Episodes

Feb. 28, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 303) - Feb 28, 2023 - @Solana's DeD Baby / @Ripple say FAFO / #Bitcoin Island / @FantomFDN FVM / Visa pause

Get spicy in our community: https://t.me/missiondefi Ripple asks SEC chair to recuse self from crypto enforcement cases https://md1.to/j5q9o Solana outage triggers ballistic reaction from the crypto community https://md1.to/9gvcw Solana Developers Say Reason for Network Outage Still Unclear - https://md1.to/5jedm Prudential Regulatory Authority, the UK's Banking Regulator, to Propose Rules on Issuing Holding Crypto - https://md1.to/6ihgy The Block: Starbucks's web3 Odyssey is seeing early signs ...
Feb. 28, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 302) - Feb 27, 2023 - Yield Fest / @Daylight rocks / @beefyfinance & @VelocimeterDEX on @CantoPublic / @Solana coma /

Discussed a ton of yields today. Join our Telegram community to see them and connect with the awesome folks learning & building together: https://t.me/missiondefi.com - In the Yieds Topic DayLight is a really awesome tool with a great business model - https://bit.ly/mddaylight Homora V2 - https://homora-v2.alphaventuredao.io/ Homora is cool, but somebody on that team needs to figure out you don't block users from seeing what you offer with a wallet connect requirement. Solana reboots AGAIN...
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Feb. 27, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 89 - Is Quai the promise of Bitcoin, the power of Ethereum, & the performance the world demands? - Founder - Dr. K

The dream of every new chain is that it will provide the true decentralization, security, & trustlessness of Bitcoin, the compute capabilities of Ethereum, and the performance demanded by the financial world. Dr. K says that his team has solved it with a powerful new model for blockchain. Do you think Quai has what it takes? Discuss Quai in our Telegram group: https://t.me/missionDefi Project Name: Qui Network Project URL: https://quai.network/ Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/...
Guests: Dr. K , Quai Network
Feb. 23, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 300) - Feb 23, 2023 - @Coinbase to Launch Base L2 using @optimismFND source / @Solana shuts Miami/NYC spaces / @ton_blockchain freeze

TON blockchain freezes $2.6B worth of tokens - https://cointelegraph.com/news/ton-blockchain-freezes-2-6b-worth-of-inactive-tokens?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social Bankless (@BanklessHQ) / Twitter - https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1628757265728536578 SEC files objection to Binance.US bid for Voyager assets - https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-files-objection-to-binance-us-bid-for-voyager-assets BIS head claims fiat won battle with crypto, Bitcoin community disagrees - https://cointele...
Feb. 23, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 299) - Feb 22, 2023 - @DeFiLlama - 14 Amazing Yield Opportunities / @Strider_DAO - Story Gaming Platform / Trade Stocks/Bonds in DeFi

We discussed 14 new Yield opportunities on the show today. Get all the details on them in our amazing Telegram community along with great insights on projects, trading strategies, marketing conditions, and much much more - https://bit.ly/yields2222023 550,000% ROI: How Alexis Ohanian Turned $15K into $82 Million With Ethereum - https://bit.ly/3IsEcIN ApolloX is a scam Strider raises $5.5M for collaborative story-driven gaming platform | VentureBeat - https://bit.ly/3YSLpsD Arbitrum’s User Bas...
Feb. 22, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 298) - Feb 19, 2023 - SEC using custodians to cutoff crypto / @0xPolygun cuts / Grayscale ETF win? / Ordinals on $LTC / Huobi kills privacy

Don't miss out on everything our close-knit community is discussing on Telegram! https://t.me/missiondefi Gensler trying to cut off crypto through custodians.... - https://bit.ly/3YTL0pM Mission: DeFi EP 88 - Can A Guild Become A GameFi Powerhouse? - ParagonsDAO - DeFi Ted - https://bit.ly/3IkMwtX More chatter that @Grayscale could be poised to win its appeal/case against the SEC - https://bit.ly/3lZK1Wr Polygon Labs Cuts 20% Workforce, Almost 100 Jobs - https://bit.ly/3Z49mNc Ordinals Litecoin ...
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Feb. 21, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 88 - Can A Guild Become A GameFi Powerhouse? - ParagonsDAO - DeFi Ted

