<p>Aaron Wright is a founding member of The LAO, Flamingo DAO, and now Tribute Labs. He was early to Bitcoin, invested in the Ethereum presale, and went on to found one of the earliest protocols on Ethereum called OpenLaw while working for years at the Ethereum venture studio ConsenSys. &nbsp;</p> <p>In this episode, Aaron discusses his remarkable career being early to Ethereum, dApps, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and the Web3-enabled Metaverse. I have known Aaron since 2017 and he's consistently early to mega trends in crypto, long before they catch fire in the mainstream. Aaron offers his humble reflections on what has allowed Ethereum to become the most dominant blockchain and why it's just getting started with an infinite number of applications, ideas, and economies to be built on it as an authentication/settlement layer. &nbsp;</p> <p>THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION OR ENDORSEMENT TO BUY ANY TOKEN OR NFT RELATED TO ANY PLATFORMS DISCUSSED. &nbsp;</p> <p>------&nbsp;</p> <p>🙏 If you're a DeFi/Web3 builder, contact my team at 4RC: https://fourthrevolution.capital/&nbsp;</p> <p>------&nbsp;</p> <p>🌿 SUBSCRIBE TO DEFI DAD ON LENSTUBE: https://lenstube.xyz/defidad.lens</p> <p>✅ FOLLOW DEFI DAD ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad</p> <p>🌲 DISCOVER DEFI AND WEB3 BLOG POSTS, INTERVIEWS, AND TUTORIALS: http://defidad.com/&nbsp;</p> <p>------&nbsp;</p> <p>DeFi Talks Resources &nbsp;</p> <p>🌿 LENS | DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL GRAPH</p> <p>https://lens.xyz/&nbsp;</p> <p>📱ORB | IOS/ANDROID MOBILE APP FOR LENS SOCIAL MEDIA</p> <p>https://orb.ac/&nbsp;</p> <p>📱 PHAVER | IOS/ANDROID MOBILE APP FOR LENS SOCIAL MEDIA&nbsp;</p> <p>https://phaver.com/&nbsp;</p> <p>🐤 LENSTER | DECENTRALIZED SHORT-FORM SOCIAL MEDIA ON LENS&nbsp;</p> <p>https://lenster.xyz/&nbsp;</p> <p>📺 LENSTUBE | DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL VIDEO PLATFORM ON LENS&nbsp;</p> <p>https://lenstube.xyz/&nbsp;</p> <p>🤖 UTILITI.AI | ALL-IN-ONE PLATFORM TO LAUNCH DAPPS AND GAMES&nbsp;</p> <p>https://www.utiliti.ai/&nbsp;</p> <p>📊 PUSH PROTOCOL | WEB3 COMMS PROTOCOL FOR CHAT AND NOTIFICATIONS&nbsp;</p> <p>https://push.org/&nbsp;</p> <p>⛩️ UTOPIA | PAYROLL AND EXPENSE MANAGEMENT FOR DAOS&nbsp;</p> <p>https://www.utopialabs.com/&nbsp;</p> <p>------&nbsp;</p> <p>Topics Covered &nbsp;</p> <p>00:00 - Intro&nbsp;</p> <p>02:00 - How Aaron found his tribe in Ethereum&nbsp;</p> <p>08:50 - What gave him the confidence to invest so early in Ethereum&nbsp;</p> <p>13:00 - The social fabric passed down by Ethereum builders&nbsp;</p> <p>17:50 - What theses have played and which have yet be fully realized&nbsp;</p> <p>20:30 - What's misunderstood about NFTs by the public&nbsp;</p> <p>26:50 - The power of authentication and property rights on Ethereum&nbsp;</p> <p>29:05 - Is gaming "the Metaverse?"&nbsp;</p> <p>31:15 - How ETH has evolved as a store-of-value and why it matters to big money managers&nbsp;</p> <p>35:30 - What trends he's excited for in 2023&nbsp;</p> <p>38:25 - What are the most repeatable traits he looks for in founders &nbsp;</p> <p>39:30 - Advice he'd give himself if he were new to crypto in 2023&nbsp;</p> <p>42:50 - Closing &nbsp;</p> <p>------&nbsp;</p> <p>Guest Links &nbsp;</p> <p>Aaron Wright on Twitter&nbsp;</p> <p>https://twitter.com/awrigh01 &nbsp;</p> <p>Learn about Tribute Labs&nbsp;</p> <p>http://tributelabs.xyz/&nbsp;</p> <p>-----&nbsp;</p> <p>Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Do your own research. All opinions expressed by DeFi Dad and guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of his team at 4RC.</p>