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⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:34 Sponsors

4:09 Welcome Sumedha!

4:50 Sumedha’s background

9:50 Policy against bad actors in crypto

13:28 Protecting consumers without stifling innovation

18:21 Policy surrounding decentralization

24:54 Embracing crypto policy

29:08 Redistributing wealth and power with crypto

34:54 Diversity in web3

37:15 The perfect scenario for web3 policy

40:12 Fun questions!

46:35 Follow Sumedha!

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S4 E9 | Millions of Modular Blockchains w/Jimmy Chang

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04/13/23 • 49 min

In this highly technical episode of Rehash, we sit down with Jimmy Chang, Co-founder of Catalyst, to break down some big brain topics in web3 and help listeners better understand blockchain technology.

Jimmy dives deep into the definition of a blockchain, as he explains the difference between monolithic blockchains, modular blockchains, and DAGs. He breaks down the 4 pillars of blockchain technology - execution, transaction ordering, settlement, and data availability and he explains how layer2s can manipulate those pillars to achieve a desired goal. We discuss topics like data availability problems and solutions, Rollups and RaaS, and Jimmy shares his vision of a million chain future.

We get the inside scoop on what Jimmy is working on at Catalyst, where he got his iconic hat, what he thinks of Ordinals, and some of his favorite experiments.

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Jimmy: https://twitter.com/0xJim

Catalyst: https://twitter.com/catalystamm

S6 E11 | Harnessing Collective Intelligence w/Dan Hunt

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12/21/23 • 45 min

On our final episode of Season 6, we’re speaking with Dan Hunt, co-founder of Foster, about deliberately developmental organizations, how we can help individuals within an organization grow individually while also growing together, and some practical strategies for overcoming common challenges faced in decentralized organizations.

Foster is a collaborative organization for editorial and writing support, and also deeply involved in several other communities across the crypto and web3 space where he’s helped facilitate the human and relational side of each organization.

This episode contains equal parts theoretical and philosophical principles, as well as practical and actionable steps any leader or member of an organization can take to strengthen the culture within their organization.

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Dan: https://twitter.com/dan2hunt

Foster: https://twitter.com/0xFoster

LINKS

Dan’s Substack: danhunt.substack.com
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan: https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Culture-Deliberately-Developmental-Organization/dp/1625278624
Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux: https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=580766137634&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9033780&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11010857034710310604&hvtargid=kwd-73133255316&hydadcr=21905_13324233&keywords=reinventing+organizations&qid=1703114589&sr=8-1

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:40 Common challenges in decentralized organizations

5:37 How to spot a cult leader

9:10 Becoming ourselves, together

13:13 Conflict resolution in DAOs

19:04 Resources for communicating and organizing better

24:10 The deliberately developmental organization framework

31:56 Best practices for developing values in an organization

38:23 Best way to scale a deliberately developmental organization

43:50 Follow Dan

S5 E9 | Current State of Crypto Regulation w/Rebecca Rettig

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08/17/23 • 44 min

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Rebecca Rettig, Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon Labs, about the current state of crypto regulation around the world.

This is the first legal and policy focused conversation we’ve had on Rehash in over a year - the last conversation we had on crypto regulation was with Katherine Wu from Archetype and Crypto Council for Innovation all the way back in Season 2.

The main difference I wanted to touch on in this episode (other than just getting a more current take on where crypto regulation currently stands) is getting a more global perspective on how different countries or regions of the world are looking at crypto. Rebecca talks about key pieces of crypto legislation like MiCA (Markets in Crypto Assets) in the EU and FIT (Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act) in the US and shares her perspectives on which countries have the most crypto friendly policies.

We focus most of the conversation on crypto policy, but we do chat a bit on the legal front as well. Rebecca talks about some key court cases we’ve seen recently in the U.S., such as the Coinbase case, and shares her take on what she believes the SEC’s strategy is and what that means for us as people building and working in the industry.

Finally we wrap up with some spicy questions from our community, like how to stay out of jail as someone building in web3 or whether crypto will ever succeed in the U.S.

Rebecca was nominated by Carsten and voted onto the podcast by Justin Conley, Katelyn Donnelly, Zayi Reyes, Meg Lister, Aaron Soskin, David Silverman, anon, and Carsten.

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Rebecca: https://twitter.com/RebeccaRettig1

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S7 E1 | How to Not Get Rekt in Crypto w/DeFi Beats

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01/18/24 • 49 min

On our first episode of Season 7, we’re speaking with DeFi Beats aka Johnny Gabriele about how to not get rekt in crypto, why WAGMI is not dead, and his best pieces of advice for newcomers to the crypto and blockchain space.

