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GrowthAXUMJan 29, 2020

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00:51
Revolutionising Crypto Trading Products with Jaimin, CEO of Caddi
Dec 24, 202340:10
Navigating the Techno-Optimism Debate with Alejandro
Dec 17, 202329:57
GrowthDojo Episode #0 (Intro)
Dec 05, 202306:20
Kyle Samani from Multicoin Capital on DeFi & Crypto Mega Theses (Recorded in 2020)
Dec 04, 202335:36
Go With the Flow 🌊 - Dapper Labs Fireside Chat with Roham Gharegozlou
Apr 15, 202143:02
We're back: Privacy with Oasis 🔒
Apr 06, 202142:38
Chainlink Fireside Chat with Sergey Nazarov 🔗
Nov 01, 202043:25
Multis, Crypto-First Business Banking 🏦
Oct 14, 202032:42
Product Lessons From Building the Blockchain Analysis Company 🔍
Aug 24, 202039:30
STOP COVID-19 Hackathon (ConsenSys Health)

STOP COVID-19 Hackathon (ConsenSys Health)

STOP COVID-19 Hackathon (ConsenSys Health)

Jul 28, 202043:55
Tokenised Ownership Is the Best Coordination Tool Since Equity 🤝, CurveDAO 💰 & Ampleforth Geyser 🌊

Tokenised Ownership Is the Best Coordination Tool Since Equity 🤝, CurveDAO 💰 & Ampleforth Geyser 🌊

Welcome back to another episode of your weekly Dose of DeFi 👋

The place where we keep you, the builders and investors, up to date with all that goes on in this ecosystem!


What we cover in today's podcast:

Today we cover three very similar topics all with the undertone of tokenised ownership and how it's the best coordination tool since equity!

We start from a theoretical standpoint with an amazing write-up from Julien (Investor at Fabric Ventures). We discuss Julien's post, why we think it's interesting and our learnings from it!

Then we go deep into this topic as we consider governance challenges already emerging on decentralized finance protocols pioneering these mechanisms, such as Compound, Balancer, Curve and Ampleforth.


Links mentioned :


🌊 AMPL Geyser:

AMPL is a beast of its own. Here are some resources to help you learn more on the token and its incentivised Uniswap pool (the Geyser).

Tools: AMPL Rebalance Calculator, Zapper.fi (can be used to get into the Geyser, you still have to stake the pool tokens manually)

Thank You, Aave for Partnering With Us ❤️:

Website - https://aave.com/

Discord - https://discord.com/invite/AnSqnvV

Github - https://github.com/aave/aave-protocol

Please Subscribe to Our Newsletter 📧:

https://abelsabstracts.substack.com/

Enjoy the podcast :)

Jul 08, 202033:13
Product Advice From One of the Best Blockchain Infrastructure CEO's in the Space 🏗️

Product Advice From One of the Best Blockchain Infrastructure CEO's in the Space 🏗️

Founder & CEO of Bison Trails, Joe Lallouz and I sit down and discuss all things blockchain infrastructure & product!

What we cover in today's podcast:

  • Joe's background and the funny story as to how he got into the blockchain space
  • His Angel investing career - "I'm a pretty strong believer that you shouldn't be an advisor unless you invest in a company"
  • How Bison Trails is helping more people & companies get access to protocols and the technical decisions they've made to make this possible
  • The unique product challenges Bison Trails faces as a blockchain infrastructure company
  • Joe's approach to customer development
  • What slashing is & how Bison Trails helps validators avoid getting slashed
  • Joe's advice for other product founders in the blockchain space

What's Bison Trails? - Bison Trails is the easiest way to run secure node infrastructure on multiple blockchains. Their platform provides enterprise-grade security, multi-cloud / multi-region distribution, and a 99.9% platform uptime guarantee.

Want to launch a staking node, voting node, storage node, private node, baking node, encode node or relay node? You can do this on Bison Trails!

Links mentioned:

Website - https://bisontrails.co/

Bison Trails -https://twitter.com/BisonTrails

Joe Lallouz Twitter - https://twitter.com/JoeLallouz

Thank You, Aave for Partnering With Us ❤️:

Website - https://aave.com/

Discord - https://discord.com/invite/AnSqnvV

Github - https://github.com/aave/aave-protocol

Please Subscribe to Our Newsletter 📧:

https://abelsabstracts.substack.com/

Enjoy the podcast :)

Jun 26, 202048:46
Compound Token Distribution 📈, Curve.fi APR & Volumes Exploding 🚀, Smart Wallet Market Analysis 🔎
Jun 22, 202033:01
Covalent Launches SafeKeep 🔑, Rari Capital Helps You Chase Yields 💸, EIP 1559 Analysis 📄

Covalent Launches SafeKeep 🔑, Rari Capital Helps You Chase Yields 💸, EIP 1559 Analysis 📄

Links mentioned:

