Mission: DeFi

Mission: DeFi

By Brad NickelTechnology
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Mission: DeFi episodes

  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 189) - Sept. 6, 2022 - @BradSherman loses / Euro energy crises = crypto pump?!? / #UK elects crypto friendly PM / Trump grift $DWAC to dissolve / @Binance consolidates to $BUSD / More

    Does the macro picture with a European energy crises mean a massive pump in crypto? - https://twitter.com/fejau_inc/status/1566657314429382659

    Point of no return: crunch time as China tries to fend off property crash | Chinese economy | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/28/crunch-time-china-tries-to-fend-off-property-crash-global-economy

    UK elects crypto-friendly Liz Truss as new prime minister - https://finbold.com/uk-elects-crypto-friendly-liz-truss-as-new-prime-minister/

    Trump's SPAC as badly run as everything else he's ever done - https://twitter.com/FreddieRaynolds/status/1567008427813257216

    Ethereum Classic books 12% rally as mining support for ETC gains pace - https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-classic-books-12-rally-as-mining-support-for-etc-gains-pace?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social

    Binance to Auto-Convert USDC, USDP, TUSD to BUSD (Binance USD) | Binance Support - https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/e62f703604a94538a1f1bc803b2d579f

    Wallet Suspension for Ether (ETH) and Wrapped Ether (WETH) on Multiple Networks - 2022-09-05 | Binance Support - https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/1d6e13b7191d46a18663c007c4409b03

    Man sent to prison for person to person bitcoin exchage - https://twitter.com/rizzn/status/1566555742110351363

    Brad Sherman surrenders to crypto - Congress' leading crypto skeptic is a Southern California congressman - Los Angeles Times - https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-09-04/brad-sherman-leading-crypto-skeptic-congress

    Craig Wright will be suing Bitcoin for fraudulently proving he’s a fraud - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1567140053838696450?s=21&t=LdFD_xgmNA_T35i6ejb0Mg


    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.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Mission DeFi EP 69 - Paladin II - Better Bribes For Projects & Users - Figue and Alejandro

    Project founders are consumed with managing liquidity and the bribes required to make it real. From the beginning Paladin has built projects to make that better and easier and their new product Quest takes it to a whole new level by making it easier and better for projects and users. Learn how it works and learn how it can benefit you or a project in this episode of Mission: DeFi. 

    Project

    • Project Name: Paladin
    • Project URL: https://www.paladin.vote
    • Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paladin_vote
    • Project Telegram: https://t.me/paladinprotocol
    • Project Discord: https://t.co/8HxPCVfJpV
    • Project Medium: https://medium.com/paladin-protocol
    • Guests:

      • Name: Figue
      • Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/Figue_me
      • Name: Alejandro
      • Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/BaqueroLima
      • This is not financial advice. 

        43 min
      • DeFi Lunch (Ep 188) - Sept. 2, 2022 - @LTP_Liquidity combines CEX & DEX / @zama_fhe - quantum proof manipulative encryption / @KyleWRoche's demise /
        • Former blockchain skeptic David Rubenstein discloses investments in crypto companies - https://cointelegraph.com/news/former-blockchain-skeptic-david-rubenstein-discloses-investments-in-crypto-companies?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social
        • Product Introduction - LTP - https://ltp.gitbook.io/ltp/v/english/ - https://www.liquiditytech.com/
        • Catalog - Buy and Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more trustlessly - https://catalog.fi/Ren - https://renproject.io/
        • Watching the demise of ⁦@KyleWRoche⁩’s career in real time. Some great lessons to be learned about ego dominating your decisions. - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1565527178078568449?s=20&t=aOvJlAJECv0SJHOmByxcmQTether requests Roche Freedman to be booted from class action - https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-requests-roche-freedman-to-be-booted-from-class-action?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social
        • Lenovo's Glasses T1 let you strap a 1080p display to your face - Liliputing - https://liliputing.com/lenovos-glasses-t1-let-you-strap-a-1080p-display-to-your-face/
        • Zama - Fully homomorphic encryption - https://www.zama.ai/
        • 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.

