Brad Nickel
Mission: DeFi
Mission DeFi showcases innovation in the DeFi ecosystem. Our mission is to advance the cause of freedom that decentralized finance & cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and many others represent. Hosted by Brad Nickel with 26 years of experience in tech, startups, & crypto, he interviews and profiles innovative projects, their founders, & provides how-tos for investing in the DeFi ecosystem. Mission: DeFi is presented by Material Indicators(https://materialindicators.com) & Blacknox (https://blacknox.com)
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Episodes
DeFi Lunch (Ep 106) - March 28, 2022 - @Nansen_AI Free & Int. w/@ASvanevik, #MOVE, @aptoslabs, @MEVProtection, @CoinExams, @StargateFinance, @Fetch_ai 28.03.2022 53:25
Diem-based Chains launching. Teams from @Facebook's Diem are launching new chains with big funding using the Diem tech and smart contract language - #MOVE @aptoslabs / Aptos https://twitter.com/aptoslabs?s=11&t=Bi1-Uc-DyS4-fDDLEFBo6w @Mysten_Labs / Sui https://twitter.com/mysten_labs?s=11&t=Bi1-Uc-DyS4-fDDLEFBo6w @MEVProtection COWSwap tokens are now tradable https://cowswap.exchange/#/swa...
Mission: DeFi EP 50 - Alex Svanevik founder of Nansen onchain analytics: How investors use for success, How they built a powerhouse in #DeFi & #NFTs, What they've learned & what means for the future 24.03.2022 1:30:06
I can't think of a better guest for my 50th episode of the show. Alex Svanevik, his co-founders, and the team embody what DeFi is all about & their powerful model for growth is something from which we can all learn as we grow our own endeavors. Guest Name: Alex Svanevik Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASvanevik Company Name: Nansen Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/nansen_ai Compan...
Mission: DeFi EP 49 - @OndoFinance is working to solve the liquidity problem & @JustinBram the #DeFi explainer celebrity is helping them grow 18.03.2022 52:11
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...
Mission: DeFi EP 48 - Paladin is solving the DAO governance problem & providing powerful incentives to make it work 17.03.2022 49:48
@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...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 105) - March 16, 2022 - ETH Investment options, OlympusDAO & @JackNiewold, Biz Dev/Marketing, @LidoFinance, @Rocket_Pool, #Ethereum Merge, 16.03.2022 58:08
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. ETH Investment options Lido and Rocket Pool Ethereum Staking Jack Niewold and OlympusDAO and why this is about percpetions, marketing, and comms rather than about Jack Ethereum Merge and more. This is not financial advice. Nothing...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 104) - March 15, 2022 - @Wonderland_fi tax, @gelatonetwork, EU bans BTC?, Metamask/OpenSea blocking countries, & more 16.03.2022 52:29
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. Wonderland takes one more gouge out of investors before they leave - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1503703031669534720 EU Votes no on Bitcoin ban MetaMask and OpenSea prepare to block customers from certain countries - https://k...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 102) - March 11, 2022 11.03.2022 48:17
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. Tempus episode is up with David Garai Crystl revenue model is new. LA Token launches LACHAIN to bridge Ethereum-based networks Stripe Global payment solutions for Web3 Smart Contracts on Stellar: Why Now? Kicking off Project Jump C...
Mission: DeFi EP 47 - Tempus' David Garai - Fixed Income & Yield Speculation go DeFi! 11.03.2022 44:36
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 income/yield speculation protocol. They've taken a unique approach to the concept and have seen great growth. David and I discussed what is has been like building this platform,...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 101) - March 10, 2022 - @wavesprotocol - #EVM / Growth / #Miami, #BIden's Executive Order on Crypto, @Binance acquiring IRL, @BainCapCrypto 10.03.2022 44:16
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. - Biden's Executive order on crypto - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1501683673569144839 - Binance buying in Fintech - https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-unveils-plans-for-world-domination-by-buying-up-companies-in-every-sector...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 100) - March 9, 2022 10.03.2022 1:05:41
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. Using stETH as collateral on @AaveAave - https://twitter.com/lidofinance/status/1498653508731645959?s=28 Avalanche Subnets - https://twitter.com/stanikulechov/status/1501225901388099584?s=28 Coinbase Conforms To Sanctions, Blocks 25,000...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 99) - March 8, 2022 09.03.2022 53:01
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. Coinbase Conforms To Sanctions, Blocks 25,000 'Illicit' Russian Crypto Wallet Addresses | Bitcoinist.com - https://bitcoinist.com/coinbase-joins-sanctions/ Crypto funds register largest weekly inflows since December - https://cointelegra...
