COINDESK SPOTLIGHT: Gavin Wood on DeFi, Music and the Future of Blockchain
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Insights on the past, present and future of the crypto industry with Ethereum co-founder and Polkadot creator Gavin Wood.
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Ethereum co-founder and Polkadot creator Gavin Wood joins Bullish CEO Tom Farley on CoinDesk Spotlight to discuss developments of the Polkadot protocol and its next iteration JAM Chain. Plus, insights on the state of decentralized finance, the over-saturation of Layer 1s and the future of blockchain.
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| 0:00.0 | The desire to build something that is long-term valuable that is, you know, in 10 years, |
| 0:05.9 | going to be doing something sensible and useful for the world, it's just not there. |
| 0:09.9 | There's just no need. |
| 0:10.9 | Why bother? |
| 0:11.5 | When you can sell it to people that are ultimately going to buy it so that they can sell |
| 0:15.3 | it on to essentially other people, more people, and do their job in hyping it. |
| 0:21.6 | Well, quite possibly, I mean, it's a theory, right? |
| 0:23.6 | I don't have the economic data there to back this up. |
| 0:26.3 | But it is my theory that this is actually what is, to a large extent, polluting the markets |
| 0:31.5 | and why we are seeing huge amounts of money go behind L1s that, if we're honest, |
| 0:37.4 | probably don't have that much of the future. |
| 0:42.6 | The content presented on this podcast does not in any way represent investment advice. |
| 0:48.3 | The information is provided for educational and entertainment purposes. |
| 0:52.4 | Crypto assets are considered risky investments. |
| 0:55.0 | You should always do your own research before investing. |
| 0:58.0 | The opinions expressed here do not represent those of CoinDesk's editorial staff. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello, this is Tom Farley, CEO of Bullish. |
| 1:06.0 | Bullish's flagship media business is CoinDask. |
| 1:10.0 | And welcome to the second installment of Coin Desk Spotlight, |
| 1:13.6 | our podcast. And I'm excited to say that we have Gavin Wood with us here today. I have had the |
| 1:21.9 | privilege and the honor in my career of interviewing several, many, really impressive people. And yet, as I told Gavin, prior to |
| 1:31.4 | taping, I found myself not just excited this morning, but flat out nervous because I've never met Gavin |
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