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"The basic premise of the event is that hunters hunt rattlesnakes from the surrounding environment all across West Texas, and bring them into the roundup for the weekend. And during the roundup, these snakes are kept in a pit and then, one by one, beheaded and skinned in front of in front of audiences." - Elizabeth MeLampy Elizabeth MeLampy is a lawyer dedicated to animal rights and protection, and her passion for this work shines through in her latest book, Forget the Camel, the Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say About Being Human . To research the book, Elizabeth traveled across the country, immersing herself in a wide range of animal festivals — from the Iditarod dog sled race to the rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. Elizabeth examines these festivals as revealing microcosms of our broader relationship with animals. Whether it's rattlesnake hunts, frog-jumping contests, ostrich races, or groundhog celebrations, these events reflect the ways humans use animals to express cultural identity, community pride, and historical traditions. Yet beneath the pageantry and excitement lies a deeper question: Is our fascination with these spectacles worth the toll it takes on the animals involved? With compassion and insight, Elizabeth invites readers to consider whether there’s a more ethical and empathetic way to honor our stories — one that respects both animals and the traditions they inspire. Please listen, share and read, Forget the Camel. It will be released on April 8th, 2025. https://apollopublishers.com/index.php/forget-the-camel/…

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In this episode, we have Barney Mannerings, Founder of Vega Protocol Official website https://vega.xyz/ Twitter @vegaprotocol

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VEGA Protocol DeFi Derivatives with Barney Mannerings

MikoBits Blockchain NFT and DeFi show

published 約 2 年前

MP3•エピソードのホーム

In this episode, we have Barney Mannerings, Founder of Vega Protocol Official website https://vega.xyz/ Twitter @vegaprotocol

Let's connect! Twitter: @mikojava Website: https://miko.com/

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#Trading #Business #MikoBits

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0:00 welcome 1:01 What problem does Plasm Solve? 2:37 Scaling 3:35 the gas fee problem 5:32 where are we with Plasm? 9:04 the Plasm programming model 12:42 Multi-VM 18:17 zones 20:56 security 22:45 Kusama vs Polkadot 24:50 a bit on Sota's uniqueness 29:17 Acala and other exciting projects 31:32 Big Idea: A New Internet…

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Episode 74: Gitcoin (GTC) with founder Kevin Owocki 48:03

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What is Gitcoin? Gitcoin is a place that you can get coins, if you are a software developer working on open source software, we are focused on providing funding for open source software. And hopefully, when there's funding for open source software, software developers can stop working their their day jobs in corporate America, or, or, or just generally, and move on to working on open source and pay their mortgage with working on open source software. And so we just want to build rails from people who want to fund open source and are looking for developers to open source software developers.…

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Episode 73: Star Atlas (ATLAS) NFT game with CEO Michael Wagner 39:27

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Star Atlas We really think Star Atlas is something that can be transformative, not only to the gaming community but really to the global population. And that's a really bold statement to come out with, just right at the inception. But, you know, generally speaking, what we're developing out is a grand strategy, space-themed, massively multiplayer online game. And we're coupling that with two things. One, we're integrating blockchain throughout the experience, which comes with a number of benefits for the players. And then we're also you know, long-term taking developing out a metaverse concept, which is a fully integrative alternative virtual reality that people can persist within. And we can talk a little bit about some of the requirements to make that a reality. But yeah, we believe that this can be essentially an alternative life for someone, particularly when coupled with the financial incentives and rewards through blockchain. And then this fully immersive 3d gaming experience that we're building out on the store outside. So yeah, that's kind of high level where we're, what the ambition is.…

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Episode 72:Twitter Fail Whale Artist Yiying Lu and her WhaleShark NFT Drop 37:05

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This episode we interview brilliant digital artist and San Francisco Arts Commission, Yiying Lu, who created many emojis and also the famous Twitter "Fail Whale". She is talking about herself, her art and her upcoming drop on Opensea for some exclusive WhaleShark NFTs. Check out her art at: https://www.yiyinglu.com/ Yiying's new Whale NFT Drops on Opensea, celebrating $Whale Community's 1st Anniversary: https://yiyinglu.com/whale Yiying Lu's NFT Journey So this Whale NFT journey started back in 2009, when I first came to the San Francisco Bay Area. As I created the artwork of a white beluga whale lifted by 8 birds, which eventually became the Twitter "Fail Whale". It was used in the early days of Twitter during around 2008 to 2013. Every time Twitter went down, people will see it. When I initially created the artwork back in 2007, during the time I was living and studying in Sydney, Australia. The artwork was initially created as a personal work, and it was not commissioned by Twitter. As I was living in Sydney, New South "Whales" pun not intended, after my exchange study from London, UK in 2006. I was finishing my final year in college, and I miss my friends in UK, but also miss my friends in China, I was born and raised in Shanghai, China. So it was around the same time when Twitter, Facebook and other social media website became popular. So there is a lot of FOMO as overseas people sent birthday party invites and graduation ceremonies invites from social media, and I couldn't physically be there with them. So I thought, well, what I studied was visual communication, why don't I just communicate this huge wish to be physically there with my friends as a visual metaphor - the Whale. So I created the whale initially, and I caught it "Lifting a Dreamer", it's almost like an impossible dream come true - because in our physical reality, Whales don't fly, but with art, anything is possible. And by serendipity, the co-founder and creative director of Twitter, Biz Stone, found it online and licensed it and next thing, you know, it became Twitter's iconic service breakdown image. Yiying's interview with Milton Glaser, the artist of the Iconic 'I ❤️ NY'. https://youtu.be/hFlWVJ5pY5Q Yiying's youtube channel: https://youtube.c om/c/yiyinglu…

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Episode 71: Sneaker NFTs with NFTYCO Founder and CEO Casmir Patterson 35:21

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What is NFTYCO? NFTYCO stands for NFT you can own. And I think that now we're in a cultural gateway point, whereby which people who haven't yet heard of NFTs or technology that brings, they're really curious to how many things can be NFT are viable?. One of the first things that we did at NFTYCO was, you know, turn sneakers into NFT's. And so, we found that by having a representation of, you know, something that's so abstract as not fungible tokens, like what does that even really mean? It helps people to come into the metaverse with us. So we were the first to basically, you know, provide an algorithmic approach to sneaker culture. You know, we took the colorways from NBA 2K, NFL teams, double A team's streetwear brands by Supreme and we tokenize them.…

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Episode 70: Evan Feng from CoinFund on Token Valuation and Fundamental Analysis 57:19

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0:00 welcome 4:09 A bit about Evan 7:48 Gamestop GME 20:00 Core DeFi Valuation Metrics 26:14 The Secret 28:30 CoinFund Track Record 36:47 Gaming 49:21 The Big Idea

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Episode 69: Defi Dad on how to yield farm 33:48

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Who is DeFi Dad? DeFi Dad it's definitely a very genuine reflection, I think of just who I am as a person, except with the added touch of focus on DeFi. So in the last few years, you know, I started in Ethereum, and Bitcoin and crypto in general about three years ago. And then I started working full time in crypto about almost 12 months after I first started learning about crypto, so around July 2018. And it's funny because like I was working as like a general sort of Project Manager, a little bit of marketing across lots of projects at consensus, you know, getting exposure to all these different Ethereum projects like Metamask and truffle and get coin. And then it was, it was in the spring of 2019. Someone who was running the ethereal summit, they they found a new job, they left very abruptly and there was this big gap in the team to run the ethereal summit and the ethereal summit. If anyone's unfamiliar with it. It's this awesome series of global events we used to do through consensus. I believe they're going to start doing those again, just because we've been in the pandemic. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, ETH Denver is another amazing event. So the whole idea was what to celebrate the stories of founders and builders and evangelists and investors in the Ethereum community. And anyways, I just had a blast, like for about a year, I got to work on this full time focus on the storytelling of what's happening in Ethereum. And by doing that, I happened upon how DeFi was, was developing, I had a background working mostly in the Bay Area, in very typical sorts of software startups. So spent a lot of time we actually have we have a lot of commonality here. Like I spent a lot of time evangelizing or selling what we did at different little software startups. So I would live in demos all day long, no show.…

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Episode 68: CREAM DeFi (CREAM) YFI and the Iron Bank with Leo Cheng 42:03

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What problem does CREAM solve? I think capital efficiency is really the summary of it all. I know, it's very, very broad, like, what the heck does that mean? I think that we're serving the general needs of the DeFi marketplace. So we come at this from the angle of a DeFi user. And you know, really, the genesis of all this is like, we as DeFi users on a team are like, Hey, you know, this whole DeFi summer is great, we're using these things. But why isn't there XYZ in there? Why is why isn't their z, the stuff should exist. And we finally just said, You know what, we should just build it ourselves. So that's really been the kind of guiding light, let's help our users be capital efficient. Let's help our DeFi users get the things they want. That makes sense. And roughly that led to a debt market structure that we have today with other kinds of products that we could talk about later.…

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Episode 67: DeFi Derivatives with VEGA (VEGA) founder Barney Mannerings 46:24

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What is VEGA? I spent most of my career in the sort of traditional financial world-building trading systems and working with traders and got super excited when Bitcoin came along. And Ethereum, as well, and so did some mining and got in a very small way on the Ethereum presale, and I was really excited to kind of decentralized finance. So you know, before DeFi, was DeFi, I was excited by that idea. And I looked into the kind of doing some of the things that I'd done around building derivatives protocols. What I realized very quickly was that Ethereum is an incredibly constrained environment, and effectively, with Ethereum DeFi, you currently trying to build these sophisticated products that need risk management and margins and all of that stuff on what is effectively like a kind of pocket calculator. And, and that just means that you make some really big trade-offs that in my view, and you know, our company's view, certainly means that DeFi derivatives on sort of built on a theorem are never going to be kind of accepted in the real world use cases because they won't be efficient enough in terms of capital, they won't be efficient enough in terms of pricing. And often, they may not even be able to offer the same features like the kind of traditional finance equivalents. And so what we were looking to do when we created Vega was to create something that was effectively optimized for the ground up as kind of a scaling layer for derivatives. So you're building an application-specific chain that could optimize derivatives for the decentralized web. So providing a layer of Vega actually plugs into Ethereum and right now and future other blockchains like terror and polka dot and others. But you know, providing that derivatives layer, so you take the same assets, you know, your dye, your ether, your ERC 20s. But I'm able to kind of, you know, move them on to this supercharged trading layer, and start creating and trading derivatives without some of those constraints. And that's really what Vega provides.…

