Episode: #31 September 21, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - GET A HUMAN READABLE CRYPTO DOMAIN 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 💸 AAVE - LEND AND BORROW DEFI ASSETS ---- State of the Nation - $MEME, NFTs, and EIP1559 $MEME is the main topic of conversation in this state of the nation. We bring on Jordan Lyall (@jordanlyall), the accidental founder of $MEME, to help us understand how MEME accidentally became a thing by memeing itself into existence.  1) $MEME IS HOT RN 2) WHY EIP1559 ISN'T HERE 3) IS UNI A BUY, HOLD, OR SELL? RESOURCES: 1) DON'T BUY MEME https://dontbuymeme.com/farms 2) EIP1559 AMA https://crypto-ama.herokuapp.com/messages_eip_1559.html 3) UNI TOKEN CLAIM DASHBOARD https://explore.duneanalytics.com/dashboard/uni-token-claims   Rate the Podcast 5 Stars ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

Episode: #31 September 21, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - GET A HUMAN READABLE CRYPTO DOMAIN 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 💸 AAVE - LEND AND BORROW DEFI ASSETS ---- Nexus Mutual to Billions | Hugh Karp Hugh Karp is the founder of Nexus Mutual, a DeFi insurance protocol Nexus Mutual has $80M ETH covering over $240 worth of DeFi insurance, up from $8M last July. Nexus has paid out millions in insurance claims to previous DeFi hacks, and is one of the fastest-growing protocols in DeFi. Hugh comes from the world of insurance and worked as an actuary before moving into crypto. He brings his real-world insurance knowledge to the DeFi universe through Nexus Mutual, a reconstruction of real-world insurance mechanisms, but built on Ethereum. Nexus Mutual has over $80M in assets deposited into the Nexus contracts, up from just $8M in July 2020. This $80M is the backstop for $240M of cover purchased by Nexus customers. Join us as we go through the history of Nexus Mutual, the NXM token, and the future road map with founder Hugh Karp! WE COVER: 1) Current state of DeFi insurance / safety 2) Benefits of smart-contract based insurance 3) Quick history of insurance  4) Building Nexus 5) Integrating NXM 6) NXM Bonding Curve 7) Future vision of Nexus ------ Resources: Read: How to assess the risks of a lending protocol?https://bankless.substack.com/p/how-to-assess-the-risk-of-lending Read: how to protect against hacks with Nexus https://bankless.substack.com/p/how-to-protect-against-hacks-with Nexus Metrics Tracker: https://nexustracker.io/ DeFi Dad Explainer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnzInsKPLR0   Rate the Podcast 5 Stars ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - GET A HUMAN READABLE CRYPTO DOMAIN 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 💸 AAVE - BORROW & LEND DEFI ASSETS ON ETHEREUM  ------ The Uniswap Token is OUT! $UNI is here and EVERYONE has some! David and Ryan release a quick bonus episode to keep you informed about the UNI token release! ------ RESOURCES: Intro to Uniswap: https://uniswap.org/blog/uni/ Claim your tokens: https://app.uniswap.org/#/uni Uniswap 2nd in crypto fees: https://cryptofees.info/ Token terminal for UNI P/E: https://www.tokenterminal.com/ Tracking Ethereum Gas: https://www.gasnow.org/ CoinGecko Yield Farming list: https://www.coingecko.com/en/yield-farming Rate the Podcast 5 Stars! ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #14 - Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....FUNding It that time of year....GITCOIN TIME!!! Every quarter, 4 times a year, Gitcoin Grants rolls around. This is one of the few times where the money in your wallet means 10x more than it used to... IF... AND ONLY IF.... you donate to your favorite DeFi and Ethereum infrastructure.  We bring on Kevin Owocki, el presidente of Gitcoin, to discuss the role of Gitcoin in funding the DeFi ecosystem and the technology behind funding public goods.  -----  GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE NAMES FOR ETHEREUM AND CRYPTO ADDRESSES 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI  💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS  💸 AAVE - BORROWING AND LENDING DIGITAL ASSETS ON ETHEREUM - DID SOMEONE SAY YIELD FARMING?? ------ STATE OF THE NATION #14 - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....FUNding Special Guest...Kevin Owocki @owocki on Twitter TOPICS: GITCOIN with Kevin Owocki 1) Gitcoin Round 7... START 2) This round is different... WE'RE IN A BULL MARKET 3) DeFi protocol, DeFi farms, DeFi teams are SENDING GITCOIN $$$  4) Gitcoin is out of the shadow of Consensys, the EF 5) Decentralized Identity, Sybil Resistance of Gitcoin StableCredit USD 1) Bankless Video was helpful... still need more help in understanding Andre Conje's new StableCredit USD system 2) Aave + Maker + Uniswap + Synethix = StableCredit USD (?) 3) Yearn needs a place to park its capital; it filled all the other protocols 4) Contracts done, UI soon BTC and ETH are the crypto monies that matter MicroStrategy Buys $175M More in Bitcoin, Upping BTC Holdings to $425M Bitcoin’s prisoners dilemma  ETH just passed BTC on total value transferred and that’s huge Fake DeFi doesn’t cut it (CeDeFi) Binance Smart-Contract Chainhttps://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684900933/Binance-Smart-Chain-Launches-Today 100m fund Binance Block Explorer https://bscscan.com/ Token Sets Introducing the DeFi Pulse Index on TokenSets | by Anthony Sassano | Set Labs | Sep, 2020 ----- Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter  Follow Ryan on Twitter  Follow David on Twitter Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #30 September 14, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - GET A HUMAN READABLE CRYPTO DOMAIN 