          1 hr 4 min
        • DeFi Lunch (Ep 187) - Sept. 1, 2022 - @justinsuntron's many scams / @cryptocom sends millions to woman & forgets / @SeiNetwork raise / @DogeChainFamily too risky? & more

          The many scams of Justin Sun - Market manipulation, theft from customers, etc. - https://www.theverge.com/c/22947663/justin-sun-tron-cryptocurrency-poloniex

          More audacious than his reputation, Sun has an even riskier approach to U.S. and Chinese financial regulations — and is often trying to evade them.

          Will his rule bending and dangerous behavior finally catch up to him? Or will he get away once again?

          Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to Australian woman and doesn’t notice for seven months - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/31/crypto-com-accidentally-transfers-10-5-million-australian-woman-melbourne-cryptocurrency

          Sei Raises $5M Led by Multicoin Capital to Build The First Layer 1 Blockchain Optimized for DeFi. Interesting concept with built-in orderbook layer - https://blog.seinetwork.io/sei-announces-5m-raise/

          Track dev activity on chains - https://www.gokustats.xyz/developers

          Comparison of top coins 2017 to now 

          Dogechain - Too much risk, but an interesting concept - https://ckarchive.com/b/wvu2hgh5k2wlx

          Wife of arrested Tornado Cash dev forbidden to speak with him — Rally organized - https://cointelegraph.com/news/wife-of-arrested-tornado-cash-dev-forbidden-to-speak-with-him-rally-organized

          Crypto Startup Salaries: Here’s How Much Devs and Others Get Paid - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/08/31/crypto-startup-salaries-heres-how-much-devs-and-others-get-paid/


          59 min
        • DeFi Lunch (Ep 186) - August 31, 2022 - @BabylonFinance shuts down / @helium moves to @solana? / @dapperlabs doesn't get it / @CompoundFinance Lock /

          The sad circumstances of market forces that caused the shutdown of Babylon Finance - https://twitter.com/ramonrecuero/status/1564994728436719616

          Why would Helium move to Solana if stability is a concern? https://twitter.com/rawrmaan/status/1564718174112727040

          Brad's list of non-crypto podcasts that can help you - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1564963525423874048?s=20&t=yuIHAZiBXNpImbsaFv53kw

          Dapper Labs helps Ticketmaster stay the rent seeking middleman with NFTs - https://decrypt.co/108627/ticketmaster-chooses-dapper-labs-flow-blockchain-for-nft-tickets

          Compound 7 day lock freezes cETH - https://www.theblock.co/post/166674/protocol-upgrade-accidentally-freezes-eth-on-compound-for-7-days?utm_source=onecryptofeed&utm_medium=social

          Housecat follow trading platform - https://housecat.com/blog/welcome-to-housecat/

          Farrah Fawcett's nip poster - https://www.ebay.com/itm/265777034471

          Have we hit the bottom? Jim Cramer - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/30/cramer-says-avoid-all-speculative-investments-like-crypto-as-the-fed-stays-hawkish.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

          Ethermine launches staking - https://decrypt.co/108591/ethereum-mining-pool-ethermine-launches-staking-service-ahead-of-merge

          ‘Everything’s on sale’: Reddit founder, Galaxy and Genesis execs raise big money - https://cointelegraph.com/news/everything-s-on-sale-reddit-founder-galaxy-and-genesis-execs-raise-big-money?utm_source=coingecko

          Japan’s Regulator Proposes Tax Breaks for Investors, Crypto - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japan-regulator-proposes-tax-breaks-074546455.html

          Older Entrepreneurs Outperform Younger Founders—Shattering Ageism - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kmehta/2022/08/23/older-entrepreneurs-outperform-younger-foundersshattering-ageism/?sh=5281de67a366

          The odds of the U.S. slipping into recession in the next 12 months are now at about one in three, according to GS Research - https://twitter.com/GoldmanSachs/status/1564613933922664450

          59 min
        • DeFi Lunch (Ep 185) - August 30, 2022 - 40% of Gamefi users are bots - @useJigger / @DeFiLlama / @LlamaPay / Secret @Superformxyz / $LUNC Pumps /

