Inchained Arnav Vohra

In this podcast we chat with Mehak who is an NFT Artist from India. She is part of the Guild NFT and her work can be found on all major NFT marketplaces.
Link to her twitter profile : https://twitter.com/MehakJainArt   
Interview Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:49 Mehak’s journey of becoming a crypto artist
02:45 Are there any passionate investors
04:00 NFT marketplaces - Rarible, Opensea, Superrare
06:04 Technical barriers for crypto artists
08:39 Role of marketing for crypto artists
12:19 Current investors in crypto art
14:16 How has crypto art changed your life
16:38 Type of artists joining the crypto game
19:13 NFT Hype and effect on price
24:10 DeFi x NFTs
28:32 Price point of crypto art NFTs
31:09 Closing thoughts

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Imran Khan, who is a Partner at Volt Capital and is the lead at DeFi alliance. Imran has been backing founders building at the cutting edge of DeFi and in this episode we dig deeper on his learnings doing the same. We talk about regulations in DeFi, getting larger financial institutions and market makers involved in crypto and DeFi as well as the current trends of crypto in Africa.

00:00 Introduction

00:28 Background story and overview of Volt Capital

02:47 Investing in companies like Buycoins in Africa and crypto trends in Africa

07:30 DeFi activity in Africa and potential of stablecoins like USDC in Africa

11:30 Background on DeFi Alliance, getting traditional liquidity providers in crypto

15:18 Learnings from running a DeFi accelerator

17:52 Overview on the DeFi Alliance program

20:49 Regulation for DeFi startups

23:48 Interesting trends in DeFi

27:27 Getting traditional liquidity providers to do market making in crypto and DeFi

30:48 NFT space and NFTxDeFi

36:05 Interesting trends in crypto in general - magic labs and others

40:20 Geographical trends in crypto and closing thoughts



Imran's Twitter : https://twitter.com/lmrankhan

DeFi alliance : https://defialliance.co/

Volt capital : https://www.volt.capital/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Jake Brukhman, Founder at CoinFund. Jake is heavily involved in the NFT space - investing in NFT companies as well as creating and collecting digital art. We talk about various things related to NFTs like current and future use-cases, financial products for NFTs like NFT loans, fractionalization etc. We also touched upon the learnings from the DeFi summer and where are things headed in the future.

00:00 Introduction

00:26 Jake's background and how he started CoinFund

02:12 How did Jake fall down into NFT rabbit hole

04:56 NFT sector segments - Issuers, Issuance Platform, Marketplaces, Financial Services

08:05 NFT Financial Services - Liquidity, Loans, Fractionalization

13:01 Deeper Dive into NFT Fractionalization

15:53 How to Make NFTs more useable - L2, meta-transactions, better key management

21:17 Mainstream adoption of NFTs - Democratization of supporting artists

25:53 Secondary markets and revenue sharing in NFTs

28:52 Art auctions houses getting into NFTs

32:48 Suggestions for retail investors looking to invest in NFTs

36:45 Other crypto areas coinfund is looking at - oracles via API3, 

43:13 Learnings from DeFi Summer

49:17 Closing Thoughts



CoinFund Website : https://www.coinfund.io/

Jake's Twitter : https://twitter.com/jbrukh

Jake's Personal Website : http://www.brukhman.com/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Priyanka (https://twitter.com/pridesai), who is involved with The LAO, FlamingoDAO and Seedclub.  The LAO is being organized in the spirit of The DAO, as a member-directed venture capital fund organized in the United States.  Flamingo is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for NFTs.  She is also the VP of Operations at OpenLaw, which is a Consensys project that allows one to create blockchain legal contracts.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 Priyanka’s background and projects she’s involved in currently
05:10 Projects using OpenLaw, Aave credit delegation
10:49 How do OpenLaw contracts work
13:26 Status of The LAO
19:06 LAO vs DAO
21:50 LAO decision and reward process
25:39 Overview on FlamingoDAO and NFTs
29:36 Curating NFT projects
31:13 Status of FlamingoDAO and roadmap
33:53 Social token thesis and Seedclub hackathon
40:03 Closing thoughts

Links:
OpenLaw : https://www.openlaw.io/
The LAO : https://www.thelao.io/
FlamingoDAO : https://flamingodao.xyz/
Seedclub : https://seedclubhacks.com/

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Pranav (https://twitter.com/pransharma), Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Woodstock Fund (https://woodstockfund.com/). Pranav outlined Woodstock's investment thesis and we went deeper into tokenization, financial engineering, NFTs. Pranav shared his experience backing projects in India and around the globe.  
00:00 Introduction
00:42 Backstory of Woodstock Fund
08:01 Surviving the 2018-19 bear market
12:00 Investment thesis of Woodstock - public DLT, DeFi, Tokenization, Web3.0 protocols
20:27 Diving deep into tokenization
27:02 Diving deep into NFTs
32:57 DeFi and financial engineering
41:51 Investing in Indian crypto projects and geographical trends
47:45 How does Pranav stay updated in crypto
52:35 Closing thoughts

In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Jamie (https://twitter.com/jamie247 ), Founder & CEO at Outlier Ventures (https://outlierventures.io). Jamie outlined why NFTs would go mainstream in the coming months and how the legos we have been building with DeFi will be used with NFTs.

Outlier Ventures is a Web3 accelerator investing in the space from 2013. Jamie also runs his own podcast "Founders of Web3" : https://outlierventures.io/podcasts/



00:00 Introduction

02:02 Outlier Ventures overview and investment thesis

07:01 Crypto accelerators and insights running Outlier’s accelerator

16:27 Predictions for the market and bull case for NFTs

27:38 How would NFTs go mainstream

35:14 Using NFTs as collateral in DeFi

41:54 Timeframe for the NFT Bull run

48:11  How one can get involved with NFTs currently

52:19 Trends in DeFi

59:56 Evolution of crypto VCs

1:09:22 Ideal token distribution structure

1:13:29 Closing thoughts