The team sits down w/ John Wu of AVA Labs, to discuss how institutions like Goldman Sachs think, building a Decentralized Finance focused network, how Enterprise and Retail can co-exist, and his take on how the China-US standoff will go.
1:46 John’s Story
5:57 How Institutional money thinks
9:45 How ICOs played into the genesis of AVA
13:00 What is AVA?
15:00 How does AVA targets DeFi
16:45 How do you plan on attracting enterprise AND retail?
19:14 How do you compete with Ethereum
21:35 The Future of DeFi
24:45 Regulating DeFi
26:50 Governance on AVA
32:20 Reviewing AVAs important fundraising backers
38:30 Bitcoin Adoption and COVID19
42:45 Stablecoins
44:40 Do networks target certain geographic areas?
46:15 China-US relations
50:00 AVA Grants
52:15 Book Recommendation
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