Hosted by Shi Khai of LongHash Ventures, we chat with the most innovative founders of Web 3.0 building more open, inclusive, and equitable financial and social infrastructure.
Navigating the Future of Account Abstraction with Safe | Web3 Native Podcast | Safe | Lukas Schor
Join us on the Safe Podcast as we delve deep into the transformative world of account abstraction (AA) with Lukas Schor from Safe. Unravel discussions around the intricacies of multichain strategies, the evolving significance of privacy in the Web3 domain, and the latest standout app launches. This episode also resonates with our earlier conversations on the future of Web3 and its three transitions as highlighted by Vitalik Buterin.
8/24/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 9 seconds
Pioneering the dApp Cambrian Explosion with Neutron | Web3 Native Podcast | Spaydh
Join us on the Web3 Native podcast as we explore more about Neutron, the pioneering partner chain that is expected to bootstrap a Cambrian explosion of cross-chain dApps in Atom Economic Zone (AEZ). Discover insights from @Spaydh on the urgent call for innovation in Cosmos, distinctions in security and chains, and Neutron's role in simplifying dApp development. Interestingly, this podcast brings back our cross-chain dApps discussion with Jose Macedo from Delphi (you can watch the previous podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iih5HMgIfGE)
6/19/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 13 seconds
Decentralized Seed Investing into Web3, AI, and Social | Timour Kosters (Seed Club Ventures)
Timour Kosters, a Partner at Seed Club Ventures shares why Seed Club Ventures existed, his position on why they're big on Internet-Native Organizations (his own term for DAOs), and key exciting narratives like the unfolding intersection of AI and Web3.
13:55 Mission
20:27 Why be a Venture DAO
44:07 SCV Being Stack-Agnostic
47:25 SCV Investments: Machines, Humans, Memes
48:19 Machines: How AI intersects with Web3
58:50 Humans: Art, Music, and Creativity
1:10:14 Memes: Culture- and Mission-Driven Projects
1:18:13 SCV: Seeding into the Future
About LongHash Ventures
LongHash Ventures specializes in bootstrapping Web3 ecosystems. Our venture funds invest in early-stage Web3 protocols, and our LongHashX Accelerator partners with ecosystems and protocols to accelerate early-stage founders.
About LongHashX
LongHashX is the world’s leading Web3 accelerator. We partner with the leading Web3 ecosystems and infrastructure protocols to build their developer communities by funding and venture-building with early-stage founders.
About LongHash Web
LongHash Web is the world’s first on-chain contribution network stewarded by LongHashX Accelerator and underpinned by the technology of SoulBound tokens to recognize and verify contributions from Web3 founders, CTOs, and investors.
Relevant Links:
Website: https://longhash.vc/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashX
Podcast: https://linktr.ee/longhash_ventures
Medium: https://longhashvc.medium.com/
This video is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a request or invitation to invest, and it is not financial advice. Investment in cryptocurrencies can lead to loss of money over short or long periods. Investors in cryptocurrencies should expect prices to have large range fluctuations. It is not advisable to invest a high percentage of total net wealth in cryptocurrencies. Losses might reach 100% of invested assets. Cryptocurrency investing may not be suitable for all investors. Anyone looking to invest in cryptocurrencies should consult a fully qualified independent professional financial adviser. Investors are solely responsible to determine what, if any, taxes apply to their cryptocurrencies transactions.
3/31/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 16 seconds
Astar: The Smart Contract Platform for the Multichain Future | Sota Watanabe
In this podcast, we're featuring Astar Network Founder Sota Watanabe about Astar's steps towards a multichain future. Sota shared that they're currently building XCMP, a messaging protocol that enables tokens to be truly interoperable not just within Polkadot ecosystem but also to other L0 and L1 blockchains. Sota emphasized the three important factors that make up a solid blockchain network: incentivizing developers, superior technology/product, and bootstrapping user base.
12/7/2022 • 54 minutes, 45 seconds
Building Cross-Chain dApps: The Next Generation of dApps with José Macedo, Partner at Delphi Digital
Building Cross-Chain dApps: The Next Generation of dApps with José Macedo, Partner at Delphi Digital by LongHash Ventures
11/30/2022 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 23 seconds
Atom 2.0 and the Interchain Vision with Cosmos Co-founder Ethan Buchman
Our GP Shi Khai spoke with Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems, and President of the Interchain Foundation, about Atom 2.0, Cosmos’ interchain vision, and the recent Prop 82 vote.