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY ---- Synthetix to Billions | Kain Warwick Kain Warwick is the founder of the Synthetix Platform, a protocol for generating and trading synthetic digital assets. Kain himself is known for leaning towards crypto-anarchist side of the political spectrum How did this come about? How has this impacted the building of Synthetix? Synthetix itself has stood resilient against the 2018/19 bear market. Why? What was the unique advantage of Synthetix vs other 2017 ICO platforms? What's next for Synthetix now that gas fees are 200+ gwei? WE COVER: 1) Kain's political stance 2) How this reflected in Synthetix 3) Motivation and Grit around building and producing 4) Growing Community and Culture during a bear market 5) Degen Spartan, and 6 dolla SNX 6) Introducing the SIP process 7) Introducing Yield Farming 8) Recursive upside/downside to SNX + ETH collateral in Synthetix 9) L2 scaling with Optimism 10) Bull market predictions ------ FURTHER RESOURCES: Synthetix & Optimism: https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/synthetix-exchange-meets-the-ovm-2de3a572d6df Rate the Podcast 5 Stars ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #13 - Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....SOBERING! No, we haven't rewritten the laws of the universe, things are still the same... Follow Anthony on Twitter! -----  GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE NAMES FOR ETHEREUM AND CRYPTO ADDRESSES 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI  💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS  💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY  ------ STATE OF THE NATION #13 - Tuesday, September 8, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....SOBERING! Special Guest...Anthony Sassano @sassal0x on Twitter TOPICS: 1) SushiSwap Founder dumping all his Sushi; defecting from the protocol 2) The newest wave of ETH 2 killers is here 3) Protocols directing funds to Gitcoin for Gitcoin Grants: BULLISH for ETHEREUM ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1) Aave Founder Stani on the Bankless Pod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b76HL0jFctQ&t=938s 2) AMA with Loopring's Matt Finestone on THURSDAY 3) Tactic coming out on the Bankless Newsletter: How to get Yield SAFELY. Subscribe! https://bankless.substack.com/ We show: 1) Sushi Founder Market-Dumps Sushi 2) Ameen Soleimani post-mortem twitter thread 3) Sushi Founder: "I'm a good guy" 5) Kevin Owocki submits 1% YAM treasury to Gitcoin proposal 6) Andre with the DUNK: 7) David puts the final nail in the coffin 8) BASED now giving Gitcoin 2%! --- ACTION ITEMS: 1) READ: Sushi's Sin of Betrayal: https://bankless.substack.com/p/sushis-sin-of-betrayal-market-monday 2) READ: How to use yEarn to maximize yield https://bankless.substack.com/p/how-to-leverage-yearn-to-maximize 3) Subscribe to Catch SOTN LIVE every Tuesday at 10am EST (2pm UTC) https://www.youtube.com/c/bankless ----- Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter  Follow Ryan on Twitter  Follow David on Twitter Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #29 September 07, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: 🌐 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - GET A HUMAN READABLE CRYPTO DOMAIN 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS 💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY ---- Stani Kulechov is the Founder of the Aave money market, a place for lending and borrowing assets in DeFi. Aave has marched up the DeFi leaderboard to become one of the top protocols with the most amount of value deposited into its contracts. Aave's token LEND has increased 3300% since its bear market low. What contributed to Aave's success? What did Aave do differently? Why did Aave's community thrive when others died? What's next for Aave and Aavenomics? We ask Stani these questions and many more, in order to get a glimpse of what is successful in this DeFi frontier! ----- WE COVER 1) Crypto-Native Founders 2) Early days of Aave -- ETHLend and the Aave pivot 3) Sticking it out through the bear market 4) Establishing the team-community relationship 5) Rising the Ranks of DeFi 6) VC investment vs ICO investment; pros and cons 7) Aave moves FAST! 8) Aavenomics and Aave Roadmap 9) Bull Market Predictions! ----- Resources discussed: David's article about MKR references by Stani ----- Episode Actions: Read delegated credit explainer article Read about Aavenomics + Aave roadmap  Give us a 5 star review on iTunes! ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #12 - Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....POSITIONING! The bankless boys discuss with Mariano Conti why. Follow Mariano on Twitter!  -----  GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 CRYPTO.COM - BUY, SELL, PAY W/ CRYPTO - GET THE APP (get $50 in CRO when your use promo code "BANKLESS2020" and stake 1,000 CRO) 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI  💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS  💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY  ------ STATE OF THE NATION #12 - Tuesday, September 1, 2020 State of the Bankless Nation is....POSITIONING! The bankless boys discuss why. Special Guest...Mariano Conti. Follow Mariano here: https://twitter.com/nanexcool/ TOPICS: 1) YEARN DEEP DIVE (yETH is HUGE) 2) ETHEREUM GOLDEN AGE 3) SUSHI VS UNISWAP 4) ETH P/E IS HILARIOUS ANNOUCEMENTS: 1) Vance podcast highest viewed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z3ns... 2) Merch store live - https://merch.banklesshq.com/ 3) Ledger deal 20% off - https://bankless.substack.com/p/the-d... We show: 1) yEarn vaults 2) Trifecta asset tweet 3) YFI in Aave  4) yInsurance  5) YFI governance staking 6) Sushi yields  7) Sushi farms 8) Token terminal ----- ACTION ITEMS: 1) Try yEarn (warning: highly risky!)  