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PoolTogether - Leighton Cusack | Meet the Nation
46:27
Bankless Nation, meet PoolTogether and its founder, Leighton Cusack. PoolTogether is a DeFi protocol offering a no-loss lottery generated by its pooled interest. ------ 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🔀 BALANCER | EXCHANGE & POOL ASSETS 👻 AAVE | LEND & BORROW ASSETS 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED FUNDING ------ Meet the Nation: PoolTogether PoolTogether is one of the oldest DeFi Protocols, having been around for about two years. It offers users access to no-loss lotteries; founder Leighton Cusack describes it as a savings account, and the interest generated by the collective deposits are combined into randomly selected lotteries. Like most DeFi project, it is permissionless, trustless, and powered by smart contracts. Unlike legacy lotteries, which require purchasing tickets, access to PoolTogether lotteries only requires depositing funds which can be pulled out in full at any time. There are currently $225 Million in assets deposited in PoolTogether, earning the interest that becomes rewards for the PoolTogether community. PoolTogether also has a reserve, which contributes to an increasing treasury. These sponsorships are deposits that are not eligible to win prizes. Instead, these returns are circled back to the pool to yield further interest. This is a perpetual growth mechanism for increasing the reward sizes over time. PoolTogether recently decentralized with its POOL governance token, and POOL was retroactively airdropped to all users earlier this year. It is also distributed to everyone who deposits in one of the lottery pools. The POOL token controls the protocol by managing the reserves, the number of winners announced weekly, integrations and new pools, and the distribution mechanism of the remaining POOL. ------ PoolTogether PoolTogether Discord PoolTogether on Twitter Leighton on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 22, 2021 |
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SotN #43 Coinbase Goes Direct | CIO of Arca Jeff Dorman
01:09:16
In this week's State of the Nation, we bring on Jeff Dorman, Chief Investment Officer and Arca, to measure the magnitude of $COIN on the public markets. State of the Nation is live-streamed on Tuesdays at 11am PST. ------ 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED FUNDING 🔀 BALANCER | EXCHANGE & POOL ASSETS ------ State of the Nation #43: Coinbase Goes Direct Jeff Dorman is Chief Investment Officer at Arca, the digital asset management firm. Jeff leads the investment committee, focusing on risk management for cryptoassets. His work history in both legacy and crypto finance puts him in a unique position to work as a bridge between the two worlds. The Coinbase Direct Listing also acts as a bridge between the two worlds, and it's undoubtedly a landmark event for the legitimization of the crypto industry. What does this mean for the Banks, Fintech, and Wall Street? What does it mean for Gemini, Uniswap, and Binance? The first item to discuss to answer these questions is how the media and crypto twitter alike were off in their interpretation of this event. The volatile price action in the first moments of the listing were surprising to many, but Jeff explains that this shouldn't be surprising at all, given that there are no underwriters or built-in stability in a direct listing like $COIN's. He expects that there will be volatility and price discovery over a longer stretch of time before the stock moves to a more stable valuation. ------ Resources: Jeff's Article on Coinbase: Arca: Jeff on Twitter: $COIN Price Coinbase S1 Filings: Coinbase Analytics: ------ 📛 Bankless Badge Week (4/20): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-win-free-stuff-with-your-bankless ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 21, 2021 |
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61 - Before Bitcoin | Peter Pan
01:58:14
Peter Pan has been a key member of the Ethereum Ecosystem, and in 2018, he wrote a 4-part series titled "Before Bitcoin," which covers the modern history of cryptography. We first bring him onto the podcast for an interview, followed by a reading of the full series by David. ------ 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED FUNDING 🔀 BALANCER | EXCHANGE & POOL ASSETS ------ Bankless Podcast #61 - Before Bitcoin Pet3rPan is a community-first investor at 1kx and part of the leadership of both MetaCartel Ventures and VentureDAO. His involvement in the crypto space is broad and deep, exemplified by his authoring of the Before Bitcoin series that we dive into in this episode. He was compelled to write the piece as he entered the crypto space, determined to build a depth of knowledge about the history and underlying technology of distributed ledgers powered by public-key cryptography. Modern cryptography doesn't exist in a vacuum, and there is a vast historical landscape to explore and provide context for the underlying principles that power the internet today and drive the innovation of the internet tomorrow. The story of today's cryptocurrency did not begin with Satoshi's Bitcoin whitepaper in 2009. It began decades earlier in the 1970s as cryptography was revolutionized by Cypherpunks, who discovered new mechanisms for the secure transfer of information. They pursued these ends through their shared values of privacy, self-sovereignty, freedom of information, etc. This episode begins with a brief interview with Pet3rPan, followed by a 'David Reads' of all four Before Bitcoin articles. ------ pet3rpan on Twitter: Before Bitcoin Part 1: Before Bitcoin Part 2: Before Bitcoin Part 3: Before Bitcoin Part 4: The Digital Culture Revolution: ------ 🧢 Weekly Action Recap (4/17): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/price-discovery-mode-weekly-recap ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 19, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 3rd Week of April (BTC & ETH ATH, $COIN, Berlin Upgrade, Gary Gensler SEC, Bull Market)
01:14:59
Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. ------ 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED FUNDING 🔀 BALANCER | EXCHANGE & POOL ASSETS ------
TAKES ------ 🏴 SotN w/ Cryptex & Element (4/13: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/sotn-42-ethereum-devs-building-defi ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 16, 2021 |
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AMA with Stefan Ionescu of Reflexer Labs
58:47
Stefan Ionescu is a Founder of Reflexer Labs, the team behind the RAI stablecoin (or is it fair to even call it a stablecoin? Tune in to find out!) Like all our AMAs, the interview is live and incorporates questions from our Inner Circle Discord and live YouTube Chat. These are hosted the 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month, so mark your calendars, tune in, and ask questions! 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE 🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE ------ Reflexer Labs: Stefan on Twitter: ------ 🏴 SotN w/ Cryptex & Element (4/13: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/sotn-42-ethereum-devs-building-defi ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 15, 2021 |
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SotN #42: Ethereum Devs Building DeFi | Preston Van Loon and Will Villanueva
01:26:05
Both Preston Van Loon of Cryptex and Will Willanueva of Element Finance have helped build the Ethereum Protocol, but are now both working on DeFi apps. In this State of the Nation, we dive into what it's like for Ethereum Devs building DeFi. State of the Nations are Livestreamed on Tuesdays at 11am PST. 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE 🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE Tremendous work has been (and is still being) done to develop Ethereum 2, and just as much innovation is happening in Ethereum's app layer, DeFi. In this week's State of the Nation, we bring on guys who have done both: Preston Van Loon and Will Villanueva. Preston Van Loon is a former Google software engineer who switched to crypto full-time after Vitalik put 1000 ETH into Prysmatic Labs, which Preston founded. Prysmatic labs is now the most popular ETH 2 client. Preston is also the co-founder of a brand new DeFi app ‘Cryptex’, which is a collateralized synthetic asset that tracks the total market cap of all crypto-assets. Will Villanueva is a former team member of the Quilt team at Consensys and contributed to a mountain of R&D on Ethereum sharding. Will is now the CEO of Element, which offers high yield fixed income for DeFi assets. Element works by breaking a single token into two different ones; a yield-bearing token, and a principle token. We brought both Will and Preston because their unique work histories of first helping build the Ethereum Protocol and now building DeFi apps. We discuss how their experiences have shaped their current projects, the trajectory of Ethereum and its app layer, and the timing of it all. "The Hardest Problems Draw the Smartest People." ------ Cryptex: Element Finance: Preston on Twitter: Will on Twitter: ------ ⚒️ How to Use dYdX (4/13: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-trade-on-the-dydx-rollup ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 14, 2021 |
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60 - The SEC and DeFi | Hester Peirce
01:28:25
Bankless Fan and SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce comes on the podcast to discuss tokens, DeFi, 'self-driving banks,' and regulation. ------ 🎖 If you're truly Bankless, CLAIM YOUR BADGE: 🌟Rate the Bankless Podcast! ------ 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE 🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE ------ Hester Peirce is one of five SEC Commissioners and has been a knowledgable advocate for crypto as the world works out how to regulate the budding industry. The main goals of the Security & Exchange Commission are threefold – to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation. The SEC governs far more than crypto, but increasing attention is coming to the space as capital gravitates into it. Regulating crypto begins with officially establishing the asset class, e.g. currencies, capital assets, commodities, equities, et al. The next step is giving these assets legitimacy in existing financial institutions through exchange-traded products like a Bitcoin ETF. Below the base money layer, there exists Layer 0, the social layer. Layer 0 must be willing to officially play ball with the cryptoeconomy, and that's what makes regulators like Hester so important. The net optimization of these layers makes for an unequivocally better society: a more inclusive, equitable, and efficient one. Hester believes in governing principles, not specific technologies. It's important here to remember the three main goals of the SEC. The value propositions of crypto – providing a permissionless, trustless, and verifiable means to transact – are in accord with the values of a free state. The role of government is to encourage and protect mutually beneficial, voluntary engagement among citizens. Although the harmony between crypto's core values and those of a free state are readily apparent to a seasoned Bankless listener, the rest of Layer 0 must still be convinced. Crypto is a frontier with infinite possibilities, and effectively regulating such an ecosystem is a massive task. However, based on this conversation, there seem to be many reasons to be optimistic about the future of Crypto & DeFi regulation. ------ 🚀 Atomic Trading 🚀 Get Ready For Self-Driving Banks Gary Gensler MIT Crypto Course Hester on Twitter: ------ 🧢 Weekly Action Recap (4/10): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-coinbase-tsunami-weekly-recap ----- Disclaimer: The views expressed in the episode are those of Hester Peirce, not the SEC nor any of her fellow commissioners. Disclosure: From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 12, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of April (Coinbase IPO, FEI Protocol, DeFi Shopify, ETH 2 Merge, BTC ETFs)
01:26:34
Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. Anthony on Twitter: The Daily Gwei: ------ 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE 🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE Intro MARKETS RELEASES NEWS TAKES Balancer & Algorand…? What David is Excited About What Anthony is Excited About MEME Closing & Disclaimers ------ 🧠 Decentralized VC (4/8): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/decentralized-vc-will-eat-venture ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 09, 2021 |
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SotN #41: Scaling DeFi with dYdX and StarkWare
01:18:51
Antonio Juliano is Founder of dYdX, and Uri Kolodny is CEO of StarkWare. State of the Nation is live-streamed on Tuesdays at 11am PT. ------ 🔀 10% Off dYdX Trading Fees w/ Bankless! ------ 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE 🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE Antonio Juliano (founder of dYdX) and Uri Kolodny (CEO of StarkWare) join this edition of State of the Nation to discuss their new announcement: dYdX, in partnership with StarkWare, recently released a Layer 2 Product for Perpetual Contracts, which namely allows for leveraged trading. Perpetual Contracts expose investors to a synthetic contract, representing the price action of a given asset. The nature of perpetual contracts allow for flexibility and expression in the financial mechanisms powering the contract, giving traders the ability to use leverage. These types of contracts attract high-level, high-frequency traders and make scalability crucial for a platform to be capital-efficient. StarkEx is StarkWare's scalability app, which uses StarkWare's Cairo, a Turing Complete coding platform, to support Layer 2 Scaling for transfers, trading, derivatives, and NFTs. dYdX rebuilt its interface, backend, and order-book; it then paired with StarkEx to create a scaled, decentralized derivatives exchange. Throughout the development and launch of its new product, dYdX has continued to emphasize the DeFi core values of being non-custodial, trustless, and permissionless. A major upgrade is cross-margining on dYdX, which allows users to provide universal collateral, instead of having to provide collateral for each market. Other improvements include lower gas prices, increased oracle performance, higher maximum leverage, and no minimum trade size. With these upgrades, dYdX offers better performance with no loss in decentralization or security. This is how DeFi needs to scale – increasing performance while maintaining decentralization and security. ------ Resources: dYdX Announcement Post: dYdX: StarkWare: Antonio on Twitter: Uri on Twitter: An Incomplete Guide to Rollups: ------ ⚒️ How to Crypto Tax (4/7): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-do-crypto-taxes-for-the-lazy ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 07, 2021 |
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59 - Uniswap | Hayden Adams
02:25:33
