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Mission: DeFi
by Brad Nickel
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)
Episodes
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 364) - July 27, 2023 - Crypto Bills / BTC & ETH CME Futures Up / @PancakeSwap everywhere / Can @FantomFDN recover? /
You are missing out. Join our free community to get the Alpha, make new friends, learn more and share your thoughts and opinions: https://t.me/missiondefi Crypto bills pass congressional committee in ‘huge win’ for US crypto - https://md1.to/mp4sh White House Derailed Negotiation on U.S. House...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 363) - July 13, 2023 - Shaun and Joe
If you haven't joined our community yet, you are missing out on amazing analysis and Alpha. 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...
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Mission: DeFi - EP 103 - Maverick (@MavProtocol) changes everything for #DeFi! - Bob Baxley (@Bob_Baxley)
Mark these words: Maverick Protocol has the potential to dramatically change the fundamentals of DeFi. I can usually whip through 3-4 use cases for a protocol within minutes of understanding it, but Maverick gives me a headache, because the possibilities seem endless and more powerful than what...
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Mission: DeFi - EP 102 - Casper the Chain has an enterprise focus & a powerful model - Ralf Kubli of the Casper Association
Ralf Kubli has been advocating for Switzerland to properly arbitrage its regulatory advantage in crypto and now the Casper Association is working to build a powerful enterprise focused chain that will take advantage of that. We discussed not only Casper, but also the future of crypto, regulation...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 360) - July 3, 2023 - @ShrimpyApp gone / @Coinbase filing / @Cantonamespace / @CantoPublic on @Pancakeswap / Gensler under fire / SCOTUS to check SEC? / $ETH staking over exchanges
@Coinbase filing for dismissal is a thing of beauty - https://md1.to/cpgom Step By Step - How to secure your .canto name at Canto Namespace - https://md1.to/9tq5g @CantoPublic on @PancakeSwap! $CANTO / ETH pool using the @LayerZero_Labs SUPER FAST bridging. - https://md1.to/yhb8g SEC Chair Gary...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 359) - June 29, 2023 - Shaun Day!
You are missing out if you haven't joined our community yet. Airdrops news, Bitcoin debates, great DeFi news, and much more - 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...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 358) - June 27, 2023 - Should @FantomFDN be the #AI Chain? / A look at DeFi raises via @DeFiLLama / Cats? / #DeSci - @ResearchHub / @LensProtocol / @gensynai / @mnemonichq /
Join the community: https://t.me/missiondefi Earndrop Crypto Airdrops Finder - https://md1.to/l5v0b Linea Voyage Quest - https://md1.to/ke8mv Cash App Status - https://md1.to/ez5rs (4) Brad Nickel on Twitter on @CashApp - https://md1.to/r7tq5 As Ether staking yields fall, protocols will have to…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 357) - June 26, 2023 - Dog nose wrinkles? / @AndreCronjeTech w/@FantomFDN latest / $LUNC is back? / @NEARProtocol / IMF can't stop crypto /Blackrock effect / @arpaofficial
What do AC/DC and Sinead O'Connor have to do with DeFi? Nothing, but we have an amazing music discussion going on in our crazy DeFi community. Join us now to take part - https://t.me/missiondefi ‘Blockchain for dog nose wrinkles’ Ponzi makes off with $127m – DL News - https://md1.to/w5zug (8)…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 356) - June 22, 2023 - @at0x_eth Hybrid NFT/AI projects!
Have you secured your place in the history of DeFi - Hobnob with the brilliant members of Mission: DeFi - https://t.me/missiondefi Today's special guest Carlos is developing platforms at the bleeding edge of AI & NFTs and the possibilities are pretty amazing. Do not miss this episode that will…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 354) - June 15, 2023 - Shaun Day - Market outlook and strategies
Join our community and speak with Shaun and lots of other smart folks - 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…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 351) - June 8, 2023 - "All of DeFi is A Failure"?!?! - BTC Maxi (@XBT3D) vs. DeFi Degen
@XBT3D and Brad has a great time fiercely debating whether everything in DeFi has been a failure. It is one of those episodes you just can't miss and can't turn off. Content Warning! This event contains language not suitable for those under 3, Evangelical Christians, Gary Gensler, No Coiners, Liz...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 353) - June 13, 2023
As crypto burns, solo bitcoin miner wins BTC ‘lottery’ - Blockworks - https://md1.to/juoum *** Join the community to discuss this and more: https://t.me/missiondefi *** Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second Life | Second Life | The Guardian - https://md1.to/1vt79 Uniswap...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 352) - June 12, 2023 - @Hashflow Rug? / @mcuban hits SEC / Loki DAO loses / UK Bans Airdrops / Crypto Leaders Screwing up Politics
FatManHashflow on Twitter: "Hashflow - a DeFi exchange - has rugged early supporters of their tokens through implementation of a DAO proposal authored by their CTO. At the time of writing, an estimated 7-8 figures USD worth of locked $HFT tokens belonging to users have been voided to the DAO...
