In this episode of Token Warrant, hosts Mike Zajko and Regan Bozman discuss RedStone's recent Series A funding round with Arrington Capital's Keli Callaghan RedStone co-founder Marcin Kazmierczak. They delve into the oracle market, RedStone's modular approach, and the significance of oracles in the Web3 ecosystem. Keli shares insights on Arrington's investment strategy, while Marcin discusses RedStone's journey and their innovative solutions. The episode highlights the challenges and opportunities in the crypto space, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and collaboration.

01:04 Keli's journey from Algorand to Arrington

04:25 Marcin's Bitcoin thesis to Google and back to crypto and founding RedStone

05:26 Meltem's BTC thesis as the OG DePIN

08:31 Competing in the Oracle market and alternative oracle designs

11:12 Modular approach to building RedStone oracles

14:15 RedStone fundraising gets started in Arweave accelerator

20:00 The road to Series A

22:15 Keli and Marcin discuss the oracle market

31:30 RedSton'e rapid growth in Total Value Secured (TVS)

36:00: Redstone captures the Liquid Staking Market

42:11: Wrapping up and future for RedStone

Links:
https://redstone.finance/
https://www.arringtoncapital.com/

Twitter Accounts:
https://x.com/Marcin_Kaz13
https://x.com/KeliCallaghan
https://x.com/Arrington_Cap
https://x.com/redstone_defi

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In this episode of The Token Warrant, hosts Mike Zajko and Regan Bozman sit down with Hivemind's head of infrastructure Jake Greenstein and Scott Dykstra, co-founder and CTO of Space and Time. The discussion centers on the intersection of data management and blockchain technology. Jake shares his journey into crypto and Hivemind's investment thesis, while Scott discusses the creation of Space and Time, a decentralized data warehouse. They explore the challenges of existing data solutions, the importance of data proving, and the collaborative efforts in their fundraising journey, highlighting the potential for decentralized data management in the crypto space.

01:20: Introductions to Jake & Scott

05:40: Scott's crypto origin story and building a crypto native database

09:20: The middleware stack

13:30: The Microsoft investment into Space and Time

15:00: How Space and Time leverages ZK

17:00: Hivemind develops a thesis on data analytics

20:00: Space and Time gets early access to GPT4 to develop Ai tooling

26:00: The limitation of Smart Contract's data access

31:00: Hivemind discovers Space and Time

33:00: Space and Time and Hivemind diligence process

41:00: Space and Time Mainnet Plans and beyond


Links:
https://www.spaceandtime.io/
https://www.hivemind.capital/

Twitter Accounts:
https://x.com/_JakeGreenstein
https://x.com/chiefbuidl
https://x.com/SpaceandTimeDB
https://x.com/HivemindCap

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Special episode of the Token Warrant from Brussels at ETHCC. Hosts Mike Zajko and Regan Bozman, along with guests Kurt Larsen, CEO of Rhinestone and Nichanan Kesonpat, an investor at 1kx, delve into the evolving crypto industry, focusing on account abstraction and modular wallets. They discuss the journey of building modular smart accounts, the challenges faced, and the fundraising process. Key topics include the importance of module development, chain abstraction for simplifying user experience, and the potential impact of new proposals like IP 7702. The episode highlights the future of wallet technology and the significance of community and developer engagement in driving innovation.

02:38: Kurt's founder journey, leveraging Linkedin, and pivot to account abstraction

05:19: Nichanan’s journey from launching an NFT collection to 1kx

07:31: Modular Wallets and the future of crypto wallets

10:30: Smart Accounts vs. Externally Owned Accounts

13:50: Rhinestone's fundraising history from angel round to seed led by 1kx

20:30: 1kx's thesis and view on the wallet space

25:00: How Rhinestone strategized around choosing investors

29:20: Developing standards in the Ethereum developer community

32:30: Rhinestone's launch of protocol V0

34:30: The future of wallets and modules and chain abstraction

38:00: Closing Notes


Links:
https://www.rhinestone.wtf/
https://1kx.network/

Twitter Accounts:
​​https://x.com/nichanank
https://x.com/kurt__larsen

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In this episode of "The Token Warrant," co-hosts Mike Zajko and Regan Bozman are joined by Meltem Demirors and Jason Badeaux, CEO of Daylight Protocol. The discussion centers on the intersection of crypto and energy, particularly decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN). Jason and Meltem share their backgrounds in the energy sector and their transition into the crypto space. They highlight the challenges facing energy grids due to rising demand and renewable energy integration, emphasizing the potential of token incentives to drive innovation in energy management and enhanced grid stability.

