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July 27, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 364) - July 27, 2023 - Crypto Bills / BTC & ETH CME Futures Up / @PancakeSwap everywhere / Can @FantomFDN recover? /

You are missing out. Join our free community to get the Alpha, make new friends, learn more and share your thoughts and opinions: https://t.me/missiondefi Crypto bills pass congressional committee in ‘huge win’ for US crypto - https://md1.to/mp4sh White House Derailed Negotiation on U.S. House Stablecoin Bill: McHenry - https://md1.to/kufbw Bitocin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) CME Futures See Record Participation From Big Traders - https://md1.to/vw5q4 Bitcoin whales are in accumulation mode, says Cryp...
July 26, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 363) - July 13, 2023 - Shaun and Joe

If you haven't joined our community yet, you are missing out on amazing analysis and Alpha. 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, y...
Guest: Shaun - XBT3D
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July 11, 2023

Mission: DeFi - EP 103 - Maverick (@MavProtocol) changes everything for #DeFi! - Bob Baxley (@Bob_Baxley)

Mark these words: Maverick Protocol has the potential to dramatically change the fundamentals of DeFi. I can usually whip through 3-4 use cases for a protocol within minutes of understanding it, but Maverick gives me a headache, because the possibilities seem endless and more powerful than what we’ve seen before. And, that’s a good thing! In this interview with Bob Baxley, one of the founders of Maverick, we walk through not only how they ended up creating Mav after a couple of pivots, but...
Guest: Bob Baxley
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July 10, 2023

Mission: DeFi - EP 102 - Casper the Chain has an enterprise focus & a powerful model - Ralf Kubli of the Casper Association

Ralf Kubli has been advocating for Switzerland to properly arbitrage its regulatory advantage in crypto and now the Casper Association is working to build a powerful enterprise focused chain that will take advantage of that. We discussed not only Casper, but also the future of crypto, regulation historically and where Ralf sees crypto going from here and its impact on the wider economic system. Some really powerful ideas and thoughts for how crypto navigates the future. Project Name: Ca...
July 3, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 360) - July 3, 2023 - @ShrimpyApp gone / @Coinbase filing / @Cantonamespace / @CantoPublic on @Pancakeswap / Gensler under fire / SCOTUS to check SEC? / $ETH staking over exchanges

@Coinbase filing for dismissal is a thing of beauty - https://md1.to/cpgom Step By Step - How to secure your .canto name at Canto Namespace - https://md1.to/9tq5g @CantoPublic on @PancakeSwap! $CANTO / ETH pool using the @LayerZero_Labs SUPER FAST bridging. - https://md1.to/yhb8g SEC Chair Gary Gensler has wrongly prejudged that all digital assets are securities. As a result, federal law requires that he recuse himself - https://md1.to/ihtip SCOTUS granted cert to a case that will decide the leg...
July 3, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 359) - June 29, 2023 - Shaun Day!

You are missing out if you haven't joined our community yet. Airdrops news, Bitcoin debates, great DeFi news, and much more - 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 financia...
Guest: Shaun - XBT3D
June 27, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 358) - June 27, 2023 - Should @FantomFDN be the #AI Chain? / A look at DeFi raises via @DeFiLLama / Cats? / #DeSci - @ResearchHub / @LensProtocol / @gensynai / @mnemonichq /

Join the community: https://t.me/missiondefi Earndrop Crypto Airdrops Finder - https://md1.to/l5v0b Linea Voyage Quest - https://md1.to/ke8mv Cash App Status - https://md1.to/ez5rs (4) Brad Nickel on Twitter on @CashApp - https://md1.to/r7tq5 As Ether staking yields fall, protocols will have to get creative - https://md1.to/trlom Sequoia partner says investing in FTX was the right move - https://md1.to/bejar Crypto funding: Firms concentrated heavily in DeFi sector raise $50M - https://md1.to/cg...
June 26, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 357) - June 26, 2023 - Dog nose wrinkles? / @AndreCronjeTech w/@FantomFDN latest / $LUNC is back? / @NEARProtocol / IMF can't stop crypto /Blackrock effect / @arpaofficial

What do AC/DC and Sinead O'Connor have to do with DeFi? Nothing, but we have an amazing music discussion going on in our crazy DeFi community. Join us now to take part - https://t.me/missiondefi ‘Blockchain for dog nose wrinkles’ Ponzi makes off with $127m – DL News - https://md1.to/w5zug (8) Andre Cronje on Twitter: "7/7 We are close to releasing our next 2 big milestones; Carmen: EVM optimized DB, mainnet storage -98%, overall throughput 9.8x faster (read & write) Tosca: optimized EVM with lar...
June 26, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 356) - June 22, 2023 - @at0x_eth Hybrid NFT/AI projects!

