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In this podcast, hosts Vikram Ramakrishnan and Faizaan Shamsi, partners at the software consultancy QuantLayer, talk to investors and builders of the cryptocurrency arena. We discuss how industry participants think about crypto assets, how they uncover fraud in the market, and which technologies will turn the budding, nascent crypto space into the revolutionary powerhouse early market participants had hoped for.

Aug 6, 2018

In this episode, we talk about our experience at the Crypto Hedge Fund Summit in New York, and what we learned about custody solutions and infrastructure being built for institutional investors. We go over what a family office is and how they differ from institutional investors. We discuss how important custody is and why. We also break out a multi-point thesis for how funds should think about educating their managers and analysts on the crypto space.

Topics:

  • QuantLayer's top three most popular podcast episodes
  • AAPL hit a trillion dollar market cap
  • Recap of Crypto Hedge Fund Summit
    - Definition of a family offices into family member
    - Family offices doing OTC trading of Bitcoin
    - Crypto custody and infrastructure
    - State of Blockchain Q2 report
    - Traditional investing versus crypto
    - Kinds of buckets people should care about
    - Things you should do when running a crypto fund
  • Real time auction versus high usage ETH contracts
    - MobileGo in freefall after team member fraud
    - Alexander Vinnik extradition request to Russia from Greece approved
    - Top US banks have paid $243 billion in fines since 2008
    - Wallet bug causes theft at Altex
    - GH PRs referenced
    - Scam wallets

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