CMT Digital investors unpack how crypto's VC landscape has transitioned from mania to maturity
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- CMT Digital’s Sam Hallene and Aryan Sheikhalian discuss blockchain’s potential to touch every industry, and how CMT Digital aims to participate in this multi-decade system change.
Episode 61 of Season 6 of The Scoop was recorded with The Block's Frank Chaparro, CMT Digital Investment Partner Sam Hallene, &
CMT Digital Head of Research Aryan Sheikhalian.
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Sam Hallene and Aryan Sheikhalian are analysts at CMT Digital, a subsidiary of the CMT Group.
In this episode, Hallene and Sheikhalian unpack the key trends they are observing in crypto's VC market, including the intersection of blockchain and AI and its implication for improving user data ownership, verified inference, and the use of blockchain to govern non-deterministic models.
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00:00 Introduction
05:31 Current VC Landscape
07:02 VC Market Decoupling
12:11 PMF in Crypto
15:58 Non-Financial Use Cases
22:00 DeFi's Future
23:17 Tokenization Trends
29:13 Crypto Venture Market Forecast
35:56 Closing Thoughts
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