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DeFi Lunch (Ep 364) - July 27, 2023 - Crypto Bills / BTC & ETH CME Futures Up / @PancakeSwap everywhere / Can @FantomFDN recover? /
You are missing out. Join our free community to get the Alpha, make new friends, learn more and share your thoughts and opinions: https://t.me/missiondefi Crypto bills pass congressional committee in ‘huge win’ for US crypto - https://md1.to/mp4sh White House Derailed Negotiation on U.S. House Stablecoin Bill: McHenry - https://md1.to/kufbw Bitocin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) CME Futures See Record Participation From Big Traders - https://md1.to/vw5q4 Bitcoin whales are in accumulation mode, says Cryp
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Nov. 7, 2021
Mission DeFi - EP 26 - Sam Kazemian of Frax wants to replace the Consumer Price Index(CPI) to make finance fair for everyone
How Frax is working to replace the CPI with a better, fairer model for an algo stablecoin that will benefit everyone. Guest Info Name of Guest: Sam Kazemian Name of Project: Frax Finance Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/samkazemian Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/FraxFinance Project URL: https://frax.finance/ Previous Episode with Sam: https://bit.ly/3DeDPxZ Show Notes 600 million Frax in circulation and growing 10s of millions weekly FPI ships in late November/early december F
Oct. 8, 2021
EP 20 - Scoopy Trooples & Alchemix are Building a Powerful Financial System Built Upon Self-Paying Interest Free Non-Liquidating Loans
This is a pretty massive episode that covers the experience and stress of building a powerful and popular financial product in DeFi along with the details about version 2 of Alchemix that is a pretty massive move. Mission: DeFi is sponsored by Material Indicators - https://materialindicators.com Smarter tools for smarts traders Name of Guest: Scupy Trooples Name of Project: Alchemix ( $ALCX ) Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/scupytrooples Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/Alchemi
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Aug. 9, 2021
Ep 4 - Maki from Sushi Swap on building a true meritocracy & successfully managing decentralized
Running any startup is a bit nuts. Running one under the circumstances that Sushi faced is beyond all the norms and while Maki works hard to decentralize leadership, there's no mistaking that he is at the least guiding the team and the community down a path. I've been pretty amazed to see the quality out of chaos that the Sushi team & community makes and in this interview we get into how it happens. Every project should listen to the approach. https://sushi.com https://twitter.com/0xmoki How he
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Jan. 20, 2022
Mission DeFi - EP 36 - Sami Tannir & the team at Redacted are taking ve / Curve wars and rebase tokens to an new level
The Redacted Cartel took the DeFi world by a storm when they launched just 2 weeks ago with a model to own the Curve/Bribe wars and provide real value to investors and make it easier for protocols. After an amazingly fast acquisition, they are taking bribes in the space to a stellar new level. We talk about the recent downturn for Olympus and the impact on the team, how the idea came about, what the future will be and how they plan to dominate this world. Don't miss the Alpha in this one. Projec
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March 8, 2022
Mission: DeFi EP 46 - Walken wants to drive millions of users to DeFi. With 50 million downloads, $10 million in annual revenue & a marketing & dev machine
Walken is a highly successful mobile app company with dozens of high quality developers and a marketing machine that drives user signups for their apps. This has resulted in over 50 million downloads of their apps and $10 million in annual revenue. Now they are taking their expertise in building successful exercise apps to the world of DeFi and NFTs with a walk/exercise to earn app. The founders Alexei, Konstantin, and Alexei joined me to discuss their plans: how they started their company how t
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Feb. 11, 2022
EP 41 - Emma Jane Mackinnon Lee of Digitalax is driven to decentralize fashion in Web3 & then the rest of the world
I interview a lot of amazing founders, but I haven't encountered very many as brilliant, driven, and mission-based as Emma Jane Mackinnon. She's driving her project Digitalax to transform the fashion industry with a powerful Web3 platform that empowers designers and the rest of the fashion ecosystem to leverage decentralization, DAOs, and the creativity into a powerful economic force. If you can't tell, I am blown away by what she brings to the table and where her ultimate vision goes and I am e
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March 13, 2023
Mission: DeFi EP 91 - Can Bancor come back from a massive failure? - Mark Richardson explains Carbon & what it was like
There are a lot of failures in crypto and DeFi history. Exploits, hacks, and failure of models have all lead to billions in losses for average traders. Bancor, the original AMM, experienced such a failure in June of last year, just after launching their vaunted version 3 of their protocol. The destruction was indirectly caused by the very thing that drew so many people to it, Impermanent Loss Protection combined with liquidity mining. The difference between Bancor and many projects in DeFi is th
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March 8, 2023
Mission: DeFi EP 90 - There's more to Arweave than you thought possible - Creator - Sam Williams
If you think Arweave is just a place to store NFTs permanently, then this episode is going to be a complete eye opener for you as it was for me. Sam Wiliams had an obsession with geopolitics that led him to a vision of creating a system of permanent storage, because he was concerned about censorship and the ongoing human problems of storing our information, knowledge, and data in a safe and permanent way. What he got on the other side of the launch, was far far more than just data storage. Learn
