#7 Crypto Investors : Imran Khan from DeFi Alliance on Market Making, Regulations, Crypto in Africa

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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/