11/15/2022 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 44 seconds
Saga: Building the Multichain Future in Cosmos | Rebecca Liao | Multichain Series
This episode features Rebecca Liao, co-founder and CEO of Saga, a chain for launching chains.
For Web3 builders considering launching their own dedicated chains, Saga’s selling proposition is its ability to allow developers to set up their own dedicated blockchain, known as “chainlets”, as easily as deploying smart contracts, and then scale in a “pay as you go” model. Saga also aims to be interoperable beyond Cosmos ecosystem.
LongHash Ventures participated in their recently closed seed round. You can read more about why we invested in Saga here: bit.ly/3CpekMg
8/25/2022 • 45 minutes, 30 seconds
Revisiting the History of Cosmos and the Future of App Chains with Zaki Manian
Zaki Manian, former director of Tendermint Labs and cofounder of Sommerlier Protocol and Iqclusion, talks about the history of Cosmos, his own projects Sommerlier and Iqclusion, and his advice to Web3 builders about the key considerations when choosing a chain.
8/25/2022 • 46 minutes, 38 seconds
DAO Analytics and Organizational Behaviour with DeepDAO founder Eyal Eithcowich
In the final episode of our DAO Mini Series, Shi Khai speaks with Eyal Eithcowich, founder of DeepDAO, a discovery and analytics platform for DAOs.
Eyal shares how he transitioned from activism to DAOs, what qualifies to be a DAO, why voter apathy might not be as serious as you think, and finally, Eyal walks us through the DeepDAO platform and shares some insights into DAO organizational behaviour.
8/4/2022 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 18 seconds
Coinshift V2: A Layered Take on DAO Infrastructure Landscape
Coinshift Founder and CEO Tarun Gupta shares why Coinshift positions itself as a Layer 0.5, new features of Coinshift V2, and his conviction about future proofing DAOs.
He emphasized that builders should have interoperability and composability in mind as we experiment our way to a DAO-rich future.
00:00 Introduction
00:30 Coinshift as a DAO Layer 0.5 in a sea of L0s and L1s
01:09 Emphasis on Composability and Interoperability
10:16 Coinshift’s Relationship with L0s and L1s
16:37 Players in L1 Infrastructure
19:27 Differentiating Coinshift V2 against other Players
24:01 Perspective on Scaling DAOs: NOT through mere Delegation
26:59 Why Web2 Companies will not be Easily Ported on Web3
31:51 Business Model for Big Players of DAO Infrastructure
38:58 Maximizing Community-Rich DAOs
44:45 Take on Crypto as Ponzinomics
49:25 Call to Action; Exciting things for Coinshift V2
Web3 Native Podcast
Hosted by Shi Khai, COO of LongHash Ventures, we chat with the most innovative founders of Web 3.0 building a more open, inclusive, and equitable financial and social infrastructure.
5/18/2022 • 52 minutes, 45 seconds
Parcel: Payments for the Contributor Economy | Anubhav Girdhar | DAO Mini-Series
Parcel founder Anubhav Girdhar disproves some myths about the DAOs and provides some nuances on the pros and cons of DAO compensation models.
He introduces new feature of tags, which increases the efficiency of people working in multiple pods and subDAOs. He also discussed the interdependency of DAO tooling products in a DAO-rich future.
00:10 Introduction
00:36 Anubhav's Personal Crypto Journey
01:40 DAOs and Hierarchies
04:16 Purpose of Core Contributors
11:37 Parcel & Governance
13:51 Contributor Economy
16:40 Fixing the DAO Salary Problem
21:20 Flexibility of Working Groups
23:25 Loyalty vs Freelancing in DAOs
26:45 Parcel's Movement to On-chain Credentials
32:06 Perspective in Creating a Pay Structure in DAOs
35:45 Pain Points for Specific Chains
37:58 A Take on Future of DAO Tooling
44:33 Parcel's Direction Moving Forward
52:17 For Parcel Updates
About Web 3 Native
A podcast for crypto-native founders and users to learn about the most innovative models of Web 3.0. Hosted by Shi Khai of LongHash Ventures, we chat with the most innovative founders of Web 3.0 building a more open, inclusive, and equitable financial and social infrastructure.
About LongHash Ventures
LongHash Ventures is a Web 3 investment fund and accelerator collaborating with founders to build their Web 3 model and tap into the vast potential of Asia. In January 2021, we launched a DeFi-focused fund and invested in projects such as Balancer, Acala Network, Instadapp, and Zapper. We collaborated with their founders to develop their tokenomics, governance, and communities through Asia DeFi Network.
