Mission DeFi Episodes

From a terrorizing bug that locked up $2 million Justin Bebis went even deeper into security and safety and is building an org founded on those principles and more. We always hear about the scams and the exploits, but it is important to understand the people that are taking a holistic approach to building a better DeFi. That is the goal of Justin Bebis and Byte Masons as they work to train new people in the space, build an ethic around how they operate, and create products that benefit everyone ...

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...

Project Name: Ondo Protocol Guest Name: Justin Bram Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustinCBram Justin's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/justinbram Project URL: https://ondo.finance Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/OndoFinance This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel and his guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all...

@Paladin_vote - Project Name: Paladin - Project URL: https://www.paladin.vote - Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paladin_vote - Project Telegram: https://t.me/paladinprotocol - Project Discord: https://t.co/8HxPCVfJpV - Project Medium: https://medium.com/paladin-protocol - Guests: - Name: Figue - Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/Figue_me - Name: Alejandro - Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/BaqueroLima - Show Notes - A better method for governance involvement - Vote l...

As we all work to move DeFi into the real world, there is also an opportunity to bring institutional products into DeFi and give us and institutions new opportunities. The team at Tempus is doing just that with their fixed income/yield speculation protocol. They've taken a unique approach to the concept and have seen great growth. David and I discussed what is has been like building this platform, the complexities of making it work and the work they do to train users on how it works. As a bear m...

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 compan...

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...

Bancor for most of DeFi is the forgotten pioneer that built the foundations of everything we have in DeFi. The first AMM sprung forth from an attempt at building localized niche currencies and after being passed over by some for other AMMs like Uniswap, the project continued to build and develop a better way. Now years later, they are set to reveal a new version of Bancor that could dramatically change the DeFi landscape again and they are determined to never be forgotten again. Nate Hindman ...

We've got one shot to make sure we have the right Congress for #DeFi and Matt West couldn't be more crypto native. He's the right candidate at the right time and all of crypto should be backing his candidacy against an anti-crypto candidate. We cover Matt's background as an Intel engineer and more importantly as a Yearn strategist / Solidity developer and his background from the earliest days of bitcoin. We couldn't get a more pure crypto candidate than Matt West. What are his chances? ...

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...

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...

@OlympusDAO forks are dead. The carnage is everywhere, but the engine isn't and Alex the founder of Ureka Finance believes there is a superior approach to the model that can have long term sustainable results for everyone involved and his approach to the business of DeFi is unique and foundational for a solid long term strategy. No initial funding Airdropping 10 million tokens to as many wallets as possible from every corner of the globe Why his r-APY (relative APY) is a better method ...

Until recently, Seb the founder of Gains Network a high speed leveraged trading platform supporting Forex and Crypto and decentralized was the only developer on the team. They've added some part time help, but he built a powerful synthetics-based trading platform that makes day trading possible on DeFi. With a fairer and less expensive model and amazing tokenomics and earning possibilities, he's managed to accumulate a large community and $4.2 billion in volume in a very short time. This o...

The Idols are building a self-sustaining, ethical, Ethereum securing project based on beautiful NFTs. It is difficult to decide what to focus upon in this project, because the opportunities to earn are amazing, the self-contained "Virtue Circle" is innovative, the art is beautiful, the team is strong, and the overall mission of helping to secure the Ethereum network is admirable. I'll be watching this project closely. Project name: The Idols Project website: https://theidols.io/ Project...

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. Pro...

Vesting is a contentious discussion and decision process for all new projects that take on early investors. What if there was a way for early investors to exit before their lockup period ends without impacting the price of a token. Revest is solving that problem and much more with a powerful platform that locks tokens in NFTs. That isn't all this project can do though and there are dozens of ways for this powerful tech to be used. Rob Montgomery and their talented team are creating a better w...

Zachary Dash has an epic tale from working in the sports industry to being a leader of a project in DeFi that is working to change how projects launch and become successful. The story has all the classic startup underpinnings of attempts and failure along with accidental success that grew into a powerful community with powerful ideals. You are going to love listening to this story and more importantly, you are going to love learning so many great lessons about how to get from where you are to wh...

Trillions of dollars traverses asset lending in the traditional finance world and until now there hasn't been a connection to DeFi. Serial entrepreneur and former VC Kevin Tseng has a vision and a platform to bridge those worlds and create a powerful and thriving lending platform along with a massive data play to put DeFi at the forefront of one of the largest markets in the world. Hear how he and his team are making it happen and how the secret sauce will be an even bigger play in the future a...

The team at GenomesDAO is working to protect our genetic data while providing a marketplace for anonymized data on chain. It is a powerful model driven by a core team in a multi-billion dollar market that has only just begun. Their impact could be tremendous and they've made a bet on decentralizing everything about their system so that the community can help drive adoption. Learn why this is so important for each of us and society as a whole, how it all works, and how you can get involved from ...

Name of Guests: Sid, Rob, Heesh, & Nick Name of Project: Spirit Swap Twitter URL of Guests: https://twitter.com/Deg3ntrades https://twitter.com/neir_rob https://twitter.com/Heesh56107323 Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/Spirit_Swap Project URL: https://www.spiritswap.finance/ Rob Background in video game development went to school for it. Kept up to speed read bitcoin standard Move on from job 1.5 years ago as a video game dev at Mirosoft Heesh was teaching him a few thing...

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...

Eric Ervin has a successful Crypto hedge fund and a background creating and selling ETFs, but his newest endeavors to bring Financial Advisors into crypto is a massive opportunity for the entire space with a group of people managing over $100 trillion. It is a big play and after years of work, the platform is integrated with tradfi systems and advisors are joining. They are now taking it to the next level to offer DeFi along with custody solutions to advisors. Name of Guest: Eric Ervin Nam...

Guest Info Name of Guest: Simone Pomposi Name of Project: Fantom Blockchain Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/theotherpomp Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN Project URL: https://fantom.foundation/ Project/Guest Description: Simone is the CMO for Fantom Why they are a guest: Fantom is a fast, high-throughput open-source smart contract platform for digital assets and dApps. ## Show Notes Background: 20 years in advertising Commercial and art Phillips auction ho...