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Episode 66: Stellar Lumens (XLM) with Justin Rice of SDF, the Stellar Development Foundation 46:18

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Stellar: Stellar is is a platform that connects all the world's currencies. Once a currency is tokenized. And represented on the network, the network infrastructure makes it really easy to hold, transfer, trade, and transmute any kind of currency. But stellar is built. So that essentially, asset issuance is a first class representation on stellar and asset as a first class thing on stellar. So in a few lines of code, anyone can come to issue an asset on the network. And then there are also ecosystem standards that allow people to connect those on an app on network assets to networks to assets outside the network. In other words, it's really easy to build an on-off ramp for fiat currency that connects to stellar. And so essentially, what the stellar model is that all these different organizations, we call them anchors, which are regulated financial institutions, essentially accept consumer deposits via traditional rails and digitize those issue an asset on a stellar network. And once it's on the network, the holder of that asset can take advantage of it, to do these really cheap, fast, easy, and compliant cross currency payments. So the infrastructure itself is great for that. But the connection that is sort of specified in these ecosystem standards, allows the stellar network to connect to other financial infrastructure. And again, traditionally, that's banking rails, but you can also connect it to other cryptocurrency networks, or really, to any asset in the real world that you can redeem, that you can sort of deposit for on network asset and redeem in return for the asset that represents…

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Episode 65: Open Conversation with Emiliano Bonassi on DeFi 44:23

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0:00 welcome 1:44 How Emiliano got into DeFi 10:32 Reviews DAO 16:12 about IDLE finance 22:46 Antifragility and Reliability 29:17 Creative Destruction in DeFi 35:24 What makes DeFi special

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Episode 64: Makerdao (DAI) with Nik Kunkel 50:30

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On Oracles, trust vs cost: lack of trust is expensive What are Oracles? It's this mechanism for getting data from off of the blockchain onto the blockchain. And, you know, predominantly, those Oracle's are used for prices of things. And most of DeFi right now, right is utilizing credit to some extent, right. So you need to know the prices of things to know how much you should let someone borrow. You know, you need to know the prices of things to know when you need to liquidate right up position. So Oracle is really critical infrastructure to the functioning of DeFi. And so I think he kind of touched on one of the issues, which is, how do you, as a user, trust the data that the Oracle is showing. So that's one of the big problems. I think the other problem is cost. Right. So how expensive is it to run an Oracle? And I think you'll find that frequently, you end up having to make a trade-off there. Right, in terms of the security of the Oracle versus the price?…

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Episode 63: Easy DeFi Dashboard with Zerion Founder Evgeny 43:10

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0:00 Welcome 1:23 What problem does Zerion solve? 2:58 Traction numbers 4:24 What makes Zerion different? 6:22 Where are we in ETH DeFi? 8:42 Layer 2 scalability 11:25 A custodial Zerion? 15:31 DeFi Self Custody 16:49 Binance Smart Chain 18:41 What is your superpower? 20:23 Secrets of Zerion 22:10 Product Roadmap 26:02 DEX Guru 29:47 Governance 33:18 Balancing Governance Centralization 35:43 Fair Launches Arent Always Fair 40:18 Sources of Inspiration…

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Episode 62: DeFi Made Easy with Zapper Fi Founder Seb 45:42

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What is Zapper? So because DeFi is kind of like this open Internet of finance, right. There's a there's kind of an explosion of you know, different protocols and product products and defy kind of, you know, popping up. And since everything is kind of shared and open, you know, people kind of experiment here and there, they invest in this platform, they use another and the immediate problem that comes with that type of usages, it becomes a kind of like a mess to be able to track your portfolio and your balances. And my first use case for zapper was actually to solve a problem that I had. And that was a year ago, and I was actually, you know, a user back then still am a user right now. But I was just, you know, checking out in different platforms, putting money here and there. And eventually, it became impossible to like track all my balances. So the goal of zapper is really just to be this one-stop shop, this one place where you can really track all your investments that you're doing in defy, on top of actually being able to do transactions. So the other part that we have solving is, you know, as a user, it can be kind of like hard to kind of see all the opportunities that are going. And even just being able to like, use the different websites can be a pretty hindering user experience. So on top of just being able to read your portfolio, you can actually do transactions directly from zapper so we have the exchange where you can go from token a token B, there's also the pool section where you can easily add liquidity to a pool from a bunch of different protocols. So there's uni swap sushi balancer curve, and bancor. And there's also a farm tab. So it's really like we're aggregating a bunch of investment opportunities in one simple UI, that kind of reduces a lot of the overhead and defy which is being able to track everything that's going on and be like having to move from one website to the other.…

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Episode 61: BadgerDAO (BADGER) with founder Chris Spadafora 57:45

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0:00 Welcome 0:56 What is BadgerDAO? 1:37 What does the token do? 3:16 Badger origin story 6:11 How do you get Bitcoins on Ethereum? 7:55 Badger Yield Strategies 15:18 Secrets of BadgerDAO Success 20:00 DeFi Community by the Numbers 23:21 More Badger tools coming 29:05 What's new in Badger v2? 31:42 Badger and Ren VM 39:43 Honey Badger as Bitcoin Mascot 46:35 Reconciling Bitcoin and ETH 50:43 Layer 2 Scalability 51:54 NFTs…

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Episode 60: Xanpool Decentralized Blockchain Payment Network 40:17

3 years前40:17

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What is Xanpool? Xanpool started out as a simple local currency to cryptocurrency Fiat gateway, it was the mechanism by which we are doing this that is relatively unique. Gateways has always been a problem. I don't think I need to dig too much into that. So most of the liquidity of cryptocurrency resides in US dollar to crypto. And that is where most exchanges brokers or whomever in the market has to settle with the what the model that example takes on his example is actually a peer to peer Fiat gateway, where you are directly trading with someone locally, who has that crypto and is willing to provide liquidity for that. The way we do this is through a mixture of banking API's, as well as crypto wallet and crypto exchange API's. where people are essentially able to plug their banking API's that we've built their bank account into ours and pull network and their crypto exchange or crypto wallet into our central network, whereby they essentially create crypto liquidity, as well as local currency liquidity, and then our automated market maker (AMM) will essentially help people on an off ramp into that liquidity. So it's sort of like UNIswap. It's very similar to UNIswap, except specific for local currency. The short version is that it is a payment network similar to VISA but instead of member banks providing liquidity, liquidity is provided by individuals and businesses. This is optimized for South Asian markets at the moment.…

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Episode 59: Zilliqa Capital (ZIL) , a conversation with the founders 54:45

3 years前54:45

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Why did you start Zilliqa? So Well, well, the main reason why we started Zilliqa was based on this idea of sharding. Because he felt that this was an idea that we started as a first academic paper. So that was the first paper that was published in the academic literature that basically showed two people that you could actually apply this idea of sharding in the public blockchain. So until then, it was not known or it was not well formally studied how to do that in practice. So one, one very key sort of idea that we started now with something that many people are following. Or you know, whether it be I won't say Ethereum ICO followed us. But definitely, we started that chain reaction where now, several teams that are actually pursuing that idea of sharding, may different forms and shapes, some are obviously trying to improve on what we have done. So that's, that's something that hopefully, obviously gives us an advantage on what we started with. The second area that we tried to focus on was around smart contract safety is something again, that many people are doing but in our approach has been outside perimeter, the first or second one, in that sense, where we felt that the language, smart contract language, the way it was designed, specially solidity was sort of designed with, you know, developer features in mind, not so much on security aspects of it. And what ended up happening was that it became so loose or became so open, for people to use that it became very difficult to make sure that any formal guarantees could be, could come off. And of course, you know, it's not impossible, but it's very, very difficult. And if you change the language, or if you restrict the language in some way, it becomes much easier. So basically, what we have learned so far is that you basically have a trade-off between how expressive a language can be and how auditable that language could be. So how easy it is to reason about the correctness and safety of that contract. And that's it for today if you look at a recent survey made by I think sorority team, one of the most hated, I mean, it's one of the most most loved aspects as well, is that 30 is most one of the most hated aspect of it is that it's very close to JavaScript. Even though, even though it definitely makes people who actually develop web applications, so they like it much easier. And that's again, because of some of the guarantees that the language doesn't provide. So he also felt that back then we were when we were building silicon, developing silica, he felt that there is an opportunity to actually build a safer language that could be easy to use, at the same time, be able to provide stronger guarantees. And you know, after that, you know, we saw Viper coming in the Ethereum ecosystem, we saw, I think, recently, a language called Fey coming. I think, after that, I think Cardano started to work on their own language called Plutus algorrand developed their own language. So in a way that created a sort of chain reaction where people felt that this, this is an area of development, that people need to focus on to make language better because, in the end, many of these contracts actually handle hundreds of million dollars worth of assets, but billions of dollars worth of assets. And you want to make sure that it's safe to hold that. So these are two sort of key areas, which we started with, again, that have created a lot of different tentacles. One, me I would claim that you know, we have changed our impact on other people we but we have seen, that other people have actually started to work on symbolizes was that I feel that there's some contribution to the blockchain ecosystem.…

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Episode 58: Rari Capital (RARI) DeFi Risk Data Platform 41:18

