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DeFi Lunch Episodes

Sept. 27, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 202) - Sept. 23, 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. 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, d...
Sept. 22, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 201) - Sept. 22, 2022 - @Coinbase wants centralized / @ziggy_xyz / @HQ_xyz / @nvidia Metaverse / Women Rule Crypto in UK / Dimon is still a dick

Discuss today's topics or anything else in DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, and finance on the Mission: DeFi Reddit - https://bit.ly/3ROHn0H Complaints without solutions - Elizabeth Warren on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3Lze7IU Cathie Wood on the Fed - https://bit.ly/3r03rK3 Mission DeFi EP 73 - Better growth, referrals, & rewards easier for DeFi projects. Bryan Altman of Ziggy discusses DAO Exchange & ChainVine - https://bit.ly/mdziggy ChainVine - https://bit.ly/3feeSvb DAO Exchange - https://bit.ly/3S8WqTg Wo...
Sept. 21, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 200) - Sept. 21, 2022 - 200 Episodes! / What will Powell / Putin sigh / Stablecoin ban / @Wonderland_fi kicks @danielesesta / @PandaDAO_Office

Discuss this episode here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MissionDeFi/ 200 Episodes!!! Inflation and what will Powell do Putin calls out the reservists and threatens nukes market dumps 10% - https://twitter.com/Sino_Market/status/1572199432921419777 Congress weighs ban of algo stables - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-20/house-stablecoin-bill-would-put-two-year-ban-on-terra-like-coins Apple previews innovative accessibility features - Apple - https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/0...
Sept. 21, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 199) - Sept. 20, 2022 - SEC wants all of $ETH / $ETH miners mostly idiots / Treasury dept input / @Helium phone service / @joel_john95 bldg mobile first

Discuss this episode here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MissionDeFi/comments/xk7fh7/defi_lunch_ep_199_sept_20_2022_sec_wants_all_of/ 'Massive Dumping’ by Ethereum Miners Punishes ETH - https://bit.ly/3fakNBn In a civil complaint against a crypto influencer, the SEC suggested that it believes the U.S. government has jurisdiction over all Ethereum transactions - https://bit.ly/3UrKOfx Treasury Asks for Public Input to Shape Crypto Regulations—Including NFTs and DeFi https://bit.ly/3Luxdjv Where...
Sept. 20, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 198) - Sept. 19, 2022 - China is a mess / @Doomberg on wood as carbon neutral energy / EthPOW Relay attack / We're not early, we're premature

Sean at the pub - https://twitter.com/XBT3D/status/1571867949723488256?s=20&t=3dss2YYQC_1dhwJtu6sq4w Doomberg thread on Europe using wood for energy and claiming carbon neutral - https://twitter.com/DoombergT/status/1571063488860286977?s=20&t=ZGslk-wp5OzM-DaRKnZCpg How to build a decentralized #Bitcoin bridge - https://twitter.com/alexeiZamyatin/status/1571239117802840066?s=20&t=ZGslk-wp5OzM-DaRKnZCpg Ethereum Proof-of-Work Suffers Replay Attack, Price Tanks 18% - https://beincrypto.com/ethereum...
Sept. 16, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 197) - Sept. 16, 2022 - FIRE! - @b05crypto & @pathfinder305 let the fireworks fly discussing #Gensler & #SEC / @jchervinsky / @adamscochran /

Video and reviews of this episode on Twitter - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1570829218845687808?s=20&t=MotLUxAqMavB0drop4-wPA Join our new community on Reddit! Comment, post, and share your thoughts and ideas for investing , technology, and much more. - https://www.reddit.com/r/MissionDeFi/ Damn, @CantoPublic is burning up today. - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1570612797758750721?s=20&t=KlU3ldK0bNo3RxefYzvkLw Incoming proposal for the Canto DAO - https://twitter.com/CantoPubli...
Sept. 16, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 196) - Sept. 15, 2022 - @robo_vault Delta Neutral Strategies / How to grow your project #BixDev / #Putin's puking military /

Robo Vault | Powered by Robots - https://www.robo-vault.com/vaults Nice summary of @ethereum Protocols - https://twitter.com/pathfinder305/status/1570402627413835778 Retweet - Today should be a reminder for everyone that developers make the world go round. Be grateful for the devs, researchers, & visionaries that work tirelessly to give you a platform upon which to build, spend, grow, and have financial freedom. - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1570360243334352897?s=20&t=ODKMJpeqLiXEfZF622...
Sept. 15, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 195) - Sept. 14, 2022 - Mission: DeFi on Reddit / Gensler to Senate / @samkazemian @Frax on @Curve /

