Episodes

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 have been working since 2018 to build a truly decentralized oracle system that can withstand threats and they are starting to get the kind of traction that is critical to the success of all of DeFi. Reddit - Join us on Reddit where we want to hear your favorite projects, your ...

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...

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-Vault in a great position. My interview with Sam one of the founders of Robo-Vault not only gets into what their protocol does, but also pretty deeply into how they built and run their platform and what it is like moving from the world of embedded computing to DeFi. Project N...

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 mechanisms for users and for protocols are even more powerful with all the advantages of major protocols combined into one easy to use and optimized interface that makes all aspects of DeFi easier and more automated. Project Name: Spirit Swap Project URL: https://app.spirit...

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 ask of you. Please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts(https://bit.ly/DeFiAppl) or Spotify(https://bit.ly/DeFiSpot). It will do amazing things to boost our presence and help us spread DeFi and financial freedom to the world. Thank you! After a brutal exploit drained ...

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 was born and it probably isn't one you've heard of before. Fusion was built from the ground up to perform fast, but to also deeply integrate at the encryption level cross chain functionality. This capability has now been built into a product on that chain, called Chainge a...

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 level by making it easier and better for projects and users. Learn how it works and learn how it can benefit you or a project in this episode of Mission: DeFi. Project Project Name: Paladin Project URL: https://www.paladin.vote Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pala...

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 the liquidity battle hamster wheel and blow out their governance token incentives and dramatically grow their userbase and keep them loyal? Fluidity makes that possible. This is an epic interview with founder Shahmeer and we get into how his very successful gaming backgroun...

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 an LLC for your DAO, you very likely are going to face regulatory compliance issues if you haven't had legal help to navigate. The regulatory picture in the US for DAOs is murky at best, but there is one way to make things potentially clearer and safer for everyone inv...

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: Will Corcoran - Grants at the Stacks Foundation - https://twitter.com/corcoranwill Kyle Ellicott of Stacks Ventures - https://twitter.com/kyleellicott Albert Liang of the BTC Startup Lab - https://twitter.com/btc_albert What we covered: What Stacks is and ho...

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 much more! Don't miss it! https://www.missiondefi.com/scoopy2 Guest Name: Scoopy Trooples Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/scupytrooples Project Name: Alchemix Project URL: https://alchemix.fi/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlchemixFi ---...

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 function literally at the speed of light. It is an amazing system used by the largest traders in the space, but is also available to everyone. Uri Klarman is building a powerful platform at Bloxroute and one you will want to be familiar with. Project Name: Bloxroute ...

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 like moving into the role of a CEO in DeFi, the ecosystem, communities, and much more. Project Name: SingularityDAO Project URL: https://singularitydao.ai/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/singularityDAO Guest Name: Marcello Mari Guest Twitter: https:/...

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 which is making ethical & low resource consumption browser-based mining on their own Layer 1 chain to help websites and apps earn more and eliminate advertising. We discuss what it is like to have to overcome the negative stereotypes of previous players in the browser mining...

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...

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 decentralized RPC nodes and liquid staking on multiple chains and now they are combining both so you RPC nodes can also be staking nodes. You can now earn on their protocol for helping to secure your favorite chain. Project Name: Ankr Project URL: https://www.ankr.c...

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 conservative lending protocol The magic of mirroring gives users the power to use tokens on one chain towards lending and borrowing on another chain without having to bridge from one chain to the next Goal is a full multichain lending system The difficulties of deali...

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://ethos.eth.link Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethereansOS Guest Name: Alessandro Toschi Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/toschi_eth --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/missiondefi/support

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 experience that changed his approach to life and people and we discussed that in detail. So many amazing lessons in this episode. Do not miss it. Video: https://www.missiondefi.com/fattybagz-olympusdao - Raised by hippy mom and Vietnam vet Dad on a Hindu compound. ...

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 space is integration into the real world and Gro is definitely on a path to that. - His background working for Spotify and Revolut and how that variety of experience helped in building Gro - How the idea came about to provide a mix of conservative and more aggress...

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 day his tweet thread went out about the risks inherent in the protocol. $USDC and our ability to get away from it We discussed $BEAN and this was recorded before the exploit, but the model still stands Bad websites and documentation in DeFi Radical decentr...

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 is important to understand the people that are taking a holistic approach to building a better DeFi. That is the goal of Justin Bebis and Byte Masons as they work to train new people in the space, build an ethic around how they operate, and create products that benefit everyone ...

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://twitter.com/OndoFinance This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel and his guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquidity pools, and all...

@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 - Project Medium: https://medium.com/paladin-protocol - Guests: - Name: Figue - Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/Figue_me - Name: Alejandro - Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/BaqueroLima - Show Notes - A better method for governance involvement - Vote l...