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Staking 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
Feb. 9, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 291) - Feb 9, 2023 - Choke Point 2.0 / Canto Messaging / Staking / Canto Llama Swap

Join the discussion on Telegram: https://t.me/missiondefi 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 crypt...
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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...
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...
June 25, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 157) - June 24, 2022 - Learn how to earn more with @AnkrStaking with @FilipeDeFi from @Ankr

We had a great time getting to know Filipe from Ankr Staking and learning everything about the first liquid staking project in the world. Gain insights into how you can earn more with staking for multiple blockchains including Fantom, Binance Chain, Ethereum, Avalanche, and much more. You also will learn how you can earn more or borrow against the derivative token for the platform. Not only will you learn about the platform, the Ankr ecosystem, and how you can leverage it for earnings, but yo...
June 3, 2022

DeFi Lunch (Ep 143) - June 3, 2022 - Special Guest: Sam Forman(@pgpsam) from @SturdyFinance a powerful new lending platform,

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...
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May 17, 2022

Mission DeFi EP 59 - Swell Network is creating a powerful marketplace for liquid staking & easily integrated vaults for easier derivative earning @SwellNetworkio

Swell Network is launching what they call Liquid Staking V2.0. Not only will they offer easy to use staking for users and nodes, but they will also offer the platform in a composable and white label format. This will allow them to create a marketplace for liquid staking with nodes competing on earnings to optimize what stakers will earn. In addition, they make it easier for stakers to earn more, by building in vaults to earn more on their yields, without having to move their derivative tokens...
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...
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Feb. 2, 2022

Mission DeFi - EP 37 - How A Hybrid NFT/DeFi Model with Beautiful Art could change an industry - Neptune from The Idols

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...
Guest: Neptune
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Dec. 31, 2021

Mission DeFi - EP 34 - Zachary Dash & the BlockZero community are building a better YCombinator for DeFi with an amazing backstory of how they started

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...
Oct. 8, 2021

EP 20 - Scoopy Trooples & Alchemix are Building a Powerful Financial System Built Upon Self-Paying Interest Free Non-Liquidating Loans

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...
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Sept. 27, 2021

EP 15 - Zeus of Olympus DAO ($OHM)

## 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: Zeus
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