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/
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