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Ryan Lovell – Chainlink: The Infrastructure Pipes for Multi-Chain Finance (EP.491)
- ▶ 9:36 Ryan Lovell Most people have heard of Ethereum.
- ▶ 13:54 Ryan Lovell There's the world of Ethereum, which has their version of the computer, the Ethereum virtual machine.
- ▶ 13:54 Ryan Lovell There's the world of Ethereum, which has their version of the computer, the Ethereum virtual machine. 2 times in the scene
Ben Forman – Unlocking Blockchain's Potential (EP.441)
- ▶ 22:12 Ben Forman If I'm sending that stable coin transaction on Ethereum, I'm attaching some sort of fee to that transaction denominated in ETH, which is the digital asset of the Ethereum blockchain, that's getting burned. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:05 Ben Forman There's a whole range of different things you can do with stable coins on chain, and these really started in earnest in, like, twenty-twenty, in the early days of Ethereum, where we realized with these smart contracts, you could basically… 2 times in the scene
Eric Peters - Paradigm Shifts and Solutions at One River (EP.422)
- ▶ 27:38 Eric Peters We started building a platform which is going to be infrastructure for tokenizing essentially all traditional assets as opposed to tokens like Bitcoin or Ethereum.
- ▶ 30:37 Eric Peters So Ethereum financial markets and infrastructure will be built on Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- ▶ 54:35 David Salem On digital assets, I first got intrigued by it because I watched something with Vitalik about Ethereum, and I thought, wait a minute, this is going to be a relatively painless way to exchange and transfer value of anything that's… 4 times in the scene
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 20:51 Chris Dixon Whereas you look at something like Ethereum and it's this tens of thousands of people and thousands of organizations that all are building little pieces of it collectively in the same way that people built pieces of Linux.
- ▶ 22:36 Chris Dixon I think the popular view of other systems like Ethereum, Solana, and these other, what I would call programable blockchains, is probably less accurate or widely known. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:54 Chris Dixon Whereas you can go on Ethereum and you can send a few seconds and far cheaper.
- ▶ 43:27 Chris Dixon Decentralized finance is a series of applications mostly built on Ethereum that were launched a few years ago.
- ▶ 53:32 Chris Dixon It's not true of Ethereum and the other systems, which are proof of stake. 2 times in the scene
Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- ▶ 55:03 Rick Heitzman So they were compounding their bets by saying, hey, I'm going to have crypto, and therefore you have to get in with ETH, and then we're going to have our own coin, and then we're going to create an experience.
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 26:55 Anthony Scaramucci It brought luminaries and stars and crypto people and assortment of hedge fund managers, but also lots of cryptocurrency projects, including Algorand, Solana, guys from Ethereum, a 2500 person event.
- ▶ 43:29 Anthony Scaramucci You'd have to show me that the NFT projects that are going on at Solana or Ethereum are all shutting down, and now there's not going to be any projects to speak of. 2 times in the scene
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 40:49 Ted Seides I own more Ethereum today.
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 14:04 Avichal Garg The number of developers that are continuing to write code in Ethereum, despite prices being down 60 to 80%, it's flat.
- ▶ 19:30 Avichal Garg Ethereum is producing blocks.
- ▶ 22:22 Avichal Garg On the layer ones, things like Ethereum, Nier, Solana, what we've seen is that there are real developer communities starting to form here, and people are building applications, DeFi, NFT, and otherwise, and those things have real usage. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:55 Avichal Garg And all the way on the far right would be Bitcoin and Ethereum.
- ▶ 45:32 Manish Gandhi The consensus view that it will become a multi-chain world rather than one only dominated by Ethereum. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:43 Avichal Garg The Uber or Lyft example is kind of like the Bitcoin ETH example, which is, you're not buying a particular Bitcoin, you just want to buy some Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 27:13 Regan Bozman A good example of that is a decentralized money market like Compound, which probably, let's say, has a few billion dollars of Ethereum-based assets in it on a given day.
- ▶ 29:31 Regan Bozman They function on top of Ethereum.
- ▶ 33:15 Regan Bozman And so kind of the same way, like, you know, a stock analyst would just like quarterly reports on Ethereum.
- ▶ 47:31 Regan Bozman MetaMask is probably, they control the user interface for 80% of people interacting with Ethereum.
Diogo Monica – Securing Crypto at Anchorage Digital (EP.259, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.06)
- ▶ 33:09 Diogo Monica So Ethereum is actually a proof of work blockchain that is very known, the second largest blockchain out there, that is about to actually move towards proof of stake. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:18 Diogo Monica So Bitcoin is completely different from Ethereum, that is completely different from Solana, that is completely different from Flow. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 9:51 Chris Dixon They had these early examples of systems like Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:18 Chris Dixon It's a lending protocol built on Ethereum that has tens of billions of dollars managed by the protocol.
