Mission: DeFi

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 all players and their focus on building a platform for developers to build upon. Discuss this episode in the Mission: DeFi community: https://t.me/missiondefi Project Name: Akas...

Brad went solo today, because he did such a bad job of communicating with Joe yesterday. You are missing out if you haven't joined our community yet: https://t.me/missiondefi Fidelity is building out a crypto and token research team - https://md1.to/idelityisbuildingoutacryptoandtokenresearchteam 90% of Ethereum now in self-custody as supply on exchanges hits lowest level since 2015 - https://...

We had a great interview with developer Tom Wilson who is building a powerful incentives and content protocols on Arweave that are great examples of the power of that platform. Project URL: https://md1.to/stamps Guest URL: https://md1.to/rakis Other stories from the show: Binance would never 'trade against users to their detriment,' top exec says - https://md1.to/binancecftc1 Disgraced cry...

Today we discussed Miami NFT Week and the growing crypto and startup scene with the founders of the confernece Erik LaPaglia and Gianni Dalerta. Conference URL: https://md1.to/mianftweek Guest Twitter: https://md1.to/eriklapaglia Guest Twitter: https://md1.to/giannidalerta Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield far...

Jack Melnick joins us to discuss everything Polygon and how their amazing Biz Dev team approaches the deals they see are best for Polygon.  Project: Polygon DeFi Project URL: https://polygon.technology/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xPolygonDeFi Guest Name: Jack Melnick Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackmelnick_ Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new oppor...

Game7 is working to change the fundamentals of game development and they’ve already built some amazing tools to grow their community. Joe and Brad discussed what it takes to succeed with Jon Allen of Game7. Jon was previously a bomb squad member in the military and has a powerful background in investing. Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space incl...

Gelato is dominating the smart contract automation world and with good reason. This is a powerful platform used by some of the biggest projects in the world.  Project: Gelato Project URL: https://www.gelato.network/ Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/gelatonetwork Guest Name: Hilmar Orth Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/hilmarxo Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, n...

More options are popping up everyday for staking on Ethereum. EtherFI is taking a completely decentralized approach to it, while also working to help projects build on top of their protocol.  Project Name: EtherFi Project URL: https://ether.fi Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/ether_fi Guest Name: Mike Silagadze Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeSilagadze Don't miss out on the DeFi Lu...

Eowyn Chen wasn't expecting to be the CEO of Binance's Trust Wallet, but when the situation presented itself, she rose to the challenge and now leads one of the most used wallets in crypto. She discusses the challenges of leading, the team's approach to their product and their market, and how they see the future.  Brad and Joe were really impressed with her approach to leadership and growth f...

Another amazing episode with Shaun covering not only current market conditions, but also,  * His current shitcoin plays * A discussion on centralization * Our takes on the banks, regulators, and the fiat blcokade and much much more.  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....

Game7 - https://md1.to/game7 USDC Dune Dashboard - https://md1.to/usdcdash Metamask sees swaps volume hit all time high over weekend - https://md1.to/etamaskvol Rodney Dangerfield - https://md1.to/rd1 MetaMask Mobile v6 - https://md1.to/mmv6 Brad's Liquity Thread - https://md1.to/liquitythread1 EU Parliament passes smart contract regulation under Data Act - https://md1.to/eusmartcontractregs Euler...

Join the community and learn more about the best investing strategies in DeFi and Crypto - https://t.me/missionDeFi CFTC Names Executives From Circle, TRM, Fireblocks Among Others to New Tech Advisory Group - https://md1.to/cftc1 DeFi Lender Euler Suffers $200M Exploit - https://md1.to/euler1 Botnet that knows your name and quotes your email is back with new tricks - https://md1.to/malware1 More t...

Join our community to share your opinion on banks and crypto - https://t.me/missionDeFi 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, a...

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,...

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, just after launching their vaunted version 3 of their protocol. The destruction was indirectly caused by the very thing that drew so many people to it, Impermanent Loss Prot...

Throughout Ireland and the world, renewable energy is being created using everything from cow manure to wind and sunshine, but there's a problem, because often times the grid can't handle all the energy being created. Enter Scilling Mining to save the day and give energy producers the ability to mine bitcoin with their stranded energy. We really enjoyed getting to know founder Mark Morton and unde...

Great interview today with Neel Salami the founder of Eclipse a rollup as a service provider for specialized protocols in DeFi, GameFi, and much more. This is a powerful platform that will make it easier for protocols to manage performance of their applications on whatever chain they choose.  Eclipse website - https://md1.to/eclipse1 Ecplipse Twitter - https://md1.to/eclipsetwitter Neel's Twi...

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 to a vision of creating a system of permanent storage, because he was concerned about censorship and the ongoing human problems of storing our information, knowledge, and data in a safe and perman...

Join the discussion in our community - https://t.me/missiondefi Amazon NFTs will be tied to real-world assets, token may be incoming - https://md1.to/z1qrg We had Brendon from CoreDAO on to explain their unique consensus mechanism that combines Proof of Stake with Bitcoin hash - https://md1.to/coredao Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space includi...

Galen Moore from Axelar joins us to discuss multichain crosschain communications, swaps, etc.  Join our amazing community to discuss this and so much more in crypto: https://t.me/missiondefi 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 sai...

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,...

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,...

Get spicy in our community: https://t.me/missiondefi Ripple asks SEC chair to recuse self from crypto enforcement cases https://md1.to/j5q9o Solana outage triggers ballistic reaction from the crypto community https://md1.to/9gvcw Solana Developers Say Reason for Network Outage Still Unclear - https://md1.to/5jedm Prudential Regulatory Authority, the UK's Banking Regulator, to Propose Rules on Issu...

Discussed a ton of yields today. Join our Telegram community to see them and connect with the awesome folks learning & building together: https://t.me/missiondefi.com - In the Yieds Topic  DayLight is a really awesome tool with a great business model  - https://bit.ly/mddaylight Homora V2 - https://homora-v2.alphaventuredao.io/ Homora is cool, but somebody on that team needs to figur...

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 his team has solved it with a powerful new model for blockchain.  Do you think Quai has what it takes? Discuss Quai in our Telegram group: https://t.me/missionDefi Pr...