Tascha of Alpha Finance: Part 2, A Magical Founder’s Quest To Build A Cross Chain DeFi Empire 🏰

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures  Tom Shaughnessy hosts Tascha Punyaneramitdee of Alpha Finance. The two discuss Alpha’s token economic plan (staking and unlocked features per product), value accrual, backstopping risk in the platform, growing to take on DeFi giants while staying nimble and releasing cutting edge products, AlphaX’s perpetual product and much more. Tascha is a magical founder.  As a recap, we originally hosted Tascha on December 4, 2020 - view this episode here. We would like to thank Cosmos for making this podcast possible through their sponsorship! Cosmos.network is on a mission, link one million blockchains. Name brand projects like Terra, Band, Kava, and Secret use Cosmos and the Cosmos Hub to connect to every other chain in our network. The Cosmos Hub is the port city that delivers Inter-Blockchain Communication today. Learn more at cosmos.network. Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as an audio interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcripts. Join today to get our interviews, first. - Show Notes: (2:19) - (First Question) Alpha Finance Overview. (5:28) - Alpha Token’s staking Tiers. (9:26) - AlphaX, a leveraged trading perpetual swap onchain. (12:40) - The process behind the design of the user interface. (15:35) - Thoughts about how Alpha Homora will work with Uniswap V3. (19:54) - Alpha’s Risks. (22:22) - Thoughts on Layer 2s. (24:12) - Alpha's target / retail users and funds / DeFi protocols. (26:51) - Flip side of staking, where you have one pool of capital that’s inherently protecting multiple products? (29:21) - What’s next for Alpha? (32:29) - Thoughts on the direction of Alpha long-term. (35:17) - Dealing with Culture clashes. (38:31) - Thoughts on Alphas decentralization. (43:15) - How do you stay small enough to be able to offer the innovative DeFi products that got you here?   Resources: Tascha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tascha_panpan Alpha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlphaFinanceLab Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119 Delphi Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodcastDelphi More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Yy99ZlQIX9-PdG_xHj43Q Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host may personally own tokens that are mentioned on the podcast. Lets Talk Bitcoin is a distribution partner for the Chain Reaction Podcast, and our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product or service. Delphi’s transparency