The Pirate Pod

Todd Hollow-Bist joins the Pirate Pod from Pathwise Leadership (https://pathwiseleadership.com/), a graduate-level psychology program for teams and business leaders. Todd joins Keli (Arrington Capital) to discuss the importance of understanding personality styles and how they impact business leadership and team dynamics. Personality styles are not disorders but rather patterns of behavior that develop from a combination of genetics and environment and is an important foundation for self-awareness. The session dives into why being present in the moment helps founders to overcome challenges and function at a higher level – and how building the muscle of presence requires effort and can significantly improve personal and professional relationships. Being present and grounded in the present moment is essential for personal growth and effective communication.

Todd explains how our sense of identification changes as we grow and develop, from being connected to our bodies as children to identifying with our emotions and thoughts as we get older. Todd emphasizes the need to be aware of our bodies and the information they provide to stay grounded in the present. He also explores the impact of thinking about the future instead of focusing on the present and the importance of being present in team dynamics. Todd highlights the significance of understanding different personality types and how they interact within a team, and the benefits of diverse teams.

Disclaimer: The views discussed in this conversation are the views of the individuals, and not of Arrington Capital. This podcast is provided solely for informational purposes and is not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.

The participants of this podcast are not recommending any particular security, protocol, token, financial instrument, or other tradable asset or any investment strategy and is not offering to sell or soliciting to buy any security or asset.

The founders of Intensity Labs join the Pirate Pod to talk about Shogun, an intent-centric project that aims to provide a superior trading experience by focusing on user-friendly interfaces and cross-chain trading. Their approach includes a peer-to-peer matching system called Coincidence of Wants (COW), single-sided vaults and the use of existing pools and aggregation services. During this episode, Rahul and Brandon (first live bear guest on the show) share why they are developing Shogun, their plans to roll out the platform in phases, starting with the aggregator of aggregators solution and later introducing generalized intent processing, and also the creative and organic go to market approach. The discussion sheds light on the recent viral commercial the team released, including star actor, location, and the fact it was filmed on an iPhone. The team recently launched a closed beta (get on the waitlist today) and are deeply engaging with the trading community on feedback as they continue to iterate.

Disclaimer: The views discussed in this conversation are the views of the individuals, and not of Arrington Capital. This podcast is provided solely for informational purposes and is not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.

The participants of this podcast are not recommending any particular security, protocol, token, financial instrument, or other tradable asset or any investment strategy and is not offering to sell or soliciting to buy any security or asset.

Founders from Drosera (https://www.drosera.io/, https://x.com/DroseraNetwork) and Lockchain(https://lockchain.ai/ and https://x.com/lockchain_ai) join us for a conversation that should be paramount to all (though maybe not the most glamorous): how the web3 security landscape has evolved. These two experienced leaders discuss their unique approaches, being mindful of web2 operational security practices, cost models, the application security economy, addressing the risks associated with rapid speed of development and consolidation of capital. FDR from Drosera (https://x.com/FDRosera) brings a background from Groom Lake and the NSA, while Andrew Howard (https://x.com/__andrewhoward) brings a career of security from organizations like Kudelski and PwC for an insightful conversation about what is coming next – including predictions on what the next big hack will be.

Drosera: Building trustless and decentralized infrastructure for detecting exploits and mitigating financial loss in Web3 applications with the vision of being the Uniswap of security for Web3.
Lockchain: Empowering institutions (hedge funds, traders and asset managers) to avert catastrophic events by monitoring different events and providing risk notifications.

Chapters
00:00 – Introduction to Drosera and Web3 Security
10:03 – The Evolution of Security in Web3
27:06 – Drosera: Creating an Application Security Economy
33:46 – Lockchain: Risk Monitoring and Due Diligence for Web3
40:29 – Cost Models: Drosera vs. Lockchain
46:29 – The Future of Security in Web3

Disclaimer: The views discussed in this conversation are the views of the individuals, and not of Arrington Capital. This podcast is provided solely for informational purposes and is not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.

The participants of this podcast are not recommending any particular security, protocol, token, financial instrument, or other tradable asset or any investment strategy and is not offering to sell or soliciting to buy any security or asset.

