Mission: DeFi

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"Interesting developments from @BeanstalkFarms The address that exploited $180M may be linked to a @krakenfx deposit, which opens the door for law enforcement & prosecution. The link is established by looking at addys that deposited 101 ETH in Tornado Cash 1.5 mos before attack https://t.co/8rSClBqV1j" / Twitter ( https://md1.to/bcissues )

Why do we need a Uniswap Wallet? We don't. ( https://md1.to/uniwallet )

Binance US to Delist Justin Suns Tron Token Next Week - Decrypt ( https://md1.to/deathtron )

The U.S. Is Losing Its Edge in Crypto, Says Andreessen Horowitz - Decrypt ( https://md1.to/a16zuslosers )

Euler Finance opens redemptions after hacker returns funds ( https://md1.to/ulerback )

Visa+ Gives Consumers Option to Send P2P Payments to Anyone | PYMNTS.com ( https://md1.to/visaplus1 )

FTX considering a comeback as more funds are recovered ( https://md1.to/ftx2 )

The Ethereum Shanghai (Shapella) Upgrade Dashboard ( https://md1.to/ftx2 )

Craig Wrights Bitcoin SV Falls to Lowest Levels Against Bitcoin ( https://md1.to/notsatoshi )

Twitter to Enable Crypto, Stocks Trading ( https://md1.to/twittertrading )

Crypto | Money is evolving | Visa ( https://md1.to/isarypto )

Visa+ | Visa ( https://md1.to/visaaplus2 )

Mission: DeFi / DeFi Lunch Community › Bitcoin ( https://md1.to/mdcommbtc )

Bitcoin Outflows to Personal Wallets Signal Strong Support, says BofA – Cryptopolitan ( https://md1.to/outflows1 )

Ukraine’s crypto dream derailed by currency controls – DL News ( https://md1.to/ukrainecrypto )

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.

If you haven't joined our Telegram community, you are missing out: https://t.me/missiondefi

Eva Beylin on Twitter: "I’m sick & tired of being sick & tired about banks. ( https://twitter.com/evabeylin/status/1645253108925071361?s=20 )

Camelot DEX | Arbitrum native Decentralized Exchange ( https://app.camelot.exchange/pools/?type=v2 )

Bitcoin miner CleanSpark purchases 45,000 ASICs for $145M ( https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-miner-cleanspark-purchases-45-000-asics-for-145m?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social )

Microstrategy Bitcoin bet turns green as BTC price climbs to 10-month high ( https://cointelegraph.com/news/microstrategy-bitcoin-bet-turns-green-as-btc-price-climbs-to-10-month-high?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social )

Coinbase Extends Lobbying Fees - The Cryptonomist ( https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2023/04/10/coinbase-extends-lobbying-fees/ )

Buying Crypto in Portfolio Dapp For An Easy Experience, the MetaMask Way ( https://metamask.io/news/latest/buying-crypto-in-portfolio-dapp-for-an-easy-experience-the-metamask-way/ )

MEV Blocker - Everyday protection from harmful MEV ( https://mevblocker.io/ )

Trading-focused blockchain Sei raises $30M, bringing valuation up to $800M | TechCrunch ( https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/11/trading-focused-blockchain-sei-raises-30m-bringing-valuation-up-to-800m/ )

Variant Founder Fellowship – Variant ( https://variant.fund/variant-founder-fellowship/ )

Multicoin Leads $4M Strategic Round for Web3 Co-Ownership Platform Lore ( https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/04/06/multicoin-leads-4m-strategic-round-for-web3-co-ownership-platform-lore/ )

Sei ( https://www.seinetwork.io/ )

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) Brian on Twitter: "1/ Currently those who want to on/off-ramp must register for a centralized exchange and incur long delays before money reaches your accounts or use centralized fiat on-ramps which charge high fees (5%). We (@asoong91, @richardzliang, @0xSachinK) think there’s a better way… https://t.co/5faRCUQIQt" / Twitter ( https://twitter.com/Bmwball56/status/1643620546914000896 )

(1) Fantom Foundation on Twitter: "🗳️ Vote Open: Reducing Validator Staking Requirement A proposal to lower financial barriers allowing participants across the world to join in securing the #Fantom network via staking & validating. 🔹 50,000 $FTM 🔹 75,000 $FTM 🔹 100,000 $FTM Cast vote: https://t.co/cPS8iU3Cnm https://t.co/6PEGkVShYD" / Twitter ( https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1644362866391228417 )

