
Snapshot provides a secured transition to a decentralized voting system for organizations. With their next big move to introduce the fully on-chain SnapshotX, voting becomes truly trustless and immutable. Led by LongHash Ventures’ very own Shi Khai Wei, we’re discussing the following topics with Nathan of Snapshot:
- Importance of DAOs
- Inception of Snapshot
- New Product SnapshotX
- Differences in Security of Snapshot vs SnapshotX
- Voting Models
- Merits of Delegation
- Incentivizing Voting within DAOs
- Core Thesis of DAOs in the 2022 Narrative
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00:00:10 Welcome Remarks
00:01:20 Why DAO is Important
00:07:35 Origin of Snapshot
00:15:45 Mechanism of Snapshot
00:18:40 Snapshot Handles Costs?
00:20:10 Service Partners of Snapshots
00:22:31 True Flexibility of Snapshot
00:27:13 Extending Limits of Voting Conditions
00:34:05 SnapshotX Intro
00:36:07 More Computing Power?
00:41:19 Outlook for DAOs as a whole
00:42:21 Philosophical incentive to Vote
00:58:19 Hybrid on Representative Models
01:02:41 Hybrid Model Delegation on Level of Control
01:06:22 The Ideal DAO
01:09:49 Innovative Example: Decentraland
01:14:26 Making “Year of the DAOs” Happen
01:15:49 Spicy Question: Did Nathan take part in SIMP NFT DAOs & IreneDAOs
01:19:07 Future of Snapshot
01:23:36 Shout Out
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Asia DeFi Network is a venture building unit powered by LongHash Ventures, built to scale crypto projects by leveraging a collective network of top DeFi founders, investors, and institutions. The Network currently enables the DeFi Track of LongHash Ventures’ LongHashX Web 3 Accelerator, which catalyses the growth of DeFi projects through a structured Web 3 native program across verticals such as tokenomics, governance, and community building. This podcast features the members of this Network.
Jan 27, 2022
1 hr 25 min

As one of the OG projects of Web 3, Gnosis has had vast experience in finding product market fit, rapidly iterating, and decentralizing into a DAO. In this episode, LongHash Ventures General Partner Shi Khai chats with Stefan George, Co-Founder of Gnosis, to cover:
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- What is a DAO
- The journey of Gnosis
- Tooling DAOs with Gnosis Safe & Reality
- Merging with xDAI
- Managing DAO Treasuries
- Future of DAOs and Gnosis
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00:00:10
How Stefan defines a DAO
00:03:23
How Gnosis was born
00:07:40
Process of Progressive Decentralization
00:10:09
Why Pivot away from Prediction Markets
00:19:19
Gnosis Safe & Multisig Wallets
00:27:18
Zodiac's Reality Module
00:31:29
Does CowSwap use Safe & Zodiac?
00:33:09
Gnosis Chain Merger
00:41:47
Gnosis Chain as the Canary Net for Ethereum
00:44:41
Gnosis' Massive Treasury
00:50:30
DAO Token Swaps
00:53:51
Futarchy
00:58:16
Incentivizing DAO Politicians
01:01:19
Trends in DAO Space
01:05:24
Parting Message
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Asia DeFi Network is a venture building unit powered by LongHash Ventures, built to scale crypto projects by leveraging a collective network of top DeFi founders, investors, and institutions. The Network currently enables the DeFi Track of LongHash Ventures’ LongHashX Web 3 Accelerator, which catalyses the growth of DeFi projects through a structured Web 3 native program across verticals such as tokenomics, governance, and community building. This podcast features the members of this Network.
Jan 13, 2022
1 hr 7 min

