Mission: DeFi

You are going to learn a lot from this episode and be highly entertained by the charismatic, clever, and smart Dennison Bertram of Tally. 

Dennison discusses how and why he and his partner Raf created Tally, why DAOs(Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) are important and where they stand today, and how Tally is approaching the types of governance they support. 

We also discussed a recent problem they had with vote counting and delve more deeply into how difficult testing is in Web3 and how this type of bug could be a security issue for all users.  

Dennison also does a great job of breaking down the layers of Magic Internet Money and how it led us to the decentralized autonomous organizations we have today and much much more. 

Please rate, review, subscribe and tweet this episode to help us spread the mission of financial freedom in #DeFi. 

Tally Website - https://www.withtally.com

Tally Twitter - https://twitter.com/voteWithTally

Dennison's Twitter - https://twitter.com/DennisonBertram

From Stanford business school to distributed cloud services to blockchain, hear Alan's journey to crypto and DeFi and why he and his partner are so driven to make Boba work. 

While driven by privacy/performance, Alan and the team are creating a model that could drive 100s of new developers into blockchain and DeFi with their hybrid computing model that makes it easy for devs to build applications requiring more processing than is possible on Ethereum, while still leveraging blockchain for those applications. 

https://twitter.com/bobanetwork

https://boba.network

They are also working on a derivative tracking capability for NFTs. 

I was really impressed with their engaged and smart community. 

Enya's goal is to restore balance of power between users/companies over data

Started with edge part to use cryptography on phones

Realized needed decentralized infrastructure.    

Step one is making Ethereum able to reach 7 billion people on the planet

Explains how roll-ups work. 

How the changes get written

Starting more centralized, but later will be more decentralized. 

3rd party operators will be stakers that prove the changes.

Expects 50X improvement in performance

Why Optimism

Differences: No 7 day withdrawal period

Their bridging method is minutes with stakers verifying

Will work with multiple bridges

Hybrid allows people to deploy to AWS, for example

Allows for machine learning/AI, etc. 

Is a hybrid decentralized and centralized model.

Allows for much more powerful applications

Already developing a dev network and working to get them onboard the platform

The people in this space working to change the world for the better are a delight to interview and Sam Kazemian was exceptional. If you are like me, your head will be spinning with what is possible after you listen to this episode. Financial freedom is coming and people like Sam and projects like Frax are going to push the boundaries for all of us. 

If you like the show, please rate & review on Apple Podcasts or Google Play and subscribe wherever you get your pods and please share this episode on Twitter. It helps us spread the word about financial freedom in DeFi. 

This was a discussion that covered every aspect of Sam's project Frax in the world of crypto and Finance. We discussed his start mining Doge in his dorm room, his progression into building a better Wikipedia called Everipedia, how the idea for Frax was conceived, and why he thinks it is so important. We also got into why he thinks Bitcoin and Ethereum can't be a unit of currency for normal things and how important one will be that adjusts dynamically like Frax. 

Sam goes deep into not only how and why Frax works and maintains its peg to USD, but how the team is working to create a global consumer price index(CPI) that they are currently calling the Frax Price Index, we also deep dive into the extension of the Frax AMO into other platforms and what the team is doing next. 

Frax Website - https://frax.finance

Frax on Twitter - https://twitter.com/fraxfinance

Frax on Telegram - https://t.me/fraxfinance

Sam on Twitter - https://twitter.com/samkazemian

Learn everything you need to know about the amazing lending protocol called Liquity. My guest Robert Lauko and his partners and team have creating a lending protocol that breaks all the rules and as we get to during the podcast, may have an even greater impact on all of DeFi and finance. 

Disclaimer: Nothing Brad Nickel or his guests say during this podcast should be taken as investment advice. We are not investment advisors and the opinions expressed here are just opinions and not an inducement to any investment or strategy. Do your own research. Trading cryptocurrencies is very high risk and you should never invest more than you can afford to lose.

What is radical decentralization

How it can be interest free and still work

How their instant liquidation model works and why

How all the pieces of the system fit together

Why it was created in the first place and how the entire thing came about

How the stablecoin of the protocol LUSD stabilizes and gets stabilized in the protocol. 

How rapidly they have grown and why. 

Where they are taking the protocol next

Who the biggest skeptic of the protocol was. You'll be surprised. 

We get into theoretical discussions about USDC and ethereum forks from a question posted by Hasu on Twitter. 

and so much more. This is a learning episode and not only will you learn about Liquidity, but you will learn how these protocols are born and what it is like to build and release one. 

https://twitter.com/robert_lauko

https://twitter.com/LiquityProtocol

https://liquity.org

I decided I wanted to learn a bit more about Fantom and why so many people I know are experimenting with it, so I sat down with Atakan Yalkovan of Turkey to understand why he likes the project and why he's taken it upon himself to be an evangelist for it and projects on the network. Community is critical to the success of every #DeFi project and it is critical to have folks like Atakan helping to spread the word, train new people, and keeping the community honest. 

Hope you enjoy. 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/DefiIntro

Today we have an epic story about the billionaire Justin Sun's takeover of the Steem network and the inside story of what it was like to be a member of the community negotiating with, fighting, and scrapping to block the takeover. It is exciting, emotional, and endlessly fascinating to hear what this was like. In the end the community lost the battle against Justin, but won the way as they built something superior in both technology and value. 

