Mission: DeFi

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.  

Using stETH as collateral on @AaveAave - https://twitter.com/lidofinance/status/1498653508731645959?s=28

Avalanche Subnets - https://twitter.com/stanikulechov/status/1501225901388099584?s=28

Coinbase Conforms To Sanctions, Blocks 25,000 'Illicit' Russian Crypto Wallet Addresses | Bitcoinist.com - https://bitcoinist.com/coinbase-joins-sanctions/

​Crypto funds register largest weekly inflows since December - https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-funds-register-largest-weekly-inflows-since-december

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.  

Coinbase Conforms To Sanctions, Blocks 25,000 'Illicit' Russian Crypto Wallet Addresses | Bitcoinist.com - https://bitcoinist.com/coinbase-joins-sanctions/

Crypto funds register largest weekly inflows since December - https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-funds-register-largest-weekly-inflows-since-december

​Biden executive order on cryptocurrency expected this week - https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/biden-executive-order-cryptocurrency-expected-week-83307419

Santander to offer loans secured by grain-based crypto tokens - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/136666/santander-to-offer-loans-secured-by-grain-based-crypto-tokens?utm_source=rss

Tokenomics 102 - https://every.to/almanack/tokenomics-102-digging-deeper-on-supply

DegenScore - DISCOVER NEW LAUNCHES, FIND ALPHA AND MEET NEW FRENS: YOUR ON-CHAIN ACTIVITY IS ALL THAT COUNTS FOR A SEAT AT THE DEGENSCORE CAFE!

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.

Walken is a highly successful mobile app company with dozens of high quality developers and a marketing machine that drives user signups for their apps. This has resulted in over 50 million downloads of their apps and $10 million in annual revenue. Now they are taking their expertise in building successful exercise apps to the world of DeFi and NFTs with a walk/exercise to earn app. 

The founders Alexei, Konstantin, and Alexei joined me to discuss their plans:

Project Name: Walken

Project URL: https://walken.io

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

Project Discord: https://discord.com/invite/QJDnFt6S4J

Disclaimer: Brad Nickel is an adviser to this project and has a financial interest in their success. Please do your own research before investing in any project and understand the biases of those involved in a project. Brad outlines his reasons for advising the project at the beginning of the show.

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel and his 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.

Brad and Joe did a full discussion on how these situations like the one with Andre can be avoided and how projects need to do better.

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.

Andrew Yang's Lobby3 is ready to educate the US Congress on how DeFi can help average people get ahead. 

I was a big supporter of Andrew Yang's during his presidential run. While I do believe that UBI is good policy, I primarily supported him, because he took a pragmatic and logical approach to solving problems that was non-partisan and welcoming. That is why when he announced he was forming a lobbying DAO to advance Web3/DeFi, I immediately let him know I was onboard and I wanted to interview him about it. 

I encourage you to get involved with this powerful community and movement. 

Guest Name: Andrew Yang

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

Project Name: Lobby3

Project URL: https://www.lobby3.io

Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lobby3D

Bancor for most of DeFi is the forgotten pioneer that built the foundations of everything we have in DeFi. The first AMM sprung forth from an attempt at building localized niche currencies and after being passed over by some for other AMMs like Uniswap, the project continued to build and develop a better way. Now years later, they are set to reveal a new version of Bancor that could dramatically change the DeFi landscape again and they are determined to never be forgotten again. 

Nate Hindman and Mark Richardson not only detail the massive sea change that Bancor is bringing to market in V3, but our discussion takes us to the core components of DeFi and how to do things better.

Project Name: Bancor

Project URL: https://bancor.network

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

Guest Names: Nate Hindman & Mark Richardson

Guest Twitter:

Nate -  https://twitter.com/NateHindman

Mark - https://twitter.com/MBRichardson87

This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel and his 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.

How Bancor began as a local currency company

Morphed into AMM, because they had to have a way for the currencies to be able to be exchanged and to have liquidity

How impermanent loss led to them developing single-sided liquidity providing with verion 2.1

Users are able to get out the same number of tokens they put inplus the LP fees

Then they describe how it works. 

Each pool has a common reserve asset in the pool which is Bancor's token BNT

BNT is also an elastic supply token. Protocol owned liquidity

2.1 reduced the amount of liquidity allowed or capped it to make sure it was safe. 

