Crypto markets, builders, and technical risk.
The Delphi Podcast follows long-form conversations with crypto builders, investors, and technical operators. Its best episodes turn dense debates about blockchains, venture risk, AI, gaming, and Bitcoin security into brisk, commercially literate exchanges.
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The Delphi Podcast is a long-form interview show about crypto from the inside of the venture and builder ecosystem. It spends less time on daily price chatter and more time on how new networks, applications, funds, and technical risks are being evaluated. The conversations are brisk. They often begin with a named guest, a project, or a thesis, then move quickly toward the practical machinery underneath it. Solana scaling, Ethereum L2 skepticism, Hyperliquid, venture fund theses, accelerator selection, and early founder judgment all show up as live questions rather than settled talking points. The show is especially strong when numbers give the conversation shape. Colosseum’s 80,000 applicants, 6,500 launched products, and $700 million raised by participating projects become a way to talk about talent discovery and risk tolerance. Cambria’s prize pools become a way to discuss on-chain games and the older internet economies that shaped them. A Bitcoin quantum episode turns technical threat modeling into a market and governance problem. It gets tense without becoming theatrical. AI episodes stretch beyond crypto into resilience, founder mission, open source incentives, and U.S.-China competition. Gaming episodes bring in RuneScape, Dota, user-generated worlds, and tokenized economic loops. The show’s recurring move is to take a dense claim, restate it in plain terms, then ask what it means for builders or investors. That makes it accessible without sanding off the complexity. Guests are given room to think at length. The tradeoff is that episodes can feel highly insider-facing, with jargon assumed and context supplied only when the conversation needs it. For crypto-native listeners, that is part of the appeal. The Delphi Podcast feels like sitting in on a serious hallway conversation among people trying to price technical change before it becomes obvious.
Made for: For crypto investors, founders, protocol watchers, and technically curious listeners who already know the basic vocabulary and want sharper context. It also suits gaming and AI builders tracking where crypto incentives may matter.
What sets it apart: The show pairs venture-style judgment with unusually concrete technical conversations. It keeps returning to incentives, scale, founder quality, and failure modes instead of treating crypto as a stream of announcements.
Conversations with Crypto Gigabrains. Hosted by Tommy, Co-Founder and Founding Partner at Delphi Ventures
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Technical crypto questions become lively, detailed conversations about building products, judging founders, and preparing for risks that remain difficult to price.
The Delphi Podcast gives technical and investment questions room to become candid conversations. Tommy asks guests to explain how they judge founders, fund uncertain ideas, build on-chain products, and connect crypto incentives with developments in gaming and AI.
Quantum theft, founder judgment, and sentient code meet Tommy's appetite for questions your group chat cannot settle.
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A clear look at Coliseum's scale, founder judgment, and the endurance mindset behind its hackathon.
Coliseum comes through as a startup accelerator story framed by endurance, but the episode does not push the comparison too hard. The scale is the anchor: 80,000 builders have applied, 6,500 products have launched, and hackathon alumni have raised $700 million.
A clear, grounded look at Bitcoin's quantum risk, exposed keys, Satoshi's coins, and the developer hesitation around any fix.
The Delphi Podcast frames Bitcoin's quantum problem in practical terms, starting with the risk to coins tied to publicly revealed keys and then bringing Satoshi's million-plus coins into the picture.
Mike's view of AI investing centers on founder fit, mission, and the time needed to build real conviction.
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A grounded look at how Coliseum turns hackathon scale into early-stage founder bets.
This Coliseum discussion turns a big headline into a more grounded look at how an on-chain hackathon pipeline actually works. The scale is hard to ignore: 80,000 builders applied, 6,500 products launched, and products that came through its hackathon have raised $700 million.
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Tin Nguyen, founder of Cypher, discusses his studio's growth to 140 people and the launch of their action RPG Cypher Odyssey.
Tommy hosts Clay Robbins, co-founder of Colosseum, Solana's largest hackathon and accelerator.
Ian Rountree, founder of Kantos Ventures, tells host Jose Maria Macedo that the "myth of the breakthrough" misleads deep tech investors, who should weigh execution risk and ten-year timelines instead.
Tommy from Delphi Ventures interviews Logan of Frictionless about the evolution of his crypto investment thesis from Fund 1 to Fund 2.
Clay Robbins says Coliseum has drawn 80,000 builders, produced 6,500 launched products, and helped products raise $700 million through its hackathons.
The Delphi Podcast episode with Nic Carter centers on his claim that quantum computing could threaten Bitcoin within a decade, with Carter saying there is a 70% to 80% chance of a break by 2035.
The Delphi Podcast host Tommy interviews Mike McCormick about why he left venture capital in 2022 to build Halcyon around AI safety, biosecurity, and global resilience.
Connor Howe traces Enso from his 2016 Solidity work in Mist Wallet to an infrastructure engine for on-chain applications.
Double Zero co-founder Austin Federa says Solana's Agave and Firedancer clients can each handle a million transactions per second but are held back by the public internet, where most validators have only 1 to 5 gigabit connections.
The Delphi Podcast hosts Legion and Cookie3 to explain "attention capital markets," which tie creator mindshare to on-chain capital commitments, shortly after Legion announced a seed round backed by VanEck and Brevan Howard Digital.
Interview with Ben, founder of Cambria, discussing the intersection of crypto and gaming, inspired by RuneScape.