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Web3 Transitions Summit The Web3 Transitions Summit, taking place alongside Token2049 in Singapore, brought together thought leaders across the verticals of cross-chain, scalability, modularity, zero-knowledge, restaking, gaming, social, and the intersection of web3 and artificial intelligence. It was a one-day summit to inspire a vision of what the future of web3 will be like. About LongHash Ventures Incorporated in 2018, LongHash Ventures specializes in bootstrapping Web3 ecosystems. Our venture funds invest in early-stage Web3 protocols, and our LongHashX Accelerator partners with ecosystems and protocols to accelerate early-stage founders. Website: https://longhash.vc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC Podcast: https://linktr.ee/longhash_ventures Medium: https://longhashvc.medium.com/ About Yield Guild Games Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a web3 guild protocol that enables players and gaming guilds to find their community, discover games and level up together. As a network of gaming guilds focused on web3 games, YGG provides an equal-opportunity support system so that its members can become power players in games and in life. YGG empowers its guild community to organize onchain, providing guilds access to its infrastructure for them to scale and receive opportunities based on their specializations. Through YGG’s questing initiatives, such as Superquests and the Guild Advancement Program (GAP), members of YGG can benefit from its achievement-based reputation system and build their onchain identity. From its roots in the Philippines to its global network of regional guilds and partnerships with over 100 web3 games and infrastructure projects, YGG caters to an ever-expanding community of gamers and blockchain enthusiasts. Website: https://www.yieldguild.io/ Twitter: https://x.com/YieldGuild

In this podcast, we are featuring Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder of Ethereum. 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. Website: https://longhash.vc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC Podcast: https://linktr.ee/longhash_ventures Medium: https://longhashvc.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.

Web3 Transitions Summit The Web3 Transitions Summit, taking place alongside Token2049 in Singapore, brought together thought leaders across the verticals of cross-chain, scalability, modularity, zero-knowledge, restaking, gaming, social, and the intersection of web3 and artificial intelligence. It was a one-day summit to inspire a vision of what the future of web3 will be like. About LongHash Ventures Incorporated in 2018, LongHash Ventures specializes in bootstrapping Web3 ecosystems. Our venture funds invest in early-stage Web3 protocols, and our LongHashX Accelerator partners with ecosystems and protocols to accelerate early-stage founders. Website: longhash.vc/ Twitter: twitter.com/LongHashVC Podcast: linktr.ee/longhash_ventures Medium: longhashvc.medium.com/ About Yield Guild Games Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a web3 guild protocol that enables players and gaming guilds to find their community, discover games and level up together. As a network of gaming guilds focused on web3 games, YGG provides an equal-opportunity support system so that its members can become power players in games and in life. YGG empowers its guild community to organize onchain, providing guilds access to its infrastructure for them to scale and receive opportunities based on their specializations. Through YGG’s questing initiatives, such as Superquests and the Guild Advancement Program (GAP), members of YGG can benefit from its achievement-based reputation system and build their onchain identity. From its roots in the Philippines to its global network of regional guilds and partnerships with over 100 web3 games and infrastructure projects, YGG caters to an ever-expanding community of gamers and blockchain enthusiasts. Website: www.yieldguild.io/ Twitter: x.com/YieldGuild Abou Kakarot Kakarot is an EVM-compatible ZK-Rollup that leverages Cairo to spearhead innovations on Ethereum. This offers a strong edge to core ZK infrastructure builders: separating cryptography and engineering. Because of its architecture, Kakarot is the only zkEVM rollup that'll be able to follow and even front-run upgrades to the Ethereum protocol. Under the hood, Kakarot zkEVM relies on the Starknet stack (CairoVM + StarknetOS runtime). Website: www.kakarot.org/ Twitter: x.com/KakarotZkEvm

