BASECAST/001: ALL THINGS REPUTATION ft. @serpinxbt, Founder & CEO @ethos_network
→ Ethos under the hood
→ Verified reputation for humans and agents
…and much more!
Key Timestamps:
01:52 12 years of Web2 product at Atlassian
02:56 Bitcoin in 2011, and never buying
03:39 NFT season → launching a hedge fund
06:59 Humans as validators of the social fabric
11:29 Bot-inflated CAC, and how you stand out
14:31 Real competition is Web2, not Web3
15:33 WorldCoin's eyeball scan vs no biometrics
18:02 Why agents will target crypto first
20:06 The Ethos network asset and the vouching flywheel
Conviction on Base is about to have a category.
@Sentysislabs × @base
We’re introducing Narrative Campaigns.
The first campaign is Base: a focused category for narratives about Base and its ecosystem.
Anyone in the Base ecosystem can publish. The network agrees or disagrees by putting value onchain. The Σ score is the conviction on those narratives.
Opening soon for the community and builders on Base.
Details coming.
BASECAST/003: HOW LONGSHOT IS RETHINKING PREDICTION MARKETS ft. @0xtaetaehoho founder of @longshotxyz
Terry breaks down his journey from crypto VC to founder, what @longshotxyz is solving and how it is tackling market breadth and liquidity.
1:14 - Journey from math student to investor
3:49 - Becoming a founder
5:23 - Longshot’s mission
9:00 - Onboarding users
11:10 - Differentiation in a competitive space
13:09 - New and topical markets
14:34 - Terry's hot take on prediction markets
15:37 - What’s next for Longshot?
16:33 - Founder lessons from the VC space
BASECAST/003: HOW LONGSHOT IS RETHINKING PREDICTION MARKETS ft. @0xtaetaehoho founder of @longshotxyz
Terry breaks down his journey from crypto VC to founder, what @longshotxyz is solving and how it is tackling market breadth and liquidity.
1:14 - Journey from math student to investor
3:49 - Becoming a founder
5:23 - Longshot’s mission
9:00 - Onboarding users
11:10 - Differentiation in a competitive space
13:09 - New and topical markets
14:34 - Terry's hot take on prediction markets
15:37 - What’s next for Longshot?
16:33 - Founder lessons from the VC space
Nations League is back on Thursday and live on @predofficial.
8 fixtures on deck.
The headliners:
• 🇳🇱 Netherlands vs 🇩🇪 Germany
• 🇵🇹 Portugal vs 🏴 Wales
• 🇳🇴 Norway vs 🇩🇰 Denmark
Who are you backing from Matchday 01?
As the tokenized RWA universe continues to grow on @base it would be cool to see more platform that easily allows traders to execute price dislocation arbitrages:
- forwardation (sell spot, buy futures) or contango (buy spot, sell futures) on commodities like oil
- dividend arb: taking advantage of drop in stock price on ex dividend date (perfect hedge = long stock, sell overpriced call, buy underpriced put)
- price differences between indices and constituent stocks (enabled by fractionalization and instant settlement)
Can't remember all of the cool strategies I saw during my tradfi days but I know it'll be exciting days ahead
What vertical are you building in, and what’s got you excited about it?
Is it trading, prediction markets, AiFi, asset financing, payments, stablecoins, consumer apps, or something new 👀