With our LongHashX Accelerator,we have partnered with Polkadot and Filecoin to build more than 40 global Web 3 projects which have raised more than $100m in the past 3 years. Through such investments and active collaboration, we are committed to realising our mission of catalyzing growth for the next generation of the Web.
Website:https://longhash.vc/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC
Podcast: https://linktr.ee/longhash_ventures
Medium: https://longhashsg.medium.com/
The Web 3 Native podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
4/18/2022 • 54 minutes, 38 seconds
Snapshot: Powering the Transition to Decentralized Governance | Nathan VDH | DAO Mini-Series
Snapshot provides a secured transition to a decentralized voting system for organizations. With their next big move to introduce the fully on-chain SnapshotX, voting becomes truly trustless and immutable. Led by LongHash Ventures’ very own Shi Khai Wei, we’re discussing the following topics with Nathan of Snapshot:
- Importance of DAOs
- Inception of Snapshot
- New Product SnapshotX
- Differences in Security of Snapshot vs SnapshotX
- Voting Models
- Merits of Delegation
- Incentivizing Voting within DAOs
- Core Thesis of DAOs in the 2022 Narrative
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00:00:10 Welcome Remarks
00:01:20 Why DAO is Important
00:07:35 Origin of Snapshot
00:15:45 Mechanism of Snapshot
00:18:40 Snapshot Handles Costs?
00:20:10 Service Partners of Snapshots
00:22:31 True Flexibility of Snapshot
00:27:13 Extending Limits of Voting Conditions
00:34:05 SnapshotX Intro
00:36:07 More Computing Power?
00:41:19 Outlook for DAOs as a whole
00:42:21 Philosophical incentive to Vote
00:58:19 Hybrid on Representative Models
01:02:41 Hybrid Model Delegation on Level of Control
01:06:22 The Ideal DAO
01:09:49 Innovative Example: Decentraland
01:14:26 Making “Year of the DAOs” Happen
01:15:49 Spicy Question: Did Nathan take part in SIMP NFT DAOs & IreneDAOs
01:19:07 Future of Snapshot
01:23:36 Shout Out
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Asia DeFi Network is a venture building unit powered by LongHash Ventures, built to scale crypto projects by leveraging a collective network of top DeFi founders, investors, and institutions. The Network currently enables the DeFi Track of LongHash Ventures’ LongHashX Web 3 Accelerator, which catalyses the growth of DeFi projects through a structured Web 3 native program across verticals such as tokenomics, governance, and community building. This podcast features the members of this Network.
1/27/2022 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 10 seconds
Gnosis: Making 2022 the Year of the DAO | Stefan George | DAO Mini-Series
As one of the OG projects of Web 3, Gnosis has had vast experience in finding product market fit, rapidly iterating, and decentralizing into a DAO. In this episode, LongHash Ventures General Partner Shi Khai chats with Stefan George, Co-Founder of Gnosis, to cover:
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- What is a DAO
- The journey of Gnosis
- Tooling DAOs with Gnosis Safe & Reality
- Merging with xDAI
- Managing DAO Treasuries
- Future of DAOs and Gnosis
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00:00:10
How Stefan defines a DAO
00:03:23
How Gnosis was born
00:07:40
Process of Progressive Decentralization
00:10:09
Why Pivot away from Prediction Markets
00:19:19
Gnosis Safe & Multisig Wallets
00:27:18
Zodiac's Reality Module
00:31:29
Does CowSwap use Safe & Zodiac?
00:33:09
Gnosis Chain Merger
00:41:47
Gnosis Chain as the Canary Net for Ethereum
00:44:41
Gnosis' Massive Treasury
00:50:30
DAO Token Swaps
00:53:51
Futarchy
00:58:16
Incentivizing DAO Politicians
01:01:19
Trends in DAO Space
01:05:24
Parting Message
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Asia DeFi Network is a venture building unit powered by LongHash Ventures, built to scale crypto projects by leveraging a collective network of top DeFi founders, investors, and institutions. The Network currently enables the DeFi Track of LongHash Ventures’ LongHashX Web 3 Accelerator, which catalyses the growth of DeFi projects through a structured Web 3 native program across verticals such as tokenomics, governance, and community building. This podcast features the members of this Network.
