In today’s episode, crypto veteran Dan Elitzer joins the show. Dan is the co-founder of Nascent, a team of builders backing early-stage founders that are creating products and primitives for an open financial world. We talk about Dan’s experiences as President of the MIT Bitcoin club and his work at Circle and IDEO before starting Nascent. We discuss Dan's perspectives on tokens, DeFi 3.0, project alpha and much more.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Timestamps

2:41 What is your background?

9:04 How did you want to build Nascent in a crypto-native format?

12:52 What insights have you learned from Nascent's on-chain activities?

17:55 What tools are you developing for the various crypto security risks?

23:06 How will the VC and token models evolve so that users will actually have benefits?

31:38 Where is the industry going at the moment?

39:34 What will DeFi 3.0 reintroduce to the industry?

41:22 What other core areas of crypto are you focused on understanding?

45:07 What catalysts need to happen in order for real world assets to enter crypto?

49:15 What is your most contrarian take in crypto?

50:00 What is your most contrarian take outside of crypto?

50:51 Where can people find out more?

Resources Mentioned

MIT Bitcoin Club https://bitcoin.mit.edu/

Dan Elitzer and Jeremy Rubin’s “MIT Bitcoin Project” of 2014 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/14/mit-student-gave-away-100-worth-of-bitcoin-to-all-undergrads-in-2014.html

UNIchain is Inevitable https://www.nascent.xyz/idea/the-inevitability-of-unichain

Morpho Protocol https://www.morpho.xyz/

Ajna Finance https://www.ajna.finance/

Superfluid Collateral in Open Finance https://tokeneconomy.co/superfluid-collateral-in-open-finance-8c3db15efac

Real World Assets https://www.rwa.xyz/

Connect with the guest

Dan on Twitter https://twitter.com/delitzer

Dan’s Medium Feed https://medium.com/@delitzer

Nascent https://www.nascent.xyz/

Disclaimer

Ben Jacobs is a partner at Scenius Capital Management. All views expressed by Ben and the guests of this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Scenius Capital Management. Guests and the host may maintain positions in the assets or funds discussed in this podcast. You should not treat any opinion expressed by anyone on this podcast as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy but only as an expression of their personal opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only.

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