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[Podcast] Monthly “Proof of Work” Newsletter Wrap-up w/ Eric Meltzer from INBlockchain

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Description

I’ve long aspired to release topical content relevant to the current crypto news cycle. But I never found a great way to pull that off. There are lots of podcasts with crypto bros shilling their unedited opinions on price movements or the latest ICOs, and I just didn’t want to go that route (especially since I don’t personally enjoy this content).

While contemplating this delimma, Eric Meltzer’s Proof of Work Newsletter arrived in my mailbox. What I appreciate about Eric’s Newsletter is that it isn’t filled with news hackery or thought pieces from Medium; instead, Proof Of Work includes updates directly from the makers behind top crypto projects. Proof of Work includes primary source material coming directly from founders, rather than third-party analysts.

So I approached Eric about doing a Monthly Proof of Work Audio wrap up. He said yes, so here we are.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Major themes and trends amoung crypto projects for the month of August
  • Our 6 favorite features and releases “shipped” from various engineering teams in the space
  • Which crypto team has won “The Ship Award” … which is the monthly award we give to the project that has shipped the most in a given month
  • Why asian exchanges are absolutely dominant right now
  • Which crypto businesses are making money, and . . .
  • What new developments we expect to see in September

Here’s a little bit of background on Eric Metlzer:

Eric is a partner at INBlockchain, China’s oldest and largest institutional cryptoasset and blockchain fund. To give you a sense of INBlockchain’s size and scope, consider that they announced a $1.6 Billion dollar fund with 30% coming from the Hong-Jo local government. And prior to that they already had a couple billion under management. If you want to learn more about Eric, check out Flippening Episode #17.

Thanks To Our Sponsors

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our two sponsors, Panda Analytics and the Nomics API.

This Episode Is Possible Due To The Generous Support of PandaAnalytics.com

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[Podcast] Programmable Tokenized Debt Markets w/ Dharma Protocol’s Nadav Hollander (Parts 1 & 2)

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Part 1 Description

Today’s conversation isn’t quite a documentary, but it isn’t just your average interview either. So I’m labeling this a deep dive, and the topic is tokenized debt.

The Flippening Podcast is first and foremost for institutional investors, and I’m covering this topic because the dual issues of debt and lending are just too big to ignore and absolutely rife with investment opportunities. Many of which we talk about during this conversation.

My co-creator for this content is Nadav Hollander, who is the founder and CEO of Dharma: a platform for building borderless lending products using programmable, tokenized debt.

This is the first of two episodes, in which we break down the topic of tokenized debt into five chapters. Today, you will hear the first few chapters of this conversation.

In chapter one, we discuss the history and origins of debt from the origin of the human species, up until around the year 2000. We also discuss the web 2.0 peer to peer lending solutions that preceded Dharma, such as prosper and lending club.

In the second chapter, we discuss the history and development of Crypto Asset Technology that has paved the way for programmable, tokenized debt. In chapter 3 we discuss we discuss how the Dharma protocol works and the 1st class operators within the system.

Part 2 Description

As a reminder, in chapter one we discussed the history of debt from the origin of the species to the year 2000. In chapter two, we explored the history and development of crypto asset technology that has paved the way for programmable, tokenized debt.

Today’s episode begins with the second half of chapter three of this conversation, where we discuss how the Dharma protocol works and the first class operators within the system.

In chapter four, we focus on the top use cases and investment opportunities for tokenized debt. Finally, in chapter five, we discuss Dharma as a corporate entity, how it works, and more.

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[Podcast] Intermission – Nomics’ Series A VC Round & Other Updates

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Today’s episode is a brief discussion about our recent intermission.

We’re taking a break because Nomics, the company that produces this podcast, is currently fundraising for our Series A and I (Clay Collins) am swamped until part 1 of this process is complete.

In this episode, we talk about fundraising, as well as the future of this podcast. We’ll be coming back with a vengeance (and a brand new episode) next week.

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#25 – Crypto API News, Tokenized Securities, and Product Updates

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A lot is happening here at Nomics HQ, particularly around the continued development of our cryptocurrency and bitcoin data API.

