Mission: DeFi

@XBT3D and Brad has a great time fiercely debating whether everything in DeFi has been a failure. It is one of those episodes you just can't miss and can't turn off.

Content Warning! This event contains language not suitable for those under 3, Evangelical Christians, Gary Gensler, No Coiners, Liz Warren, Frauds pretending to be Satoshi Nakamoto or Jim Cramer!

Discuss the "failure of DeFi" in our community: https://t.me/missiondefi

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

As crypto burns, solo bitcoin miner wins BTC ‘lottery’ - Blockworks - https://md1.to/juoum

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Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

FatManHashflow on Twitter: "Hashflow - a DeFi exchange - has rugged early supporters of their tokens through implementation of a DAO proposal authored by their CTO. At the time of writing, an estimated 7-8 figures USD worth of locked $HFT tokens belonging to users have been voided to the DAO treasury. - https://twitter.com/FatManHashflow/status/1667954514157248513

Mark Cuban on Twitter: "This is an SEC WEB PAGE about the howey test and tokens that often conflicts with what @SEC_Enforcement has said publicly. - https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1667914770651987970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

ross on Ooki DAO: "The CFTC just won a court case against a DAO and "as members" some founders are now on the hook for $643,542, and the DAOs websites and ops have been ordered to shut down. - https://twitter.com/z0r0zzz/status/1667272302294360064?s=20

Using free crypto airdrops and NFTs for promotions will be banned in the U.K. - https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1667122397441318913?s=52&t=K41FvHwlVL5YAFz7rppRhg

Binance CEO CZ responds as data points to billions in exchange outflows - https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao-address-billions-exchange-outflows

Democrats’ ‘war on crypto’ will lose its key voters: Winklevoss twins - https://cointelegraph.com/news/democrats-crypto-war-alienate-youth-voters-winklevoss

a16z opening London crypto office citing ‘predictable’ environment - https://cointelegraph.com/news/a16z-open-london-office-international-expansion

Mission: DeFi - EP 101 - DeFi to grow #AI & open source applications - Max Howell(@mxcl) of @teaxyz explains the powerful model - https://www.missiondefi.com/mission-defi-ep-101-defi-to-grow-ai-open-source-applications-max-howellmxcl-of-teaxyz-explains-the-powerful-model/

Former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton on Enforcement Actions: Crypto Should Be Treated With Nuance – Regulation Bitcoin News - https://news.bitcoin.com/former-sec-chairman-jay-clayton-on-enforcement-actions-crypto-should-be-treated-with-nuance/

If Microstrategy Chose ETH Over BTC, the Firm Would Be up 54% and Ahead by More Than $2B, Data Reveals – Bitcoin News - https://news.bitcoin.com/microstrategy-chose-eth-over-btc-the-firm-be-up-ahead-by-more-than-2b/

Gensyn - https://www.gensyn.ai/

Blockchain-Based, AI Compute Protocol Gensyn Closes $43M Series A Funding Round Led by a16z Crypto - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/06/11/blockchain-based-ai-compute-protocol-gensyn-closes-43m-series-a-funding-round-led-by-a16z/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Did Gary Genslers SEC Break the Law by Suing Coinbase? - https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/06/09/the-new-crypto-bill-gary-gensler-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/

BinanceUS to suspend dollar deposits, Vitalik pledges $100m to Covid relief – https://www.dlnews.com/articles/markets/binanceus-to-halt-usd-deposits-as-vitalik-donates-to-india/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Tea combines the benefits of #DeFi with incentives to build open source & makes it easy for users to use all kinds of complex applications including the latest in #AI.

Max Howell joined Chuck and Brad for a powerful Twitter Spaces on his model for Tea (https://tea.xyz). Max is the original founder and developer of Brew which makes it easy to install open source packages with all their dependencies, but this time with Tea he's taken it to another level with a beautiful UI, lots of AI to make AI easier, and a crypto-based model to reward developers and projects.

Do not miss this amazing utility application of crypto/DeFi.

