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)

Author

Brad Nickel

Category

Technology

Podcast website

missiondefi.com

Latest episode

Jul 27, 2023

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Episodes

DeFi Lunch (Ep 88) - February 18, 2022 - @JoeCawley5: @CathieDWood-ARK ETF / #DeFi Strategies / @JackNiewold's Wkly / Autocompounder risks / Munger: crypto is VD ❤️ China / @davesaidthat_ $FPI Exp 19.02.2022

@JoeCawley5 says @CathieDWood and ARK ETF looks like good entry @davesaidthat_ $FRAX @SamKazemian $FPI Explained - http://bit.ly/FPIExplained @B05crypto 's DeFi Strategies Twitter list - http://bit.ly/defistrategies @JackNiewold 's Epic Weekly - https://twitter.com/JackNiewold/status/1493368271734726662 Autocompounder risks - 2 contracts instead of 1 - https://twitter.com/Momentum_6/status/1492127...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 87) - February 17, 2022 17.02.2022

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 86) - February 16, 2022 17.02.2022

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 84) - February 14, 2022 15.02.2022

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 83) - February 11, 2022 13.02.2022

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...

EP 41 - Emma Jane Mackinnon Lee of Digitalax is driven to decentralize fashion in Web3 & then the rest of the world 11.02.2022

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 Web3 platform that empowers designers and the rest of the fashion ecosystem to leverage decentralization, DAOs, and the creativity into a powerful economic force. If you can't...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 82) - February 10, 2022 - @Binance ❤️ @Forbes $200 million, Harry Yeh threat to $FTM, @Apple destroying banks, @EOSNfoundation threatens @B1 $4.1 billion & more 11.02.2022

- @Binance invests $200 million in @Forbes - @eosnfoundation threatens lawsuit for $4.1 billion against Block One - Apple & Stripe Partnering on credit card processing and to take crypto & end banks - Brad's Harry Yeh rant about his threat to @FantomFDN, Tomb Finance, 2omb - Emma Jane Mackinnon Lee - https://www.digitalax.xyz/homepage - Blackrock crypto trading desk to open - Salesforce NF...

EP 40 - Ureka is rewriting the rules for @OlympusDAO forks & it is a compelling narrative. Founder Alex joins us to discuss r-APY & why he believes their approach is superior. 10.02.2022

@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 involved and his approach to the business of DeFi is unique and foundational for a solid long term strategy.  No initial funding Airdropping 10 million tokens to as many wal...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 81) - February 9, 2022 @Superfluid_HQ Post Mortem, Treasury wants banks to control stables, Market Maker Alex of @UrekaFinance with market analysis, 09.02.2022

@Superfluid_HQ Post Mortem and their steps to move forward with this innovative protocol Treasury wants banks to control stables  Market Maker Alex of @UrekaFinance with amazing market analysis 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...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 80) - February 8, 2022 - @superfluid_hq, @bitfinex hackers caught, @0xPolygon monster round, Google crypto, 08.02.2022

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. Superfluid exploit Bitfinex hackers caught and funds seized Polygon $450 million investment Alphabet CEO says blockchain cool Kazakhstan taxing miners 500% Welcome to Nor presentation FIrecharts and Material Indicators This is not financial adv...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 79) - February 7, 2022 - @superfluid_HQ, 08.02.2022

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 78) - February 4, 2022 06.02.2022

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...

EP 38 - How Gains is creating better, faster, & fairer leveraged trading on DeFi. Founder Seb, until recently a one man show, tells us how. $GNS @GainsNetwork_io 04.02.2022

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 powerful synthetics-based trading platform that makes day trading possible on DeFi.  With a fairer and less expensive model and amazing tokenomics and earning possibilities,...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 77) - February 3, 2022 - #DeFi Tools: @tokenterminal, @dexscreener, @TornadoCash, @DuneAnalytics, @DeFiSafety, @dovemetrics, @0xCoindix. Fed & Stablecoins. IRS & staking 03.02.2022

A big thank you to @thedefiedge for listing some great tools we hadn't heard about and tools we forgot to use. Great list here .  DeFi Tools:  Token Terminal Dex Screener Tornado Cash - Privacy and anonymity Dune Analytics DeFi Safety Dove Metrics - Latest VC funding rounds Coindix - DeFi vault data and yields News:  Fed & Stablecoins IRS & staking  Great Wonderland pro...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 76) - February 2, 2022 03.02.2022

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...