Have you secured your place in the history of DeFi - Hobnob with the brilliant members of Mission: DeFi - https://t.me/missiondefi Today's special guest Carlos is developing platforms at the bleeding edge of AI & NFTs and the possibilities are pretty amazing. Do not miss this episode that will have you thinking about all the ways you could create and build on top of what he is creating. Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space includin...
June 20, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 354) - June 15, 2023 - Shaun Day - Market outlook and strategies

Join our community and speak with Shaun and lots of other smart folks - 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, liq...
Guest: Shaun - XBT3D
June 14, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 351) - June 8, 2023 - "All of DeFi is A Failure"?!?! - BTC Maxi (@XBT3D) vs. DeFi Degen

@XBT3D and Brad has a great time fiercely debating whether everything in DeFi has been a failure. It is one of those episodes you just can't miss and can't turn off. Content Warning! This event contains language not suitable for those under 3, Evangelical Christians, Gary Gensler, No Coiners, Liz Warren, Frauds pretending to be Satoshi Nakamoto or Jim Cramer! Discuss the "failure of DeFi" in our community: https://t.me/missiondefi To be read in booming ringside announcer voice. BTC vs DeFi...
Guest: Shaun - XBT3D
June 14, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 353) - June 13, 2023

As crypto burns, solo bitcoin miner wins BTC ‘lottery’ - Blockworks - https://md1.to/juoum *** Join the community to discuss this and more: https://t.me/missiondefi *** Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second Life | Second Life | The Guardian - https://md1.to/1vt79 Uniswap Builder Invites Community Feedback for DEX's New Version - https://md1.to/96avz Bitcoin Price (BTC) Rises After U.S. CPI Inflation Slowed to 0.1% - https://md1.to/ka8fb Lawyers lay out what’s at stak...
June 12, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 352) - June 12, 2023 - @Hashflow Rug? / @mcuban hits SEC / Loki DAO loses / UK Bans Airdrops / Crypto Leaders Screwing up Politics

FatManHashflow on Twitter: "Hashflow - a DeFi exchange - has rugged early supporters of their tokens through implementation of a DAO proposal authored by their CTO. At the time of writing, an estimated 7-8 figures USD worth of locked $HFT tokens belonging to users have been voided to the DAO treasury. - https://twitter.com/FatManHashflow/status/1667954514157248513 Mark Cuban on Twitter: "This is an SEC WEB PAGE about the howey test and tokens that often conflicts with what @SEC_Enforcement has ...
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June 12, 2023

Mission: DeFi - EP 101 - DeFi to grow #AI & open source applications - Max Howell(@mxcl) of @teaxyz explains the powerful model

Tea combines the benefits of #DeFi with incentives to build open source & makes it easy for users to use all kinds of complex applications including the latest in #AI. Max Howell joined Chuck and Brad for a powerful Twitter Spaces on his model for Tea (https://tea.xyz). Max is the original founder and developer of Brew which makes it easy to install open source packages with all their dependencies, but this time with Tea he's taken it to another level with a beautiful UI, lots of AI to make A...
Guests: Max Howell , Tea
June 6, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 350) - June 6, 2023 SEC Attacks @Coinbase! Legal analysis.

You are missing out on a community of like-minded folks discussing the big and little topics of the day - https://md1.to/mdtg MetaLawMan on Twitter: "BREAKING: SEC sues @Coinbase In May of 2021, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler testified ( https://md1.to/gyha3 ) DeFi Llama + ChatGPT ( https://md1.to/alhy2 ) Adam Cochran - 1/20 Breakdown of the SEC Coinbase complaint - ( https://md1.to/4jo60 ) @GaryGensler to @CNBC this morning: “We don’t need more digital currency. We already have digital curr...
June 5, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 349) - June 5, 2023 - CZ Sued by SEC

Be a part of the community and give us your thoughts: https://t.me/missiondefi gabrielShapir0 on Twitter: "okay, as promised, here is my long/stream-of-consciousnessy thread on the proposed crypto market structure bill CAVEAT: this is one of the most of complex & ambitious financial laws ever written. I might miss stuff. I am paraphrasing some things for ease of readability. ( https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1665693527735517184?s=20 ) Justin Slaughter on Twitter: "Its Friday night, the ki...
June 1, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 348) - June 1, 2023 - Trader's Journey - Michael L.

