Mission: DeFi

Latest Episodes:

DeFi Lunch (Ep 106) - March 28, 2022 - @Nansen_AI Free & Int. w/@ASvanevik, #MOVE, @aptoslabs, @MEVProtection, @CoinExams, @StargateFinance, @Fetch_ai Mar 28, 2022

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Diem-based Chains launching. Teams from @Facebook's Diem are launching new chains with big funding using the Diem tech and smart contract language - #MOVE

@aptoslabs / Aptos
https://twitter.com/aptoslabs?s=11&t=Bi1-Uc-DyS4-fDDLEFBo6w
@Mysten_Labs / Sui
https://twitter.com/mysten_labs?s=11&t=Bi1-Uc-DyS4-fDDLEFBo6w

@MEVProtection COWSwap tokens are now tradable
https://cowswap.exchange/#/swap

CoinExams - @CoinExams - Rates chain coins based on set of criteria
https://coinexams.com

Mission: DeFi Episode with @ASvanevik of @nansen_ai is up
https://www.missiondefi.com/alex-svanevik-nansen/

Stargate Finance launches with over $3.5 billion in TVL in just a couple of weeks.

Fetch .ai (@Fetch_ai), a protocol focused on building a token-based decentralized machine learning network, saw its token $FET gain over 40% after some major funding. buff.ly/36m7HwI

https://twitter.com/Cointelegraph/status/1506869672343392256

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.

Mission: DeFi EP 50 - Alex Svanevik founder of Nansen onchain analytics: How investors use for success, How they built a powerhouse in #DeFi & #NFTs, What they've learned & what means for the future Mar 24, 2022

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I can't think of a better guest for my 50th episode of the show. Alex Svanevik, his co-founders, and the team embody what DeFi is all about & their powerful model for growth is something from which we can all learn as we grow our own endeavors.

Guest Name: Alex Svanevik

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

Company Name: Nansen

Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/nansen_ai

Company URL: https://nansen.ai

- How and why they started their rapidly growing successful company

- How they met over an open source project that formed the foundations of their company

- How the mission of the company closely aligns with the name of the company

- How a crazy concept for an early journey to the North Pole inspired the company

- What they've gone through building the company

- How 2 of the 3 founders have never met in person

- How they achieved 20x growth in one year

- How they built a pricing model that led to a surge in signups.

- Why they price things the way they do.

- How their customers come up with many of the dashboards they create.

- What the value of the product is

- What is important in crypto in terms of transparency and how things are evolving.

- Their role in helping investors

- How the fundamental product changes how investors make decisions and how investors say they never invest without it.

- How much data they scan and process daily and yearly

- Why on chain metrics are so important.

- How they are like a media company more than just a data company

- One of the biggest problems they have with retaining users and how their investing to make it even easier for users.

- How their system is used by universities and exchanges

- How projects use Nansen to make product development decisions

- How they are building their new institutional products like APIs and others.

- How NFTs tripled their revenues and how a job applicant made it so.

- How he discovered Bored Apes and hashmasks using their product.

- What areas they see in their data and observations that are going to see major growth.

Mission: DeFi EP 49 - @OndoFinance is working to solve the liquidity problem & @JustinBram the #DeFi explainer celebrity is helping them grow Mar 18, 2022

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Project Name: Ondo Protocol

Guest Name: Justin Bram

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

Justin's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/justinbram

Project URL: https://ondo.finance

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

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

Mission: DeFi EP 48 - Paladin is solving the DAO governance problem & providing powerful incentives to make it work Mar 17, 2022

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@Paladin_vote

- Project Name: Paladin

- Project URL: https://www.paladin.vote

- Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paladin_vote

- Project Telegram: https://t.me/paladinprotocol

- Project Discord: https://t.co/8HxPCVfJpV

- Project Medium: https://medium.com/paladin-protocol

- Guests:

- Name: Figue

- Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/Figue_me

- Name: Alejandro

- Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/BaqueroLima

- Show Notes

- A better method for governance involvement

- Vote lending

- Safer and stronger than current models

- Allows founders to move projects forward

- Solves the quorom problem

- Could revolutionize public company governance eventually

- Tokenomics

- Paladin - The Dapp

- Warden

- PAL Tokenomics

- Tier 1 - PAL (Speculative layer)

- Tier 2 - hPAL, or Holy PAL (Contributor layer)

- Tier 3 - locked hPAL (Aligned Contributor Layer)

- The Chest

- PrimeLaunch via Dutch auction of the PAL token on March 21.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 105) - March 16, 2022 - ETH Investment options, OlympusDAO & @JackNiewold, Biz Dev/Marketing, @LidoFinance, @Rocket_Pool, #Ethereum Merge, Mar 16, 2022

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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.

