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Introducing The Token Transparency Framework With Dan Smith, Louis T and Felipe Montealegre
About this episode
On this episode, Yano is joined by Dan Smith of Blockworks Research, Felipe Montealegre of Theia Research and Louis T of L1D to publicly launch a brand new, industry leading Token Transparency Framework that will move the entire industry forward!
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Chapters:
(00:00) Token Transparency
(02:25) The Token Market & Lemons
(11:40) Equity vs Token Risk
(14:18) Structural Token Issues
(17:12) How Did We Get Here?
(22:57) Token Horror Stories
(31:50) Token Launches
(56:50) Best Case Scenario
(01:02:38) Impact On Token Prices
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