4. DeFi Beats: The Need to Experiment in Decentralized Societies to Discover What Works

EARLY - The Business of web3 from Bankless Consulting

DSide's guest today is DeFi Beats, well versed in politics and wildly fascinated by sports gambling and degen activities in web3. In addition, he is a learned expert in decentralized finance, NFTs, DAO governance and is a contributor in multiple DAOs. Besides these, he runs a political campaign management agency and maintains an active footprint in the political space.

DeFi Beats is passionate about reinventing systems to achieve better outcomes. His involvement in real world politics triggered his inquisition to find better ways to make the political system work. This fascination with the possibilities in web3 led him down the degen rabbit hole, and he has not looked back since.

***Timestamps***

• 7:10 How political consulting led me to web3

• 11:11 Can blockchain technology transform voting and the electoral process?

• 17:45 The fine line between centralization and delegation

• 19:22 Interests in web3

• 20:46 NFT Utility - The now and the future

• 27:19 Involvement in DeFi and Degen activities

• 29:58 Gambling and taking risks in web3

• 31:52 Skillset optimization at BC

• 32:56 The predictive need for tokenomics experts

• 37:40 The need to experiment to figure out what works

***Additional Resources***

• Joke Dao

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