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The RollupSEC DeFi Roundtable Recap, Digital Asset Venture Landscape, The State of ZK, The Future of DeFi with Nick White, Dmitriy Berenzon, DeFi Dad, Shiv Shankar, Omer Goldberg and Camila RussoThe Rollup TV is brought to you by:Celestia: https://celestia.org/Boundless: https://beboundless.xyz/AltLayer: https://www.altlayer.io/Mantle: https://www.mantle.xyz/Omni Network: https://omni.network/Vertex: https://vertexprotocol.com/Join The Rollup Family:Website: https://therollup.co/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P6ZeYd..Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcastFollow us on X: https://www.x.com/therollupcoFollow Rob on X: https://www...2025-06-112h 13
0xResearchHas AI Revived the DePIN Sector? | Dmitriy BerenzonIn this episode, we’re joined by Dmitriy Berenzon, a Partner at Archetype, to discuss investing in DePIN, the payments and stablecoins sector today, and consumer crypto. We cover decentralized compute networks, stablecoin fragmentation, payments infrastructure, the UX gap between TradFi and crypto, crypto neobanks, and how AI agents may reshape onchain activity and financial rails.Thanks for tuning in!
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WAGMI Ventures PodcastInvesting to Accelerate the Decentralized Future, with Dmitriy Berenzon (Archetype Fund)Dmitriy Berenzon is a Partner at Archetype (https://archetype.fund), an early-stage venture fund focused on accelerating the decentralized future, by backing the next generation of crypto founders disrupting the status quo. Dmitriy drives research, investments, portfolio support and fund strategy at Archetype. He shares his extensive experience as a crypto investor through the different phases of crypto development and adoption, the investment philosophy at Archetype, and his insightful thoughts across DePIN v DeVIN, verifiable compute, and the massive network effect of stablecoins.2024-12-1946 min
Web3 Higher SignalDebating the DePIN Flywheel: Token Incentives and Business Models | Kyle Samani & Dmitriy BerenzonMake you own audio summaries by going to https://highersignal.xyz.1. The core concept of Deepin (decentralized physical infrastructure networks) revolves around using tokens as equitable incentives to build and maintain various forms of infrastructure which wouldn't be feasible or effective at small scales.2. Participants in Deepin projects can earn equity-like rewards for contributing their resources early on and bearing more risk, unlike traditional models where early participants do not share in future growth.3. Two main categories of Deepin were identified: DVIN or virtual infrastructure networks (e.g., compute resources like Filecoin, Livepeer) and DPIN or...2024-02-1804 minHigher Signal: Get Smarter. Faster.Debating the DePIN Flywheel: Token Incentives and Business Models | Kyle Samani & Dmitriy BerenzonIn today's episode Jason is joined by Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital and Dmitriy Berenzon of Archetype for an in-depth debate on the emerging decentralized physical infrastructure industry. They analyze the complex economic flywheel effects that drive growth, including how token incentives align infrastructure providers and fuel liquidity and value. The discussion covers considerations around hardware needs, revenue models, and mainstream adoption challenges. They also assess the differences between B2B and B2C models, approaches to token issuance, and evaluating timing for mainstream adoption. We hope you enjoy!- -Follow Kyle: https://twitter.com/KyleSamani...2024-02-1804 minHigher Signal: Get Smarter. Faster.Debating the DePIN Flywheel: Token Incentives and Business Models | Kyle Samani & Dmitriy BerenzonIn today's episode Jason is joined by Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital and Dmitriy Berenzon of Archetype for an in-depth debate on the emerging decentralized physical infrastructure industry. They analyze the complex economic flywheel effects that drive growth, including how token incentives align infrastructure providers and fuel liquidity and value. The discussion covers considerations around hardware needs, revenue models, and mainstream adoption challenges. They also assess the differences between B2B and B2C models, approaches to token issuance, and evaluating timing for mainstream adoption. We hope you enjoy!- -Follow Kyle: https://twitter.com/KyleSamani...2024-02-1704 min
ArchebyteDmitriy Berenzon: Crypto Infra, ZK, and Working with FoundersAsh sits down with Archetype’s newest team member, Dmitriy Berenzon, for a wide ranging conversation. The two discuss the crypto ecosystems of NYC and SF, hardware becoming cool again, weird stuff at the intersection of AI and blockchain, and being both thesis and founder driven.Dmitriy is the newest Partner here at Archetype, and will be driving research, investments, portfolio support, and fund strategy. He was previously a Research Partner at 1k(x), where he focused on research, investments, and working with founders on fundraising, business development, and token model design. 📬 To keep up with t...2024-01-3149 min
