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We get back to our crowd-sourced roots and cover some topics from the twittersphere:

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Jon and Kerp talk about the gradual then sudden role of bitcoin as a corporate, and eventually sovereign reserve asset.  Why is Bitcoin so hard to explain to someone without sounding like a crazy person?  If DeFi were to make it to primetime before the next big correction, how could that happen?

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We dive into the wild world of............ Stocks!!

What is a short squeeze and how did a rogue band of day traders on reddit start taking down hedge funds?  Who gets to say what is "normal market activity"? How DeFi can supercharge this strategy.

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Jon give his take on his participation in badgerDAO over the past couple months.

We discuss the importance of productive assets in DeFi and if reputation can/will be tokenized

Some rundown on what DIGG is, why it may be useful, and how it may be successful

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We get back into the swing of things and touch on biggest news from the last couple weeks

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We take a moment to officially recognize the ETH 2.0 Beacon chain going live before acknowledging it is very technically above our pay grade and moving on.

A brief overview of Gitcoin and gitcoin grants with matching - Round 8 kicking off tomorrow!  Support the podcast here: https://gitcoin.co/grants/1267/defi-download-podcast

Compound had $90m in debt liquidated over the weekend when maybe it could have been avoided.  What does this mean for oracles and keepers that keep DeFi running?

Main topic of the week is what a merger means in DeFi, using the recent announcements of Yearn mergers and partnerships with Pickle, Cover, Cream, and Sushi.

Referenced Content:

https://andrecronje.medium.com/merger-acquisition-partnership-collaboration-nomenclature-in-the-decentralized-space-ca24370d6f27

https://bankless.substack.com/p/-crypto-civilization-balaji-srinivasan

https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1333827483465084929

https://alpha.daohaus.club

Keep it spicy, friends. 🌶

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We cant avoid the price action with BTC almost back to all time highs and ETH crossing $600 and talk about the problem with the most popular apps for onboarding new folks adding fake legitimacy to questionable crypto-assets.

We then tackle the topics decided on by our twitter followers - https://twitter.com/defi_download/status/1331303675537440768

$MEME -  Rug pull digital-social art instillation

Yearn & Pickle Merger - DeFi M&A

Happy Thanksgiving to all our DeFi friends in the US!

Keep it spicy, friends. 🌶

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Main topic for the week is the component of DeFi most taken for granted - Keepers.  A pivotal component that keeps DeFi running.  Keepers monitor the state of the network and perform economically-incentivized actions that keep DeFi protocols and apps functioning.  We discuss some popular projects that are trying to level up the keeper ecosystem in different ways - keep3r & keeperDAO.

We then discuss Miner Extracted Value (MEV) in the context of keepers and the "decentralization stack".

Lastly we introduce $CAST a token-gated discord server for exploring how DeFi can be used to build tools that help support independent content creators (with initial focus on podcasts).

Independent podcasters - join the chat or DM us and we will send you some $CAST

Listeners - Keep an eye on our twitter for opportunities to earn some $CAST

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Recommended Content:

https://daohaus.substack.com/p/tokens-and-goodharts-forest

https://www.breaker.audio/acquired/e/75861112

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-65-supernova-in-the-east-iv/

Keep it spicy, friends. 🌶

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Two fiscally conservative, socially liberal, elder-millennial, dads in California run through the existential crisis of the moderate.

Takeaway: it's all about the money, and maybe DeFi can help if we don't screw it all up before it does.

Recommended content for the week

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We share our thoughts on where we are in the main and sub crypto hype/build cycles before giving a rundown on the recent harvest.finance exploit and discussing what the fallout means for DeFi

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