Project Name: Tea

Project URL: https://tea.xyz

Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/teaxyz

Guest Name: Max Howell

Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/mxcl

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

You are missing out on a community of like-minded folks discussing the big and little topics of the day - https://md1.to/mdtg

MetaLawMan on Twitter: "BREAKING: SEC sues @Coinbase In May of 2021, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler testified ( https://md1.to/gyha3 )

DeFi Llama + ChatGPT ( https://md1.to/alhy2 )

Adam Cochran - 1/20 Breakdown of the SEC Coinbase complaint - ( https://md1.to/4jo60 )

@GaryGensler to @CNBC this morning: “We don’t need more digital currency. We already have digital currency, it’s called the US Dollar, it’s called the Euro, it’s called the Yen. They’re all digital right now.”" / Twitter ( https://md1.to/mog3t )

Joe Weisenthal - Polygon (Matic) is a security. - ( https://md1.to/5n71l )

CFTC Chair Benham just gave the following response on how crypto can bolster financial inclusion - ( https://md1.to/2xa66 )

The SEC is arguing that if you provide a wallet that can be used to acquire any token available onchain, YOU ARE OFFERING AND SELLING THOSE TOKENS to users of the wallet, regardless of whether you actually handle any of the tokens - ( https://md1.to/16aqh )

Jake Chervinsky on Twitter: "I sense two reactions to the SECs cases - ( https://md1.to/htx79 )

gabrielShapir0 on Twitter: "Probably the most interesting thing in the Binance complaint is the claim that BUSD is a security. - ( https://md1.to/tjnnx )

Higher Bitcoin Transaction Fees Spur Good Month for Miners - Blockworks ( https://md1.to/vyjd2 )

UK Considers ‘Crypto Tsar’ to Head Up Regulation - Blockworks ( https://md1.to/k1mlo )

Mission: DeFi EP 97 - Can $R be the decentralized stablecoin we need? David Garai of Raft thinks borrowing against staked $ETH is the way to go | Mission: DeFi ( https://md1.to/raftep )

How to Build a Crypto Exchange Post-Coinbase – Preston Byrne ( https://md1.to/gmelt )

Volcano Energy Secures $1B in Commitments, Including From Tether, For 241 MW Bitcoin (BTC) Mine in El Salvador ( https://md1.to/8xp9l )

Gas.zip ( https://www.gas.zip/ )

Origin Ether (OETH) ( https://www.oeth.com/ )

Raft – Generate R stablecoin against your stETH with Raft ( https://www.raft.fi/ )

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Be a part of the community and give us your thoughts: https://t.me/missiondefi

gabrielShapir0 on Twitter: "okay, as promised, here is my long/stream-of-consciousnessy thread on the proposed crypto market structure bill CAVEAT: this is one of the most of complex & ambitious financial laws ever written. I might miss stuff. I am paraphrasing some things for ease of readability. ( https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1665693527735517184?s=20 )

Justin Slaughter on Twitter: "Its Friday night, the kids are in bed, the biggest piece of crypto legislation for this year has dropped—the McHenry-Thompson bill on market structure— so lets get this party started. Here’s a deep dive into the bill’s contents. ( https://twitter.com/JBSDC/status/1664791786038935552?s=20 )

CZ 🔶 Binance on Twitter: "4. Our team is all standing by, ensuring systems are stable, including withdrawals, and deposits. We will issue a response once we see the complaint. Havent seen it yet. Media gets the info before we do. 🙏" / Twitter ( https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1665742100845961217?s=20 )

Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire portfolios ( https://cointelegraph.com/news/atomic-wallet-exploited-users-report-loss-of-entire-portfolios )

US lawmakers aim for crypto regulatory clarity with proposed bill putting the screws to SEC ( https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-lawmakers-aim-for-crypto-regulatory-clarity-with-proposed-bill-putting-the-screws-to-sec )

SEC files 13 charges against Binance and founder CZ - MarketWatch ( https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sec-files-13-charges-against-binance-and-founder-cz-55864243 )

Binance Hands Rising Star Teng Key Role to Replace CEO Zhao at Largest Crypto Exchange ( https://finance.yahoo.com/news/binance-hands-rising-star-teng-090307107.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall )

SEC vs Binance complaint (2023.03.27 FINAL TO FILE) ( https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.431767/gov.uscourts.ilnd.431767.1.0_1.pdf )

CFPB warns about storing funds in payment apps like PayPal, Venmo | CNN Business ( https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/investing/payment-apps-safety/ )

SEC Sues Crypto Exchange Binance, CEO Changpeng Zhao ( https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/06/05/sec-sues-crypto-exchange-binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao/?utm_campaign=coindesk_main&utm_term=organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=editorial&utm_medium=social )

A 162-page bill would give the CFTC big chunks of US crypto markets. Here’s what else is in it – DL News ( https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/house-bill-would-give-cftc-chunks-of-crypto-and-spot-markets/ )

SEC v Binance (4).pdf | DocDroid ( https://www.docdroid.net/I02zzqT/sec-v-binance-4-pdf )

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Michael joins us to discuss his journey from guessing about trading to a full system, but there is so much more in between about his life journey to this point.

