Hop Protocol AIRDROP and DAO Launch! 🟣_🟣
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🗓️ 7 May 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Chris Winfrey from Hop Protocol tells us all about the launch of the Hop Protocol DAO!
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:30 Chris Whinfrey
7:30 Layer 2 Bridges
10:25 The Hop Origins
14:45 No VC Funding
19:07 The Hop Airdrop
23:56 The Airdrop Meta
28:15 The Distribution
32:57 The Trinity
35:27 The Token
41:00 Yield and the Bridge Wars
47:08 Layer 2 Airdrop Szn
50:57 What's Next?
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Resources:
Chris on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/WhinfreyChris?s=20
Announcement Post:
https://hop.mirror.xyz/AI5fOUR0X_l0mktShDOx3mwr-hsB24gp8GvTWtS-MBc
Hop Links
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/HopProtocol?s=20
- Discord: https://discord.gg/PwCF88emV4
- Exchange: https://hop.exchange/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, Banclist Nations, to a very special episode, a live stream that we got to do just |
| 0:11.0 | because this is what happens when the news breaks. |
| 0:13.8 | We have the hop drop on our hands, the hop protocol, the bridging protocol between a |
| 0:18.6 | theorem layer one, a theorem layer two, and other chains, did a token, and, of course, |
| 0:23.7 | they're launching a DAO, so we're talking all about these things today on the Banclist |
| 0:27.9 | livestream because apparently that's what you do when you launch a DAO. |
| 0:30.5 | You come to Banclist and we live from about it. |
| 0:32.6 | It's a ton of fun. |
| 0:33.6 | The community shows up. |
| 0:34.8 | They're all in the YouTube comments right now. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm really going to enjoy this one. |
| 0:38.2 | For those that don't know, we've also had Chris Winfrey on before. |
| 0:41.8 | Chris Winfrey, of course, has been with hop protocol for a very long time. |
| 0:44.8 | He will be joining me and unpacking the hop drop in the launch of hop protocol DAO. |
| 0:49.6 | Some of the typical questions that you would expect, as well as the unique things about |
| 0:54.1 | the hop protocol, because as a system, as an org, as a DAO, got spun up with a unique |
| 0:59.8 | Genesis story that lends itself to the long arc of what hop is and what hop will become |
| 1:06.7 | as well. |
| 1:07.7 | Of course, what is the token responsible for? |
| 1:09.6 | How much responsibility did we just receive? |
| 1:12.1 | The air drop details and the distribution, of course. |
| 1:15.1 | There is a new hop foundation. |
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