In this week’s episode, I interview Jeff Dorman, chief investment officer at Arca, an investment management firm focusing on digital assets. Jeff has been valuing assets for the past 20 years, from investment-grade bonds, to high-yield debt and equities, and now he’s doing the same for crypto. We talk about the recent selloff; he thinks the big crash is over but that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the market bottom. Still, Jeff says this is a buying opportunity and he gives insights into which sectors will outperform and underperform. We also talk about valuing cryptocurrencies and blockchain protocols. Jeff says some DeFi companies have fundamentals and multiples that are hard to come by in traditional finance. As an example he names SushiSwap, which is generating 1 billion in revenue and paying dividends. Jeff says he can apply tried and true methodologies from debt and equity, but he’s most excited about finding new valuing techniques as crypto has its own characteristics, for example, the fact that a token can combine utility with financial ownership. To him, learning to analyze a space like DeFi before most have even heard of it where the real alpha come from. Jeff’s clients are hedge funds and traditional investors, and he says they’re getting increasingly interested in decentralized finance —they find DeFi protocols are a lot easier to grasp than cryptocurrencies because they're more similar to tangible companies. He says asset managers will probably very soon start getting involved in yield farming and staking. Jeff believes we’re heading to a 10 to 20-year secular bull market in crypto, where there will be a decoupling of sectors and where DeFi continues to grow. Follow The Defiant https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/ https://twitter.com/defiantnews https://thedefiant.io/ https://t.me/DefiantNews https://t.me/DefiantChat #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uojX5HeGE

In this week’s episode, I interview Adam Jackson, co-founder of Braintrust, a user-owned talent network. Think Fiverr for web3. Braintrust runs on Ethereum, has thousands of users, household names like NASA, TaskRabbit, Nike and Nestlé are clients, it has processed millions of dollars, yet not many people in the crypto community have heard of it. And it may be by design, as the team has focused on building the platform looking outside of crypto. Adam believes the so-called gig economy is broken because platforms are incentivized to extract as much value as they can, leaving workers feeling like they’ve been cheated. The way to fix it, he says, is through market-driven solutions using Web 3.0, DeFi and user-owned marketplaces. Thanking our sponsors: Balancer, one of the leading DeFi automated market makers (AMM) for multiple tokens. Dive into their pools here! Kraken, consistently rated the best and most secure cryptocurrency exchange, which can get you from fiat to DeFi Aave, an open source and non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can earn interest on deposits and borrow assets Integral is a new DeFi primitive and OTC trading protocol built for large crypto trades. Join the waitlist for a new version launching in Q4! Follow The Defiant https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/ https://twitter.com/defiantnews https://thedefiant.io/ https://t.me/DefiantNews https://t.me/DefiantChat #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl1WeLdA3e0

EDIT: following publishing Ryder reached out and informed me that he had in fact presented his findings to Yuga before going public. He is also adamant that he is not low-level trolling nor that he wrote the post on 4chan although someone was indeed sponsored to create it. Leaving many unanswered questions. We will attempt to do a follow up as the film is obviously missing his voice. Which it needs. Ryder Ripps. It’s a name you’re probably sick of hearing now. And you’d probably rather he went away but the truth is double R has been at this art game longer than you’d imagine and NFTs are simply the latest internet curiosity he’s turned his very specific artistic gaze towards. And you might flinch hearing me calling him an artist but if you do your homework, and cast your disgust to one side, you’ll find a human who’’s made the internet his canvas or his brush, I’m never entirely sure, continually questioning our relationship with it through websites, memes, trolling, installations and everything in between. The New York Times famously called him the consummate internet cool kid back in 2014. Vice was moved to defend his deeply controversial Art Whore installation where he invited two CraigsList Casual Encounters listees offering ‘sensual bodywork sessions’ to create art on camera. It was declared one of the most offensive projects of 2014 by Art F City. Then there was that whole saga with Zara Larsson and Azeallia Banks. He was her creative director, said some offensive things which Azealia then shared and then she dumped Ryder after being engaged to him for a solitary week. Not to diminish any of that but we’ve got a lot to cover. 00:00 A few good GMs 02:46 Introducing Ryder Ripps 05:21 The back story 09:15 Sponsors 11:25 Apes flip punks and everything changes 13:41 Philion, Nazis and RR/BAYC 16:34 Yuga sues Ryder Ripps 18:35 Does Yuga have a case? 19:37 No copyright infringement? 20:46 Does Ryder have any defense at all? (spoiler... no) 22:10 What's Yuga really up to? 23:41 Copyright comes of age in NFTs 25:43 Art theft, CC0 and Deviant Art 27:30 A landmark moment for NFTs? 28:10 Ryder deserves a bravery award but won't get it from J1mmy 30:48 Are BAYC racists? (spoiler... probably not) Our sponsors https://defi.valktech.io/ https://rpc.edennetwork.io/ https://nexo.io/ Follow The Defiant team on Twitter: Camila Russo: https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Robin Schmidt: https://twitter.com/iamsupermassive Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov ✊ Follow The Defiant Website https://thedefiant.io/ Newsletter https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord https://discord.com/invite/svJ7dZ75J3 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram Announcements https://t.me/DefiantNews Telegram Chat https://t.me/DefiantChat #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw6v-ZuE_1A

In this week’s interview, we chatted with Grammy Award-winning DJ Andre Anjos, aka RAC. Many have seen cryptocurrencies as a way to decentralize the financial system, thanks to the innovation of digital scarcity. RAC says that digital scarcity can also help disrupt the music industry. His experiments have so far showed how distributed networks can be the underlying infrastructure that helps artists can sell their creations directly to fans; how tokens on open markets can help more accurately price goods and help them benefit from secondary trading of their products; and now how digital assets can help strengthen communities. Follow The Defiant http://thedefiant.substack.com https://twitter.com/DefiantNews Follow Camila Russo Camila Russo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/camirusso Camila's website: https://www.camirusso.com/ Purchase Infinite Machine at Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/yxd74f54 Edit by Alp Gasimov https://twitter.com/alpgasimov #thedefiant #defi #decentralized #finance #blockchain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY5HKl8KHYU