00:00 Meltem's energy to crypto journey

03:00 Jason discusses his background in the energy sector and transition to crypto and the problems they are trying to solve with Daylight

05:26 Meltem's BTC thesis as the OG DePIN

11:24 A shared interest in energy connects Jason and Meltem

16:08 Jason discusses the rising challenges of increasing energy demand and the limitations of traditional energy infrastructure

18:54 Daylight Explores the demand side of a DePIN protocol

22:36 How individuals can contribute to the Daylight protocol through home energy devices

25:08 Introduction to decentralized energy generation (DeGEN) and its significance in the energy landscape

36:03 Jason talks about the Daylight fundraising journey as initially a crypto outsider

42:17: Meltem explains how her diverse background and relationships contribute to her investment strategy

47:02: Introducing the Daylight App and how to get started contributing

Links:
https://www.daylight.world/

Twitter Accounts:
https://x.com/jasonbadeaux
https://x.com/Melt_Dem
https://x.com/daylightenergy_

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In this episode of "The Token Warrant," co-hosts Mike Zajko and Regan Bozman discuss the rise of Andrena with its co-founder and CEO, Neil Chatterjee, and Ani Pai from Dragonfly Capital. Neil shares his journey of creating Andrena to provide affordable internet through innovative wireless networks. He explains how blockchain technology was integrated into their model, leading to the development of the DAWN protocol. Ani offers his investment perspective, highlighting the demand for such solutions and how Dragonly has supported Neil in his mission to bring DAWN to market.

00:00 Neil introduces Andrena and his background

02:33 Leveraging blockchains for Andrena

06:03 The DAWN Protocol

09:20 Ani’s early investment perspective on Andrena

14:01 Fundraising and educating Investors on wireless sector

24:08 Network participation on DAWN

28:24 Neil discusses the evolving telecommunications industry

33:36 The investment process at Dragonfly for Andrena

37:29 What’s coming next at DAWN and Andrena

Links:

https://andrena.com/
https://www.dragonfly.xyz/

Twitter Accounts:

https://x.com/neilc_dawn
https://x.com/andrena_wifi
https://x.com/dawninternet
https://x.com/ani_pai
https://x.com/dragonfly__xyz

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In this special live edition of "The Token Warrant," recorded at ETHCC in Brussels, hosts Mike Zajko and Regan Bozman chat with Matt Katz, co-founder and CEO of Caldera, and Joey Krug, partner at Founders Fund. The episode delves into Caldera's recent Series A funding round led by Founders Fund, exploring the modular blockchain landscape and the evolution of rollups as a service.

00:00 ETHCC and Brussels

02:38 Matt’s journey into crypto and Caldera

06:47 Caldera’s Fundraising History

08:11 Joey and Founder’s Fund’s Interest in the Modular Stack

13:15 How Founder’s Fund and Caldera first started discussions

16:15 Founder’s Fund’s approach to diligence

20:15 Competition and Caldera’s market positioning

26:09 Caldera’s end game to scale Ethereum

31:15 Apps vs. Generalizable Roll-ups

35:01 Advice to raise from Founder’s Fund

Links:

https://www.caldera.xyz/

https://foundersfund.com/

Twitter Accounts:

https://x.com/joeykrug

https://x.com/foundersfund

https://twitter.com/0xkatz

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In this episode of the Token Warrant podcast, hosts Mike Zajko and Regan Bozman are joined by Tim Khoury from Faction and Manolis Nikiforakis from WeatherXM. They explore WeatherXM's community-based weather infrastructure, incentivizing participants with token rewards and selling data to weather-sensitive industries. Tim discusses Faction's investment diligence and highlights Weather XM's superior forecast models. Manolis discusses the technical setup for weather enthusiasts and the use of blockchain for data verification.

00:00 Tim and Manos introduce Faction VC and WeatherXM

02:53 Weather Sensitive Business

04:51 Kitesurfing Inspiration

07:07 The WeatherXM journey

14:10 Discovering Helium

19:31 Crypto pilled and first fundraise

22:18 Tim talks about learning about WeatherXM

26:13 The weather market and Faction digs into WeatherXM

31:13 WeatherXM’s accuracy

38:49 Investing in WeatherXM

Links:
https://www.faction.vc/
https://weatherxm.com/

Twitter Accounts
https://x.com/nikil511
https://x.com/tim_khoury

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In the first episode of the Token Warrant, hosts Mike Zajko and Regan Bozman of Lattice introduce the new podcast and are joined by Brandon Kumar, co-founder of Layer3 and investor Josh Solesbury of Parafi Capital.

They discuss Layer3's recent $15 million series A financing and delve into the company's evolution, focusing on its metrics-driven approach and aggregation theory in the web3 ecosystem.

00:00 What is the Token Warrant Podcast?

01:01 Brandon & Josh introduce Layer3 and Parafi Capital

04:04 Brandon, Josh, and the internship

08:24 Parafi diligence process and focus on partnership with portfolio companies

14:55 Evolution of Layer3 business and focus on user metrics

18:51 Preemptive investing and building out the cap table

23:00 Josh explains aggregation theory and

32:03 Crypto growth strategies and the inefficiency of airdrops

35:16 Investor relationships and collaboration between Parafi and Layer3

44:07 Layer3's Future Scaling Plans, roadmap, and career opportunities

Links:

https://layer3.xyz/

https://parafi.com/

Twitter Accounts

https://x.com/Brandon_M_Kumar

https://x.com/0xjosh_

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