Mission: DeFi

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MIssion: DeFi - EP 55 The @BeanstalkFarms exploit what is was like, what it means, & the path forward Apr 23, 2022

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The first doxxed video interview with a founder of Beanstalk farms - Ben Weintraub of @IsThisPublius.

We cover the experience of the exploit, the path forward, and what they've learned. Fascinating insights into their experience and the protocol.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 121) - April 22, 2022 @BeanstalkFarms interview, @koopxyz & #DAOS tools @coordinape, Anti-Crypto folks, & the tools Brad uses in #DeFi Apr 22, 2022

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News:

Brad to interview @BeanstalkFarms
Stripe ups their crypto game and the impact of that
Molly White - Brad invited Molly to discuss her anti-crypto positions
New chain claims to solve the trilemma - https://subspace.network/

The Tools Brad Uses in DeFi and why he picked them

Coindix - https://coindix.com/
Multifarm - multifarm.fi
Dex.guru - https://dex.guru/
Router Protocol - https://app.routerprotocol.com/
DropsTab - https://dropstab.com/
Etherdrops -
DeBank - https://debank.com/
Rabby Wallet - https://rabby.io/

DAOs:

Koop - https://koop.xyz/landing - NFT based DAO tool

Discussion of DAO tools and where Brad thinks they will go.

Coordinape

DeFi Lunch (Ep 120) - April 21, 2022 Apr 22, 2022

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Printer Financial - a new bridge with a burn & mint model - PRINTER FINANCIAL 🖨️ (@FinancePrinter) / Twitter
@Cobie's advisory piece on $APE & why their staking plan and probably yours is all wrong
Babylon Finance's Fountain of ETH protocol - https://www.babylon.finance/garden/0xB5bD20248cfe9480487CC0de0d72D0e19eE0AcB6

Mission: DeFi EP 54 - @FattyBagz on growing one of the largest DAOs in the world at @OlympusDAO & what founders & DAO members need to know Apr 20, 2022

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FattyBagz ended up in DeFi through OlympusDAO and was able to apply his experience and expertise in marketing to helping grow the DAO and he learned a ton of valuable lessons along the way.

He also had a massive life-changing experience that changed his approach to life and people and we discussed that in detail.

So many amazing lessons in this episode. Do not miss it.

Video: https://www.missiondefi.com/fattybagz-olympusdao

- Raised by hippy mom and Vietnam vet Dad on a Hindu compound.

- Started in Bitcoin mining, but got rugged in Mt Gox

- Was an Ethereum guy, but otherwise was just buying tokens, but not really doing DeFi. Was cautious

- A friend introduced him to $OHM

- Professional experience is in marketing and understanding the psychology of human beings and how they respond to things

- Was amazed by the community and their generosity and Jawz sent him Ethereum for gas

- Zeus proposed they create a DAO

- Proposed ways to acquire users and how to target the different types of users properly

- Then became the Marketing Stratego - essentially the head of marketing

- Amazed at the caliber of people that were in offering to help

- Consults to cannabis companies

- How the team was built

- How they figured out which ones were willing to do the work

- How things were handled before operations and how important it is to have opps

- Wanted a flat org, but also realized that some hierarchy was necessary

- Compensation: Originally just volunteers and nobody really expected it

- Social component to the DAO is so important. Really a fundamental aspect of social release

- Take time when allowing people to join your DAO, but vet people properly

- Tips for interacting and communicating

- The steps needed to get a DAO/community started right

- Critical to have a comms person that just moves back and forth between teams to help everyone know what is going on.

- How to structure teams

- What kind of people to "hire"

- How an insane tragic event in his life prepared him for this role better than anything could have. An amazing story.

- What the cascading liquidations like for the team and how they coped.

- What we think about it all

- What is the future of OlympusDAO?