Grape Protocol has evolved to be more than a toolkit, but the heartbeat of the Solana community. As guest Dean Pappas describes, Grape’s mission is to “accelerate the growth of Solana”. How the protocol does so is unique, featuring:
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- Radical transparency between the core team and the DAO
- Hands-on support of their partner projects
- Incentivisation to access community-created content through membership tiers
- An insistence on international inclusivity, regardless of nationality
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We dive into each of these aspects so you can learn how to DAO. DAO founders and members can’t miss this one.
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Asia DeFi Network Podcast
This podcast features the Members of Asia DeFi Network, a community of crypto founders collaborating on tokenomics, governance, and community building. Hosted by one of the Founding Members of Asia DeFi Network, Shi Khai of LongHash Ventures, we chat with the most innovative founders of Web 3.0 building a more open, inclusive, and equitable financial and social infrastructure.
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About LongHash Ventures
LongHash Ventures is a Web 3 investment fund and accelerator collaborating with founders to build their Web 3 model and tap into the vast potential of Asia. In January 2021, we launched a DeFi-focused fund and invested in projects such as Balancer, Acala Network, Instadapp, and Zapper. We collaborated with their founders to develop their tokenomics, governance, and communities through Asia DeFi Network.
With our LongHashX Accelerator, we have partnered with Polkadot and Filecoin to build more than 40 global Web 3 projects which have raised more than $100m in the past 3 years. Through such investments and active collaboration, we are committed to realising our mission of catalyzing growth for the next generation of the Web.
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Website: https://longhash.vc/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: https://longhashsg.medium.com/
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The Asia DeFi Network podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
Dec 7, 2021
1 hr 23 min

Potentially the final project to occupy Polkadot’s first batch of parachain slots, Manta Network is developing the building blocks to a fully private DeFi ecosystem. Its canary net, Calamari Network, is a parachain on the Kusama Network, and it has built a fully-private payments mechanism and a fully-private DEX. In this podcast, we discuss:
-Why privacy is important in a transparent #Web3 world
-How Manta Network differentiates from privacy tokens such as Monero
-What interoperability on Polkadot unlocks for Manta Network
-Manta Network’s target users: Institutions or Retail
-What you can expect if Manta wins a slot in the first batch of parachain auctions
Website: longhash.vc/
Twitter: twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: longhashsg.medium.com/
The Asia DeFI Network podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
Nov 23, 2021
51 min

Bradley Miles from Roll is hell-bent on empowering creators. His project, Roll, a social token issuer, aims to increase the GDP of the creator economy, shifting power & ownership from Web 2 platforms to Web 3 creators themselves. In this Asia DeFi Network podcast episode, Bradley Miles shares:
- How social tokens empower creators to own their economies,
- The potential utility they unlock
- How Roll bridges Web 2 and Web 3
- The social token use cases of the future
00:00:10 Introduction
00:01:07 Bradley's Crypto Journey: Coindesk OG
00:02:45 Why Social Tokens
00:05:05 Introducing Roll: Increase GDP of the Creator Economy
00:06:56 Social Token Purposes
00:11:45 Future Utility of Social Tokens
00:14:28 How social tokens differentiate from loyalty points
00:17:43 Leveraging Ethereum Composability
00:18:10 How social tokens attract liquidity
00:20:38 Integrating DeFi into Social Tokens
00:23:18 Should creators use NFTs or Social Tokens?
00:28:37 Social Token Economics
00:32:38 Bridging Web 2 Platforms with Web 3
00:37:05 Technical: Bridging Web 2 & 3
00:41:20 Creator Coin Tokenomics on Roll
00:44:15 Roll's Business Model
00:46:40 Tokenizing Roll
00:50:36 Bradley's Announcements, Hiring
00:51:50 1 & 5-year Predictions
00:55:22 How about a Bradley Token?
00:57:13 Social Tokens and Non-Profits
00:59:44 Opportunity to Tokenize Public Goods
01:03:51 Challenges & Risks of Social Tokens
01:05:47 Mitigating the Threat of Sybil Attacks
01:07:26 Parting Words
Asia DeFi Network is a venture building unit powered by LongHash Ventures, built to scale crypto projects by leveraging a collective network of top DeFi founders, investors, and institutions. The Network currently enables the DeFi Track of LongHash Ventures’ LongHashX Web 3 Accelerator, which catalyses the growth of DeFi projects through a structured Web 3 native program across verticals such as tokenomics, governance, and community building. This podcast features the members of this Network.
Website: longhash.vc/
Twitter: twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: longhashsg.medium.com/
The Asia DeFI Network podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
Nov 22, 2021
1 hr 8 min