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Mission: DeFi - EP 101 - DeFi to grow #AI & open source applications - Max Howell(@mxcl) of @teaxyz explains the powerful model
Tea combines the benefits of #DeFi with incentives to build open source & makes it easy for users to use all kinds of complex applications including the latest in #AI. Max Howell joined Chuck and Brad for a powerful Twitter Spaces on his model for Tea (https://tea.xyz). Max is the original…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 350) - June 6, 2023 SEC Attacks @Coinbase! Legal analysis.
You are missing out on a community of like-minded folks discussing the big and little topics of the day - https://md1.to/mdtg MetaLawMan on Twitter: "BREAKING: SEC sues @Coinbase In May of 2021, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler testified ( https://md1.to/gyha3 ) DeFi Llama + ChatGPT (…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 349) - June 5, 2023 - CZ Sued by SEC
Be a part of the community and give us your thoughts: https://t.me/missiondefi gabrielShapir0 on Twitter: "okay, as promised, here is my long/stream-of-consciousnessy thread on the proposed crypto market structure bill CAVEAT: this is one of the most of complex & ambitious financial laws ever...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 348) - June 1, 2023 - Trader's Journey - Michael L.
Michael joins us to discuss his journey from guessing about trading to a full system, but there is so much more in between about his life journey to this point. Join our community to discuss your investing journey - https://t.me/missiondefi Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 347) - May 30, 2023 - How Brad made 32x on a BRC-20 - Where to bank in crypto / AI / Burn More ETH! / #Ordinals Explode / $ETH #NFTs -> Ordinals / The latest raises / $OP Dump
Nobody likes to fly alone. Join the Mission: DeFi community to get the insights, debates, edu, and alpha you long for and maybe a friend or two a long the way - https://t.me/missiondefi --- News A new ONNX Runtime in Cairo 1.0, a verifiable, fully open-source framework for ML inference. -...
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Mission: DeFi - EP 100 - Building in AI with Corey Cottrell - EPISODE 100! 🥳 That's a bit nuts
Can't think of anyone better for my 100th episode 🥳 than my good friend Corey Cottrell. We always have a great time just chatting and this conversation is no different. We had a wide ranging chat about AI, the future, and his projects. Corey has been building innovative platforms with his…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 346) - May 25, 2023 - A Trader's Journey - Hammie - From ShitCoins to Calling the Pico Top with Shaun!
From ShitCoins to Calling the Pico Top - A Trader's Journey Hammie (https://twitter.com/sibolero) is a member of the Material Indicators community and when she started her trading journey, she basically knew next to nothing about trading. She started off investing in shitcoin projects on a...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 345) - May 23, 2023 - Is @VitalikButerin trying to kill @Eigenlayer? / @Dashpay Dead? Last of the @Masternodes? / FTX 2.0 - Worst or best idea ever? / Bonkers @Bitcoin NFTs/ #BRC-20?
Psst... Hey you, Yes, you – Before you listen to the show, just know that we took a bet today about what your excuse is for not joining the community yet. Sadly, you won't like the option with the best odds, because it is really perverted. So instead of humiliating you, we're just going to...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 344) - May 22, 2023 - @mavprotocol changing how liquidity gets done in DeFi - @alvinxuzj
Fantastic interview with Alvin Xu of Maverick Protocol with a new approach to managing liquidity that is attracting a ton of attention and TVL. Stay tuned for Brad's longer form interview with Alvin's co-founder for a deep dive into how it works and what it does. Discuss Maverick in the…
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Mission: DeFi EP 99 - Crypto news done right - Ekin Genç Managing Editor of @DLNews on how they plan to change the face of DeFi Reporting
We're big fans of DeFi Llama and not such big fans of the current state of crypto "journalism". So, you could say we were pretty damn excited to find out that the Llamas were building a DeFi news project to do crypto journalism right. Our excitement was further enforced, after meeting Managing...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 343) - May 18, 2023 - Shaun Day!
Why do you think it is that you haven't joined the most intelligent community in DeFi? - https://t.me/missiondefi You hate interacting with really smart, experienced people? You don't like hearing the latest news? You can't stand humorous interactions and complete smart asses? You don't like...