Name of project: ParagonsDAO Project URL: https://paragonsdao.com/#/ Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/paragonsDAO Name of Guest: DeFi Ted Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeFi_Ted Show Notes From simple gaming guild to full blown Web3 gaming infrastructure. How does this happen? Started career our in TradFi in risk assessment and management Quit his job during Covid because companies weren't paying His first foray into DeFi as an investor ended up with a rug and then he ...
Feb. 21, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 297) - Feb 20, 2023 - Guest @AmericanMonks

Join our community and have your say on Telegram: https://t.me/missiondefi Special guest Matt Karsten from Purple Squirrel Media Sony Teams Up With Astar Network for Web3 Incubation Program - https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/02/17/sony-teams-up-with-astar-network-for-web3-incubation-program/ Web3 Incubation Program by Sony Network Communications and Astar Network - https://astar.network/incubation/ Bitcoin Lightning Network: the novelty of Strike - The Cryptonomist - https://en.cryptonomist...
Guest: Matt Karsten
Feb. 20, 2023

DeFi Lunch with Charlie Shrem - January 2023

We recorded this interview at Quantum Miami, but the audio quality was really bad. We've been able to clean it up somewhat to provide something that is OK. Joe and Brad interviewed the one and only Charlie Shrem at Quantum Miami. 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 jus...
Guest: Charlie Shrem
Feb. 17, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 296) - Feb 17, 2023 - Shaun Day! - Time to get your bear on.

Not holding back today people. Tell Shaun why he is right or why he is wrong on our Telegram: https://t.me/missiondefi Bitcoin is Freedom Money. Episode One with @dergigi: https://youtu.be/6Tr4-DL1c1s Episode Two with @RoyaMahboob: https://youtu.be/D0y41yelcNM Episode Three with @J9Roem: https://youtu.be/xTfY5TjuN2A 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 f...
Guest: Shaun - XBT3D
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Feb. 17, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 87 - Is this the end of AMMs? - Varun Kumar of HashFlow

Discuss HashFlow in our community - https://t.me.missiondefi Project Name: HashFlow Project URL: https://hashflow.com Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashflow Guest Name: Varun Kumar Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/GandalfTheBr0wn From Aerospace to crypto Why AMMs like Uniswap fail to make liquidity providers any profit for the most part Why AMMs are just an extra level of interference from market makers How Hashflow eliminates the need for liquidity pools and solves the ...
Guests: Vuran Kumar , HashFlow
Feb. 17, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 295) - Feb 16, 2023 / Crypto political strategies / Should DeFi go tokenless? / Siemen's on @0xPolygon / @wavesprotocol dump /

Join the discussion on Telegram: https://t.me/missiondefi Brad's thread on how crypto should navigate politics in the US: https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1625353127208550402 Brad's thread on going tokenless: https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1626071865176256512 Siemen's launches $60 million on-chain bond on Polygon: https://twitter.com/MihailoBjelic/status/1625657654516350976?s=20&t=jZEcc2VyIGPNPaDv3bR_pQ Join the community and review a BNB Chain dapp for the show: https://t.me/missio...
Feb. 14, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 293) - Feb 13, 2023 - Get your $OP Airdrop / @Paxos sued / @jespow "if only I knew..." / Guest: @ChaoticBeautys of @BNBChain /

Get your OP airdrop! https://bit.ly/checkopairdrop / https://bit.ly/opairdropdl Special guest @ChaoticBeautys U.S. Tech Evangelist of BNB Greenfield - a fascinating decentralized data project from BNBChain - https://bit.ly/bnbgreen Paxos sued by the SEC, India takes lead on global crypto regulations, Coinbase defends staking services – DL News - https://bit.ly/3jWNLr4 Jesse Powell of Kraken - If only I knew there was a form - https://bit.ly/3K3NBsq Gabriel Shapiro on staking regs - https://bit.l...
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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Feb. 7, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 86 - $450 trillion market - @DarrenCamas of @ipor_io

Project Name: IPOR Labs Project URL: https://www.ipor.io/ Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/ipor_io Guest Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/DarrenCamas $450 Trillion market - IPOR is the LIBOR for DeFi Gives everyone access to markets they never could before Using DeFi Primitives Equalizes the playing field for retail against whales Gamified system for earning Delegation capabilities for others to play for you Solving the DAO engagement problem How they grew to 16k ...
Feb. 6, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 288) - Feb 6, 2023 - Guest: @Laceykaelani of @metaintro - Identity wallet for jobs / The Chopping Block is Clueless / Flying Cars / Crypto Rehab /

We had a special guest today. Lacey Kaelani of Meta Intro a new identity wallet for job seekers and employers. Fascinating stuff. Join our community and discuss: https://t.me/missiondefi Guest Project: Meta Intro Project URL: https://metaintro.com Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/metaintro Guest Name: Lacey Kaelani Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/Laceykaelani The Chopping Block doesn't like Canto, because they don't know what it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHDeX7wYUtsBrad's...
Feb. 5, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 287) - Feb 3, 2023 - Shaun : "No basis to be anything but bearish..."