Excited about a multichain world? Polkadot will turbo-charge it and Moonbeam will play a prominent role. LongHash Ventures’ GP Shi Khai returns to speak with Derek Yoo, co-founder of Moonbeam on Polkadot and Moonriver on Kusama. We’ll discuss the immense potential that Polkadot’s cross-chain interactions will unlock, before diving into the parachain auctions, the future of Kusama, and what we can look forward to with Moonbeam.
00:00:10 Intro to Derek's Background
00:04:16 Why Polkadot & Moonbeam
00:10:20 Multichain Network Effects
00:14:31 Potential for Cross-chain Interaction on Polkadot
00:18:11 Lido on Polkadot
00:19:22 Intro to Parachains
00:20:45 Benefits of Parachain Auctions
00:22:53 Learnings from Kusama
00:28:14 Community Influence on Auctions
00:32:50 Moonbeam's Value Proposition
00:36:23 Evolution of Kusama
00:39:59 Implications of Unstaking DOT/KSM
00:47:05 How to Accumulate a Treasury
00:54:35 Crowdloan Shoutout
Asia DeFi Network is a venture building unit powered by LongHash Ventures, built to scale crypto projects by leveraging a collective network of top DeFi founders, investors, and institutions. The Network currently enables the DeFi Track of LongHash Ventures’ LongHashX Web 3 Accelerator, which catalyses the growth of DeFi projects through a structured Web 3 native program across verticals such as tokenomics, governance, and community building.
Website: longhash.vc/
Twitter: twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: longhashsg.medium.com/
The Asia DeFI Network podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
Nov 5, 2021
57 min

Go to 00:20:05 to skip the Polkadot & Kusama overview and straight into Astar & Shiden.
Polkadot could serve as the backbone of the future multichain ecosystem, but today, its relay chain only connects blockchains built on Substrate and does not inherently support smart contracts. Astar Network addresses this urgent need by building a smart contract platform for builders while connecting various Layer 1 blockchains (e.g. Ethereum, BSC, Solana): a dApp hub that is birthing projects such as multichain DEXes. In this episode, we provide an overview of Kusama & Polkadot before diving into the 3 main value propositions of Astar/Shiden Network: dApp staking, EVM & WASM compatibility, and the multichain dApp hub.
00:00:10 Introduction
00:02:31 Explanation of Polkadot: Layer Zero
00:03:43 Trends for Parachain Auctions
00:05:42 Sustainability of Crowdloan Returns
00:07:06 Crowdloans vs. ICO Speculation
00:09:42 Effective Strategies for Parachain Auctions
00:11:09 1-year bidding vs. Split & Collaborate
00:13:20 Bridging Kusama & Polkadot?
00:16:49 Community of Kusama vs Polkadot
00:20:05 Intro to Astar/Shiden
00:24:06 Building Journey: Surviving & Pivoting
00:25:44 Aim: From IPO to DAO
00:27:26 From IPO to DAO: Why
00:29:25 Differentiation between Shiden, Karura, and Moonbeam
00:33:36 dApp Staking
00:35:46 Challenges of dApp Staking
00:37:42 Mitigating Risk of dApp Collusion
00:39:12 Network Effects of dApp Staking
00:41:20 Egalitarian Benefits of dApp Staking
00:44:37 Tokenomics around dApp Staking
00:46:12 Types of Projects Expected on Astar/Shiden
00:48:06 Decentralized M&A System?
00:52:09 Integrating Web 2
00:53:09 Supporting WASM on top of EVM
00:56:05 Cross-virtual Machine: EVM & WASM Interaction
00:58:47 Shiden/Astar: A Scalable Multichain dApp Hub
01:01:02 Prioritisation of Chain Integration
01:02:54 Difficulty to Connect with Existing Rollups
01:04:02 Ease of Integration with Layer 2 Ethereum
01:05:52 Why Build a Bridge Themselves
01:08:52 Innovative Use Cases in Multichain Future
01:11:12 What's exciting in the crypto space for Sota
01:12:25 Shaping Culture in Web 3 - Away from Speculation
Website: https://longhash.vc/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC
Medium: https://longhashsg.medium.com/
The Web 3 Native podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
Sep 23, 2021
1 hr 15 min

