Episode 61 of Season 6 of The Scoop

Recorded with The Block’s Frank Chaparro, CMT Digital Investor & Head of Research Aryan Sheikhalia.

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Sam Hallene and Aryan Sheikhalia are analysts at CMT Digital, a subsidiary of the CMT Group.

In this episode, Hallene and Sheikhalia unpack the key trends they are observing in crypto’s VC market, including the intersection of blockchain and AI and its implications for improving user data ownership, verified inference, and the use of blockchain to govern non-deterministic models.

OUTLINE

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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