Hayden Adams is the inventor of Uniswap, the decentralized trading protocol. BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE 🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE Hayden Adams is the creator of Uniswap, the decentralized trading protocol and DAO. Before inventing DeFi's largest asset exchange, he was laid off from his mechanical engineering job in the summer of 2017. Excited by Ethereum and Vitalik's blog post on automated market making, he learned to code smart contracts using Solidity. Uniswap's V1 Mainnet launch came in the middle of the crypto bear market in November 2018. Since then, it has experienced exponential growth and traction, with liquidity providers like MakerDAO bolstering Uniswap's early ecosystem. Uniswap V2 brought pivotal upgrades to the user experience, bug fixes, and improvements to the Oracle architecture. From its genesis, Uniswap has emphasized the decentralized, permissionless properties of Ethereum. Uniswap's tools enable anyone to create a liquidity pool to exchange on, and it has become the de facto hub of DeFi as a sandbox for the 'long tail' of endless decentralized assets. Uniswap's openness, functionality, and legitimacy have allowed it to rise to its current position as a DeFi staple. On September 16th, 2020, Uniswap launched its UNI token with a widely distributed airdrop to each Ethereum address that had interacted on the Uniswap platform – over 500,000 accounts. This drop exemplifies DeFi's promises of wealth distribution, communal equity, and decentralized governance. On March 23rd, 2021, Uniswap announced V3 to go live on Ethereum mainnet in May of 2021. The most significant change in this upgrade is concentrated liquidity, which allows individual liquidity providers to control where their liquidity is allocated along the price curve for a given asset pair. This allows freedom for infinite liquidity providing strategies and presents a flexibility that incentivizes an optimized trading curve. In this 2.5 hour episode, Hayden walks us through the entirety of Uniswap, from its genesis to its present state and beyond. ------ Uniswap Hayden on Twitter V0 Birthday Blog: V3 Announcement post: Vitalik's Market Maker Blog Post: ------ 🧢 Weekly Action Recap (4/3): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-rollup-visa-on-eth-snl-nft-skit ----- Uniswap is a Bankless Sponsor. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 05, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 1st Week of April (Visa on ETH, SNL NFT Skit, PayPal Crypto, Bankless & Wells Fargo)
01:04:01
Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. ------ 💰 GEMINI | FIAT & CRYPTO EXCHANGE 🦊 METAMASK | DEFI PASSPORT 🦄 UNISWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE 🔀 KWENTA | SYNTHETIC ASSET EXCHANGE RESOURCES ETH / BTC RELEASES 26:03 NEWS 46:08 TAKES What David’s Excited About What Ryan’s Excited About MEME OF THE WEEK ------ 🦄 Uniswap | Hayden Adams: https://youtu.be/uQS7WuQtXWs ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Apr 02, 2021 |
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SotN #40: Get a Job In Crypto: Rob Paone of Proof of Talent
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Rob Paone, aka Crypto Bobby, joins Bankless to tell you how to get a job in crypto. State of the Nation is live-streamed on Tuesdays at 11am PT ------ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ In this week's State of the Nation, we discuss the emerging crypto economy. Rob Paone is the founder of Proof of Talent, a recruiting and search firm that places candidates in professional roles in the crypto space. Few people are more equipped to discuss the job market in the cryptocurrency industry. Rob is also known by his Youtube persona, Crypto Bobby. He has transitioned into the space's premier career recruiter and is taking advantage of crypto's huge growth potential. In the legacy world, most of the profitable ideas and services have already been capitalized. Crypto exists on the other end of the spectrum, where the market gaps are vast and ripe for opportunity. Rob's fundamental approach for candidates seeking employment is one of bootstrapping. The market is geared towards those with a technical background, but the key is finding what sets you apart and proving it. Passion and knowledge should naturally turn into finding like-minded communities and contributing. There is a premium on authenticity, commitment, and value. For those actively seeking a profession in crypto, there are ways to get involved and make yourself invaluable. Are you a tourist, or are you a settler? ------ Proof of Talent: Rob on Twitter: ⚒️ How to Stream Money (3/30): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-stream-money ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 31, 2021 |
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58 - EIP-1559 | Hasu
01:36:53
Hasu is a pioneer and thought leader in the world of cryptoeconomic research. He is a rare voice in crypto, unafraid to speak his mind and break ranks with both Ethereans and Bitcoiners. His takes were often varied and elusive… until the EIP-1559 proposal. Dive in to learn what changed his mind. ------ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ Guest: Hasu Hasu is a renowned pseudonymous researcher in the cryptoeconomic space, and we have been long impressed by his clear, sober ideas. In his second appearance on the pod, we dive deeply into EIP-1559, covering its technicals but also the social & cultural implications of the proposal. When it comes to the field of cryptoeconomics, Hasu is most compelled by research on establishing and maintening economic security. EIP-1559 embodies these concepts through its transaction fee dynamics, regulation of gas prices, and novel mechanisms for users to buy transactions on the network. Properly incentivizing validators to come to consensus is necessary for a cryptoeconomically secure platform. EIP-1559 aims to accomplish this by regulating the consumption of resources on the network, fixing the price of gas on a block while allowing its quantity to float. The changes under EIP-1559 allow Ethereum to incentivize its deflationary mechanism, mitigate Miner Extracted Value (MEV), and improve the user experience for individuals transacting on the Ethereum network. Tune in as Hasu's refreshing and credible perspective conceptualizes this multi-faceted cryptoeconomic system. ------ Uncommon Core Blog/Podcast: Derbit Insights: Hasu on Twitter: Some of Hasu’s Writings: EIP-1559 on the Horizon The Bull Case for Cryptography ------ 🦄 Alpha Leak | Uniswap V3 (3/23) 🎙️ Ultra Sound Money | Justin Drake (3/22) ❓ AMA with Chris Spadafora of Badger DAO (3/24) 🏴 State of the Nation | David Grider (3/23) ⚫ Token Thursday | The Best Yields on USD (3/25) ✏️ Why ETH is the Best Money the World Has Ever Seen (4/24) ⚒️ Tactic Tuesday | How to Automate Your Staking Rewards (3/23) ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 29, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 4th Week of March (Uniswap V3, Fidelity ETF, BTC Energy Waste, Jack Dorsey NFT)
01:32:26
Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI 0:00 Intro 0:50 MARKETS 17:20 RELEASES 31:25 NEWS 1:06:11 TAKES 1:18:00 What David's Excited About 1:28:28 MEME OF THE WEEK 1:31:13 Closing & Disclaimers ------ 🦄 Uniswap V3 Alpha Leak (3/23): https://youtu.be/TRJYs7v7gYo ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 26, 2021 |
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AMA with Chris Spadafora, Founder of BadgerDAO
01:05:09
Chris Spadafora is the Founder of BadgerDAO, a decentralized protocol that promotes the use of tokenized BTC in DeFi. Like all our AMAs, the interview is live and incorporates questions from our Inner Circle Discord and live YouTube Chat. These are hosted the 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month, so mark your calendars, tune in, and ask questions! ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ BadgerDAO Chris on Twitter ----- 🦄 Uniswap V3 Alpha Leak (3/23): https://youtu.be/TRJYs7v7gYo ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 25, 2021 |
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SotN #39: Is Wall Street Going Bankless? | David Grider of Fundstrat
01:11:58
David Grider is a Digital Asset strategy researcher at Fundstrat, the independent research boutique firm. They advise high net-worth individuals, wealth advisors, and a number of actors throughout traditional finance. They're on the frontier of educating finance natives and bridging Wall Street to crypto. ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI Is Wall Street going Bankless? What do they know about crypto? We bring on David Grider of Fundstrat to answer these important questions for us. If an asset is legitimate, it will inevitably end up on Wall Street, the heart-center of global finance. David embodies the growing bridge from traditional finance to crypto, and he sees the space as increasingly on the radar of high-level investors. Crypto should be understood as making the internet an emerging market. For David, the tipping point came as crypto boasted a trillion-dollar market cap. The finance space is not uniform, and some spheres have been more quick to adapt and adopt than others. As crypto becomes more standardized and accepted, it will be easier to continue this trend in accordance with the Lindy effect – the idea that life expectancy decreases over time with things like technology and concepts. A general willingness to adopt must also be paired with necessary technologies and infrastructure to support custody and investment vehicles, and these things take time. Wall Street is starting to recognize changes in the current monetary regime, and trailblazers like Fundstrat are making this change more real and accessible. ------ David's Tweet Thread Fundstrat David on Twitter ------ 🎙️ ULTRA SOUND MONEY (3/22): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-ultra-sound-money-justin-drake Follow Bankless on Twitter Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 24, 2021 |
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57 - Ultra Sound Money | Justin Drake
02:28:24
Justin Drake is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation and is leading the charge of applied cryptography to the Ethereum network. Last time he was on the podcast, we discussed cryptography as the foundation for what we called ‘Moon Math.’ This week, Justin returns to the show to discuss Ethereum’s economic engine and how its design decisions (EIP-1559, Proof-Of-Stake, Issuance, etc.) emerges as an incredibly bullish evolution of sound money: Ultra Sound Money. ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI 🎙️ 57 - Ultra Sound Money | Justin Drake Last time Justin was on the Bankless podcast, we went in-depth about cryptocurrency's primitive tools: cryptographic hashes and signatures. He described these as the fire and wheel of cryptography technology. This time, we dive into the specific economic design of the Ethereum network and how it is positioned to expand upon the 'stone-age' cryptography of Proof of Work. Given Ethereum's expressive capabilities, its future has infinite possibilities in terms of both innovation and development. To explore Ethereum's value proposition as Ultra Sound Money, we use the model of the Ethereum Economic Engine. In this metaphor, the basic energy harnessed is monetary value, stored in the 'engine' battery via tokens. The engine itself is structured by the network's consensus mechanism, Proof of Stake. The engine's efficiency is maximized through the issuance structures proposed in EIP-1559. All of these components (explored in great detail throughout the conversation) contribute to the concept of ETH as 'Ultra Sound Money.' Soundness describes the degree of efficiency and security in the storage and exchange of monetary value. Economic security, anti-fragility, optimized issuance, efficiency, and scarcity combine to create a robust, maximally effective network. This could be the best episode we've ever recorded. ETH is Ultra Sound Money. Pass it on. ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro ------ The Bull Case for Cryptography ETH is Ultra Sound Money Justin’s Research Justin on Twitter ------ 🗞️ Weekly Rollup (3/19): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-rollup-elon-musk-nft-song-stimulus ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 22, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 3rd Week of March (Elon Musk NFT Song, Stimulus Checks, Canada ETF, Gemini & Aave)
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Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI 0:00 Intro 1:00 MARKETS 16:44 RELEASES 39:07 NEWS 1:08:13 TAKES 1:18:28 What We're Excited About 1:27:18 MEME OF THE WEEK 1:27:51 Closing & Disclaimers ------ 🎙️ Podcast | 1confirmation (3/15): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-authenticity-in-crypto-1confirmation ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 19, 2021 |
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AMA with Devin Finzer, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenSea
01:00:06
Devin Finzer is Co-Founder & CEO of OpenSea, the largest decentralized NFT marketplace for buying and selling digital goods. Like all our AMAs, this was streamed live and incorporated questions from our Inner Circle Discord and live YouTube Chat. These are hosted the 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month, so mark your calendars, tune in, and ask your questions! ----- ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ OpenSea Devin on Twitter ----- 📈 Market Monday (3/8): https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/eip-1559-on-the-horizon-market-monday ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 18, 2021 |
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SotN #38: The State of NFTs, with Andrew Steinwold (Past, Current, and Future)
01:08:01
Andrew Steinwold is a respected voice in the NFT space and is managing partner of Sfermion, an NFT-native investment firm. We unpack the recent NFT boom and digest the innovation, successes, failures, and lessons in the space as we reflect and move forward. ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY When Andrew was last on Bankless for 'The Bull Case for NFTs' in September 2020, the Nation was introduced to NFTs as an ocean of opportunity for democratizing value. The landscape for NFTs has changed drastically in the last 6 months, but Andrew's approach has remained generally similar. Andrew updates us on his expectations on the future of NFTs in the context of the current boom. He addresses the notion of the 'NFT Bubble' and the blurred distinction between memes and value. We dive into Proof-of-Work vs. Proof-of-Stake and what makes for a genuine NFT – in terms of both content and distribution. Through the trials of this cycle, we have found many NFT-specific insights and lessons. Andrew explores the successes and failures of experimentation in this space. We highlight Cryptopunks, which boasts an organic release, being the first of its kind, and mass community adoption. ------ The Bull Case for NFTs Andrew on Twitter Zima Red - Andrew's Podcast Sfermion ------ 🗞️ Weekly Rollup (3/12): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/rollup-march-2 ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 17, 2021 |
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56 - Authenticity in Crypto | 1confirmation
01:42:23
Nick Tomaino and Richard Chen are partners at 1confirmation, a crypto venture fund with $75M+ in assets under management (AUM). In this episode, we explore the relationship between narratives and fundamentals in the space. ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY 0:00 Intro ------ Nexus Tracker Richard's Superrare dashboard Crypto Art Three Underrated Predictions Dune Analytics Blog: The Revolution Will Not Be Reported Quarterly https://duneanalytics.com/blog/revolution-not-quarterly 1confirmation Nick on Twitter: Richard on Twitter ------ 🗞️ Weekly Rollup (3/12): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/rollup-march-2 ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 15, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of March (Beeple NFTs, EIP1559, Stimulus Checks, GBTC)
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Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY BTC Price: $55k ETH Price: Low-Mid 1800s Mostly TVL in DeFi: $41.2B $DPI: ~$450 MEV Dashboard DeFi Undervalued? Coinbase vs. DeFi Global Banking $6.2 Trillion, DeFi $85B $3B valuation BlockFi: DAOs With Treasury Reports GBTC Trading 15% Below BTC Spot Prices ------ Send From Arbitrum to xDAI (Hop Protocol) Optimism Dai Bridge with Fast Withdrawals Superfluid FEI Protocol ------ $1.9T Covid Relief Bill and $1400 Stimulus Checks Fed Says Reopening Could Cause Inflation EIP1559 Approved for London Hard Fork EIP1559 - Front Page of Bloomberg ETH Miners Protesting EIP-1559 Meitu Buys $22M ETH, $17.9M BTC Beeple NFT $69M NFT Environmentalism SuperRare Response US Lawmakers Introduce Crypto Bill Wyoming DAO Bill NBA Top Shot Freezes Funds New Grayscale Job Postings - ETF? JPMorgan Crypto Proxy Basket Logan Paul Sponsored Tweet Paid in SFI ----- Everything is Broken Reinvesting in Crypto Steinworld’s Ethspansion from Genesis Today Show Laughing About NFTs ----- L2 vs ETH Killers ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 12, 2021 |
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SotN #37: Justin 3LAU - The Frontier of NFTs ($12M drop SOLD, A Token Renaissance in Digital Art?)
