Mission: DeFi

Latest Episodes:

DeFi Lunch (Ep 144) - June 6, 2022 - @CelerNetwork bridge / @Coinbase hiring screwups / @Danielesesta @Wonderland_fi at it again / @RichardHeartWin - Douchebaggery / @thedefiedge on ibonds Jun 08, 2022

Show notes

Brad tried the Celer Network bridge and loved it - https://cbridge.celer.network/#/transfer
Coinbase told new hires they wouldn't rescuind offers and then did - https://twitter.com/TeamBlind/status/1532769735393169410?s=20&t=1CsjGpBQTsnvr8xJVi8tVQ
Brad reported on Daniele Sestas latest shenanigans at Wonderland - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1532889158640979968?s=20&t=1CsjGpBQTsnvr8xJVi8tVQ
5 reasons why Bitcoin could be a better long-term investment than gold - https://cointelegraph.com/news/5-reasons-why-bitcoin-could-be-a-better-long-term-investment-than-gold
Cool tools in DeFi - Burner Wallets - https://xdai.io/
Bloomberg Analyst Predicts Huge Reversal in Gold, Bonds and Bitcoin as One Crypto ‘Revolutionizes’ Fintech - https://dailyhodl.com/2022/06/05/bloomberg-analyst-predicts-huge-reversal-in-gold-bonds-and-bitcoin-as-one-crypto-revolutionizes-fintech/
Richard Heart douchbaggery - https://twitter.com/RichardHeartWin/status/1533533572551802881 - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1533625505794166793
DefiEdge with great ibonds insights - https://twitter.com/thedefiedge/status/1533784175337037825?s=28&t=Mgi21Pf-1FjqXYZxKXdneA
Binance Labs Makes Strategic Investment in PancakeSwap - https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-makes-strategic-investment-in-pancakeswap-421499824684903961

Mission DeFi EP 62 - Marcello Mari of SingularityDAO - AI in DeFi for better investing outcomes Jun 06, 2022

Show notes

Former Tech Crunch journalist joins Brad to discuss SingularityDAO a sister project to SingularityNet that is using AI to provide better outcomes for DeFi investors.

We discuss how they got started, his cofounders, what it is like moving into the role of a CEO in DeFi, the ecosystem, communities, and much more.

Project Name: SingularityDAO

Project URL: https://singularitydao.ai/

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

Guest Name: Marcello Mari

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

I really enjoyed getting to know Marcello and I think you will get a lot out of this episode.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 143) - June 3, 2022 - Special Guest: Sam Forman(@pgpsam) from @SturdyFinance a powerful new lending platform, Jun 03, 2022

Show notes

Special Guest: Sam Forman from Sturdy Finance

Sturdy is a 0% interest lending protocol that incentivizes lending by staking deposited collateral. Currently available on Fantom and launching today on Ethereum mainnet.
Website: https://sturdy.finance/
Discord: https://discord.gg/tRVHp6Vx5N
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SturdyFinance
Sam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pgpsam

Here's what's in New York's new bitcoin mining ban - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/03/heres-whats-in-new-yorks-new-bitcoin-mining-ban-.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.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 142) - June 2, 2022 - @RitualTypist about the @gelatonetwork spinout he's leading - @ArrakisFinance, $SOL crashes again, @CryptoHayes - Shut it Down! & more $GEL $SPICE $BTC Jun 02, 2022

Show notes

Guest: Kassandra - @RitualTypist leading @ArrakisFinance spun out of @gelatonetwork

Arrakis Finance - Web3's Liquidity Layer
Lock $GEL to receive $SPICE Gelato Governance Dashboard
Arrakis Discord - https://discord.gg/arrakisfinance

Major crypto firms reportedly cut up to 10% of staff amid bear market

What does this mean for the status of NFTs and tokens in crypto as it relates to securities regulations? Former OpenSea exec arrested and charged with insider trading of NFTs | TechCrunch

VCs not seeing a bear market for their investments - Binance's VC arm raises $500 million fund — its first with outside capital

Love this protocol and its potential beyond initial use case - (2) skøgard on Twitter: "Today, Cell protocol finally goes LIVE on Ethereum mainnet. https://t.co/ZpfZXPQMad" / Twitter

