How Soulbound Tokens Could Reduce Speculation and Improve DAO Voting - Ep. 360
Unchained
Laura Shin
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Crypto moves at lightning speed. For the latest crypto updates, be sure to subscribe to our daily newsletter at unchainedcrypto.substac.com. |
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| 0:15.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no-hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. |
| 0:24.0 | I started coming crypto seven years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes, was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full-time. |
| 0:32.0 | This is the June 7th, 2022 episode of Unchained. |
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| 1:05.0 | Today's topic is Soulbound Tokens. Here to discuss our Glenn Wile, founder of the Radical Exchange Foundation, and political economist and social technologist at Microsoft Research Special Projects, and Pooja Allhavr, strategist at Flashwats. |
| 1:21.0 | Welcome, Glenn and Pooja. Thanks for having us. |
| 1:23.0 | Good to be with you. |
| 1:24.0 | Quick note that I am in Europe and do not have the cord that connects my nice mic to my computer, so my sound is not great, apologies. |
| 1:33.0 | And I also need to note that because I have COVID, or at least I had it a few days ago, I don't know about now. |
| 1:40.0 | I may also cough during the episode I likely will. Hopefully I will not choke on screen. We'll see. |
| 1:47.0 | Alright, first, let's discuss each of your backgrounds and how it is that you came to write this paper with a Ethereum creator of Vitalik Booterin on Soulbound Tokens. Glenn, why don't we start with you? |
| 2:00.0 | So I have a background as an economist. |
| 2:03.0 | I was a professor at the University of Chicago for a few years, and then I ended up at Microsoft mostly for personal reasons. |
| 2:11.0 | I was developing a lot of sort of radical ideas about how to reimagine our politics and economy. |
| 2:17.0 | And in 2016, when a lot of the populist waves started to happen in mainstream politics, I decided to write a book called Radical Markets that put those things together jointly with Eric Posner into sort of a vision of addressing some of the big picture problems in the world. |
| 2:34.0 | And I was not all involved in what was then called the blockchain space, but in fact, it was quite skeptical of what little I knew about it. |
| 2:42.0 | But the book ended up not being a particularly great mainstream success, but found an audience within the blockchain world. |
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