01:08:12
Justin Blau, known by his stage name 3LAU, is a DJ turned crypto-entrepreneur. At the end of February, he auctioned collectible NFTs for his 'Ultraviolet' album for a record-setting $11.7M. We look under the hood of 3LAU's story, diving into what this means for crypto and the disruption of the music industry. ------ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY Justin Blau, known by his stage-name 3LAU, has been experimenting in the crypto space since 2014. From February 25-28, he auctioned a total of 33 NFTs commemorating his album 'Ultraviolet', originally released in 2018. 3LAU discusses how he applied his knowledge of game theory to optimize the auction mechanism. The sales totaled $11.7M. 3LAU's biggest takeaway from all this is that the music industry is ripe for disruption. NFTs can remove intermediaries and bridge the gap between fans and creators. Transparent, immutable digital goods are increasingly accessible to the public. These tools promote direct-to-consumer transactions, democratization of data, and self-distribution. The argument here is that given the technology of distributed ledgers, record labels are now obsolete. With an investable layer, fans are able to contribute capital and hold equity in an artist's work. 3LAU is pioneering how decentralized tokens can be optimized for medium-dependent art spaces. The future of art is decentralized, allowing infinite collaborative possibilities among fans and creators of all forms of media. Justin on Twitter 3LAU Website 3LAU NFT Auction ------ 🗞️ Weekly Rollup (3/5): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-rollup-3lau-and-grimes-nfts-paypal ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 10, 2021 |
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55 - Welcome To Bankless | 2021 Edition
02:59:39
Happy 1-year Anniversary to the Bankless Podcast! We sum up the show’s first nine episodes in this single canonical mega-podcast, updating our answers to the big questions – What Does It Mean To Go Bankless? What Is DeFi? How Do I Get started? ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY ------ I. Why Are We Going Bankless? (0:00 - 29:09)
II. How Crypto Fixes Money (29:10 - 41:45)
III. Crypto As A Parallel Financial System (41:46 - 1:00:42)
IV. The Bankless Money Stack (1:00:43 - 2:11:30)
V. Why Crypto Is Inevitable (2:11:31 - 2:34:24)
VI. How To Get Started (2:34:25 - 2:48:10)
VII. The Journey West (2:48:11 - 2:59:38)
------ Guide to Going Bankless: St. Louis Fed Report Designing Ethereum | Vitalik Buterin Episode #2: The Evolution of Monetary Policy ------ 🗞️ Weekly Rollup (3/5): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-rollup-3lau-and-grimes-nfts-paypal ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 08, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 1st Week of March (3LAU & Grimes NFTs, PayPal Crypto, Citigroup Report)
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Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA | MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ BTC Price ETH Price TVL in DeFi DPI Bitwise DeFi Index Fund - $32.5m DeFi Revenue Chart Grayscale Premiums ------ Google Finance 'Crypto' tab zkSync Investing Round Sushi going Multichain Alpha On BinanceChain MetaMask & Layer 2 Zerion integrating Polychain Alchemix Platform - 100M DAI B.Protocol-Compound Integration Kings Of Leon Album NFT Introducing ‘Gateway’ ------ Citigroup Report on Crypto Paypal To Buy Curv Paypal & Smart-Contracts? MicroStrategy Buys BTC - $15m Furucombo Exploit - $14m Fed Looking At Digital Dollar Grimes $5.8 Million NFT Auction 3LAU $11.6M NFT Sale Ubisoft Bring NFTs into Games NFT Bull Market Canada Filing For ETH ETF BitMEX’s Arthur Hayes Expected To Surrender ------ Burniske Advice to entrepreneurs BSC Speedrunning DeFi summer ETH's Moat is EVM Full Blocks Maximalist ETH Maxis: Bitcoin is a Worthless Meme Coin ------ https://www.instagram.com/p/CLzwCdIgiXH/?igshid=1rmy63avudo2t ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. See Bankless investment disclosures here: |
Mar 05, 2021 |
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SotN #36: DeFi Crypto Index For Financial Advisors | Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan
01:09:17
Matt Hougan, CIO of Bitwise, joins Bankless for this week's State of the Nation! Founded in 2017, Bitwise Asset Management pioneered the first cryptocurrency index fund and provides rules-based exposure to the cryptoasset space. Learn about Bitwise's newest product, their DeFi Crypto Index Fund. ------ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY ------ Bitwise is connecting DeFi assets to the world of ‘big money.’ Matt Hougan is CIO (Chief Investment Officer) of Bitwise, and before moving into the crypto space, he pioneered the ETF investment vehicles in the world of traditional finance. Matt, with his dog by his side, posits that there are three ‘buckets’ of wealth in America where capital is pooled. The first is ‘Self-Directed Retail Investors,’ who has bootstrapped crypto from the ground up. The second is ‘Institutional Investors,’ including Venture Capital Firms, Endowments, Foundations, and other large funds. The third – and most neglected – is capital under the ‘Financial Advisor’ umbrella. This is where the 1%-er money is, and this bucket is just now gaining access to the crypto space. The Financial Advisor bucket holds $30-$40 Trillion in assets, and the minds in this space are changing as crypto is increasingly legitimized through improving infrastructure and the strong recovery from the 2017 cycle. Building efficient vehicles to bridge this wealth into crypto is critical for large-scale adoption. This is where Bitwise comes in. Bitwise manages around $1 Billion in assets and created the first Crypto Index Fund, offering a variety of products to retail investors, accredited investors, and financial advisors. Most recently, Bitwise launched its DeFi Crypto Index Fund, exposing financial advisors to the world of DeFi. Analogues to Legacy Finance like Price-to-Earnings Ratios and Cash Flows make DeFi compelling and understandable, but DeFi is showing itself to be “cheaper, more efficient, more open, more transparent, [and] more verifiable.” ------ Matt on Twitter: Bitwise: Matt's CFA Report on Cryptoassets: Makerburn ------ CATCH UP ON BANKLESS: 🗞️ Weekly Rollup (2/26): https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-rollup-big-dip-nft-culture-coinbase ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Mar 03, 2021 |
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54 - Why DeFi is the Future | Mark Cuban
01:39:48
Mark Cuban needs no introduction, but the entrepreneur and Shark Tank host has an impressive depth of knowledge of the crypto space, and he has a particular ability to break complicated subjects into simple, digestible ideas. Listen as we talk DeFi, NFTs, Ethereum, and the future of finance with Mark Cuban! ------ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/bankless-disclosures |
Mar 01, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 4th Week of February (BIG DIP, NFT Culture, Coinbase IPO, Ethereum Jobs)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ ------ BTC Price ETH Price TVL in DeFi $DPI - $370 Biggest Day Ever for DEX Volume DeFi Pulse Releases New Cryptodollars Page Retail Isn’t Here Yet ------ Optimism dope hires Andreessen Horowitz on Optimistic Rollups Dydx Layer 2 w/ ZK-Rollup Chainlink Saving Massively on Gas Balancer Aave Partnership Zapper NFT Dashboard Alchemix Tim Beiko proposal for EIP1559 inclusion in London ETH 1 hard fork ------ Fedwire goes down Coinbase Files To Go Public Nyan Cat NFT sells for 300ETH Alpha / Cream Repaying Funds South Korea Bans Privacy Coins from Crypto Banks Square Buys $170mm BTC MicroStrategy Buys $1.026B BTC Tether & Bitfinex New York Settlement - $18.5mm Brave Wallet + DEX Aggregator - Doubling down SoRare Professional Soccer (football) NFT Platform ------ Michael Burry (Big Short) On Inflation NFT Inflection Point Emotional Robbery by Web2 platforms Current Prices are the bottom of next Bear Cycle Ethereum the Employer Ryan's Jaded About Delegated POS ------ L2 Implementers Assemble I am Groot ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Feb 26, 2021 |
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AMA with Hart Lambur, Co-Founder of UMA Protocol
01:03:59
UMA Protocol (https://umaproject.org/) provides open-source infrastructure for developers to efficiently create secure synthetic assets. Hart Lambur is Co-Founder. ----- ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ UMA Protocol Hart on Twitter ------ Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 25, 2021 |
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SotN #35: NFT MANIA! Are NFTs the Future of Art? Nifty Gateway Founders Griffin and Duncan
01:00:07
Guests: We bring on the Cock Foster Twins, Co-Founders of Nifty Gateway, to the Bankless State of the Nation to discuss all things NFT and the roadmap to the metaverse. ----- ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ Nifty Gateway Duncan on Twitter Griffin on Twitter ------ Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 24, 2021 |
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53 - Building DeFi on Layer 2 | Synthetix, Loopring, Immutable
02:13:08
Guests: We discuss how these three voices in the crypto space have been integral in building successful DeFi products on the Ethereum mainnet. Listen in for a deep-dive into the different methods these protocols have taken to implement their apps on an Ethereum Layer 2. ----- ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ ------ Synthetix Immutable Loopring An Incomplete Guide to Rollups (w/ Vitalik) ------ Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Feb 22, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 3rd Week of February (ETH & BTC ATH's, NFT's, Andrew Yang, Bitwise DeFi Index, Reflexer launches RAI)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ BTC Price ETH Price TVL in DeFi $DPI More than 173K BTC on Ethereum New ATH For Ethereum Miner Revenues Largest Banks by Market Cap ;) ETH Balance on Exchanges Going Down ------ Beeple Brings the NFT Revolution to Christie’s Bitcoin ETF Coming to Canadian Exchange RAI Mainnet Launch (“RAI IS ETH”) EulerBeats - Audio NFT's! POOL Token DexGuru: Another Bloomberg Terminal for DeFi ------ Robinhood to enable Crypto withdrawals/deposits Yang Gang on the Crypto Train Bitwise Launches New DeFi Fund for Accredited Investors This is How Governance Works (EIP-1559) Dapper Labs raise $250m at $2B Valuation CREAM Exploit via Alpha (CREAM TVL Down 84%) Largest Liquidation Event in DeFi History Uniswap Has Processed over $100B in Volume Coinbase Powers Tesla BTC Buy Cryptopunk sells for 650 ETH ------ I found BinanceChain Art is priced in ETH Ethereum is An Emergent Structure Michael Saylor Arbing the Boomer System ------ Always Who You Most Suspect Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: |
Feb 19, 2021 |
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AMA with Tascha from Alpha Finance
01:09:35
An AMA with the Project Lead at Alpha Finance Lab, an Ecosystem of DeFi Products. 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI https://bankless.cc/dharma AMA with Tascha from Alpha Finance Alpha Finance Lab (https://alphafinance.io/ ) is an ecosystem of DeFi products including Alpha Homora (https://homora.alphafinance.io/), which released its V2 upgrade in January 2021. Tascha is Project Lead and Co-Founder. Tascha on Twitter Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 18, 2021 |
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SotN #34: Polygon: Ethereum's Internet of Blockchains – Mihailo Bjelic & Sandeep Nailwal
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Guests: We bring Mihailo & Sandeep of Polygon (formerly Matic) to the Bankless State of The Nation, to discuss Ethereum's Internet of Blockchains and Polygon's approach to connecting networks. ----- ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ Polygon Our Tactic on Using Polymarket Sandeep on Twitter Mihailo on Twitter ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 17, 2021 |
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52 - The Crypto Milkshake Theory | Brent Johnson
01:30:54
🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📈 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ Guest: Brent Johnson Brent Johnson, known for his “Dollar Milkshake Theory,” is a macro-focused wealth manager. We discuss crypto from his broad perspective, focusing on the Federal Reserve, the Dollar, and our take on his ideas – The Crypto Milkshake Theory. We observed the Federal Reserve coming into the limelight in the past year, with increased attention on Jerome Powell and other central bankers as they become more like players than referees. Brent lays out how our system (and all fiat currencies) are built for exponential growth. An exponentially growing market will be increasingly susceptible to larger and more frequent volatility. This calls for stronger central bank action, which accelerates these fundamental issues. Interestingly, Brent believes in the strength of the Dollar (at least in the short-term), expecting it to be the last fiat currency to get knocked out. The COVID-19 Crash in March 2020 was an example of this deflationary volatility, and Brent views the system’s current narrative as ripe for another market crash and dollar bull run. On the crypto side of things, Brent sees assets like BTC as a valid store of value, and the advantages of non-sovereign wealth stores merit serious consideration. His concerns about the space involve the difficulties of using crypto as money and the power of governments to curb blockchain use. However, blockchain technology is a “genie out of the bottle” and is here to stay. ------ Brent's Presentation on The Dollar Milkshake Theory Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 15, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of February (Elon buys BTC, Crypto on Mastercard, Celebrity NFTs)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY ------ MARKET BTC Price ETH Price TVL in DeFi: Nearly $40B Touching $1B AUM in DAOs Crypto Art Sales Reach a Record $80 Million Token Terminal ETH Powers over $30B in Stablecoins Metamask Absolutely Printing Money ------ Matic Turning into Polygon Hashmasks made over $13 Million in First Week of Sales Ledger has integrated WalletConnect (DeFi) No Loss Prize Pool Builder is Live UMA Protocol Releasing “KPI Options” with Community Airdrop SUSHI in Coinbase Custody ------ TESLA BUYS BTC CME: Nearly 400 ETH Futures Contracts Traded on First Day MasterCard bringing Crypto onto Network Huge Celeb NFT Hester Pierce, SEC Commissioner, says we’re ready for a Bitcoin ETF Twitter Considering Adding BTC to Balance Sheet Federal Reserve of St. Louis loves DeFi (and apparently Bankless) BNY Mellon Announcing it will offer Custody for Crypto Yearn Hack and $11m loss Yearn Restores yDAI Vault and Compensates Hack Victims
Avalanche Blockchain stopped working ------ We’re nowhere close to the top Let's talk about high gas fees Early Adoption is Expensive and Clunky…. But just wait. 1 Flippening Left Memes are going to take ETH to 10k ------ Jay-Z Confirmed Bankless ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 12, 2021 |
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SotN #33: Joseph Lubin on CME ETH Futures (Future of ETH, 2021 Bull Run, Consensys)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY SotN #33: Joseph Lubin on CME ETH Futures (Future of ETH, 2021 Bull Run, Consensys) We bring Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Consensys, to the Bankless State of the Nation. We do a deep dive into the story of Ethereum, the joint futures of ETH and Consensys, and the current crypto Bull Market. Topics Covered: ------ Joseph on Twitter Consensys ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 10, 2021 |
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51 - 2020 Reflections on Crypto and Beyond | Vitalik Buterin
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY ------ Guest: Vitalik Buterin We bring on Vitalik to digest the third of his recent posts on his website: Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond Vitalik wrote this post from Singapore, noting that 2020 was an extremely interesting year in which we faced “humanity’s first boss-level enemy since 1945.” However, it was also a year that brought much hope in areas like transportation, medicine, AI, and blockchains. We have observed a transition in the Political economy from physical to digital – 2020 served as a high-octane accelerant for these changes. A key piece of this change is shifting emphasis from physical private goods to digital public goods. This transition requires creative solutions to the challenges of effective governance. The phrase “digital nationalism” refers humanity’s recent tendency to polarize and how this extends to the internet. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have undergone great schisms, resulting in hard forks like BCH and ETC. These phenomena in the rising political economy will likely continue. Vitalik walks through the tricky relationship between our financial and non-monetary social motivations. Culture and narrative can be incredibly powerful tools for innovation, but altruistic people are not the only ones with access to these things. Vitalik concludes with thoughts on the Big X - Big Government, Big Business, Big Tech, etc. This multidisciplinary “dense jungle” is populated by a variety of powerful groups with dynamic interrelationships, and blockchains & cryptocurrencies are set up to play a vital role. ------ Vitalik on Twitter: ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 08, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 1st Week of February (ATH for $ETH & $DPI, Logan Paul NFTs, HashMasks, Saylor Conference)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY ------ BTC ETH ETH/BTC Ratio TVL in DeFi: $33B AAVE from $300 to $520 in 2 days Settlement Value Layer 2 Is Here Alpha Finance originating more loans that Aave Nexus Mutual All-Time Highs ------ HashMasks! NFTX enabling liquidity providing for HashMasks Balancer V2 Is Coming Parsec Launch & Building for the Next 10 Years of DeFi Arbitrum Demo! Goldfinch Introducing “Crypto Loans Without Collateral” Grayscale releases ‘Valuing Ethereum’ paper ------ Grayscale releases ‘Valuing Ethereum’ paper UNI & Aave Now in the Bitwise 10 5 Potential New Greyscale Trusts? Aave in Greyscale Visa’s Q1 Earning’s Call (Stablecoins, Payment Networks) Michael Saylor BTC Webinar indicates massive interest India to Ban Bitcoin? Logan Paul issues NFTs with Bondly Big Names Into Crypto: Mark Cuban Likes ETH: https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1354780502599860226?s=20 ------ DeFi tokens wealth: NFT Status ETH’s Future is with ETH Holders It’s okay to not own BTC GME drama a 20B ad for Bitcoin Decentralized Robinhood Already Exists ------ https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1357161023648657409?s=20 ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 05, 2021 |