How the DAO decides the capped amount for each token

The more mature the token, the more depth in the pool

Their insurance policy is vested over 100 day so to protect yourself from impermanent loss, then you have to keep your funds in the entire time. 

How their new version becomes composability

Why the price of the token BNT is fairly stable and how much is trade-able

Whether the volume of the exchange impacts the price

Does the gambling addiction in Crypto impact the prices of tokens?

Composability and smart tokens

How Bancor pool tokens are immune to the type of price manipulation attacks experienced by Cream Finance. 

Up only tokens as part of the system

Can only go up or sideways 

How volatility data has reduced the insurance/lockup period to just a 7 day cool down for withdrawal.

Omni pool for earnings from the entire network

No limits on deposit amounts

Staking rewards from partner projects

Auto-compounding rewards

Being deployed in 3 phases

Phase 2 not yet public

Superfluid liquidity - can generate fees from liquidity and strategies - can be internal and external to the protocol

$400 million in ChainLink liquidity $LINK

No having to decide between fees from trading or staking

Chip on their shoulder from having been the first and forgotten

Partners can also insure their own tokens to compensate for IL protection

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.  

- Kanye and Kim

- Ukrainian contributions - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1499406083810545669

- Tires in Ukraine

- LFG gas pipeline issues

- Oasis Protocol - https://oasisprotocol.org/technology

- Vestlab - track when VCs will dump on you - https://vestlab.io

- Best stablecoin yields by @Route2fi - https://twitter.com/route2fi/status/1499126729884930049

- AAVE integrates stETH from Lido - https://blog.lido.fi/aave-integrates-lidos-steth-as-collateral/

- Matic staking on Lido - https://polygon.lido.fi

- White label FTX exchange - https://whitelabel.ftx.com

Russia's Navalny calls Putin insane and urges anti-war protests | Reuters

Germany seizes Russian billionaire Usmanov's yacht -Forbes https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-seizes-russian-billionaire-usmanovs-yacht-forbes-2022-03-02/

Russian oligarchs’ overseas money becomes prime target of Western leaders - The Washington Post

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.  

Group alleges MetaMask & Infura were secretly given away to a JPMorgan-backed entity via illegal transaction called "Project North Star"

The AMM Test - https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/the-amm-test-a-no-bs-look-at-l1-performance-4c8c2129d581

Annihilation by Arthur Hayes - https://cryptohayes.medium.com/annihilation-4effdaf3c73f

Rabby - A better wallet - https://rabbby.io

Doge flips the Russian Ruble

Kazakhstan Is Shifting The Regulatory Crosswinds https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/is-kazakhstan-a-home-for-bitcoin-mining

Billionaire admits he was wrong about Bitcoin as Citadel looks to crypto markets https://cointelegraph.com/news/billionaire-admits-he-was-wrong-about-bitcoin-as-citadel-looks-to-crypto-markets

Solidly, Solidex, 0xDAO, etc - https://twitter.com/solidexfantom/status/1498728828071739392?s=21

Evmos

Solidly, Solidex, 0xDAO, etc - https://twitter.com/solidexfantom/status/1498728828071739392?s=21

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.  

Degis is a new insurance protocol on @Avalanche $AVAX - https://degis.io

New Mission DeFi episode with Matt West - Scientist, Engineer, Solidity Dev, and Yearn strategist running for Congress - https://bit.ly/mattdwest

Layer 2 and 1 address activity slows - https://cointelegraph.com/news/layer-2-address-activity-slows-but-arbitrum-bucks-the-trend?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social

Elizabeth Warren and her hypocrisy around crypt - https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1498376453280391178

$143 million in liquidations yesterday - https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/02/25/short-positions-see-143m-in-liquidations-as-bitcoin-ether-gain-10/

$36 million incoming for investment funds in crypto - https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/02/25/short-positions-see-143m-in-liquidations-as-bitcoin-ether-gain-10/

AMC to take Doge March 19 - https://cryptopotato.com/amc-theatres-ceo-confirms-the-date-when-dogecoin-and-shiba-inu-payments-will-be-live/

Putin's hold on power

Frax gets a great DeFi Safety score

Electoral college power

Fragile democracy

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.