Mission: DeFi

Joe's back and we had a great Monday show. 

Today we interviewed Atlas, the founder of @FinancePrinter - Printer Financial about their amazing new bridge protocol, why it is important and what the experience of building a protocol has been like in #DeFi.

@elonmusk & @Twitter

Charles Hoskinson & Cardano

and 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.

The first doxxed video interview with a founder of Beanstalk farms - Ben Weintraub of @IsThisPublius. 

We cover the experience of the exploit, the path forward, and what they've learned. Fascinating insights into their experience and the protocol.

News:

The Tools Brad Uses in DeFi and why he picked them

DAOs:

Koop - https://koop.xyz/landing - NFT based DAO tool

Discussion of DAO tools and where Brad thinks they will go. 

FattyBagz ended up in DeFi through OlympusDAO and was able to apply his experience and expertise in marketing to helping grow the DAO and he learned a ton of valuable lessons along the way. 

He also had a massive life-changing experience that changed his approach to life and people and we discussed that in detail.

So many amazing lessons in this episode. Do not miss it. 

Video: https://www.missiondefi.com/fattybagz-olympusdao

- Raised by hippy mom and Vietnam vet Dad on a Hindu compound.

- Started in Bitcoin mining, but got rugged in Mt Gox

- Was an Ethereum guy, but otherwise was just buying tokens, but not really doing DeFi. Was cautious

- A friend introduced him to $OHM

- Professional experience is in marketing and understanding the psychology of human beings and how they respond to things

- Was amazed by the community and their generosity and Jawz sent him Ethereum for gas

- Zeus proposed they create a DAO

- Proposed ways to acquire users and how to target the different types of users properly

- Then became the Marketing Stratego - essentially the head of marketing

- Amazed at the caliber of people that were in offering to help

- Consults to cannabis companies

- How the team was built

- How they figured out which ones were willing to do the work

- How things were handled before operations and how important it is to have opps

- Wanted a flat org, but also realized that some hierarchy was necessary

- Compensation: Originally just volunteers and nobody really expected it

- Social component to the DAO is so important. Really a fundamental aspect of social release

- Take time when allowing people to join your DAO, but vet people properly

- Tips for interacting and communicating

- The steps needed to get a DAO/community started right

- Critical to have a comms person that just moves back and forth between teams to help everyone know what is going on.

- How to structure teams

- What kind of people to "hire"

- How an insane tragic event in his life prepared him for this role better than anything could have. An amazing story.

- What the cascading liquidations like for the team and how they coped.

- What we think about it all

- What is the future of OlympusDAO?

- What he will doing next. NFTs

Guest: Hannes Graah

Project: Gro Protocol

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

Project Website: https://www.gro.xyz/

One of the things I am most excited about in this space is integration into the real world and Gro is definitely on a path to that.

- His background working for Spotify and Revolut and how that variety of experience helped in building Gro

- How the idea came about to provide a mix of conservative and more aggressive risk in DeFi

- Their initial offering being integrated with other platforms

- How DAOs are working and what they are learning about their own implementation of a DAO

- Strong investors make a big difference in how they function and the help they can provide

- How they will integrate with neo-banks

- What he sees in the market for that expansion

- What it is like to see the DAO start to take over things like treasury proposals

My guest today is Jack Niewold of Crypto Pragmatist.

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.

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.

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.