Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation

In this episode featuring Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures, you’ll learn:

How Bitcoin and other decentralized blockchains will drive the decentralization of the internet
How blockchain protocols provide incentives for the creation and governance of technologies that were previously largely unmonetized public resources
Examples of how companies such as Sia and Filecoin are using blockchains to fund their development and capitalize on the potential success of their technology

The Economics of Blockchain Protocols

In this episode featuring Primoz Kordez, you’ll learn:

What determines the value of a cryptocurrency
The differences between the two main types of cryptocurrencies we’ve seen in the past two years: cryptocurrencies that can be divided into currencies with the function of means of payment or store of value, and currencies with utility value
How blockchain protocols will give rise to decentralized systems in which individuals co-create the value of the networks
The importance of incentives in establishing distributed networks in which individual participants are rewarded and the network itself appreciates in value

In this episode featuring cryptocurrency venture fund founder Nick Tomaino, you will learn:

What ‘cryptoeconomics’ is, and why it matters to the ecosystem
The history of decentralized systems including Kazaa and Bittorrent, and why the lack of cryptoeconomic systems stifled them from thriving
How Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum protocol, is pushing the bounds of cryptoeconomics
How crypto monetary policy influences the trajectory decentralized networks