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GrowthAXUMApr 21, 2020
Revolutionising Crypto Trading Products with Jaimin, CEO of Caddi
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Navigating the Techno-Optimism Debate with Alejandro
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GrowthDojo Episode #0 (Intro)
Kyle Samani from Multicoin Capital on DeFi & Crypto Mega Theses (Recorded in 2020)
Resources:
https://multicoin.capital/2019/04/24/multicoin-investment-thesis/
https://multicoin.capital/2020/06/04/defis-invisible-asymptotes/
https://multicoin.capital/2019/10/29/exchanges-are-open-finance/
https://multicoin.capital/2020/04/16/on-forking-defi-protocols/
https://multicoin.capital/2019/06/12/helium-series-c/
https://multicoin.capital/2019/11/05/investing-in-the-permaweb/
https://multicoin.capital/2020/02/06/infinite-scale/
https://multicoin.capital/portfolio/
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Go With the Flow 🌊 - Dapper Labs Fireside Chat with Roham Gharegozlou
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https://www.dapperlabs.com/
https://www.cryptokitties.co/
https://www.meetdapper.com/
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We're back: Privacy with Oasis 🔒
https://oasisprotocol.org/
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Chainlink Fireside Chat with Sergey Nazarov 🔗
Links to learn more:
- https://chain.link/
- https://twitter.com/SergeyNazarov
Thank You, Aave for Partnering With Us ❤️:
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Multis, Crypto-First Business Banking 🏦
Links to learn more:
- https://multis.co/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tsahaghian_multis-cfo-guide-to-defi-crypto-activity-6719157001475121152-96kY
- https://medium.com/multis
- https://twitter.com/multisHQ
- https://twitter.com/fujisaha
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Product Lessons From Building the Blockchain Analysis Company 🔍
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STOP COVID-19 Hackathon (ConsenSys Health)
STOP COVID-19 Hackathon (ConsenSys Health)
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 :
- Julien Thevenard shared an amazing post to dive into what it means: 📖 Tokenised ownership is the best coordination tool since equity
- To dive more on the governance dimensions, you can explore the Bankless post, Brice mentioned: 🔮 The Life of a Protocol Politician
- 💰 CurveDAO: You'll find the documentation about the Curve DAO & token here.
🌊 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).
- Official AMPL Basics Introduction
- Another introduction to AMPL
- Official AMPL Geyser Documentation
- 1.85 Million deposits in a week
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 ❤️:
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Discord - https://discord.com/invite/AnSqnvV
Github - https://github.com/aave/aave-protocol
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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 ❤️:
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Compound Token Distribution 📈, Curve.fi APR & Volumes Exploding 🚀, Smart Wallet Market Analysis 🔎
Links mentioned:
Compound Token Distribution 📈:
- Great summary on Compound($COMP) token distribution,
- Expanding Compound Governance,
- The Compound Protocol Belongs to the Community
Curve.fi APR & Volumes Exploding 🚀:
Smart Wallet Market Analysis 🔎:
Additional Mentions :
- Amazing Synthetix x UMA founders discussion hosted by Marc from Aave,
- Bancor Attack,
- Top DeFi Podcasts of 2020️
- Maximize $COMP Mining
Thank You, Aave for Partnering With Us ❤️:
- Website - https://aave.com/
- Discord - https://discord.com/invite/AnSqnvV
- Github - https://github.com/aave/aave-protocol
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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 :)
Our First Sponsor for the Show 🥳🎉
Website - https://aave.com/
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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
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
How Argent Is Going to Onboard 1 Billion Users to DeFi 🚀
Argent:
- Website >>> https://www.argent.xyz/
- Itamar's Ethereal Talk >>> https://youtu.be/Hc_YrEOAOR4
- Argent Tweetstorm >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts/status/1174765294910353410?s=20
Hosts:
- TokenBrice >>> http://tokenbrice.xyz/
- Abel >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts
- Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/
Aave Is Growing Fast 🚀, Why You Need Gastoken ⛽, DeFi Events Recap ✨
HegicOptions Bug ⛔, Pool Together Pods 🤑 & The 10k Audit 💸 - Your Weekly Dose of DeFi 🥳
Links:
Topic 1:
- https://twitter.com/hegicoptions/status/1253937104666742787?s=21
- https://twitter.com/dguido/status/1254260710470815744
- https://discordapp.com/invite/B4kjkgv
Topic 2:
- https://twitter.com/PoolTogether_/status/1253025782735220742
- https://defirate.com/pooltogether-pods/
- https://decrypt.co/26636/pooltogether-odds-winning-crypto-no-loss-lottery-just-got-better
Topic 3:
- https://twitter.com/AdamScochran/status/1255332313241706498
- https://twitter.com/AdamScochran/status/1250938829449674752
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
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.
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
DeFi Needs Better Primitives! Could AMPL be the solution... 💰
DeFi needs better primitives — that is to say, DeFi needs better base-monies!
Just as HTTP and FTP were the primitive building blocks of the web, today’s decentralized assets, BTC and ETH, are the primitive building blocks of the new DeFi economy.