3 years前41:18

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What is Rari? A New Financial "Opportunity Zone" Capital, right now, you have risk on capital, and then you have risk off. As I mentioned earlier, a lot of this risk off capital is becoming risk on only because they have no reason not to, right. capital is cheap. There's, there's free returns basically, everywhere why not, but there is substantial amounts of risk associated with it, because they've lost an opportunity to earn yield on on the capital in a low risk way. so Rari aims to reintroduce that optionality to investors by enabling anybody to earn a substantial amount of yield on their US dollars at first and then soon all of their crypto assets and do it in a trustless way where they can actually make a decent return. And I mean, zooming out what one thing I've understood is, most people are coming to blockchain and crypto in general, to make money, right? It's a new financial opportunity. And it's a new financial opportunity zone. And one thing that we we understood is, we don't want people taking on this price risk, because there is intense risk associated with it. So our job that worry is, how do we enable the investor class to make as much money as possible without taking on significant risks, like pricing. How does Rari Work? We have a yield aggregator, which is a smart contract that anybody can deposit into. And we automatically rebalance between different protocols. These protocols can be things like compound dydx, AAVE traditional money markets all the way to more exotic strategies, like COMP farming, or lending, or I guess, not lending, but providing capital and Mstable, and things like that. Then, when a user deposits, they receive the pool token, which represents their share in the pool, which they can redeem anytime for the pool value. But at the end of the day how do you sustainably maintain these yields, especially when our yield aggregators competing for the same alpha that harvest and Yearn and all these other guys are? It's a really interesting dilemma to be part of, because we don't want to compete. And we don't want to just add another product to this ecosystem that's just trying to achieve the same goal. And that's something that we all understood, right? We just didn't want to do the same thing as everybody else who really zoomed out and said, what, what do we actually want to contribute to this ecosystem. And one thing that we understood is, the capital funnel really has three parts. Right now we've 1. capital onboarding, in terms of metamask, then you have 2. capital formation in terms of our yield aggregator, and then you have 3. capital deployment in terms of places where we actually put the capital like compound and AAVE. And one thing that we came through in our realization, we want to control each part of this stack, not for the sake of control, but for the sake of bringing a 10X experience that's actually really innovative. And the first step in that plan is our new project in our new product called fuse. And this is, this is what's exciting me this is what's keeping me up at night, as I think about all the new ideas that you built on top of it. And what fuses is essentially a market of money markets. So anybody can come in and build out their own essentially compound, cool, they can choose what assets they want, they can choose what interest rate curves they want, they can even choose what Oracle's they want. And suddenly, you enable anybody to start their own money market fulfilling like this true idea of like a trustless system, but also giving people the power that they should have, right, like, there's no reason that compound should be limited to eight assets, and every asset should be voted on by token holders limited to an elite few, we should give that power to everybody.…

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Episode 57: IntoThe Block Blockchain Analytics and Algorithmic Trading with CEO Jesus Rodriquez 41:29

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What is IntoTheBlock? So the idea that the overarching idea about IntoTheBlock was to enable intelligence for cryptographic assets as a whole class. In traditional capital markets, you're seeing a lot of movements from traditional vehicles to more machine learning vehicles. So for instance, one fund have been having a horrible three years. So you're saying funds like Renaissance, everybody's having a hard time and it's still, you see a lot of capital fluctuating from discretionary to quant, we're seeing a proliferation of robo advisors, automated insurance, things like that. So in crypto being 100% of the asset class, you will think that's the only way this is going to go right all phones are going to require there is going to be 300 million robo advisors. The problem is that the intelligence layer and analytics layer that you need to build those products is still very nascent. So IntoTheBlock was created to solve that problem to enable analytics and intelligence and discover new indicators that could better inform institutional retail investors about the asset class. And now after getting some traction we started building what is called intelligence services on quant strategies and advisory strategies, on top of that analytics layer is already using all the signals and intelligence that the underlying platform provides.…

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Episode 56: How to invest with BlockGeeks founder Dmitry Buterin 40:19

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Dmitry on the history and culture of Ethereum When I look back at the origins of Ethereum. And I look at the number of people who were involved early on. I do know that they explicitly discussed that one of the things that they were not too happy about. They were all involved in the Bitcoin community, right? That was the original crypto community. And, and already, then Bitcoin community sometimes could be abrasive, you know, there was a lot of this kind of like, biting if you will, quality to conversations, right? Yes. A lot of the people involved in this space? They're very smart software engineers and such kind of, you have to be smart. It's hard to develop to code if you're not. Yeah. And many of those people, are introverts, right. So they are not really people who want this. Yeah, conflict them, you know, fighting, right. So in some ways, many of them felt uncomfortable with their Bitcoin community, because there were so much competitiveness and divisiveness if you will. So specifically, when they started Ethereum, they said, Hey, guys, let's this thing that we tried to build, and which was at that time, you know, just like a pipe dream, right? Oh, let's build this thing. But they tried to they said, Okay, well, let's create a community, which is based on openness and inclusivity. And, and I think this is really, this really became some, you know, those things become crucial aspects of the foundation of the Ethereum community, right. And I have, I have seen this many times, actually, my life because of, you know, building businesses over many years, and looking at companies and looking at my friends, entrepreneurs, whatever you build, project, initiative, business, whatever, it will always be a reflection of, of you as a human being. Right? That always happens, right? And Bitcoin was created by this anonymous person. And so it's really kind of hard to kind of that person, if you will, the energy that he put into this project, you know, there, there was a lot of this stuff that people tried to carry on. But and if you're competing specifically, with Alec and some other early people, they had this, they have this energy of openness and inclusivity. Right. And this eventually propagated throughout the community and you know, communities never homogeneous, right, you will always find all kinds of people.…

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Episode 55: Bitcoin and Crypto Taxes with Zenledger CEO Pat Larsen 24:41

3 years前24:41

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What problem does Zenledger solve? ZenLedger is tax software for holders of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. They are the official tax partner for eToro Bitcoin and Crypto traders. Yeah, you know, as you know, it can be really messy people can have multiple crypto accounts. All over the world, you can have five or 10 exchange accounts, you could have lost some crypto in an ICO or in a defunct exchange or just accidentally sending it somewhere, you'll have several wallets. And then when you try to do your accounting and your financial analysis and your taxes on all this, it's just going to be a mess, you're going to lose your cost basis, you're not going to know your holding period and profit and loss. Over half of our customers work with a tax professional. And a lot of tax professionals are not up to speed on what crypto is and how crypto is accounted for. So our software can help bridge that gap as well and just prevent present tax professionals with what they're used to seeing in a profit and loss and forms.…

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Episode 54: DeFi Vaults with Enzyme (MLN) (formerly Melon) Founder Mona Elisa 47:31

3 years前47:31

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What is Enzyme (formerly Melon and MelonPort) So enzyme, for those of you who don't know is a protocol that enables anyone to build a vault in DeFi a vault, which is able to trade assets, lend earn interest, farm, or deposit into AMM pools. The idea, eventually, the end goal is we want to have integrations across the whole of the DeFi space. And we want to be able to hold any kind of asset within an enzyme vault, the protocol also takes care of the accounting. So you can basically calculate on a pretty much live basis, what the value of the assets within the vault is, how they're changing, you have full transparency over what the vault manager is doing. And at the same time, everything that's happening in the vault that you have potentially deposited into is completely non-custodial, which means that if at any point, you disagree with what the vault manager is doing the strategy, you can just exit because you are the custodian of those assets at all time. So it's pretty beautiful. And the problem that I faced, you mentioned that I did start my career at Goldman, I then moved to hedge funds after that, and I was a long-short equity portfolio manager. But the part of my career that I don't talk about very much, is when I tried to launch my own hedge fund. And discovered for the first time in my life, what a nightmare it is for small to medium-sized managers who love investing to launch in the world of traditional finance. And long story short, it wasn't for lack of trying, it wasn't for a lack of the hours. And it wasn't for, a lack of luck, I had a lot of luck, I had maybe $30 million raised within a couple of months. But my god, the fact that people think $30 million is a small fund and traditional finance is very telling about what the industry, barriers to entry are.…

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Episode 53: DeFi with Alpha Finance Labs, Alpha Homora (ALPHA) Founder Tascha Punyaneramitdee 50:53

3 years前50:53

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What is Alpha Finance Labs? Yeah, so that's when I think it gets more interesting with what we're building at alpha finance lab. So So instead of focusing on one particular area, or sector of DeFi, we're actually going to focus on the end goal of what we're going to achieve for the users. So we think that the end goal that we want to achieve is how pretty much maximize the returns and minimize the downside risks for users. And we think that, you know, that's the ideal goal of financial products suites, right? Because no one's gonna use the product if they cannot maximize the returns. Versus you know, if maximizing the returns and they don't know how to hedge the risk, or there's no way to hedge that risk, then that's also not ideal. So when we come up with that goal, instead of a particular clear that we want to focus on, then we kind of backtrack, to see how do we get to that goal and pretty much to get to that goal, it's pretty much that we need to do a number of alpha products to work together to achieve that goal, because it's pretty much, you know, very hard to optimize for everything from one product. And especially on the blockchain too, there are a lot of limitations on that. So in order to get that goal, we need a number of alpha products to work together. So that's where kind of backtracking to alpha Homora. So for alpha Homora, we're focusing on maximizing the returns for the users and pretty much we found that, like, the lending rates on DeFi are actually pretty good. But we were actually spotting and opportunities starting from Ethereum lending, right, as there are a lot of ETH lenders, and they are actually bearing quite a low lending interest rates on these. And we think that if we can find a way to engineer an innovation on the borrowing side, then we would be able to unlock a really high lending interest rate on ETH. And, you know, capture a huge demand from from ETH lenders, right? Yeah. So that's what came from for the first version of alpha Homora. And the way that we innovate on the borrowing side is by doing leveraged farming, so it's the first time that leverage the farming came into the picture. And I think that you know, received pretty well, product-market fit, because there are a lot of yield farmers in the space and, and they're, they're still going to search for higher yields because the yields nowadays are not as high as June last year. So they're still gonna search for higher yields. And this is the mechanism that allows them to get that higher yields without having to do all of the steps manually. And vice versa, as the lenders would be able to get the high lending interest rate on ETH. Because of these leveraged borrowers who are actively borrowing these ETH, to do more yield farming. So that pretty much knows the backstory of alpha homora. And in the future, or later questions, I can also explain more of like, why we decided to build v2, what're the differences are? And then what are the other alpha products that we're going to build, but you can see the whole picture that it's going to work as a whole ecosystem. So alpha Homora is one of the products that we're going to build. And at the end of the day, the whole ecosystem would achieve the goal of maximizing returns and minimizing some good downside risks. So similar to the YFI ecosystem, do you intend for the alpha to essentially unify like that.…

