Podcast: 2022 Crypto Theses with Ryan Selkis

Ryan Selkis and Mike Ippolito take a big seat to talk big predictions for crypto come 2022, including NFTs, Web 3, DAOs, and more.

by Brianna Beckford /

December 8, 2021 09:40 am

On this episode of Blockworks’ podcast On the Margin, Michael Ippolito, co-founder, is joined by Ryan Selkis, co-founder and CEO at Messari.

Having released the 150+ page Crypto Theses for 2022 report, we invited Ryan to the show to discuss the most important trends to look out for in the industry. Mike and Ryan discuss the layer-1 wars, venture capital investment in crypto, NFTs 100x potential, regulation for crypto and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), Ryan’s market outlook for 2022 and so much more.

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They also covered:

The structure of a DAO
Web3
and so much more

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