          Brad gets his own Cantoe - https://twitter.com/CanToeNFT/status/1564336469908529152?s=20&t=ONO01IpctKhuS0LlUveAZA

          Secret ERC-4626 multi-yield protocol - https://twitter.com/superformxyz / https://www.superform.xyz/ / https://erc4626.info/

          Use Jigger helps games block bots in their protocols. 40% of Gamefi users are bots

          • https://jigger.notion.site/Jigger-the-web3-anti-bot-2430cfd4c6e24a27a6357df287918109
          • https://twitter.com/LevanKvirkvelia/status/1564290386138464256?s=20&t=GTwx-_OKfJzi6zLXgkk91A
          • https://gallery.usejigger.com/
          • Radio Caca V2 - https://www.radiocaca.com/usm-metaverse

            LUNC Pumps, but why does Terra classic still happen - https://cryptoslate.com/luna-classic-pumps-70-on-ambitions-to-wipe-the-past-revive-the-chain/

            Fed to launch FEDNow digital payments - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fednow-payment-system-launch-2023-194814075.html

            LlamaPay grows without VC money - https://twitter.com/0xngmi/status/1563549229817430016

            DeFiLlama launches safer URLs for protocols - https://twitter.com/defillama/status/1563906762087989249?s=21&t=79FClRqPs7NdpRIxjz7iuw

            Cool list of 1500 categorized protocols - https://twitter.com/brazenburrit0/status/1564517564020977664?s=20&t=HD_OeCPMHopf_KzVHKuP-Q

            Avalanche statement from Emin - https://el33th4x0r.medium.com/my-statement-about-the-crypto-leaks-lies-ef2005da752

            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.

            57 min
          • DeFi Lunch (Ep 184) - August 29, 2022 - @Avalanche / @Cryptoleaks
            Cryptocurrency Class 2022 - https://cryptocurrencyclass.github.io/

            Brad breaks down the Avalanche mess - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1564052923012759557


            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.

            47 min
          • DeFi Lunch (Ep 183) - August 26, 2022 - FooBar to talk Canto, Merge, & More

            Judge approves retention bonuses for Voyager team in order to help creditors that opposed the bonuses - https://www.theblock.co/post/165783/voyager-approved-to-pay-up-to-1-9-million-in-bonuses-to-retain-employees

            Jordi Alexander on why Ethereum will not run post merge - https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/is-the-merge-overhyped?triedSigningIn=true

            Hetzner is cutting off anything crypto related including trading from their servers

            CoinCenter.org does a brilliant analysis of Tornado Cash in order to bolster their case against OFAC - https://www.coincenter.org/analysis-what-is-and-what-is-not-a-sanctionable-entity-in-the-tornado-cash-case/

            FooBar (https://twitter.com/0xfoobar) joins us again to talk Merge, Canto, and his new project on Canto. (https://canto.io) called Forte (https://forteswap.xyz/)

            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.

            1 hr 3 min
          • DeFi Lunch (Ep 182) - August 25, 2022 - He's back! Daniele Sesta & more!
            • Daniele Sesta is in trouble with his own DAO at Wonderland - https://www.wonderlandforum.xyz/t/formal-inquiry-of-daniele-sestagalli-main/19282
              • https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1562635624246419456?s=20&t=nmPLvsEQ4Q1OFhmdVOXfNw
              • John McAfee is alive? - https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/24/john-mcafees-ex-girlfriend-claims-he-faked-his-death-with-pretend-suicide-17234526/
              • Forbes says - Gary Gensler: Resign - https://www.forbes.com/sites/roslynlayton/2022/08/25/gary-gensler-resign/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie&sh=4f5477a73727
              • Yacht sinks - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1562614570320945152
              • Bitboy crumbles under pressure
              • 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.

                53 min
              • DeFi Lunch (Ep 181) - August 24, 2022

                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.

                1 hr

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              Mission DeFi showcases innovation in the DeFi ecosystem. Our mission is to advance the cause of freedom that decentralized finance & cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and many others represent.