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STATE OF THE NATION #14 - Tuesday, September 15th, 2020

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The State of the Bankless Nation is....FUNding

It that time of year....GITCOIN TIME!!!

Every quarter, 4 times a year, Gitcoin Grants rolls around. This is one of the few times where the money in your wallet means 10x more than it used to... IF... AND ONLY IF.... you donate to your favorite DeFi and Ethereum infrastructure. 

We bring on Kevin Owocki, el presidente of Gitcoin, to discuss the role of Gitcoin in funding the DeFi ecosystem and the technology behind funding public goods. 

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---- Synthetix to Billions | Kain Warwick

Kain Warwick is the founder of the Synthetix Platform, a protocol for generating and trading synthetic digital assets. Kain himself is known for leaning towards crypto-anarchist side of the political spectrum

How did this come about? How has this impacted the building of Synthetix?

Synthetix itself has stood resilient against the 2018/19 bear market. Why? What was the unique advantage of Synthetix vs other 2017 ICO platforms?

What's next for Synthetix now that gas fees are 200+ gwei?

WE COVER:

1) Kain's political stance 2) How this reflected in Synthetix 3) Motivation and Grit around building and producing 4) Growing Community and Culture during a bear market 5) Degen Spartan, and 6 dolla SNX 6) Introducing the SIP process 7) Introducing Yield Farming 8) Recursive upside/downside to SNX + ETH collateral in Synthetix 9) L2 scaling with Optimism 10) Bull market predictions ------ FURTHER RESOURCES:

Synthetix & Optimism: https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/synthetix-exchange-meets-the-ovm-2de3a572d6df

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Episode: #30
September 14, 2020

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STATE OF THE NATION #13 - Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

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The State of the Bankless Nation is....SOBERING!

No, we haven't rewritten the laws of the universe, things are still the same...

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STATE OF THE NATION #13 - Tuesday, September 8, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....SOBERING!

Special Guest...Anthony Sassano @sassal0x on Twitter

TOPICS:

1) SushiSwap Founder dumping all his Sushi; defecting from the protocol

2) The newest wave of ETH 2 killers is here

3) Protocols directing funds to Gitcoin for Gitcoin Grants: BULLISH for ETHEREUM

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1) Aave Founder Stani on the Bankless Pod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b76HL0jFctQ&t=938s

2) AMA with Loopring's Matt Finestone on THURSDAY

3) Tactic coming out on the Bankless Newsletter: How to get Yield SAFELY.

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We show:

1) Sushi Founder Market-Dumps Sushi

2) Ameen Soleimani post-mortem twitter thread

3) Sushi Founder: "I'm a good guy"

5) Kevin Owocki submits 1% YAM treasury to Gitcoin proposal

6) Andre with the DUNK:

7) David puts the final nail in the coffin

8) BASED now giving Gitcoin 2%!

--- ACTION ITEMS:

1) READ: Sushi's Sin of Betrayal: https://bankless.substack.com/p/sushis-sin-of-betrayal-market-monday

2) READ: How to use yEarn to maximize yield https://bankless.substack.com/p/how-to-leverage-yearn-to-maximize

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STATE OF THE NATION #13 - Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

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The State of the Bankless Nation is....SOBERING!

No, we haven't rewritten the laws of the universe, things are still the same...

Follow Anthony on Twitter!

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Episode: #29 September 07, 2020

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---- Stani Kulechov is the Founder of the Aave money market, a place for lending and borrowing assets in DeFi.

Aave has marched up the DeFi leaderboard to become one of the top protocols with the most amount of value deposited into its contracts. Aave's token LEND has increased 3300% since its bear market low.

What contributed to Aave's success? What did Aave do differently? Why did Aave's community thrive when others died? What's next for Aave and Aavenomics?

We ask Stani these questions and many more, in order to get a glimpse of what is successful in this DeFi frontier!

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WE COVER

1) Crypto-Native Founders 2) Early days of Aave -- ETHLend and the Aave pivot 3) Sticking it out through the bear market 4) Establishing the team-community relationship 5) Rising the Ranks of DeFi 6) VC investment vs ICO investment; pros and cons 7) Aave moves FAST! 8) Aavenomics and Aave Roadmap 9) Bull Market Predictions!

