Mission: DeFi

Latest Episodes:

DeFi Lunch (Ep 196) - Sept. 15, 2022 - @robo_vault Delta Neutral Strategies / How to grow your project #BixDev / #Putin's puking military / Sep 16, 2022

Show notes

Robo Vault | Powered by Robots - https://www.robo-vault.com/vaults

Nice summary of @ethereum Protocols - https://twitter.com/pathfinder305/status/1570402627413835778

Retweet - Today should be a reminder for everyone that developers make the world go round. Be grateful for the devs, researchers, & visionaries that work tirelessly to give you a platform upon which to build, spend, grow, and have financial freedom. - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1570360243334352897?s=20&t=ODKMJpeqLiXEfZF622IEfg

Retweet - If I was a tax accountant, I would completely take a vacation during both tax seasons, and build my business around return reviews and amendments post filing for self filing businesses and crypto traders. - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1570397627161759747?s=20&t=ODKMJpeqLiXEfZF622IEfg

Dad joke - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1570253920198594560?s=20&t=ODKMJpeqLiXEfZF622IEfg

@traderjoe_xyz launched a new AMM- the Liquidity Book - https://twitter.com/thetieio/status/1567609362910158849

Russia's 'Strategic Defeat' in Ukraine Threatens Putin's Regime - https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-strategic-defeat-in-ukraine-threatens-putin-regime-2022-9

Crypto Startup Mysten Labs Raises $300M From Industry Heavyweights at $2B Valuation - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/08/crypto-startup-mysten-labs-raises-300m-from-industry-heavyweights-at-2b-valuation-report/

Stepn mess - https://twitter.com/messaricrypto/status/1567880625218019333

DeFi Lunch (Ep 195) - Sept. 14, 2022 - Mission: DeFi on Reddit / Gensler to Senate / @samkazemian @Frax on @Curve / Sep 15, 2022

Show notes

Mission: DeFi & DeFi Lunch on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/MissionDeFi/

Grayscale, Disclosing SEC Queries, Says Cryptos XLM, ZEC, ZEN May Be Securities - https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/27/sec-questions-grayscales-legal-stance-on-stellar-zcash-and-horizen-crypto-trusts/

Gensler to Senate - https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1570063384703373314?s=20&t=Lx9oS40QGxQoIkwKjPWhfg

Gensler Testimony 9-15-22.pdf - https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Gensler%20Testimony%209-15-22.pdf

Bahrain central bank selects OpenNode to test crypto payments - https://financefeeds.com/bahrain-central-bank-selects-opennode-to-test-crypto-payments/

South Korean Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon - https://www-coindesk-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/14/s-korean-court-issues-arrest-warrant-against-terra-co-founder-do-kwon-report/?outputType=amp

Sam Kzemian on Frax in Curve - https://twitter.com/samkazbot/status/1569900892748500992?s=20&t=LuBy9x5COydy_GrW4LWxCQ

Zero Hash - https://zerohash.com/

US Treasury Explains How Americans Can Recover Crypto Locked in Tornado Cash - https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/09/13/us-treasury-explains-how-us-persons-can-recover-crypto-locked-in-tornado-cash/

Cryptopia Files for Bankruptcy Protection at U.S. Court - The Chain Bulletin - https://chainbulletin.com/cryptopia-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-at-u-s-court

@SalomonCrypto on Ethereum - https://twitter.com/SalomonCrypto/status/1569867843323428864

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.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 194) - Sept. 13, 2022 - @Spirit_Swap Ep Up / $ETH Node in a Box / #CPI / @Bitgo & @GalaxyDigital fight / Sep 14, 2022

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Ethereum on ARM documentation — Ethereum on ARM documentation 0.0.1 documentation - https://bit.ly/3QBRtAI

Reddit’s Ohanian Leads $54 Million Doodles Capital Raise - https://bit.ly/3BiZvZw

Crypto Custody Firm BitGo Files $100M Lawsuit Against Galaxy Digital for Breaching Merger Agreement - https://bit.ly/3BELarE

Consumer Price Index Summary - 2022 M08 Results - https://bit.ly/3Lg7oU9

2-year Treasury yield rockets above 3.79%, highest since 2007 - https://cnb.cx/3xncDfa

Investment Giant KKR Puts Portion of Private Equity Fund on Avalanche Blockchain - https://bit.ly/3xmsnPi

Tokenization of illiquid assets to reach $16T by 2030: Report - https://bit.ly/3eTVlA0

Crypto Lender Maker Turns to Staked Ether to Reduce USDC Influence - https://bit.ly/3qDGJqN

Shardeum | EVM-based sharded layer 1 blockchain - https://bit.ly/shardeumd

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.

Mission DeFi EP 72 - Spirit Swap V2 is a fast, automated, & powerful money machine for users & protocols - Layer 3 team joins me Sep 13, 2022

Show notes

The Layer 3 team has delivered for the Spirit Swap community with Version 2 of their protocol, which is a complete rewrite from the ground up and a powerful new fast interface.