Hear exactly why Shaun can see no light at the end of the current tunnel for bullish sentiment. Join the amazing discussions around the market in our community: 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 ...
Feb. 3, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 286) - Feb 2, 2023 - Jerome de Tychey (@jdetychey) CEO of @Cometh Details the companies massive moves in the blockchain gaming ecosystem

Join the discussion: https://t.me/missiondefi Brad and Joe had an amazing discussion today with the CEO of Cometh Jerome de Tychey about the company's amazing moves in the gaming space and what he sees for the future. He also had a number of thoughts on what gaming entrepreneurs can do to gain traction and how different players in the space need to think about their moves. We also discussed his role running ethcc and the impact that event has on the entire space every year. Project: Cometh ...
Feb. 3, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 285) - Feb 1, 2023 - Onboarding chains / Modeling Ethereum / @0xFooBar Liquid Delegates / @DLNewsInfo / @GainsNetwork_io blowing up

Join the discussion: https://t.me/missiondefi Onboarding resources spreadsheet for blockchains - https://bit.ly/3YlNWux Modeling Ethereum - https://bit.ly/3YlOaBT Secret Blockchain controversy - https://bit.ly/3jsI97D Liquid Delegates - The next NFT primitive: tradeable delegation rights - https://bit.ly/40il4VM Elon Musk wants Twitter payments system built with crypto in mind - https://bit.ly/3YiEwzP DLNews Launches by DeFi Llama - https://bit.ly/3RvTUHd Decentralized Twitter alternative goes l...
Feb. 1, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 284) - Jan 31, 2023 - Hyperspace / @NYcryptolawyer on Howey & SEC / Biden Admin Crypto / @AaveAave V3 / Ordinals #BTC /

Join the discussion on Telegram: https://bit.ly/3Jb7Sw2 Hyperspace - https://bit.ly/3Rl5Yuw DLx Law on Howey/SEC - https://bit.ly/3JANmoN / https://bit.ly/40gZxwJ Biden admin urges U.S. congress to pursue crypto regulation - https://yhoo.it/3HLEr2d Investors Pump Money Into Crypto Funds Amid Pickup in Market Sentiment - https://bit.ly/3HMW6qw Aave Protocol V3 - https://bit.ly/3Dvo3Rc Ordinals protocol sparks debate over the place for NFTs in the Bitcoin ecosystem - https://bit.ly/3XV0JUQ Joe Caw...
Jan. 31, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 283) - Jan 30, 2023 - Interviews: Charlie Shrem / Ripple Exec - Bradley Chase

Two interviews today. One with the Bitcoin Legend Charlie Shrem and the other with Ripple exec Bradley Chase. Both were eye opening. Unfortunately, the audio from our streaming provider that recorded the interview with Shrem was garbage, so apologies for the bad audio quality after Brad's edits. Join our community: 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 mo...
Jan. 29, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 282) - Jan 27, 2023 - Trade Better - Technical Analysis (#TA) Fundamentals w/Shaun (@XBT3D) (#Bitcoin Maximalist)

Do Not Miss! Our Shaun explains the fundamentals of Technical Analysis to give you an edge in trading. Join the conversation and learn 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 ...
Jan. 27, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 281) - Jan 26, 2023 - Fantom's (@FantomFDN) Head of Marketing - Juan Angel (@juanaxyz00) $FTM

Our interview with Juan Angel of Fantom clearly shows that the team is firing on all cylinders and doing an amazing job with messaging. 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. Tra...
Guests: Juan Angel , Fantom , FTM
Jan. 25, 2023

DeFi Lunch (Ep 280) - Jan 25, 2023 - Live from @Quantum_Miami / New “DEX” - Is @Circle Cannibalizing DeFi - What does it mean? How do we kick the bad $USDC habit? How does this impact $COIN?

Joe and Brad discussed Circle’s launch of a Dex and how this is a brazen attempt to own “DeFI” as the gateway to institutions and banks. We discuss what this means for @Coinbase ($COIN) and why now more than ever it is time for DeFI to dump USDC. Do not miss this one people. Discuss in our 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 n...