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Welcome back to the breakdown's end-of of Year extravaganza, and today I'm excited to share

this interview with Tom Shanasi. Tom is the co-founder of Delphi Digital, one of the best

independent research houses in crypto, as well as the host of the Chain Reaction podcast.

And part of why I was excited to bring Tom on is, one,

he thinks in a really broad way. He has to think in a really broad way, in fact, about the entire

crypto landscape. And he also digs into details in his work, right? He isn't just someone who

kind of skips across the pond like a rock. He really goes deep on a huge number of different topics.

So I was excited to see what he thinks the story of 2019 was and what he thinks about the go

forward. And in some ways, I think that the go forward, his answers to those questions are the

most interesting. He's really betting on a much more significant layer one platform war and a real

return to a focus on token economics

and token economic design. So it's a really interesting interview. I hope you enjoy it. And if you

do, please subscribe so you catch all of these end of year breakdown episodes going through

January 1st. We will be back on January 2nd with our regularly scheduled

breakdown episodes. Thanks, guys, and let's dive in. All right, welcome back to another breakdown

end of year micro interview. We've got Tom Shaughnessy, the infamous Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi

Digital. Tom, what's going on, man?

Nothing much. Thanks so much for having me, narrative King. It's always great to chat with you.

Yeah, no, it's, I'm looking forward to hearing your insights. This is one where, you know,

I think it's great to get so many different perspectives on this kind of year-end, year-looking-forward

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