Mission: DeFi

Mission: DeFi

By Brad NickelTechnology
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Mission: DeFi episodes

  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 154) - June 21, 2022 - @XBT3D explains why he's a #btcmaxi & his predictions on price, @farmerdbrown on population economics,

    Our friend Shaun (https://twitter.com/XBT3D) goes through his 5 standards for money and why he thinks Bitcoin is the only currency that fits. 

    Shaun is an algorithmic trader and spends his days monitoring thousands of trades daily from the algos he writes himself, including for Bitcoin Hedge Funds.

    • Known and unchangeable monetary policy that can't be changed
    • Decentralization - Option for self custody.
    • Accessible in time and space
    • Fungibility
    • Put it to use - buy things, earn yield, collateral against a loan, etc. 
    • We also discussed his predictions for the market in the coming months. 

      Farmer D. Brown - Demographics are destiny. This chart is the most predictable and investable trend of our lifetimes. - https://twitter.com/farmerdbrown/status/1537792750120484865

      1 hr 29 min
    • DeFi Lunch (Ep 153) - June 20, 2022 - Ultimate DCA with @Liquity #RadicalDecentralization, @solendprotocol mess, @CryptoRank_io cool tool & More

      The ultimate DCA using liquidations at @Liquity - https://twitter.com/korpi87/status/1538490313110880256

      The Solend Mess - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/20/defi-protocol-solend-passes-governance-vote-to-reverse-emergency-powers/

      Coinbase is facing class-action suits over unstable stablecoins GYEN, USTC - https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-is-facing-class-action-suits-over-unstable-stablecoins-gyen-terrausd

      Cool tool - https://cryptorank.io/

      Another Terra/ Luna lawsuit - https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1538151023692374016?s=21&t=e9gtLmOUDes3LzBVgsv2GA

      QAnon influencers are now reportedly defrauding their followers via cryptocurrency scams - https://cryptonewsbtc.org/2022/06/20/qanon-influencers-are-now-reportedly-defrauding-their-followers-via-cryptocurrency-scams/

      Crypto lending firm Celsius asks users for more time to fix issues - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/20/celsius-asks-users-for-more-time-to-fix-issues-after-withdrawal-freeze.html

      Sam Bankman-Fried: FTX Has 'Responsibility' to Step In and Stem Crypto Contagion - https://decrypt.co/103319/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-has-responsibility-to-step-in-and-stem-crypto-contagion

      Korea bars Terra developers from leaving the country - https://www.theblock.co/post/153048/terra-developers-in-korea-barred-from-leaving-the-country

      Bancor’s Impermanent Loss Protection is temporarily paused - https://blog.bancor.network/market-conditions-update-june-19-2022-e5b857b39336

      Walken is now the largest P2E game - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1538643861089701888

      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.

      59 min
    • Mission DeFi EP 63 - Trade at the Speed of Light with Bloxroute - Uri Klarman - founder and CEO / @bloXrouteLabs / @uriklarman

      Optimizing trades in DeFi is difficult and timing is a real problem. In addition, MEV can make it a real nightmare and actually cost us money. 

      Bloxroute has optimized all the network connections of blockchain and made it function literally at the speed of light. It is an amazing system used by the largest traders in the space, but is also available to everyone. 

      Uri Klarman is building a powerful platform at Bloxroute and one you will want to be familiar with. 

      Project Name: Bloxroute

      Project URL: https://bloxroute.com/

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

      Guest Name: Uri Klarman

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

      1 hr 10 min
    • DeFi Lunch (Ep 152) - June 17, 2022 - @0x_illuminati amazing DeFi resources, @BeanstalkFarms status, 3AC disgust, @0xmaki & others help retail & $FEI, $rETH on Maker & more
      • Amazing DeFi investing & learning resources at https://0xilluminati.com/
      • ☹️ things aren't going great with the Beanstalk barn raise so far - https://app.bean.money/
      • Three Arrows Capital positions liquidated by FTX, Deribit and BitMEX - https://www.theblock.co/post/152665/ftx-deribit-bitmex-liquidated-three-arrows-capital
      • Maki, Sam Kazemian, Zeus/OlympusDAO, Babylon, and Tetra get together to do the right thing for retail & Fei PCV in the Fuse exploit - https://twitter.com/0xmaki/status/1537605163464110080?s=28
      • MakerDAO approves rETH for collateral - https://twitter.com/rocket_pool/status/1537590339250589702?s=28&t=IhPmKb7BX5JjKqzIcXiafg
      • Biggest ‘stETH’ Pool Almost Empty, Complicating Exit for Would-Be Sellers - https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/06/17/biggest-steth-pool-almost-empty-complicating-exit-for-would-be-sellers/
      • Quickswap's new interface and prediction markets - https://beta.quickswap.exchange/#/prdt
      • Tether market cap shrinks below US$70B, lowest since October 2021 - https://forkast.news/headlines/tether-market-cap-lowest-since-october-2021/
      • Tether Condemns False Rumours About Its Commercial Paper Holdings - https://tether.to/en/tether-condemns-false-rumours-about-its-commercial-paper-holdings/
      • @optimismPBC selected Ankr to launch a public RPC after another provider couldn't handle the load during the OP airdrop - https://twitter.com/joshneuroth/status/1537515844795650048?s=20&t=ZaqgmqSDQ-MUlvkHnWa74w
      • 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.

