In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Imran Khan, who is a Partner at Volt Capital and is the lead at DeFi alliance. Imran has been backing founders building at the cutting edge of DeFi and in this episode we dig deeper on his learnings doing the same. We talk about regulations in DeFi, getting larger financial institutions and market makers involved in crypto and DeFi as well as the current trends of crypto in Africa.


00:00 Introduction


00:28 Background story and overview of Volt Capital


02:47 Investing in companies like Buycoins in Africa and crypto trends in Africa


07:30 DeFi activity in Africa and potential of stablecoins like USDC in Africa


11:30 Background on DeFi Alliance, getting traditional liquidity providers in crypto


15:18 Learnings from running a DeFi accelerator


17:52 Overview on the DeFi Alliance program


20:49 Regulation for DeFi startups


23:48 Interesting trends in DeFi


27:27 Getting traditional liquidity providers to do market making in crypto and DeFi


30:48 NFT space and NFTxDeFi


36:05 Interesting trends in crypto in general - magic labs and others


40:20 Geographical trends in crypto and closing thoughts




Imran's Twitter : https://twitter.com/lmrankhan


DeFi alliance : https://defialliance.co/


Volt capital : https://www.volt.capital/

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