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SotN #32: Does DeFi Fix This? Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss (GME, Gamestop, Robinhood, Melvin Capital)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA - DERIVATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY ------ We bring Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss, founders of the Gemini Exchange and crypto-visionaries, to the Bankless State of the Nation. We do a deep dive into the market craze of the Gamestop ($GME) Short-Squeeze, r/Wallstreetbets, and what it means for the DeFi space. Topics Covered: Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss had a heated appearance on CNBC last week to discuss the events of the Gamestop Short-Squeeze in the context of populism, the inequity of the current financial establishment, and cryptocurrency. Their argument centers on the relationship between censorship and centralization –problems that don't exist in the crypto landscape. The $GME craze has been the epicenter of a growing protest against the institutional elite – this protest inherently calls for decentralization and distributed power. DeFi fixes this. Brokerages like Robinhood having the power to limit trading based on a phone call is a war cry to adopt permissionless transacting. Cameron describes how this is an example of the people becoming disillusioned to the monopoly of modern money. The media establishment has vastly underestimated and vilified these "internet amateurs." The Winklevi discuss how a money-making opportunity turned into a movement demanding institutional change, flaming the fires of broken trust after events like the '08 collapse. Public forums like Twitter and Reddit have become powerful tools to organize the masses, and the sentiments seen here reflect cryptocurrency's value propositions. ------ Tyler Winklevoss on Twitter Cameron Winklevoss on Twitter Gemini Exchange ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 03, 2021 |
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50 - Crypto-Dollars, Regulation, and DeFi | Jeremy Allaire
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS https://bankless.cc/aave ------ Guest: Jeremy Allaire Jeremy Allaire is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-founder and CEO of Circle, the firm behind USDC. He advocates for the U.S. crypto industry in Washington, paving the way for current and future regulation of cryptoassets. USDC and other stablecoins saw a massive influx throughout 2020 into Ethereum and DeFi as demand skyrocketed, providing a glimpse of possible long-term impacts on the future of money. Jeremy argues for a full-reserve money system based on Austrian Economics, moving away from the money creation inherent to today's fractional-reserve systems. Jeremy details the synergy between fiat stablecoins and non-sovereign, store-of-value, commodity assets. He envisions a future of synthetic digital currencies balanced by a basket of non-sovereign assets. Jeremy self-describes as "cautiously optimistic" about establishing meaningful dialogue with regulators like Gary Gensler, Janet Yellen, and FinCen, focusing on specific issues like criminal abuse, self-sovereign identity, and consumer protection. Jeremy concludes with broad market predictions and analysis of DeFi as a massively underrated space, with the long-term goal of DeFi interacting broadly with real-world identities. This was an extremely interesting conversation that shed some much-needed light on stablecoins in a regulatory context, and Jeremy remains a key component throughout this development. ------ ------ ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Feb 01, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 4th Week of January ($GME, Robinhood RANT, WHY WE DEFI)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ MARKET BTC ETH TVL in DeFi: 26.5B Corrections _______ ETH 2.0 available on Bitfinex L2 is Coming Coinbase offers secondary shares Kyber v3 launched a bunch of thing...focused on LPs Alpha Homora v2 Vitalik’s Holy Grail for Rollups Comparing Layer 2 Solutions Uniswap WBTC-ETH and USDC-ETH LP Token Vaults are Live _______ Public Company buys BTC (Marathon Patent Group) MicroStrategy bought even more BTC Yellen on Cryptocurrencies Miami Mayor is hot for BTC ConsenSys partners with BSN (China) Dot’s popularity in China DyDx raises $10mm Series B Funding Genesis did $20B in Lending in 2020 DyDx did $18B in Lending in 2020 Mark Cuban & Soulja Boy minting NFT’s _______ Ethereum not blockchain PoS vs PoW on energy Institutions adopt “ETH is Money” DeFi paying users instead of advertisers (airdrops were sick) Banks charging negative interest _______ ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 29, 2021 |
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AMA with Yaniv Tal, Project Lead at Graph Protocol
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 📱 DHARMA - MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ The Graph (https://thegraph.com/) is an Indexing protocol that organizes data from blockchains, making decentralized data interoperable and easily accessible. Yaniv on Twitter: ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 28, 2021 |
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SotN#31: The Rise of SushiSwap, with 0xMaki (Sushi vs Uniswap, Differentiation, Future of Sushi)
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We bring 0xMaki, a core contributor to the SushiSwap DEX, to the Bankless State of the Nation, to get into the story behind Sushi's rise out of the depths of the 3 month DeFi bear market! Topics Covered: We begin with a history of the SushiSwap project and its migration from Uniswap. Maki takes us through the structures of the Sushi Ecosystem and discusses the role of Chef Nomi on the trajectory of the exchange in its turbulent beginnings. Maki argues for a flexible, bottom-up, and community-based approach, with an emphasis on integration with other protocols like Yearn Finance, Polkadot, and Cream. We discuss Sushi’s remarkable comeback from its early struggles in 2020, and how its current volume of over $100mm daily is a result of the efforts of its diehard community. Maki differentiates the SushiSwap Protocol from that of its sibling Uniswap, as well as the asset $SUSHI from the asset $UNI. Maki contends that Sushi’s fast-moving UI development and integration with external partners set SushiSwap apart from other DEXes. Maki is optimistic about the adoption of Layer 2 Scaling Solutions throughout DeFi in 2021 and lays out some of SushiSwap’s ambitious plans for the future, including optimizing gas fees and user experience. Lastly, Maki discusses the future of DeFi, arguing for compatibility and coexistence among decentralized protocols.
BentoBox SushiSwap Exchange SushiSwap’s Roadmap for 2021 SushiSwap Forum
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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49 - Moon Math: The Bull Case for Cryptography | Justin Drake
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA | MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ Guest: Justin Drake Justin Drake is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation and is leading the charge of the application of cryptography to Ethereum. Justin speaks about how far with come in the cryptocurrency industry, with only two extremely primitive tools: cryptographic hashes and signatures; the fire and wheel of applied cryptography. Justin leads us through a cryptographic-enabled world, where more recent breakthroughs in applied cryptography supplement hashes and signatures. Multi-party computation, fully-homomorphic encryption, SNARKs, verifiable-delay functions, these are all cryptographic tools that are yet-to-be harnessed by the Ethereum blockchain. Importantly, all of these new modern cryptographic tools are developed well beyond theoretical concepts; all that is left is for talented developers to put rubber to pavement. Justin walks the listeners through the user story of a user making a transaction on Uniswap, and discusses how cryptographic tricks can make the entire user process more secure and more trustless. We finish with a discussion about the long term fate of the Bitcoin blockchain, and its collision course with quanton computing, which threatens to break some of the crucial features that makes Bitcoin, Bitcoin. Justin provides a roadmap for the decoupling of BTC the asset from Bitcoin the blockchain, using a cryptographic two-way bridge between Bitcoin and an alternative new host blockchain, presumably Ethereum, and how BTC can upload itself to a new blockchain, and be rid of the baggage and liability of the Bitcoin blockchain 🤯 This is truly one of the most unique pieces of content we’ve produced on the Bankless program, and Justin deserves so much credit for leading this operation! Resources: Justin’s Uniswap Cryptographic Mechanism Solution spreadsheet and their theoretical application to any Ethereum app. Below are the two papers Justin mentioned on long-term Bitcoin (in)security: "On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward" by Princeton researchers. There are two informal explainers: "On the insecurity of quantum Bitcoin mining" ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 25, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 3rd Week of January
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA | MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ MARKET
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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SotN30: DeFi Season with Anthony Sassano (Top 10 DeFi Tokens on Ethereum, $DPI Index)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA | MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ Ladies and Gentlemen, we're calling it. It's DeFi Season. We have an era of DeFi token speculation ahead of us, so it's time to get prepared, and sharpen our mental models for how to evaulate and asses tokens on Ethereum. We bring on Anthony Sassano from the Set Protocol team, to go through the 10 DeFI assets inside the DPI index. Anthony gives his bullish or bearish takes on the DeFi tokens mentioned, as well as shares his mental models for how he judges various assets on Ethereum. Highly revelent to this conversation is the most recent Market Monday piece out of the Bankless newsletter: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/defi-market-monday-118 ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 20, 2021 |
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48 - Death of Dollar Dominance | Lyn Alden
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📱 DHARMA | MOBILE ONRAMP DIRECTLY INTO DEFI ------ Lyn Alden of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy has quickly risen to fame in the Bitcoin universe for her sharp analysis on long-term macro trends and brings plenty of data to back up her analysis. She’s one of our favorite macro and economics minds. Global macro events have such a strong interplay with crypto. In order to understand crypto, we need to understand the big picture We ask Lyn about the changes forces around the US Dollar, as demand and supply of the Dollar is less understood and less stable than ever before. We also ask Lyn about the relationship between the position of the U.S. Dollar as the world reserve currency, and the social unrest found inside the U.S. borders. It turns out, that the U.S. Dollar as the world reserve currency is not the best situation for those that reside inside the country! We bring up Ray Dalio's Long Term Debt Cycles mental model, and ask Lyn to connect it to the Fourth Turning Theory, in an attempt to discover some of the hidden forces behind the social unrest found in America. Fourth Turning Theory: Highly recommended Lyn Alden piece on the Future of the Dollar Sign up for Lyn’s monthly macro newsletter ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 18, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of January
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS BTC Price In the last 7 days: ETH Price $DPI $MKR particularly interesting price action
Market Dumps because of overleverage: Numbers are bigger now
Reminder: ETH futures on the horizon
Tether on a ZK Rollup Nexus mutual offering insurance on exchanges Bitcoin hashrate tokenized on Ethereum Connecting all the rollups with Vector? Cloudflare and IPFS ETH staking inside Argent Synthetix announces Optimistic Rollup transition plan NEWS Gemini going public?? 2.5% of ETH supply in Gnosis safe
Brian Brooks “Get Ready for Self-Driving Banks” Bitcoin is less risky as NGU Ryan on ICOs Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 15, 2021 |
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AMA with Evgeny Yurtaev, Co-Founder of Zerion
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AMA with Evgeny Yurtaev, Co-Founder of Zerion 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS ------ Zerion (https://app.zerion.io/) is a central portal to the DeFi universe. The goal of Zerion is to build an easy and accessible interface to engaging and interacting with all the various money legos in the DeFi ecosystem. While your Ethereum address is your bank account, Zerion can be your banking interface and middleware layer! You can download the mobile iOS and Google app on your phone, for mobile browsing, and use Zerion to manage your DeFi portfolio there, as well as desktop. Enjoy this AMA with CEO, Evgeny Yurtaev ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 14, 2021 |
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SotN#29: Erik Voorhees & ShapeShift (SotN29: Erik Voorhees & ShapeShift (DEX Aggregator, Regulation, Deplatforming, and the Bull Market)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS ------ Erik Voorhees is the CEO of ShapeShift, a company offering exchange and trading infrastructure, but doesn't act like a typical exchange! ShapeShift ( https://shapeshift.com/) used to be a place where one could atomically trade asset-for-asset. You would set up a trade between two different assets like BTC and ETH. ShapeShift would give you a BTC address to receive BTC, and you would give ShapeShift an Ethereum address for them to return ETH to you. ShapeShift never required you to 'deposit' your money, and never held onto users' funds! It was a very popular product during the 2017 Bull Market, yet the company decided to implement KYC requirements, in a move to protect the company from legal liability. It looks like ShapeShift has found a way to remove those KYC requirements without legal risk, and that is by becoming a DEX aggregator! We discuss this pivot with Erik, as well as a few other topics as well: Tune in to this week's State of the Nation! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 13, 2021 |
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47 - The Fourth Crypto Cycle | Chris Dixon, a16z
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS ------ Chris Dixon is a general partner at a16z, a famous private American venture capital firm that has specialized in technologies related to the growth of the internet and computation. Chris transcends the pre-internet, post-internet, pre-crypto-and post-crypto worlds of investing and venture capital, so his perspective is rich, deep, and consistent with the themes that transcend these revolutions. Coming from a16z, Chris approaches this industry from a technological perspective, rather than a monetary one, and seems to be steering the a16z Crypto Fund ship in the direction that typical silicon valley venture capital investors focus on: how can blockchain technology meaningfully impact the 4 billion users of the internet. This conversation with Chris was fast-paced and vibrant! Tune in to hear one of Tech's most experienced investors! _________ 📺 BONUS FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS! Episode 47 Debrief: David and Ryan discuss their post-episode thoughts https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-chris-dixon-episode If you want to hear David and Ryan discuss their post-episode thoughts, subscribe to the paid version of Bankless newsletter. This is where David and Ryan post BONUS content that goes alongside the free side of the Bankless program. Resources mentioned in the podcast: The Crypto Price-Innovation Cycle Crypto Fund II Doing Old Things Better Vs. Doing Brand New Things What is Blockchain: Computers That Can Make Commitments Crypto startup school - fantastic educational content (particularly for builders) ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 11, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: First Week of January
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA | DEVIRATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY https://bankless.cc/kwenta ------ MARKET BTC JP Morgan analyst BTC price target of $146,000 ETH ETH debt ceiling in MakerDAO increased TVL in DeFi DPI $117 to $185 Total Market Cap over $1T USD 2020 Asset Class returns Ethereum King of Fees (40% or revenue) Security through Number Go Up _______ RELEASES Shapeshift pivots to a Dex Aggregator Bitcoin ETF proposal RELEASES Futureswap V2 is OUT YAM Umbrella protocol Transaction Builder USDC getting an upgrade _______ NEWS OCC - Banks can use Ethereum for payments Grayscale $20B AUM before 2021 Biden Admin will halt all midnight regulations from the Trump admin that haven’t finalized yet Bittrex delisting privacy coins Jake tweet: https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1345061984077717504?s=27 Uniswap: $3B in liquidity Uniswap Year in Review Tweet thread: https://twitter.com/UniswapProtocol/status/1344687417891151874 Iran closes down mining operations Loopring l2 Growth _______ TAKES No viable 2nd place to Ethereum ETH same place as BTC in 2017 ETH MC only worth one bank right now Fundamentals out, reflexivity in. Why are you concerned w/ Product Fit? ETH Killers solving something that's not a problem ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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SotN#28: Uncollateralized Stablecoins w/ Dan Elitzer (ESD, BasisCash, backed by Faith & Yield!)