Join our community to discuss your investing journey - https://t.me/missiondefi

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Nobody likes to fly alone. Join the Mission: DeFi community to get the insights, debates, edu, and alpha you long for and maybe a friend or two a long the way - https://t.me/missiondefi

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News

A new ONNX Runtime in Cairo 1.0, a verifiable, fully open-source framework for ML inference. - https://twitter.com/gizatechxyz/status/1662111117613645825?s=20

Why the Devs Want to Burn More ETH | Bankless - https://www.bankless.com/mev-burn-podcast-breakdown

Bitcoin Ordinals surpass 10M inscriptions as creator Rodarmor steps down - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-ordinals-surpass-inscription-as-casey-rodarmor-steps-down?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social

Bitcoin Ordinals to bridge Ethereum NFTs with the launch of BRC-721E - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-ordinals-to-bridge-ethereum-nft-with-new-standard?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social

Buying a bank won’t solve crypto’s debanking issue — Binance CEO - https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-ceo-cz-wont-buy-bank-despite-crypto-debanking

Optimism set to unlock $587M worth of OP tokens, will investors unload? - https://cointelegraph.com/news/optimism-unlock-millions-op-token-may-price-pressure

Wintermute moves over $4M of Optimism tokens to Binance ahead of OP unlock - https://cointelegraph.com/news/wintermute-moves-over-4m-in-optimism-to-binance-ahead-of-token-unlock

Best Crypto-friendly Banks to Use in 2023 - DailyCoin - https://dailycoin.com/best-crypto-friendly-banks/

Fantom Gas Monetization - https://earngas.fantom.network/

How Nikes Industry-Leading Web3 Strategy Marks a New Era for Consumer Brands - https://dematerialzd.substack.com/p/just-do-it-how-nikes-industry-leading

Recent Raises

Blocktrade Raises €4.5M Prior to Public Round of BTEX Token Sale - https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blocktrade-raises-4-5m-prior-to-public-round-of-btex-token-sale-301835886.html

Blocktrade - Start your crypto journey today - https://blocktrade.com/

Excited to announce a $4M strategic round investment in Burgercities - https://burgercities.medium.com/excited-to-announce-a-4m-strategic-round-investment-in-burgercities-4a23bc51f779

BurgerCities - https://burgercities.org/

BNB NFT marketplace Tabi raises $10M in angel funding - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bnb-nft-marketplace-tabi-raises-10m-in-angel-funding

Tabi - https://tabi.lol/

Leading the AI Revolution in Web3: Orbofi AI Raises $2.8M - https://www.theblock.co/post/232259/leading-the-ai-revolution-in-web3-orbofi-ai-raises-2-6m-in-high-profile-funding-round

Orbofi - https://www.orbofi.com/

SCHWAP - https://schwap.app/

TomoChain secures strategic investment from @coin98_labs - ⁠https://twitter.com/TomoChainANN/status/1661661019759050753?s=20⁠

TomoChain - https://tomochain.com/

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

Can't think of anyone better for my 100th episode 🥳 than my good friend Corey Cottrell. We always have a great time just chatting and this conversation is no different.

We had a wide ranging chat about AI, the future, and his projects.

Corey has been building innovative platforms with his amazing team and community for a while now. They built a really powerful Minecraft-based metaverse with token and NFT integration called The Uplift and then Microsoft decided to restrict NFTs in Minecraft, so they started rebuilding on an open source platform. Then, ChatGPT and AI exploded on the scene and Corey had an idea 💡.

He and the team built a powerful AI platform integrated with Discord and it goes beyond just a chat interface. They create distinct and fine-tuned AI agents for projects in crypto and elsewhere and the results are really amazing. They keep communities engaged, can handle topics and issues related to a project and much much more. If you run a community on Discord, you need MetaMind.app.

They have much bigger plans and are determined to stay ahead of the curve.

Project Name: Metaminds.app

Project URL: https://metaminds.app

Guest Name: Corey Cottrell

Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/coreycottrell

Corey's Music: https://Fb.com/coreycottrellmusic

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.

From ShitCoins to Calling the Pico Top - A Trader's Journey

Hammie (https://twitter.com/sibolero) is a member of the Material Indicators community and when she started her trading journey, she basically knew next to nothing about trading. She started off investing in shitcoin projects on a fundamentals level and over time had done really well. She also took a journey into NFTs on Solana and much more. Then she decided that she wanted to learn more from Shaun and she transformed her approach and now trades perps very successfully.

Learn the lessons she learned and learn how she trades.

Ask Hammie, Shaun, Brad, or Joe any questions you have in our community - ⁠https://t.me/missiondefi⁠

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all of DeFi and crypto is high risk and dangerous. If you decide to participate, do your own research. Never count on the research of others. We don't know what we are talking about and you can lose all your money. Never invest more than you can afford to lose, because you probably will lose it all.