Podcast: Alliance DAO on Raising $50M and This Year’s Biggest DeFi Trends | Qiao Wang & Imran Khan

Jason Yanowitz and Mike Ippolito are joined by Qiao Wang and Imran Khao to discuss DeFi, TradFi and more

January 13, 2022 08:45 am

In the latest episode of “Empire,” Blockworks’ founders, Jason Yanowitz and Mike Ippolito, are joined by Qiao Wang and Imran Khan of Alliance DAO.

Not only are Qiao and Imran announcing the launch of Alliance DAO (in which Yanowitz is an investor) and a $50 million fundraise, they’re also diving into their thoughts on how the “Summer of DeFi” set up the current state of crypto. They also cover metaverse and gaming projects they’re interested in.

Plus, listen in to hear their thoughts on:

Web2 vs. Web3
The convergence of DeFi and TradFi
Tokenomics
and so much more

Check out what they had to say in the video below. 👇

About the show

“Empire” is a twice-a-week show. On Thursdays, Jason interviews crypto industry movers and shakers to talk about their struggles, bold moves and tough decisions. Friday’s weekly round-up episodes feature co-host, Santiago Roel Santos and cover the top news from the past week.

For any NPR or Guy Raz fans out there, you can think of “Empire” as a “How I Built This” for the bitcoin and crypto industry.

Subscribe to “Empire” today on Apple or Spotify. Watch episodes on YouTube.

Get the day’s top crypto news and insights delivered to your inbox every evening. Subscribe to Blockworks’ free newsletter now.

Tags

Newsletter

The Breakdown

Decoding crypto and the markets. Daily, with Byron Gilliam.

Upcoming Events

Digital Asset Summit 2025

Old Billingsgate

Mon - Wed, October 13 - 15, 2025

Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit (DAS) will feature conversations between the builders, allocators, and legislators who will shape the trajectory of the digital asset ecosystem in the US and abroad.

buy tickets learn more

recent research

Research

Building the Global Trading Engine

Innovations on Aptos’ technical design through Raptr, Shardines, and Zaptos approach near-optimal latency and throughput by unlocking 100% utilization of network resources, with the capacity to settle 260k transactions per second with latencies less than 800ms. The original Move language was revamped with the launch of Move 2, supporting more expressivity in smart contract logic and a scalable ability to interact with high volume datasets. The ecosystem has benefitted from strong asset inflows, now hosting over $1.3B in stablecoins, $450M in bridged BTC, and $530M in RWAs. Activity in the Aptos ecosystem has grown notably over the past year, with monthly application revenue reaching ~$835k and monthly DEX volumes growing to over $5B, both at new all time highs.

by Luke Leasure