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 undercollateralized models
01:11:00 summary of chat and closing thoughts on the ReFi movement