James Bayly from Subquery joins the Pirate Pod to discuss the journey of Subquery and its role in empowering developers in the Web3 ecosystem. Subquery provides a data indexing layer for developers to easily access and query blockchain data, improving the user experience of Web3 applications. The team has recently launched a decentralized network where individuals can run nodes and provide data indexing and RPC services. This episode dives into the importance of decentralization and sustainability in the Web3 space and advises founders to focus on building the right product and business rather than getting caught up in short-term token hype.

Disclaimer: The views discussed in this conversation are the views of the individuals, and not of Arrington Capital. This podcast is provided solely for informational purposes and is not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.

The participants of this podcast are not recommending any particular security, protocol, token, financial instrument, or other tradable asset or any investment strategy and is not offering to sell or soliciting to buy any security or asset.

MyPrize recently launched as the first online crypto casino that enables novel multiplayer experiences, bringing content creators and influencers closer to their communities. Second time founder (pirate) Zach Bruch brings his background in web3 to a new vision that allows creators to engage with their audiences. This interview comes on the heals of a massive fundraise and the onboarding of tens of thousands of users in the first few weeks of the platform going live. Learn from Zach about raising money in a down market, launching a new platform, and what the future of social gaming looks like.

Disclaimer: The views discussed in this conversation are the views of the individuals, and not of Arrington Capital. This podcast is provided solely for informational purposes and is not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.

The participants of this podcast are not recommending any particular security, protocol, token, financial instrument, or other tradable asset or any investment strategy and is not offering to sell or soliciting to buy any security or asset.

As if we needed another reason to be bullish on Bitcoin in 2024, QED is poised to catapult Bitcoin to a new level of utility. Carter Feldman joins the Pirate Pod to discuss QED and the promise it brings to the future of Bitcoin-based applications by supporting all dApps (such as AMMs, stable coins, and more) but also horizontally scalable applications and what that means. The conversation explores how QED is harnessing the magic of ZK Proofs, navigating the balancing act for Bitcoin developers who do not like ordinals and for the community to grown what is possible on Bitcoin, creating ability to write contracts in one language that are composable with a contract in another language, and more. QED has also launched the L20 Consortium alongside key players such as Starkware, ZKLink, Mina and more. The industry group is setting the standards for Bitcoin’s native execution layer that will make Bitcoin Layer 2s (and its dApps) as accessible as Ethereum dApps are for Ethereum users. Learn more about what is coming next – including TestNet and an abundance of opportunity.

Disclaimer: The views discussed in this conversation are the views of the individuals, and not of Arrington Capital. This podcast is provided solely for informational purposes and is not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.

The participants of this podcast are not recommending any particular security, protocol, token, financial instrument, or other tradable asset or any investment strategy and is not offering to sell or soliciting to buy any security or asset.

Coming on the heels of a new $6M fundraising round, Tanssi’s co-founder Francisco Agosti joins the Pirate Pod to dicusss why Tanssi appchains are changing the game and argulable are better than existing L2s and rollups when it comes to decentralization, security and more. With a maniacal focus on the developer experience, Tanssi has empowered dozens of organizations with solutions that accelerate deployment. By connecting a chain to Tanssi, it instantly transforms into a modular appchain that is developer friendly and permissionless with all essential infrastructure. This session covers the Polkadot ecosystem, use cases, the argument for appchains, decentralization, and what the raise will be used for (hint, incentivized TestNet coming soon).

Disclaimer: The views discussed in this conversation are the views of the individuals, and not of Arrington Capital. This podcast is provided solely for informational purposes and is not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.

The participants of this podcast are not recommending any particular security, protocol, token, financial instrument, or other tradable asset or any investment strategy and is not offering to sell or soliciting to buy any security or asset.

Superstate is modernizing investing by offering investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization. This exclusive episode comes on the heels of a recently announced Superstate Industry Council as the team focuses on building reliable, compliant products. Jim Hiltner and Reid Cuming join the Pirate Pod to share their vision and plan for bridging the gap between TradFi and DeFi.  The session goes into the team’s deep understanding of two works, compliant products, listening to clients and the market, building a strong investor community and the technicalities involved.

Foobar and Munam Wasi, the founders of Delegate, discuss their vision to tackle the challenges of simplification and cross-chain integration across crypto, motivated by personal experience of clunky and risky setups for managing various wallets across web3. With over $1B worth of assets secured across nearly 200k wallets, Delegate has had significant traction in its early days – thanks to a consumer-friendly experience of allowing people to manage multiple wallets across different blockchains under one address.