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Mission: DeFi EP 98 - Can Akash be a major player in AI with their GPU market? Founder Greg Osuri joins my Twitter Space to discuss
Our first episode on Twitter Spaces and we will likely do more. To get notified so you can listen and ask questions, be sure to follow Brad on Twitter - https://md1.to/b05 and turn on notifications 🔔 and join our Telegram community - https://t.me/missiondefi Much thanks for my friend and…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 342) - May 16, 2023
Join the community and make a difference - https://t.me/missiondefi Adam Cochran - In the US and abroad that guidance came almost a decade ago for everyone but the SEC - https://md1.to/jfnf0 Robert Scoble on Twitter: "This is the scariest tweet Ive made in a long time. On Friday I met with a...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 341) - May 15, 2023 - @MakerDAO Chain & #AI / @hourglasshq / 👍 @native_fi / @LidoFinance 🆕 / @litecoin ⚡️ / @gitcoin 😡 / @binance 👋🏻 Canada /
Join the fam - https://t.me/missiondefi ❤️ Spark Protocol - https://md1.to/3b8jl Binance exit Canada - https://md1.to/2614q Hourglass - https://md1.to/z28ji Lido V2 update - https://md1.to/5mem2 Lido V2 — Next Step In Decentralization - https://md1.to/e4pf9 Litecoin Lightning -...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 340) - May 11, 2023 - Shaun (@XBT3D) Day! How to play shitcoins properly and BRC-20s, Bitcoin network
Another banger of an episode with the illustrious and never boring Shaun. Today he tells us how he picks and speculates on shitcoins as well as what is up with Bitcoin, Ordinals, and BRC-20 tokens. Get all the episodes in audio and video at https://missiondefi.com Ask your self, why are you…
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Mission: DeFi EP 97 - Can $R be the decentralized stablecoin we need? David Garai of Raft thinks borrowing against staked $ETH is the way to go
Get ready for a powerful new idea to alter the framework of DeFI! When the bear market forced Tempus Finance to build something new, David Garai and his team refused to back down. Searching for the next revolutionary idea, they identified one of the most challenging problems in DeFi: the need for…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 339) - May 4, 2023 - @Cowswap & @Yearnfi Dump / @0xMantle v @Hela_Network v #MultiData / #BRC20 #Ordinals @unisat_wallet - @MarkJeffrey /
Don't miss Brad's Spaces with @GregOsuri (https://md1.to/grego) of @akashnet_ (https://md1.to/akash) Tuesday, May 8th at 11:00 AM eastern. Click here to get reminded - https://md1.to/tsosuri 🎉 Our amazing community is waiting for your insights! Join - https://t.me/missiondefi Sui Mainnet has...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 338) - May 2, 2023 - $COIN @Coinbase Perps / @0xProject / @eigenlayer Mainnet / @DefiLlama Protocol Pages / @CryptoHayes - Nationalized banks
So much edu, alpha, and great people. Join the Mission: DeFi community: https://t.me/missiondefi 0x | Powerful APIs to build financial apps on crypto rails - https://md1.to/d89lc Arthur Hayes - US regulators decided to nationalise the banking system - https://md1.to/375gh Wormhole Connect:...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 337) - May 1, 2023 - @TinyTapAB edu co has cool NFT model / Hong Kong Crypto / @berachain vs @CantoPublic / @ambosstech for lightning / @aki_protocol / $PEPE sigh /
Don't miss out! Join the community - https://t.me/missiondefi Berachain $42.0M fundraise - https://md1.to/23vk7 Amboss Technologies, a data analytics firm that focuses on the Bitcoin Lightning Network, has raised $4 million in seed funding - https://md1.to/532ba TinyTap $8.5M raise -...
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Mission: DeFi EP 96 - Vega - The Power of Financial Legos on an App Chain - Founder: Barney Mannerings
What is it like to watch DeFi summer pass you by while you are building a powerful app-based financial platform to bring financial derivative products to anyone with an idea? For 5 years, Barney Mannerings and the team at Vega Protocol have been building not only a derivatives trading app, but…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 336) - Apr 27, 2023 - Learn Market Making & Algos with Shaun
Who knew market making was such an amazing way to make money? Shaun was here and told all. Fantastic insights into what market making is, how it works, ways to do it, and why it is an amazing way to make money. This is not financial advice. This is complex and difficult and you could lose it all…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 335) - Apr 25, 2023 - @Coinbase 🥊 SEC / @Binance AI 🥱 / Bridge Volume @Defillama / @Arbitrum Beats Ethereum? / @SPGlobalRatings goes DeFi? / @Coincenter 🥷
Are you missing out on Alpha?!? Join the Mission: DeFi community: https://t.me/missiondefi Coinbase filed a narrow action in the U.S. Circuit Court to compel the SEC to respond “yes or no” to a rulemaking petition https://md1.to/h7a8s Binance Sensei AI Chatbot. https://md1.to/95krb Bridge Volume…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 334) - Apr 24, 2023 - #AI will change all / Bank of @AndreCronjeTech / @DFYN V2 Wow! / @Gemini Derivs / Could #SCOTUS slap #SEC back? / @0xPolygon Researcher departs for @AvailProject
More people are joining us to discuss the show and much, much more in our community? Do you really want to miss this? https://md1.to/mdtg Microsoft working on its own AI chips that may rival Nvidia’s https://md1.to/msaichip Are regulators like the SEC abusing their power? Supreme court thinks…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 333) - Apr 20, 2023 - Shaun Day!
