MikoBits Blockchain NFT and DeFi show

Ayesha from LedgerPrime fills us in on the latest and greatest.

Opium is a long-running and exciting Derivatives exchange. Learn more from the founder and CEO of Opium and get two announcements about the new Insurance products! 0:00 introduction 1:53 How Opium Started 3:43 Why switch from CeFi to DeFi 9:09 Announcing Insurance Products 15:41 Where can users buy Opium Insurance 16:47 What if Tether Collapses? 21:43 Yield Farming 23:34 10,000% Yield 26:56 Anothe...

Learn more about the DeFi initiatives from LCX with Founder and CEO Monty Metzger

Learn about the rise of personal tokens and how blockchain changes entrepreneurship from a leading young entrepreneur and the inventor of the $ALEX token.

SKALE is a novel EVM and Ethereum compatible scalability layer. Episode Index: 1) What is SKALE 2) Current SKALE network status 135 nodes 3) Ethereum compatible scaling, pay in ETH 4) Why developers should choose SKALE for ETH scalability 5) Killer Applications for SKALE 6) Applications for the real world 7) "Salesforce" CRM on blockchain 8) A DAO to replace Amazon Web Services 9) Filecoin, SIAcoi...

Episode Index: 1) Timing and Exponential growth of NFTs Art, Collectibles, Games, Financial Assets: history going back to "rare Pepes" and timing 2) Art could be a breakthrough for non-blockchain mass adoption. Non-technical and non-blockchain artists are joining and making a full-time living 3) Coinfund's investment thesis around NFT--liquid Intellectual Property: the wholesale migration and tran...

Index: 1) It's Different This Time: Criminal Indictment of BitMex  2) DOJ is involved so Jail Time  3) Contents of the Sealed Indictment  4) Implications of BSA Enforcement for DeFi  5) What happens to privacy coins and privacy tech 6) DEX isn't Safe: How they got EtherDelta  7) Custody and Money Laundering  8) Binance could be next  9) Why IP Blocking isn't Enou...

Great conversation with Aya Kantorovich from FalconX. Discussion of the state of regulation, CeFi vs DeFi, BitMex, AML, AMM, liquidity etc. * DeFi opening finance and democratizing market accessibility for retail * CEX, DEX, or the same? Crypto juggling labels and what it means for traders. * Liquidity! Centralized and decentralized, what differentiates AMMs (Automated Market Makers) from centrali...

A discussion with Josh Fraser who is a founder of Origin Protocol. Origin has launched oUSD which is a stable coin with very interesting properties. Video Index: 1) How did Origin and OUSD get started? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=104 2) How does OUSD work? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=299 3) Can the OUSD balance also go down? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=403 4) How does gas cost work with O...

A fun discussion about pickle and a number of other DeFi projects and the state of Yield Farming.  As you know, ETH gas prices are down and it seems that there is a decreased amount of yield farming going on.   He is @JSLapidus on twitter, please check him out!  He's working on a cool project called PoolParty. http://pool-party.cl ub Joshua and I have a nice conversation about the s...

Video Index: 1) Arthur Breitman shares his origin story of Tezos https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=85 2) Kathleen Breitman shares her origin story https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=206 3) Arthur: Tezos as "Coordination Mechanism" for Open Source governance https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=347 4) Governance and Fair Funding of Open Source https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=507 5) Miko: "Loot Drama" has existed...

YFI is one of the dominant DeFi protocols. Mark Jeffrey was early into YFI and has deconstructed the inner workings of the YFI vaults. He explains this and much more about YFI governance and culture.

Interview with RenBTC

This is an interview with Hassaan from Arca, a leading hedge fund. We get a professionally researched perspective on some of the emerging giants in the DeFi space.

Today we talk about how to use the 1inch. exchange DEX aggregator to swap tokens or ETH for tokens.   For example, this link allows you to swap DAI for BZRX https://1inch.exchange/#/DAI/BZRX .  Keep in mind several things, obviously, you will need to connect a wallet like Metamask. Also, keep in mind this isn't investment advice, do your own homework. Also, be aware of gas prices, so som...

A quick review of the website: https://defirate.com/ which shows all of the latest APR (annual percent yield) of DAI (a stable coin) that accrues to lenders.  You may notice that Fulcrum, a project of BZX protocol is showing a very high yield. Obviously, these high yields can be a function of having recently launched and there are risks associated with chasing yield.   This is not invest...

In this episode, I review a great website called    http://defisafety.co m This website was recommended by Andre Cronje on Twitter and provides a methodology for understanding which of the major DeFi protocols are safer than the others.  I highly recommend this and other such sites to ensure that you are maximizing your yield but at the same time minimizing your risk!  Stay saf...

In this episode, I interview Kain Warwick the founder of Synthetix. TimeStamps 0:00 Welcome 1:49 Announcing Synthetix on Chainlink 7:23 Derivatives on Synthetix 8:35 DEX Volumes 9:21 SNX, Product or Protocol? 11:33 Decentralization Maximalism 13:49 Optimism and Roll-ups 16:29 Implementation of Optimism 17:40 Smart Contract Audits 20:25 DeFi Insurance 23:15 Mainstream Adoption 26:31 Governance 29:1...

I interview Alex Atallah who is the Founder and CTO of OpenSea, the world's biggest and best exchange for Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs which are collectible unique digital assets like Crypto Kitties.

It's always important to understand the people behind important products in the blockchain industry. MyEtherWallet has been a trusted part of the Ethereum and ERC-20 community for many years already and so it is a great solution if you need an Ethereum or ERC-20 Web Wallet. This video is an interview and discussion with Kosala Hemachandra, CEO of MyEtherWallet.

I interview Anatoly, founder of Solana (SOL) a high-performance blockchain that will be underpinning a novel exchange called Serum (SRM) We talk about Ethereum scalability and the technical solution and novel layer one consensus that is represented by Solana. Fascinating technology and very interesting founder.

Here I interview Alex Mashinsky and Nuke Goldstein of Celsius Network. Disclosure: I am an advisor to Celsius. Celsius (CEL) is a simple way to earn interest on Bitcoin, Ether and many other popular cryptocurrencies. It features a simple mobile app. For those folks for whom self-custody is too complicated and DeFi is too complicated, I often encourage them to take a look at Celsius. As with all fi...

UMA allows for the creation of synthetic assets. This requires a price to move from off-chain to on-chain which is of course the Oracle problem. UMA embeds a novel form of oracle that only needs to be consulted during a dispute, for example during a liquidation event. Prices are pushed on chain during disputes. As such, UMA works a bit more like a court of law, and most transactions go uncontested...

Today on MikoBits I interview Tegan Kline of The Graph protocol. 1:38 How did you get into Blockchain? 2:23 What is The Graph? 3:39 Graph Traction Metrics 4:49 How are DeFi projects using The Graph? 5:52 What kinds of Applications? 6:16 How DeFi supercharged The Graph 7:55 GRP. is an ERC-20 8:43 Tegan on DeFi 10:54 Traditional Finance vs DeFi 14:17 Tokens as a new business model 16:28 Tokens as a...

Interview with Stani from AAVE the LEND protocol! One of the absolutely meteoric DeFi protocols, the original ETH Lend group has a rampaging hit on their hands with AAVE. We discuss the exciting protocol and about DeFi lending in general.