Cell Intro

Solana crashed again for 4.5 hours and is losing credibility daily and value - Solana just crashed once again. Our nodes saw block production flatline at around 16:26 UTC. The network has been dead for exactly an hour and looks like validators will have to coordinate a restart on Discord. https://t.co/Vb50V8xbcU" / Twitter

Solana blockchain suffers new network outage https://t.co/aeJMf8dI3V" / Twitter
Solana current price chart, SOL to USD, total market cap | DropsTab

Arthur Hayes with another brilliantly written piece on what we are facing in the future for crypto and the wider economy - Shut it Down! by Arthur Hayes | Jun, 2022 | Entrepreneur's Handbook

DeFi Lunch (Ep 141) - June 1, 2022 - Own your content! - Leo(@leonardkish) of Cortex(@app_cortex) / #W2E @walken_io closes $4.7m / @aptoslabs / Jun 01, 2022

Show notes

Leo Kish from Cortex joins us to discuss their powerful new decentralized content and social media platform so that users can own their data.

https://www.crtx.app/info.html
https://twitter.com/app_cortex
https://twitter.com/leonardkish

Walken the strongest entry in the Walk To Earn field with a high caliber team announces closing $4.7 million round.

https://twitter.com/walken_io/status/1532006409847640069?s=20&t=c022EnwsIp__Tk589wKQsA
https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/move-to-earn-wellness-project-walken-seals-47m-funding-round

Aptos Labs that is bringing the Meta blockchain Diem out raised funds from Paypal Ventures

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/31/paypal-ventures-invested-in-team-reviving-diem-blockchain/

Stellar goes to bed with MoneyGram. Not really in the spirit of crypto.

https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/moneygram-partners-with-stellar-to-develop-stablecoin-remittance-platform-and-eyes-el-salvador-partnership-2832012

Stablecoin balances on exchanges at record high

https://twitter.com/cryptounfolded/status/1530130213073473536?s=20&t=1GFyB2cIlV9VSjQrw8uLzQ

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 140) - May 31, 2022 - Sex2Earn?, @Quantify_Crypto tools, Anti-crypto activists, @Superfluid_HQ merch!, @tesseract_fi down, ETH reorg FUD, @YieldGuild & moronic @MeritCircle_IO May 31, 2022

Show notes

- Brad's Superfluid merch

- Quantify Crypto's great trading and analysis tools for CEX and DeFi

- Economic macro indicators and status from Joe

- Merit Circle DAO's moronic move on their investors YGG

- The ridiculous & dishonest anti-crypto activists. Molly White is becoming the crypto world's biggest critic

- Teseract shitting down

- Token project red flags by @uniwhalesio

- How to grow a small amount of $ into a large amount by - @Cov_duk

- SEXN finance - Sex2 Earn?

- Learn to be a blockchain dev for free - @PatrickAlphaC

- The nothing burger of the Ethereum reorg

- $90 million Terra exploit unreported

- Cory Booker speaks to the values and capabilities of crypto to help those most harmed by banks, check cashing, etc.

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 61 - Matt Luongo wants to get us out of the centralized wallet trap we are in with Tally Ho May 27, 2022

Show notes

Tally Ho is an open source wallet and soon DAO to make wallets safer, easier to use and more powerful, while eliminating our centralized dependence on other wallet companies.

The product is being built by Thesis headed by my guest Mll Luongo and they have an amazing history of success in crypto / DeFi.
Project Name: Tally Ho
Project Website: https://tally.cash/
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/tallycash
Project Discord: https://chat.tally.cash/
Guest Name: Matt Luongo
Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/mhluongo

Mission DeFi EP 60 - Raghav Reggie Jerath runs Gather helping creators earn more & is a VC partner at Ghaf Capital Partners / @Gather_Network @GhafCapital May 25, 2022

Show notes

I met Reggie because his firm Ghaf Capital invested in my client Walken in the Move2Earn space & I was thoroughly impressed with how they supported a portfolio project & then I discovered that Reggie is also CEO of Gather which is making ethical & low resource consumption browser-based mining on their own Layer 1 chain to help websites and apps earn more and eliminate advertising.

We discuss what it is like to have to overcome the negative stereotypes of previous players in the browser mining space, how their model is different and what is was like starting in a previous bear market.