Michael joins us to discuss his journey from guessing about trading to a full system, but there is so much more in between about his life journey to this point. Join our community to discuss your investing journey - 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. Thi...
Guest: Michael L
May 30, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 347) - May 30, 2023 - How Brad made 32x on a BRC-20 - Where to bank in crypto / AI / Burn More ETH! / #Ordinals Explode / $ETH #NFTs -> Ordinals / The latest raises / $OP Dump

Nobody likes to fly alone. Join the Mission: DeFi community to get the insights, debates, edu, and alpha you long for and maybe a friend or two a long the way - https://t.me/missiondefi --- News A new ONNX Runtime in Cairo 1.0, a verifiable, fully open-source framework for ML inference. - https://twitter.com/gizatechxyz/status/1662111117613645825?s=20 Why the Devs Want to Burn More ETH | Bankless - https://www.bankless.com/mev-burn-podcast-breakdown Bitcoin Ordinals surpass 10M inscriptions a...
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May 30, 2023

Mission: DeFi - EP 100 - Building in AI with Corey Cottrell - EPISODE 100! 🥳 That's a bit nuts

Can't think of anyone better for my 100th episode 🥳 than my good friend Corey Cottrell. We always have a great time just chatting and this conversation is no different. We had a wide ranging chat about AI, the future, and his projects. Corey has been building innovative platforms with his amazing team and community for a while now. They built a really powerful Minecraft-based metaverse with token and NFT integration called The Uplift and then Microsoft decided to restrict NFTs in Minecraft...
May 28, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 346) - May 25, 2023 - A Trader's Journey - Hammie - From ShitCoins to Calling the Pico Top with Shaun!

From ShitCoins to Calling the Pico Top - A Trader's Journey Hammie (https://twitter.com/sibolero) is a member of the Material Indicators community and when she started her trading journey, she basically knew next to nothing about trading. She started off investing in shitcoin projects on a fundamentals level and over time had done really well. She also took a journey into NFTs on Solana and much more. Then she decided that she wanted to learn more from Shaun and she transformed her approach a...
Guests: Shaun - XBT3D , Hammie
May 24, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 345) - May 23, 2023 - Is @VitalikButerin trying to kill @Eigenlayer? / @Dashpay Dead? Last of the @Masternodes? / FTX 2.0 - Worst or best idea ever? / Bonkers @Bitcoin NFTs/ #BRC-20?

Psst... Hey you, Yes, you – Before you listen to the show, just know that we took a bet today about what your excuse is for not joining the community yet. Sadly, you won't like the option with the best odds, because it is really perverted. So instead of humiliating you, we're just going to encourage you to join, so you don't have to be embarrassed: https://t.me/missiondefi Just kidding. There's no expiration on true love ❤️ - We'll all be here patiently awaiting arrival and not really feel...
May 23, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 344) - May 22, 2023 - @mavprotocol changing how liquidity gets done in DeFi - @alvinxuzj

Fantastic interview with Alvin Xu of Maverick Protocol with a new approach to managing liquidity that is attracting a ton of attention and TVL. Stay tuned for Brad's longer form interview with Alvin's co-founder for a deep dive into how it works and what it does. Discuss Maverick in the community: https://t.me/missiondefi Project Name: Maverick Protocol Project URL: https://www.mav.xyz/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/mavprotocol?s=20 Guest Name: Alvin Xu Guest Twitter: ht...
Guests: Alvin Xu , Maverick
May 23, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 99 - Crypto news done right - Ekin Genç Managing Editor of @DLNews on how they plan to change the face of DeFi Reporting

We're big fans of DeFi Llama and not such big fans of the current state of crypto "journalism". So, you could say we were pretty damn excited to find out that the Llamas were building a DeFi news project to do crypto journalism right. Our excitement was further enforced, after meeting Managing Editor Ekin Genç. They are approaching the entire operation the way professional journalism should be. Real journalists, real standards, real editorial ethics, and a platform and approach with no ads, th...
May 22, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 343) - May 18, 2023 - Shaun Day!

Why do you think it is that you haven't joined the most intelligent community in DeFi? - https://t.me/missiondefi You hate interacting with really smart, experienced people? You don't like hearing the latest news? You can't stand humorous interactions and complete smart asses? You don't like getting Alpha on new projects and Airdrop opps? You hate the idea of chatting directly with the amazing Shaun? Seriously though, do you think waiting will make you better informed, educated, a...
Guest: Shaun - XBT3D
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