Mission: DeFi

Latest Episodes:

DeFi Lunch (Ep 305) - Mar 3, 2023 - @LewellenMichael of @OpenZeppelin Mar 07, 2023

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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.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 304) - Mar 2, 2023 - Live from ETHDenver Mar 07, 2023

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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.

DeFi Lunch (Ep 303) - Feb 28, 2023 - @Solana's DeD Baby / @Ripple say FAFO / #Bitcoin Island / @FantomFDN FVM / Visa pause Feb 28, 2023

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Get spicy in our community: https://t.me/missiondefi

Ripple asks SEC chair to recuse self from crypto enforcement cases https://md1.to/j5q9o

Solana outage triggers ballistic reaction from the crypto community https://md1.to/9gvcw

Solana Developers Say Reason for Network Outage Still Unclear - https://md1.to/5jedm

Prudential Regulatory Authority, the UK's Banking Regulator, to Propose Rules on Issuing Holding Crypto - https://md1.to/6ihgy

The Block: Starbucks's web3 Odyssey is seeing early signs of success, BofA says https://md1.to/b65g8

Bitcoin Island — Inside the Crypto Paradise in the Philippines https://md1.to/v45wv

Robinhood received an investigative subpoena from the SEC - https://md1.to/iyc3e

New Congress body to hold first-ever hearing on regulatory ‘attack’ on crypto – DL News https://md1.to/ik8wv

LlamaNodes for Web3 Users - https://md1.to/jzzn6

The EVM spent 84% of its time getting/sending data to the database - https://md1.to/r6uha

Visa and Mastercard halt new crypto partnerships — Report https://md1.to/wwrl3

UAE emirate to launch free zone for digital and virtual asset firms https://md1.to/4avlw

Jim Cramer on Twitter: "No real rally unless rates stabilize at ANY level!" / Twitter https://md1.to/g2n0n

DeFi Lunch (Ep 302) - Feb 27, 2023 - Yield Fest / @Daylight rocks / @beefyfinance & @VelocimeterDEX on @CantoPublic / @Solana coma / Feb 28, 2023

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Discussed a ton of yields today. Join our Telegram community to see them and connect with the awesome folks learning & building together: https://t.me/missiondefi.com - In the Yieds Topic

DayLight is a really awesome tool with a great business model - https://bit.ly/mddaylight

Homora V2 - https://homora-v2.alphaventuredao.io/

Homora is cool, but somebody on that team needs to figure out you don't block users from seeing what you offer with a wallet connect requirement.

Solana reboots AGAIN! Just put a form in it, its done - https://bit.ly/SolanaDED

Canto on Beefy! Some amazing yields. Do not put in more than you can afford to lose. This is not financial advice. Unfortunately, I can't link to it directly, but just filter on Canto at the top of the dashboard - https://bit.ly/beefymd

Cool Canto Hackathon project taking advantage of CSR - https://bit.ly/turnstilemd

DeFiLlama Delta Neutral strategies - https://defillama.com/yields/strategyLongShort?token=USDC&token=ETH

Richard Heart followers lose faith as PulseChain, PulseX face delays - https://bit.ly/388EDpS

Crypto Capital Inflows Are Positive For The First Time in 9 Months - https://bit.ly/3EKiSxb

Only 14% of Ethereum's Supply is Staked as Investors Await Shanghai Upgrade - Tokenist - https://tokenist.com/only-14-of-ethereums-supply-staked-as-investors-await-shanghai-upgrade/

DooKey Dash Winner Mongraal Declines UPDAO's $1.1M Bid - https://bit.ly/3EE0DJB

Crypto Lawyers Unite against Gensler’s Narcissist Remark on Crypto - https://bit.ly/3EHF6jx

Playboy Expects to Launch MetaMansion Virtual World This Year - Decrypt - https://bit.ly/3SyrqNk

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 89 - Is Quai the promise of Bitcoin, the power of Ethereum, & the performance the world demands? - Founder - Dr. K Feb 27, 2023

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The dream of every new chain is that it will provide the true decentralization, security, & trustlessness of Bitcoin, the compute capabilities of Ethereum, and the performance demanded by the financial world. Dr. K says that his team has solved it with a powerful new model for blockchain.

Do you think Quai has what it takes? Discuss Quai in our Telegram group: https://t.me/missionDefi

Project Name: Qui Network
Project URL: https://quai.network/
Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/QuaiNetwork
Guest Name: Dr. K
Guest Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/mechanikalk

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 300) - Feb 23, 2023 - @Coinbase to Launch Base L2 using @optimismFND source / @Solana shuts Miami/NYC spaces / @ton_blockchain freeze Feb 23, 2023

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TON blockchain freezes $2.6B worth of tokens - https://cointelegraph.com/news/ton-blockchain-freezes-2-6b-worth-of-inactive-tokens?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social

Bankless (@BanklessHQ) / Twitter - https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1628757265728536578

SEC files objection to Binance.US bid for Voyager assets - https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-files-objection-to-binance-us-bid-for-voyager-assets

BIS head claims fiat won battle with crypto, Bitcoin community disagrees - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bis-head-claims-fiat-won-battle-with-crypto-bitcoin-community-disagrees?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social