- What he will doing next. NFTs

Mission DeFi - EP 53 - Gro Protocol's Hannes Graah Apr 19, 2022

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Guest: Hannes Graah

Project: Gro Protocol

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

Project Website: https://www.gro.xyz/

One of the things I am most excited about in this space is integration into the real world and Gro is definitely on a path to that.

- His background working for Spotify and Revolut and how that variety of experience helped in building Gro

- How the idea came about to provide a mix of conservative and more aggressive risk in DeFi

- Their initial offering being integrated with other platforms

- How DAOs are working and what they are learning about their own implementation of a DAO

- Strong investors make a big difference in how they function and the help they can provide

- How they will integrate with neo-banks

- What he sees in the market for that expansion

- What it is like to see the DAO start to take over things like treasury proposals

Mission: DeFi EP 52 - Jack Niewold - Researcher, influencer, & writer stirring up the DeFi space. Apr 18, 2022

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My guest today is Jack Niewold of Crypto Pragmatist.

Sath from Yunt Capital's rant about governance/voting.
- Paladin vote lending model
- Jack is bullish on Governance models.
- Gallion DAO
- $LUNA $UST and Do Kwon and are they a threat to crypto in general? We discussed this the day his tweet thread went out about the risks inherent in the protocol.
- $USDC and our ability to get away from it
- We discussed $BEAN and this was recorded before the exploit, but the model still stands
- Bad websites and documentation in DeFi
- Radical decentralization
- Underpaid devs at Ethereum Foundation
- Projects and people he admires/likes in crypto
- Taking time off from crypto Twitter every weekend.
- How he structures his investments
- How he handles his thesis and what it is
- What he thinks will happen with consolidation

DeFi Lunch (Ep 119) - April 15, 2022 @CoinCenter @Valkenburgh SEC, @laurashin The Cryptopians, @Ronin_network / North Korea, Justin Sub / Twitter, @Wikipedia, @LidoFinance, @Rocket_Pool Apr 15, 2022

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(3) ɥƃɹnquǝʞןɐΛ ⚖ on Twitter: "A new SEC proposal has a serious change hidden within its complex language. Bottom line: The proposal violates the First Amendment by requiring a license to speak—even of open source developers. It’s unconstitutional and they should change it. Coin Center is pushing back 👇 1/" / Twitter
- Read The Cryptopians by Laura Shin
- (4) Ronin on Twitter: "Today, the FBI attributed North Korea based Lazarus Group to the Ronin Validator Security Breach. More details: https://t.co/ktAp9wn1Op" / Twitter
- PBWS: Crypto bosses say the 'tide is turning' on regulation
- Justin Sun Trying to Outbid Elon Musk's Twitter Offer
- Wikipedia says it's done with cryptocurrency | TechRadar
  - Analytical thinking
- (6) Lido on Twitter: "1/11 Strap in - it’s time to open the Next Chapter for Lido 🏝️ As we prepare to gather in Amsterdam next week, we want to give the Ethereum community an important update on our roadmap towards decentralization. https://t.co/wSwzOwDTlv" / Twitter
  - (6) jasperthefriendlyghost.eth on Twitter: "The Case Against stETH Lido does not present a compelling path to decentralization and, if things continue, will be putting Ethereum at risk as they swallow all staked ETH. -DVT isn't a magic bullet -Social scores are slow ->60% of all ETH could be staked 1year postmerge 1/16" / Twitter
- Beliefs and views and think about what people come from

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 118) - April 14, 2022 - @Whalestats @elonmusk @coordinape @frax $FPIS $FPI $ETH Merge Delay, @Tesla $BTC mining, @Jack NFT resale Apr 15, 2022

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Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter: Live Updates - The New York Times
- DAOs and their management
  - Coordinape
  - DAOs
- Power Node
- Analysis of the top FTM wallets | WhaleStats
- Ethereum Merge No Longer Expected in June
- Blockstream partners with Tesla to build a solar-powered BTC facility | Currency.com
- Guy that bought Jack Dorsey's first tweet as an NFT for $2.9 tired to see it for $48 million after he got out of Iranian prison
- Crescent Network: Unlocking Limitless DeFi Possibilities- new dex with potential airdrop
- DAI real world backing - DeFi Protocols Heed MakerDAO’s Call to Back DAI with Real-World Assets - The Defiant
- USDT reducing debt reliance

