Badgercast

Wasabi, Jintao and Alex discuss the complexities around surrounding APY display, Badgers approach and some innovative new tech solutions Badger is actively using.

- Why this shouldn't be the only factor one considers when exploring earning opportunities

- Badgers approach to calculating the most accurate APY

- How Badger Ninja enables users to verify the math themselves

- How innovative tech solutions help to monitor harvest performance

Wasabi and Tritium make the case for bveCVX as the Great Convex Unlockening approaches on June 30, including:  

- What is bveCVX and who is it for? 

- Our best guesses on which way CVX whales will swim after the unlockening 

- How the bveCVX bribes processor works, and helps deepen liquidity 

- A breakdown of bveCVX fees and how they help the product run 

- Future plans for development / leverage

Tritium discusses Badger's latest moves in the ve- influence wars with the launch of Gravity, a project built on top of the Aura / Balancer ecosystem. We cover: 

- Badger's learnings in the CVX and Solidly projects 

- How ve tokenomics have evolved in recent months 

- How graviAURA could become a 'done-for-you' way for DAOs to build up their Balancer liquidity 

- Possible ways to play the Aura launch

Jonto, Tritium and Spadaboom talk:   

- The genesis of Citadel  

- Tokenomics of the DAO-to-DAO relationship between Badger and Citadel 

- How Citadel will use BADGER tokens it acquires 

- Badger's evolution into a base layer protocol that Citadel and other DAOs will build on

- The Citadel early contributor program and other ways to get involved  

Links Mentioned:  

Citadel Tokenomics deep dive: https://thecitadeldao.medium.com/tokenomics-deep-dive-a11e7f5e2083

Citadel Early Contributor Program: https://thecitadeldao.medium.com/citadel-dao-early-contributor-program-922e7a057324

Citadel Yield Strategies Whitepaper: https://thecitadeldao.medium.com/an-insight-into-citadeldao-treasury-strategies-aa2456e3bba1

Citadel Initial Sale Parameters Roll out plan: https://thecitadeldao.medium.com/citadel-initial-sale-parameters-8bec5c957066

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Alex the Entreprenerd and Wasabi talk:

 -  How one developer went from bounty to full time at Badger 

- The most pressing engineering problems at Badger today 

- The future of yield farming strategies and Badger's code mixes 

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Tritium and Prince Tok reveal Badger's latest moves in the Curve Wars and how we are applying our learnings to defi's newest yield influence ecosystem: Solidly. We cover:

- How Badger boosted our CVX deposits amid March's surprise mass unlockening 

- Turning bveCVX into a major profit center for the DAO

- The changing game theory of our CVX voting strategy

- How Badger is rolling out the CVX playbook in the Solidly ecosystem

- What's next in DeFi yield influence games

- Exclusive alpha on crypto, love, and life from an OG Badger

Alex the Entreprenerd is back with more tips on how to evaluate new protocols in DeFi. We cover: 

- Shopping for yield: where to find new farms and protocols  

- Ways to magnify your yield in a low APY environment  

- How a non-technical user can read DeFi audit reports and what red flags to look for 

- What protocols in DeFi are the most battle tested  

- Why all DeFi audits and auditors are not created equal 

- War stories of getting rugged 

-  Jumping into the code to compare Aave fork Geist with the original code  

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Follow Wasabi: https://twitter.com/wasabiboat420

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https://gitcoin.co/badger-finance/bounties

Wasabi chats with Alex the Entreprenerd about the fastest ways to spin up as a Web3 developer and what path he recommends if he had to do it all again.  PLUS:

- What areas Alex would invest in in he had a billion dollars to fund crypto startups 

- Suggestions for starter Web 3 projects to build 

- How you can get paid to learn with Badger's Gitcoin Bounties 

- A TON of suggested resources to get you started in Web3 fast

Web 2 Path

- CS50 https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2022/spring/

- React https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMknfKXIFA8

- Ethers.js https://docs.ethers.io/v5/

- Next.jw https://nextjs.org/

Web 3 Path

- Solidity https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.12/

- Austin Griffith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30pa790tIIA&list=PLJz1HruEnenCXH7KW7wBCEBnBLOVkiqIi

- Patrick Collins Solidity Course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M576WGiDBdQ

- Solidity by Example  https://solidity-by-example.org/

- rekt.news https://rekt.news/

Hackathons

- Chainlink Hackathon https://chain.link/hackathon

- EthGlobal https://ethglobal.com/

Gas is too damn high! Alex, Hal, and Wasbi break down how gas pricing works on Ethereum and a number of steps you can take to take to save on your DeFi transactions.

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Alex and Wasabi talk through the different yield farming strategies in Badger's Ethereum mainnet vaults. If you've ever found yourself wondering "where does the yield in DeFi come from?" or had questions about how individual vaults operate, this is a great starting point.   

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