        58 min
      • DeFi Lunch (Ep 151) - June 16, 2022 - Japan's bond issues, @punk6529 on crypto in metaverse, @feiprotocol on repayment, @Coinbase layoffs mess,

        Fei Protocol on Exploit Repayment - 

        • https://medium.com/@fei-labs/fei-labs-at-this-time-cannot-support-or-endorse-any-proposal-which-includes-use-of-protocol-aecaea999c47
        • https://www.tally.xyz/governance/eip155:1:0x0BEF27FEB58e857046d630B2c03dFb7bae567494/proposal/54737972228715148291831450377954475770670423675395942151334883116464258243647
        • Why crypto needs the metaverse - https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1536046825047736326

          3 Stages of a bear market - https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz/status/1536365738906202112

          Telegram guy was a hoax - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1537443038452035587

          Coinbase layoffs were a complete mess - https://twitter.com/misyrlena/status/1537124794864390145

          ZachXBT reveals a 22k ETH scammer - https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1537435280176623616

          Tesla and SpaceX sued over doge - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-16/musk-tesla-spacex-are-sued-for-alleged-dogecoin-pyramid-scheme#xj4y7vzkg

          Circle launches EURC - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/16/usdc-issuer-circle-to-introduce-euro-backed-stablecoin-in-us/

          Japan's bond woes - https://twitter.com/WClementeIII/status/1537440549157777408

          Spain’s largest airline Vueling adopts Bitcoin as a payment method for tickets - https://finbold.com/spains-largest-airline-vueling-adopts-bitcoin-as-a-payment-method-for-tickets/

          52 min
        • DeFi Lunch (Ep 150) - June 15, 2022 - The Macro picture, 3 Arrows Capital/ Zhu So Collapse, Celsius, What projects and Investors should do next,

          We cover all the news of the latest collapse and the idiots at centralized large companies that can't control their arrogance and greed enough to think about the impact to the ecosystem. 

          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 149) - June 14, 2022 - Ben Lakoff (@benlakoff) of Charged Particles(@DefiNft) discusses #NFTs as #DeFi containers.

          Ben Lakoff (@benlakoff) of Charged Particles (@DefiNft) discusses #NFTs as #DeFi containers. Learn more: https://www.charged.fi/

          Also:

          • Monitoring the stETH/ETh Curve pool imbalance - https://curve.fi/steth
          • Justin Sun trolls by repeating Do Kwon while his USDD project loses peg - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1536716837492297730
          • Ripple counsel slams SEC for trying to bulldoze and bankrupt crypto - https://cointelegraph.com/news/ripple-counsel-slams-sec-for-trying-to-bulldoze-and-bankrupt-crypto?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social
          • 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 148) - June 13, 2022 - The Celsius Mess, Do Kwon loses a fight, USDD loses it's peg & more

            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.

            55 min
          • DeFi Lunch (Ep 147) - June 9, 2022 - $ETH merge by @parithosh_j / @Checkout stables settlement / @bobanetwork $FTM / @robindavidji on tokenomics / @SalomonCrypto on PCV / @optimismPBC fail /

            Checkout​.com launches 24/7 stablecoin settlement in partnership with Fireblocks - https://cointelegraph.com/news/checkout-com-launches-24-7-stablecoin-settlement-in-partnership-with-fireblocks?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social

            Boba's hybrid compute launches on Fantom and why it is important - https://fantom.foundation/blog/boba-network-to-integrate-with-fantom/

            Solace investment insurance is live on Fantom - https://twitter.com/SolaceFi/status/1532802908999254017

            Robin D. Ji | LiquiFi (Carta for crypto) @robindavidji outlines current launch tokenomics vs past and what projects should do - https://twitter.com/robindavidji/status/1534553671203139584?s=20&t=bqbP-ogxXg4rsyYV_1cDpA

            Haym Salomon - @SalomonCrypto on PCV and the projects that have it right - https://twitter.com/SalomonCrypto/status/1532751499486498816



            49 min
          • DeFi Lunch (Ep 146) - June 8, 2022 - @0xPolygon is killing & why $Matic / @zrowgz joins to discuss @BeanstalkFarms Barn Raise $BEAN / @Stepnofficial $BST is up / @iearnfinance adopts @llamapay_io /
            • Our friend Eamon joined us to discuss the Beanstalk Farms barn raise - https://app.bean.money/ - https://twitter.com/zrowgz
            • Homemade sodas
            • Unifi protocol goes 10X, but what the hell is it? - https://dropstab.com/unifi-protocol-dao
            • @Stepn token explodes
            • @iearnfinance adopts @llamapay_io and why it is strategically  important to niche down your strategy - https://twitter.com/iearnfinance/status/1533555526302412802
            • Polygon is killing it and why/how they are - https://twitter.com/0xPolygon - https://polygon.technology/
            • 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.

              52 min

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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.