----- Resources discussed:

• David's article about MKR references by Stani

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Episode: #29
September 07, 2020

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STATE OF THE NATION #12 - Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

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The State of the Bankless Nation is....POSITIONING!

The bankless boys discuss with Mariano Conti why.

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STATE OF THE NATION #12 - Tuesday, September 1, 2020 State of the Bankless Nation is....POSITIONING! The bankless boys discuss why. Special Guest...Mariano Conti. Follow Mariano here: https://twitter.com/nanexcool/

TOPICS:

1) YEARN DEEP DIVE (yETH is HUGE)

2) ETHEREUM GOLDEN AGE

3) SUSHI VS UNISWAP

4) ETH P/E IS HILARIOUS

ANNOUCEMENTS:

1) Vance podcast highest viewed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z3ns...

2) Merch store live - https://merch.banklesshq.com/

3) Ledger deal 20% off - https://bankless.substack.com/p/the-d...

We show:

1) yEarn vaults

2) Trifecta asset tweet

3) YFI in Aave 

4) yInsurance 

5) YFI governance staking

6) Sushi yields 

7) Sushi farms

8) Token terminal

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ACTION ITEMS:

1) Try yEarn (warning: highly risky!) 

2) Read: How to use yEarn to maximize yield 

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STATE OF THE NATION #12 - Tuesday, September 1, 2020

The State of the Bankless Nation is....POSITIONING! The bankless boys discuss why.
Special Guest...Mariano Conti.

Follow Mariano here:
https://twitter.com/nanexcool/

TOPICS:
1) YEARN DEEP DIVE (yETH is HUGE)
2) ETHEREUM GOLDEN AGE
3) SUSHI VS UNISWAP
4) ETH P/E IS HILARIOUS

ANNOUCEMENTS:
1) Vance podcast highest viewed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z3nsi0yijk&t=184s
2) Merch store live - https://merch.banklesshq.com/
3) Ledger deal 20% off - https://bankless.substack.com/p/the-deal-sheet

We show:

1) yEarn vaults - https://yearn.finance/vaults
2) Trifecta asset tweet - https://twitter.com/nanexcool/status/1298665539972276230
3) YFI in Aave - https://app.aave.com/home
4) yInsurance - https://yinsure.finance/add
5) YFI governance staking - https://ygov.finance/staking
6) Sushi yields - https://sushi.zippo.io/
7) Sushi farms - https://sushiswap.org/farms
8) Token terminiate - https://www.tokenterminal.com/

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ACTION ITEMS:

1) Try yEarn (warning: highly risky!)
https://yearn.finance/vaults

2) Read: How to use yEarn to maximize yield
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3) Subscribe to Catch SOTN LIVE every Tuesday at 10am EST (2pm UTC)
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Episode: #28 August 31, 2020

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---- Vance Spencer of Framework was buying DeFi tokens when they were deeply unpopular. Deep conviction on DeFi, but he and his co-founder made bets on communities. He was contrarian yes...but contrarian right. Ask him his strategy and he'll simply tell you..."I look at memes all day." But there's hidden brilliance in that phase. Listen as he describes how he invests in the crypto native founders, how he buys culturally composable communities, how the best things start very small. 

His fund bought SNX when no on believed. They bought LINK when it was worth 18 cents. How? Why? What's he buying now?

We end with some FIRE predictions on final market caps for this bull run.

We cover:

• Are we in a bull market?
• The DeFi Bull Case
• Crypto Native Investing Fund
• Composable communities
• Contrarian bets in the bear market
• Where did the LINK marines come from?
• Populism is real in crypto
• REGULATORS are friends?
• Turning Communities into Protocols
• Farming Token Premium
• Things Vance is buying
• Price Predictions!!! 🔥

Join us next Monday for a fresh episode!

----- Resources discussed:

• DeFi Studio Framework Labs Leave Stealth
• Listen to Protocol Sink Thesis episode

----- Episode Actions:

1. Get involved in communities - YFI, YAMs, SNX, Bankless
2. Get active in the networks you invest in! (e.g. own some ETH, try to run an Eth2 validator!)

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