Overview
The YouTube Channel made by Arash Sharif is a one-person crypto channel that still runs under the name Crypto Buff, and that recorded long live streams about crypto projects, several of them on the day a new Cardano app opened to the public. Most of it is unedited screen-share footage in which the host worked through an app while viewers asked questions in the chat. Other streams sit outside that pattern, covering a regulation panel, a Bitcoin conference and a Cardano collapse. It has stopped publishing, and what remains is an archive.
The bulk of that archive is Cardano material recorded between late 2021 and mid-2023, when the channel followed the ecosystem's first wave of apps: token swapping venues, lending services and NFT drops. Arash Sharif, the creator, later said he no longer wanted to build his content around a single ecosystem, and the one upload that followed is about Bitcoin1. The Cardano run ended before that shift, so this listing is a record of a period rather than a current news source.
Key Features
- Launch-day streams you can replay. The channel went live as SundaeSwap opened trading, and again as Minswap ran the event that seeded its first trading pools, sharing its screen through each step as it happened23.
- Guides pitched at people who are not technical. The host framed the Minswap walkthrough as help for viewers who felt out of their depth3.
- First-hand footage of a collapse. One long stream worked through the exits of Ardana and Orbis, two Cardano projects that raised money and then wound down, recorded while the story was still unfolding4.
- NFT mints watched in real time. Streams sat through the Liqwid Finance Aquafarmer NFT drop5 and the FudBuddies mint6, showing what minting looked like as it happened rather than in a write-up afterwards.
- The creator's own account of stepping away. A short video explains why he stopped covering one ecosystem and moved to other subjects, which is useful context for anyone reading the older material1.
What to Expect
Visitors to Arash Sharif YouTube find a library of 24 videos dominated by live streams, sitting alongside a handful of shorter edited videos7. The streams run at the pace of the broadcast, with the host reading viewer questions from the chat as he went2. That makes them slow to skim, but useful if you want to see what a launch looked like from the inside rather than in summary.
The Cardano playlists remain in place, including collections on Cardano native tokens, and the last Cardano stream covers an early Linkage Finance token sale8. Beyond YouTube, the channel points to an X account and a Telegram group, and there is no website, newsletter or documentation attached to it. The streams tab remains published, and no stream on it postdates the Cardano coverage9.
