Mission: DeFi

Mission: DeFi

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Mission: DeFi episodes

  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 53) - December 22 2021

    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.

    42 min
  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 52) - December 21, 2021

    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.

    56 min
  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 51) - December 17, 2021 - We're Forked Fund

    Today we started discussing our idea for the We're Forked Fund. More to come on this, but essentially an index for investing in OlympusDAO forks. This is an investment club and we won't make any revenue from it, but is just for fun. Do not put more money in this than you can afford to lose. These are the riskiest of investments and we expect that we will lose money on these. 

    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 50) - December 16, 2021

    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 49) - December 15, 2021

    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 8 min
  • Mission DeFi - EP 32 - GenomesDAO is mapping a decentralized path forward for genetic data privacy & research

    The team at GenomesDAO is working to protect our genetic data while providing a marketplace for anonymized data on chain. It is a powerful model driven by a core team in a multi-billion dollar market that has only just begun. Their impact could be tremendous and they've made a bet on decentralizing everything about their system so that the community can help drive adoption. 

    Learn why this is so important for each of us and society as a whole, how it all works, and how you can get involved from token to governance and earning with your own data. 

    Name of Guests:

    Aldo De Pape
    Dr. Mark Hahnel
    Intern 

    Name of Project: GenomesDAO

    Twitter URL of Guests:

    https://twitter.com/aldodepape

    https://twitter.com/genomes_intern

    https://twitter.com/genomesDAO 

    Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/genomesio

    Project URL: https://genomes.io

    1 hr 3 min
  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 48) - December 14, 2021

    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 47) - December 13, 2021

    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 2 min
  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 46) - December 9, 2021

    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 14 min
  • Mission DeFi - EP 31 - Spirit Swap is breaking new ground & giving back to DeFi

    Name of Guests:

    Sid, Rob, Heesh, & Nick

    Name of Project:  Spirit Swap

    Twitter URL of Guests:

    https://twitter.com/Deg3ntrades
    https://twitter.com/neir_rob
    https://twitter.com/Heesh56107323

    Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/Spirit_Swap

    Project URL: https://www.spiritswap.finance/

    Rob

      Background in video game development
      went to school for it.
      Kept up to speed read bitcoin standard
      Move on from job 1.5 years ago as a video game dev at Mirosoft
      Heesh was teaching him a few things about DeFi
      Said, lets build something
    Heesh
      Crypto in 2017 crash with nothing to actually do in crypto
      Started using Synthetix and other projects
      Ethereum
      Liked smart contracts
      Was following Fantom since 2019
      DeFi Summer came and got completely into DeFi and farming, etc.

    Sid

      Computer science background
      Internship at the bank
      Blockchain
      Sid and rob met through work

    Nick

      Ascension into the core team
      Read the bitcoin white paper one day hung over
      Did some research, but couldn't figure it out at the time
      2013 when he started seeing Bitcoin get price action
      2017 he's working in digital marketing
      Saw Ethereum
      Used EtherDelta one of the first dex
      Discovered Fantom and was early in the ecosystem
      Staking for collateral and minting stables fascinated him
      Then Spirit Swap came out and became a community member
      So decided to move him up on to the team
      Setup structure and managing the community

    Discussed meritocracy of DeFi

    Spirit swap as leaders

    Use Gather as their office space

    Heesh, Rob, and other members of the team have met in person

    Leading in the community is a big part of their mission and they reach out to new projects to help them.

    They understand wanting to grow Fantom is important for them and all of Fantom.

    They have to build trust with projects and it is difficult to look into each project to make sure there are no issues. They feel like the responsibility is very important.

    Nick and Sid handle a lot of the due diligence

    Try to get them to dox to them to meet them and get to know.

    First project together was an NFT project called NFDoge

       That was how they learned what each member of the team was good at and what roles they would have

       Canceled the project and moved on to Spirit

    Great lessons about getting to know each other and starting on a simple project first. Fail and then move on.

    If you start small and can have limited success and move your community over

    They did want to move into a hedge fund / asset management and worked on planning that.

    Then they saw from that what was missing on Fantom and decided to build a dex

    Discussed how Nick helped them create an operational plan and think about what they are building.

    How they all were receptive to getting organized.

    Started with a Uniswap fork.

    Focusing now on building a stronger AMM.

    Focusing on the exchange components more

    Deleted Alpha!

    Other new releases

       Ecosystem pools

       Ape mode

      1-click leverage long

    Missionary / Mercenary

    What is next

    What their philosophy is about the project

    Moving to a full DAO and the steps they have to take to get there.

    The impact of OlympusDAO and other projects on Spirit Swap

    New UI and how many team members they have

    1 hr 14 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.