More importantly though, the underlying mechanisms for users and for protocols are even more powerful with all the advantages of major protocols combined into one easy to use and optimized interface that makes all aspects of DeFi easier and more automated.

Project Name: Spirit Swap

Project URL: https://app.spiritswap.finance/#/

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

If you like what we do here at Mission: DeFi, I have a quick favor to ask of you. Please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts(https://bit.ly/DeFiAppl) or Spotify(https://bit.ly/DeFiSpot). It will do amazing things to boost our presence and help us spread DeFi and financial freedom to the world. Thank you!

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.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 193) - Sept. 12, 2022 - @Delphi_Digital Labs New Home / @binance launches #KYC soulbound token / @ycombinator / @FatmanTerra: Terra cashes out / @ecoinometrics Recession? / Sep 13, 2022

Show notes

Starbucks to Offer NFT-Based Loyalty Program Using Polygon's Blockchain Technology - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/12/starbucks-to-offer-nft-based-loyalty-program-alongside-polygon/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Finding a home for Delphi Digital Labs - https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/finding-a-home-for-labs?s=35

Brad's Summary of the Delphi chain review - https://www.missiondefi.com/blog/delphi-labs-chain-choice/

Binance to Launch Binance Account Bound (BAB) Token, the First-Ever Soulbound Token on BNB Chain | Binance Support - https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/0fe1e7c8781844e29f56cb674231dfd7

Y Combinator is increasing its investments in crypto founders despite the volatile market - InsideBitcoins.com - https://insidebitcoins.com/news/y-combinator-is-investing-more-in-cryptocurrency-founders-despite-the-volatile-crypto-market

$2.7 billion UST from Terra siphoned to USDT - Some of you thought $80m per month was bad. That's nothing. Here's how Do Kwon cashed out $2.7 billion (33 x $80m!) over the span of mere months thanks to Degenbox: - https://twitter.com/fatmanterra/status/1535623662153437185?s=52&t=Sc692AfeFcHUYoQvmuUFlg

Recession? - https://twitter.com/ecoinometrics/status/1568969962622173186

Norwegian central bank uses Ethereum to build national digital currency - https://cointelegraph.com/news/norwegian-central-bank-uses-ethereum-to-build-national-digital-currency

The Ascent of CBDCs - https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2022/09/Picture-this-The-ascent-of-CBDCs

DeFi Lunch (Ep 192) - Sept. 9, 2022 - @BeanstalkFarms / OSTP Report / @Coinbase emp & @Cobie / @BNBCHAIN zkBNB / @CantoPublic Hackathon / Sep 11, 2022

Show notes

New episode of Mission: DeFi with Publius from Beanstalk Farms - https://www.missiondefi.com/beanstalk-4/

OSTP Report is bad for Bitcoin & other POW chains - https://twitter.com/thetrocro/status/1567986913742569475

Coinbase employee accuses Cobie - Doesn't go well - https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1567983167096733698?s=20&t=AJSB7jqeO9EqlawsBwZ9JQ

BNB Chain announces zero-knowledge proof scaling technology - https://www.theblock.co/post/168514/bnb-chain-announces-zero-knowledge-proof-scaling-technology?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Gary Gensler Wants to Regulate Crypto - Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-08/gary-gensler-wants-to-regulate-crypto?leadSource=uverify%20wall

Rethinking Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security - Lawfare - https://www.lawfareblog.com/rethinking-responsible-disclosure-cryptocurrency-security

Feds claw back $30 million of cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers | Ars Technica - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/feds-claw-back-30-million-of-cryptocurrency-stolen-by-north-korean-hackers/

Canto Hackathon - https://thecoh.build/

Root Protocol Announces $9M Seed Funding - https://www.cryptotimes.io/root-protocol-announces-9m-seed-funding/

Tiafoe is the first American man to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since 2006 - https://www.cryptotimes.io/root-protocol-announces-9m-seed-funding/

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.

Mission DeFi EP 71 - Publius from Beanstalk Farms - What is next after the exploit and much more $BEAN @BeanstalkFarms Sep 09, 2022

Show notes

For a video version of this episode, please visit: https://www.missiondefi.com/beanstalk-4

If you like what we do here at Mission: DeFi, I have a quick favor to ask of you. Please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts(https://bit.ly/DeFiAppl) or Spotify(https://bit.ly/DeFiSpot). It will do amazing things to boost our presence and help us spread DeFi and financial freedom to the world. Thank you!

After a brutal exploit drained the value of the Bean stablecoin, many predicted that Beanstalk Farms would never recover, but a herculean and unpaid effort by the team and the community has the protocol on the path to recovery and things are looking bright for one of the most successful algortthmic stablecoins ever.

We discussed not only what happened after the exploit, but the plan forward and amazing developments for use of the protocol inside and outside of DeFi.