Web3 Transitions Summit The Web3 Transitions Summit, taking place alongside Token2049 in Singapore, brought together thought leaders across the verticals of cross-chain, scalability, modularity, zero-knowledge, restaking, gaming, social, and the intersection of web3 and artificial intelligence. It was a one-day summit to inspire a vision of what the future of web3 will be like. About LongHash Ventures Incorporated in 2018, LongHash Ventures specializes in bootstrapping Web3 ecosystems. Our venture funds invest in early-stage Web3 protocols, and our LongHashX Accelerator partners with ecosystems and protocols to accelerate early-stage founders. Website: https://longhash.vc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC Podcast: https://linktr.ee/longhash_ventures Medium: https://longhashvc.medium.com/ About Yield Guild Games Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a web3 guild protocol that enables players and gaming guilds to find their community, discover games and level up together. As a network of gaming guilds focused on web3 games, YGG provides an equal-opportunity support system so that its members can become power players in games and in life. YGG empowers its guild community to organize onchain, providing guilds access to its infrastructure for them to scale and receive opportunities based on their specializations. Through YGG’s questing initiatives, such as Superquests and the Guild Advancement Program (GAP), members of YGG can benefit from its achievement-based reputation system and build their onchain identity. From its roots in the Philippines to its global network of regional guilds and partnerships with over 100 web3 games and infrastructure projects, YGG caters to an ever-expanding community of gamers and blockchain enthusiasts. Website: https://www.yieldguild.io/ Twitter: https://x.com/YieldGuild Abou Kakarot Kakarot is an EVM-compatible ZK-Rollup that leverages Cairo to spearhead innovations on Ethereum. This offers a strong edge to core ZK infrastructure builders: separating cryptography and engineering. Because of its architecture, Kakarot is the only zkEVM rollup that'll be able to follow and even front-run upgrades to the Ethereum protocol. Under the hood, Kakarot zkEVM relies on the Starknet stack (CairoVM + StarknetOS runtime). Website: https://www.kakarot.org/ Twitter: https://x.com/KakarotZkEvm

Deep dive into decentralized key management with David Sneider, the Co-founder of Lit Protocol. The podcast goes over topics that include programmable keys and domain wallets. David also delves deeper into how we are moving into an open network era and what that means.

Join us on the Safe Podcast as we delve deep into the transformative world of account abstraction (AA) with Lukas Schor from Safe. Unravel discussions around the intricacies of multichain strategies, the evolving significance of privacy in the Web3 domain, and the latest standout app launches. This episode also resonates with our earlier conversations on the future of Web3 and its three transitions as highlighted by Vitalik Buterin.

Join us on the Web3 Native podcast as we explore more about Neutron, the pioneering partner chain that is expected to bootstrap a Cambrian explosion of cross-chain dApps in Atom Economic Zone (AEZ). Discover insights from @Spaydh on the urgent call for innovation in Cosmos, distinctions in security and chains, and Neutron's role in simplifying dApp development. Interestingly, this podcast brings back our cross-chain dApps discussion with Jose Macedo from Delphi (you can watch the previous podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iih5HMgIfGE)

Timour Kosters, a Partner at Seed Club Ventures shares why Seed Club Ventures existed, his position on why they're big on Internet-Native Organizations (his own term for DAOs), and key exciting narratives like the unfolding intersection of AI and Web3. 13:55 Mission 20:27 Why be a Venture DAO 44:07 SCV Being Stack-Agnostic 47:25 SCV Investments: Machines, Humans, Memes 48:19 Machines: How AI intersects with Web3 58:50 Humans: Art, Music, and Creativity 1:10:14 Memes: Culture- and Mission-Driven Projects 1:18:13 SCV: Seeding into the Future About LongHash Ventures LongHash Ventures specializes in bootstrapping Web3 ecosystems. Our venture funds invest in early-stage Web3 protocols, and our LongHashX Accelerator partners with ecosystems and protocols to accelerate early-stage founders. About LongHashX LongHashX is the world’s leading Web3 accelerator. We partner with the leading Web3 ecosystems and infrastructure protocols to build their developer communities by funding and venture-building with early-stage founders. About LongHash Web LongHash Web is the world’s first on-chain contribution network stewarded by LongHashX Accelerator and underpinned by the technology of SoulBound tokens to recognize and verify contributions from Web3 founders, CTOs, and investors. Relevant Links: Website: https://longhash.vc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashVC Twitter: https://twitter.com/LongHashX Podcast: https://linktr.ee/longhash_ventures Medium: https://longhashvc.medium.com/ This video is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a request or invitation to invest, and it is not financial advice. Investment in cryptocurrencies can lead to loss of money over short or long periods. Investors in cryptocurrencies should expect prices to have large range fluctuations. It is not advisable to invest a high percentage of total net wealth in cryptocurrencies. Losses might reach 100% of invested assets. Cryptocurrency investing may not be suitable for all investors. Anyone looking to invest in cryptocurrencies should consult a fully qualified independent professional financial adviser. Investors are solely responsible to determine what, if any, taxes apply to their cryptocurrencies transactions.

In this podcast, we're featuring Astar Network Founder Sota Watanabe about Astar's steps towards a multichain future. Sota shared that they're currently building XCMP, a messaging protocol that enables tokens to be truly interoperable not just within Polkadot ecosystem but also to other L0 and L1 blockchains. Sota emphasized the three important factors that make up a solid blockchain network: incentivizing developers, superior technology/product, and bootstrapping user base.