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Decentralized Investment Funds: Transforming Global Innovation Through DIFs ep 13
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In Episode 13 of the PIPE GDAO Podcast, we explore how PIPE GDAO’s permissionless protocols empower university R&D startups, bridging the gap between cutting-edge innovation and Web3 capital through the PGF Launchpad. Dive into the transformative potential of decentralized investment funds (DIFs) and discover how the PIPE Exchange (PEX) facilitates the trading of real-world asset-backed NFTs, driving growth and liquidity in the blockchain ecosystem.
We break down the QED process, which validates and scales innovative projects, ensuring alignment between investors and early-stage startups. Additionally, we discuss the advantages of building hybrid systems by combining on-chain immutability and off-chain oracles, offering a scalable solution for both transparency and centralized processes.
Learn about the role of the PIPE Associate Network in supporting R&D startups, fostering a global community of collaborators and investors. Whether you’re passionate about innovation, blockchain, or exploring new opportunities in Web3 funding, this episode delivers actionable insights to help you stay ahead in the evolving decentralized landscape.
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Introduction & Humor
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Welcome to episode 13 of PIPE GDOW. As usual, it's sleazy slimy. And this guy. And it's me. Yeah, Spy Noodle's very lucky episode we have, clearly. Yeah, very
PIPE Ecosystem Overview
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lucky. And we're talking about the PIPE ecosystem chapter of the white paper today. On 13th episode. Hopefully it's not any premonition or anything.
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I was going to say it's not ah not a bad look. and we should we should have picked We should have picked something different. We should have done crypto scams again. I've got so many saved tweets. ah oh and know yeah and that is So it is page 14, the pipe ecosystem, chapter 3.
00:00:48
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Contact & Interaction Options
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Blockchain Concepts Explained
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First of all, we have a graph, as we usually do, on-chain immutability and off-chain oracles, I'm just describing. Well, not a graph, I guess a picture you could say it, it's a figure five.
00:02:56
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Just to define our terms, on-chain means something happening. Inside the blockchain, off-chain means something happening outside of the blockchain. You know, there are calculations that are happening on-chain. Then there's, let's say, a football match that happens. Off-chain, like the one where Spain won against England.
00:03:15
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ah You're so funny. you're so far I actually don't think you understand. This puts such a huge barrier between us ever since I found out you were Spanish. yeah I'm still upset. I'm not even Spanish ethnically, but I will claim the Spanish ethnicity just for the but this. ah I mean, you live there and that's bad enough.
00:03:37
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Yeah, we have on chain, like calculations, like price, and then there's off chain, which is like the real world. And also like everything else on blockchain, like a system, now the electronic system, which is not on the blockchain, like pipe, like some of the pipe ecosystem components. Then there's immutability.
00:03:58
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ah So mutable means changeable, immutable means unchangeable. It's important for ah to be able to not ah to not have anyone tampering with the records of the history. It is one of those important things that are ah key to why we're using a blockchain. Although to be fair, immutability is not inherently a part of blockchain.
00:04:23
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ah blockchain can be mutable, but in practice that the vast majority of them are immutable. And then there's oracles of chain oracle is just some kind of service that gives you information about what's happening outside of chain.
Web3 Challenges & Solutions
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ah like there can be a service a company which says in this football match Spain won yes yeah that's an example of an oracle or an oracle that says this is the price of a dollar against I don't know. Brazilian whatever currency they have. Maybe they actually have dollars. so I don't know. I think it's, is it? Yeah. that Hold on. Let's have a look. Brazilian real. Apparently. Oh, yeah. They have a real money there. Real money. Since 1994, they've had real money.
00:05:20
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Income Opportunities with PIPE
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00:06:29
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00:06:47
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00:07:37
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And then there's a a couple of boxes. The one on chain immutability it has. IP as a non-fungible token, IKNFT, IKA that's something that's happening in the future, we don't have this out yet. There's a PEX, which is pipe exchange, which is where everything, have not yet, but will in the future up and coming be traded on.
