<p>In this episode of Crypto Investors, we chat with Imran Khan, who is a Partner at Volt Capital and is the lead at DeFi alliance. Imran has been backing founders building at the cutting edge of DeFi and in this episode we dig deeper on his learnings doing the same. We talk about regulations in DeFi, getting larger financial institutions and market makers involved in crypto and DeFi as well as the current trends of crypto in Africa.</p> <p>00:00 Introduction</p> <p>00:28 Background story and overview of Volt Capital</p> <p>02:47 Investing in companies like Buycoins in Africa and crypto trends in Africa</p> <p>07:30 DeFi activity in Africa and potential of stablecoins like USDC in Africa</p> <p>11:30 Background on DeFi Alliance, getting traditional liquidity providers in crypto</p> <p>15:18 Learnings from running a DeFi accelerator</p> <p>17:52 Overview on the DeFi Alliance program</p> <p>20:49 Regulation for DeFi startups</p> <p>23:48 Interesting trends in DeFi</p> <p>27:27 Getting traditional liquidity providers to do market making in crypto and DeFi</p> <p>30:48 NFT space and NFTxDeFi</p> <p>36:05 Interesting trends in crypto in general - magic labs and others</p> <p>40:20 Geographical trends in crypto and closing thoughts</p> <p><br></p> <p>Imran's Twitter : https://twitter.com/lmrankhan</p> <p>DeFi alliance : https://defialliance.co/</p> <p>Volt capital : https://www.volt.capital/</p>