Mission DeFi Episodes

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 dece...

Guest Info Name of Guest: Hilmar Orth Name of Project: Gelato Network Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/hilmarxo Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/gelatonetwork Project URL: https://twitter.com/gelatonetwork Project/Guest Description: Why they are a guest: Show Notes Finance as undergrad Tech background 2017 -2018 Experiment with blockchain Started working with blockchain with large companies in Germany. Started working in finance and had a bad experience. Gnosis - ...

Guest Info "If you aren't at the table, then you are on the menu." Why crypto will get crucified if we don't build a political force to combat regulatory encroachment. Name of Guest: Tyler Whirty Name of Project: HodlPAC Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/twhirty_ Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/HODLpac Project URL: https://www.hodlpac.org/ Show Notes His background and how he got into crypto. Started at the Kato Institute What HODLPac is. The type of PAC they are and th...

Guest Info Name of Guest: Paul Brody Name of Project: EY Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/pbrody Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/EY_US Project URL: https://blockchain.ey.com/ Show Notes How he got started and became the Global Blockchain Leader at EY How he got into blockchain and EY While at IBM: Talked about connected devices like light bulbs and how their clients were selling them and they were losing money from cloud services. So they decided on blockchain and s...

Guest Info Name of Guest: Francesco Renzi Name of Project: SuperFluid Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/FrancescoRenziA Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/superfluid_HQ Project URL: https://www.superfluid.finance/home Projects using Superfluid https://Ricochet.exchange https://Drip.stream https://Creaton.io Show Notes No tech background ICO 2017 Completely sucked into it. Teaching self to code Built products in crypto Ardai was a product derivatives on top of defi Co...

Name of Guest: Mitchell Amador Name of Project: Immunefi Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/MitchellAmador Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/immunefi Project URL: https://immunefi.com Show Notes Mitchell Amador from Immunefi is building a powerful organization and soon to be DAO that is creating an ecosystem of hackers, security specialists and much more to help secure DeFi through bug bounties. Some of the largest projects in the space use them to reward folks that find the bug...

For a lot of us DeFi on bitcoin isn't something we've taken seriously. Edan Yago and the rest of the team at Sovryn are ready to change those perceptions with what I see as a very serious play in the DeFi space. Their model for decentralization, stablecoins, the products they've built, the partners that are integrating, and the products being built on Sovryn OS means it should be taken very seriously. Amazing discussion that includes: Yago's experience smuggling gold coins as a child to fight...

Guest Info Name of Guest: Andrew Parker Name of Project: POWNFT Project Twitter URL: https://pownft.com Project URL: https://twitter.com/pownft Project/Guest Description: Proof of work NFT mining in the browser. Show Notes Andrew Parker has created a brilliant solution to the NFT minting problem currently congesting Ethereum Mainnet and causing increases in fees. Now collectors can acquire NFTs by mining them using their browser. It is a brilliant and novel solution to a problem, but...

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...

## 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 ...

Guest Info Name of Guest: Callan Goldeneye Name of Project: Dragon X Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/callangoldeneye Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/dragonxapp Project URL: https://www.dragonx.app/ Project/Guest Description: Callan is the founder of Dragon X a DeFi platform for marketing. Why they are a guest: I don't know of any platform like this in the market today and advertising is a critical component to success. Background: Freelance developer Helped build a crypt...

If you want to understand MEV and how it impacts you and how to avoid it, this is the episode for you. If you also wanted to understand the incredible value that Gnosis brings to DeFi, then this too is the episode for you. Find out how COWSwap makes swapping safer and easier. Did you know that you can do complete swaps at the best rates on COWSwap without having any ETH in your wallet? This is a powerpacked episode, because Felix Leupold not only helps us understand MEV and why they bui...

Can you build an investment firm on the basis of shitposting. The folks at Yunt Capital have and they are having a great time doing it. Name of Guest: Sath / DeFi Berg Name of Project: Yunt Capital Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/EdTweetsWords https://twitter.com/DeFiBerg Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/YuntCapital Project URL: https://yunt.capital Project/Guest Description: Shitposting #DeFi fund Background: Berg is a tech consultant in SaaS. Helps implement platforms ...

A #bitcoinmaximalist & an anti-maximalist walk into a podcast... Dennis Porter is a podcaster and Bitcoin maximalist that is helping lead the way to fight for financial freedom in the political arena. His popular podcast Smart People Shit(SmartPeopleShit.com) covers everything Bitcoin, bitcoin politics, economics and much more. Brad and Dennis discuss how the bitcoin and crypto world need to take the fight directly to the politicians and how our force of voters is the single most powerful ...

You are going to learn a lot from this episode and be highly entertained by the charismatic, clever, and smart Dennison Bertram of Tally. Dennison discusses how and why he and his partner Raf created Tally, why DAOs(Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) are important and where they stand today, and how Tally is approaching the types of governance they support. We also discussed a recent problem they had with vote counting and delve more deeply into how difficult testing is in Web3 and ho...

From Stanford business school to distributed cloud services to blockchain, hear Alan's journey to crypto and DeFi and why he and his partner are so driven to make Boba work. While driven by privacy/performance, Alan and the team are creating a model that could drive 100s of new developers into blockchain and DeFi with their hybrid computing model that makes it easy for devs to build applications requiring more processing than is possible on Ethereum, while still leveraging blockchain for thos...

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...

I decided I wanted to learn a bit more about Fantom and why so many people I know are experimenting with it, so I sat down with Atakan Yalkovan of Turkey to understand why he likes the project and why he's taken it upon himself to be an evangelist for it and projects on the network. Community is critical to the success of every #DeFi project and it is critical to have folks like Atakan helping to spread the word, train new people, and keeping the community honest. Hope you enjoy. Twitter - htt...

Today we have an epic story about the billionaire Justin Sun's takeover of the Steem network and the inside story of what it was like to be a member of the community negotiating with, fighting, and scrapping to block the takeover. It is exciting, emotional, and endlessly fascinating to hear what this was like. In the end the community lost the battle against Justin, but won the way as they built something superior in both technology and value. Today's episode is part 1 of 2, but we cover the en...

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...

This interview is with DeFiSafety(https://defisafety.com/). This team has created a rating and review system for DeFi projects so that investors can make smarter and safer decisions about their investments. Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/DefiSafety Telegram: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/pzUw5V2E65 ---------- Mission Defi is sponsored by Material Indicators. Material Indicators brings science to investing and helps investors make more informed and smarter decisions abo...

Imagine having been an early Twitter user. You were there at the birth of a new type of service that would one day change how we all communicate, collaborate, and see the world. YouBase is creating a powerful new platform called Cortex that is starting as a note taking tool and will move into what could become a new type of Internet where everything is more secure, decentralized, collaborative, and powerful. Take a look at YouBase and thank you to the team for allowing us to learn more abo...

Geyser provides liquidity as a service, but their new modular system could be a game changer for all of #DeFi Geyser is one of my favorite #DeFi tools, because it is a lego and it is an infrastructure piece and it allows anyone to use it to build something useful and launch their project, without having to deal with managing liquidity pools or yield farming. That isn't all though, their new version could change how all projects are developed and empower developers and non-developers to cre...