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Crypto creates an “incentive vortex” that is destined to take over everything, according to the investment firm’s founder and CIO.
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Polychain Capital founder and CIO Olaf Carlson-Wee has been through every single bubble in crypto history, from Bitcoin’s rise past the single digits in 2012 to the ICO craze of 2017 to 2021’s NFT mania, and he says his main thesis about crypto has remained consistent since the beginning. That is, that crypto constitutes an “incentive vortex” that will replace the world’s preoccupation with country-backed currencies.
Carlson-Wee, who was the first employee at Coinbase, joins Unchained to discuss the significance of the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs, how he successfully navigated all the industry blow-ups in 2022, the challenges of balancing incentives for early adopters versus new users, why EigenLayer is so significant, why Worldcoin’s distribution strategy is a “disaster,” and the strange places that the intersection between crypto and AI could take us.
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Guest:
Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder and CIO of Polychain Capital
Previous appearances on Unchained:
Olaf Carlson-Wee: 'If There Is a Money-Losing Exploit, the Money Is Gone'
Why The First Employee Of Coinbase Launched A Hedge Fund
To the Moon and Back With Polychain's Olaf Carlson-Wee
All Things Cryptoeconomics, Pt. 1, With Olaf Carlson-Wee and Ryan Zurrer of Polychain Capital
Links:
Olaf Carlson-Wee
Forbes:
This Man Has Been Living On Bitcoin For 3 Years
Why This Hedge Fund CEO Once 'Put Most Of My Meager Life Savings Into Bitcoin'
TechCrunch: The future is a decentralized internet
Blockworks: Why Polychain Capital Founder Never Sells His Crypto
CoinDesk: Olaf Carlson-Wee: Crypto Is the Great Wealth-Redistribution Machine
Restaking/EigenLayer
Unchained:
DeFi Protocol EigenLayer Reaches Restaking Capacity, Pushing TVL Past $1.4 Billion
Do You Need to Think Twice Before Restaking Your Assets?
Olaf’s tweet on EigenLayer
Crypto + AI
Olaf’s tweet: “in crypto nearly 100% of value accrues to start-ups and outsiders, not existing establishment interests”
The crypto ethos
Episode of The Chopping Block where Haseeb Qureshi talks about Justin Sun
Recent investments from Polychain Capital
CoinDesk: Crypto VC Firm Polychain Capital Raises $200M for Fourth Fund: Fortune (Jul 18, 2023)
Polychain Capital and Hack VC Lead $18 Million Funding Round for Bitcoin Staking Protocol Babylon
The Block: Polychain Capital-backed Bioniq to leverage Internet Computer with new Bitcoin Ordinals marketplace
CreateSafe, the company behind Grimes AI, raises $4.6m in seed round
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After investors "sold the news" of the launch of bitcoin ETFs, market watchers are looking for the next event that could drive market prices.
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This week, we talk about the big Polyamory article in New York Magazine and the proposition that breaking the bonds of monogamy might be a political statement, one that frees both sides from the constraints of marriage. Are we just reinventing ways to justify selfish behavior? And why does every personal decision in the lives of upper middle class, well-educated people need to turn into some movement that promises nothing?
We also continue our ongoing talk about visions of the climate future with a conversation about “Psalm for the Wild Built” by Becky Chambers, which, in turn, led to a longer conversation about surf movies and Tyler’s hobby of fishing at 3 AM in a wetsuit in the cold unruly waters of coastal Maine.
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Rob looks back at the top five songs that make him still feel like a 6-year-old, before turning his attention to the great George Michael. Along the way, Rob highlights a letter written to Michael from Frank Sinatra with his best dramatic reading. Later, Rob is joined by Rob Tannenbaum to discuss whether George Michael is on the MTV Mount Rushmore, and much more.
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