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Episode 52: DeFi Risk Tokens with Barnbridge (BOND) Founder Tyler Ward 51:39

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0:00 Welcome 2:27 About Tyler 5:11 What Problem does BarnBridge solve? 17:39 Traction numbers 22:48 What's the advantage 32:59 Sources of Inspiration 35:57 Credit to Vitalik, Lubin, others 42:06 Kain Warwick's brothers

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Episode 51: NFT Gaming with Axie Infinity (AXS) 51:20

3 years前51:20

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What is Axie? Axie is a movement disguised as a digital pet game. So the game itself centers and revolves around battling collecting these kinds of adorable monsters called axies, I think the secret sauce is that we carefully structure the economy, and basically using blockchain, which allows our players to earn crypto by playing. And so this kind of, you know, this because this been this phenomenon around the concept of play to earn, where people are feeding their families during the pandemic, and playing Axie infinity, I think that's, you know, kind of what, what's made us kind of what's helped us make a name for ourselves so far. And we've also seen Axies, you know, become a very highly coveted collector's item. And with some axes selling for hundreds or 1000s of dollars. So the idea behind Axie is that it's not just one game, it's going to be an entire universe of games. What we currently have out is a battle card battling game. It's kind of similar (to Pokemon). It's not actually similar to anything but yeah, you can kind of play different cards. Each Axie has six different body parts and those body parts actually correspond to different cards. And and yeah, so the battles are 3v3, you can battle against other players, which in real-time, there's a leaderboard with actually with you know, rewards, we've given out things like AAVE tokens, Khyber network tokens, real gold, in the form of gold-backed tokens from DIGITS, and also our governance token, which basically is kind of a slice or part of our universe. And yeah, so we also have we also have a land system under development, which will basically allow you to build a kingdom for these Axies. Axie Land Buying People have been buying and selling land for a while now. And kind of in anticipation, and to get ready for the launch of land. We actually did a seven-day demo in December, which I think, you know, people are really excited about. And so yeah, that's, that's another really important aspect to the game. There's also the kind of biological aspect to the game where we try and, you know, Axies are, they have their own genetic code, and you're able to actually breed Axies. That's part of actually what balances the economy is that we have this breeding system, but in order to actually breed in Axie, you need to use these potions (SLP or Simple Love Potions) and those potions can actually own be earned by playing the game, we don't actually sell them right like a convention or mainstream game studio might sell them themselves and try to monetize that way. And but we don't, we don't sell them. And if so if anyone wants them, they have to get them from uni swap, or now Binance. And this one, it was one of the things that are kind of fueled this idea of played around where basically, we don't step into certain markets, and we leave them totally up to the players. And I think when you give players autonomy, and the right to control, you know, one of the markets around the game and you know, you don't force them to kind of have to do black market deals or use trusted third-party sites. And we're, you know, we build the marketplace, ourselves, and when So basically, when you let them have that a lot of really interesting behaviors begin to emerge.…

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Episode 50: DeFi DEX Aggregator Paraswap (PSP) with founder Mounir 47:05

3 years前47:05

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What is ParaSwap? How are people trading in DeFi today? It's a bit hard. The liquidity is very fragmented. So as a user who wants to sell or buy a crypto-based on Ethereum right now? Well, they have the choice between almost 50 exchanges. So which one should they choose? Which one should they avoid in order not to get wrecked (rekt). This is where a DEX aggregator makes sense, like ParaSwap. But that's solving the problems of today of improving liquidity and improving the user experience on trading on-chain. That's the long-term view on ParaSwap and why we're doing this is we think that trading will happen on blockchains in the future, and will happen in multiple blockchains. And we think that real-world assets will be also traded on blockchains. And we think this is where an aggregator will make more sense. People will not be seeking like this small exchange that's going to help them swap Tesla shares (TSLA) or for a Bitcoin or whatever else, they will be trading on aggregators, and they will be trading on the platform that will give them the best prices and the best execution. And this is what we see ParaSwap solving in the future. This will happen within a few years, obviously. And we are focused on the problems of today. But yeah, this is our long-term vision. And this is how we see a product like ParaSwap and aggregator performing in the crypto ecosystem, or in the trading at a more high level in the next coming years.…

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Episode 49: Kava Cross-Chain (KAVA) blockchain with founder Brian Kerr 48:17

3 years前48:17

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What problem does Kava Solve? The big problem in DeFi is currently DeFi is limited to the Ethereum ecosystem. About assets. And what comes along with that is the types of collateral that can be used in DeFi is very limited. And then what we've seen recently is things like transaction bandwidth and the resources of the Ethereum network are starting to get really constrained, because of the success of defining it. crypto kitties were the first kind of bellwether that said, you know, things could be clogging up here, but DeFi taking off, and then I actually USDT transactions, and just regular payments of ERC. 20s has really filled up the whole blockchain. And that's what's causing, you know, $80 transaction fees and huge spikes that make what's supposed to be an open financial network and composable financial services, no longer open to the world, but only open to what I would call like the ultra-rich or people who can afford to pay $80 per transaction that's way higher than what people currently pay to, you know, trade a stock or do anything in the US much less If a person's in, you know, Vietnam, Malaysia somewhere where you know, the current, the average person doesn't earn all that much money. So, you know, the overall promise of DeFi is to make these financial services, not just for the ultra-wealthy, but accessible anywhere in the world to anyone, regardless of what asset they hold. And we really focus on addressing that particular problem.…

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Episode 48: Terra & Mirror Protocol (LUNA) with founder Do Kwon 51:53

3 years前51:53

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What is Terra? Terra is what you would call an algorithmic stable coin. So what a stable coin is, is different from different types of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, where the value of the coin or the price of the coin fluctuates in response to demand, a stable coin retains its value to $1, or to whatever other fiat currency lead might be pegged to, There's a couple of differences that para has versus other stable coins, such as tether USDC, DAI and some of the components are is the number one it's algorithmic. So for stable coins like tether, you generally keep $1, or you promise to keep $1 in the bank account for every stable coin that's issued. So the presumption is that you should be able to redeem this against the dollar or to mint an additional unit of the stable coin against the dollar, by using Fiat reserve operations. Or for makerDAO, for instance, like you keep up, you know, $1.50 worth of Ethereum in a smart contract to guarantee the value of, you know, the standard plan. What is Mirror Protocol? A recent protocol that we launched is called Mirror. So the mirror is a protocol whereby you can make synthetic tokens that track the price of any asset class in the world. So for example, you can mint a token that follows the price of, let's say, a bar of gold, or it could be some sort of ETF. But initially, we specifically focused on issuing synthetics for 13 different US equities. And the reason for that is because in most places across the world, outside of Western Europe and North America, it's actually very difficult, or in some cases, prohibitively expensive to be able to get price exposure to US equities as an asset class. So, you know, today, I think the response to the Mirror protocol has been pretty explosive. So throughout December, there was about $110 million in equity locked in various DEXes like uniswap. And, and paraswap in about $90 million locked up to create cdp's to mint various types of synthetics. So combined, we're looking at about around $200 million, locked up in TVL, within the space of, let's say, six weeks.…

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Episode 47: Akash Network (AKT) , Cloud Computing on Blockchain 50:17

3 years前50:17

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What is Akash? Akash is a peer-to-peer marketplace for cloud computing resources and a deployment platform for modern distributed workloads. The big difference of the big value it provides compared to the incumbent (Amazon Web Services or AWS), it's designed for a very modern developer. So what takes normally 10s of hours on a cloud takes minutes, right? So developers can do more with less. And it is private and permissionless. So there's no signup and incredible user experience that you get permissionless networks. And it's, of course, unstoppable, since that's becoming more and more important, considering what's happening today. And, and in a big value is cost. I mean, costs anywhere from two to three X on a normal lower than the Amazons and Googles to Microsoft's, in some cases, even 10 times slower. So that's an incredible value proposition. Episode Index: 0:00 Welcome 0:53 What is Akash Network? 2:15 Current state of the Network 5:21 Akash Token is Liquid and Network is Alive 6:29 Linux Containers and Developer Tools 10:44 Who runs the containers? 13:32 How can it be 2-3x cheaper than AWS? 18:23 Inflationary Rewards Mechanism 20:17 Equinix is an exclusive data center provider 20:53 Mainnet Launch Upcoming! 23:59 COSMOS, Solana and other Ecosystems 25:03 INFURA and Bison Trails 25:42 Managed Node Hosting 27:01 Parler, Censorship Resistance and Deplatforming 34:55 Big upcoming features 40:01 High Performance Computing 40:58 Amazon Web Services and Open Source 46:50 Solomon Hykes, Brian Fox and Alex Ellis…

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Episode 46: Delta (DETO) 51:34

3 years前51:34

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On Pankaj Balani: Pankaj is a seasoned business leader and a derivatives trader. He is a UBS alum and has deep experiences in derivatives, quantitative finance, and Asian equity markets. He also helped build and grow an e-commerce business in India which went on to raise a Series C round of financing. Pankaj is a graduate of IIT Delhi and has an MBA from the Indian School of Business. Where Yield Comes from: there was a day in crypto Twitter when everybody was talking about free yield and free. There's no free lunch. Somebody is paying for it. Yeah. So if nobody's paying for it, then whatever tokens you are getting is not worth it. Competition: Whatever is your strength can also become your weakness in that regard, and how we tend to ignore, ignore that part. And, you know, XLM (Stellar Lumens) and XRP (Ripple) is again, great examples. On Stellar (XLM): People had literally forgotten stellar, like, it was number six, you know, market cap coin, in 2017. And it kept falling without any activity for so long. Yes. You know, and the way table's turned and in a matter of a month, so it's up like 90% today. Next up is don't, what 60% in less than a month. Black Swan Events: So in markets, you know, whatever scenarios you think can happen more likely happens. What is Delta Exchange: We provide futures and perpetual swaps on many of the popular coins and support as many as 70 alt coins, in many cases the only place where users can get options on many of these. Announcing the Delta Token: The token is inspired by DeFi projects. So how DeFi projects have bootstrapped liquidity on the platform, we have taken that inspiration and similarly created liquidity pools on Delta. When will the token launch: So we're looking to do a token generation event (TGE) very soon, probably by the end of January (2021). Retail vs Institutional: there are both the kind of participants, so, you have institutional and retail reality is that if you try to bring all institutions upfront, then you know, you end up becoming more like an over the counter (OTC) desk, yes, you bring only retail, then you don't have that much size. So, it has to go hand in hand. India is the World's Largest Derivatives Market: in India, we have about $200 billion of options trading on a daily basis, and India is has done a very good job on the single stock options and futures market. So, now, when you if you see the breakdown of numbers there you have 45% trading coming from retail 40% coming from proprietary which is basically a trading desk or you know, 1% opening up a trading shop or two percent, people running a trading shop and 12% contribution is from institutions.…

