Episode 7: Flori Ventures with Tomer Bariach

ReFi Podcast

Mar 11 2022 • 1 hr 15 mins

On episode 7 of ReFi Podcast, we are joined by Tomer Bariach, general partner of Flori Ventures. Tomer is a pioneer of token economics and opens our minds to how crypto can be used to enable a universal basic income. He also offers some challenging questions on the area of token incentives we are creating ourselves on our journey to scaling the carbon market on chain... Some of the topics we jump into: 00:00 Intro 01:14  Tomer's education and path to Flori 07:40 How does Celo resonate with you? 09:50 What thesis' are you working on at Flori? 13:00 Why is decentralization so important? "I trust a well designed incentive structure economies more than people" 16:30 the role incentives play in influencing behaviors   20:09 what do you see happening in this while ReFi movement? only way we understand value is to consume/destroy 22:40 natural capital currencies, backing with the health of the forest 24:47 3 pillars of ReFi 29:12 Unpacking UBI 31:45 "you are a human being, you are giving our economy value.." 35:25 How do we get UBI into the mainstream? 39:26 Which projects are making the biggest impact on the ground an in communities? 43:14 how do we mitigate against double accounting in carbon markets? 1. decentralized verification - wikipedia/encyclopedia 2. Fungibility 3. carbons into the ground per block for bitcoin style curve, gold rush for sequestering carbon 49:33 Who else is trying to crack measurement and verification reporting? 51:21 Do you like sharing your ideas? "its in my interest to share my ideas" 53:15 What do you think of on the ecology of money?  58:28 What primitive crypto economic mechanisms are you excited about? 01:01:18 What interests you in under collateralized loans? "getting money to people on the ground who have no other reasonable access.." "community credit score.." 01:09:00 top  under collateralized models  01:11:00 summary of chat and closing thoughts on the ReFi movement Connect with Tomer and check out Flori Ventures: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomer-bariach-496a2b48 https://www.floriventures.com -------------------------------------------- Join the conversation on Twitter, follow https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/johnx25bd Thanks to Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com

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