Contrarian Crypto Theses for the Next 20 Years - Anirudh Pai, Dragonfly Capital, Ep. 236

<p dir="ltr">Crypto has been always been likened to an echo chamber, where crypto-natives reinforce their beliefs over and over again with others on Twitter</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">Contrarian and long-term thinkers are rare, and today on Blockcrunch we have just the guest to talk about investing in frontiers that most crypto-natives have yet to pick up</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">Anirudh Pai, Partner at Dragonfly, shares with us:</p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What it means to invest at the frontier</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Building an actual city with Praxis</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">2 overlooked verticals that are likely to take off in the future</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">Timestamps:</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:00:00) – Introduction to Ani</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:05:28) – Investing happens at the frontier</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:10:28) – Decentralized Science</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:19:29) – Ani’s thesis on metaverses</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:25:26) – Building a physical crypto city with Praxis</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:40:17) – The next big crypto verticals</p> <p dir="ltr">(00:44:47) – Successful founders are polymaths</p> <p><strong><br /> <br /></strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Sponsor message:</p> <p dir="ltr">Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">More Resources:</p> <p dir="ltr">Guest</p> <p dir="ltr">Anirudh Pai’s Twitter: https://twitter.co