1/13/2022 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 17 seconds
Grape Protocol: How to DAO | Dean Pappas | Social Token Mini-Series
Grape Protocol has evolved to be more than a toolkit, but the heartbeat of the Solana community. As guest Dean Pappas describes, Grape’s mission is to “accelerate the growth of Solana”. How the protocol does so is unique, featuring:
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- Radical transparency between the core team and the DAO
- Hands-on support of their partner projects
- Incentivisation to access community-created content through membership tiers
- An insistence on international inclusivity, regardless of nationality
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We dive into each of these aspects so you can learn how to DAO. DAO founders and members can’t miss this one.
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Asia DeFi Network Podcast
This podcast features the Members of Asia DeFi Network, a community of crypto founders collaborating on tokenomics, governance, and community building. Hosted by one of the Founding Members of Asia DeFi Network, Shi Khai of LongHash Ventures, we chat with the most innovative founders of Web 3.0 building a more open, inclusive, and equitable financial and social infrastructure.
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About LongHash Ventures
LongHash Ventures is a Web 3 investment fund and accelerator collaborating with founders to build their Web 3 model and tap into the vast potential of Asia. In January 2021, we launched a DeFi-focused fund and invested in projects such as Balancer, Acala Network, Instadapp, and Zapper. We collaborated with their founders to develop their tokenomics, governance, and communities through Asia DeFi Network.
With our LongHashX Accelerator, we have partnered with Polkadot and Filecoin to build more than 40 global Web 3 projects which have raised more than $100m in the past 3 years. Through such investments and active collaboration, we are committed to realising our mission of catalyzing growth for the next generation of the Web.
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Website: https://longhash.vc/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: https://longhashsg.medium.com/
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The Asia DeFi Network podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
12/7/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 43 seconds
Manta Network: Enabling a Private & Interoperable DeFi Ecosystem | Kenny Li | Polkadot Mini-Series
Potentially the final project to occupy Polkadot’s first batch of parachain slots, Manta Network is developing the building blocks to a fully private DeFi ecosystem. Its canary net, Calamari Network, is a parachain on the Kusama Network, and it has built a fully-private payments mechanism and a fully-private DEX. In this podcast, we discuss:
-Why privacy is important in a transparent #Web3 world
-How Manta Network differentiates from privacy tokens such as Monero
-What interoperability on Polkadot unlocks for Manta Network
-Manta Network’s target users: Institutions or Retail
-What you can expect if Manta wins a slot in the first batch of parachain auctions
Website: longhash.vc/
Twitter: twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: longhashsg.medium.com/
The Asia DeFI Network podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
11/23/2021 • 51 minutes, 41 seconds
Roll: Empowering Creators to Own Their Economies | Bradley Miles | Social Token Mini-Series
Bradley Miles from Roll is hell-bent on empowering creators. His project, Roll, a social token issuer, aims to increase the GDP of the creator economy, shifting power & ownership from Web 2 platforms to Web 3 creators themselves. In this Asia DeFi Network podcast episode, Bradley Miles shares:
- How social tokens empower creators to own their economies,
- The potential utility they unlock
- How Roll bridges Web 2 and Web 3
- The social token use cases of the future
00:00:10 Introduction
00:01:07 Bradley's Crypto Journey: Coindesk OG
00:02:45 Why Social Tokens
00:05:05 Introducing Roll: Increase GDP of the Creator Economy
00:06:56 Social Token Purposes
00:11:45 Future Utility of Social Tokens
00:14:28 How social tokens differentiate from loyalty points
00:17:43 Leveraging Ethereum Composability
00:18:10 How social tokens attract liquidity
00:20:38 Integrating DeFi into Social Tokens
00:23:18 Should creators use NFTs or Social Tokens?
00:28:37 Social Token Economics
00:32:38 Bridging Web 2 Platforms with Web 3
00:37:05 Technical: Bridging Web 2 & 3
00:41:20 Creator Coin Tokenomics on Roll
00:44:15 Roll's Business Model
00:46:40 Tokenizing Roll
00:50:36 Bradley's Announcements, Hiring
00:51:50 1 & 5-year Predictions
00:55:22 How about a Bradley Token?
00:57:13 Social Tokens and Non-Profits
00:59:44 Opportunity to Tokenize Public Goods
01:03:51 Challenges & Risks of Social Tokens
01:05:47 Mitigating the Threat of Sybil Attacks
01:07:26 Parting Words
Asia DeFi Network is a venture building unit powered by LongHash Ventures, built to scale crypto projects by leveraging a collective network of top DeFi founders, investors, and institutions. The Network currently enables the DeFi Track of LongHash Ventures’ LongHashX Web 3 Accelerator, which catalyses the growth of DeFi projects through a structured Web 3 native program across verticals such as tokenomics, governance, and community building. This podcast features the members of this Network.