2) Read: How to use yEarn to maximize yield  3) Subscribe to Catch SOTN LIVE every Tuesday at 10am EST (2pm UTC)  ----- Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter  Follow Ryan on Twitter  Follow David on Twitter Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #28 August 31, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Loopring - trade & pay on Ethereum w/ near-0 gas fees! (use "Bankless" for VIP4 status & trades at 6bps!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") (Read this on IRAs and 401ks) ---- Vance Spencer of Framework was buying DeFi tokens when they were deeply unpopular. Deep conviction on DeFi, but he and his co-founder made bets on communities. He was contrarian yes...but contrarian right. Ask him his strategy and he'll simply tell you..."I look at memes all day." But there's hidden brilliance in that phase. Listen as he describes how he invests in the crypto native founders, how he buys culturally composable communities, how the best things start very small.  His fund bought SNX when no on believed. They bought LINK when it was worth 18 cents. How? Why? What's he buying now? We end with some FIRE predictions on final market caps for this bull run. We cover: Are we in a bull market? The DeFi Bull Case Crypto Native Investing Fund Composable communities Contrarian bets in the bear market Where did the LINK marines come from? Populism is real in crypto REGULATORS are friends? Turning Communities into Protocols Farming Token Premium Things Vance is buying Price Predictions!!! 🔥 Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Resources discussed: DeFi Studio Framework Labs Leave Stealth Listen to Protocol Sink Thesis episode ----- Episode Actions: Get involved in communities - YFI, YAMs, SNX, Bankless Get active in the networks you invest in! (e.g. own some ETH, try to run an Eth2 validator!) ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

Bankless AMA - Antonio Juliano, Founder of dYdX Antonio Juliano, the Founder of dYdX, arrives at the Bankless Nation for an AMA! dYdX is a non-custodial trading platform on Ethereum, featuring a lot of cutting edge trading features meant to mimic the legacy system, but in the DeFi world! ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚔️ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade! 🧙‍♀️ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes!  🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- We do AMAs every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.  Become a Bankless member to get access to the Zoom Webinar and ask questions to future AMA guests like Antonio directly! Here's the video recording.  Antonio is the founder of dYdX, a popular trading, margin, and and derivatives market on Ethereum. The Bankless Nation asks him questions about: Spot trading Margin trading Perpetual swaps Borrowing & Lending The complete dYdX stack Regulatory Compliance, KYC Starkware and L2's dYdX token?? And more.... ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

STATE OF THE NATION #11 - Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....BUILDING! The bankless boys discuss why. ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚔️ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade! 🧙‍♀️ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes!  🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- TOPICS: 1) ETH2 TESTNET BROKE? 2) LAYER2 WILL SAVE US 3) PRO-O-O-O-O-TOCOL SINK We show:  Bankless Medalla Testnet Guide Official docs for prysmatic labs client Ethereum economic density article - Nic Carter  Loopring DeFi Dad video on Bankless YouTube OMG network taking Tether settlement dYdX scaling with layer2 starkware Near bridging to Ethereum Binance staking DAI using Compound/DSR Huobi launching Global DeFi Summit  --- Episode Actions: Catch SOTN LIVE on YouTube every Tuesday at 10am EST (2pm UTC) Join AMA with Antonio of dYdX live at 2pm EST this Thursday Subscribe to Bankless to get Medalla testnet guide then get involved Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday! ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #27 August 24, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Loopring - trade & pay on Ethereum w/ near-0 gas fees! (use "Bankless" for VIP4 status & trades at 6bps!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") (Read this on IRAs and 401ks) ---- Haseeb Qureshi likes the question: what did I miss? That's how he improves his mental model for investing in crypto. That's how he sharpens his mind.  That's how this former Airbnb developer and professional poker play became a notable investor at DragonFly Capital. And that's where we start the conversation. It leads us into a discussion on Uniswap and automated market makers, and why he thinks Uniswap will be unbundled. Which leads into Ethereum scaling, DeFi in Eth2, and an articulation of the clearest analogy for DeFi scalability in Etheruem that we've ever heard. Use this episode to sharpen your crypto investing mind. We cover: The big thing Haseeb missed Explain Uniswap like I'm 5 Why AMMs are eating orderbook exchanges The Unbundling of Uniswap Smart Automated Market Makers (SAMMs!) DeFi in Eth2: Cities, suburbs, and farms Economic load balancing across shards Layer 2 as the shopping malls The Shard for crypto banks What about the ETH killers? Sorry boys...ETH ain't money Haseeb's High conviction Bets Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Resources discussed: What explains the rise of AMMs? - Article by Haseeb Unbundling Uniswap - New Article by Haseeb DeFi in Eth2: Cities, suburbs, farms - Article by Haseeb ETH must be money episode with Charlie Noyes More on Automated Market Makers: Rise of the Liquidity Robots - Bankless Article Going Bankless with Uniswap - Podcast Epsiode Uniswap is Infrastructure - Bankless Article When DeFi meets Rollup - Bankless Article on Rollups ----- Episode Actions: Read DeFi in Eth2: Cities, suburbs, farms Read What explains the rise of AMMs? Read Unbundling Uniswap Give Bankless a 5 star review on iTunes! ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #10 - Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....GAMING! The bankless boys discuss why. ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚔️ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade! 🧙‍♀️ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes!  🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- TOPICS: 1) MONEY GAMES - YAMS NOT DED 2) CRV LAUNCH FAIR? 3) MAXIMALISM GETTING DUMBER? We show:  Ready Player One (article by David) Ethereum: The Money-Game Landscape Conway's game of life article YAM Farms YAM analytics Where you mine CRV CRV price --- Episode Actions: Catch SOTN LIVE on YouTube every Tuesday at 10am EST (2pm UTC) Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday! ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #26 August 18, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Loopring - trade & pay on Ethereum w/ near-0 gas fees! (use "Bankless" for VIP4 status & trades at 6bps!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") (Read this on IRAs and 401ks) ---- What are the paradigms for investing in DeFi? Charlie is an exceptionally bright & thoughtful investor in crypto assets at Paradigm...one of the leading investment firms in the crypto space. We talk institutions, yield farming, and DeFi protocols...and then we get into one of our favorite subjects. Is ETH money? Or rather, does ETH need to be money in order to secure itself? What is dirty little secret many Ethereans and Bitcoiners don't admit? Why is moneyness and security two sides of the same coin? Why won't transaction fees secure Bitcoin? This episode goes from great...to amazing. You won't find this depth of discussion anywhere else. Stay tuned to the very end to catch the conversation on economic security.  We cover: Starting in crypto at age 11 Gen Z and crypto  How Institutions see crypto Futility tokens are futile Is Uniswap the last word on AMMs? RAI vs DAI Money gams & accounting tricks Yield farming for yield farming sake Why we're not in a bubble yet Why Ether has to be money (or bust) Cosmos and Ethereum alternatives Not bullish on Eth2 timeline Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Resources discussed: Here's the episode with Joey Krug we mentioned Bitcoin for the Open Minded Skeptic article by Paradigm Is the Map of America the way institutions see crypto? We mentioned YAMS - here's our explainer We mentioned EIP-1559 (listen here | read article) ----- Episode Actions: Read "Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic” by Paradigm Articles Charlie mentioned to understand economic security: On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward Flash Boys 2.0 - Phil Daian Spread bankless by giving 5 star reviews….get us to 100! Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday. ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

Kain Warwick, Founder of the Synthetix Platform, presents himself to the Bankless Nation for a live AMA! We ask him anything! No question off limits.  This is a BONUS episode. Regular podcast episode (#26) will be released tomorrow. ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚔️ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade! 🧙‍♀️ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes!  🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- We do AMAs every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.  Become a Bankless member to get access to the Zoom Webinar and ask questions to future AMA guests like Kain directly! Here's the video recording.  Kain is the founder of Snythetix, a popular synthetics and derivatives market on Ethereum. The Bankless Nation asks him questions about: High gas fees yams lol Yield farming Future vision for synthetics DeF in a Layer 2 Central bank digital currencies The final boss Eth2 What he learned from 2017 Bull market price predictions! And more.... ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

STATE OF THE NATION #9 (PART 2) - Wednesday, August 13, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel SOTN PART 2: with Special guest Vitalik Buterin The State of the Bankless Nation is....PROPAGATING! And in this Part 2 we talk to Vitalik about ETH SUPPLYGATE! ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚔️ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade! 🧙‍♀️ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes!  🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- Covered: ETH SUPPLYGATE CURRENT GAS FEES PART 2: (COMING TOMORROW - ETH SUPPLY GATE) Special guest Vitalik Buterin We show:  Tweet from Pomp Never Get High on Your Own Supply --- Episode Actions: NA Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday! ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

STATE OF THE NATION #9 (Part 1) - Tuesday, August 12, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....PROPAGATING! The bankless boys discuss why. This is Part 1 of SOTN this week. Stay tuned for Part 2 with Vitalik tomorrow. ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚔️ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade! 🧙‍♀️ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes!  🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- Covered: WTF ARE YAMS DEX VOLUME INSANE PART 2: (COMING TOMORROW - ETH SUPPLY GATE) Special guest Vitalik Buterin We show:  Post introducing YAMS Active YAM farms YAM farm contracts AmpleForth Geyser $34B annualized in Uniswap volume Uniswap eating DeFi --- Episode Actions: Catch tomorrows episode with Vitalik on ETH Supply Watch what's going on with YAM contracts Check out DEX stats Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday! ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #25 August 10, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Loopring - trade & pay on Ethereum w/ near-0 gas fees! (use "Bankless" for VIP4 status & trades at 6bps!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") (Read this on IRAs and 401ks) ---- Andre Cronje calls himself just another DeFi dev, but you can't help but wonder, is he's underselling himself with that title? In a few short months he single-handedly created a fleet of DeFi yield farming money robots that locked up over $400m in assets in his yearn protocol. He launched a YFI token that grew in value by over 1,000% in its first week, one of the most explosive price charts crypto has ever seen. No pre-mine, no VC, no founders reward. Maybe a better title is King of the Yield Farmers. DeFi's Satoshi. Who is this guy? What did he build and why is it brilliant? Why did YFI go from $3 on July 17th to $5000 on August 8th? This is everything you need to know about yearn, YFI, and Andre. We cover: How Andre's really feeling What's up with "I test in prod" Why high YFI price can be bad How Yearn automates yield farming Andre's money robots Incenting strategy writers Risks of yearn Launching YFI to scale Why people buy YFI Organic governance Is Andre The Joker? What's coming next Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Resources discussed: yearn protocol yearn governance yfi price chart Acronym helper: LP = liquidity provider yearn (or "Y-earn") = Andre's protocol cUSD, cDAI = stablecoins in Compound TLV = total locked valued in a DeFi protocol Look up other assets on DeFiMarketCap ----- Episode Actions: Try yearn protocol - "tested in prod" you could lose it all Get involved in yearn governance Listen to SOTN#7 - YFI Token Magic w/ Daryl Lau Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday. ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #8 - Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....PUMPED! The bankless boys discuss why. Plus a special announcement...introducing $BAPS ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚔️ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade! 🧙‍♀️ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes!  🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- Covered: ETHSCAPE SHIRTS TOPIC ETH2 COMING TOPIC BULL MARKET MENTALITY We show:  The democratization of value (article on scarce product tokens)  RAC launch of $TAPE Introducing Bankless Apparel Bankless Apparel Season 0 - Ethscape Shirt Bankless Apparel website Delphi Digital Ethereum report --- Episode Actions: Grab one for the first 50 BAPs! Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday! ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #24 August 3, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Loopring - trade & pay on Ethereum w/ near-0 gas fees! (use "Bankless" for VIP4 status & trades at 6bps!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") (Read this on IRAs and 401ks) ---- Erik's been journeying into the bankless frontier since 2011. That's when he first discovered bitcoin. The open road. The unsettled whitespace. The westward trail. The highway to freedom. That's why he's here. And he's remained true to his values. That's why he speaks out against tyranny. That's why he embraces self-sovereign money and pokes holes in the myths of fiat. That's why he so ardently rejects maximalism.  Enjoy our conversation with one of cryptos original settlers.  We cover: Erik's journey into the bankless frontier The libertarian values in the code Why America isn't capitalist Why flag bucks are destined for collapse Gold, Bitcoin, Ethereum 4 categories of coins Crypto vs the final boss China vs America Why Maximalists lost the plot PRICE PREDICTIONS! How Shapeshift helps us go bankless Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Resources discussed: (Trade) ShapeShift mobile trading app (UX) Portis web3 login (Guide) Bankless guide for starting the journey ----- Episode Actions: Try the new ShapeShift mobile trading app Give Bankless a five-star review on iTunes! (we need 100) Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday. ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #7 - Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....EXPLOSIVE! The bankless boys discuss why. Plus a special guest...Daryl Lau a YFI token governor! ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 ARGENT - BEST ETHEREUM WALLET FOR GOING BANKLESS (we love it) - open one today! 🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💳 DEVERSIFI - DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE FOR PRO TRADERS - use this exchange!   💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- Covered: TOPIC #1: YFI TOKEN MAGIC - w/ Daryl Lau TOPIC #2: ETH PUMPED TOPIC #3: DEFI RISK Announcements: Something big is coming next Monday! MINTING WEEK for Bankless Badges (new Minting on Aug 1) We show:  YFI chart (craziest thing I've seen) yEarn total locked value   yEarn Governance Article on YFI by Daryl --- Episode Actions: Just one - Keep leveling up weekly!  Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday! ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #23 July 27, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") (Read this on IRAs and 401ks) Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing ---- Joey Krug was doing DeFi before they called it DeFi. He's the co-founder of Augur, an investor at Pantera, an early supporter of Ethereum.  What did we cover? Ethereum, Oracles, DeFi, Bitcoin, Chainlink, Ampleforth, Memes, Risk, Triple Point Asset, YFI, Scaling...what didn't we cover! After the convo, Joey said we asked the best questions of any podcast he's been on. Maybe it felt that way because we we're speaking the same language: this DeFi is eating the world.  This is Investing in DeFi with Joey Krug.  We cover: Joey's investment thesis for crypto How to invest in DeFi Yield farming a gimmick? Is AMPL for real? DeFi oracles (and ChainLink!) Excited about Augur v2? A 100 Gwei world Is ETH a triple point asset? BTC or ETH? The next DeFi hack Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Resources discussed: (Listen) ETH as a triple point asset - ep 4 (Link) Ampleforth geyser (Link) Augur V2 release (Link) Matic network (scaling Ethereum) ----- Episode Actions: Sign up for Bankless to get an Augur V2 tactic (Aug 4th) Watch Ampleforth episode on Meet the Nation Give us a five-star review on iTunes! (we need 100) Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday. ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #6 - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....EXPONENTIAL! The bankless boys discuss why. Plus a special guest...Lucas Campbell a Bankless Analyst! Watch the video here. ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 ARGENT - BEST ETHEREUM WALLET FOR GOING BANKLESS (we love it) - open one today! 🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💳 DEVERSIFI - DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE FOR PRO TRADERS - use this exchange!   💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- Covered: TOPIC #1: DEFI TOKENS - w/ Lucas Campbell TOPIC #2: ETH PUMPING GOOD TOPIC #3: TOKENS VS ETH BONUS TOPIC: AmpleForth discussion We show: Bankless Q2 Token Report by Lucas Campbell  TokenTerminal for P/E Ratios Dune Analytics chart of DeFi users Messari Chart - Ethereum vs. Bitcoin settlement numbers Meet the Nation playlist --- Episode Actions: Read Q2 Bankless Token Report Join us for AMA with Rune Christensen on July 23, 12pm EST (Bankless Membership required!) Watch Meet the Nation on YouTube Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday! ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #22 July 20, 2020 ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing ---- You need to understand the mental models of Ben Hunt to understand what's really going on in crypto. You need his models of epsilon, game theory, narrative, and common knowledge to truly understand markets.  They don't teach you this on Wall Street. Or in business school. But for the Bankless Nation? This knowledge is required for our survival on the journey.  Dr. Ben Hunt is a masterful game theorist and narrative analyzer. His work at Epsilon Theory, his outlook on the world, we've rarely felt so much alignment with someone outside the crypto community. And what does Ben thing about crypto anyway? Is it an opportunity to diminish the nudging oligarchy that runs our world? What advice does he have for us? Is there a chance this bankless thing might work? Enjoy our incredible conversation with Ben. We cover: Epsilon, narratives, and playing the player The Keynesian contest running the world The Common Knowledge Game & The Missionary Why our world is getting more chaotic How the Nudging Oligarchy shapes reality STOCKS GO UP Crypto vs the Oligarchy 3 Path for Crypto (and which one Ben thinks is promising) WTF is going on w/ equities? The power of the pack Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Resources discussed: Epsilon Theory Manifesto Get N95 masks to the front-line Ben describes the 3-Body Problem on Hidden Forces ----- Episode Actions: Subscribe to Ben's newsletter at Epsilon Theory Send this episode to someone who's crypto curious  Give us a 5-star review! (we're 70...we need 100) Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday. ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #5 - Tuesday, July 14, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....HEDGED! The bankless boys discuss why. Plus a special guest...Nic Carter from Castle Island! Watch the video here. ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 ARGENT - BEST ETHEREUM WALLET FOR GOING BANKLESS (we love it) - open one today! 🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💳 DEVERSIFI - DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE FOR PRO TRADERS - use this exchange!   💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! ----- Covered: TOPIC #1: WHERE’S THE INFLATION? - w/ Nic Carter TOPIC #2: CRYPTODOLLAR BAN HAMMER! - w/ Nic Carter TOPIC #3: COINBASE IPO BONUS TOPIC: BANKLESS TOKEN DROP We show: Nic's brilliant Cantillon effect effect meme Coinbase blacklisting USDC article Coinbase blacklisting USDC tracker FSB Paper describing stablecoins --- Episode Actions: 1) Read crypto dollars whitepaper by Nic & Castle Island 2) Check out bZx Token Drop to Bankless Token Holders  3) Listen to David melodically read the protocol sink  Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday! ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.   Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #21 July 13, 2020 Ethereum turns 5 on July 30th! That's 5 years of history. Five years of progress. Time enough to change the world? We sit down with Vitalik Buterin and walk through Ethereum's past, present, and future. Has the vision changed? Has ETH earned its price? What about monetary policy? How's Vitalik feeling about the future? Is ETH a triple-point asset? It seems clear that Vitalik believes the Ethereum community is its strongest asset. This band of Athenians isn't just here to vanquish foes, it's here to build a digital civilization for the world. Not burn it down. Build it up.  Vitalik believes crypto is standing strong as one of the few remaining things that's genuinely international. And as we witness the balkanization of the digital world, the open door to cooperation that Ethereum provides is exactly what humanity needs in order to thrive in the 21st century.  Happy 5th Birthday Ethereum! The world needs you now more than ever.  We cover: How Vitalik's feeling about Ethereum PAST: Times when Vitalik was far less optimistic Has Ethereum matched the original vision? Identity in an independent digital civilization PRESENT: Does Vitalik like or hate DeFi? Vitalik's biggest concern for DeFi Thoughts on liquidity mining The goods & bads of speculation Have we earned the price? FUTURE: 3 problems we face now Spartans vs Athenians - who wins? Is Ethereum a nation, a religion, a technology? How Etheruem is like Briton  ETH THE ASSET Is ETH a triple point asset? Solidifying ETH's monetary policy LIGHTNING ROLLUP ROUND Gas fees are too high? ETH flippening BTC? Low hanging fruit? HIs favorite ETH killer? And more... Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing ----- Resources discussed: The Ethereum whitepaper Roadmap for Ethereum Ethereum's monetary policy (it's underrated!) ----- Episode Actions: Review Ethereum timeline (up to 2019) Listen to our fave episodes on Ethereum 3 - Economic Bandwidth 4 - Ether: The Triple Point Asset 7 - Ether’s Value Mechanisms  20 - The Ethereum Opportunity | Chris Burniske Give us a 5-star review on Apple iTunes! Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday. ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #4 - Tuesday, July 7, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....HUNGRY! The bankless boys discuss why. Plus a special guest...Luke Martin from VentureCoinist! Watch the video here. Covered: Is ETH a good narrative investment? What $2B locked in DeFi means The DeFi Vortex! ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 ARGENT - BEST ETHEREUM WALLET FOR GOING BANKLESS (we love it) - open one today! 🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK - earn some interest! 💳 DEVERSIFI - DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE FOR PRO TRADERS - use this exchange!   💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY - learn about this experiment! We show: 1) DeFi Pulse hits $2 billion! https://defipulse.com/ 2) The DeFi Vortex https://twitter.com/paulsalis/status/1278920299136741378 3) Ethereum's tech tree https://bankless.substack.com/p/ethereums-tree-of-life-market-monday-34c --- Episode Actions: 1) Look at $2B on DeFi pulse! https://defipulse.com/ 2) Think: what are the next crypto narratives? 3) Watch for David's article on Bankless tomorrow! https://bankless.substack.com/ Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday! ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/   Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/   Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ   Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams   Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState   Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad   ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.   Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #20 July 6, 2020 We sit down in this episode with Chris Burniske to talk about crypto, DeFi, and the Ethereum opportunity. Why are we here? How will crypto make the world better? Where are we going next? Oh...and is ETH money? Chris has the incredible ability to drill deep into intricate analysis one moment then zoom out across history to tell us what is means for the future of humanity. Enjoy this conversation with our favorite crypto analyst-philosopher. We cover: Evolution of token valuations Fixing the inequality of capital Is DeFi a better system for the world? Balancer as a case study Have his views on governance changed? Tribalism! The reason we're here Going west toward the Infinite Whitespace The Ethereum opportunity! Bullish ETH? Chris's next book Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing ----- Resources discussed: Read our favorite writings by Chris: A Superior Financial System The Likely Fate of Ethereum Killers Protocols As Minimally Extractive Coordinators Value Capture & Quantification: Cryptocapital vs Cryptocommodities Cryptonetworks Are Not Companies Follow Chris on Twitter Listen to Chris Read "A Blank State of Slate" Check out Crypto Assets Book ----- Episode Actions: Read our favorite articles from Chris (see above) Listen to episode 4 on ETH as a Triple Point Asset Subscribe to State of the Nation on YouTube! Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday. ----- Chris Burniske is a partner at Placeholder, a New York venture firm that invests in decentralized information networks. Prior to Placeholder, he co-authored, Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond, and spearheaded ARK Investment Management’s crypto efforts, including its 2015 bitcoin investment. His commentary has been featured on national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, and Bloomberg. Twitter @cburniske. ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter ----- Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions.  Do your own research.

