Episode 16 of The Scoop Season 6 was recorded as follows: The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi.
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Haseeb Qureshi is Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a cryptocurrency VC firm.
In this episode of The Scoop, Qureshi explains how the cryptocurrency VC landscape has changed during his five years at Dragonfly, and why he believes ‘points’ are a more useful mechanism than airdrops for incentivizing user behavior.
outline
00:00 Introduction
05:41 Early sleep
09:45 Early Cryptocurrency VC
13:14 Competition at Layer 1
26:11 Old blockchain
29:26 points
31:47 Airdrop mechanism design
37:38 Closing thoughts
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About the author
Davis Quinton is the Director of Podcasts at The Block and has a flagship podcast called The Scoop, hosted by Frank Chaparro. Since joining The Block as an ‘intern’ in early 2022, he has worked closely with leaders across multiple departments to translate The Block’s written content into engaging multimedia formats. He is a graduate of the Department of Social Studies & Public Policy at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and is based in Sydney, Australia.