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Alex Tapscott, Andrew Young and guests break down the fundamentals of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and how this cutting edge technology enables individuals and institutions to transact, and create value, without the need for traditional financial intermediaries.

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DeFi Decoded with Alex Tapscott & Andrew Young

    • Technology
    • 5.0 • 11 Ratings

Alex Tapscott, Andrew Young and guests break down the fundamentals of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and how this cutting edge technology enables individuals and institutions to transact, and create value, without the need for traditional financial intermediaries.

If you want to get a more in-depth view of what's going on in Web3 and the digital asset space, and access to the most recent information and insights available, please sign up for FREE to our weekly newsletter, Digital Asset Digest - https://1.ninepoint.com/subscribe-digital-asset-digest.html

    DeFi Decoded - Bitcoin's Second Act: Can The OG Network Lead the Next Era of Web3?

    DeFi Decoded - Bitcoin's Second Act: Can The OG Network Lead the Next Era of Web3?

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi. Listen in as they discuss Bitcoin’s fourth-ever halving that occurred last Friday, gold’s considerable uptick in recent weeks, the geopolitical neutrality of Bitcoin and whether central banks will adopt it as a reserve asset, the impact of Bitcoin Runes and BRC-20 tokens on the network, the potential of ‘remining’ to launch applications leveraging Bitcoin’s hashing power, the prospect of a Bitcoin collateralized stablecoin, Coinbase’s upcoming earnings next week and how its layer 2 Base may surprise investors, the New York Stock Exchange’s poll on 24/7 trading, and more!

    • 40 min
    DeFi Decoded - How MetaMask Institutional is Taking Web3 Mainstream with Daniel Lynch

    DeFi Decoded - How MetaMask Institutional is Taking Web3 Mainstream with Daniel Lynch

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guest Daniel Lynch, Head of MetaMask Institutional Partnerships at Consensys. Listen in as they discuss Daniel’s journey from working at SWIFT to Consensys, MetaMask at its core and the role it fulfills, its future integrated functionalities, their strategy and supports to bring institutions on chain, the understanding and thoughts that banks have on blockchain technology, whether the future will be multi-chain, all-things MetaMask Snaps, Daniel’s role and the state of Web3 in Latin America, and more!

    • 46 min
    DeFi Decoded - DCG's Bright Future, Plus MONAD Secures the Bag

    DeFi Decoded - DCG's Bright Future, Plus MONAD Secures the Bag

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3. Listen in as they discuss Monad Labs’ $225 million fundraising round led by Paradigm, why developers are excited about Monad, what EVM-compatible blockchains are and how they work, the current chain ecosystem dynamics and how things might look in the future, the FTX estate selling $1.9 billion worth of locked-up Solana, Genesis liquidating GBTC shares to buy Bitcoin to distribute to Gemini Earn creditors, and more!

    • 29 min
    DeFi Decoded - Is Memecoin Madness Over? Plus: How to Value Base

    DeFi Decoded - Is Memecoin Madness Over? Plus: How to Value Base

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3. Listen in as they discuss a crypto market recap, which phase of the cycle we’re likely in, whether the recent multi-month memecoin madness could finally be coming to an end, where investors may rotate into next, the series of big raises by crypto VC firms in past weeks, the state of Ethereum post-Dencun upgrade and its sustainability compared to other chains, Coinbase’s layer 2 Base and valuing the network, Ethena Labs’ new ENA token, and more!

    • 37 min
    DeFi Decoded - Bringing an Engineer's Mentality to Early Stage VC with Avichal Garg & Ken Deeter of Electric Capital

    DeFi Decoded - Bringing an Engineer's Mentality to Early Stage VC with Avichal Garg & Ken Deeter of Electric Capital

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guests Avichal Garg, Co-Founder and General Partner, and Ken Deeter, General Partner, of Electric Capital. Listen in as they discuss the different phases of crypto adoption, how they think about investing in the space and key areas they’re monitoring, what the future of decentralized finance might look like, the evolution of staking and yield-bearing assets, whether applications will go cross-chain or build out their own appchains, the net result of DeFi ecosystems between different chains, and more!

    • 33 min
    DeFi Decoded - Ethereum's Tim Beiko on how Dencun massively scales Ethereum

    DeFi Decoded - Ethereum's Tim Beiko on how Dencun massively scales Ethereum

    Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guest Tim Beiko, Protocol Support of the Ethereum Foundation. Listen in as they discuss a simple explanation of Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade, the sustainability of lower layer two transaction fees, whether there’s still a need for several different layer two chains, what’s next on Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, considerations on raising the data throughout on Ethereum, timeline on stateless Ethereum and full sharding efforts, the Ethereum Foundation team and how they operate, and more!

    • 46 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
11 Ratings

11 Ratings

David Miltenberger ,

Great show!

Love the show guys. Great for a DeFi beginner like me to learn all about the basics and potential in future. Please keep up the great work guys!

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