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA | DEVIRATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITYhttps://bankless.cc/kwenta State of the Nation #28 Algorithmic Stablecoins, with Dan Elitzer Dan Elitzer recently co-founded Nascent (nascent.xyz), a venture capital company that is deep into the weeds in some of the most experimental projects in the Ethereum ecosystem. In the 2nd half of 2020, some of the coolest experimental projects have been Algorithmic, Uncollateralized Stablecoins. These are stablecoins without dollars in a bank, or without crypto in a vault. They are completely backed by financial incentives.... and faith in those incentives. In this episode of State of the Nation, we begin by defining the 'Stablecoin Trilemma' (https://imgur.com/a/Uj0HBL3), and discuss some of the history of stablecoins. Then we turn to the current design philosophy behind algorithmic stablecoins, how they work, what makes them stable, and who gets the upside? We largely discuss Empty Set Dollar (ESD, https://www.emptyset.finance/), but also discuss Basis Cash, and Ampleforth. Tune in, to hear about this exciting emerging corner of the DeFi ecosystem! ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 06, 2021 |
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46 - Vitalik Buterin on Why Proof of Stake?
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️ AAVE - BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETS https://bankless.cc/aave 🚀 GEMINI - MOST TRUSTED EXCHANGE AND ONRAMP https://bankless.cc/go-gemini 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 📈 KWENTA | DEVIRATIVES TRADING WITH INFINITE LIQUIDITY https://bankless.cc/kwenta ------ Vitalik Buterin comes to the Bankless YouTube to discuss a number of topics surrounding Proof of Stake! We begin discussing the Beacon Chain launch, and the Ethereum's road so far up to this point. We also discuss the theory and thought-process behind Proof of Stake! Vitalik recently wrote a blog piece 'Why Proof of Stake', and we walk through this piece with him! Why Proof of Stake: Lastly, we discuss one of Vitalik's blog pieces 'Concave and Convex Dispositions, and how these different personality types characterize Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as the design of social groups and human governance organizations. Convex and Concave Dispositions Other pieces mentioned: Trust Models Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Jan 04, 2021 |
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ROLLUP: 5th Week of December
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS ------ ROLLUP: 5th Week of December MARKET BTC Price ETH Price Blow off tops coming?? TVL in DeFi DPI 2.2M ETH in ETH 2, $1.65B Futures value Coinbase at $50B ____ RELEASES 1INCH token released Haseeb’s take on Stablecoins DeFi events of the year graphic https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/89271/here-are-some-of-the-biggest-defi-events-in-2020 Opyn V2 YAM rebasing DISABLED https://twitter.com/YamFinance/status/1343966274095902720 YAM released Degenerative Finance on UMA https://medium.com/yam-finance/degenerative-finance-ugas-explained-458bedbc2f17 - YAM acting as a good DAO! Primitive is Live on Mainnet ____ NEWS New SEC Chairman appointed: Elad Roisman https://u.today/breaking-new-pro-crypto-sec-chairman-appointed The fact that Roisman is at the helm of the SEC also significantly boosts the chances of a Bitcoin-tied exchange-traded fund (ETF) being approved in the coming years. Mnuchin wants onchain KYC for all ETH wallets that have stablecoins in them Comment window period open on the FinCEN proposal to extend KYC to non-custodial wallets Etoro IPO rumors Coinbase Delists XRP Also Binance US Also Bittrex Also trading desks ____ Cover Protocol Exploit https://coverprotocol.medium.com/12-28-post-mortem-34c5f9f718d4 https://twitter.com/CoverProtocol/status/1343581331448586245 https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc2fd5094c1e108f83222a86bd46b35fc0da35616385d681964b22003643f982e TAKES Uniswap means you can't be delisted (sorry XRP) DC Can’t delist on Uniswap Ethereum is the TAM Ethereum doesn’t marginalize Degens are funding Open Source Ethereum is the last bastion for Yield Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Dec 31, 2020 |
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45 - Taking Ethereum Public | Ether Capital's CEO Brian Mosoff & CFO Stefan Coolican
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: 4th Week of December
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ Bankless Citizen Spotlight! This guy: https://twitter.com/Acrobat_Crypto/status/1339964187007721474?s=20 MARKET What’s the Market saying? BTC Price ETH Price TVL in DeFi DPI down from $115 to $108 DeFi Pulse has a new page A chart not often seen, Grayscale Revenue: XRP getting DUMPED after SEC report RELEASES The Graph Network now live Tornado.Cash Governance Token has been retroactively airdropped Compound Chain announced $3M Raised by Union to bring Credit to DeFi Perpetual Protocol Live on Mainnet Gitcoin Round 8 Closed NEWS SEC files lawsuit against Ripple for $1.3B in unregistered securities sale. Ledger Breach FinCEN Proposed Rule $600 vs $2,000 Stimulus? Switerzland CBDC Hudson stepping down as the All Core Dev Call facilitator TAKES Hayden Adams on Uniswaps registered country address Ryan on Boomer fiscal management. David on Ripple as a heist Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Dec 25, 2020 |
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Ethereum vs The STABLE Act | Rohan Grey
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU Ethereum vs The STABLE Act | Rohan Grey Rohan Grey is an assistant professor of Law at Willamette University, an Advisor to politicians including Rashida Tlaib, and one of the authors of the STABLE Act, which wants to impose Federal Bank Chartering upon any stablecoin issuer. Interesting, this proposed legislation includes entities like Square's Cash App or PayPal! Anything that offers a claim on 1 Dollar is cited by this law. Rohan and the STABLE Act appear to be an outgrowth of the rise of MMT and the power and ability of the state to solve economic problems like poverty and joblessness. Rohan wants to protect 'money', which he believes is a public institution that needs protecting! Also interestingly, the goals of the STABLE Act and DeFi are highly similar, yet are opposing in their strategies for achieving these goals. Tune into the conversation to learn about a diversity of perspectives regarding how to protect money! The STABLE Act: Coin Center's comment on the STABLE Act: ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter| Follow David on Twitter Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Dec 23, 2020 |
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Does the FinCEN's Rule Break DeFi? | Jake Chervinsky
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU FinCEN has finally released a long-rumored proposed rule on how crypto-asset custodians like Coinbase, Gemini, or Cash app can compliantly enable their users to take control over their cryptocurrency funds into 'self-hosted' or 'unhosted wallets'. This new rule would impose new obligations on virtual asset service providers (VASPs) like exchanges & custodians and increase the reporting requirements on outbound transactions to their customers' wallets. The actual release: We bring on Jake Chervinsky to help us go through some of this news and help us digest what was released! Read Jake's tweet thread! ------ Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resource Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Dec 22, 2020 |
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44 - The Bull Case for Ethereum | Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, DC Investor
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU ------ Guests: Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, DC Investor These three gentlemen are close to the beating heart of the Ethereum universe. They all pay attention to undercurrents of what is transpiring in Ethereum. What are the factors that contribute to bullishness on the Ethereum economy and ETH the asset? We ask our guests how they characterize the relationship between Ethereum and ETH, the interaction between scaling Ethereum and EIP1559, as well as the potential for NFTs. All, of course, underpinned by DeFi applications making the magic happen. Tune in to hear the bull case for Ethereum from good representatives from the Ethereum community Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: 3rd Week of December
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn MARKET: BTC Price ETH Price TVL in DeFi Grayscale Insane premiums ETH now vs ETH Then $1B of ETH in the deposit contract Ethereum addresses with ETH in them passes 50M From CeFi to DeFi https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/1337410802396127233?s=20 The amount of fees on #Ethereum spent on $ETH deposits to centralized exchanges has fallen from ~25% in 2017 to less than 1% today. $3B in USDC https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1338662314355138565 ETH Option Open Interest at $1B ATH https://twitter.com/skewdotcom/status/1338818750166994944?s=21 RELEASES Ethereum futures from the CME Maple Leaf Capital report on Ethereum and DeFi Swivel Finance https://swivel.finance/ Circle announced high-yield USDC business accounts Kraken announces accepting lightning depositsh Digital Yuan is here Sybil governance delegation platform NEWS One River Asset Management CEO Eric Peters, $600mm in BTC and ETH have been purchased to date, with the total set to exceed $1B in early 2021 Hugh Karp of Nexus Mutual has the majority of his NXM stolen from him by a relatively unknown attack vector https://www.coindesk.com/ceo-of-defi-insurer-nexus-mutual-hacked-for-8m-in-nxm-tokens Office of the Comptroller wants to issue ‘country coins’ to help incentive education Long term incentive streaming for Eth2 public goods - 3,200ETH to start Pornhub: Now crypto only Beeple NFT massive success Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Follow Bankless on Twitter Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Dec 17, 2020 |
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SotN#27: Is ETH Money? w/ Ryan Selkis (2020 Recap & 2021 Horizon)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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43 - Crypto from the Outside | Demetri Kofinas
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO ------ 43 - Crypto from the Outside | Demetri Kofinas Demetri Kofinas is the host of the Hidden Forces podcast, where he gives you an edge by teaching you to think critically about the systems of power that structure our world. Hidden Forces is about the forces of the world that impact markets, technology, culture, and our lives, which means that Demetri is astutely aware of the cryptocurrency industry and its implications. However, he is not in the ‘crypto-religion’ as many of us are. He views crypto from the outside in. We bring Demetri onto the pod this week to get his perspective as to what crypto looks like when viewed from outside the bubble. We take a moment to discuss a number of 2020 themes:
...and of course, how significant is the role of Crypto with regards to these things. Is it a revolution? Or destined to be domesticated by the powers of the world? Demetri is both knowledgeable AND skeptical, which is a dangerous combination to anyone who believes in the revolution. Tune in! ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Dec 14, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of December
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀 ARGENT - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!) 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU ------ ROLLUP: 2nd Week of December MARKET BTC Price BTC on Ethereum ETH Price TVL in DeFi Ethereum 2.0 1 week stats https://twitter.com/AlexanderFisher/status/1336280548084477953 - ETH 2 deposit contract adding 40k ETH per day USDC outpacing Tether https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c07bef-9100-4d24-9a57-b8b26801f9bd_1200x726.png Messari 2.0 https://messari.io/ Yearn quarterly report https://github.com/iearn-finance/yearn-pm/blob/master/financials/reports/2020Q3-yearn-quarterly-report.pdf - Blog from Etherscan https://medium.com/etherscan-blog/4-takeaways-from-deposits-into-eth2-28c64dd2863 Circle launches payments platform for USDC https://www.circle.com/blog/circle-launches-major-platform-upgrade-aimed-at-bringing-digital-dollar-stablecoins-mainstream Maker Governance vote to add https://twitter.com/MakerDAO/status/1335993149076869123?s=20 (NEWS) What’s in the news? 8,000 Nodes live outside the US https://twitter.com/PhABCD/status/1335349619467968519 The STABLE Act MicroStrategy issues $400 in convertible debt to buy $BTC https://cointelegraph.com/news/microstrategy-will-issue-400-million-in-securities-to-buy-more-bitcoin MassMutual buying $100M BTC https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/87378/massmutual-bitcoin-insurance-purchase Ray Dalio warming to BTC in Reddit AMA The Ether Fund Tyler Winklevoss Tweet: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1336839087093919744 France maybe extending KYC laws Rumors that Steven Mnuchin is thinking about regulations on Digital Self Hosted Wallet Paxos files for a Federal Bank Charter https://www.coindesk.com/paxos-becomes-latest-crypto-firm-to-file-for-federal-bank-charter Venezuela pays for Imports from Iran/Turkey with Bitcoin https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuela-pays-imports-iran-turkey-bitcoin-evade-sanctions/ JP Morgan says that Gold will suffer because of Bitcoin https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-09/jpmorgan-says-gold-will-suffer-for-years-because-of-bitcoin CoinGecko is better than CoinMarketCap https://out.reddit.com/t3_k8jct1?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaxbit.cc%2Fcoingecko-looks-to-overtake-coinmarketcap-with-huge-uptick-in-traffic%2F&token=AQAA_YjSXxU46BXDalbUf4Pv-UkKhy4yT938Vzi-qo7VV6usja4b&app_name=reddit.com
