Here's the pod summary from @coingecko podcast where the host Benjamin (@NeBB399) interviewed Brandon Millman (@BChillman), CEO of @phantom. Phantom wallet is a user-first crypto wallet based in the Solana blockchain. Read on 👇 to learn why Phantom is so popular with users.
🔸 CEO and co-founder of Phantom Wallet
🔸 Launched around Apr 2021
🔸 Formally an engineering leader at @0xProject
🔸 Before that, he was the senior engineer at Twitter
🔸 Disillusioned with his work at big tech companies
🔸 Decided to join a nascent 👶 industry, like Ethereum
🔸 Initially wanted to get into the consumer app side but realised infrastructure is not ready to support it, and ended up at 0x
🔸 Not just a piece of software to hold your crypto assets
🔸 Expanded to include access to DApps and
🔸 Gateway to all sorts of application
Future vision of wallets
🔸 Able to connect all DApps
🔸 Social media access
🔸 Identity in Web 3.0 world
@coingecko@NeBB399@BChillman@phantom@0xProject "A wallet can actually help you do stuff with your crypto too, by giving you access to a world of blockchain applications and DApp. Nowadays a wallet is more of an access point to those types of applications more than it is just a way to store your crypto."
Why @solana wallet?
🔸 Began deep research on Ethereum and wanted a wallet that is a gateway to blockchain apps
🔸 Wanted to take a bet on a new ecosystem that is missing its flagship wallet for app
🔸 New blockchains are always pitching on speed 🏃💨 and cost
@coingecko@NeBB399@BChillman@phantom@0xProject@solana "Our goal is to become a multi-chain wallet that gives users access to a world of DApps no matter where they live. We're starting our journey with Solana, but our first foray into a multi-chain wallet will be our cooperation with Ethereum later this year."
🔸 Has a small and genuine core of community development around the tech
🔸 Links to @FTX_Official and @JumpCryptoHQ
🔸 Large deployment of native USDC on-chain - a lifeblood of decentralised exchange activity
🔸 A lot came from $ETH blockchain
Key differentiator: User-first approach in the product
🔸 The goal is to form a brand and experience that users come to love 💕
🔸 2nd mover advantage: able to build wallet around trends e.g. DeFi, NFT, multi-chain
🔸 Help Ethereum NFT space by having a wallet that they can view NFT on
🔸 Underserved at the moment
🔸 Will be building mobile apps so that people can participate in NFT drops on the go 📱
🔸 180,000 monthly actives
🔸 2.3M SOL stakes in total ~ $260M in value
🔸 $105 M going through their in-wallet swapper
🔸 1.8M DApp transactions to the wallet
🔸 A user's first experience will colour the whole experience of using the chain
🔸 If the experience is slick and polished, likely will continue using
🔸 Apps are made by developers for developers, not with consumers in mind
🔸 Nothing concrete in mind right now
🔸 Design goal of having a token is to decentralise the wallet and give control to the community
🔸 Still in building mode now
🔸 Not the right time - better to have a token when the protocol is worth governing
⛓️ Blockchain operates as a single unified network, providing the same standard of service
⛓️ Chainlink is a heterogeneous network. Millions of independent Oracle networks can run in parallel, each having their own cryptoeconomic security
@ChainLinkGod@Crypto___Oracle@chainlink ⛓️ Chainlink provides consensus about the subjective external world 🌍
⛓️ Chainlink Oracle networks are highly customizable
1️⃣ Different data types
2️⃣ Some have a couple of sources vs others which have a lot of sources
3️⃣ Some may be paid APIs while others are publicly available
🔹 How do we use cryptocurrency to financially incentivize a group of independent entities to work together? 🤔
🔹 Not just about work done, but to have financial incentives that are high enough to avoid various types of attacks
Join us as we share the pod summary from @gabrielhaines featuring Andrew Thurman. @Blockanalia worked for Chainlink before becoming a journalist at Cointelegraph and CoinDesk. Read on more as he shares what life is like as a crypto-journalist.
🔸 Masters in Creative Nonfiction, also taught journalism
🔸 Starting investing in 2017 top
🔸 Started a business on @chainlink ecosystem, building the framework to allow node operators to work efficiently with data providers on a data call billing model
@gabrielhaines@Blockanalia@chainlink 🔸 Chainlink invited them to present at Web3 in Berlin in 2019
🔸 Co-founded a smart contract data marketplace which becomes the Oracle Network API3
🔸 One of his first calls was with @bobbyong from @coingecko
Seeing a lot of new people doing summaries now. I wonder whether we are the only one questioning some things we observed:
Q1) What is the value of summarising an article that can be read in less than 5 min?
Are we indulging on the laziness of content consumers and encouraging a habit of being able to read short form content like twitter only? Is that good for the community?
2) Are we summarising when we shouldn't? We are guilty of this too.
Why don't we see anyone summarising a poem? Or the results of a sports event? Because some things have to be experienced in its entirety, otherwise the full context is lost.
The Game On! Summit 2021 is a virtual conference celebrating the essence of Gaming 🎮, Art 🎨, Music 🎵 and Entertainment (GAME) industries. Join Allison Nam as she moderates a panel of blockchain gaming founders on their gaming careers here 👇
🔹 Sarah - COO of Gala Games @ForTheBux
🔹 Bozena - CEO and Co-Founder of GAMEE @anestetica
🔹 Jesse - Co-Founder and COO of Pixelcraft Studios/Aavegotchi @gldnXross
🔹 Leslie - Co-Founder of Dreams Quest @lesliedanchan
🔹 Has been an entrepreneur throughout her life
🔹 When the opportunity for @GoGalaGames came along, it caught her eye as they were doing something very revolutionary
🔹 Their first game, @TownStarGame, has been live for over a year now
Join us today as we share the pod summary of @BanklessHQ, where the hosts @TrustlessState and @RyanSAdams interview @AriannaSimpson from @a16z. She specialises in crypto gaming and will be sharing her thoughts on the crypto gaming space. Read on below 👇
🔸 General partner from a16z
🔸 Founded Autonomous Partners before that
🔸 Recently named in Fortune's 40 under 40
@BanklessHQ@TrustlessState@RyanSAdams@AriannaSimpson@a16z 🔸 We figured she's a voracious reader too
🔸 Hence the trading card depicts her as Belle, from Beauty and the Beast
🔸 In the podcast, she recommends Masters of Doom by @davidkushner
🔸 This is the book that inspires the quote in the trading card