We also discussed their role as founders and what it is like balancing that role with the desire to have a completely decentralized protocol that no longer depends on Publius and how they want to make that happen.

Project Name: Beanstalk Farms

Project URL: https://bean.money

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

Guest Name: Publius

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

Our previous interviews with Beanstalk Farms' Publius:

Mission: DeFi - EP 55 The @BeanstalkFarms exploit what is was like, what it means, & the path forward | Mission: DeFi - https://www.missiondefi.com/mission-defi-ep-55-the-beanstalkfarms-exploit-what-is-was-like-what-it-means-the-path-forward/

Mission: DeFi EP 42 - Beanstalk Farms 2 - Creating a better stablecoin model - their progress, growth, lessons learned, big hairy vision, & what's next @Beanstalkfarms $BEAN | Mission: DeFi - https://www.missiondefi.com/beanstalk-farms-2/

Mission: DeFi EP 16 - Count your magic beans Jack - Beanstalk is taking on the giants of stablecoins | Mission: DeFi - https://www.missiondefi.com/ep-16-count-your-magic-beans-jack-beanstalk-is-taking-on-the-giants-of-stablecoins/

DeFi Lunch (Ep 191) - Sept. 8 2022 - @DefiLlama DEX / @FraxFinance FraxLend / Gensler under pressure / @Binanceus $ETH Liquid Staking / Sep 08, 2022

Show notes

All DEX volumes - DefiLlama - https://defillama.com/dexs

SEC’s Gensler Supports Commodities Regulator Having Bitcoin Oversight - WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/secs-gensler-supports-commodities-regulator-having-bitcoin-oversight-11662641115

Binance US launches low-barrier Ethereum staking ahead of The Merge - https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-us-launches-low-barrier-ethereum-staking-ahead-of-the-merge?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social

NFT Marketplace OnePlanet Leaves Terra’s Orbit for Polygon - Blockworks - https://blockworks.co/nft-marketplace-oneplanet-leaves-terras-orbit-for-polygon/

This four-story pyramid in North Dakota was a Cold War icon. Now, it'll house a cryptocurrency mine. - InForum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports - https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/the-vault/this-four-story-pyramid-in-north-dakota-was-a-cold-war-icon-now-itll-house-a-cryptocurrency-mine

Crypto Is ‘Key’ to Cracking Down on Crime, Says Europol - Decrypt - https://decrypt.co/109046/crypto-key-cracking-down-crime-says-europol

Inflation Rate - By Country - https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate-

Pioneering mathematical formula paves way for exciting advances in health, energy, and food industry - https://phys.org/news/2022-09-mathematical-formula-paves-advances-health.html

It may not seem like it, but you choose to have emotions. https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1567824769025720326?s=20&t=1ETwkzz4LeM7aPgk7uApcg

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.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 190) - Sept. 7, 2022 - @FinanceChainge / @Paladin_vote / US Soft Landing? / ETH tags dbase by @samczsun / #Metaverse Dating / Sep 08, 2022

Show notes

The U.S. is on track for a soft landing, Goldman Sachs chief economist says - MarketWatch - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-u-s-is-on-track-for-a-soft-landing-goldman-sachs-chief-economist-says-11662463937

What It’s Like to Date in the Metaverse - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/style/virtual-dating-metaverse.html

Ethereum Tags Database - https://tags.eth.samczsun.com/#query=aave

Mission DeFi EP 70 - $70 billion in instant liquidity across most chain and dex - Dejun Qian Founder of Chainge Finance | Mission: DeFi - https://www.missiondefi.com/Chainge-Finance-Fusion/

Chainge Finance - https://www.chainge.finance/

Mission DeFi EP 69 - Paladin II - Better Bribes For Projects & Users - Figue and Alejandro | Mission: DeFi - https://www.missiondefi.com/paladin-2-better-bribes/

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.

Mission DeFi EP 70 - $70 billion in instant liquidity across most chain and dex - Dejun Qian Founder of Chainge Finance Sep 07, 2022

Show notes

What if you could with every trade have billions and billions of USD equivalent liquidity available to you in DeFi? My guest's platform has the ability to change how you trade in DeFi.

In 2019 the first EVM compatible chain was born and it probably isn't one you've heard of before. Fusion was built from the ground up to perform fast, but to also deeply integrate at the encryption level cross chain functionality. This capability has now been built into a product on that chain, called Chainge and it is one of the most powerful concepts I've ever discussed on the show.

Chainge harnesses the power of their fast cross chain capabilities to give you access to the best liquidity and prices across most EVM chains. That isn't all though. They've built a powerful security model, you always have custody of your tokens, and you have access to an amazing yield generation capability that means you never have to deposit tokens into a vault or farm.

Chainge was built to showcase the capabilities of the Fusion blockchain, but I think it has the potential to go far beyond. Both technologies deserve your closer look.

Project Name: Chainge / Fusion

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

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

Guest Name: Dejun Qian

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