Mission: DeFi & DeFi Lunch on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/MissionDeFi/ Grayscale, Disclosing SEC Queries, Says Cryptos XLM, ZEC, ZEN May Be Securities - https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/27/sec-questions-grayscales-legal-stance-on-stellar-zcash-and-horizen-crypto-trusts/ Gensler to Senate - https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1570063384703373314?s=20&t=Lx9oS40QGxQoIkwKjPWhfg Gensler Testimony 9-15-22.pdf - https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Gensler%20Testimony%209-15-22.pdf ...
Sept. 14, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 194) - Sept. 13, 2022 - @Spirit_Swap Ep Up / $ETH Node in a Box / #CPI / @Bitgo & @GalaxyDigital fight /

Love the show? Become a part of it by joining our new Reddit! Be in the know and learn everyday about what is going on in DeFi Give us feedback Send in project or story ideas Build a network of people in crypto Join now to get more from DeFi Lunch and Mission: DeFi -> https://bit.ly/3ROHn0H Watch the video of this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3xn948J Brad's Summary of Persuasion tactics - Ethereum on ARM documentation — Ethereum on ARM documentation 0.0.1 documentation ...
Sept. 11, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 192) - Sept. 9, 2022 - @BeanstalkFarms / OSTP Report / @Coinbase emp & @Cobie / @BNBCHAIN zkBNB / @CantoPublic Hackathon /

New episode of Mission: DeFi with Publius from Beanstalk Farms - https://www.missiondefi.com/beanstalk-4/ OSTP Report is bad for Bitcoin & other POW chains - https://twitter.com/thetrocro/status/1567986913742569475 Coinbase employee accuses Cobie - Doesn't go well - https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1567983167096733698?s=20&t=AJSB7jqeO9EqlawsBwZ9JQ BNB Chain announces zero-knowledge proof scaling technology - https://www.theblock.co/post/168514/bnb-chain-announces-zero-knowledge-proof-scaling-tec...
Sept. 8, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 191) - Sept. 8 2022 - @DefiLlama DEX / @FraxFinance FraxLend / Gensler under pressure / @Binanceus $ETH Liquid Staking /

All DEX volumes - DefiLlama - https://defillama.com/dexs SEC’s Gensler Supports Commodities Regulator Having Bitcoin Oversight - WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/secs-gensler-supports-commodities-regulator-having-bitcoin-oversight-11662641115 Binance US launches low-barrier Ethereum staking ahead of The Merge - https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-us-launches-low-barrier-ethereum-staking-ahead-of-the-merge?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social NFT Marketplace OnePlanet Leaves Terra’s Orbit f...
Sept. 8, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 190) - Sept. 7, 2022 - @FinanceChainge / @Paladin_vote / US Soft Landing? / ETH tags dbase by @samczsun / #Metaverse Dating /

The U.S. is on track for a soft landing, Goldman Sachs chief economist says - MarketWatch - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-u-s-is-on-track-for-a-soft-landing-goldman-sachs-chief-economist-says-11662463937 What It’s Like to Date in the Metaverse - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/style/virtual-dating-metaverse.html Ethereum Tags Database - https://tags.eth.samczsun.com/#query=aave Mission DeFi EP 70 - $70 billion in instant liquidity across most chain and dex - Dejun...
Sept. 7, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 189) - Sept. 6, 2022 - @BradSherman loses / Euro energy crises = crypto pump?!? / #UK elects crypto friendly PM / Trump grift $DWAC to dissolve / @Binance consolidates to $BUSD / More

Does the macro picture with a European energy crises mean a massive pump in crypto? - https://twitter.com/fejau_inc/status/1566657314429382659 Point of no return: crunch time as China tries to fend off property crash | Chinese economy | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/28/crunch-time-china-tries-to-fend-off-property-crash-global-economy UK elects crypto-friendly Liz Truss as new prime minister - https://finbold.com/uk-elects-crypto-friendly-liz-truss-as-new-prime-mini...
Sept. 3, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 188) - Sept. 2, 2022 - @LTP_Liquidity combines CEX & DEX / @zama_fhe - quantum proof manipulative encryption / @KyleWRoche's demise /

Former blockchain skeptic David Rubenstein discloses investments in crypto companies - https://cointelegraph.com/news/former-blockchain-skeptic-david-rubenstein-discloses-investments-in-crypto-companies?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social Product Introduction - LTP - https://ltp.gitbook.io/ltp/v/english/ - https://www.liquiditytech.com/ Catalog - Buy and Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more trustlessly - https://catalog.fi/Ren - https://renproject.io/ Watching the demise of ⁦@KyleWRoche⁩’s career ...
Sept. 2, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 187) - Sept. 1, 2022 - @justinsuntron's many scams / @cryptocom sends millions to woman & forgets / @SeiNetwork raise / @DogeChainFamily too risky? & more

