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The Breakdown

The Emergence of DAOs With Santiago Santos

The Breakdown

Blockworks

Investing, Business

4.8806 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is joined by Santaigo Santos. Santiago is a crypto investor, thinker and podcast. He built one of the first funds in DeFi, was early into NFTs and is heavily involved in the DAO space.  Find our guest on Twitter: @santiagoroel Enjoying this content?   SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1438693620?at=1000lSDb Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/538vuul1PuorUDwgkC8JWF?si=ddSvD-HST2e_E7wgxcjtfQ Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9ubHdjcnlwdG8ubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M=   Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8   Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW NYDIG, the institutional-grade platform for bitcoin, is making it possible for thousands of banks who have trusted relationships with hundreds of millions of customers, to offer Bitcoin. Learn more at NYDIG.com/NLW. - “The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our holiday theme music is “Spike The Eggnog” by Two Dudes. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Dark Crazed Cap” by Isaac Joel. Image credit: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images Entertainment, modified by CoinDesk.

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0:00.0

Bitcoin and similar Ethereum smart companies allows you to move money at the speed of information.

0:05.1

And Dow's really are the continuation of that and coordinate human capital in a very interesting way.

0:11.1

We might not get it right this cycle because this coordination problem.

0:15.6

And I think we're still figuring that out in this chaotic world of open source networks and protocols and Dow's.

0:21.2

But it is super interesting how quickly people, not just crypto-native people, have come on,

0:26.3

like Constitution Dow, was early glimpses of where you could go.

0:33.4

Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.

0:37.9

It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.

0:44.5

The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk.

0:52.7

What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, December 26th. I hope you had a great Christmas.

0:57.5

Today we are joined on this breakdown end-of-year extravaganza episode by Santiago Santos.

1:03.3

Santiago is a multi-threat crypto industry player. He has been an investor at firms like Parify.

1:10.0

He's involved with numerous Dows, and he's recently

1:12.6

joined as the host of the Empire with Jason Yanowitz over at Blockworks.

1:17.3

San Diego has a ton of really interesting thoughts around a variety of different parts of the

1:22.3

crypto industry and is extremely eloquent in articulating how he sees the world.

1:29.3

In this episode, we dig deep into a variety of topics, including especially Daos and how we'll look back on the Dow projects of

1:35.0

2021 and what they might mean going forward. Without any further ado, let's dive in. All right,

1:42.1

Santiago, welcome to the breakdown. It's great to have you here, sir.

1:45.6

Yeah, it's great to be here.

1:46.5

Thanks for having me on.

1:47.6

We've been chat about having this conversation for a while.

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