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Episode 45: NFT meets DeFi Yield Guild Games (YGG) : Play to Earn Gaming 42:14

3 years前42:14

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0:00 Welcome 0:51 What is YGG? 2:17 yEarn is king 3:17 Compound Finance 4:00 Compound Blockchain 5:11 Origins of YGG: Axie Infinity 8:11 Games waste your time 9:28 UBI and Andrew Yang 10:46 Play to Earn Gaming 13:03 Pokemon, Magic and eSports 14:50 Scaling to Millions of blockchainers 17:11 $100k USD Axies 19:29 Building the Metaverse Economy 22:38 YGG Guild Leveling System 26:04 No Blockchain Experience Needed 28:34 From Subsistence Farming to Land Owner 30:27 Selamat "Thank You" Axie 33:15 eSports 33:48 Cryptographic Custody 36:43 YGG small company, big community 38:11 yEarn SUSHI Curve and AMM 40:06 YGG: Largest Credit Union on Earth? 41:18 DeFi not just for whales.…

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Episode 44: NFT Digitalax (MONA) Digital Fashion 31:15

3 years前31:15

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0:00 Welcome 0:51Digital Fashion 2:46 ERC Standards 5:50 Auction Successes 7:26 @robnessofficial 8:35 How to Experience it? 13:01 New Years Eve Event 15:12 Bitcoin NFT and Fashion 21:17 NFT, Scarcity 24:27 Corporate Influences 25:00 Dapper Labs 27:47 Defining "cosmetic NFTs" 28:26 Where utility comes from…

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Episode 43: The Sandbox (SND), an NFT Metaverse with Sebastian Borget 53:26

3 years前53:26

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Get excited, it's The SANDBOX! 0:00 Welcome 1:46 What is SANDBOX? 5:16 Animoca and Formula One 9:54 Governance of SAND 12:55 Atari 16:24 COVID and Blockchain 18:32 Smurfs 21:53 Mature Gamers 23:55 Minecraft 26:36 Game of Thrones? Tease! 28:45 Own Real Estate 29:57 Full or Partial Decentralization? 33:07 Land Supply? 34:29 Decentraland 36:49 Facebook Oculus & VR 38:27 What's Playable Today 43:17 YGG and Play to Earn 47:46 Crypto Kitties & Industry Maturity 51:18 UNICEF Charity Land Auction…

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Episode 42: DeFi Governance with Consensys Ventures Praneeth 57:13

3 years前57:13

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Timestamp: 0:00 Welcome 4:16 Governance and Nature 10:30 Inevitability of Collapse 14:18 Isolation vs Coordination 18:19 Coordination 21:31 Fiduciaries 27:06 Dictatorships vs Democracies 33:15 Reputation Systems 36:36 But it will collapse anyway 37:56 Transparency 40:30 KYC and Persistent Identity 41:37 Voting and Contribution History 49:15 Fairness 52:52 Predatory Behavior…

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Episode 41: NFT Infinite Fleet Blockchain MMO RTS with CEO Samson Mow 37:48

3 years前37:48

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⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ 0:00 Welcome 0:58 What is INF? 3:40 INV vs EVE Online 5:46 Directed Narrative 8:03 Introducing Gameplay Demos! 9:23 Demos! 12:05 Blockchain 14:28 Every Ship is Unique 17:28 Disrupting the Industry 21:08 New Business Models 23:34 NFT Art 25:22 Triple A and Consoles 28:20 Community Servers 29:25 Intellectual Property 31:59 Forking Games 33:45 EXO Ecosystem 36:04 ALPHA Coming Soon…

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Episode 40: NFT Building the Multiverse OASIS with Animoca's Robby Yung 54:31

3 years前54:31

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0:00 Welcome 1:01 Why Blockchain Gaming? 3:10 Crypto Kitties 8:06 Sandbox and F1 Delta Time 9:29 the REV token 13:48 The Metaverse 17:56 Metaverse = Steam? 20:16 2.5B Gamers 24:38 YGG and play to earn 30:38 NFT Item history 34:18 Blockchain will be all games 35:23 Improving User Onboarding 38:35 eSports 42:00 Pay to Win? 47:03 Healthy game economies 49:01 Gaming + Finance 50:19 CareBears Shaun the Sheep and Atari Robby is CEO of Animoca Brands and is working on some incredible blockchain games. Check out some of the clips here: 1) F1 Deltatime trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MJe6... ) F3 driver Matt Solomon testing out F1 Deltatime: https://twitter.com/animocabrands/sta... 3) The Sandbox Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi1mi...…

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Episode 39: DeFi JavaScript Smart Contracts with Agoric (BLD) 54:24

3 years前54:24

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Talk with Dean Tribble CEO of Agoric Timestamps 0:00 Welcome 1:19 History of Agoric 2:06 The First Smart Contracts 3:20 What is a Smart Contract? 4:51 Code is Law 6:04 Automated Economy 8:53 Coordination of Economic Activity 11:35 Pluggable Governance 14:10 Sex 16:41 Recombinant Money Legos 24:11 Zero Knowledge 28:39 Smart Contracts in JavaScript 33:01 ETH Gas Prices are Broken 35:20 Staking Mechanisms 37:57 Incentives 39:59 Chainlink and Agoric 46:18 Law is Law 48:36 Security 52:47 Why Agoric is Disruptive…

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Episode 38: Blockchain Community Update with Ayesha 39:40

3 years前39:40

39:40

Ayesha from LedgerPrime fills us in on the latest and greatest.

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Episode 37: DeFi Opium (OPIUM) Decentralized Derivatives Exchange 55:26

3 years前55:26

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Opium is a long-running and exciting Derivatives exchange. Learn more from the founder and CEO of Opium and get two announcements about the new Insurance products! 0:00 introduction 1:53 How Opium Started 3:43 Why switch from CeFi to DeFi 9:09 Announcing Insurance Products 15:41 Where can users buy Opium Insurance 16:47 What if Tether Collapses? 21:43 Yield Farming 23:34 10,000% Yield 26:56 Another announcement! 31:04 Is Code Law? 34:27 Derivatives is a HUGE market 37:23 Hardcore: Code is Law 40:14 is DeFi the Wild West? 44:47 how to be Idiot Proof Protocol 47:37 You still need some regulation 50:10 Antifragility 52:36 Why it's hard to be less stupid…

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Episode 36: DeFi LCX (LCX) DeFi Terminal 54:34

3 years前54:34

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Learn more about the DeFi initiatives from LCX with Founder and CEO Monty Metzger

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Episode 35: NFT $ALEX (ALEX) coin with Alex Masmej 1:01:03

3 years前1:01:03

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Learn about the rise of personal tokens and how blockchain changes entrepreneurship from a leading young entrepreneur and the inventor of the $ALEX token.

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Episode 34: Blockchain Scaling Ethereum with SKALE (SKL) CEO Jack O'Holleran 58:40

3 years前58:40

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SKALE is a novel EVM and Ethereum compatible scalability layer. Episode Index: 1) What is SKALE 2) Current SKALE network status 135 nodes 3) Ethereum compatible scaling, pay in ETH 4) Why developers should choose SKALE for ETH scalability 5) Killer Applications for SKALE 6) Applications for the real world 7) "Salesforce" CRM on blockchain 8) A DAO to replace Amazon Web Services 9) Filecoin, SIAcoin, Storj, S3 Storage on Chain 10) Polkadot substrate, cosmos IBC and the future of cross-chain integration 11) The importance of ecosystem compatibility and toolchain like metamask 12) Technical origins of SKALE and the Java Virtual Machine 13) DeFi, governance, and incentives 14) Where are we in the evolution of DeFi? The "Cambrian Explosion" 15) Parallels to the "sharing economy" and the rise of Uber and AirBnB 16) How scaling breaks everything open 17) Lack of trust is expensive 18) Bitcoin and why Bitcoin matters…

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Episode 33: NFTs with CoinFund's Jake Brukhman 58:14

3 years前58:14

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Episode Index: 1) Timing and Exponential growth of NFTs Art, Collectibles, Games, Financial Assets: history going back to "rare Pepes" and timing 2) Art could be a breakthrough for non-blockchain mass adoption. Non-technical and non-blockchain artists are joining and making a full-time living 3) Coinfund's investment thesis around NFT--liquid Intellectual Property: the wholesale migration and transformation of the Internet model towards ownership 4) Lessons learned from operating the first edition.XYZ Jake's Digital Art Gallery online: Authenticity, counterfeit art, true ownership 5) How far are we in rebuilding the Internet around ownership? Gateways to the real world, advertisement? CryptoVoxels, Decentraland, Async 6) Politics, Trust, Privacy, Fake News, Voting, Authenticity: NFT's as a way of tackling some of the hard issues facing society 7) How is authenticity handled in the real-world art world historically? 40-page documents that certify authenticity that you still can't even trust 8) How camera hardware makers could use digital signatures to authenticate photography 9) Provenance, immutable digital history, ownership history, intellectual property supply chains 10) Browser cookies for the real world: Grateful Dead mixtapes, tickets, proof of attending events 11) Miko: Relics and Authenticity 12) How many people REALLY attended Trump's inauguration? How digital authentication, anonymity, privacy, cryptographic signatures, NFTs, Blockchain can help with problems like this. 13) Miko: How the gaming world, AR, VR, are providing leadership for these new experiences: World of Warcraft 14) Digital Scarcity 15) When does Banksy come into NFTs and what would he do? 16) What are the most expensive and valuable examples of digital art NFTs? 17) Elitza Rodriguez, POC, Osavage 18) How much do NFT digital artists cater or pander to Bitcoin fans? 20) What about the Music and Audio segment of the NFT industry? 21) The Adult content, porn and NFT Spank Chain, OnlyFans, Patreon…