Website: longhash.vc/
Twitter: twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: longhashsg.medium.com/
The Asia DeFI Network podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
11/22/2021 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 26 seconds
Moonbeam: The EVM-Compatible Smart Contract Parachain on Polkadot
Excited about a multichain world? Polkadot will turbo-charge it and Moonbeam will play a prominent role. LongHash Ventures’ GP Shi Khai returns to speak with Derek Yoo, co-founder of Moonbeam on Polkadot and Moonriver on Kusama. We’ll discuss the immense potential that Polkadot’s cross-chain interactions will unlock, before diving into the parachain auctions, the future of Kusama, and what we can look forward to with Moonbeam.
00:00:10 Intro to Derek's Background
00:04:16 Why Polkadot & Moonbeam
00:10:20 Multichain Network Effects
00:14:31 Potential for Cross-chain Interaction on Polkadot
00:18:11 Lido on Polkadot
00:19:22 Intro to Parachains
00:20:45 Benefits of Parachain Auctions
00:22:53 Learnings from Kusama
00:28:14 Community Influence on Auctions
00:32:50 Moonbeam's Value Proposition
00:36:23 Evolution of Kusama
00:39:59 Implications of Unstaking DOT/KSM
00:47:05 How to Accumulate a Treasury
00:54:35 Crowdloan Shoutout
Asia DeFi Network is a venture building unit powered by LongHash Ventures, built to scale crypto projects by leveraging a collective network of top DeFi founders, investors, and institutions. The Network currently enables the DeFi Track of LongHash Ventures’ LongHashX Web 3 Accelerator, which catalyses the growth of DeFi projects through a structured Web 3 native program across verticals such as tokenomics, governance, and community building.
Website: longhash.vc/
Twitter: twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: longhashsg.medium.com/
The Asia DeFI Network podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
11/5/2021 • 57 minutes, 42 seconds
Astar & Shiden Network: A Multichain dApp Hub | Sota Watanabe | Polkadot Mini-Series
Go to 00:20:05 to skip the Polkadot & Kusama overview and straight into Astar & Shiden.
Polkadot could serve as the backbone of the future multichain ecosystem, but today, its relay chain only connects blockchains built on Substrate and does not inherently support smart contracts. Astar Network addresses this urgent need by building a smart contract platform for builders while connecting various Layer 1 blockchains (e.g. Ethereum, BSC, Solana): a dApp hub that is birthing projects such as multichain DEXes. In this episode, we provide an overview of Kusama & Polkadot before diving into the 3 main value propositions of Astar/Shiden Network: dApp staking, EVM & WASM compatibility, and the multichain dApp hub.
00:00:10 Introduction
00:02:31 Explanation of Polkadot: Layer Zero
00:03:43 Trends for Parachain Auctions
00:05:42 Sustainability of Crowdloan Returns
00:07:06 Crowdloans vs. ICO Speculation
00:09:42 Effective Strategies for Parachain Auctions
00:11:09 1-year bidding vs. Split & Collaborate
00:13:20 Bridging Kusama & Polkadot?
00:16:49 Community of Kusama vs Polkadot
00:20:05 Intro to Astar/Shiden
00:24:06 Building Journey: Surviving & Pivoting
00:25:44 Aim: From IPO to DAO
00:27:26 From IPO to DAO: Why
00:29:25 Differentiation between Shiden, Karura, and Moonbeam
00:33:36 dApp Staking
00:35:46 Challenges of dApp Staking
00:37:42 Mitigating Risk of dApp Collusion
00:39:12 Network Effects of dApp Staking
00:41:20 Egalitarian Benefits of dApp Staking
00:44:37 Tokenomics around dApp Staking
00:46:12 Types of Projects Expected on Astar/Shiden
00:48:06 Decentralized M&A System?
