The Blockcrunch Podcast

Superscrypt is an early-stage web3 company seeded by Temasek, a globally recognized investment powerhouse headquartered in Singapore. Recognizing the immense potential of the decentralized digital landscape, Superscrypt focus exclusively on the next generation of internet technologies.

Today, we have Jacob Ko, Partner at Superscrypt to share with us:

• Contrasting investment philosophies between the West and Asia
• Verticals Superscrypt is excited about
• Convincing & onboarding non-Web 3 users
• Singapore vs HongKong’s Web 3 scene

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Introduction to Superscrypt

(00:02:55) – Temasek & Jacob’s transition into Web 3

(00:09:42) – Western vs Asian investing focus

(00:12:01) – Superscrypt’s investment in social & creator economy

(00:16:18) – Discussion on blockchain wallets

(00:23:21) – Convincing non-Web 3 users

(00:30:15) – Handling security in Web 3

(00:33:14) – Singapore vs HongKong’s Web 3 scene

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Last week, a group of pseudonymous developers raised $8M from leading investors in crypto to build a completely new way to borrow and lend in DeFi.

Developer Scoopy (@scupytrooples) joins us in dicussing what Alchemix is, how it adds a new design space to DeFi, and why he thinks Alchemix will become a major pillar in DeFi.

Host: @mrjasonchoi

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Jason Choi is an investor at Spartan Capital (HK) Limited, the investment arm of 99 Duxton Limited (The Spartan Group). All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

The Solana ecosystem has been receiving more attention lately. We cut through the hype and talk to Raydium, one of the projects building a decentralized exchange on Solana.

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Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

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Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA Disclaimer: Jason Choi is an investor at Spartan Capital, the hedge fund arm of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

Richard Chen, (@richardchen39), partner at one of the first crypto venture funds, 1confirmation, joins us in breaking down all things NFTs. We discuss:

• Are memes viable investment theses?
• Do NFTs rely too much on centralized marketplaces?
• How Richard identifies NFTs that will grow in value

Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). This show is not financial advice; show host and guest may hold some of the assets discussed.

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Musical credits: Underground Stars by Loxbeats https://spoti.fi/34tPBBO Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/underground-stars Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/vpJDMD2EzkA

Disclaimer: Jason Choi is an investor at Spartan Capital, the hedge fund arm of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries and personnel. This podcast is for information purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.

Crypto guilds - entities that sponsor play-to-earn gamers in return for game earnings, have exploded in size.

With multiple guilds trading north of $1B in valuation and a long tail of 4,000+ guilds servicing millions of daily active users, Peter Ing, founder of BlockchainSpace, is seeking to build a hub to manage all of them. We discuss:

• Difference between "Micro guilds" vs. "macro guilds"
• Painpoints facing P2E guilds today
• Are guilds in crypto overly reliant on Axie Infinity?
• Roadmap to 20,000 guilds

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries