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Square 1 interviewed Magenta and Ori from DOrg to discuss a new public good funding system they created called DAO Drops. Hear more about their experience getting into web3 and working amongst DAOs in this episode!

We're excited to share a conversation with Sid Powell, CEO and Founder of Maple Finance. The team at Maple is tackling one of the most risk involved and challenging issues of Decentralized Finance, undercollateralized lending. Sid is a unique founder in the web3 space, as he comes with a background in banking, not software development. We hope you find plenty of interesting ideas to chew on throughout this conversation. 

https://twitter.com/sidbpowell

This episode is another deep dive with an impressive builder of the ecosystem. James Prestwich has been involved in the ecosystem pre-Ethereum. He's a serial entrepreneur and developer, currently focused on cross chain interactions. Learn more about his experience in the links below!

https://prestwi.ch/about-me/
https://twitter.com/_prestwich

The podcast launch this week was recorded in February as Square 1 was just forming as a concept. We talk with Griff Green, who has been a crypto nomad for about a decade. Griff brings with him a wealth of stories and experiences describing some of the early events that shaped the crypto ecosystem (such as the DAO hack).

Learn about his experience, as well as his ongoing projects (links below).

https://tecommons.org/

https://twitter.com/Givethio

https://commonsstack.org/

This week we speak to the humble leader of Aave, a 5+ billion dollar lending protocol on Ethereum.

Santi comes from Argentina and began building Democracy Earth in a YC cohort. This project continues to evolve, and at the time of the podcast he had just launched an experiment in Universal Basic Income called Proof of Humanity. If you’d like to take a first step into the crypto ecosystem, this would be a very interesting experiment and community to participate in (and you get streamed money for doing so!).