- ▶ 30:49 Chris Dixon A lot of these things run on what's called layer one Ethereum, where you have high transaction costs. 3 times in the scene
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 21:06 Olaf Carlson-Wee This was on Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:55 Olaf Carlson-Wee I don't think that anyone who created Ethereum thought that we would be trading, as everyone jokes, pixelated monkeys on this, and they have no ability to control that, but that is the beauty of it to me.
- ▶ 38:11 Olaf Carlson-Wee The word DeFi didn't exist yet, but we were seed investors in zero X, which was the first order book system embedded inside Ethereum.
- ▶ 40:15 Olaf Carlson-Wee You might not need this sort of security and finality from Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:58 Ted Seides Question to answer as an investor than value accretion, and I'd love to get your thoughts on, in that great example you used with Bitcoin versus Ethereum, but across the different chains, where you think conceptually value will accrete? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:24 Olaf Carlson-Wee So this is, in the Ethereum context, you actually burn Ether the more people use the system.
- ▶ 43:53 Olaf Carlson-Wee This is, okay, we want to move from Bitcoin to ETH. 4 times in the scene
Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- ▶ 11:09 Ben Forman But in 2015, mid 20 15, Ethereum went to mainnet. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:41 Ben Forman These networks involve people borrowing against tokens like Ethereum.
- ▶ 32:31 Ben Forman Operating systems or smart contract platforms, commonly known as layer ones, like Ethereum, like Solana, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:53 Ben Forman Coming together and saying, hey, we want to build a trading venue on top of Ethereum.
- ▶ 46:43 Ben Forman This is an Ethereum based insurance marketplace.
- ▶ 57:40 Ben Forman There's not quarterly reporting, but every, at least on Ethereum, and it varies blockchain by blockchain,
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 23:04 Stephen McKeon Everybody sent in ETH, Ethereum, it's a token,
- ▶ 40:27 Stephen McKeon They were on Ethereum where the transaction fees are very high. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:27 Stephen McKeon All the things inside of Ethereum are composable. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:13 Ted Seides So in that path to adoption, obviously, there's been a lot of volatility in crypto asset prices led by Bitcoin, Ethereum, and everything down the line.
- ▶ 57:14 Stephen McKeon He said, just take a few hundred bucks, put it in a wallet, get some Bitcoin and Ethereum, and try out some of these ICOs.
Marcos Veremis – Allocator's Perspective on Blockchain (EP.254, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.01)
- ▶ 5:45 Marcos Veremis Number one, clients had started noticing what's going on with Bitcoin and Ethereum and the price appreciation and so on, so they were asking questions about it.
- ▶ 25:16 unnamed speaker There's direct exposure through Bitcoin, ETH, large cap DeFi, etc. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:49 Marcos Veremis Although Bitcoin and Ethereum
Leigh Drogen – Quantamental Approach to Crypto at Starkiller Capital (Manager Meeting, EP.32)
- ▶ 25:27 Leigh Drogen So in early 17, I got very interested in what was going on with Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:24 Leigh Drogen We look at them on a couple of different time horizons, and we're really looking at the top handful of assets, because this entire market is still incredibly highly correlated to Bitcoin and Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:46 Leigh Drogen Even Ethereum is still an experiment. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:36 Leigh Drogen And what usually happens is we'll hedge with some super liquid assets that we can do very cheaply, specifically perpetual futures contracts in Ethereum, Bitcoin, and a couple others.
James Aitken – Market Implications of the Situation in Ukraine (Capital Allocators, EP.239)
- ▶ 34:38 James Aitken Now, the other thing, just on crypto, that I'm wondering about, as the popularity of Bitcoin and Ethereum has gained, unsurprising the number of participants has exploded.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 41:08 Josh Wolfe Everybody will say, well, you know, I don't know about Bitcoin or Ethereum, but I know about blockchain. 2 times in the scene
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 53:36 Ben Gilbert The Ethereum blockchain is awesome because it's decentralized and really crappy because it's really slow. 4 times in the scene
Chas Cocke - From Allocator to Manager (Capital Allocators, EP.224)
- ▶ 49:57 Chas Cocke You know, I don't have to pick whether Ethereum's going to beat Bitcoin.
Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - Multicoin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.20)
- ▶ 5:30 Michael Liddy So Evanston's history with the space goes back to mid 2017, I'd say, when some of our existing managers, friends of the firm, started coming to us and telling us about Bitcoin and Ethereum and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:12 Tushar Jain But in 2016, Kyle showed me the Ethereum white paper.
- ▶ 19:07 Michael Liddy It sounds like the discovery of Ethereum was really the impetus to start going down the crypto rabbit hole for both you guys. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:26 Kyle Samani The most common kind is what looks like Ethereum or Solana, which is primarily for smart contracts, which really means DeFi. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:52 Michael Liddy I guess, what did you see early in the Solana team and technology that gave you the conviction it would become a serious competitor to Ethereum? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:51 Tushar Jain Whether we're talking about Ethereum, two point O near Polkadot, those are sharded blockchains and they require some meaningful
- ▶ 58:16 Tushar Jain To Ethereum's dial-up.
Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
- ▶ 38:18 Jordi Visser I wanted to see Ethereum be a better performer than Bitcoin to show that Bitcoin was, had become real. 3 times in the scene
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 50:19 Barry Sternlicht Should I change to Ethereum?
Katie Hall – Hall Capital Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.213)
- ▶ 36:44 Katie Hall We also have for where it's appropriate, which get, it's a definitely a subset of our clients, small, but I would call index, quasi index positions, Bitcoin, Ethereum,
a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- ▶ 14:59 Sonal Chokshi I mean, Bitcoin since very early on, Ethereum since very early on, NFT since very early on, and I am honestly confused myself.
- ▶ 31:20 Sonal Chokshi One of the things that came up a lot in the early days of the history of NFTs, starting with CryptoKitties, was the scaling problem and the fact that Ethereum was not ready for that level of excitement yet, and it pushed a lot of solutions… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:55 Jesse Walden And your Bitcoin can be at that address on Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:29 Linda Xie And so in Ethereum's case, they're migrating from proof of work to proof of stake, which is 2 times in the scene
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
- ▶ 6:51 Ted Seides BitW primarily holds Bitcoin and Ethereum today, along with smaller allocations to up-and-comers like DeFi assets.
- ▶ 15:37 Ari Paul By 2017, many owned Ethereum.
- ▶ 21:54 Ted Seides Beta, pretty clearly Bitcoin, maybe a little bit of Bitcoin and Ethereum.
- ▶ 32:22 Ari Paul Can you really understand Ethereum if you don't understand the long tail of assets being built on it and driving its usage?
- ▶ 39:57 Ted Seides So across the assets you own, there's Bitcoin, Ethereum, you mentioned DeFi, there's a couple other areas that you could participate in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:09 Ari Paul There's an essay called Ethereum is a dark forest, and it draws this direct analogy between smart contracts and Ethereum and the work of that sci-fi, and it's really well done.
Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- ▶ 3:44 Ted Seides While in that role, Seth began angel investing a decade ago and became an early investor in Coinbase, Bitcoin, and Ethereum, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:41 Ted Seides BitW primarily holds Bitcoin and Ethereum today, along with smaller allocations to up-and-comers like DeFi assets.
- ▶ 14:07 Seth Ginns And I started to see a lot of really interesting buzz around Ethereum.
- ▶ 16:58 Ted Seides It still seems like Bitcoin and to a lesser extent Ethereum command most of the attention of institutions in particular looking into this outside of maybe a venture capital investment they make in a fund. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:33 Seth Ginns So NFTs are actually a very specific type of token that right now lives on the Ethereum blockchain.
- ▶ 28:09 Seth Ginns In particular, Jake's a technologist with a quant trading background, and he came across, I'd say, Ethereum and the Ethereum ecosystem really early.
- ▶ 39:47 Seth Ginns Let's say it's a primitive that allows you to build structured products on Ethereum and it doesn't have any activity yet. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:28 Seth Ginns One, I think what's happened with just about everyone I know from traditional finance, you start with Bitcoin and your antennae are up and you start to pick up on, well, there's a lot of exciting stuff happening in DeFi on Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:27 Seth Ginns Do we do Bitcoin and ETH in a fixed ratio? 3 times in the scene
Crypto for Institutions 2 – Michael Sonnenshein – A Path to Entry (Capital Allocators, EP.181)
- ▶ 6:36 Ted Seides BitW primarily holds Bitcoin and Ethereum today, along with smaller allocations to up-and-comers like DeFi assets.
- ▶ 20:06 Michael Sonnenshein So Ethereum Classic is the original Ethereum after there was a split in the Ethereum community between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic after the DAO hack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:15 Ted Seides So why don't we start with Ethereum? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:43 Michael Sonnenshein That product is a market cap weighted basket of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin cash.
- ▶ 30:44 Michael Sonnenshein One is called Valuing Bitcoin, and the other is called Valuing Ethereum.
- ▶ 36:31 Michael Sonnenshein These are some of, if not the only digital asset-based securities out there, and so investors looking to allocate don't have many options of how to get Bitcoin or Ethereum exposure alongside Apple and Google and the other assets they own,…
- ▶ 38:22 Michael Sonnenshein One was the emergence of the Ethereum-only or Ethereum-first investor, which was just really interesting. 2 times in the scene
Crypto for Institutions 1: Eric Peters – The Macro Case for Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.180)
- ▶ 7:16 Ted Seides BitW primarily holds Bitcoin and Ethereum today, along with smaller allocations to up-and-comers like DeFi assets.
- ▶ 55:37 Eric Peters So the most important thing we could do is get beta exposure to I think Bitcoin and Ethereum, which is not to say that there aren't other interesting assets.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 34:05 Chris Dixon A very, very important thing happened in 2000 fifteen-ish, which was the invention of Ethereum. 12 times in the scene
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