Covalent Launches SafeKeep 🔑:

  • Tweetstorm for launch - https://twitter.com/gane5h/status/1270084861877841920?s=20
  • Safe Keep Website - https://safekeep.app/
  • Blogpost announcing the lanch - https://www.covalenthq.com/blog/10-multiple-ethereum-wallet-support-safekeep-launch/

Rari Capital Helps You Chase Yields 💸:

  • What is Rari Capital? - https://medium.com/rari-capital/what-is-rari-capital-8a96b9e02032
  • How To Make Money With Dai? - https://medium.com/rari-capital/how-to-make-money-with-your-dai-5a3d5218b144
  • Comparing and Contrasting Lending Protocols - https://medium.com/rari-capital/comparing-and-contrasting-lending-protocols-717cff88c7ec

EIP 1559 Analysis 📄:

  • Analysis of EIP-1559 - https://insights.deribit.com/market-research/analysis-of-eip-1559/
  • Wallet Visualisation - https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1266029370910662656


Enjoy the podcast :)

Jun 20, 202022:52
Our First Sponsor for the Show 🥳🎉
Jun 17, 202010:57
Trustless Stablecoins💰, BTC on Ethereum ₿, DeRisking DeFi 🛡️

Trustless Stablecoins💰, BTC on Ethereum ₿, DeRisking DeFi 🛡️

Topic 1: Trustless Stablecoins, after DAI? 

  • sUSD usage picked up (-> Curve Pool) 
  • RAI (MetaCoin/Reflexer) & iDOL (Lien.Finance): no over-collateralization + governance minimised 
  • Lien.Finance: 2 synthetic assets to "crystalise" inertia (SBT) and volatility (LBT) 
  • MetaCoin - uses Reflex Bonds to deliver a "more stable" version of ETH then used as collateral for a stablecoin (RAI)

Topic 2: BTC on Ethereum? 

  • https://btconethereum.com/ - Dashboard
  • wBTC picks up traction (1000 BTC eq minted by a whale) - usable as collateral in Maker since May 03. 
  • tBTC launches & then shuts down (relaunching soon) 
  • wBTC picks up traction (1000 BTC eq minted by a whale) 
  • RenBTC? + Curve.fi Pool (with wBTC) BTC++ on Katana

Topic 3: UNISWAP v2 & DeRisking DeFi: Guarded Launches

  • Risk Management is a Killer Feature
  • Guarded Launches: Protecting Users with Limits
  • Examples - Maker, Compound & Uniswap
Jun 09, 202031:33
SKALE Your dApp Today 🚀 How SKALE Makes Building a dApp Easier!

SKALE Your dApp Today 🚀 How SKALE Makes Building a dApp Easier!

Links mentioned:

SKALE Labs website >>>
https://skale.network/

Chadwick's Spotify Page :)  >>> https://spoti.fi/2ypbsRa

Chadwick's post on ETH2.0 >>> https://skale.network/blog/ethereum-2-0-simplified/

Christine’s post on Layer 2 Migration >>> https://skale.network/blog/migrating-to-layer-2-using-a-phased-approach

Chadwick's Recommendation >>> https://newmodels.io/

Chadwick's ETHBoston talk - Running EVM Solidity on SKALE >>> https://youtu.be/4AIrcs__Cek

How you can get involved:

SKALE Innovator Program >>> https://skale.network/innovators-signup

SKALE’s Github >>> https://github.com/skalenetwork

SKALE’s Sgxwallet >>> https://github.com/skalenetwork/sgxwallet

SKALE’s BFT consensus >>> https://github.com/skalenetwork/skale-consensus

SKALE’s libBLS >>> https://github.com/skalenetwork/libBLS 

May 28, 202046:56
How Argent Is Going to Onboard 1 Billion Users to DeFi 🚀
May 25, 202026:54
Aave Is Growing Fast 🚀, Why You Need Gastoken ⛽, DeFi Events Recap ✨

Aave Is Growing Fast 🚀, Why You Need Gastoken ⛽, DeFi Events Recap ✨

Links mentioned: Topic 1 (Aave): - Aave website >>> https://aave.com/ - Aave Ethereal Announcement >>> https://youtu.be/TvAAFscZ4Ag - Great Summary of News From Defi Rate >>> https://defirate.com/aave-lend-governance/ Topic 2 (GasToken): - GasToken(GST2) website >>> https://gastoken.io/ - Video Explanation of GasToken >>> https://youtu.be/1N6yLcqss2Q - Github >>> https://github.com/projectchicago/gastoken Topic 3 (DeFi Events Recap): - DeFi Discussions >>> https://defi-discussions.dystopialabs.com/ - Ready Layer One >>> https://readylayer.one/ - Ethereal Summit >>> https://www.etherealsummit.com/ Additional Links: - Article from TokenBrice >>> https://tokenbrice.xyz/posts/2020/great-defi-filter/ - DeFi Panel, The Layerization of Decentralised Finance: Synthetic Assets, Futures, Options: What's Next? >>> https://youtu.be/WllCpM8ki5o Hosts: - TokenBrice >>> http://tokenbrice.xyz/ - Abel >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts - Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/ - Our mDeFi Panel >>> https://twitter.com/monolith_web3/status/1250424425540771848
May 15, 202034:00
HegicOptions Bug ⛔, Pool Together Pods 🤑 & The 10k Audit 💸 - Your Weekly Dose of DeFi 🥳
May 08, 202038:50
Lessons From Securely Moving $7 Billion Worth of Crypto Assets Monthly 💸🔐

