Season 1

There are a lot of failures in crypto and DeFi history. Exploits, hacks, and failure of models have all lead to billions in losses for average traders. Bancor, the original AMM, experienced such a failure in June of last year...

If you think Arweave is just a place to store NFTs permanently, then this episode is going to be a complete eye opener for you as it was for me. Sam Wiliams had an obsession with geopolitics that led him …

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 ...

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...

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/Ga...

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 ac...

Quicknode is a powerhouse in Web3 infrastructure and it isn't accidental success. Their team has decades of experience in building massive Internet infrastructure with a very successful exit. Learn why they built it, how they...

From Tradfi to crypto. The fighting in the space between projects What he'd like to see the community avoid. Paying developers to be on Cantos with a revenue share How to implement onchain governance How the ethos came about ...

The Hats Finance team joins me to discuss how they are decentralizing hacking prevention for protocols in DeFi and creating a system that incentivizes good behavior for hackers, communities, developers, and auditors. Project ...

Guest Name: Haym Salomon Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/SalomonCrypto Join our community on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MissionDeFi/ Who he thinks is the Jeff Bezos of crypto Why people don't get about the true power...

Project Name: Notional Finance Project URL: https://www.notional.finance/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotionalFinance Guest Name: Teddy Woodward Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/teddywoodward Came from the interest...

Roy Blackstone has a long history in crypto and it is one of ongoing pursuit of excellence and primarily success. There is a lot to learn from how he builds and plans his projects and makes them successful. Why originality …

Dunks and the team at Amplifi are creating a powerful new platform to help DeFi projects easily reward community members, affiliates, and content producers for promoting their projects, but based on onchain actions. It is som...

Oracles are critical infrastructure in DeFi, but most of the options we have today are centralized and at risk for censorship or failure. It could literally take down the entire system. Nick Fett and his founding partners hav...

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 solvin...

In a bear market, we all want decent safer yield with conservative strategies for our funds sitting on the sidelines and project treasuries need that all the time which puts the Delta-Neutral automated strategies of Robo-Vaul...

The Layer 3 team has delivered for the Spirit Swap community with Version 2 of their protocol, which is a complete rewrite from the ground up and a powerful new fast interface. More importantly though, the underlying mechanis...

Discuss Beanstalk Farms, Publius, and this episode on Reddit . For a video version of this episode, please visit: https://www.missiondefi.com/beanstalk-4 If you like what we do here at Mission: DeFi, I have a quick favor to a...

What if you could with every trade have billions and billions of USD equivalent liquidity available to you in DeFi? My guest's platform has the ability to change how you trade in DeFi. In 2019 the first EVM compatible chain …

Project founders are consumed with managing liquidity and the bribes required to make it real. From the beginning Paladin has built projects to make that better and easier and their new product Quest takes it to a whole new l...

What if most of the time that users sent, received, staked, swapped, or did anything else that in DeFi, they could win back crypto up to 100s, 1000s, and even millions of dollars? Now, what if protocols could get off …

Video version of this show is available at https://www.missiondefi.com/daos-as-cooperatives Did you form a DAO without registering an entity? You are likely personally liable if you did. Even if you registered an entity like ...

Really enjoyed this interview with the Stacks funding ecosystem team. Amazing path forward for Stacks and the massive opportunity for DeFi on Bitcoin. Project Name: Stacks Project URL(see more below): https://stacks.co Guests...

One of my favorite people in DeFi -> @scupytrooples is on Mission: DeFi. * Where @AlchemixFi is & what's next * What he would advise new founders about building in #DeFi * Do Kwon, the industry/market, the path forward and …

Optimizing trades in DeFi is difficult and timing is a real problem. In addition, MEV can make it a real nightmare and actually cost us money. Bloxroute has optimized all the network connections of blockchain and made it func...

Former Tech Crunch journalist joins Brad to discuss SingularityDAO a sister project to SingularityNet that is using AI to provide better outcomes for DeFi investors. We discuss how they got started, his cofounders, what it is...