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 117) - April 13, 2022 - @rentmynft #P2E #Guilds, @AxieInfinity / @Ronin_Network hack, @CelestiaOrg / @Delphi_Digital, @CelsiusNetwork = accredited only, @0xPolygon carbon neutral Apr 13, 2022

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Rent NFT Once and Earn Forever | RentMyNFT.xyz - Interesting platform targeting play to earn guilds for NFT startup. Twitter - (1) rentmynft (@rentmynft) / Twitter
Crypto Mixers and their scrutiny by regulators - Crypto mixers’ relevance wanes as regulators take aim
What happened to the money after the hack of Ronin / Axie Infinity - The aftermath of Axie Infinity’s $650M Ronin Bridge hack
Virgil Griffith gets 5 years in prison for violating N. Korea sanctions
@CelestiaOrg's modular blockchain and what it means for the space - Pay attention to @CelestiaOrg. Delphi Analyst @CannnGurel broke down one of the hottest new projects in crypto. For the first time, his Delphi Pro report is now available to all (paywall removed). Let’s dive into the first modular blockchain network 👇 https://t.co/atAttlhXCH" / Twitter - Celestia
Celsius now only allowing accredited investors and why the entire concept Celsius announces only transfers from accredited US-based investors will be able to earn rewards
Polygon commits to going carbon neutral in 2022

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 116) - April 12, 2022 @twister_cash on @FraxFinance, @BofA_News says crypto will soar, Awesome web3 resource @useWeb3, @iearnfinance #ERC4626, #NFT Lending, @epsylon_finance on $FTM Apr 12, 2022

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New privacy mixer for $FRAX - https://twistercash.xyz/
Bank of America says economy could crash and crypto will soar - US Banking Giant Issues Dire Economic Warning, Says Shock Wave Could Send Crypto and Commodities Soaring: Report - The Daily Hodl
Amazing set of Web3 resources - useWeb3.xyz · Learn Web3 development
Yearn backing ERC-4626 standard - DeFi Giant Yearn Leads the Way on ERC-4626 Token Standard Adoption
New vault provider Epsylon on Fantom with nice and simple model - Deposit - Epsylon Finance
Daniele is back and it isn't smart - (2) Daniele never asks to DM on Twitter: "1/ The beginning of a new era of Leveraged Stablecoin Yield Farming is about to begin. Worked hard in the last weeks while everyone was thinking 'Dani is over' 'Them projects are dead' to deliver something that truly changes the game for the Frog" / Twitter
Beaker
NFT Lending protocols - (2) 𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕥 𝔸𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕟 on Twitter: "🖼️NFT Lending Protocols💸 Arcade @arcade_xyz NFTfi @NFTfi Pawnfi @PawnfiOfficial FluidNFT @FluidNFT_ DeFrag @DefragFinance Nifty Options @NiftyOptionsOrg MetaStreet @metastreetxyz Gradient @GradientFinance JPEG'd @JPEGd_69 Bunchy @BunchyProtocol Taker @TakerProtocol" / Twitter
Awesome Ethereum merge summary - (4) Christine Kim on Twitter: "gm, it's Friday, the sun is out, and i've got a brand new research report out on everyone’s favorite topic: the Ethereum Merge Upgrade. some key takeaways and charts from the report below: https://t.co/vSUefNgidf https://t.co/9Jv5qWSzBp" / Twitter
Portugal, Honduras, crypto adoption plans
DeFi Bonds to help DAOs grow
Singularity DAO with AI
Kevin O'Leary on Crypto
Future of banks
Klima and Polygon

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.

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