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Episode 32: DeFi BZX Kyle Kistner Third Episode 1:01:04

3 years前1:01:04

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Index: 1) It's Different This Time: Criminal Indictment of BitMex 2) DOJ is involved so Jail Time 3) Contents of the Sealed Indictment 4) Implications of BSA Enforcement for DeFi 5) What happens to privacy coins and privacy tech 6) DEX isn't Safe: How they got EtherDelta 7) Custody and Money Laundering 8) Binance could be next 9) Why IP Blocking isn't Enough 10) BZX UPDATE 11) Anonymity and DeFi 12) Three Levels of DeFi Involvement 13) Security and Battle Tested Smart Contracts 14) Self Insurance: Incentive Problems with Nexus Mutual 15) BZX, the largest self-insurance payment in DeFi 16) Next Steps for BZX Liquidity 17) The Future of Governance Tokens: Cash Flow 18) Art is just money laundering for the rich: 19) Ponzis are a growth catalyst for DeFi…

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Episode 31: DeFi both Institutional and Retail 56:57

3 years前56:57

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Great conversation with Aya Kantorovich from FalconX. Discussion of the state of regulation, CeFi vs DeFi, BitMex, AML, AMM, liquidity etc. * DeFi opening finance and democratizing market accessibility for retail * CEX, DEX, or the same? Crypto juggling labels and what it means for traders. * Liquidity! Centralized and decentralized, what differentiates AMMs (Automated Market Makers) from centralized liquidity providers * The global landscape, we cover Cold War, Geopolitical tensions in Africa, China-US relations, and more * And finally, everyone's favorite, regulation! What does regulation mean for institutions, what questions should protocols ask themselves, what are good resources and next steps? About Aya Kantorovich Aya has spent the last few years scaling FinTech companies and currently drives Strategy and Operations at FalconX, an institutional digital asset trading platform backed by Accel Partners, Flybridge Capital and Lightspeed Ventures. Previously, Aya worked at Pantera Capital, the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States, founded in 2013, directly supporting Dan Morehead, CEO as well as Bill Healy, Pantera’s President. Aya has worked intimately with over 60 portfolio companies prior to joining FalconX to expand adoption in the ecosystem. Prior to Pantera Capital, Aya was an Investment Manager at Tegus, a buy-side investor research startup focused on TMT investments, joining as the team’s first-hire and scaling offices in both San Francisco and Chicago. Aya graduated with a double major in International Affairs and Finance from George Washington University.…

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Episode 30: DeFi OUSD Origin Protocol Yield Stable Coin (OGN) 47:45

3 years前47:45

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A discussion with Josh Fraser who is a founder of Origin Protocol. Origin has launched oUSD which is a stable coin with very interesting properties. Video Index: 1) How did Origin and OUSD get started? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=104 2) How does OUSD work? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=299 3) Can the OUSD balance also go down? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=403 4) How does gas cost work with OUSD? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=614 5) How OUSD plans to compete with Tether https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=793 6) What new mechanisms will you add to OUSD? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=954 7) What other currencies will you add to OUSD? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=994 8) How will OUSD strategies be managed? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1091 9) How will OUSD be governed? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1248 10) How does OUSD defend against vampiric forks? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1412 11) Anonymous DeFi Founders https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1565 12) Why stable coins? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1761 13) Origin Protocol and eCommerce https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1844 14) Why is Origin DShop better than Shopify? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=1941 15) How much traction for DShops? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=2029 16) Current OUSD TVL and traction https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=2145 17) OUSD Contract Audits by Trail of Bits https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=2209 First and foremost, OUSD is a stable coin that is pegged to the value of the US Dollar. But the amazing thing about OUSD is that they are using very novel mechanisms in Ethereum DeFi to update your balance without costing you any gas fees. This technique was pioneered by AmpleForth (AMPL) and involves calling an Update Balance method as opposed to sending tokens to the wallet. The result is that you hold stable coins pegged to the US Dollar--and as the OUSD treasury increases as a result of holding and farming yields in DeFi through fairly stable and well-known protocols like Compound Finance (COMP). The increases in the value of the treasury are then distributed to holders of OUSD. So the actual number of OUSD you hold should increase (or decrease possibly) over time depending on the size of the OUSD treasury.…

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Episode 29: DeFi Yield Farming with Joshua Lapidus 40:53

3 years前40:53

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A fun discussion about pickle and a number of other DeFi projects and the state of Yield Farming. As you know, ETH gas prices are down and it seems that there is a decreased amount of yield farming going on. He is @JSLapidus on twitter, please check him out! He's working on a cool project called PoolParty. http://pool-party.cl ub Joshua and I have a nice conversation about the state of DeFi and what's going to happen next.…

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Episode 28: DeFi on Tezos (XTZ) with the Tezos Founders 41:48

3 years前41:48

41:48

Video Index: 1) Arthur Breitman shares his origin story of Tezos https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=85 2) Kathleen Breitman shares her origin story https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=206 3) Arthur: Tezos as "Coordination Mechanism" for Open Source governance https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=347 4) Governance and Fair Funding of Open Source https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=507 5) Miko: "Loot Drama" has existed since before the Bronze Age https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=660 6) The DAO Hack, SUSHI DeFi rug pull other problems https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=736 7) Gaming--how crypto people learn about economics first hand https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=950 8) Arthur comments on Societie Generale and their Central Bank Digital Currency project on Tezos https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1059 9) Kathleen on CDBC https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1125 10) What about DeFi on Tezos? https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1279 11) Kathleen: Opportunities for NFT https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1387 12) Arthur: DeFi what will "die" and what will survive https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1405 13) Arthur: A bit on self-custody and the metaphor of crypto as a nation, what are its imports and export products? https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1580 14) the ficticious Oracle Problem in blockchain https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=1812 15) What is Zero-Sum vs Positive Sum in blockchain? https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=2162 16) What happens next in DeFi and Tezos? https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=2261 Interesting piece where Arther Breitman and Kathleen Breitman the founders of Tezos talk about their perspectives on DeFi. it's quite rare to get an appearance of both of the founders in one sit down! I do want to let viewers know that this show is about a conversation, not an interview. So we all talk and enjoy one another's company. We just happen to be sharing this conversation with the public. SHOW LESS…

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Episode 27: DeFi: How do YFI Vaults (YFI) work? Mark Jeffrey Explains. 50:24

3 years前50:24

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YFI is one of the dominant DeFi protocols. Mark Jeffrey was early into YFI and has deconstructed the inner workings of the YFI vaults. He explains this and much more about YFI governance and culture.

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Episode 26: DeFi How to bridge Bitcoin on Ethereum Blockchain with RenBTC (REN) 53:49

3 years前53:49

53:49

Interview with RenBTC

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Episode 25: DeFi Picks From Elite Hedge Fund Arca 48:59

3 years前48:59

48:59

This is an interview with Hassaan from Arca, a leading hedge fund. We get a professionally researched perspective on some of the emerging giants in the DeFi space.

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Episode 24: How to buy DeFi Tokens 2:53

3 years前2:53

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Today we talk about how to use the 1inch. exchange DEX aggregator to swap tokens or ETH for tokens. For example, this link allows you to swap DAI for BZRX https://1inch.exchange/#/DAI/BZRX . Keep in mind several things, obviously, you will need to connect a wallet like Metamask. Also, keep in mind this isn't investment advice, do your own homework. Also, be aware of gas prices, so sometimes swapping isn't very smart because the GAS price is too high and the amount you are swapping may be below. No point in paying 10$ to swap 1$ worth of tokens. Anyhow lots to learn, please subscribe if you find it interesting.…

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Episode 23: Find Best DeFi Rates Online 1:39

3 years前1:39

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A quick review of the website: https://defirate.com/ which shows all of the latest APR (annual percent yield) of DAI (a stable coin) that accrues to lenders. You may notice that Fulcrum, a project of BZX protocol is showing a very high yield. Obviously, these high yields can be a function of having recently launched and there are risks associated with chasing yield. This is not investment advice, please do your own homework.…

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Episode 22: How to DeFi Crypto Safely: Top Projects Exposed! 3:08

3 years前3:08

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In this episode, I review a great website called http://defisafety.co m This website was recommended by Andre Cronje on Twitter and provides a methodology for understanding which of the major DeFi protocols are safer than the others. I highly recommend this and other such sites to ensure that you are maximizing your yield but at the same time minimizing your risk! Stay safe out there!…

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Episode 21: DeFi: Synthetix (SNX) Derivatives: Meet $SNX Founder Kain Warwick 48:29

3 years前48:29

48:29

In this episode, I interview Kain Warwick the founder of Synthetix. TimeStamps 0:00 Welcome 1:49 Announcing Synthetix on Chainlink 7:23 Derivatives on Synthetix 8:35 DEX Volumes 9:21 SNX, Product or Protocol? 11:33 Decentralization Maximalism 13:49 Optimism and Roll-ups 16:29 Implementation of Optimism 17:40 Smart Contract Audits 20:25 DeFi Insurance 23:15 Mainstream Adoption 26:31 Governance 29:10 Coordination and Creativity 33:35 Vampiric Protocols 36:42 Weaponized Network Effects 39:44 "Defense against the Dark Arts" 41:21 Recombinant DeFi 44:00 Potentially apocalyptic events 47:03 Creative Destruction in DeFi…

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Episode 20: NFT OpenSea Non Fungible Token Exchange 46:20

3 years前46:20

46:20

I interview Alex Atallah who is the Founder and CTO of OpenSea, the world's biggest and best exchange for Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs which are collectible unique digital assets like Crypto Kitties.

