#1 Crypto VCs : Ashwin Ramachandran from Dragonly Capital on Crypto Investment Thesis, DeFi & More

In this episode of Crypto VCs, we chat with Ashwin (https://twitter.com/ashwinrz ), crypto investor at Dragonfly Capital ( https://www.dcp.capital ) , a global crypto venture fund with offices in the US and China. Previously, Ashwin was a core engineer and researcher at ThunderCore (a layer-1 blockchain) where he worked on the design and implementation of the PoS consensus module.

00:00 Introduction

00:42 How Ashwin joined Dragonfly to become a crypto VC

03:05 Dragonfly investment thesis and change over time (can be clubbed with point below)

05:25 Change in Dragonfly’s thesis over time

06:31 Projects that will kick off in next few months

09:15 Evolution of crypto governance models 

11:39 Interesting projects that will bring the next generation of people into crypto

14:44 Geographical trends in crypto

17:38 Possible countries for registering crypto companies

19:20 Changes in early stage capital in crypto - accelerators etc.

21:24 Crypto VC ecosystem vs traditional VCs

24:22 Things that crypto VCs look at and crypto dealflow

27:30 L2 trends, death of plasma, optimistic rollups

31:20 Advice for founders building in crypto

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Ashwin's social profiles :

Twitter: @ashwinrz

Telegram: @ashwinr14

Medium: @ashwinr14

Email: [email protected]

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👬Groups:

Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/inchained/

Telegram group : https://t.me/inchained

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♨️Social:

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