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DeFi by Design EP94: How Lossless Is Creating A Safer DeFi Ecosystem for All Users Jan 20, 2023

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Happy Friday! Hope everyone has had a great week full of productivity and learning!

Over the last couple of years we’ve seen an tremendous amount of execution and growth in DeFi. Builders have been put to the test with great market conditions and also not so great conditions and have seen the positive and negative consequences of this! With great speed and execution, comes a lot of coding errors and unfortunately, a lot of exploits…

Now that were in a season of building, the focus of creating a safer, more solidified DeFi ecosystem has been thrown to the top of the priority list.

At least that’s what the Lossless DeFi team has done, putting their heads down and building a suite of different DeFi safety and security products for the entire user base. Their tooling doesn’t just apply to users, but also to protocol developers who can implement their services for a much safer experience for the users.

Overall, we are VERY bullish on securing DeFi over the next couple years and are excited to share this podcast with Lossless Founder, Dominykas!

𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀:

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𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘍𝘪 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬, 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳, 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱, 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮, 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴.

DeFi by Design EP93: Mass Exodus of 2022: What’s next for DeFi & CeFi? w BitGo Jan 05, 2023

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Things are heating up in the NFT world as we speak…but what’s next with DeFi & CeFi?

Seemingly plagued with contagion, lending desks going under, and exploits all over the future of DeFi has never looked so bleak.

But, is it really? Methinks not so much. We have more and more innovation happening on L2s, a rising importance of self custody, and the tourists are gone. The real builders are playing in the DeFi world now and its going to come back swinging...

…atleast that’s what the Founder of BitGo, Mike Belshe thinks. As a crypto OG, Mike has a very deep understanding of what is going on in the crypto ecosystem today and the outlook for the future.

Its not too often you get to speak with a crypto OG, founder, and visionary in the industry!

Enjoy this one!

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DeFi by Design EP92: Scaling blockchains for the next mass adoption wave w Eclipse Dec 27, 2022

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As the Blockchain landscape looks to scale for greater magnitude of throughput, the rollup ecosystem is taking DeFi by storm. Rollups can be built from a few different core technologies: ZK, optimistic, proofs, or two examples.

In this podcast, we talk to Neel Somani, founder of Eclipse, who is approaching the rollup scalability problem, a bit differently than other existing rollup solutions.

Eclipse takes a modular approach where blockchains are separated into the consensus, execution, data availability, and settlement components. We breakdown how each of these components make up a Blockchain transaction, and how eclipse is dividing these components to conquer scalability.

Listen to this episode to learn more about scaling blockchains for the next wave of mass adoption.

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DeFi by Design EP91: How Pudgy Penguins Is Climbing The Ranks Of Blue Chip NFTs Dec 16, 2022

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NFTs are going to come ROARING back to the front and center of crypto. It’s already happening.

Pudgy Penguins have had an incredible year of success in this bear market, consistently grinding higher and higher in floor price and community.

Partially due to the cuteness of the penguins, but mostly because of the new ownership led by Luca Netz.

In this podcast we sit down with Luca to discuss the future of NFT IP and how he plans to help pudgy holders grow financially and as a community in the future. We discuss the ins and outs of the current NFT world and also field some questions from the pudgy community themselves!

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DeFi by Design EP90: The Future of GameFi Dec 08, 2022

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It’s no surprise the GameFi ecosystem is one of the few surviving ecosystems in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. GameFi doesn’t care about interest rates, the Fed, or macro mumbo jumbo. GameFi is about fun and vibes, both of which the industry still has in abundance.

On today’s episode we debunk low DAU numbers in the “metaverse” to understand the community of GameFi. Decentral Games is one gaming studio leading the charge headfirst into a world of unknowns.

Today Andy and I speak with Matthew Howells-Barby, POSITION at Decentral Games, to understand why GameFi is in position to oust the top games of our time. Check out the podcast below on Youtube, Spotify or our website home.

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DeFi by Design EP89: DeFi Safety & Security w/Revoke Cash Nov 29, 2022

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What a last couple weeks its been! We have some content coming your way from Token2049 in London soon as well as a new podcast today with

Revoke Cash is a public good in the DeFi community keeping users safe since the inception of yield farming.

In todays pod we discuss the ins and outs of security and safety when interacting with DeFi protocols and how to stay safe as a user!

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DeFi by Design EP88: DeFi not CeFi w Sushi Head Chef Jared Grey Nov 11, 2022

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Despite the turmoil of contagion, our industry is fit for a change decentralization advocates always knew was inevitable. The recent fall of FTX has shown we need trustless DeFi protocols now more than ever.

There’s no need to be upset. A wise voice is with us today.

Head Chef of SushiSwap, Jared Grey, joins DeFi by Design for a discussion about the future of our industry. We cover his vision of the DEX identity, strategic philosophy for Sushi, and his mission for sushi the protocol and the token.

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DeFi by Design EP87: A New Method of On-Chain Profitability: Blockbuilding and MEV on ETH 2.0 Oct 27, 2022

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Blockbuilding has become a profitable venture after the transition to Proof of Stake in Ethereum’s recent upgrade. Before, we had miners who extracted value and dubbed this term Miner Extractable Value. Now, we have maximum extractable value (new term, of course).

This episode is a deep dive into what makes up the ever so valuable block space of Ethereum. We discuss the ins and outs of possible MEV opportunities now, the differences in blocks post merge with validators and we even tap into some of the tokenomics that make ETH an amazing long term bet.

Sitting down with Matt Cutler from BlockNative was a pleasure (and shoutout to them, if you or a protocol wants to do more with ETH staking/block building/research, I’d hit them up).

Thanks for sticking around during the wild times.

This episode combined with the stats on ultrasound.money really showcase the bright future for Ethereum.

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DeFi by Design EP86: Why Sharding Is Undoubtedly The Future of Scaling Blockchains with Shardeum Oct 21, 2022

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There’s been a few reasonably sized debates on Twitter about Ethereum’s scaling roadmap including proto-dank-sharding. Some dot eth’s seem to like it while others think its foolish.

While you may or may not have an opinion, there is something you should know as a crypto user.

Shardeum is taking sharding to a whole ‘nother level with their notable tech stack that includes high levels of security, unprecedented TPS and a profitable node hosting system that incentivizes more and more nodes as the demand for throughput increases.

This episode is intense, its epic and it goes deep into what we believe is 100% the future of scaling to billions of users.

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DeFi by Design EP85: The Key to Web3 Mass Adoption w/ Mysten Labs Oct 13, 2022

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Welcome to the future. Blockchain infrastructure development is going into hyperdrive with innovative technology driving TPS (transactions per second) of new blockchains through the roof. This tech paves the way for killer applications to quickly iterate on user experiences. Think about scalability on the magnitude of text messages sent per day across the world. That’s the level of throughput app developers are looking for on blockchains.

Today we’re talking to Mysten Labs, the team behind Sui, who come from a tech background which includes multiple Ex-Facebook (now Meta) employees. Their team brought learnings from Meta’s Libra project into their own vision of scalable blockchains.

Check out Episode 85 of DeFi by Design to learn how value moves in a digital economy and the breakthrough that’s leading the next wave of adoption.

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