8. Joe King: Learning to Fly - Paragliding and the Rise of a Tokenized Economy

Welcome to EARLY, the podcast about web3 business from Bankless Consulting. DSide's guest today is Joe King, a committed Web3 advisor and consultant with a focus on tokenomics, decentralized finance protocols, and Web3 gaming. He enjoys learning about innovations in the decentralized finance space and writing research papers that offer advice on fresh initiatives for businesses and DAOs. Joe possesses extensive expertise in DeFi, Real World Assets on the Blockchain, Token Allocation Models, and Tokenomics Design. Joe King got involved in crypto currencies in 2016 and spent the next few years as a trader/investor with a focus on technical financial analysis. During "DeFi Summer" of 2020 he was hooked on what these decentralized financial tools could bring to the world and how Smart Contracts could revolutionize a large part of the Financial, Real Estate, and Insurance sectors. Joe  believes (as do I) that Web3 will slowly swallow large parts of existing financial systems and he loves the idea of building the future. In this episode, Joe talks about his journey through the world of decentralized finance and about crypto trading, exchanges, the particular applications of tokenized assets in real world scenarios and a lot more that can be possible with web3 in the future. DSide and Joe dig into exciting new DeFi projects and the challenges they face, real estate investing, the realities of real world assets on the blockchain, and Joe shares his visions of the future of web3. For the fun part, Joe talks about his early life as a chef in Aspen and his love for paragliding!   ***Timestamps*** 6:00 - Joe's journey from TradFi to DeFi 7:40 -  Centralized vs. decentralized finance 12:20 - Exciting new innovations in DeFi - GMX as an instance 15:20 - Joe's early days as a private chef 18:55 - Learning rules to bend the rules 22:22 - Real estate investing 25:40 - Bringing real assets on-chain and potential use cases 32:00 - Everything that can be tokenized will be tokenized  35:30 - Bets on the future of web3 - There's more to come! 40:45 - Insurance and web3 45:30 - Paragliding! Learning to fly  ***Additional Resources*** Coinbase Binance Kraken SushiSwap UniSwap Robinhood GMX Paragliding If you found this show informative, enlightening, fun, or just plain fire - please leave us a review on Apple podcasts to help us grow! Be sure to follow us and our guest on social media to unlock the latest web3 alpha.   ***Links*** Bankless Consulting Twitter Bankless Consulting LinkedIn Bankless Consulting Newsletter Link to Joe's Twitter