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Episode 19: Blockchain Ethereum Web Wallet: MyEtherWallet: Meet the CEO 43:50

3 years前43:50

43:50

It's always important to understand the people behind important products in the blockchain industry. MyEtherWallet has been a trusted part of the Ethereum and ERC-20 community for many years already and so it is a great solution if you need an Ethereum or ERC-20 Web Wallet. This video is an interview and discussion with Kosala Hemachandra, CEO of MyEtherWallet.…

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Episode 18: DeFi Solana (SOL) DeFi High Performance Blockchain 1:00:59

3 years前1:00:59

1:00:59

I interview Anatoly, founder of Solana (SOL) a high-performance blockchain that will be underpinning a novel exchange called Serum (SRM) We talk about Ethereum scalability and the technical solution and novel layer one consensus that is represented by Solana. Fascinating technology and very interesting founder.…

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Episode 17: Celsius (CEL) with CEO Alex Mashinsky 31:11

3 years前31:11

31:11

Here I interview Alex Mashinsky and Nuke Goldstein of Celsius Network. Disclosure: I am an advisor to Celsius. Celsius (CEL) is a simple way to earn interest on Bitcoin, Ether and many other popular cryptocurrencies. It features a simple mobile app. For those folks for whom self-custody is too complicated and DeFi is too complicated, I often encourage them to take a look at Celsius. As with all financial services related to blockchain, don't take ANY investment advice from people on the Internet and do your own homework. Celsius is not DeFi (Decentralized Finance) but rather CeFi (Centralized Finance) but it does allow users to gain compounding interest on their blockchain based cryptographic assets. The service is comparable to BlockFi but it has several interesting advantages including earning increased interest rates in the CEL token. This feature is only available outside the US though. Enjoy this episode of the MikoBits show with some great thinkers in the Blockchain space. SHOW LESS…

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Episode 16 : DeFi Synthetic Assets with UMA Protocol (UMA) 52:31

3 years前52:31

52:31

UMA allows for the creation of synthetic assets. This requires a price to move from off-chain to on-chain which is of course the Oracle problem. UMA embeds a novel form of oracle that only needs to be consulted during a dispute, for example during a liquidation event. Prices are pushed on chain during disputes. As such, UMA works a bit more like a court of law, and most transactions go uncontested. Like most commerce, people generally behave in proper ways. It's only when things go sideways that this governance system works in the context of adjudication. Allison and Hart are the cofounders with backgrounds in traditional finance such as Goldman Sachs. We also discuss the game theory of Thomas Schelling (Schelling point theory) as the underpinning theoretical basis for the UMA oracle. This relates to the idea that a Schelling point is essentially a guessing game where each player is incentivized to guess what another player will do based on clues within the game rather than any ability to collude. UMA assures that all assets covered by UMA are worth less than the total market cap/value of the UMA token. This is the broad mechanism through which UMA secures the assets.…

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Episode 15: DeFi: The Graph Protocol: (GRP) Decentralized blockchain data query 34:19

3 years前34:19

34:19

Today on MikoBits I interview Tegan Kline of The Graph protocol. 1:38 How did you get into Blockchain? 2:23 What is The Graph? 3:39 Graph Traction Metrics 4:49 How are DeFi projects using The Graph? 5:52 What kinds of Applications? 6:16 How DeFi supercharged The Graph 7:55 GRP. is an ERC-20 8:43 Tegan on DeFi 10:54 Traditional Finance vs DeFi 14:17 Tokens as a new business model 16:28 Tokens as a funding source 17:17 Debunking Ethereum Myths 19:11 Disrupting traditional finance 20:26 Pre-announcing the Graph Token GRP 22:09 When Main Net? 22:55 How do the Token Economics work? 27:26 Chainlink Partner Announcement 28:14 Skale Partner Announcement 29:52 Open Subgraph Creation Announcement 31:48 Why are you excited about The Graph?…

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Episode 14: DeFi lending with AAVE (LEND) CEO Stani 54:46

3 years前54:46

54:46

Interview with Stani from AAVE the LEND protocol! One of the absolutely meteoric DeFi protocols, the original ETH Lend group has a rampaging hit on their hands with AAVE. We discuss the exciting protocol and about DeFi lending in general.

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Episode 13: Blockchain Gaming Amy Wan, CEO of Bling 39:52

3 years前39:52

39:52

Meet Amy Wan, successful blockchain gaming startup CEO. Amy is a first-time CEO who has led her company, originally called "Sagewise' through a pivot and through COVID19 to an incredibly successful game and financial services pivot resulting in 2.5M registered users and a profitable company based on mobile games, loyalty, and rewards via Bitcoin please check out https://www.blingfi.com/ and please download and play some of their games if you're interested in Bitcoin or mobile gaming on Android.…

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Episode 12: Blockchain VC Thesis Investing 55:13

3 years前55:13

55:13

In this episode of the MikoBits show I interview Christian from Sustany Capital. Christian is a very disciplined and scientific "thesis investor" and he is constantly building his perspectives from first principles. We have a wide-ranging discussion about venture capital and blockchain and areas which seem investable and fruitful vs areas that do not seem investable.…

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Episode 11: DeFi Oracles with Tellor (TRB) 50:50

3 years前50:50

50:50

Interview with Nick Fett CTO of Tellor.io a DeFi Oracle. We talk about macroeconomics at the start so if you want to jump right into the meat click here: https://youtu.be/ndUQjWZWEcU?t=477 Nick was originally building a Derivatives exchange but required an Oracle. He started building Tellor because he was not happy with any of the other oracle solutions in the market. This video also contains information about other blockchain oracle projects such as Chainlink (LINK) and Band Protocol (BAND). Nick got his start on the political side of things during the "end the fed" rallies in conjunction with Rand Paul. So a libertarian perspective and one that is concerned about the significant balance sheet of the Federal Reserve. We begin with a discussion of the macroeconomic climate and the creation of money. Book reference: The creature from Jekyll Island https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyl... Debt: the first 5000 years https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Updated-E... Tellor protocol is a decentralized oracle on Ethereum, previously Nick was working on Daxia, a decentralized derivatives protocol that would provide things like a "Long Bitcoin" token and a "Short Bitcoin" token. In 2017 there were no solutions for this, so Nick started building his own.…

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Episode 10: How to Secure Bitcoin Custody? Interview with Qredo (QRDO) 50:50

3 years前50:50

50:50

Today on the MikoBits show, I'm interviewing Brian Spector, founder of Qredo, a brilliant product designer, cryptographer and cybersecurity expert since working with RSA in 1995 and on through a brilliant career in cybersecurity and cryptography since then. https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianspector/ Satoshi Nakamoto opened his famous Bitcoin White Paper like this: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending." The idea being is that if we rely on a trusted third party to transact purely peer-to-peer electronic cash, we lost the main benefits of Bitcoin (and by the way, all other decentralized cryptocurrencies). This elegant solution created by Satoshi takes care of the need for trusted intermediaries in the case of "Bitcoin in motion" which is to say whenever we need to sign and send a transaction of bitcoins across an untrusted network. But what Satoshi left as an exercise for the reader was the elimination of a trusted third party for the case of "bitcoin at rest"--the ownership model of bitcoin. Bitcoin at rest depends on public-key cryptography for proof of ownership. The "law of the private key" simply says that whoever owns the private key or even a copy of the private key has 100% full access rights to the wallet funds and can send them anywhere and to anyone they want, with impunity. This principle has led to two disastrous consequences--massive hacking of exchanges like MtGox, Coincheck, ShapeShift, Binance, and many others, and also has led to bitcoin losses due to lost keys that are estimated to reach billions of dollars, because the corollary of this law is that if NOBODY has the private key, then NOBODY will be able to ever use or transfer the asset in question, and the asset will remain cryptographically locked. So while Satoshi eliminated the need for a trusted third party when it comes to "bitcoin in motion", because of the issue of private cryptographic key management, most users of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are stuck either managing their private keys themselves, or they have to hand over their keys to someone else such as a centralized exchange like Binance or Coinbase. Many millions of people have chosen to give their keys over to a third party that they have decided to trust for lack of a better option.…

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Episode 9: DeFi Beginner's Guide with Tom Howard 58:19

3 years前58:19

58:19

DeFi expert Tom Howard helps us all understand Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Links: https://metamask.io/ important Web Browser extension wallet for DeFi applications https://www.facebook.com/groups/joind... DeFi Nation Facebook http://joindefination.com DeFi Nation web site https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6p... YouTube Channel https://oasis.app/ The OASIS APP where you can start with Maker DAI and MakerDAO Video Index: 1 What is Mosendo https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=134 2 Where beginners can go https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=243 3,First Step getting Stable Coins USDC or DAI https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=326 4,Security and Start Small https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=444 5 Locking, borrowing and lending https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=827 6 Is DeFi a Bubble? https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=1020 7 How does Compound COMP work? https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=1560 8 Oracle hacking https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=725 9 Automated liquidation https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=1088 10 How to NOT get liquidated https://youtu.be/BSZZEvZG1pg?t=1168…

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Episode 8: DeFi Dashboard with Zapper.fi 47:03

3 years前47:03

47:03

We speak with Nodar Janashia who is the CEO and founder of Zapper which simplifies Yield Farming. So we discuss yield farming in DeFi with Nodar. Ever since Compound Finance launched their governance token COMP "If you don't understand where the yield is coming from in DeFi Yield Farming, it's coming from YOU" Nodar's perspective is that different platforms offer different equations, borrowers pay yield and lenders get yield. In the compound, the borrower pays yield... in Maker, you collateralize in order to get a loan, and you do pay interest. If you collateralize ETH and take out Dai the interest is zero, so you can be incentivized to convert. But to unlock you need to pay back with interest. In uniswap a liquidity provider gains fees from swappers. If you get liquidated you can pay 13% or more in fees. The liquidity provider or market maker gets some of the fees. Now you can combine these pieces to form Zaps in Zapper. What makes Zapper special initially was providing assets to Uniswap as a market maker--you need equal worth assets--two piles. So if you come with just ETH you need to split it into two different piles. This creates user friction, so initially Zapper just made this into a single action. So these kinds of transactions can be made much easier. Synthetix created the most popular uniswap V1 pool with their SNX token. Now there are a ton of them with Balancer and Curve as well. Ultimately we want to give the power to the people to make their own combinations of transactions in DeFi. A DeFi "sandwich" maker or Zapper being a money lego set. Resources https://ethhub.io/ https://defirate.com/ https://bankless.substack.com/…