Mission DeFi - EP 37 - How A Hybrid NFT/DeFi Model with Beautiful Art could change an industry - Neptune from The Idols @TheIdolsNFT $stETH @LidoFinance 02.02.2022

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-contained "Virtue Circle" is innovative, the art is beautiful, the team is strong, and the overall mission of helping to secure the Ethereum network is admirable.  I'll be wat...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 75) - February 2, 2022 - @Blockanalia of @CoinDesk joins us to discuss @Wonderland_Fi, #DeFi in general, his life as a #crypto journalist, & the future of the industry. 01.02.2022

Our guest today is Andrew Thurman (https://twitter.com/Blockanalia) of CoinDesk(https://coindesk.com). He's one of the best writers, journalists, and people in #DeFi. You can count on his coverage being fair and insightful. We discussed Wonderland, DeFi in general, and his experiences being a journalist in the space.  Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunitie...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 74) - January 31, 2022 - More @Wonderland_fi insanity $wMEMO $TIME @danielesesta 01.02.2022

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 73) - January 28, 2022 - More @Wonderland_fi insanity $wMEMO $TIME @danielesesta 30.01.2022

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 72) - January 27, 2022 - The Wonderland Train Wreck $wMEMO, $TIME, $MEMO @danielesesta #bitcoin & El Salvador @Decred $DCR 27.01.2022

Today we dove deep into Wonderland/Memo/TIME and the mess around 0xSIFU as well as market conditions and walked through everything that happened.  El Salvador vs. IMF Decred $DCR and their big hill to climb to get a presence in DeFi. Ark Invest and Cathie Wood predict bitcoin to $1 million Moon DAO silliness Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the s...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 70) - January 25, 2022 - Review of Grayscale list: $ALGO $AR $AXS $AVAX $CVX $DCR $EOS $FTM $FLOW $GALA $GEL $HNT $REN $ROSE $IOTA $SCRT $STX $SPELL $LUNA $XTZ $YGG $1INCH 25.01.2022

Thank you for the amazing reviews. Please visit here to review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1574134305?mt=2&ls=1 We went pretty deep on the @Grayscale Assets Under Consideration with a review of most, Russia/#Crypto,  0x (ZRX) 1inch (1INCH) Algorand (ALGO) Arweave (AR) Avalanche (AVAX) Axie Infinity (AXS) Bancor (BNT) BitTorrent (BTT) BORA (BORA) Convex (CVX) Cosmos (ATOM) Dec...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 69) - January 24, 2022 Market Cond.,$OXD @0xDAO_fi, $SOL @Solana, $UNI @Uniswap, @FantomFDN, Bear Market Strategies & more 24.01.2022

- Economic circumstances and what it means for DeFi - Joe's take on where we are - Still correlated to tradfi - The inflationists have been saying never will end and now saying that there is none. They were laughing about how bad the predictions were that it would be transitory.... - Cava.com - Molecular drink creating system. Will it eliminate the beverage industry? - David Friedberg from The Pro...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 67) - January 20, 2022 22.01.2022

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 68) - January 21, 2022 - Alt Strategies in a Bear Market - @bancor $BNT @AlchemixFi $ALCX @FraxFinance $FRAX @OlympusDAO $OHM 22.01.2022

Alternative stable strategies @TokenReactor $TOKE @OlympusDAO $gOHM @GeistFinance $GEIST @bancor $BNT @AlchemixFi $ALCX @FraxFinance $FRAX $FPI Cathie Woods ETFs $UST @Anchor_Protocol The rise of DAOs in 2022 Crypto Tax Software mess in the US Virtual NFT Pets Movie & TV picks for the week Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liqui...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 66) - January 19, 2022 - @DokiDokiFinance Gacha Protocol Launch will change NFT distribution for good $DOKI $AZUKI - $OHM Status, $SB Status & More 20.01.2022

$Doki Doki $Gacha launch Azuki launch of permissionless system 27:39 Show ideas Steal this idea Hold or Dump Status of @OlympusDAO / $OHM Status of @Snowbank / $SB Monty Python and the Meaning of Life - Wafer thin mint HectorDAO 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 fin...

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