DAOs represent a potential paradigm shift in how we organize work and meet similarly-minded people. At the forefront of this revolution is Coopahtroopah, a member of more than 100 DAOs across DeFi, NFTs, and Social. Shi Khai and Cooper discuss how Social DAOs are manifesting communities incentivised less by financial gain, but by culture, socialization, and purpose. These organisations include Friends with Benefits, Bankless DAO, and Uniwhales, for instance. Learn about how they are gathering motivated people to achieve various missions, the structures/tokenisation that align their goals, and how DAOs are poised to be crypto’s next big wave.
00:02:36 Intros
00:05:09 Social Tokens
00:08:00 DAO Highlight: Friends with Benefits & Forefront
00:09:55 Seed Club: Social Token Incubator
00:11:46 Learnings from Past Few Months
00:15:40 Genesis of Social Tokens
00:16:35 Quality of Community: Social Communities > ICO Projects
00:20:47 Ensuring Quality: Do we need "Proof-of-Work" for Membership?
00:23:17 How to Balance Inclusion and Contribution
00:25:54 Proof-of-Participation
00:29:44 Balance between Inclusion & Community Quality
00:32:39 Enhancing Inclusion: Fractional Ownership
00:37:55 Sustainability of Social DAOs across Bull & Bear Cycle: Seasons
00:42:16 Social DAO Org Structure & Incentives: Who decides on distribution?
00:45:47 Revenue Models for Social Groups
00:49:37 Convergence with DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs
00:52:47 NTFs (Non-Transferable Fungibles)
00:55:05 Creating On-Chain & Off-Chain Identity
The Web 3 Native podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may own some of the positions mentioned in the podcast.
Sep 2, 2021
56 min

With the gazillion projects ongoing on Polygon at the moment, it's hard to keep up. On top of the Hermez merger and the launch of the Polygon DAO, massive funds have been dedicated for projects building across DeFi and NFTs on Polygon. In this episode, however, Arjun & Ishan condense these initiatives and dive into how they will provide 360 support for founders of Web 3.
00:00:12 Personal intros
00:04:31 Polygon Intro
00:06:46 Culture of Polygon
09:51:00 Merger with Hermez Network: First-ever M&A in Crypto
00:14:59 True Scalability: More scalable than Web 2
00:19:02 Hermez: Alternative to Polygon
00:20:43 Tokenomics of Hermez & Polygon
00:22:06 HEZ & MATIC Token Swap
00:25:07 Consolidation of chains
00:26:36 Polygon Studios: Polygon's Bet on NFTs & Gaming
00:30:56 Relationship between Polygon and Developers
00:35:12 Polygon Studios: Onboarding Web 2?
00:35:55 DeFi For All Fund & The DeFi-NFT Intersection
00:40:20 Polygon: The Onboarding Channel for Mainstream
00:48:19 PolygonDAO: Community-driven Project Incubation
01:01:47 Future Outlook
Disclaimer: All material on the Web 3 Native podcast is for informational purposes only. Please do not consider any content as financial advice. LongHash Ventures may hold positions in the projects or companies mentioned.
Aug 27, 2021
1 hr 4 min

“I see Etherscan as an encyclopedia and Nansen as a newspaper.” We speak with Alex, CEO and Co-Founder of Nansen. Nansen is a platform that helps inform crypto investors on their investment decisions with simplified on-chain analytics and wallet labels. We discuss the company's decentralization plans, role in the crypto data landscape, and where Nansen is headed in the future (NFTs?)
Aug 12, 2021
1 hr 6 min
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