Today's episode is part 1 of 2, but we cover the entire takeover story in this episode and then we cover much more about the Hive platform that came out of it in part 2. 

I interviewed Dan Hensley and Matt Starkers two guys that were on the frontlines of the battle, because they'd spent years building their own platform on top of Steem and had invested their time and money in making it better. They weren't about to give up without a fight. 

Dan and Matt are the founders of 3Speak an uncensorable video platform built on the Hive blockchain and they are leaders in their community. 

Visit 3speak.tv to learn more about them, what they are building, and how to get in touch. 

Their also working on a very cool community platform that we discuss in episode 2. 

Running any startup is a bit nuts. Running one under the circumstances that Sushi faced is beyond all the norms and while Maki works hard to decentralize leadership, there's no mistaking that he is at the least guiding the team and the community down a path. I've been pretty amazed to see the quality out of chaos that the Sushi team & community makes and in this interview we get into how it happens. Every project should listen to the approach. 

https://sushi.com

How he ended up in his role

The list has been met 85% already in July

Will change the face of all organizations as a society. 

How they manage development projects

Motto - Is it a win for Sushi?

Anonymity

Imagine having been an early Twitter user. You were there at the birth of a new type of service that would one day change how we all communicate, collaborate, and see the world. 

YouBase is creating a powerful new platform called Cortex that is starting as a note taking tool and will move into what could become a new type of Internet where everything is more secure, decentralized, collaborative, and powerful. 

Take a look at YouBase and thank you to the team for allowing us to learn more about what they will be launching.

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Learn more about Cortex:

YouBase: https://youbase.io

Twitter: https://twitter.com/app_cortex

Telegram: https://t.me/cortex_app

Medium: https://crtx.medium.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YoubaseIo

This interview is with DeFiSafety(https://defisafety.com/). This team has created a rating and review system for DeFi projects so that investors can make smarter and safer decisions about their investments. 

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/DefiSafety

Telegram: 

Discord - https://discord.com/invite/pzUw5V2E65

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What DeFiSafety is and does. 

How aerospace background helped them understand quality levels

Their focus is on transparency, access, and overall quality

How they ended up in the DeFi space

Created a protocol/process for reviewing

How to incentivize people to improve their transparency is by earning a better score. 

Have moved into Binance projects and now are in polygon projects

Lucas background is entrepreneurial 

What their review process is like. 

* Transparency

* Open source of code and visibility

* Documentation that includes docs like White papers and then actual code documentation are important

Shows they understand the software and how it works and explains the purpose. 

Governance protocols that determine what devs can do on every project, how code is controlled, etc.

How they deal with anonymous teams

What teams have gotten the best score

Compound

Mstable

Nobody gets a perfect score

What is coming next for their system

Ways to customize and use it.

Whether this could be a crowdsourced project.  

How projects react to them and how they react to their discussion of it.

Are they concerned about legal issues with respect to their reviews having an impact on prices. 

How their business functions. 

Raised a round of funding.

What revenue will look like for them. 

Have survived on Bitcoin grants and donations from individuals. 

Working on a subscription model for upgraded reports. 

Won't have any obligation to actual protocols. 

How BSC is all copy/pasta or the same team developing. 

Their traffic grows when hacks happen

Building a bigger team of experts. 

What it is like working as a father and son team

Their most important people in DeFi.

Tags: Yearn, Andre, Mbased, Top ten rated projects on DeFi, Worst rated projects, Compound, Grif Green(commonstack) DAO, 

How even projects with private repos can get a high score

Geyser provides liquidity as a service, but their new modular system could be a game changer for all of #DeFi

Geyser is one of my favorite #DeFi tools, because it is a lego and it is an infrastructure piece and it allows anyone to use it to build something useful and launch their project, without having to deal with managing liquidity pools or yield farming. 

That isn't all though, their new version could change how all projects are developed and empower developers and non-developers to create anything they can imagine. 

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https://gysr.io

https://twitter.com/gysr_io

https://twitter.com/devinaconley

https://twitter.com/AlexEKoren

https://twitter.com/benroy__

Intro of the basics of what Geyser does to help people setup Liquidity Pools, Yield Farming, and token distribution. 

Easy to use for developers and anybody that wants to deploy a pool. 

How they deployed their token completely through their system without using code.

How their tools will allow developers to create their own interface to the pools

What goes into setting up a Liquidity Pool. What do you need to think about. 

* Need LPs or funds to create your own liquidity

* Put funds into Uniswap, or Balancer, or Sushi

* Or do it from the ground up.

How they launched with only $10 in their liquidity pool

What was important to them:

1. Transparency and fully released code

2. Build strong community

3. Building robust software - Safe and future proof

Their test suite is 10 times the size of their code base. Takes 30 minutes to run a full test.

They never put any money in the LP after the $10.

No ability to edit or access the pools deployed on their platform. 

Step by step how they went from $10 in liquidity to 9 figures today without putting in another dime and with a completely fair launch based on their model and nothing else.

What they've done right and what the've learned along the way. 

How in their new version they've offered something more simple and for those that prefer it. 

How NFTs can play in their future and other interesting use cases including NFT farming. 

Finally we discuss the industry changing system they've created to make it possible for eventually anyone with or without development skills to be able to build a product or project they want to build. The possibilities are endless.