ETH Investment options

Lido and Rocket Pool Ethereum Staking

Jack Niewold and OlympusDAO and why this is about percpetions, marketing, and comms rather than about Jack

Ethereum Merge

and more.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 104) - March 15, 2022 - @Wonderland_fi tax, @gelatonetwork, EU bans BTC?, Metamask/OpenSea blocking countries, & more Mar 16, 2022

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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.

Wonderland takes one more gouge out of investors before they leave - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1503703031669534720

EU Votes no on Bitcoin ban

MetaMask and OpenSea prepare to block customers from certain countries - https://kravox.com/metamask-and-opensea-prepare-to-block-customers-from-certain-countries

Gelato G-UNI mess - https://forum.gelato.network/t/release-g-uni-as-separate-dao-from-gelato-rebrand-it-as-arrakis-finance/364

DeFi Lunch (Ep 102) - March 11, 2022 Mar 11, 2022

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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.

Tempus episode is up with David Garai

Crystl revenue model is new.

LA Token launches LACHAIN to bridge Ethereum-based networks

Stripe Global payment solutions for Web3

Smart Contracts on Stellar: Why Now? Kicking off Project Jump Cannon - SDF Blog

(3) Chad Barraford on Twitter: "Synthetic assets are now available @THORChain. Why is this a big deal? Follow the 🧵 #DEFI $RUNE #SYNTHETICS #ActiveTheSynths" / Twitter

Thorchain's RUNE Token Rallies Double Digits Amid Wave of New Features - Decrypt

(3) Sunny Aggarwal 🦎 on Twitter: "Lesson for Juno whales: don't stake your JUNO. When the mob decides that your money needs to be seized, you need to be able to exit before a governance voting period." / Twitter

Singapore-based Cake DeFi Launches $100M in Capital for Venture Arm - Blockworks

DeFi detective alleges this ‘suspicious’ smart contract code may put dozens of projects at risk

ParaSwap Just Rewrote the Rules on Airdrops - Decrypt

Exclusive-Russians liquidating crypto in the UAE as they seek safe havens | Reuters

Mission: DeFi EP 47 - Tempus' David Garai - Fixed Income & Yield Speculation go DeFi! Mar 11, 2022

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As we all work to move DeFi into the real world, there is also an opportunity to bring institutional products into DeFi and give us and institutions new opportunities. The team at Tempus is doing just that with their fixed income/yield speculation protocol. They've taken a unique approach to the concept and have seen great growth. David and I discussed what is has been like building this platform, the complexities of making it work and the work they do to train users on how it works. As a bear market engulfs us, I think Tempus is nicely positioned for growth as investors seek more conservative options to ride out the storm.

Project Name: Tempus Finance

Project URL: https://tempus.finance

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

Guest Name: David Garai

DeFi Lunch (Ep 101) - March 10, 2022 - @wavesprotocol - #EVM / Growth / #Miami, #BIden's Executive Order on Crypto, @Binance acquiring IRL, @BainCapCrypto Mar 10, 2022

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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.

- Biden's Executive order on crypto - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1501683673569144839

- Binance buying in Fintech - https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-unveils-plans-for-world-domination-by-buying-up-companies-in-every-sector

- Bain Capital Crypto Fund - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1501938851744342018?s=20&t=u9wKkGC1_r5IPXj_ySOJKA

- Waves - https://waves.tech

- https://wavestech.notion.site/wavestech/Waves-is-Transforming-1-2-c57b90770e314a5cb3ee6d1d1e6710af

- https://neutrino.at

DeFi Lunch (Ep 100) - March 9, 2022 Mar 10, 2022

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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.

Using stETH as collateral on @AaveAave - https://twitter.com/lidofinance/status/1498653508731645959?s=28

Avalanche Subnets - https://twitter.com/stanikulechov/status/1501225901388099584?s=28

Coinbase Conforms To Sanctions, Blocks 25,000 'Illicit' Russian Crypto Wallet Addresses | Bitcoinist.com - https://bitcoinist.com/coinbase-joins-sanctions/

Crypto funds register largest weekly inflows since December - https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-funds-register-largest-weekly-inflows-since-december

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