00:52:09 Integrating Web 2
00:53:09 Supporting WASM on top of EVM
00:56:05 Cross-virtual Machine: EVM & WASM Interaction
00:58:47 Shiden/Astar: A Scalable Multichain dApp Hub
01:01:02 Prioritisation of Chain Integration
01:02:54 Difficulty to Connect with Existing Rollups
01:04:02 Ease of Integration with Layer 2 Ethereum
01:05:52 Why Build a Bridge Themselves
01:08:52 Innovative Use Cases in Multichain Future
01:11:12 What's exciting in the crypto space for Sota
01:12:25 Shaping Culture in Web 3 - Away from Speculation
Website: https://longhash.vc/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: https://longhashsg.medium.com/
The Web 3 Native podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
9/23/2021 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 10 seconds
Social Tokens: Infusing DAOs with Purpose & Culture | Coopahtroopa
DAOs represent a potential paradigm shift in how we organize work and meet similarly-minded people. At the forefront of this revolution is Coopahtroopah, a member of more than 100 DAOs across DeFi, NFTs, and Social. Shi Khai and Cooper discuss how Social DAOs are manifesting communities incentivised less by financial gain, but by culture, socialization, and purpose. These organisations include Friends with Benefits, Bankless DAO, and Uniwhales, for instance. Learn about how they are gathering motivated people to achieve various missions, the structures/tokenisation that align their goals, and how DAOs are poised to be crypto’s next big wave.
00:02:36 Intros
00:05:09 Social Tokens
00:08:00 DAO Highlight: Friends with Benefits & Forefront
00:09:55 Seed Club: Social Token Incubator
00:11:46 Learnings from Past Few Months
00:15:40 Genesis of Social Tokens
00:16:35 Quality of Community: Social Communities > ICO Projects
00:20:47 Ensuring Quality: Do we need "Proof-of-Work" for Membership?
00:23:17 How to Balance Inclusion and Contribution
00:25:54 Proof-of-Participation
00:29:44 Balance between Inclusion & Community Quality
00:32:39 Enhancing Inclusion: Fractional Ownership
00:37:55 Sustainability of Social DAOs across Bull & Bear Cycle: Seasons
00:42:16 Social DAO Org Structure & Incentives: Who decides on distribution?
00:45:47 Revenue Models for Social Groups
00:49:37 Convergence with DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs
00:52:47 NTFs (Non-Transferable Fungibles)
00:55:05 Creating On-Chain & Off-Chain Identity
The Web 3 Native podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
With the gazillion projects ongoing on Polygon at the moment, it's hard to keep up. On top of the Hermez merger and the launch of the Polygon DAO, massive funds have been dedicated for projects building across DeFi and NFTs on Polygon. In this episode, however, Arjun & Ishan condense these initiatives and dive into how they will provide 360 support for founders of Web 3.
00:00:12 Personal intros
00:04:31 Polygon Intro
00:06:46 Culture of Polygon
09:51:00 Merger with Hermez Network: First-ever M&A in Crypto
00:14:59 True Scalability: More scalable than Web 2
00:19:02 Hermez: Alternative to Polygon
00:20:43 Tokenomics of Hermez & Polygon
00:22:06 HEZ & MATIC Token Swap
00:25:07 Consolidation of chains
00:26:36 Polygon Studios: Polygon's Bet on NFTs & Gaming
00:30:56 Relationship between Polygon and Developers
00:35:12 Polygon Studios: Onboarding Web 2?
00:35:55 DeFi For All Fund & The DeFi-NFT Intersection
00:40:20 Polygon: The Onboarding Channel for Mainstream
00:48:19 PolygonDAO: Community-driven Project Incubation
01:01:47 Future Outlook
Disclaimer: All material on the Web 3 Native podcast is for informational purposes only. Please do not consider any content as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may hold positions in the projects or companies mentioned.
8/27/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 47 seconds
Nansen: Ensuring Transparency in Crypto through Data Journalism | Alex Svanevik
“I see Etherscan as an encyclopedia and Nansen as a newspaper.” We speak with Alex, CEO and Co-Founder of Nansen. Nansen is a platform that helps inform crypto investors on their investment decisions with simplified on-chain analytics and wallet labels. We discuss the company's decentralization plans, role in the crypto data landscape, and where Nansen is headed in the future (NFTs?)
8/12/2021 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 43 seconds
Arbitrum & The Future Layer 2 Ecosystem | Steven Goldfeder
As gas prices continue to be an obstacle for Ethereum adoption, Arbitrum represents a state-of-the-art Layer 2 solution that could improve user experience in DeFi, NFTs, and more in the long run. During SCB10x’s DeFi Virtual Summit, we sat down with Steven (CEO of Offchain Labs & Arbitrum) to discuss his story transitioning from academia to Arbitrum, considerations for developers when building on Layer 2, and how the future could look like with multiple Layer 2 solutions.
This podcast should not be considered as investment advice. LongHash Ventures may hold positions in the assets mentioned.
