Description
In this episode, Cobie & Ledger talk to Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly and talk about bunch of topics around token economics, building communities, growing protocols, and more.
Presented by FTX: https://uponly.tv/ftx
00:00 - Intro
04:20 - Daily activities
08:55 - The life of a VC / Staying on top of new products / Tokenomics
14:28 - Using tokenomics to boost K Facfor
18:25 - Paying customers for volume and TVL / Incentives / Retail investors
21:45 - Token functionality that is valuable
28:10 - Will crypto companies turn very profitable in the long-term?
32:45 - Ribbon
37:55 - Airdrops / Democratic airdrop systems / Wash trading
51:30 - Trends for the next 6 months
59:10 - Governance / Delegation systems
1:03:55 - Layer 2 vs. Bridging
1:11:00 - Should Layer 2s have tokens?
1:13:50 - Scalability / How do you resolve conflict within Dragonfly?
1:20:25 - Solana / Following the builders
1:21:40 - NFTs
1:25:20 - Aggregators
1:30:10 - Token value vs. Actual product usage
1:33:10 - Projects on Bitcoin / Capacity for computation
1:40:39 - Researching new projects / How to work in crypto?
1:45:27 - How much do people in the tech space actually know about crypto?
1:52:30 - Video game talk
1:55:30 - What would you do if you were starting with $100k today?
2:04:00 - Free alpha