Here’s a glimpse into what we’ve been up to:

Highlight #1 – If You’re An OTC Desk, Exchange, Or Index, Please Contact Us … We Want To Do A Deep Data Integration With You

If you’re an exchange, OTC desk, crypto index, or security token platform, we want to talk with you.  Primarily because we’d like to do a deep data integration with you.

There are several benefits to integrating your cryptocurrency exchange with us (Nomics).

When you integrate with Nomics we can provide your exchange with enhanced exposure and reduced development costs.

Benefit #1: Do A Deep Data Integration With Us and Get Increased Exposure For Your Exchange or OTC Desk

When you integrate with Nomics, you will get:

Admittedly, the upside here is mostly for newer exchanges.

Benefit #2: Do A Deep Data Integration With Us and Massively Reduce Your API Development Costs

The largest benefit to integrating with Nomics is that, by integrating with us, you can massively reduce the development cost and effort associated with creating and maintaining your API.

The cost associated with integrating with us is very small:

You just need to create endpoints for:

  1. Markets
  2. Trades

From those two endpoints, we can provide dozens of API endpoints to users (for free, forever) that allow them to access data in many different convenient ways.  And you don’t have to do anything beyond providing two simple endpoints.

And if you don’t want to do a deep data integration with us . . .

. . . that’s OK. We still want to connect.

We’ve used and integrated with countless exchange APIs and we’ve seen the best & worst.

Offer: if you’re an exchange & want free help w/ your API, hit us up. A few tweaks & you could have one of the best APIs in our space (the bar is pretty low).

Seriously, there’s no pitch. We just want data in the space to be better.

Highlight #2 – All Versions of the Nomics.com API Now Have No Rate Limits

Free Cryptocurrency Bitcoin Data API No Rate Limits

Ok, this has been the case for a while.  But it’s something that’s been getting us attention and that most folks don’t know about until we explicitly point this out, so it’s worth noting here.

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Tokenize The World: A Tokenized Securities Documentary

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Part 1 Audio: The Definitive Intro To Tokenized Securities

Part 2 Audio: How Security Token Platforms Actually Work

Part 3 Audio: 7 Predictions About Our (Wild) Tokenized Future

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Table of Contents

Introduction to This Documentary

I decided to create this documentary about security tokenization after learning that many of my preconceived notions about security tokens were just flat wrong.  During my journey, I also discovered that several individuals I respected (and who were otherwise well versed on cryptoassets) also had misconceptions about security tokenization, how and where security tokens attempted to add value, why they might be needed, and the mechanisms of how they worked.

As my friend, Taylor Pearson pointed out in a really long Tweet storm: understanding how cryptocurrencies work means understanding cryptography, distributed systems, economics, and politics.

Security tokens add to this list . . .

  • SEC regulations & securities laws
  • Equity mechanics
  • Private and public issuance of stock
  • Secondary trading
  • Guidelines from over 100+ legal jurisdictions

My purpose here is not to convince you that security tokens and asset back tokens are valuable or needed, but instead to simply the complex and tell the story of projects makers, issuers, investors, and influencers driving adoption of security tokens.

To create this content, I had conversations with leading thinkers and creators in the field. What I found is that, at every step of the way, the tokenization of securities, real estate, art, and other real-world assets is forcing us to reexamine old habits and ways of operating.

This documentary started off as a passion project, quickly turned into a huge, time-consuming pain, and is now back to being a passion project as we hit publish.

I hope you enjoy our tokenized security documentary, “Tokenize The World.”

Thanks To Our Sponsors

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our two sponsors, Blocktrade.com and the Nomics API.

Blocktrade: A Best in Class Trading Facility For Security Tokens & Tokenized Assets

Blocktrade.com will be the first fully licensed security token exchange in Europe, focused on listing crypto assets, security tokens, and other tokenized financial instruments. By being fully MiFID II compliant they will enable crypto trading to institutional traders while unlocking huge amounts of liquidity with their primary market partners. If you’re someone who’s following the security token space, they have quite a few things to announce in the next couple of weeks, including their public beta launch. Be sure to go to Blocktrade.com, hit the red subscribe button at the top, and get on their announcement newsletter.

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