DeFi Beats is an advisor, investor, DeFi power user, good listener, and self admittedly terrible speller.

He initially had his sights set on getting his PhD and becoming a professor, but when that plan fell through, he found himself in a unique job as part management consultant, part podcaster, and part therapist where he helped numerous people find solutions to problems they were facing across a wide spectrum of areas - from air conditioning to figure skating to life threatening medical conditions.

Today, he has rechanneled his eagerness to help into helping onboard people to the blockchain space and saving people from getting rekt by their inner degenerate. He’s currently building out an AI chatbot called The Crypto Professor that’s designed to help newcomers learn about crypto and stay safe while exploring the space.

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DeFi Beats: https://twitter.com/defi_beats

LINKS

The Crypto Professor: https://twitter.com/Crypt0Profess0r
Stand With Crypto: https://www.standwithcrypto.org/politicians

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:03 DeFi Beats’ background

13:47 How DeFi Beats discovered blockchain

18:03 How to get politicians to pay attention to crypto

21:07 Crypto onboarding AI chatbot

24:02 DeFi Beats’ biggest lessons learned for newcomers

28:46 How to find new friends in crypto

36:03 Fixed vs non-fixed mindset

40:57 Questions from Twitter

45:52 BTC/ETH price predictions for 2024

47:03 Follow DeFi Beats

S8 E10 | Organizational Design and Governance Frameworks w/Amy Jung (Safe)

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06/20/24 • 54 min

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Amy Jung, Governance Lead at Safe and an OG in the Ethereum and specifically DAO space, about all things organization design, governance, and her hottest takes about DAOs.

Amy joined the Safe team back in March of this year and also has her own DAO operations and strategy consultancy called Shared Realities, where she helps organizations and teams with their progressive decentralization strategy and execution, organizational design, and community development. Previously, she worked at MakerDAO for two years as their Head of Community Development and ConsenSys as their Design Operations Lead.

In this episode, Amy reveals many of her strategies and frameworks she uses to help organizations decentralize, starting with questions any organization should ask themselves to decide first and foremost whether it even makes sense for them to decentralize.

Amy presents information in really clearly thought out frameworks that anyone can take back to their organization and implement, and her dedication to the space and deep expertise in DAO organization design is unmatched.

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LINKS

S8 E1 | Multiparty Ops Onchain w/Jonah Erlich (Den): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErdxzFt1rEo
“Working in Public” by Nadia Eghbal: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/0578675862
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“Owning is the New Sharing” by Nathan Schneider: https://nathanschneider.info/2014/12/owning-is-the-new-sharing/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:53 Amy’s background in DAOs

5:26 Frameworks for decentralized organizational design

13:20 How do DAOs scale?

17:37 How to balance growth with quality

20:08 How to make tradeoffs between decentralized and centralized components of DAOs

27:48 Decentralization process for Safe

38:28 Compensation in DAOs

44:22 Best and worst examples of governance in DAOs

48:05 Amy’s hot take on the one thing all DAOs are doing wrong

49:32 Can You Not

52:11 Follow Amy

S7 E5 | Unlocking Human Potential w/Julia Lipton

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02/15/24 • 44 min

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Julia Lipton, Founder and General Partner at Awesome People Ventures, about unlocking latent potential in humans, finding product market fit in web3 communities, and the most important things happening in the global landscape right now.

In many ways it’s surprising that it took us until Season 7 to bring Julia on the podcast because she has actually played a part in Rehash from Day 0 as you’ll hear us talk about at the beginning of this episode. Julia is an investor, connector of people, and all around one of the kindest and most generous humans I’ve encountered in this space.

In this episode we start out by talking about DAO Masters, a project she crowdfunded through Mirror that ended up winding down last summer, and what she learned about the give-get equation through her experience there. She wrote a really thoughtful Twitter thread about the give-get equation that I’ve linked in the show notes and would encourage you all to check out, especially if you’re someone working in or adjacent to the DAO ecosystem.

We then get into a discussion around why there’s so much latent and unused human talent floating around in the corporate world and what people have been doing about it, such as flocking to freelance and contract work, or even to DAOs. Obviously DAOs aren’t perfect and are far from it, but Julia shares some strategies she thinks could be implemented for DAOs to be more effective in their operations while maintaining the same draw they have for people today.

Finally, we talk about what Julia is most focused on in the global landscape with crypto and nintynick chimes in with a question about progressive decentralization.

