Mission: DeFi

Mission: DeFi

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Mission: DeFi episodes

  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 16) - October 27, 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 16 min
  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 15) - October 26, 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
  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 14) - October 25, 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.

    54 min
  • EP 23 - Paul Brody of EY - This ain't your daddy's "Ernst & Young" - How EY is building a crypto practice that helps all of DeFi
    Guest Info

    Name of Guest: Paul Brody

    Name of Project: EY
    Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/pbrody
    Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/EY_US
    Project URL: https://blockchain.ey.com/

    Show Notes

    How he got started and became the Global Blockchain Leader at EY 

    How he got into blockchain and EY

    While at IBM:

    Talked about connected devices like light bulbs and how their clients were selling them and they were losing money from cloud services.
    So they decided on blockchain and spoke to Vitalik Buterin about it.
    That project convinced him that blockchain was all he wanted to work on. IBM wasn't interested, but EY was.

    He laid the groundwork for EY, that it was going to go up and down and needed them to stay with it whenever it goes down or up.

    He got a 5-10 year commitment from them 5 years ago.

    Polygon partnership is a direct outcome from that investment over the ups and downs.

    How large companies get excited about things and expect big revenue and then realize they have to wait or call it a failure.

    How he really set expectations.

    How they decided what EY would be doing in blockchain

    Went through a large number of options.

    Had a blank sheet
    Were going to focus on external, not internal.

    Most difficult decision was private or public blockchains and decided that public was only way, but that privacy of what they do is critical. They need privacy in their competition. Cannot be open on chain.

    Didn't think that private would ever work so they adopted Public - but.

    They decided on Ethereum and to be the best at Ethereum.

    They decided to invest heavily in privacy. Hired researchers and cryptographers.

    Could only choose 1 platform. Decided couldn't mess with any others and he thinks it paid off.

    How he had to convince partners at EY to give away millions of dollars in research as open source.

    Nightfall

    Had to protect the actual transaction and then also make sure that the asset and transfer are private and then they are working on Starlight which allows making business logic private.

    Optimistic rollup with privacy and best in class costs.

    Polygon partnership

    Polygon approached them to deliver as one of their layer 2 solutions.

    Says they are very smart about how they engineer things
    Scaling support.

    User experience

    Fast, low cost and private.

    Ecosystem of buyers and sellers.
    No disclosure of transaction data.

    Starlight

    Zero knowledge compiler

    They have prototype right now
    Can tag variables that need to remain private.
    Now adding more complex logic.
    Now adding enterprise level logic.
    Entire contract on chain for widgets and price, etc. and you couldn't see it. So private procurement agreement running privately on public blockchain.

    Customer Offering

    Complex applications for businesses.

    Multi-party

    Doing a procurement system for XBOX/Microsoft on blockchain with smart contracts. Reduces 45 day process for paying game developers to 5 minutes.

    How the blockchain solves the big problem with ERP implementations and makes tx a level playing field for large and small companies.

    Data flows give big guys advantage without disclosing the big player the small players data. This this is one of the key things that will drive adoption and all players meet in neutral territory.

    Their Revenue Model For Blockchain

    Blockchain analyzer

    Consulting
    SaaS offerings

    56 min
  • DeFi Lunch (Ep 13) - October 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.

    59 min
  • DeFi (degen) Lunch - October 21, 2021 with special guest Corey Cottrell Of Uplift, Bludac & 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.

    In this episode:

    Corey Cottrell joins us to discuss his projects that are transforming and growing DeFi on the Wax blockchain. 

    • BluDac
    • Uplift World
    • Secret alpha about the next stage. 

      • Smart Coin

      BTC News

      and much much more. 

      1 hr 10 min
    • DeFi (degen) Lunch - October 20, 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. 

      In this episode:

      Fun episode! If you smoke pot spark it for 2nd half. Deep... Smiling face with open mouth and smiling eyes

      $BTC #ATH 

      #ETH Supply crunch

      $RVST 

      @RevestFinance

      @sommfinance

      @JustinCBram

      #UBI - Self perpetuating money

      #Automation #AI End of money

      $CRV

      @REVV_Token

      @boneswapfi

      @_DFyn

      @JeffBooth

      @sifchain

      & more!

      1 hr 6 min
    • DeFi (degen) Lunch - October 19, 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. 

      In this episode

      • The Wax Blockchain - https://twitter.com/WAX_io
      • BluDAC - https://twitter.com/BluDac - https://bluedac.io/
      • Alcor Exchange on Wax - https://twitter.com/alcorexchange - https://wax.alcor.exchange/
      • MultiFarm - https://alpha.multifarm.fi/assets - https://twitter.com/multifarm_fi
      • Speed of transactions
      • 7 million users
      • Why the SEC isn't actually about protecting people
        • Nikola($NKLA)
        • Dotcom crash
        • FarmHero - https://farmhero.io/
        • PolySage - https://www.polysage.finance/
        • Wonderland - https://app.wonderland.money/#/stake - OlympusDAO fork
        • Fantom blockchain
        • wMEMO
        • and much much more. 
          • 1 hr 12 min
        • EP 22 - Kyle Samani thinks DeFi ETH has hit a wall & Solana will prevail
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          Guest Info

          Name of Guest: Kyle Samani

          Name of Project: Multicoin Capital
          Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/KyleSamani
          Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/multicoincap
          Project URL: https://multicoin.capital/
          Project/Guest Description: Founder and CEO of Multicoin Capital
          Why they are a guest: Powerful member of the investing world. Hedge, Venture Capital, etc.

          Show Notes

          How they built Multicoin Capital with content

          How his Venture fund operates.
          How his hedge fund oeprates
          How they are able to keep their staff to be only 14 people
          @SushiSwap, @Uniswap, etc. work well, but not great for trading.
          What he sees coming next in DeFi
          How long can AMMs and high APYs exist
          Why he thinks it is good.
          Projects like @DYDX live in their own bubble
          Ethereum has hit a wall.
          Why he thinks Solana will overtake
          Developer uptake and how to measure it
          Says absolute tidal wave of amazing projects coming on Solana
          Where he thinks @NearProtocol is at this point and what they have to do to succeed.
          The amazing @Superfluid and why they invested in it as a primitive and about the team
          How he thinks we can start permeating the "real world" more with DeFi starting with NFTs and connecting it to DeFi or the world's largest casino.

          36 min

        About Mission: DeFi

        From the publisher's feed

        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.