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Episode 7: Blockchain Tax with ZenLedger 32:55

3 years前32:55

32:55

ZenLedger is the fastest and friendliest tax software for cryptocurrency investors and accountants. Built by industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, ZenLedger.io allows you to import transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare your tax returns. In this interview with Patrick Larsen the founder and CEO of ZenLedger we talk about: * Bitcoin and cryptocurrency taxes * Bitcoin price * How to pay your taxes on cryptocurrencies * Macroeconomics * Helicopters * Startup Entrepreneurship * Leadership VS Management Zenledger is the leading Bitcoin and cryptocurrency tax software provider. Patrick is a fascinating guy a former Medevac chopper pilot and commander turned bitcoin and startup entrepreneur. It's a very enjoyable episode to learn from Patrick more about what drives him and how he thinks about the blockchain space and its future. Disclosure: my venture investment fund gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) is an investor in Patrick's company Zenledger.…

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Episode 6: Fake Justin Sun: Anatomy of a Cryptocurrency Scam 13:31

3 years前13:31

13:31

This video documents the "Fake Justin Sun" (no relation to the real Justin Sun) who is trying to scam me to buy his fake Tron Stablecoin. Details of the scam are covered here in CoinTelegraph: https://cointelegraph.com/news/careful-there-s-a-justin-sun-look-a-like-trying-to-launch-a-fake-tron-privacy-coin Gumi Cryptos Capital partner, Miko Matsumura, recently spoke with a scam artist pretending to be Justin Sun. The imposter was attempting to sell a supposed privacy-focused crypto-asset pegged to the value of real Tron TRX coins. Upon initial inspection of the project and its token sale, Matsumura jumped on Skype for a call with someone who claimed to be Justin Sun. "The impostor was very realistic as you can see," Matsumura told Cointelegraph referring to a video he provided of his chat. Matsumura also provided Cointelegraph with a copy of the fake project's white paper. The fraudulent token positioned itself as a privacy solution. Called TRZ, the asset claimed a price pegged to the TRX coin. It used similar technology to other known privacy assets. TRZ also claimed a total token supply of 99 billion — just 281,283,754 less than the total TRX supply listed on CoinMarketCap. The white paper showed a "seed sale date" of "May - June." "TRZ is the first privacy token on Tron and it realizes the complete privacy protection of the Tron network through non-interactive zero-knowledge proof," the scam white paper said. "Compared to the existing blockchain privacy protection technologies, TRZ can help realize the privacy protection of account and transaction information," the white paper added, proving a point of irony — an asset touting security actually looked to harm participants in reality, as part of a fake offering. Matsumura noted the sale as a purported Binance initial exchange offering or IEO. Matsumura said that the scam was persuasive: "Overall I thought it was a fairly convincing fake. I have met the real Justin Sun in person so this is a fairly high standard IMO."…

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Episode 5: Blockchain Layer one Casper (CSPR) Labs Proof of Stake 47:51

3 years前47:51

47:51

Casper labs provides a unique consensus protocol called CBC or "Correct By Construction". Casper is a novel blockchain with its own novel consensus that evolved out of the work with Ethereum. It is a high-performance Proof of Stake chain and is of interest as folks are exploring alternatives to Ethereum 2.0. In this episode, we study the novel consensus algorithm and discuss similarities and differences with ETH 2.0…

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Episode 4: Blockchain Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 Mainnet Launch in July 2020: What to Expect. 44:34

3 years前44:34

44:34

Ethereum 2.0 is a huge step forward for the ETH ecosystem, the largest developer ecosystem in the blockchain. As of this writing, it will launch the "phase zero" manner NEXT MONTH, which is July. This interview is with Kacper Bak who is a senior researcher at Quantstamp and he is responsible for security auditing and testing the "Prism" client for Ethereum 2.0. This interview is part of the MikoBits show, and it addresses many questions including what is expected in each of the upcoming phases especially including phase zero. Phase zero includes some of the significant implications including the beginning of the "staking" opportunity, and this staking requires 32 ETH. In phase one there are basic functions appearing--which is the creation of the Proof-of-Stake layer and not the smart contracts. So this will be coming later, maybe even years later when we see smart contracts in ETH 2.0. What is expected is the "Beacon Chain" phase, where POS is defined and divides the progress of the network into "Epochs" and picking the voting and block validating elements. All of the subsequent updates depend on this base layer that creates the governance preconditions for full ETH 2.0. One of the key things about ETH 2.0 is the emergence of "shards" which are essentially clusters. When ETH 2.0 is integrated with ETH 1.0, the 1.0 network will simply just be one of the "shards" of ETH 2.0. Of course sharing will impact greatly the speed but more importantly the scalability of the network. Essentially each "shard" becomes a universe of its own within the larger ETH 2.0 "multiverse". But of course there needs to be communication across these universes. This can create some complexity. As far as the developer paradigm, sharding can adversely affect modularity of code, and this has not been fully specified yet. The ETH 2.0 doesn't yet have the Ethereum Virtual Machine or smart contracts so it's not part of this rollout and in fact havent even yet been fully specified. There could be eWASM instead of EVM, we dont know and this comes not in phase zero or even phase one but that will come in phase two. How does the "value transfer" aspect work? In order to become a validator node, people will need to lock up 32 ETH into a ETH 1.0 blockchain smart contract. The contract is public and so that validator will be clearly checked and therefore you become allowed to validate on ETH 2.0. There is a bridge between the ETH 2.0 and ETH 1.0. So the private key can be used to sign.…

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Episode 3: Mikocryptos Live Stream : Paypal to roll out crypto buying and selling (June 2020) 4:20

3 years前4:20

4:20

Paypal to roll out crypto buying and selling

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Episode 2: How to Delete Coinbase and secure 🔒 your Bitcoins (Updated 2020) 6:13

3 years前6:13

6:13

Coinbase is notoriously crash-prone and recently every time Bitcoin prices change it seems to crash. The big problem with this of course is that that's when you want to trade. This is obviously unacceptable! 😎 Evercoin provides a safer mobile wallet and exchange including: 🔒 You ALWAYS control your own keys! Never get locked out again. 🔒 Secure patent-pending non-custodial backup and recovery 🔒 Hardware security by YubiKey 🔒 Cold storage mode 🔒 Biometric authentication factors ❤️ Evercoin supports a number of top coins including: BTC Bitcoin ETH Ethereum XRP Ripple USDC USD Coin USDT USD Tether BCH Bitcoin Cash DASH Dash BTG Bitcoin Gold DOGE Dogecoin ETC Ethereum Classic LTC Litecoin ZEC Zcash TRX Tron ADA Cardano XLM Stellar BSV Bitcoin SV BTT BitTorrent QTUM Qtum DCR Decred This easy step-by-step guide shows you how to move coins off of Coinbase and onto Evercoin, the safest mobile wallet. Evercoin is Protected by Biometric Factors Unlike traditional Hardware Wallets, Evercoin's mobile-first design enables Yubikey-powered hardware security to be combined with on-device biometric authentication factors like fingerprint and face. It also allows users to quickly and securely trade in an instant wherever and whenever they need it. By using both Yubikey and Phone-based biometric factors like fingerprint, Evercoin provides world-class security beyond what is available on Hardware wallets like Trezor and Ledger.…

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Episode 1: Evercoin at the New York Stock Exchange 9:23

3 years前9:23

9:23

New York, NY, 12 November 2019 – At New York Consensus Invest Summit, Evercoin Inc. today announced Evercoin 2, the “safest hardware wallet”. Evercoin 2 provides a wallet and exchange for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies featuring a hardware wallet the size of a house key powered by YubiKey 5ci, the first implementation of its kind. Prior to this, users wanting hardware security relied on large, difficult to use and not mobile-first first-generation hardware wallets like Ledger and Trezor. Now every compatible YubiKey owner can download a free hardware wallet. Evercoin provides all of the financial services users expect from a service like Coinbase, but for the first time ever in a mobile wallet, secured by hardware and fully controlled by the user. Evercoin currently supports 20 assets including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Crypto users aren’t safe. Here are some of the threats we can address with the new combined offering from Evercoin and Yubico: Hack attacks: hackers can gain access to private keys, the result can be total loss of all assets. Exchange hacks: crypto exchanges can be hacked or go out of business causing loss of funds. Key loss: users can lose all of their assets by forgetting private keys, losing paper wallets, exposing keys to bad actors, losing hardware devices. Chainalysis estimates that 2-3 million bitcoins have been lost permanently in this way. Other user errors: users can input the wrong address when sending transactions Volatility: volatility of crypto prices can dramatically crash the value of user assets. ID Theft: hackers can steal a user’s account and identities thus enabling a host of attacks on the user’s accounts and assets. “Wrench” attacks: attacks involving a physical threat to your person. Phishing Attacks: user email and social networking accounts can be compromised and information and assets can then be stolen from their friends and social network.…

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What is the Mikobits Show? 0:35

3 years前0:35

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Are you: * Struggling to keep up with the latest in bitcoin, blockchain, and defi? * Worried you might be missing out on this opportunity? * Suspicious most crypto influencers are trying to sell you something? * Looking for dedicated professional research? * Interested to learn from the top minds in the industry? * Willing to spend some time getting to know the people and ideas? * Eager to learn and wanting to engage and ask questions in the comments section? If so, the MikoBits show may be for you! Please check out some of my shows and please please please let me know anything I can answer for you or improve in the comments section. If you like it please consider subscribing, sharing with your friends, and hitting the thumbs up "Like" button. Thanks for listening.…

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