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ah Something like your investments, your tokens, your NFCs, stuff like that. There is a DIF, aka Centralized Investment Fund, and a DOT slash blockchain.
Blockchain vs Centralized Systems
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And then there is the off-chain oracles, which is PIPE QED. We've talked about it a little bit.
00:08:20
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ah where question, evaluate, decide. There's EU R and&D IP, so research and development slash intellectual property. There's the associates network. And that's pretty much how the graph goes.
00:08:35
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The pump pipe company has developed the ecosystem shown in figure five that we just described. This shows how the key building blocks of the pipe ecosystem and the stakeholders interact to take IP from the lab to i p IPO slash s STO. This is done by way of a private placement within a closed user group on the packs. So we're just describing pretty much how the process goes from lab to funding to pipe, stuff like that.
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The ecosystem isn't two related but distinct parts, namely the on-chain processes, and systems building ah utilizing DLT slash blockchain in parentheses Hedera, and all the benefits that Brinks and the off-chain, otherwise known as an Oracle, where all the rigor, qualitative processing and validation of R&D slash IP happens.
00:09:28
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yeah Normally we have a separation between the blockchain and the and the centralized off-chain system ah because while blockchain has a number of advantages such as being immutable and such as having a full transparency,
00:09:45
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This is all great, but it doesn't apply to every situation in stuff like a company where they are meant to have ah their processes away from public eye. Well, some of them, not all of them. of Of course, there is a level transparency expense of of companies ah where you're not meant to set up a very expensive chain that would be validated by ah hundreds of validators outside of your chain. that is barely That is hardly necessary and it would be too expensive to do that in and some kind of organization that just wants a working process.
NFTs in IP Management
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So we have a centralized process inside companies because that's the more useful use case. So so like a hybrid system.
00:10:31
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when we need blockchain, we use blockchain, but when it's not needed, we use centralized system. Just like we're using here. IP is managed through the employment of NFT features, and thus bringing numerous benefits to both the IP creator and the IP exploiter.
00:10:47
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I think IP user would be the more ah friendly term, but yeah, IP exploiter, that's the expression that people came up with. The underlying IP is protected throughout the disclosure and due diligence process up to and beyond the point of funding.
00:11:04
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ah So yeah, NDAs and stuff like that, so they can work on it without it ah being public too early.
Investing in University Innovations
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This process also allows for permissionless open source mechanism of IP improvement and development to occur and for the value of the associate NFT to rise in the relation ah to this improvement. So yeah, we are building stuff.
00:11:30
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Absolutely. Absolutely we are. But before that, have you actually heard of a certain logo designer that managed to turn $2000 into $200,000? I have not. Please tell me more. Oh, well. His name is Dustin Moskowitz, a simple designer whose genius foresight in an early university startup, Facebook, changed his life. Yes, he designed the Facebook logo.
00:11:55
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And you can do this too by contributing to nascent technology startups from universities of today through PIPE Associate Network. Find out how you can get started today by going into the description, our link tree, and look for www.arbito.io.pan. But before we continue, are you looking to invest in the real-world asset innovation at peace?
00:12:17
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PIPE Ecosystem Components
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.io. So now we've sort of got ah another figure here where he's calling, so it's the pipe pan or the is the pan pipe associate network as it's known and the pipe D and V um both feed into the pipe QED which will then go and feed on into the pipe dow and then into the the what we call the PEX which is also known as sleazy
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Bible exchange and it's also known as so the muscle on your chest, but that's absolutely Yeah, different packs different bags so the key high-level elements of our Proposition is shown in the figure six above with the one I just described so the pie DMV also known as disclosure and validation It's the process that creates visibility of disclosures to IP creators IP investors and IP exploiters so they can assess viability, determine and express interest and start to follow and develop new ideas and innovations.