These assets can be arranged to construct instruments for lending, debt, synthetic equities, and more. But today their limitations lie in their volatility and high correlation to one another — hence the requirement for extreme over-collateralization and the looming risk of auto-liquidation.
Join Evan Kuo and I as we speak about this in today's episode!
Links mentioned in the podcast :
Website >>> https://www.ampleforth.org/
Ampleforth Twitter >>> https://twitter.com/ampleforthorg
Defi Needs Better Primitives Blogpost >>> https://medium.com/ampleforth/defi-needs-better-primitives-6402c633b799
Telegram >>> https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@AmpleforthOrg
My Twitter >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts
Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/
We're Back With Amazing Updates 🥳
We're back :)
Here are some of the links mentioned in the podcast:
Hackathon >>> https://consensyshealth.com/covid-19/
More info on Hackathon >>> https://soundcloud.com/healthunchained/ep-58-healthcare-industry-revolution-heather-flannery-ceo-consensys-health
TokenBrice >>> https://twitter.com/tokenbrice?lang=en-gb
mDeFi >>> https://www.meetup.com/monolith/
Monolith >>> https://monolith.xyz/
Our mDeFi Panel >>> https://twitter.com/monolith_web3/status/1250424425540771848
My Twitter >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts
Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/
Covid-19, Financial Market Meltdown & Crypto Crisis 😱
Covid-19, Financial Market Meltdown & another Crypto Crisis
It's been an interesting past few weeks, in this podcast we reflect on all that's happened so far!
In this episode, we discuss:
- Some thoughts on Covid-19
- Thoughts on the recent Financial Market Meltdown
- Crypto Crisis, what happened + potential new episodes on MakerDAO
Relevant links discussed:
Covid-19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY
https://sites.google.com/view/sourcescorona
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP2rTwJDhic
Let's stay in touch :)
My twitter - https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts
Newsletter - https://abelsabstracts.substack.com
Near Protocol + Open Web Collective - Lessons learned building a new blockchain ⛓️
What's it like building a new blockchain from scratch? Well, that's exactly what you'll find out in today's podcast!
In this episode, we discuss:
- What Near Protocol is + how it works
- The lessons Sasha and the team at Near learned along the way
- What the Open Web Collective is and how it works
Relevant links discussed:
- https://nearprotocol.com/
- Product teams - https://openwebcollective.com/
- Developers - https://nearprotocol.com/developers/
- Developers - https://docs.nearprotocol.com/
- Discord - http://near.chat/
- Sasha's twitter - https://twitter.com/aliaksandrh?lang=en
What the F**K Happened to bZx! Security Lessons to Learn From the Two Exploits 🔒
The 8th largest decentralised finance protocol has been attacked!
In this episode, we discuss:
- What bZx, Fulcrum, Margin Trading + Flash loans are
- Exploit 1 + 2 of the bZx protocol
- What product and protocol teams can learn from this exploit
Timestamp to skip if you're already familiar with bZx, Fulcrum, Margin Trading + Flash loans: 05:09
Relevant links discussed:
- https://ethtrust.org/
- https://mythx.io/
- https://samczsun.com/taking-undercollateralized-loans-for-fun-and-for-profit/
- Julien Bouteloup's Twitter thread with a breakdown of what happened (Exploit 1) - https://twitter.com/bneiluj/status/1228757175595438080?s=20
- https://medium.com/@1inch.exchange/yes-we-hacked-bzx-fulcrum-but-one-month-ago-3f7e5c437ee3
- https://medium.com/@peckshield/bzx-hack-analysis-exposes-challenging-defi-inherent-composable-liquidity-risks-e3e1c623b7bd
- https://etherscan.io/txs/label/bzx-exploit
- Larry Cermak's Twitter thread with a breakdown of what happened (Exploit 2) - https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1229671232456593408
- https://bzx.network/blog/postmortem-ethdenver
Activate from ConsenSys Codefi Launches and DeFi hits $1 billion in value locked up... but is this the full story? 🤔
For Today's EP here we’re going to cover:
- A few Event Updates
- Product Launches
- Crypto/DeFi Ecosystem Updates
Event Updates:
ETHDenver 2020 - Denver, CO - February 14-16
ETHLondon 2020 - London, UK - February 28th - March 1st
Product Launches:
- Activate Launch - https://activate.codefi.network/
- https://codefi.consensys.net/blog/proof-of-use-activating-networks-through-encoded-participation
- https://codefi.consensys.net/blog/activate-token-launch-standards
- SKALE - https://skale.network/
- https://skale.network/whitepaper
Welcome to Abel's Abstracts Season 1 - start here :)
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the very first Episode of Abel's Abstracts!
Thank you so much for taking the time to listen :)
What is this about:
This is a podcast dedicated to exploring the world of Blockchain and Decentralized finance (DeFi)
Who is this for?
If you're part of a product team (Developer, Designer, Product Manager) and you're aiming to build a protocol or product in the blockchain space or are just curious to learn and stay up to date with all the amazing things that go on in this space, this is for you!
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At a minimum, once every two weeks
We may post more often if it's well-received :)
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