Lessons From Securely Moving $7 Billion Worth of Crypto Assets Monthly 💸🔐

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Fireblocks >>>
https://www.fireblocks.com/

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win >>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Successful-Strategies/dp/0989200507

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets >>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Play-Bigger-Dreamers-Innovators-Dominate/dp/0062407619

Masters Of Scale - Escape the competition - Peter Thiel, Co-founder & CEO of PayPal >>> https://mastersofscale.com/peter-thiel-escape-the-competition/

About this episode: PayPal's Peter Thiel knows: Your goal isn’t to beat the competition — it’s to escape the competition altogether. Thiel is a former colleague, frequent co-investor and long-time intellectual sparring partner with Host Reid Hoffman. Enjoy the sparks.

Masters Of Scale - Look Sideways - Diane Greene, Co-founder & Former CEO of VMware >>> https://mastersofscale.com/diane-greene-look-sideways/

About this episode: Cloud computing pioneer Diane Greene knows: You don’t need a scaleable idea from day one. You might not know what your product will look like, or how you’ll get to market, or how you’ll make money. It's OK. The most scalable ideas often come at you sideways.

Apr 30, 202040:22
Zerion launches DeFi SDK 🧱, Another DeFi attack 🤦‍♂️ & Balancer Labs raises $3M 🚀

Zerion launches DeFi SDK 🧱, Another DeFi attack 🤦‍♂️ & Balancer Labs raises $3M 🚀

Links:

Topic 1:

- DeFi SDK: Making Money Lego Work >>> https://blog.zerion.io/defi-sdk-making-money-lego-work-1dc08b8982cf

- DeFi SDK GitHub >>> https://github.com/zeriontech/defi-sdk

- Reach out to Zerion team on discord >>> https://discordapp.com/invite/B4kjkgv

Topic 2:

- A Summary of the Attack on Lendf.Me on April 19, 2020 >>>  https://medium.com/dforcenet/a-summary-of-the-attack-on-lendf-me-on-april-19-2020-e2f1c5d96640

- Good breakdown on twitter from @FrankResearcher >>> https://twitter.com/FrankResearcher/status/1251771278719098886

Topic 3:

- Balancer >>> https://balancer.finance/

- ELI5: What is Balancer Labs? >>> https://medium.com/token-terminal/eli5-what-is-balancer-labs-16c8cfe092d9

- Katana Pools >>> https://katanapools.com/

- Katana Pools Explained >>> https://blog.bancor.network/user-generated-liquidity-pools-new-self-service-portal-for-creating-on-chain-amms-71a5bac1177

0x Protocol >>> https://0x.org/

Uniswap >>> https://uniswap.org/

Events:

- https://readylayer.one/ >>> May 4-6th 2020

- https://hackathon.money/ >>> Starts April 24th

- https://www.etherealsummit.com/ >>> 7 - 8 May 2020

Community:

Maker - https://github.com/makerdao/community

Synthetix - https://www.synthetix.io/community/

Compound - https://compound.finance/discord

Aave - https://discordapp.com/invite/AnSqnvV

Hosts:

- TokenBrice >>> https://twitter.com/TokenBrice

- Abel >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts

- Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/

- Monolith >>> https://monolith.xyz/

- Our mDeFi Panel >>> https://twitter.com/monolith_web3/status/1250424425540771848

Apr 24, 202026:14
DeFi Needs Better Primitives! Could AMPL be the solution... 💰
Apr 21, 202001:08:07
We're Back With Amazing Updates 🥳
Apr 20, 202009:14
Covid-19, Financial Market Meltdown & Crypto Crisis 😱
Mar 23, 202009:25
Near Protocol + Open Web Collective - Lessons learned building a new blockchain ⛓️
Mar 10, 202036:04
What the F**K Happened to bZx! Security Lessons to Learn From the Two Exploits 🔒
Feb 27, 202028:10
Activate from ConsenSys Codefi Launches and DeFi hits $1 billion in value locked up... but is this the full story? 🤔
Feb 15, 202033:10
Welcome to Abel's Abstracts Season 1 - start here :)
Jan 30, 202015:26
Abel’s Abstracts (Trailer)

Abel’s Abstracts (Trailer)

Jan 29, 202000:51