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Stablecoins Episodes

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May 5, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 97 - Can $R be the decentralized stablecoin we need? David Garai of Raft thinks borrowing against staked $ETH is the way to go

Get ready for a powerful new idea to alter the framework of DeFI! When the bear market forced Tempus Finance to build something new, David Garai and his team refused to back down. Searching for the next revolutionary idea, they identified one of the most challenging problems in DeFi: the need for a truly decentralized stablecoin. Enter Raft and the groundbreaking stablecoin, $R. Tying it to borrowed staked ETH, they've developed a game-changing solution that promises longevity and success....
Guests: David Garai , Raft
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Sept. 30, 2022

Mission DeFi EP 75 - Chicken In or Chicken Out? Liquity & their amazing new project Chicken Bonds with @TokenBrice

The radically decentralized Liquity Protocol is already a dominant force in lending and stables with 0% interest loans and the opportunity to earn ETH cheap by using the protocol. Now, they've turned their attention to solving the liquidity problem for protocols. We discussed: Brice's role in growing the French DeFi Ecosystem with his group and podcast How he connected with Liquity and why he joined the project His role as strategist on the team and why it is important How Liquit...
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...
May 13, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 135) - May 13, 2022 - Polygon's Sandeep Nailwal gets aggressive in a down market / @0xFooBar discusses Stablecoins, UST, LUNA tokenomics, lending, privacy & more

We had the honor of having @0xFooBar on the show to discuss his thoughts on @AlchemixFi - He's a dev for the team We discussed the debacle with @Terra_Money how it worked and why it failed. $UST $LUNA #Stablecoins @IronFinance $TITAN $IRON Education in #DeFi Privacy tokens and chains and what it takes for them to actually work We also covered the aggressive plan that @Sandeepnailwal has for Polygon during a down market. Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day,...
Guest: 0xFooBar
April 26, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 123) - April 26, 2022 @JosephDelong was right @SushiSwap | @elonmusk | $USDB | $FHM | @ANySniper_ exploit - bad hires | @Stripe | Justing Sun's unstable stablecoin | $UST

What will Elon do with Twitter? Stripe's move into crypto and Twitter - Stripe to Start Using Crypto’s Financial Rails for Payments Today - The Defiant Miles Deutscher on Twitter: A diversified strategy for managing investments @josephdelong is vindicated about what @SushiSwap needed - Sushi 2.0: A Restructure For The Road Ahead - Proposals - SushiSwap Justin Sun pitching 10B stablecoin New $USDB stablecoin on @FantomFDN has 100% APY - USDB stablecoin offers as high as 100% LP yields on Fa...
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
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April 19, 2022

EP 53 - Gro Protocol's Hannes Graah

Guest: Hannes Graah Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/graadient Project: Gro Protocol Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/groprotocol Project Website: https://www.gro.xyz/ One of the things I am most excited about in this space is integration into the real world and Gro is definitely on a path to that. - His background working for Spotify and Revolut and how that variety of experience helped in building Gro - How the idea came about to provide a mix of conservative and more aggress...
Guest: Hannes Graah
March 28, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 106) - March 28, 2022 - @Nansen_AI Free & Int. w/@ASvanevik, #MOVE, @aptoslabs, @MEVProtection, @CoinExams, @StargateFinance, @Fetch_ai

Diem-based Chains launching. Teams from @Facebook's Diem are launching new chains with big funding using the Diem tech and smart contract language - #MOVE @aptoslabs / Aptos https://twitter.com/aptoslabs?s=11&t=Bi1-Uc-DyS4-fDDLEFBo6w @Mysten_Labs / Sui https://twitter.com/mysten_labs?s=11&t=Bi1-Uc-DyS4-fDDLEFBo6w @MEVProtection COWSwap tokens are now tradable https://cowswap.exchange/#/swap CoinExams - @CoinExams - Rates chain coins based on set of criteria https://coinexams.com ...
March 3, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 96) - March 3, 2022 - @Vestlab #VC dump tracking, @OasisProtocol $ROSE, @Route2FI - stable yields, @LidoFinance - $MATIC, @AaveAave $stETH,

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. - Kanye and Kim - Ukrainian contributions - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1499406083810545669 - Tires in Ukraine - LFG gas pipeline issues - Oasis Protocol - https://oasisprotocol.org/technology - Vestlab - track when VCs will dump on you - https://vestlab.io - Best stablecoin yields by @Route2fi - https://twitter.com/route...
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Feb. 28, 2022

Mission: DeFi EP 42 - Beanstalk Farms 2 - Creating a better stablecoin model - their progress, growth, lessons learned, big hairy vision, & what's next @Beanstalkfarms $BEAN

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...
Guest: Publius
Feb. 9, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 81) - February 9, 2022 @Superfluid_HQ Post Mortem, Treasury wants banks to control stables, Market Maker Alex of @UrekaFinance with market analysis,

@Superfluid_HQ Post Mortem and their steps to move forward with this innovative protocol Treasury wants banks to control stables Market Maker Alex of @UrekaFinance with amazing market analysis 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...
Feb. 3, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 77) - February 3, 2022 - #DeFi Tools: @tokenterminal, @dexscreener, @TornadoCash, @DuneAnalytics, @DeFiSafety, @dovemetrics, @0xCoindix. Fed & Stablecoins. IRS & staking

A big thank you to @thedefiedge for listing some great tools we hadn't heard about and tools we forgot to use. Great list here. DeFi Tools: Token Terminal Dex Screener Tornado Cash - Privacy and anonymity Dune Analytics DeFi Safety Dove Metrics - Latest VC funding rounds Coindix - DeFi vault data and yields News: Fed & Stablecoins IRS & staking Great Wonderland proposal from The Professor Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in t...
Jan. 11, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 60) - January 10, 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. Ex-wives and children Dump and some recovery Current market conditions Volatility in DeFi How stimulus funds/cash flow impact economy and crypto Inflation on rent Coping with emotions and meditation Fear of the unknown in markets Stablecoins and regulations Dry powder Ethereume $ETH and where it is headed ...
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Nov. 30, 2021

Mission DeFi - EP 30 - Hundred Finance is building the stable cross chain lending protocol that DeFi needs for growth. With vfat and Acid Bird

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....
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Nov. 19, 2021

Mission DeFi - EP 29 - B.Protocol is making lending protocols safer and democratizing liquidation mechanisms

# 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...
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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 dece...
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Sept. 29, 2021

Ep 16 - Count your magic beans Jack - Beanstalk is taking on the giants of stablecoins

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...
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Aug. 20, 2021

Ep 7 - Breaking the Rules of Lending & Decentralization with Robert Lauko of Liquity

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...
Guests: Robert Lauko , Liquity
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