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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SotN#26: Defending our Nodes w/ Coin Center's Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀 ARGENT - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!) https://bankless.cc/argent 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ Defending Crypto from the STABLE Act | Coin Center's Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh Coin Center is a non-profit organization focused on public policy isues facing public blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. While Bitcoin and Ethereum are unstoppable internet networks, Nation States can still mediate our relationship with them, and therefore fighting the regulatory fight is extremely important! Coin Center recently opened up their Gitcoin Grant https://gitcoin.co/grants/1668/coin-center-is-educating-policy-makers-about-publ which has received an outpouring of support. Maybe it has to do with the STABLE Act? This act was recently introduced by Rashida Tlaib and others, in an attempt to add regulatory oversight to those that issue and leverage stablecoins. We bring on Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh to help us understand the perspective coming out of the STABLE Act, and its implications to our industry. Coin Center's website: https://www.coincenter.org/ The STABLE Act: https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/tlaib-garcia-and-lynch-stableact Coin Center's Gitcoin Grant: https://gitcoin.co/grants/1668/coin-center-is-educating-policy-makers-about-publ Preston Byrne's blog post on the STABLE Act: https://prestonbyrne.com/blog/ ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case |
Dec 09, 2020 |
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42 - The Global Game of Crypto | Bruno Maçães
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO ------ 42 - The Global Game of Crypto | Bruno Maçães Bruno Maçães is a political philosopher, the author of several books surrounding the different types of cultural civilizations that define the globe. Bruno has a strong familiarity with crypto and recently wrote an article called “The Crypto State?” which explored the emergency of a new civilization in Crypto We brought him on to help us understand what’s going on with the geopolitical shifts of the world, and what this means for crypto. Bruno on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno The Crypto State? https://www.city-journal.org/technological-developments-new-systems-of-governance Book Trailer of History Has Begun: https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1303653609880551428?s=20 The World Game, Bruno's newsletter: https://brunomacaes.substack.com/ ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Dec 07, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: First Week of December
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - 40% OFF LEDGERS THIS WK ONLY! 🔥🔥🔥 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!) 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU ------ BTC Price ETH Price - Extremely volatile lately! Is $ETH Bitcoin in 2015? https://twitter.com/IamCryptoWolf/status/1333720041553088515?s=20 TVL in DeFi Stablecoins - $20B of them https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1334124165033549826?s=20 DeFi Lending ATH RELEASES The first block of Ethereum 2.0 was mined! Ether Capital prospectus Centralized Staking-as-a-Service providers are flocking - Binance Tim Roughgarden EIP1559 report Vitalik comprehensive Ethereum roadmap Aave V2 is on Mainnet Loopring built an AMM on it’s zkRollups L2 Fireblocks - Institutional bridge for yield in DeFi? Gnosis Safe introduces spending limits Track Whale traders on Uniswap Staking Liquidity services cropping up NEWS ETH 2 in the mainstream news Visa Partners with Circle / USDC to get USDC to run through the Visa network S&P index for crypto: Bad Governance: Rashida Tlaib introduces legislation around stablecoins and banking Good Governance: Canada accelerating digital currency plans Libra rebrands to Diem ahead of 2021 launch China has seized over $4.2B from the PlusToken Ponzi https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/85873/china-seize-billion-cryptos-from-plustoken-crackdown 194,775 BTC - $3.3B Oracle failure leads to $88M in liquidations in Compound https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/85850/dai-compound-dydx-liquidations-defi - DAI price spiked to $1.30 on Coinbase, which Compound uses as an oracle. More Ethereum nodes than Bitcoin nodes https://twitter.com/etherchain_org/status/1333173744089640960?s=20 Venezualean government continues to leverage Bitcoin out of necessity https://cointelegraph.com/news/venezuelan-army-starts-mining-bitcoin-to-make-ends-meet - Making revenue via Bitcoin mining |
Dec 04, 2020 |
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SotN#25 - Road to Ethereum 2.0 w/ Ryan Watkin & Wilson Withiam of Messari
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Get the report: https://messari.io/road-to-eth2 ----- 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!) 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU ------ State of the Nation #25 The Road to Ethereum 2.0 With Ryan Watkin and Wilson Withiam of Messari Ryan Watkins and Wilson Withiam lead the effort behind Messari's 'The Road to ETH 2.0' report. Both Ryan and David agree: this is the best piece of literature that has ever been produced about Ethereum, ever. This report will serve as an accurate guide to the uninformed as to the nature of Ethereum and the types of economies it can support. Get the report from Messari here: https://messari.io/road-to-eth2 We bring Ryan and Wilson on to discuss the production of this report, and some of the decision-making that went on behind the scenes. ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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41 - Crypto-Civilization | Balaji Srinivasan
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BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: GET LEDGERS for 40% OFF! 🔥🔥🔥 https://bankless.cc/ledger 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ❤️ JOIN PRIVATE DISCORD: https://bit.ly/2UVI10O 👕 BUY BANKLESS TEE: https://merch.banklesshq.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - 40% OFF LEDGERS THIS WK ONLY! 🔥🔥🔥 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!) ------ A Crypto Civilization | Balaji Srinivasan No one blends the academic, startup, & venture world quite like Balaji Srinivasan. With multiple engineering degrees, multiple exits, being early into Bitcoin, selling a company to Coinbase, being CTO to Coinbase, Balaji lives on the cusp of the frontier of human innovation. Rumor is that he’s trying to create a digital country, we’re gonna talk about it. - Legacy of COVID creating distrust In Institutions - ‘Crypto-civilization’, or what Balaji calls: The Network State - Digital Nations vs the Nation-State And of course, how does a new 'crypto civilzation' actually manifest. Balaji is a real Big Brain thinker, so strap yourself in! ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Nov 30, 2020 |
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AMA w/ Monolith Co-Founder Mel Gelderman
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: 4th Week of November
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BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: GET LEDGERS for 40% OFF! 🔥🔥🔥https://bankless.cc/ledger 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ⭐️LEDGER - 40% OFF LEDGERS THIS WK ONLY! 🔥🔥🔥 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!) 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU ------ ROLLUP: 4th Week of November 🦃 (MARKET) What’s the Market saying? BTC Price - Touched previous ATH
ETH Price TVL in DeFi - 14.1B, up from 13.4B Spencer Noon: 8 Signs We’re in a new $ETH Bull Market https://twitter.com/spencernoon/status/1331638662573027333?s=20 (RELEASES) What got released? Deriswap, From Andre Cronje https://andrecronje.medium.com/deriswap-capital-efficient-swaps-futures-options-and-loans-ea424b24a41c Daily Gwei Ecosystem from Anthony Sassano https://thedailygwei.substack.com/p/turbocharging-the-daily-gwei-123 Slingshot https://slingshot.finance/ - Rebrand from DEX.AG DeFi Database https://defidatabase.info/ - Exactly what the title suggests. Database of all DeFi projects/endeavours Jeff Coleman ETH2 Tweet thread https://twitter.com/technocrypto/status/1330150362427387910 BlackRock CIO says Bitcoin will replace gold https://cointelegraph.com/news/blackrock-cio-says-bitcoin-will-take-the-place-of-gold-to-a-large-extent Coindesk suspending all margin trading due to regulators https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-ends-margin-trading Office of Comptroller messaging that banks need to service legal, but unfavorable, industries (thats crypto) https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ/status/1329898854242603012?s=20
Bitcoin Suisse deposited $100k of ETH into the deposit contract (https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/11/21/bitcoin-suisse-to-deposit-nearly-100000-eth-to-ethereum-2-0) - Demand for staking-as-a-service providers - Strong signals that the staking industry is going to be BIG
MAP OF STAKING OPTIONS - https://twitter.com/Philiff/status/1331088361579180036/photo/1
(TAKES) What’s on your mind?
David Bankless wasn’t here in 2017 Ethereum media wasn’t a thing in 2017
Ryan Retail isn’t here yet (https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1331233516722528261?s=20) (https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1331163575205965824?s=27)
ONRAMPS...our pipe to absorb capital is easily 10x INSTITUTIONS: Futures, CME, Options, Custody... FinTech is going to betray the banks and flood into crypto (top 5 crypto apps) inTech is going to betray the banks and onboard the world to crypto and the banks don't even see it coming Venmo, Robinhood, Square, PayPal These have turned into crypto apps The banks are legacy ledgers Crypto is the future What are you excited about?
David
This time, it’s different
Ethereum will respond completely differently this bull market. We are all going to be humbled by what Ethereum becomes this bull-cycle. Rapid change happens in bull markets. The people that come into this space now are a significantly different co-hort than the people that pay attention to this industry 24/7/365 Ethereum is similarly a different thing than in was in 2017.
DeFi wasn’t a thing in 2017
DeFi hasn’t seen a bull market.
No DeFi app has seen a bull market.
There is about to be some CHURN
(Ryan) The community… Crypto isn’t a single player game. Community came together to launch Eth2. Incredible people Thank some of those incredible people who helped me Andreas Chris Burninske Karl Floresch
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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SotN#24: Everything is bullish, with Nic Carter (Triumphant! 2017 vs 2020 Bull Markets, What's Different this Time?)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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40 - WTF Happened in 2020? | Meltem Demirors
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: 3rd Week of November
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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SotN#23: Crescendoing! w/ Eric Conner (Community Culture, & Staking, War Effort, Propaganda)
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⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀 ZERION - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!) 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU ------ Eric Conner, co-Host of the EthHub Podcast, Formerly Product at Gnosis, and Ethereum’s Unofficial Community Manager We ask Eric, does he accept the title of 'Unofficial Community Manager'? Eric has called the the 2018-19 Bear Market period as ‘the time that User, Investors, and Builders of Ethereum all came together’ - Why is this important? Did Eric ever have doubts that we would ever get to this point? Then, Eric and David discuss the merits of a 'patriotic duty to Stake ETH' - Is it someone's patriotic duty to stake? Finally, we turn to the Bull Case for Ethereum - What is Eric's perceived 'win-condition' for Ethereum? Tune into the video! https://youtu.be/BtPOpRzx6NQ ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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39 - Grayscale: $10B Bridge to Crypto | Michael Sonnenshein
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Michael Sonnenshein is the Managing Director at Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset management company by far. You may have seen a GBTC or ETHE products in your Schwab account, a way price exposure to ETH and BTC ...wondered what those things are? We're going to talk about that today with Michael. Grayscale has built a bridge for almost $10B to flow into the crypto world, by working inside the legacy system, rather than outside of it. Listen to this podcast to see how Grayscale is helping promote crypto! Retail products:
Accredited investors products ($1m in assets or $200k per year)
Bitcoin Investor Study - what were the takeaways? Size of Greyscale relative to supply
What’s Greyscale’s next move?
Action items:
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of November
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO https://bankless.cc/ledger-20 🚀ARGENT - GET THE MOST SIMPLE AND SECURE DEFI WALLET https://bankless.cc/argent 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ ROLLUP: 2nd Week of November What are we doing: Happy Friday morning... End of the week rollup Dedicating 5 minutes to 5 topics, same 5 topics every week - Market (MARKET) What’s the Market saying? BTC Price ETH Price $1B of ETH in Grayscale (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/83854/grayscale-ethereum-trust-1-billion-aum) TVL in DeFi - up $1B from last week DeFi Token price - remember last wk when DeFi was dead? (RELEASES) What got released?