00:10 Reddit & Arbitrum
01:52 Roots of Arbitrum: How Arbitrum and Steven started in crypto
05:11 Transition from Academia to Arbitrum
08:07 Status of the Arbitrum Ecosystem Today
11:00 Ease of Deploying on Arbitrum
15:57 Network Effects of the Arbitrum Ecosystem
19:59 Bridging Layer-2s to Address Fragmentation
22:42 Segmenting Chains by Verticals
25:59 Role of Arbitrum in Scalability
28:23 Advice for Crypto Community
8/6/2021 • 30 minutes, 6 seconds
Yield Guild: The MetaGuild of Play-to-Earn | Gabby Dizon
As Axie Infinity continues to break records, we speak with Gabby Dizon, CEO and Co-Founder of Yield Guild Games. Together, we discuss the incredible growth of play-to-earn models while outlining how we can sustain such growth. We also dive deep into YGG: the roles of its scholars and investors, and the power of its community mining program and sub-guild structure. We conclude with some advice for aspiring play-to-earn developers, from whether to build your own sidechain to how to keep users sticky.
00:01:05 Origins of Gabby and YGG
00:03:04 Triggers to NFT & Metaverse adoption
00:04:50 How did it feel to be building around NFTs in bear markets
00:06:47 Axie Infinity's Growth & SLP token
00:09:19 Building games on YGG
00:11:34 Rise of Play-to-Earn vs. Free-to-Play
00:14:38 Why upfront cost?
00:16:16 Is going full-time on AXS feasible?
00:19:50 Sustainability of Play-to-Earn projects
00:23:35 Best Practices for Future Play-to-Earn models?
00:26:04 The Core Model of YGG
00:33:43 The Role of YGG Scholars
00:35:58 The Role of YGG Investors
00:40:06 YGG's Organisational "Arms"
00:43:15 YGG's Community Mining Program
00:49:03 Freedom of Choice for sub-DAOs
00:52:51 Correlation of YGG to the Crypto Market
00:54:20 Intersecting Gaming NFTs and DeFi
00:58:37 Scaling Play-to-Earn Gaming with Sidechains?
01:00:22 Advice for Game Developers
01:02:12 What it takes for Play-to-Earn to be default
01:04:00 Advice for Entrepreneurs in Play-to-Earn
01:06:00 Games Gabby's Excited About
01:07:16 Potential for Southeast Asia
01:08:13 How to Contact YGG
7/27/2021 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 8 seconds
Tranchess: Enhancing Yield on Bitcoin & USDC
In this episode, we explore Tranchess: a tokenised asset management protocol. Tranchess features various structured, chess-themed products catered for investors of varying risk appetites: Queen, Bishop, and Rook. Co-founder Danny walks us through these products, how Tranchess fills the gaps of DeFi, and explains the mechanics behind the protocol.
03:20 What is Tranchess
04:53 The gaps that Tranchess fill in DeFi
07:30 Intro to Tranchess Products
08:24 Product 1: Queen & Target Investor
09:15 Product 2: Bishop & Target Investor - For risk-averse users
11:23 Product 3: Rook & Target investor - For risk-loving users
16:05 How Tranchess is different from existing products
20:35 Explanation of rebalancing and risk management
30:30 Net Asset Value and TWAP pricing explained
34:24 TWAP and Market Makers
41:36 Game Theory on Tranchess
43:30 Why Anonymous Team?
46:16 Anonymous nature of the team and assurances for users
49:17 Why they launched on BSC
51:00 Community building approach
58:29 Future of Tranchess
Tranchess protocol: https://tranchess.com/
Web 3 Native is a podcast for crypto-native founders and users to learn about the most innovative models of Web 3.0.
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed in this podcast do not represent the views of LongHash Ventures in any way. This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may hold positions in the tokens and companies mentioned.
7/16/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 12 seconds
Instadapp's Governance Token, with Sowmay Jain
We chat with Instadapp founder Sowmay Jain to talk about Instadapp's newly-distributed, airdropped INST token dedicated to decentralizing the protocol. Learn how Instadapp incentivised and distributed INST to lower-net-worth individuals to participate in governance, why it was distributed to Aave/Compound/MakerDAO users, and Sowmay's vision for Instadapp's progressive decentralization.
7/8/2021 • 50 minutes, 38 seconds
How to Decentralize | Anjan from ParaFi
This segment from our Web 3.0 Governance Roundtable is a must-listen for protocols decentralising governance! Anjan from ParaFi explains the best practices from protocols like Maker DAO and Indexcoop/Set Protocol, and suggests ways in which governance can improve moving forward, with delegation, automation, data-driven proposals.