00:14:31
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The pipe QED process or the question evaluate and decide supports the commercial decision making process by ensuring that all parties share the same view of the truth and follow a standardized path from lab to IPO, which will then go and feed into the pipe pan associate network, ah allows associates to find projects that can comment Commit to supporting with the aim of creating a community of associates who will work together and bring new companies to the market.
00:15:07
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The GDAL will then support the creation of the PGF where funds evolve to support these early stage ideas slash innovations along the pathway from pre-seed to Series A.
Trading & Legal Aspects on PIPE Exchange
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Series A, which is also, I believe, an Italian footballing league, but it's not what we're talking about here. ah Surely. Surely. I'd hope not. And eventual IPO slash STO.
00:15:36
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The Pipe Exchange, or also known as PEX, like muscles on your chest, which allows funded projects and performance reporting to be visible to all stakeholders, as well as creating the opportunity for investors to trade, buy, swap and sell their positions and create new positions.
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The PEX will also facilitate the STO security token offering when projects that have been funded with 2 million euros wish to float their equity as security tokens to raise more capital.
00:16:12
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Oh, securities. That's a yeah sensitive legal topic. And we have lawyers. And we have lawyers. Yeah. So if you're a project that wishes to ah to go ahead with some securities, you might want our advice on this at the joint pipe ecosystem while you're at it.
00:16:31
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Pipe disclosure and validation is the first step in the QED process.
Project Evaluation in PIPE
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A researcher or technology transfer office and known as TTO ah that has registered ah ah tto o is a an office over at universities that is in charge of commercializing a project. So the researchers do their science stuff and the TTO does the commercialization stuff.
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That has registered at www.lab2ipo.com, discloses their idea slash innovation using the standard form. This is initially analyzed by AI, summarized and metadata extracted, and IP lookup is carried out. In the meantime, any pipe associate within the pipe associate network, otherwise known as PAN, who has knowledge and experience that is relevant, will be alerted to the project's posting and invited to review.
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This review, coupled with AI elements and IP lookup and an iterative process, helped to validate a particular project in terms of its viability. A full report is generated that highlights the main findings, recommendations, quality of disclosure, technology, opinion, value proposition, impact, momentum and overall opinion of the disclosure.
00:17:44
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So this is all just describing how our process is when a project is submitted. did you know up to forty five percent of recruiter talent database are dormant Wow.
00:18:00
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00:18:41
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Absolutely. So QED is a standard gated process with numerous steps that underpins the lab to IPO pathway. With the QED process there exists standard metrics that determine a project's viability such as ah TRL, Standing for Technology Readiness levels SRM, Solution Readiness for Market PRI, Proposition Readiness for Investment BOR, Business Operational Readiness As each stage is completed, or not, the risk profile and gap analysis relating to a particular project is adjusted, as the valuation and potential of the project. Completing QED also completes the business planning process, including all technical and business roadmaps and future KBI slash milestone targets.
00:19:34
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The PEX allows for all funded projects to be listed, and is where the relationship between invested projects, the PGF, and the associate DIFs, standing for decentralized investment funds, is matched, as well as the various options to buy, sell, and trade, and swap. So PEX is our exchange, where all of this stuff associate associated to pipeline projects is exchanged.
00:19:59
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The PEX is essential to the tenant of the PIPE system, given that PIPE is in fact an acronym for the pre-IPO exchange. The idea of having an exchange where early stage slash private entities can secure funding at all stages up to and beyond IPO and where the benefit of growth and investment performance will benefit all stakeholders members and not just the 1% is where the whole concept of PIPE was derived. The PEX is the heart of the system.
00:20:30
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So the point of the paragraph is that it is benefiting the small guy over just the high top tier investments that there are like the VCs slash angel investors type. Although 1% goes even beyond that. And that is it for this chapter. it It was not very long, but we will see you in the next one. Yes, goodbye. Thank you for coming.