- PayPal removes waitlist - all paypal users can use crypto now (https://www.coindesk.com/paypal-removes-waitlist-for-new-crypto-service)
- LiquidStake (https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-heavyweights-launch-liquidstake-loans-to-ease-eth-2-0-lockup)
Dharma Bank Account Integration (https://twitter.com/Dharma_HQ/status/1323311960432148481) Bank Account - Dharma - Uniswap Synthetix synthetic Oil and inverse-synthetic Oil now available Chainlink working on xDAI network (https://www.xdaichain.com/about-xdai/project-spotlights/chainlink) EIP1559 Updates Tim Beiko tweet thread (https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1325839080974774272?s=20) - Mainnet-condition testnets - Developer tooling for easy 1559 integration Micah Zoltu blog post (https://medium.com/@MicahZoltu/a-tale-of-two-pricing-schemes-dc9c8717906) (NEWS) What’s in the news? Infura CRASH (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/84232/ethereum-infrastructure-provider-infura-is-down) In response, someone made EthereumNodes.com to report who has endpoints up and who doesn’t Zapper gets $1.5M in funding (https://www.coindesk.com/defi-dashboard-zapper-snags-new-funding-from-delphi-and-coinbase-ventures) Binance donates $100k to Gitcoin (https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684901205/Binance-Pledges-$100000-Donation-to-Gitcoin-Grants) CZ depositing 32 ETH to the deposit contract (https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1325978447148064768) CipherTrace scaring regulators (https://ciphertrace.com/half-of-2020-crypto-hacks-are-from-defi-protocols-and-exchanges/) Ray Dalio on banning Bitcoin (https://www.coindesk.com/bridgewaters-dalio-sees-governments-banning-bitcoin-should-it-become-material) Final Boss: ShapeShift Delisting ZEC over regulator concerns (https://www.coindesk.com/shapeshift-delists-privacy-coin-zcash-over-regulatory-concerns) IRS is coming after Coinbase for tax information (https://cointelegraph.com/news/u-s-law-firm-says-irs-is-coming-after-coinbase-users-who-evade-taxes) BTC mining pools & KYC (https://stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2020/10/29/dmg-s-subsidiary-blockseer-launches-bitcoin-mining-pool-focused-on-good) U.S. Feds doing research on CBDCs (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/84087/fed-central-bank-digital-currency-research) Lebanon CBDC (https://www.coindesk.com/lebanon-digital-currency-2021) SEC changing Reg A, Reg CF, Rule 504D limits, among other things (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-273) Reg A $50m - $75m Reg CF $1m - $5m 504D $5m -$10m (TAKES) What’s on your mind? Gotta do it - Bring up the frogs (https://twitter.com/kekspawn/status/1326253486070173696/photo/1) What’s on my mind? What is DeFi? Is Bitcoin DeFi (https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1326950305725026304?s=20)? Is Ethereum DeFi? Is BinanceChain DeFi? Is PolkaDot DeFi? Is Cosmos DeFi? IS DEFI DEFI? What are you excited about? DH: - Ethereum / ETH being understood - ETH the Internet Bond - BTC is an evolution on Gold. Therefore, BTC market cap should be much larger than gold I'm compelled! - ETH’s market cap should be an evolution on the market cap of bond markets Never before has there been a hard-money bond market RSA: sovereign bond market is $57t btw I’m excited that we’re in a bull run: If you're new to crypto... Welcome to your first bull run. Things will only getting crazier from here. Buckle up. |
Nov 13, 2020 |
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AMA w/ Zapper | Co-Founder Seb Audet and DeFi Dad
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- 📢 DEFI BUILDER? APPLY TO FILECOIN ACCELERATOR FOR $20K GRANT ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀ARGENT - GET THE MOST SIMPLE AND SECURE DEFI WALLET 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU Zapper AMA with Founder Seb Audet and DeFi Dad Zapper is a home-base for your financial activity on Ethereum. Load up your wallets at https://zapper.fi/ and use Zapper to make quick and easy transactions in DeFi! DeFi Dad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/defi_dad Seb on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sebaudet26 ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit the official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Nov 12, 2020 |
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LiquidStake - Andrew Keys & James Slazas | Meet the Nation
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- 📢 DEFI BUILDER? APPLY TO FILECOIN ACCELERATOR FOR $20K GRANT ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀ARGENT - GET THE MOST SIMPLE AND SECURE DEFI WALLET 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU ------ LiquidStake - Andrew Keys & James Slazas | Meet the Nation DARMA Capital is a fund that is perma-bullish on ETH, and the entire fund is focused on producing ETH-denominated returns for their investors. DARMA has rolled out LiquidStake, a Staking-as-a-Service product that enables ETH 2.0 stakers to access liquidity during the unknown ETH lockup period. Article: https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-heavyweights-launch-liquidstake-loans-to-ease-eth-2-0-lockup Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewDARMACAP?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Nov 11, 2020 |
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SotN#22: BONDING! w/ Collin Myers (ETH Internet Bond Market, Staking Returns, ETH Needed to Retire?)
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For this particular State of the Nation, the video is very helpful. Especially when we discuss the calculator and staking returns: 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ✊ STARTING GUIDE BANKLESS: https://bit.ly/37Q17uI ❤️ JOIN PRIVATE DISCORD: https://bit.ly/2UVI10O 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ 👕 BUY BANKLESS TEE: https://merch.banklesshq.com/ ----- 📢 DEFI BUILDER? APPLY TO FILECOIN ACCELERATOR FOR $20K GRANT http://bankless.cc/filecoinapply ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO 🚀ARGENT - GET THE MOST SIMPLE AND SECURE DEFI WALLET https://bankless.cc/argent 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ SotN#22: BONDING! w/ @StakeETH (ETH Internet Bond Market, Staking Returns, ETH Needed to Retire?) The Internet Bond: https://bankless.substack.com/p/eth-the-internet-bond Whitepaper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13-s15SvCIUBukhSZiNkpd0sTff3izQ5G/view Calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LTv8c-9nfq225bV-esv-JXmb0K-nM_z6qbmVooTAUUo/edit?ts=5f730135#gid=13834492 Ryan's: 7 Lessons for Crypto Pioneers https://bankless.substack.com/p/7-lessons-for-crypto-pioneers-market Bankless Guide: How to Become a Validator https://bankless.substack.com/p/-guide-how-to-become-a-validator CodeFi, Collins project! https://activate.codefi.network/ ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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38 - The World is Waking Up to Crypto | Raoul Pal
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The World is Waking Up to Crypto | Raoul Pal Raoul Pal is the CEO and co-founder of Real Vision, which is a content production studio focused on democratizing access to financial knowledge. He is an investor with a sharp eye on the global macro environment, and has a strong grasp on the relationship between history and economics. Raoul is famous for being 'irresponsibly long' on Bitcoin, and has expressed similar favourable attitudes towards Ethereum and DeFi. We start the episode asking about the role that Bitcoin fills in the current financial crises. What about the current state of the world makes Raoul bullish on Bitcoin? Why does the world need it? Why now? - What are the factors that are influencing the incentives behind central governments printing money? Raoul is generally of the opinion that the money printer is going to be forced to turn on - Why forced? - How does the looming retirement crisis impact the valuation of Bitcoin? - Does Raoul think about how the U.S. might become really jealous of people taking their newly printing money and buying Bitcoin with it? Then, we turn the conversation to Ethereum, and Ether, as well as the Bankless thesis! Tune in! MORE CONTENT: Real Vision: https://www.realvision.com/ Retirement crisis video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OFaZcC0lRU&t=1611s Reinventing the money system with Ethereum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cZtrX2EHtw Bitcoin is a life raft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL2LfVRl3J0 ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Nov 09, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: 1st Week of November
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------ (MARKET) What’s the Market saying? (5 mins)
(RELEASES) What got released?
(NEWS) What’s in the news?
(TAKES) What’s on your mind?
What are you excited about?
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Phase 0 ANNOUNCED - ETH STAKING IS HERE | Preston Van Loon of Prysmatic Labs ALPHA LEAK
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Phase 0 is HERE - ETH STAKING December 1st! What Happens on December 1st? How much ETH is required in the deposit contract? What are the risks? How do I avoid getting slashed? We bring Preston Van Loon from the Prysmatic Labs team to inform us of WHAT JUST HAPPENED! LINKS: Launchpad for Staking ETH and running an ETH 2 validator: https://launchpad.ethereum.org/ MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING. START BY WATCHING THE VIDEO on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUiw1y3BHU&feature=youtu.be Ethereum.org Official Blog: https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/11/04/eth2-quick-update-no-19/ Deposit contract Etherscan address: https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa Follow Preston on Twitter: https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon Prysmatic Labs website: https://prysmaticlabs.com/ RocketPool Meet the Nation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqf6aJCFZn8&t=599s RocketPool Tactic: https://bankless.substack.com/p/how-to-mint-reth-on-rocket-pool ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Nov 04, 2020 |
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SotN#21: POLITICAL! w/ Tyler Whirty (ELECTION DAY! Repubs, Dems, Crypto, and YOU)
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SotN#21: POLITICAL! w/ Tyler Whirty (ELECTION DAY! Repubs, Dems, Crypto, and YOU)
Joe Biden or Donald Trump… - How these two outcomes with how it relates to crypto? Assuming the answer is somewhere around ‘it doesn’t really matter’... LINKS Tyler's Election prediction https://twitter.com/twhirty_/status/1323640068469379074?s=21 Real-time odds on Ethereum https://polymarket.com/market/will-trump-win-the-2020-us-presidential-election Bankless Market Monday: The Fight Yet to Come https://bankless.substack.com/p/the-fight-thats-yet-to-come-market Ryan Twitter Poll: Have we already lost the fight for privacy? https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1323371459230814212?s=20
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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SotN#21: POLITICAL! w/ Tyler Whirty (ELECTION DAY! Repubs, Dems, Crypto, and YOU)
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SotN#21: POLITICAL! w/ Tyler Whirty (ELECTION DAY! Repubs, Dems, Crypto, and YOU)
Joe Biden or Donald Trump… - How these two outcomes with how it relates to crypto? Assuming the answer is somewhere around ‘it doesn’t really matter’... LINKS Tyler's Election prediction https://twitter.com/twhirty_/status/1323640068469379074?s=21 Real-time odds on Ethereum https://polymarket.com/market/will-trump-win-the-2020-us-presidential-election Bankless Market Monday: The Fight Yet to Come https://bankless.substack.com/p/the-fight-thats-yet-to-come-market Ryan Twitter Poll: Have we already lost the fight for privacy? https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1323371459230814212?s=20
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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37 - Crypto is Empowering | Phil Bonello
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37 - Crypto is Empowering | Phil Bonello Phil Bonelo Phil speaks about technology for the people by the people, a central theme of the Bankless Nation. Crypto is an empowering technology. Elliptic curve cryptography provides the maximum level of ownership assurances over property, a service that the Nation State historically has had monopoly over. Cryptocurrency is a subset of cryptograpgy. Why is it important to have individual-empowering technology? How does encryption empower the individual? Is this good? How does cryptography impact global labor markets? What does an internet-enabled economy produce? What else can we do with this power? Join us as we go on this journey! ACTIONS: 1) Read the Sovereign individual thesis - https://philjbonello.substack.com/p/the-sovereign-individual-investment ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Nov 02, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: 4th Week of October
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ ROLLUP: 4th Week of October MARKET: What’s the Market saying? BTC Price ETH Price - YFI, UNI, DeFi tokens down RELEASES: What got released? Aave Admin Key Handover https://medium.com/aave/aave-admin-key-handover-3e09e603d348 Coinbase Debit cards https://decrypt.co/46507/coinbase-expands-crypto-debit-card-to-us-customers?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto JPM on the market for a custody provider https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1321195503367970820 The largest bank in Singapore just launched a crypto exchange DBS! Audius on mainnet; airdrop to 10k most popular artists FTX Launches BTC-Equity trading pairs https://www.coindesk.com/ftx-launches-bitcoin-pairs-against-amazon-apple-tokenized-stocks Traders in the U.S. and FTX’s other restricted jurisdictions will not be eligible to trade the products. Did he not learn from BitMEX?? NEWS What’s in the news? Avanti is now a Crypto-Bank https://decrypt.co/46561/avanti-becomes-second-crypto-bank-us Microstrategy has made more from purchasing Bitcoin than it has in 3.5 years of revenue https://coinfomania.com/microstrategys-bitcoin-gains-exceeds-3yr-earnings/ Iran enabled BTC for import payments https://www.coindesk.com/iran-amends-law-to-allow-imports-to-be-funded-with-cryptocurrency Flash Loans making governance decisions https://twitter.com/votewithtally/status/1321509824312455170?s=21 Consensys helps French Bank with CBDC pilot program https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-developer-consensys-to-assist-french-bank-with-cbdc-pilot Consensys helps Bank of Thailand for CBDC project https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/consensys-selected-as-technology-partner-by-the-bank-of-thailand-for-cbdc-project TAKES What’s on your mind? (David) BTC + Ethereum OR BTC or Ethereum https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1321632145673121792?s=20 $2B BTC on Ethereum (Ryan) Everytime I use a bank I get more bullish ETH https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1321870051859976193?s=20 Infrastructure upgrade!! (Ryan) Dirty secret of ETH killers--the VCs own them! https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1321131634142388228?s=20 If you think the tokens of ETH killers are the same as ETH, you don't understand Ethereum. https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1320714858229321728?s=20 What are you excited about? ( (David) Balancer Smart Pools https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1321622734120525824?s=20) (Ryan) All bank ledgers are Ethereum sidechains https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1321067583983046656?s=20 ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Oct 30, 2020 |
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SotN#19: HARDENING! with Demian Brener from Open Zeppelin