May 27, 2022
Mission DeFi EP 61 - Matt Luongo wants to get us out of the centralized wallet trap we are in with Tally Ho
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://
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June 22, 2022
Mission DeFi EP 64 - Scoopy Trooples ( @scupytrooples ) from @AlchemixFi on the project & what founders should know
One of my favorite people in DeFi -> @scupytrooples is on Mission: DeFi. * Where @AlchemixFi is & what's next * What he would advise new founders about building in #DeFi * Do Kwon, the industry/market, the path forward and much more! Don't miss it! https://www.missiondefi.com/scoopy2 Guest Name: Scoopy Trooples Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/scupytrooples Project Name: Alchemix Project URL: https://alchemix.fi/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlchemixFi --- Support this podcast: https:/
April 23, 2022
MIssion: DeFi - EP 55 The @BeanstalkFarms exploit what is was like, what it means, & the path forward
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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/missiondefi/support
March 24, 2022
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
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 ov
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March 7, 2022
Mission DeFi EP 45 - Andrew Yang's Lobby3 is here to help advance #DeFi. How they will do it & why. @AndrewYang @Lobby3d
Andrew Yang's Lobby3 is ready to educate the US Congress on how DeFi can help average people get ahead. I was a big supporter of Andrew Yang's during his presidential run. While I do believe that UBI is good policy, I primarily supported him, because he took a pragmatic and logical approach to solving problems that was non-partisan and welcoming. That is why when he announced he was forming a lobbying DAO to advance Web3/DeFi, I immediately let him know I was onboard and I wanted to interview hi
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Sept. 27, 2021
EP 15 - Zeus of Olympus DAO ($OHM)
## Guest Info Name of Guest: Zeus Name of Project: Olympus DAO (OHM) Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/ohmzeus Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/OlympusDAO Project URL: https://www.olympusdao.finance/ Project/Guest Description: Reserve currency protocol for DeFi ### Bitcoin Disappoints Disappointment in Bitcoin and it's community can lead to amazing innovations. Disenchanted because bitcoin kept shifting the narrative of what it was. It was no longer a currency and now was a "stor
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July 27, 2023
DeFi Lunch (Ep 364) - July 27, 2023 - Crypto Bills / BTC & ETH CME Futures Up / @PancakeSwap everywhere / Can @FantomFDN recover? /
You are missing out. Join our free community to get the Alpha, make new friends, learn more and share your thoughts and opinions: https://t.me/missiondefi Crypto bills pass congressional committee in ‘huge win’ for US crypto - https://md1.to/mp4sh White House Derailed Negotiation on U.S. House Stablecoin Bill: McHenry - https://md1.to/kufbw Bitocin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) CME Futures See Record Participation From Big Traders - https://md1.to/vw5q4 Bitcoin whales are in accumulation mode, says Cryp
July 26, 2023
DeFi Lunch (Ep 363) - July 13, 2023 - Shaun and Joe
If you haven't joined our community yet, you are missing out on amazing analysis and Alpha. https://t.me/missiondefi 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, yiel
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July 11, 2023
Mission: DeFi - EP 103 - Maverick (@MavProtocol) changes everything for #DeFi! - Bob Baxley (@Bob_Baxley)
Mark these words: Maverick Protocol has the potential to dramatically change the fundamentals of DeFi. I can usually whip through 3-4 use cases for a protocol within minutes of understanding it, but Maverick gives me a headache, because the possibilities seem endless and more powerful than what we’ve seen before. And, that’s a good thing! In this interview with Bob Baxley, one of the founders of Maverick, we walk through not only how they ended up creating Mav after a couple of pivots, but also
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July 10, 2023
Mission: DeFi - EP 102 - Casper the Chain has an enterprise focus & a powerful model - Ralf Kubli of the Casper Association
Ralf Kubli has been advocating for Switzerland to properly arbitrage its regulatory advantage in crypto and now the Casper Association is working to build a powerful enterprise focused chain that will take advantage of that. We discussed not only Casper, but also the future of crypto, regulation historically and where Ralf sees crypto going from here and its impact on the wider economic system. Some really powerful ideas and thoughts for how crypto navigates the future. Project Name: Casper Netw
July 3, 2023
DeFi Lunch (Ep 360) - July 3, 2023 - @ShrimpyApp gone / @Coinbase filing / @Cantonamespace / @CantoPublic on @Pancakeswap / Gensler under fire / SCOTUS to check SEC? / $ETH staking over exchanges
@Coinbase filing for dismissal is a thing of beauty - https://md1.to/cpgom Step By Step - How to secure your .canto name at Canto Namespace - https://md1.to/9tq5g @CantoPublic on @PancakeSwap! $CANTO / ETH pool using the @LayerZero_Labs SUPER FAST bridging. - https://md1.to/yhb8g SEC Chair Gary Gensler has wrongly prejudged that all digital assets are securities. As a result, federal law requires that he recuse himself - https://md1.to/ihtip SCOTUS granted cert to a case that will decide the leg
July 3, 2023
DeFi Lunch (Ep 359) - June 29, 2023 - Shaun Day!
You are missing out if you haven't joined our community yet. Airdrops news, Bitcoin debates, great DeFi news, and much more - https://t.me/missiondefi 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 advi
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