Mission: DeFi EP 46 - Walken wants to drive millions of users to DeFi. With 50 million downloads, $10 million in annual revenue & a marketing & dev machine 08.03.2022 59:28
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 million in annual revenue. Now they are taking their expertise in building successful exercise apps to the world of DeFi and NFTs with a walk/exercise to earn app. The foun...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 98) - March 7, 2022 - MD Interview with @AndrewYang / @Lobby3D | Andre Cronje's & @AntonNellCrypto's brain dead tweet & Brad's fix | @BeanstalkFarms poker tourney | #DeFi Adulting 07.03.2022 59:10
The inside scoop on Brad's interview with @AndrewYang about @Lobby3D for MissionDeFI.com Andre / @AntonNellCrypto's brain dead tweet announcing they were quitting and the fix Brad wrote for how they should have done it that is blowing up a bit on Twitter. How Brad won $2,200 in the @Beanstalkfarms poker tournament Brad and Joe did a full discussion on how these situations like the one with Andre c...
Mission DeFi EP 45 - Andrew Yang's Lobby3 is here to help advance #DeFi. How they will do it & why. @AndrewYang @Lobby3d 07.03.2022 25:54
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, I primarily supported him, because he took a pragmatic and logical approach to solving problems that was non-partisan and welcoming. That is why when he announced he was forming...
Mission: DeFi EP 44 - Forgotten Bancor plans to become unforgettable? Nate Hindman & Mark Richardson detail the powerful Bancor 3 & much more. 04.03.2022 1:51:18
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 for other AMMs like Uniswap, the project continued to build and develop a better way. Now years later, they are set to reveal a new version of Bancor that could dramatically c...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 96) - March 3, 2022 - @Vestlab #VC dump tracking, @OasisProtocol $ROSE, @Route2FI - stable yields, @LidoFinance - $MATIC, @AaveAave $stETH, 03.03.2022 57:29
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. - Kanye and Kim - Ukrainian contributions - https://twitter.com/b05crypto/status/1499406083810545669 - Tires in Ukraine - LFG gas pipeline issues - Oasis Protocol - https://oasisprotocol.org/technology - Vestlab - track when VCs will dum...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 95) - March 2, 2022 03.03.2022 48:45
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. Group alleges MetaMask & Infura were secretly given away to a JPMorgan-backed entity via illegal transaction called "Project North Star" https://twitter.com/Blockanalia/status/1499026179222876166?s=20&t=9yQzxsmEGJJmQbOnEv95Zg The...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 94) - March 1, 2022 - The great Bitcoin Flippening of The Ruble, Sen Warren, AMC to take $DOGE, $FRAX Safety review, @mattdwest, & more 01.03.2022 59:14
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. Degis is a new insurance protocol on @Avalanche $AVAX - https://degis.io New Mission DeFi episode with Matt West - Scientist, Engineer, Solidity Dev, and Yearn strategist running for Congress - https://bit.ly/mattdwest Layer 2 and 1 addr...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 93) - February 28, 2022 01.03.2022 50:39
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,...
Mission: DeFi EP 43 - Matt West: Engineer, Yearn Strategist, & Solidity dev running for Congress @mattdwest 01.03.2022 46:12
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 an anti-crypto candidate. We cover Matt's background as an Intel engineer and more importantly as a Yearn strategist / Solidity developer and his background from the earliest day...
Mission: DeFi EP 42 - Beanstalk Farms 2 - Creating a better stablecoin model - their progress, growth, lessons learned, big hairy vision, & what's next @Beanstalkfarms $BEAN 28.02.2022 1:04:22
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 growth in every aspect of the project from team size to volume and much more and they've had great success with their tokenomics keeping $BEAN to peg. We discuss with Publius why they think t...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 92) - February 25, 2022 25.02.2022 56:51
Pussy Riot and PleasrDAO start DAO to help Ukrain - https://decrypt.co/93787/pussy-riot-trippy-labs-pleasrdao-launch-ukraine-dao All about Avalance ($AVAX) - https://twitter.com/thehashtray/status/1496840179763793920?s=21 Get a mortgage against your crypto. Interesting idea, but bad execution - https://www.milocredit.com/crypto/ Sell fractions of your home equity as an NFT - https://vestaequity.ne...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 91) - February 24, 2022 25.02.2022 55:52
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, liquid...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 90) - February 23, 2022 25.02.2022 1:12:27
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,...
DeFi Lunch (Ep 89) - February 22, 2022 - @DustSweeperDAO, Biden to issue exec order, @Coinbase CEO claims ad credit not earned, DAO wants to buy NFL Team, Anti-NFT artist blows up Lambo & sells NFTs 23.02.2022 57:39
Episode Show Notes: Canada screws the pooch - https://beincrypto.com/canada-financial-surveillance-measures-permanent Banks are the money launderers - https://thenewscrypto.com/data-breach-of-credit-suisse-uncovers-100-billion-worth-money-laundering/ Founder of Ruby on Rails converts to pro crypto - https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-was-wrong-we-need-crypto-587ccb03 Coinbase CEO takes credit for super b...
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