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ SotN#19: HARDENING! with Demian Brener from Open Zeppelin (Harvest Hack, Defining Trustless, New Open Zeppelin Platform: DEFENDER) Starting with the Harvest Hack! We discuss how the Harvest Hack happened. Read: Bankless Market Monday: Are We Trustless Yet? https://bankless.substack.com/p/are-we-trustless-yet-market-monday Daily Gwei account of the Harvest Hack https://thedailygwei.substack.com/p/a-rotten-harvest-the-daily-gwei-103 Was this a new type of exploit? Or have we seen this type of exploit before? Was this exploit avoidable, or was that attack surface integral to how harvest operated? What should the Harvest team have done differently? Defining ‘Trustless’ John Adler defines trustless as these two things New Open Zeppelin Platform: DEFENDER Automate your Ethereum operations to deliver high-quality products faster with less risk to users. https://openzeppelin.com/defender/
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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36 - The DeFi Blockspace Cycle | Nic Carter
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ 36 - The DeFi Blockspace Cycle | Nic Carter Nic Carter recently released an article titled "Public Blockchain Fee Cyclicality and Negative Feedback Loops"... ... simplified "transaction fees get higher, and that incentives people transact less, and then that lowers transaction fees and that incentives people to transact more" According to Nic, there's no equilibrium found upon public blockchains with inflexible block size; the demand to purchase blockspace will always be volatile, across all time frames. Another perspective: constraints on blockspace availability dramatically impacts the kind of usage that is feasible to happen on the base-layer blockchain. Transactors who are transacting large transactions will pay for higher fees! This severely impacts the markets that are supported by public blockchains! Constraints on block space are constraints on market participants! David, Ryan, and Nic go through Nic's process is disecting the data that created these conclusions. Nic gives his perspective as to the ultimate pattern that emerges from this data. David reads Nic's article aloud on the Bankless YouTube! Useful for listening to the episode! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ1X_3I5KrI&t=666s Actions & Resources: Read Nic’s articles Ethereum’s Fees Mean Choosing Between a World Computer and a Financial Network https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-fees-mean-choosing-between-a-world-computer-and-a-financial-network Public Blockchain Fee Cyclicality and Negative Feedback Loops https://medium.com/@nic__carter/public-blockchain-fee-cyclicality-and-negative-feedback-loops-1620141a8a87 The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis Robert Low https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2017/12/18/the-adaptive-markets-hypothesis-a-financial-ecosystems-survival-guide/ https://www.alphasimplex.com/wp-content/uploads/2004/09/The-Adaptive-Markets-Hypothesis.pdf ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Oct 26, 2020 |
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ROLLUP: 3rd Week of October
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ ROLLUP: 3rd Week of October Welcome to Weekly Rollups, where David and Ryan package up a whole week's worth of news into a bite-sized bit of data, for easy inclusion into your brain! Weekly Rollups: 5 TOPICS, 5 MINUTES EACH PRICES AND MARKETS - BTC WHAT GOT RELEASED? - PayPal adopts crypto Barn Bridge https://defirate.com/barnbridge-seed-round/ Yield Protocol https://medium.com/yield-protocol/yield-protocol-is-live-e6e8ebf2537b CirclesUBI https://decrypt.co/45419/universal-basic-income-app-launches-gives-users-free-crypto - Decentralized Identity MetaMask Swaps https://medium.com/metamask/introducing-metamask-swaps-84318c643785 WHAT'S IN THE NEWS? Fincen going after BTC mixing service https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/81667/fincen-mixing-service-helix-fine-bitcoin Central Bank Digital Currencies are getting hype https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1317836119149580288?s=20 Coinbase Report on who requests data from Coinbase https://blog.coinbase.com/transparency-at-coinbase-c8edf6dce4d6 Yearn Manifesto https://gov.yearn.finance/t/how-we-think-about-yearn/7137 WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND? David: The dominoes seems to be falling faster and faster Markets, Charts, news and releases all seem to align/resonate and this is one of those moments I’ve been more bullish BTC than normal, and more publicly bullish BTC than normal (much to Sassals dismay) but that doesn’t change the fact that when BTC moons, ETH usually Moons 2x. Ryan: Long-term I think Bitcoin is second place on market cap (preparing the way) - Bitcoin: Ryan: Projects launching directly on L2 https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1318299374556975104?s=20
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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ETH 2.0 AMA with Danny Ryan
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ ETH 2.0 AMA with Danny Ryan Danny Ryan is a researcher at the EF and is one of the lead coordinators behind the ETH 2. movement! Listen to Danny's talk at ETH Online! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEh4u5a-43o&t=1539s Check out ETH Online! https://ethglobal.online/#schedule ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Oct 22, 2020 |
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SotN#19: DRUMROLLING! w/ Jacob Cantele from Metamask, Q3 Token Report, Gradually then Suddenly
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ SotN#19: DRUMROLLING! w/ Jacob Cantele from Metamask, Q3 Token Report, Gradually then Suddenly MetaMask Exceeds 1 Million Monthly Active Users https://medium.com/metamask/metamask-exceeds-1-million-monthly-active-users-9da72a1e915d - How was this data collected? Introducing MetaMask Swaps https://medium.com/metamask/introducing-metamask-swaps-84318c643785 Then, we turn to the Q3 Token Report from Lucas Campbell! Bankless Q3 Token Report: https://bankless.substack.com/p/bankless-q3-token-report Lastly, David and Ryan discuss 'gradually, then suddenly' in the crypto revolution https://bankless.substack.com/p/gradually-then-suddenly-market-monday Five-star reviews to help grow the Nation! ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Oct 21, 2020 |
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35 - Designing Ethereum | Vitalik Buterin
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ 35 - Designing Ethereum | Vitalik Buterin With Ethereum 2.0 on the horizon, we bring Vitalik Buterin back onto the podcast to discuss the 'why' behind many of the design choices of Ethereum 2.0 Why Proof of Stake? Why Sharding? We also go over what has been discovered and added between the 2015 launch of Ethereum 1.x, and where we are now, such as We also discuss the process going getting Ethereum 1 onboarded into Ethereum 2.0, as well as a rollup-round where we ask some quick questions! 'Rollup Centric Ethereum' blog post: https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-rollup-centric-ethereum-roadmap/4698 Get ready for Staking: https://bankless.substack.com/p/guide-becoming-a-validator-on-the History: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/01/15/slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm/ https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/11/22/progress.html https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity/ https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/08/17/philosophy.html
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Weekly Rollups - 2ND WEEK OF OCTOBER
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ Weekly Rollups - 2ND WEEK OF OCTOBER Welcome to Weekly Rollups, where David and Ryan package up a whole weeks worth of news into a bite-sized bit of data, for easy inclusion into your brain! Weekly Rollups: 5 TOPICS, 5 MINUTES EACH PRICES AND MARKETS - BTC, ETH Price - TVL in DeFi - BTC hashrate ATH - Tornado cash is picking up speed (https://twitter.com/BotTornado/status/1315364063547994117?s=20) - Bitcoin when moon? (https://bankless.substack.com/p/when-bitcoin-moon) WHAT GOT RELEASED? - Uniswap on TradingView - YFI, BAL governance vote for collateral into Maker - ETH 2 Bounty Program https://twitter.com/dannyryan/status/1314563680588238853 - MetaMask Swaps, 1M monthly actives https://medium.com/metamask/metamask-exceeds-1-million-monthly-active-users-9da72a1e915d - Zinken Testnet is up and running https://zinken.launchpad.ethereum.org/ - The Block sexy new data dashboard! https://www.theblockcrypto.com/data/on-chain-metrics/bitcoin WHAT'S IN THE NEWS? - Grayscale took in $1B in Q3 https://grayscale.co/insights/grayscale-q3-2020-digital-asset-investment-report/) - DOJ 83-page crypto framework https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-publication-cryptocurrency-enforcement-framework - China Airdopping their Central Bank Digital Currency https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1315830279676686336?s=20 WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND? - Hayden's Tweet Heard Around the World https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1313959574244859905?s=20 - CFTC Chairman is impressed about Ethereum FULL STOP https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1316506694839685125?s=20 - Scaling approaching from ALL FRONTS: WHAT ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT? David:
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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SotN#18: ANTICIPATING! w/ Tim Beiko (EIP1559, ETH 2.0, Elections, market crossroads)
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📣 Join us at Invest Ethereum Conference Oct 14th - http://bankless.cc/investeth ----- 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ Tim Beiko (ConsenSys) the chief herder of cats for EIP1559 tells us what EIP1559 is and if it's actually happening anytime soon on Eth1. Topics: - EIP1559 is Ethereum's scarcity engine - What’s the current state of EIP1559? - Is it actually happening? And then... - The 6 things driving the crypto markets right now Links: Ethereum Cat Herders report on EIP1559: https://medium.com/ethereum-cat-herders/eip-1559-community-outreach-report-aa18be0666b5 Checklist for EIP1559 readiness: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/blob/master/Fee%20Market%20Meetings/mainnet-readiness.md Geth managing Ethereum State: https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/07/17/ask-about-geth-snapshot-acceleration/ What's driving the market: https://bankless.substack.com/p/whats-driving-the-market-market-monday Bitcoin's scarcity game: https://bankless.substack.com/p/bitcoins-scarcity-game Five-star reviews to help grow the Nation! ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Oct 14, 2020 |
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34 - The Ownership Economy | Jesse Walden
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📣 Join us at Invest Ethereum Conference Oct 14th - http://bankless.cc/investeth ----- 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ The Ownership Economy | Jesse Walden Jesse Walden speaks about 'the ownership economy', in which value is returned to the producers via a protocol by compensation codified in its core. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter are now extracting more than they are providing. Can Ethereum and DeFi solve this? How can Ethereum host an internet-sized cooperative, like REI? How can token ownership create a larger tent, that can scale organizations past previous limits? We also discuss Jesse's 3 theories for how crypto will be adopted, and which one he believes will come first: - The people come, Bank the Unbanked! ----- Actions & Resources: Read Jesse’s articles: The Ownership Economy thesis https://variant.fund/the-ownership-economy-crypto-and-consumer-software/ The Ownership Economy in DeFi to date https://variant.fund/how-does-defi-cross-the-chasm/ Progressive Decentralization vs. Fair Launch https://variant.fund/progressive-decentralization-a-playbook-for-building-crypto-applications/ Business Models in Crypto https://variant.fund/cryptos-business-model-is-familiar-what-isnt-is-who-benefits/ Check out our Meet the Nation with RAC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZMQcjLzx7s&t=848s Five-star reviews to help grow the Nation!\ ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Oct 12, 2020 |
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AMA - Felix Feng, CEO of Set Protocol ($INDEX Cooperative, DeFi Pulse partnership)
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📣 Join us at Invest Ethereum Conference Oct 14th - http://bankless.cc/investeth ----- 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ AMA with Felix Feng Set Protocol has rolled out a TON of new products lately! We bring CEO Felix Feng on the Bankless YouTube to get our questions directly to the source. Some recent Announcements that we'll be talking about: https://medium.com/indexcoop/introducing-the-index-cooperative-a4eaaf0bcfe2 https://medium.com/set-protocol/introducing-the-defi-pulse-index-on-tokensets-79f87c6b295b
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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SotN#17: RETREATING! w/ Jake Chervinsky (BitMEX REKT, SEC Action, is DeFi safe?)
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📣 Join us at Invest Ethereum Conference Oct 14th - http://bankless.cc/investeth ----- 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE ETHEREUM & CRYPTO ADDRESSES https://bankless.cc/unstoppable 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI http://bankless.cc/zapper 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ SotN #16: RETREATING! w/ @jchervinsky (BitMEX REKT, SEC Action, is DeFi safe?) Lots of legal action taken against the crypto world lately! We're bringing Jake Chervinsky from Compound Labs onto the show to help us understand what's going on. - Enforcement actions from the SEC and CFTC But most importantly: Is DeFi immune from this? Resources linked & discussed When worlds collide Bankless article: The Case for Electronic Cash and Financial Privacy (Coincenter piece that Jake talked about) https://www.coincenter.org/the-case-for-electronic-cash/ Jakes prediction that regulatory action is coming: https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1310626151631671296?s=20 SALT Lending: https://www.coindesk.com/sec-orders-salt-lending-to-refund-investors-in-its-50m-ico Kick KIN ruling: https://www.coindesk.com/kik-sec-ruling Bloomberg scare article: What does BitMEX charge from the DOJ for breaking the bank secrecy act mean for Defi? https://twitter.com/AdamScochran/status/1311729872050544643?s=20 Jay Clayton SEC chair says all stocks may be tokenized: ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case. |
Oct 07, 2020 |
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33 - Slaying Moloch | Ameen Soleimani & Kevin Owocki
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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ✊ STARTING GUIDE BANKLESS: https://bit.ly/37Q17uI GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: Moloch is the god of human coordination failure; the reason why we can't have nice things; the embodiment of the Prisoners Dilemma. The story of humanity is a never-ending iterative process of discovering new tools and mechanisms to coordinate against Moloch. Is Ethereum the Sword that Humanity needs to finally slay Moloch? Why is Ethereum different than previous instances of coordination mechanisms, such as Religion or the Nation-State. Tune in to this extremely important episode, and join the army of coordinators to help Slay Moloch! Meditations on Moloch blog post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ Read aloud on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeohwQls2GE&t=5660s David's Bankless Piece: Ethereum: Moloch Slayer https://bankless.substack.com/p/ethereum-slayer-of-moloch- Gitcoin & MolochDAO https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/gitxchange2/?tab=hackathon:16 POV Crypto Podcast on MolochDAO origins w/ Ameen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oU5jjyHWxE&t=4s ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ |
Oct 05, 2020 |
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SotN#16 - EXPLORING w/ Dan Robinson (Mempool Monsters, Optimism Launch, MEV, ETH/BTC Correlation with legacy, KuCoin Hack, FEW, Spinalda)
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Sep 30, 2020 |