The many scams of Justin Sun - Market manipulation, theft from customers, etc. - https://www.theverge.com/c/22947663/justin-sun-tron-cryptocurrency-poloniex More audacious than his reputation, Sun has an even riskier approach to U.S. and Chinese financial regulations — and is often trying to evade them. Will his rule bending and dangerous behavior finally catch up to him? Or will he get away once again? Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to Australian woman and doesn’t notice for sev...
Sept. 1, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 186) - August 31, 2022 - @BabylonFinance shuts down / @helium moves to @solana? / @dapperlabs doesn't get it / @CompoundFinance Lock /

The sad circumstances of market forces that caused the shutdown of Babylon Finance - https://twitter.com/ramonrecuero/status/1564994728436719616 Why would Helium move to Solana if stability is a concern? https://twitter.com/rawrmaan/status/1564718174112727040 Brad's list of non-crypto podcasts that can help you - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1564963525423874048?s=20&t=yuIHAZiBXNpImbsaFv53kw Dapper Labs helps Ticketmaster stay the rent seeking middleman with NFTs - https://decrypt.co/1086...
Aug. 30, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 185) - August 30, 2022 - 40% of Gamefi users are bots - @useJigger / @DeFiLlama / @LlamaPay / Secret @Superformxyz / $LUNC Pumps /

Brad gets his own Cantoe - https://twitter.com/CanToeNFT/status/1564336469908529152?s=20&t=ONO01IpctKhuS0LlUveAZA Secret ERC-4626 multi-yield protocol - https://twitter.com/superformxyz / https://www.superform.xyz/ / https://erc4626.info/ Use Jigger helps games block bots in their protocols. 40% of Gamefi users are bots https://jigger.notion.site/Jigger-the-web3-anti-bot-2430cfd4c6e24a27a6357df287918109 https://twitter.com/LevanKvirkvelia/status/1564290386138464256?s=20&t=GTwx-_OKfJzi6zLXgkk...
Aug. 30, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 184) - August 29, 2022 - @Avalanche / @Cryptoleaks

Cryptocurrency Class 2022 - https://cryptocurrencyclass.github.io/ Brad breaks down the Avalanche mess - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1564052923012759557 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...
Aug. 27, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 183) - August 26, 2022 - FooBar to talk Canto, Merge, & More

Judge approves retention bonuses for Voyager team in order to help creditors that opposed the bonuses - https://www.theblock.co/post/165783/voyager-approved-to-pay-up-to-1-9-million-in-bonuses-to-retain-employees Jordi Alexander on why Ethereum will not run post merge - https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/is-the-merge-overhyped?triedSigningIn=true Hetzner is cutting off anything crypto related including trading from their servers CoinCenter.org does a brilliant analysis of Tornado Cash in ord...
Aug. 26, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 181) - August 24, 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. 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, d...
Aug. 24, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 180) - 08/22/22 - @Telegram #NFTs on $TON / @SushiSwap Head Chef Plan is bad / @InvestVoyager users clueless / @SamKazemian Goes off! / @CelsiusNetwork digs out with mining?

TON getting a Telegram Username NFT marketplace - https://ton.org/?utm_source=dropstab ETH Staking Accelerates Ahead of The Merge, Will It Help ETH Recover? - https://www.binance.com/en/news/top/7181170?utm_source=infoHub Sushi Head Chef Deal is all about short term incentives - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1561678718308913152?s=20&t=7JmLQTCK0TaGEerpT7Wiqw Ronin hackers used Bitcoin mixer instead of Tornado - https://cointelegraph.com/news/ronin-hackers-transferred-stolen-funds-from-eth-...
Aug. 21, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 179) - August 19, 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. 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, d...
Aug. 19, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 178) - August 18, 2022 - @Coinbase answers big question / @AlchemixFi vault moves / Jump to fix Solana? / Chinese collapse / @Coingecko tokenomics meh /

Brad teases amazing upcoming Mission: DeFi episodes Coinbase says it will pull out of staking if regulators force censorship - Alchemix launches vault moves - https://twitter.com/AlchemixFi/status/1559180815703080964 Federal Reserve to finalize guidelines on crypto access to master account - https://cryptoslate.com/federal-reserve-to-finalize-guidelines-on-crypto-access-to-master-account/ Not a joke: Jump Crypto Picked to Revamp Solana to Make Blockchain More Reliable - https://www.coindes...
Aug. 18, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 177) - August 17, 2022 -

Hey folks, going to try to get time stamps added, but have to do it while we are recording, because definitely don't have time to listen again every day. Will try to start tomorrow. 🤞 Brad's forever vacation plans Kids and college Big discussion of the macro economic picture and potential impact on crypto Discussion about Paladin SEC Sues Dragonchain for $16.5 Million Dragon Token ICO - Decrypt - https://decrypt.co/107567/securities-and-exchange-commission-sues-dragonchain-for-16-...
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