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Julia: https://twitter.com/JuliaLipton

Awesome People Ventures: https://twitter.com/awesomepeoplehq

LINKS

Give/get equation

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:10 Julia’s involvement with Rehash from Day 0

4:34 Why DAO Masters shut down

10:29 Communities as products

17:04 Why human talent is so underutilized in corporate world

22:25 What v2 of DAOs might look like

26:46 Awesome People Ventures and Awesome People Talent

31:31 Global landscape for freelancers

32:23 Development of global currencies

37:15 Types of projects Julia is focused on in 2024

39:45 Progressive decentralization

42:25 BTC/ETH ATH 2024

43:17 Follow Julia

S7 E4 | Building, Investing, and Finding Ikigai in Crypto w/13yearoldvc

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02/08/24 • 48 min

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with 13yearoldvc, Ecosystem Lead at Eigenlayer, about how she studied 50 projects a day to identify trends as a VC, why she now enjoys building more than investing, and what it is about Eigenlayer that she believes makes it a really special one of a kind project.

“If you can’t explain it to a 10 year old in 2 minutes or less, don’t own it.” -Peter Lynch

Few people in web3 are very good at explaining crypto and blockchain concepts in a way that’s easy for mainstream consumers to understand (myself included), but 13yearoldvc is different. She came into this episode loaded with analogies that make complex topics like staking and data availability and seemingly complex projects like Eigenlayer easily understandable to a 10 year old.

On a more personal note, she shares how she found her ikigai with her work at Eigenlayer now and her best advice for others to find their ikigai. She also shares her best advice for others who want to succeed as a VC or as a builder in web3 or both.

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13yearoldvc: https://twitter.com/13yearoldvc

Eigenlayer: https://twitter.com/eigenlayer

LINKS

Eigenlayer Blog: https://www.blog.eigenlayer.xyz/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:25 The story behind 13yearoldvc’s name

4:21 Why 13yearoldvc hated being a VC

8:46 Does 13yearoldvc still invest in crypto?

9:09 Why 13yearoldvc wanted to work at Eigenlayer

13:19 Stakers and operators 101

16:17 What is Eigenlayer? (ELI5)

18:44 What does an Ecosystem Lead do?

22:50 13yearoldvc’s honest take on data availability

27:57 Fundamentals and pumpamentals

29:30 Finding ikigai

33:51 How to prepare yourself for the next bull run

35:15 Telegram bots

39:21 Questions from Twitter

42:13 ATH for ETH and BTC in 2024

46:32 Follow 13yearoldvc

S5 E12 | Have We Peaked Yet? w/Raz

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09/07/23 • 63 min

On our final episode of Season 5, we’re speaking with Raz about a variety of topics ranging from building games for his siblings as a child to starting his own business at age 14 to forming anonymous relationships online and so much more. Raz is the CEO and co-founder of Guild, a membership management tool that helps you automate requirements, roles, and rewards for your community.

We start off by talking about Raz’s childhood - how he learned to program at the young age of 6 or 7, how he grew up designing board games for his younger siblings because he wasn’t allowed very much screen time to play the computer games he wanted to play, and how his love of all things games - the strategy, the lore, the escape into an alternative universe - all impacted his future decisions and successes as an investor and builder.

Raz made it big back in DeFi summer of 2020 and shares some of his best investment tips with us, like how to identify entry and exit points and how to stay objective in this space. He talks about how investing has helped him become a better builder and some of the things he’s still learning as a successful founder today.

We then get into a conversation around DAOs, how he defines what constitutes a DAO, and whether he thinks DAOs have peaked yet. I ask him about how Guild has been able to strike such a good balance between being a well organized successful company while running on a relatively very flat organizational structure and championing a lot of the ethos of DAO organization that typically tends to lead to chaos, and he attributes a lot of that to the thinking and work of his brother and co-founder, Bruno, who we’ll hopefully get on the podcast next season.

This was the perfect episode to end the season on and definitely one of my personal favorites. And I know I’ve been saying this a lot lately, but the fact is this season was probably my favorite one yet. It’s so inspiring to me that even in the midst of a bear market where sentiments around crypto and web3 are so low that there are still so many bright minds that are still so dedicated to building and furthering the potential that crypto and blockchain can have on the future of the internet.

We’ll be starting our next round of guest nominations and voting in a little over a week, so make sure you’re following us on Twitter @rehashweb3 or join our Discord community so you can stay up to date on all the happenings around that. If you don’t have a Rehash podcast NFT yet and want to help us decide our guests for next season, make sure you grab an NFT at https://www.rehashweb3.xyz/ before the next round of nominations starts, and if you have any questions, DM us on Twitter and we’ll help you out there.

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