, and support structures to stay relevant in the ever-changing startup ecosystem. He also discussed the technical process behind guiding incubated projects to be the most successful versions of themselves. 

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⁠Delphi Labs⁠
José Maria Macedo
Tommy Shaughnessy

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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 and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi’s transparency page can be viewed here.

As an additional disclosure the host has ownership interests in Delphi Labs but is not a day to day operator in this entity.

Henry de Valence, one of the deepest thinkers of privacy and the founder of Penumbra joins the podcast for a comprehensive discussion on privacy. Can Gurel, a research lead at Delphi Digital, joins as a co-host given his recent in-depth Privacy report. 

In this episode, we covered:


The importance of privacy for humans and in crypto
Financial privacy as a human right
The limits of what can be built on a fully transparent chain
Different ways teams deal with regulation in the ever-evolving crypto landscape
Whether we can expect most liquidity to be in private form in the next 5-10 years

In the technical segment, we dove into various infrastructures of private design, including privacy built on L1s, L2s, dApps and via smart contracts like Tornado Cash. We discussed Penumbra's unique two-phase protocol for privacy vs. concurrent-access-to-state and the potential of threshold decryption as a go-to MEV solution. Our conversation also covered private staking designs, challenges with IBC, and the exciting possibilities enabled by interchain accounts with Penumbra.

If you like this episode, share this episode on Twitter and let us know what you think. 

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Penumbra⁠
Henry de Valence
Tommy Shaughnessy
Can Gurel
Can’s Privacy Report

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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 and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi’s transparency page can be viewed here.

Karate Combat is UFC for the next generation and is built on crypto rails.

Co-Founder OnlyLarping joins the podcast to discuss the fight league, tailoring the entire sport for short and engaging experiences, catering to online fans of a younger demographic, bucking the trend by not signing exclusive distribution agreements so the sport is available everywhere and the token dynamics around UpOnly Gaming.

This conversation was a ton of fun, we hope you enjoy it. Special thanks to Paul Buralge for his help in planning this episode.

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Karate Combat
OnlyLarping
Tommy Shaughnessy

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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 and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi’s transparency page can be viewed here.

Additional disclosure: Delphi Ventures is an investor in Karate Combat.

Hugh Karp⁠, Founder and CEO of Nexus Mutual, and Robert Forster, executive director of Ease, join to discuss the future of Crypto Insurance.

With billions in hacks and new code released every day, insurance will be crucial for the future of Crypto. We talk about why crypto insurance hasn't taken off, how insurance should be priced, the risks of insurance, and more.

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⁠Hugh Karp
⁠Rober Forster
⁠Host Tommy Shaughnessy⁠

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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 and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi’s transparency page can be viewed ⁠here⁠.

Sreeram Kannan, Founder of EigenLayer, joins this episode to talk about the innovative power that EigenLayer is bringing to Ethereum.

In this episode we discuss EigenLayer’s data availability layer for ETH L2s to roll down to, which saves costs and solves congestion issues and EigenLayer’s re-staking layer which allows ETH stakers to opt in to support new use cases, earning more yield while accepting more slashing conditions, instead of apps having to roll their own security. 

Sreeram is extremely smart (his academic papers ⁠here⁠), I learned a ton during this episode and I hope you do as well. Please share your thoughts and favorite parts of the episode with us on Twitter.

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EigenLayer
Sreeram Kannan
Host Tommy Shaughnessy

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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 and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi’s transparency page can be viewed here.