Shaun is back and he's sharing more brilliant analysis on the market and why nothing has changed for him on his bearish outlook. Shaun is sharing even more in our community. Don't miss out here: https:// t.me/missiondefi Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities...
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Mission: DeFi EP 95 - VC Evan Mair of Gumi Cryptos explains how they fund startups in crypto & what they see on horizon
Traditional VCs get gun shy when the markets turn, but the partners at Gumi Cryptos just keep moving forward and looking for compelling innovation in the space. Today we interviewed Evan Mair to find out what it is like in today's bear market for crypto and DeFi. We discuss: Evan's background and...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 332) - Apr 18, 2023
Are you missing out on the community? Join now for all the news and discussions you need. https://t.me/missiondefi NEWS: Rocket Pools Atlas upgrade goes live, lowering Ethereum staking limits. ( https://twitter.com/Blockworks_/status/1648262994218852353?s=20 ) For the past 48hrs Ive been…
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 331) - Apr 17, 2023
BNB Chain on Twitter: "BNB Greenfields code is now open source 🍀 Everyones invited to experiment with Greenfields features and code, give us feedback, and co-build this promising ecosystem! Find out how you can start developing today by reading this blog from @v_bnbchain. (...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 330) - Apr 13, 2023 - What the hell is going on with @Beanstalkfarms? / Somebody @Uniswap need biz lessons / Death of @TronDAO & $BSV? / US is a loser /
We give a great example why you shouldn't be missing from our Telegram community in the show today! - https://t.me/missiondefi "Interesting developments from @BeanstalkFarms The address that exploited $180M may be linked to a @krakenfx deposit, which opens the door for law enforcement &...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 329) - Apr 11, 2023
If you haven't joined our Telegram community, you are missing out: https://t.me/missiondefi Eva Beylin on Twitter: "I’m sick & tired of being sick & tired about banks. ( https://twitter.com/evabeylin/status/1645253108925071361?s=20 ) Camelot DEX | Arbitrum native Decentralized Exchange (...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 328) - Apr 10, 2023
(1) Brian on Twitter: "1/ Currently those who want to on/off-ramp must register for a centralized exchange and incur long delays before money reaches your accounts or use centralized fiat on-ramps which charge high fees (5%). We (@asoong91, @richardzliang, @0xSachinK) think there’s a better way…...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 327) - Apr 6, 2023 - Reviews of Newly funded projects / Treasury Dept is Ridic
You are missing out - Join our community -> https://t.me/missiondefi On today's show: The Treasury Department released their split personality report on DeFi https://md1.to/treasreport Reading it though is difficult, so instead we rely on the legal experts from Brad's Crypto Legal List...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 326) - Apr 5, 2023 - Marek Olszewski (@marek_) of Celo (@CeloOrg)
We had a great interview today with Marek Olszewski of Celo. Celo is a Layer 1 blockchain in existence since 2020 with a strong mobile first, consumer friendly, social impact oriented ethos. They provide tools to make it easy for devs to get started, have released an open source onramp connector...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 325) - Apr 4, 2023
Have you joined the best community in DeFi yet? 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...
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Mission: DeFi EP 94 - Josh Rosenthal - 🤯 A new model for framing crypto against the backdrop of renaissance & revolution parallels
Get ready to be blown away by the insights and frameworks Josh Rosenthal uses for building companies, investing, and understanding the full potential of crypto. His interviews on Bankless have created a storm of theories on how crypto plays out, based on the historical context of the Renaissance...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 324) - Apr 3, 2023
Don't miss out on our great community. Amazing discussions, alpha, & new projects: https://t.me/missiondefi DON'T GET SCAMMED - Our community's own ZrowGz writes up how he almost got scammed - https://md1.to/avoidscams1 US crackdown will push crypto ‘center of gravity’ to Hong Kong: Kaiko CEO -...
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Mission: DeFi EP 93 - @redstone_defi is taking on @ChainLink in a big way
ChainLink is basically a monopoly of oracles in DeFi, but more players are popping up and RedStone has a powerful model that may just be the competition that ChainLink and the ecosystem needs. Faster, cheaper, and better in many ways, the team at RedStone has a powerful approach. - How they are...
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DeFi Lunch (Ep 323) - Mar 30, 2023 - Shaun Day!
We've got Shaun back and he's even more bearish than normal, but we really climbed into the money fleeing crypto at this time and much more. Join the community to discuss - https://t.me/missiondefi Do Kwon faces ‘grim’ year in Montenegro jail, lawyer says -...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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