0xngmi (llamazip arc) on Twitter: "Seeing a lot of people talking about USDT mcap quickly falling by billions At defillama we collect on-chain data for all the chains where USDT is deployed to and were not seeing that drop https://t.co/iu7cucLAtI (data is updated hourly)" / Twitter ( https://twitter.com/0xngmi/status/1644174534445088776?s=20 )

Brad Nickel - Host: Mission DeFi & DeFi Lunch on Twitter: "Hey @brian_armstrong, Ive been highly critical of you at times, while also praising your teams work on the #DeFi regulatory front. Over the last few weeks, you & your team have been making all the right steps & saying all the right things. I am impressed with the moves you… https://t.co/z5okZ9XbMz" / Twitter ( https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1644459764112343040 )

Brad Nickel - Host: Mission DeFi & DeFi Lunch on Twitter: "If you use @Rabby_io, this is a simple process to revoke. Just choose Approvals button in each of your wallets and then search on the contract address in the box that comes up. If you have one of the impacted contracts, click it, choose all coins and Revoke. Contracts are in… https://t.co/glv1jc6j1Q" / Twitter ( https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1644931795236933633?s=20 )

Brad Nickel - Host: Mission DeFi & DeFi Lunch on Twitter: "Wow..." / Twitter ( https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1644565190128574465?s=20 )

Airtm | Unlock your potential ( https://airtm.com/en/ )

The Last Days of SVB - Puck ( https://puck.news/the-last-days-of-svb/ )

Binance.US Unable to Secure Banking Partner — TradingView News ( https://www.tradingview.com/news/cryptodaily:effdcf03b094b:0/ )

Community on SushiSwap exploit: The $3.3 hack is ‘weird’ — TradingView News ( https://www.tradingview.com/news/cointelegraph:f6bbca2b8094b:0/ )

fWallet ( https://wallet.fantom.network/governance/proposal/0x7c3b85a71e4fce1209a81d67f1af46b5a068770e/0x22 )

Deloitte: 75% of retailers plan to accept crypto payments in 2 years ( https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/deloitte-75-percent-of-retailers-plan-to-accept-crypto-payments-in-2-years.html )

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.

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On today's show:

The Treasury Department released their split personality report on DeFi

https://md1.to/treasreport

Reading it though is difficult, so instead we rely on the legal experts from Brad's Crypto Legal List (https://md1.to/cryptolegal)

DeFi Education Fund (@fund_defi) summarized most of it very nicely - https://md1.to/defifundtreas

In addition, @Timccopeland noted the split personality of agreeing that most illicit activity doesn't happen on DeFi, while they claim it can happen on DeFi... Sigh - https://md1.to/opereas

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Then we ran through how much @Coinbase is doing to protect DeFi and crypto legally and technically and read through @iampaulgrewal's thread on their legal filings in the #TornadoCash case - https://md1.to/cbtreas

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In more news about Coinbase, we discussed an anonymous donor's gift of Base.ETH to the Base Chain (@BuildOnBase) to reward them for their focus on decentralization - https://md1.to/baseeth

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We spent more time discussing what Coinbase is doing with Base and the potential it has as well as potential revenue models for it.

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@CoWSwap, in collaboration with @beaverbuild and Agnostic Relayer launched MEVBlocker to protect you from Sandwich attacks and front running. A fantastic service that is now being integrated with dapps as well - https://md1.to/mevblocker

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New Raises in DeFi

Then we went old school and ran through a number of projects that have recently raised money to see if there are any of value in the mix. We use @DefiLlama to find these nuggets - https://md1.to/dlraises

Projects Discussed:

Carbonable (@Carbonable_io) is doing Real World investments to stem climate change with nice payouts over long periods and ownership secured by NFTs - https://md1.to/carbonable

Radix (@radixdlt) recently had a raise, which we found interesting, since they haven't been much in the news of late. Developers with Rust skills can build on the project - https://md1.to/radix

Another odd investment round is in Metaverse infrastructure provider @Hadeaninc. Neither Brad or Joe feel like there's much to do there, so were surprised by anyone putting money in at this stage, but there may be more there than what we can see - https://md1.to/hadean

Brad and Joe love a good infrastructure investment, so they gave a thumbs up to a new round in @ParticleNtwrk - https://md1.to/particle

They were also excited to see a Real World Asset (#RWA) play for @polytrade_fin that has a market for investing in invoice receivable a market that Brad and Joe are both high on seeing an integration into DeFi - https://md1.to/polytrade - $TRADE

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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.

We had a great interview today with Marek Olszewski of Celo. Celo is a Layer 1 blockchain in existence since 2020 with a strong mobile first, consumer friendly, social impact oriented ethos. They provide tools to make it easy for devs to get started, have released an open source onramp connector for numerous countries, and have some of the biggest protocols in DeFi deploying to their platform.

