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We get back to our crowd-sourced roots and cover some topics from the twittersphere:

• Brief rundown: https://www.coindesk.com/mastercard-accepts-crypto-payments
• Overview of pegged vs backed vs synthetic assets in DeFi
• What is an NFT & why are they so hot right now?

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Jon and Kerp talk about the gradual then sudden role of bitcoin as a corporate, and eventually sovereign reserve asset.  Why is Bitcoin so hard to explain to someone without sounding like a crazy person?  If DeFi were to make it to primetime before the next big correction, how could that happen?

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We dive into the wild world of............ Stocks!!

What is a short squeeze and how did a rogue band of day traders on reddit start taking down hedge funds?  Who gets to say what is "normal market activity"? How DeFi can supercharge this strategy.

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Jon give his take on his participation in badgerDAO over the past couple months.

We discuss the importance of productive assets in DeFi and if reputation can/will be tokenized

Some rundown on what DIGG is, why it may be useful, and how it may be successful

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We get back into the swing of things and touch on biggest news from the last couple weeks

• BTC all time high, ETH close
• For those new to the space, volatility is OK, some strategies to make it easier on yourself
• The good and bad from the regulatory side over the past couple weeks
• What is it that we spend our time on when not on the podcast.

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We take a moment to officially recognize the ETH 2.0 Beacon chain going live before acknowledging it is very technically above our pay grade and moving on.

A brief overview of Gitcoin and gitcoin grants with matching - Round 8 kicking off tomorrow!  Support the podcast here: https://gitcoin.co/grants/1267/defi-download-podcast

Compound had $90m in debt liquidated over the weekend when maybe it could have been avoided.  What does this mean for oracles and keepers that keep DeFi running?

Main topic of the week is what a merger means in DeFi, using the recent announcements of Yearn mergers and partnerships with Pickle, Cover, Cream, and Sushi.

Referenced Content:

https://andrecronje.medium.com/merger-acquisition-partnership-collaboration-nomenclature-in-the-decentralized-space-ca24370d6f27

https://bankless.substack.com/p/-crypto-civilization-balaji-srinivasan

https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1333827483465084929

https://alpha.daohaus.club

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We cant avoid the price action with BTC almost back to all time highs and ETH crossing $600 and talk about the problem with the most popular apps for onboarding new folks adding fake legitimacy to questionable crypto-assets.

We then tackle the topics decided on by our twitter followers - https://twitter.com/defi_download/status/1331303675537440768

$MEME -  Rug pull digital-social art instillation

Yearn & Pickle Merger - DeFi M&A

Happy Thanksgiving to all our DeFi friends in the US!

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Main topic for the week is the component of DeFi most taken for granted - Keepers.  A pivotal component that keeps DeFi running.  Keepers monitor the state of the network and perform economically-incentivized actions that keep DeFi protocols and apps functioning.  We discuss some popular projects that are trying to level up the keeper ecosystem in different ways - keep3r & keeperDAO.

We then discuss Miner Extracted Value (MEV) in the context of keepers and the "decentralization stack".

Lastly we introduce $CAST a token-gated discord server for exploring how DeFi can be used to build tools that help support independent content creators (with initial focus on podcasts).

Independent podcasters - join the chat or DM us and we will send you some $CAST

Listeners - Keep an eye on our twitter for opportunities to earn some $CAST

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• Keeper DAO: https://keeperdao.com/#/
• Keep3r: https://docs.keep3r.network/
• MEV: https://medium.com/@danrobinson/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest-ecc5f0505dff

Recommended Content:

https://daohaus.substack.com/p/tokens-and-goodharts-forest

https://www.breaker.audio/acquired/e/75861112

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-65-supernova-in-the-east-iv/

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• https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00YUQP6AE

Kerp:

• https://trumpconlaw.com/

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We share our thoughts on where we are in the main and sub crypto hype/build cycles before giving a rundown on the recent harvest.finance exploit and discussing what the fallout means for DeFi

Recommended content for the week

Jon:

• Rise of a new kleptocracy (hidden forces) - https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/kleptocracy-tom-burgis-kleptopia/
• Benoit Couere - CBDC from central banker perspective - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2020-10-21/beno-t-c-ur-on-central-bank-digital-currencies-podcast

Kerp:

• AOC amoung us stream - https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/20/21526164/aoc-among-us-twitch-debut-top-concurrent-viewers
• a16z talking about the same 👆 - https://a16z.com/2020/10/25/16mins-among-us-gaming-social-streaming-reality-tv/
• https://www.dictionary.com/browse/asymptotic

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• rundown on the new hot app circles.garden
• prospects for real world identities in DeFi
• Grievances aired about the correlation in traditional and crypto markets
• Recommended content for the week

https://twitter.com/naval/status/877467629308395521?lang=en

https://tim.blog/naval-ravikant-on-the-tim-ferriss-show-transcript/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tracking-trends-ai-webrtc-crypto-full-stack-startups/id842818711?i=1000494343933

http://podcast.banklesshq.com/33-slaying-moloch-ameen-soleimani-kevin-owocki

https://onthebrink-podcast.com/roundup-10-16/

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No questions this week so @tompkins_jon & @theKerp riff on what past and more recent enforcement actions against crypto projects & companies may mean for the newest batch DeFi projects.

The first game of "Is it DeFi?" is played, looking at DeFi governance implementations.

https://daohaus.substack.com/p/daos-multi-sigs-and-which-is-right

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https://twitter.com/r_ross_campbell/status/1310995719457837057?s=20

what do we think about ‘testing in prod’? Do we think defi fads are ‘accruing’, or does focus on nfts reflect less network use for yield farming? Also, what’s the deal with $UNI voting?

https://twitter.com/defi_download/status/1312110836496777217?s=20

Is Bitmex shakedown good or bad for DEXs?

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Is $MEME defi + nfts? If so, what does this mean ?? Is composability composting collectives?

https://twitter.com/r_ross_campbell/status/1308399477082988546?s=20

I know I’m the host, but I’ve also got questions. What do you reckon the cost basis is on $UNI?

sales? If the answer is “starting price $0” is that fair? Should we be taxed on profits pulled out of the ether like that?

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“What is current regulatory climate for DeFi in America and extrapolate potential risk involved with a future Apple v. Coinbase court case?”

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"Is @picklefinance the real dill, or a flop"

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"What are good strategies for trading elastic supply coins?"

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"After @VitalikButerin's tweet, I see some peeps talking about forking MKR and others about hodling mkr precisely because of a fork? What's going on?"

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"Do we think there will slight backlash against anon defi founders after last week’s servings Bento box? Or does this highlight more need to build communities, social capital first, if asking folks to ‘trust’ w/o legal fixins’ Oden(??) Anyone doing that well? Also is foodFi dead"

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"What is the future for L1s not participating or creating their own #DeFi ?"

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