Solana Spaces Shutting Doors in NYC and Miami as SOL Dips 10% By DailyCoin - https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/solana-spaces-shutting-doors-in-nyc-and-miami-as-sol-dips-10-3010885

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 299) - Feb 22, 2023 - @DeFiLlama - 14 Amazing Yield Opportunities / @Strider_DAO - Story Gaming Platform / Trade Stocks/Bonds in DeFi Feb 23, 2023

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We discussed 14 new Yield opportunities on the show today. Get all the details on them in our amazing Telegram community along with great insights on projects, trading strategies, marketing conditions, and much much more - https://bit.ly/yields2222023

550,000% ROI: How Alexis Ohanian Turned $15K into $82 Million With Ethereum - https://bit.ly/3IsEcIN

ApolloX is a scam

Strider raises $5.5M for collaborative story-driven gaming platform | VentureBeat - https://bit.ly/3YSLpsD

Arbitrum’s User Base Is Fastest Growing Among Leading Blockchains: Bernstein - https://bit.ly/41xy4aX

Swarm launches world-first tradable stocks and bonds on DeFi — Swarm - https://bit.ly/3IN6yP6

Tencent Cloud enters Web3, strikes deals with Avalanche, Ankr - https://bit.ly/3Z67dAC

Metaverse, AI, and Liquid Staking Tokens Lead Year-to-Date Crypto Asset Gains Among Top 125 – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News - https://bit.ly/3Z9RIHG

Hire laid off Polygon team - https://bit.ly/3SlZagW

LinksDAO likely to put in ‘compelling offer’ to buy Scottish golf course - https://bit.ly/3m1UYH6

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 298) - Feb 19, 2023 - SEC using custodians to cutoff crypto / @0xPolygun cuts / Grayscale ETF win? / Ordinals on $LTC / Huobi kills privacy Feb 22, 2023

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Don't miss out on everything our close-knit community is discussing on Telegram! https://t.me/missiondefi

Gensler trying to cut off crypto through custodians.... - https://bit.ly/3YTL0pM

Mission: DeFi EP 88 - Can A Guild Become A GameFi Powerhouse? - ParagonsDAO - DeFi Ted - https://bit.ly/3IkMwtX

More chatter that @Grayscale could be poised to win its appeal/case against the SEC - https://bit.ly/3lZK1Wr

Polygon Labs Cuts 20% Workforce, Almost 100 Jobs - https://bit.ly/3Z49mNc

Ordinals Litecoin fork took one week and was ‘quite simple,’ says creator - https://bit.ly/3ZereoM

Huobi to delist Monero and other privacy coins, citing regulatory pressures - https://bit.ly/3IuMZdg

Event Sequences chart for recessions and where we are - https://bit.ly/3m03uWO

China is strongly considering giving arms to Russia for use in Ukraine - https://bit.ly/3ZaSHHR

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 88 - Can A Guild Become A GameFi Powerhouse? - ParagonsDAO - DeFi Ted Feb 21, 2023

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Name of project: ParagonsDAO

Project URL: https://paragonsdao.com/#/

Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/paragonsDAO

Name of Guest: DeFi Ted

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

Show Notes

From simple gaming guild to full blown Web3 gaming infrastructure. How does this happen?

Started career our in TradFi in risk assessment and management

Quit his job during Covid because companies weren't paying

His first foray into DeFi as an investor ended up with a rug and then he and the community tried to save it, but when some wanted to turn it into a ponsi that is when he moved to shut it down.

How the game of Parallels became the impetus for ParagonsDAO

How what they are building could become bigger than they imagined

The long term strategy that makes Paragons a much larger scope and technology

How their desire to figure out how to share assets like a guild, could be more and then they started assessing what it takes to make the model work.

How do you assess players and decide if they are worth it

Launched with a bonding event, but still weren't sure how would make it work, but acquired thousands of assets

Took months until they figured out how, but mainly were still trying to figure it out and added governance and decentralization

Council model for governance
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 297) - Feb 20, 2023 - Guest @AmericanMonks Feb 21, 2023

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Join our community and have your say on Telegram: https://t.me/missiondefi

Special guest Matt Karsten from Purple Squirrel Media

Sony Teams Up With Astar Network for Web3 Incubation Program - https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/02/17/sony-teams-up-with-astar-network-for-web3-incubation-program/

Web3 Incubation Program by Sony Network Communications and Astar Network - https://astar.network/incubation/

Bitcoin Lightning Network: the novelty of Strike - The Cryptonomist - https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2023/02/15/bitcoin-lightning-network-novelty-strike/

The most prolific suspected pump and dump token creator we identified launched 264 tokens - https://twitter.com/chainalysis/status/1626281931124969472

single sided exposure to a farm token AND the yield with it - https://twitter.com/0xnanamaru/status/1626795192127995910?s=52&t=iyXjKJFoWzeSdhwQ09HmLA

Don’t sleep on the SEC’s action against Do Kwon and TFL - https://twitter.com/mikeseligesq/status/1626976818421956611?s=52&t=FcxamFTRlQhxcR0x5w2GtQ

4 Huge Revelations in the SEC’s Charges Against Do Kwon and Terraform Labs - https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/02/17/4-huge-revelations-in-the-secs-charges-against-do-kwon-and-terraform-labs/

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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