Project Name: Celo

Project URL: https://celo.org

Project Twitter: https://cantoecosystem.build/

Guest Name: Marek Olszewski

Guest Twitter: https://cantoecosystem.build/

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Celo projects discussed:

Fiat Connect - https://fiatconnect.org/

Valora Wallet - https://valoraapp.com/

Celo Composer - https://github.com/celo-org/celo-composer

Impact Market - https://www.impactmarket.com/

Numoen - https://www.numoen.com/

Celo Tracker - https://celotracker.com/invest/

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News Discussed on the show:

Texas Republicans are trying to rug Bitcoin Miners - https://md1.to/ruggingminers

Fantom Network Adds De.Fi's Security Tools to Bolster Dapp Protection - https://md1.to/ftmaddsdefisecurity

Crypto Protocol LayerZero Raises $120M at $3B Valuation - https://md1.to/layerzeroraise

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.

Have you joined the best community in DeFi yet? https://t.me/missiondefi

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.

Get ready to be blown away by the insights and frameworks Josh Rosenthal uses for building companies, investing, and understanding the full potential of crypto.

His interviews on Bankless have created a storm of theories on how crypto plays out, based on the historical context of the Renaissance and the American Revolution. He takes that further in this interview with a presentation that reframes how we talk to others about crypto, by helping them see the value before they know what it is.

Bankless Interviews:

126 - The Crypto Revolution | Josh Rosenthal | Bankless

🎙️ The Crypto Renaissance | Josh Rosenthal | Bankless

From a Fulbright historian to multiple startups with very successful exits, Josh, and his partners have built a framework for success in tech.

Renaissance

How he layers in the arguments for crypto to entrepreneurs and others by showing how crypto unlocks new possibilities. Presentation.

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

Don't miss out on our great community. Amazing discussions, alpha, & new projects: https://t.me/missiondefi

DON'T GET SCAMMED - Our community's own ZrowGz writes up how he almost got scammed - https://md1.to/avoidscams1

US crackdown will push crypto ‘center of gravity’ to Hong Kong: Kaiko CEO - https://md1.to/hongkong

Sweet move to steal projects and devs from Solana - Injective launches layer-2 testnet for Solana-based apps in Cosmos - https://md1.to/solanaoncosmos

Stupid is as stupid does - Arbitrum anger after $1bn ARB self-allocation - https://md1.to/arbanger

How Arbitrum responded - https://md1.to/arbstupid2

Do Kwon prosecutor on how crypto king got caught: ‘Those passports were suspicious and that was the alarm’ - https://md1.to/badpaper

Horizon Worlds - https://md1.to/horizonworlds

How Does an Increase in Validators Impact Fantom? - https://md1.to/morenodes

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.

ChainLink is basically a monopoly of oracles in DeFi, but more players are popping up and RedStone has a powerful model that may just be the competition that ChainLink and the ecosystem needs. Faster, cheaper, and better in many ways, the team at RedStone has a powerful approach.

- How they are taking on ChainLink and what it is like taking on a monopoly

- How they developed a superior oracle model

- Why it is cheaper and faster than ChainLink

- What technologies they used to build it

- How their needs drove them to create a powerful smart contact capability for Arweave

- How the system works for data providers/node operators

Discuss this episode in the Mission: DeFi community: ⁠https://t.me/missiondefi⁠

Project Name: RedStone Finance

Project URL: https://redstone.finance

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

Guests:

Marcin Kaźmierczak - https://twitter.com/Marcin_Kaz13

Jakub Wojciechowski - https://twitter.com/kuba_eth

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

We've got Shaun back and he's even more bearish than normal, but we really climbed into the money fleeing crypto at this time and much more.

Join the community to discuss - https://t.me/missiondefi

Do Kwon faces ‘grim’ year in Montenegro jail, lawyer says - https://md1.to/owonfacesgrimyearinontenegrojaillawyersays

$4,500,000,000,000 Asset Manager Fidelity Hiring for ‘Crypto Token Research’ Position - https://md1.to/cji2d

Schoolhouse Rock - I'm Just a Bill - https://md1.to/xgsdf

Greenpeace Unveils ‘Skull of Satoshi’ to Spark Debate Over Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact; Creator Clarifies It ‘Wasn’t Meant to Be Anti-Bitcoin’

https://md1.to/x2tvr

Von Wong - Artist responds - https://md1.to/w3vza

King Charles Has Hilarious Reply for Fan Who Tried to Hand Him Burger King Crown - https://md1.to/pl6u5

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.