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LongHash Ventures is an investment fund and accelerator focused on catalysing the growth of the native Web 3.0 economy. To enable true ownership, permissionless access, and trustless interactions, we launched a DeFi-focused fund and invested in projects such as Balancer, Acala Network, Instadapp, and Zapper. We have also partnered with Polkadot and Filecoin to accelerate more than 40 global Web 3 projects which have raised more than $100m in the past 2 years. Through such investments and venture building, we are committed to realising our vision where anyone can access a more transparent, secure, and decentralised Web.
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7/2/2021 • 16 minutes, 31 seconds
Web 3.0 Governance: Roadmap to Decentralization
We all share a common goal to decentralise, but how do you actually do it? We gathered an all-star DeFi cast to answer that question in Web 3.0 Governance: Roadmap to Decentralization.
03:05 Stani: Aave's Road to Decentralisation
28:04 Jordan: Synthetix's Road to Decentralisation
48:32 Anjan from ParaFi Capital: How Governance can Develop
1:04:46 Arthur from Defiance Capital: Investor's Perspective
1:19:50 Kristen and Marta from Balancer: Plan for Decentralisation
1:23:09 Ruitao from Acala: Plan for Decentralisation
1:30:55 Samyak from Instadapp: Plan for Decentralisation
If you can’t spare the time to hear the insight from our guests, subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on notifications! We’ll be segmenting the full video and posting a playlist of highlights next week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUmlbGDIJ4ewjTzXwwJYJvQ
6/24/2021 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 6 seconds
Zapper: Past, Present, and Future with Seb Audet
Shi Khai sits down with Seb Audet, CEO of Zapper, to discuss the startup’s past, present and future. Since Seb’s creation of DefiSnap, Zapper has grown leaps and bounds, most recently raising a $15m Series A round to build its decentralised “App Store” of DeFi dApps. In this episode, learn how Zapper has become a key pillar in DeFi, from its single-minded user-centric approach to its emphasis on educating the masses.
01:04 What is Zapper, and how and why did it come about?
09:41 Why did Zapper build Exchange, Pool, Farm, and Bridge?
15:03 The crucial role of education in DeFi
19:29 The Balance of Freedom and Responsibility in DeFi
24:36 How does Zapper make money and incentivise engagement?
30:00 “DeFi has never been about institutions coming in”
31:30 Zapper’s Priorities Moving Forward
34:21 Decentralising Zapper & The Role of Tokens in DeFi
39:00 The Keys to Zapper’s Lively Community
44:59 Competition? What competition?
50:57 Seb’s views on the future of DeFi: Going Beyond TradFi
6/18/2021 • 56 minutes, 14 seconds
Polkadot, Parachains & Crowdloans with Acala/Karura Network
$130m worth of KSM has been locked (at the time of posting) just within days of Karura Network's Crowdloan. In this backdrop, Acala/Karura Network's Ruitao Su breaks down the basics of Polkadot, parachains, and crowdloans with our host and General Partner Shi Khai, before diving into Karura's token distribution, crowdloan mechanics, and the vision of Acala Network.
6/11/2021 • 55 minutes, 40 seconds
AMA with Balancer And Gnosis
After the launch of Balancer V2, we collected questions from the Balancer China community for Fernando (CEO of Balancer), Martin (CEO of Gnosis), and Marta (Head of Community at Balancer). We talk about how Balancer V2 enables trading at the best price, lowers gas fees, and enhances capital efficiency. Then, we dive into the long-term future of Balancer, exploring the incorporation of real-world assets, NFTs, and Layer 2 on the DEX.
6/1/2021 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 31 seconds
DeFi Real Talk - On The Ground In Asia
Starting or growing a community in Asia? Learn practical tips and insights from the people who are operating on the ground in Asia, investing and overseeing the projects who have successfully penetrated the region.
Host: Shi Khai Wei, COO of LongHash Ventures
Guests:
From China, Mable Jiang of Multicoin Capital
From Singapore, Arthur Cheong of DeFiance Capital
From Malaysia, TM Lee of Coingecko
From Thailand, Tai Panich of SCB10x
We talk about:
- Segmenting the massive region of Asia
- The importance of recruiting a community leader
- The appeal of rapid iteration
- Institutional adoption in Asia
- Tailoring your Asia strategy by country
... and more
5/26/2021 • 50 minutes, 30 seconds
Trailer: LongHash Ventures Podcast
Our host and COO at LongHash Ventures, Shi Khai Wei, introduces the LongHash Ventures Podcast.