Lending Episodes

The launch of X7 Finance is an amazing story you have to hear to believe, but the potential power of this protocol makes it even more important to learn about. We covered it all in detail in this episode of DeFi Lunch. The devs are mysterious and unknown. All communications have happened on chain. A community formed around the intriguing launch of a new token, with no solid idea of what it was all about. When the community finally learned what was being built, intrigue turned to inv...

Project Name: Notional Finance Project URL: https://www.notional.finance/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotionalFinance Guest Name: Teddy Woodward Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/teddywoodward Came from the interest rate swaps industry and was unhappy in his role. Felt like crypto was exciting and had great options for him from a career perspective. Discuss many of the lessons learned starting a project The amazing fate like circumstances that led to him meeting his co-...

DeFiLlama is blowing out with new releases of features & functionality Compare Protocols TVLs - DefiLlama - https://defillama.com/comparison?protocol=MakerDAO&protocol=Curve&protocol=WBTC&protocol=PancakeSwap&protocol=Compound Raises - DefiLlama - https://defillama.com/raises All Dex Volumes - DefiLlama - https://defillama.com/dexs Lend/Borrow optimizer - DefiLlama Yield - https://defillama.com/yields/optimizer?borrow=USDC&lend=ETH While traipsing through the new yield optimizer, we discovered...

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 ---...

Special Guest: Sam Forman from Sturdy Finance Sturdy is a 0% interest lending protocol that incentivizes lending by staking deposited collateral. Currently available on Fantom and launching today on Ethereum mainnet. Website: https://sturdy.finance/ Discord: https://discord.gg/tRVHp6Vx5N Twitter: https://twitter.com/SturdyFinance Sam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pgpsam Here's what's in New York's new bitcoin mining ban - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/03/heres-whats-in-new-yorks-new-bitc...

Interview from May of 2022 Acid Bird & TerraBellus Project Name: Hundred Finance Project URL: https://hundred.finance Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/HundredFinance Guest Names: Acid bird and TerraBellus A more conservative lending protocol The magic of mirroring gives users the power to use tokens on one chain towards lending and borrowing on another chain without having to bridge from one chain to the next Goal is a full multichain lending system The difficulties of deali...

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

One of the things I like to do with projects is to check in and see how things are going and the team at Beanstalk in the few months since our first interview has made amazing success. They've seen tremendous growth in every aspect of the project from team size to volume and much more and they've had great success with their tokenomics keeping $BEAN to peg. We discuss with Publius why they think things have gone so well, the lessons they've learned, and we discuss where they want to be short and...

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...

Hundred Finance was born out of the ruins of Percent and lending protocol that suffered a lockup bug. The team is building a thoughful, stable, and long term project that will be massively cross chain. We all know vfat for his massively useful tool for degens to find yield, but now he, Acid Bird and the team are giving back even more with Hundred. Name of Guest: Vfat and Acid Bird Name of Project: Hundred Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/vfat0 Project Twitter URL: https://twitter....

# Mission DeFi - B.Protocol ## Guest Info Name of Guest: Eitan Katchka Name of Project: B.Protocol Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/EKatchka Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/Bprotocoleth Project URL: https://bprotocol.org Project/Guest Description: B.Protocol is lead by a highly experienced and big brain team that is working to make lending liquidations work better by pooling liquidation funds for lending protocols across DeFi. It is a powerful platform and model where ev...

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://twit...

Guest Info Name of Guest: Publius Name of Project: Beanstalk Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/BeanstalkFarms Project URL: https://bean.money/ Project/Guest Description: Beanstalk is a unique new algorithmic stablecoin based conceptually on ESD, but built from scratch to avoid the problems they had. Mission driven to build the primary stablecoin for DeFi, the team is fighting to deliver a powerful protocol that is permissionless, decentralized, and censorship resistant. Show Notes E...

Learn everything you need to know about the amazing lending protocol called Liquity. My guest Robert Lauko and his partners and team have creating a lending protocol that breaks all the rules and as we get to during the podcast, may have an even greater impact on all of DeFi and finance. Disclaimer: Nothing Brad Nickel or his guests say during this podcast should be taken as investment advice. We are not investment advisors and the opinions expressed here are just opinions and not an induceme...

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 H...