Then we get to know how Ghaf Capital operates and what it is like being a VC in the crypto space and working hard to bring more value to their investments.

Guest Name: Raghav Reggie Jerath

Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reggi3J

Project Name: Gather Network

Project URL: https://www.gather.network/

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

Firm Name: Ghaf Capital Partners

Firm URL: https://www.ghafcapital.ae/

Firm Twitter: https://twitter.com/GhafCapital

DeFi Lunch (Ep 139) - May 24, 2022 - @Stablecoinswtf / @SBF_FTX bets big on politics / @BeanstalkFarms Barn Raise news / Chrome extension wallet hack / @Coinbase in F500 / @danielesesta limited & More May 25, 2022

Show notes

Do Kwon is a Lunatic in Korea
stablecoins.wtf
Grayscale CEO: Recent crypto sell-off hasn’t deterred investors
Analyst Who Called 2021 Bitcoin Crash Unveils Realistic Price Path to New BTC All-Time High - The Daily Hodl
Coinbase introduces crypto to Fortune 500 while FTX CEO featured in TIME 100
Nancy Pelosi’s House Majority PAC Received $6 Million From Crypto Billionaire Shortly Before Backing Oregon Candidate
[RFC] Defining Dani's Role at Wonderland - 2. [RFC] Request for Comment - Wonderland Governance Forum
JonnyReid on Twitter: "My @MetaMask wallets got hacked and drained throughout the night as i slept.
Coindesk to launch social token - DESK with no financial value
News on beanstalk - Beanstalk App
Cryptocurrency market prices, capitalization and crypto charts | DropsTab

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 138) - May 23, 2022 - #Bitcoin bear candles / @twobitidiot Gensler / $ETH = commodity / $FTM up / Forget Andre / @VitalikButerin Soulbound tokens / #Pulsechain / #Milady slime & more! May 23, 2022

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DeFi Lunch (Ep 138) - May 23, 2022 - Bitcoin 8W bear candles / @twobitidiot Gensler bankers / CFTC $ETH is commodity / $FTM up 20% / Forget Andre / @VitalikButerin Soulbound tokens / Pulsechain disaster / @AlchemixFi new tokenomics / Milady slime / & more
- Bitcoin Closes Eighth Bearish Weekly Candle First Time in History
- Hashstack Finance
- Ryan Selkis 📖 🖊🔑 on Twitter: "“Gensler hears from bankers: Gensler said his concerns became more acute over the last year after “several bank executives…shared their concerns with me about the sheer number of depositors who have moved money from their bank accounts into crypto-related exchanges & wallets."" / Twitter
- Bitcoin and Ethereum are commodities: CFTC Chairman
- First Mover Americas: Fantom Surges 20% as Sparkster Questions Fly
- Panama’s president says he won’t sign crypto bill into law ’at this moment’
- Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul by E. Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver, Vitalik Buterin :: SSRN
- Jason Levin on Twitter: "The future according to @VitalikButerin revolves around soulbound tokens (SBTs). SBTs are NFTs that can't be transferred after they are received. Once you receive an SBT, you hold it in a Soul wallet forever." / Twitter
- Erica Wall on Twitter: "Why PulseChain is Bad and Why It Will Create an ”MEV Supernova” 🧵👇" / Twitter
- GameStop Launches Wallet for Cryptocurrencies and NFTs | Gamestop Corp.
- 0xngmi is grazing on Twitter: "megathread on milady and their founders: - miya's writings - Grooming - Gaslighting - Systemspace and suicide of 17yo teen - Remilia implication proof of everything will be at the end of the thread" / Twitter
- NEW Alchemix Tokenomics and DAO. Last week we shared our vision for the… | by Alchemix Finance | May, 2022 | Medium
- Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) on Twitter: "Excited to share @coinbase’s latest thinking on protocols — TL;DR we believe they are a critical part of the cryptoeconomy and will be integrating them deeply as well as supporting their development. Quick 🧵 on what this means and how I’m involved https://t.co/FKSSXpFQ2F" / Twitter
- Web3 Storage — Massive Growth and Capital Gain with Arweave, Filecoin & Stratos
- Jon Lai on Twitter: "thread/ announcing the @a16z games fund - a new $600M fund dedicated to investing in the best founders in t

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