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July 11, 2023

Mission: DeFi - EP 103 - Maverick (@MavProtocol) changes everything f…

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 headac...

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July 10, 2023

Mission: DeFi - EP 102 - Casper the Chain has an enterprise focus & a…

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. ...

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June 12, 2023

Mission: DeFi - EP 101 - DeFi to grow #AI & open source applications …

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 …

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May 30, 2023

Mission: DeFi - EP 100 - Building in AI with Corey Cottrell - EPISODE…

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, …

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May 17, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 98 - Can Akash be a major player in AI with their GP…

Our first episode on Twitter Spaces and we will likely do more. To get notified so you can listen and ask questions, be sure to follow Brad on Twitter - https://md1.to/b05 and turn on notifications 🔔 and join our Telegram …

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May 5, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 97 - Can $R be the decentralized stablecoin we need?…

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, th...

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April 28, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 96 - Vega - The Power of Financial Legos on an App C…

What is it like to watch DeFi summer pass you by while you are building a powerful app-based financial platform to bring financial derivative products to anyone with an idea? For 5 years, Barney Mannerings and the team at Veg...

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April 19, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 95 - VC Evan Mair of Gumi Cryptos explains how they …

Traditional VCs get gun shy when the markets turn, but the partners at Gumi Cryptos just keep moving forward and looking for compelling innovation in the space. Today we interviewed Evan Mair to find out what it is like in …

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April 4, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 94 - Josh Rosenthal - 🤯 A new model for framing cryp…

Get ready to be blown away by the insights and frameworks Josh Rosenthal uses for building companies, investing, and understanding the full potential of crypto. His interviews on Bankless have created a storm of theories on h...

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March 31, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 93 - @redstone_defi is taking on @ChainLink in a big…

ChainLink is basically a monopoly of oracles in DeFi, but more players are popping up and RedStone has a powerful model that may just be the competition that ChainLink and the ecosystem needs. Faster, cheaper, and better in m...

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March 30, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 92 - @GregOsuri - @Akashnet_ is taking on the giants…

Akash is building a powerful network on chain for compute that is taking on the giants with better pricing and better solutions. What is really interesting is how they operate, how they built and think about incentives for al...

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March 13, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 91 - Can Bancor come back from a massive failure? - …

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...

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March 8, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 90 - There's more to Arweave than you thought possib…

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 …

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Feb. 27, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 89 - Is Quai the promise of Bitcoin, the power of Et…

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 ...

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Feb. 21, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 88 - Can A Guild Become A GameFi Powerhouse? - Parag…

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...

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Feb. 17, 2023

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

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...

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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 ac...

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Jan. 25, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 85 - QuickNode's Dmitry Shklovsky on how they built …

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...

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Jan. 12, 2023

Mission: DeFi EP 84 - Canto's Scott Lewis - A New Ethos For Layer 1 -…

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 ...

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Dec. 19, 2022

Mission: DeFi EP 83 - DeFi Hacking Prevention Decentralized & Incenti…

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 ...

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Nov. 4, 2022

Mission: DeFi EP 82 - CT Educator Haym Salomon on what people don't u…

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...

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Oct. 28, 2022

Mission: DeFi EP 81 - Notional Finance - Terry Woodward

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...

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Oct. 19, 2022

Mission DeFi EP 79 - Shadow War - Games are tough, but Roy Blackstone…

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 …

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Oct. 14, 2022

Mission DeFi EP 78 - How to grow & reward your community through onch…

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...

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