EmpireDebating the DePIN Flywheel: Token Incentives, Business Models, and Mainstream Adoption | Kyle Samani & Dmitriy BerenzonIn today's episode Jason is joined by Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital and Dmitriy Berenzon of Archetype for an in-depth debate on the emerging decentralized physical infrastructure industry. They analyze the complex economic flywheel effects that drive growth, including how token incentives align infrastructure providers and fuel liquidity and value. The discussion covers considerations around hardware needs, revenue models, and mainstream adoption challenges. They also assess the differences between B2B and B2C models, approaches to token issuance, and evaluating timing for mainstream adoption. We hope you enjoy!- -Follow Kyle: https://twitter...2024-01-231h 05
Higher Signal: Get Smarter. Faster.1k(x) Dmitriy Berenzon on Tokenomics2024-01-1704 min
EmpireThe Case for Sovereign Blockchains | Sunny Aggarwal, Dmitriy BerenzonThere's a heated debate in crypto right now around AppChains and the modular vs monolithic paradigm. That's why we released this special episode today from our other favorite podcast, Bell Curve.Sunny Aggarwal and Dmitriy Berenzon discuss how AppChains enable developers and protocols to customize consensus, cryptography, MEV rules, fees and more. But is this customization worth the fragmentation, start-up costs, lack of tooling and other challenges AppChains face? Tune in to find out!And don't worry - we'll be back to the usual roundup with Jason and Santi...2023-02-101h 35
Bell CurveThe Case for Sovereign Blockchains | Sunny Aggarwal, Dmitriy BerenzonSeason 3 | Episode 1In this episode of Bell Curve, Sunny Aggarwal and Dmitriy Berenzon join us to discuss the pros and cons of building a sovereign AppChain. AppChains enable developers and protocols to customize consensus, cryptography, MEV rules, fees and more. But is this customization worth the fragmentation, start-up costs, lack of tooling and other challenges AppChains face? Tune in to find out.- -Timestamps:(00:00) Intro: Pre-Interview(02:33) The AppChain Thesis(10:52) Reasons to Build an AppChain(28:28) The Downsides and Challenges(42:04) What is Permissioned Blockspace?2023-01-241h 31
The Blockcrunch Podcast$1B in Bridge Hacks...Is the Future Still Multi-Chain? - Dmitriy Berenzon, 1kx, Ep. 192Bridges facilitate cross-chain asset communication and play an imperative role in a multi-chain future. However, the recent WormHole & Ronin Bridge hack that led to a total loss of close to $1 billion has caused fear in users and led them to wonder - is the future still multi-chain? In this episode, Dmitriy - Research Partner at 1kx shares with us: What are the different kinds of bridges out there and their trade-offs? Why is the future is multi-chain and what are the role of bridges? Why is he excited about DAOs? Other high conviction and contrarian views...2022-04-1346 min
51% with Mable Jiang, Presented by Multicoin CapitalEP.44 [EN] - Dmitriy Berenzon: On the Crosschain Solutions and their Trade-offs / 关于各种跨链解决方案与取舍A few weeks back, Dmitriy wrote an article about the cross-chain bridges. As more activities took off on the EVM chains, Solana and Terra, I invited Dmitriy to talk about the crosschain designs and their trade-offs on 51%.We started off the discussion by a simple question "why cross-chain is important". Then we dived into the different buckets that Dmitriy categorized the different cross-chain solutions into. For the detailed categorization, please read: https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/blockchain-bridges-5db6afac44f8We also talked about the red ocean competition of all the cross-chain solutions and how can...2021-11-1956 min
Liquid - Web3 Crypto InvestingGuide to Investing in Algo Stablecoins and CF Market Makers with Dmitriy Berenzon of Bollinger Investment GroupPlease remember to rate and review our podcast! Thank you :) Dmitriy Berenzon is a research partner at Bollinger Investment Group. He shares his journey as an investor, his learnings from his previous time at Coinfund. We also hear tips from Dmitriy for entrepreneurs to avoid making costly decisions, thoughts on the algorithmic stablecoins and constant function market makers, and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How to do diligence on a project and evaluate their discord channels and community. 2) Why fintech funds struggle to come into space? 3) What are Dmitriy's v...2021-01-1554 min