I met Reggie because his firm Ghaf Capital invested in my client Walken in the Move2Earn space & I was thoroughly impressed with how they supported a portfolio project & then I discovered that Reggie is also CEO of Gather …

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 …

The infrastructure of Ethereum and other chains is still not decentralized and this is a serious threat to the future of #DeFi. Josh Neuroth of Ankr explains how they are decentralizing the infrastructure of blockchains with ...

Interview from May of 2022 Acid Bird & TerraBellus Project Name: Hundred Finance Project URL: https://hundred.finance Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/HundredFinance Guest Names: Acid bird and TerraBellus A more conservat...

Allesandro Toschi and the team at EthOS have spent 4 years working to builder a better method for developing and governance on Ethereum. It is a powerful solution and vision. Project Name: EthereansOS Project Website: https:/...

FattyBagz ended up in DeFi through OlympusDAO and was able to apply his experience and expertise in marketing to helping grow the DAO and he learned a ton of valuable lessons along the way. He also had a massive life-changing...

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 s...

My guest today is Jack Niewold of Crypto Pragmatist . Paladin vote lending model Jack is bullish on Governance models. Gallion DAO $LUNA $UST and Do Kwon and are they a threat to crypto in general? We discussed this the …

From a terrorizing bug that locked up $2 million Justin Bebis went even deeper into security and safety and is building an org founded on those principles and more. We always hear about the scams and the exploits, but it …

Project Name: Ondo Protocol Guest Name: Justin Bram Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustinCBram Justin's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/justinbram Project URL: https://ondo.finance Project Twitter: https://twit...

@Paladin_vote - Project Name: Paladin - Project URL: https://www.paladin.vote - Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paladin_vote - Project Telegram: https://t.me/paladinprotocol - Project Discord: https://t.co/8HxPCVfJpV - P...

As we all work to move DeFi into the real world, there is also an opportunity to bring institutional products into DeFi and give us and institutions new opportunities. The team at Tempus is doing just that with their fixed …

Walken is a highly successful mobile app company with dozens of high quality developers and a marketing machine that drives user signups for their apps. This has resulted in over 50 million downloads of their apps and $10 mil...

Andrew Yang's Lobby3 is ready to educate the US Congress on how DeFi can help average people get ahead. I was a big supporter of Andrew Yang's during his presidential run. While I do believe that UBI is good policy, …

Bancor for most of DeFi is the forgotten pioneer that built the foundations of everything we have in DeFi. The first AMM sprung forth from an attempt at building localized niche currencies and after being passed over by some ...

We've got one shot to make sure we have the right Congress for #DeFi and Matt West couldn't be more crypto native. He's the right candidate at the right time and all of crypto should be backing his candidacy against …

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 …

I interview a lot of amazing founders, but I haven't encountered very many as brilliant, driven, and mission-based as Emma Jane Mackinnon. She's driving her project Digitalax to transform the fashion industry with a powerful ...

@OlympusDAO forks are dead. The carnage is everywhere, but the engine isn't and Alex the founder of Ureka Finance believes there is a superior approach to the model that can have long term sustainable results for everyone inv...

Until recently, Seb the founder of Gains Network a high speed leveraged trading platform supporting Forex and Crypto and decentralized was the only developer on the team. They've added some part time help, but he built a powe...

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-conta...

The Redacted Cartel took the DeFi world by a storm when they launched just 2 weeks ago with a model to own the Curve/Bribe wars and provide real value to investors and make it easier for protocols. After an amazingly …

Whether the wisdom of the crowd or the power of investing brilliance harness in the mind of one person, Babylon Finance is building a vision of wealth building that Ramon Recuero wants to get to $1 billion per year for …

Vesting is a contentious discussion and decision process for all new projects that take on early investors. What if there was a way for early investors to exit before their lockup period ends without impacting the price of a ...