STATE OF THE NATION #3 - Tuesday, June 23, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....GROWING! The Bankless boys discuss why. Watch the video here. Covered: The Flippening is back (will ETH flip BTC?) India Bannking China (and why it's good for Ethereum & Bitcoin) DEXes going parabolic (bigger than Binance?) ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 RAMP - FIAT ONRAMP FOR DEFI (ONRAMP $100k FREE WHEN YOU MENTION BANKLESS) https://ramp.network/ 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://monolith.xyz/ 🌈AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANK https://aave.com/ 📈MULTIS - BANK YOUR BUSINESS W/O A BANK! (1 MO TRIAL - JUMP QUEUE WITH "BANKLESS") https://multis.co/ ----- Action items: Look at the Flippening Metrics Read: An Inside Look at China’s Digital Currency  Check out DEX metrics dashboard ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/   Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/   Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ   Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams   Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState   Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad   ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.   Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #19 June 29, 2020 Hasu is a free-thinker. A truth seeker. A rare voice in crypto. He's not afraid to push back on tribal dogma. He breaks rank with Bitcoiners on some topics and Ethereans on others. Yet he still considers himself a member of both tribes and respects the mysticism (and even dogma) of these deeply social systems. In the spirit of Satoshi he's pseudonymous. We don't know his actual identity. But we know who he is from his body of writing that has influenced our thinking on many crypto topics.  What does he think about Ethereum? About crypto banks?  About DeFi?  We covered it all: Hasu's fave writers Body and Spirit of crypto networks Is Hasu an Etherean? Why Bitcoin might not survive How Maker is like a central bank Is EIP1559 bullish for ETH? The best Rick & Morty episode Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Multis - bank your business without a bank (1 mon. trial!) Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing ----- Resources discussed: (Article) A Bankless Nation (Part 1) (Article) A Bankless Nation (Part 2) (Listen) The above articles read by David Hasu Articles: Analysis of EIP-1559 Why Bitcoin might not survive a Bitcoin Standard The future of money could be discretionary Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract Evangelizing Bitcoin ----- Episode Actions: Read our favorite Hasu articles (see above) Listen to episode 7 on ETH scarcity for more EIP1559 Give Bankless a 5-star review on iTunes! Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday. ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

STATE OF THE NATION #2 - Tuesday, June 23, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....CHURNING! The Bankless boys discuss why.  Subscribe to get new episodes every Wednesday! (Get it 1 day earlier on Bankless YouTube!) Watch the video here. Covered: 1) Why isn't ETH pumping? (BEARS are wrong?)  2) Venmo onboarding millennials to crypto (and just in time)  3) Gas prices are bad (or are they good?) We show you how: 1) See ETH locked in DeFi 2) Look at ETH/BTC transaction fee revenue using Coinmetrics   ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS:   💸 RAMP - FIAT ONRAMP FOR DEFI (ONRAMP $100k FREE WHEN YOU MENTION BANKLESS)https://ramp.network/ 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDShttps://monolith.xyz/ 🌈AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYPTO W/O A BANKhttps://aave.com/ 📈MULTIS - BANK YOUR BUSINESS W/O A BANK! (1 MO TRIAL - JUMP QUEUE WITH "BANKLESS")https://multis.co/  ----- RESOURCES: 1) Learn about Economic bandwidth: Listen: https://bankless.substack.com/p/bankless-podcast-economic-bandwidth Read: https://bankless.substack.com/p/the-trillion-dollar-case-for-eth   2) Read Protocol sink Listen: https://bankless.substack.com/p/12-the-protocol-sink-thesis 3) Coinmetrics Transaction revenue chart https://coinmetrics.io/charts/#assets=btc,eth_roll=7_left=FeeTotUSD_zoom=1279411200000,1592784000000 ----- ACTIONS: 1) Read the new Bankless Starters Guide https://bankless.substack.com/p/-guide-1-starting-with-bankless   2) Subscribe to Bankless YouTube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/bankless 3) Check out the Daily Gwei by our friend Anthony Sassanohttps://thedailygwei.substack.com/   ----- Don't stop at the show! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/   Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/   Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ   Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams   Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState   Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad   ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.   Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

Episode: #18 June 22, 2020 A DeFi token called COMP gained over 900% last week. DeFi going parabolic. What in the world is going on? Are these DeFi tokens real? If they are, is this the start of the another 2017 style bull market? How much can you money as a yield farmer? We bring on Dan Elitzer a Venture Capitalist, writer, DeFi futurist, yield farmer and the absolute best person to tell us what's going on.  Covered: Why COMP went parabolic Why DeFi tokens are real this time The spark for the next bull run DeFi tokens as rocket fuel Why ETH is getting left behind (so far!) The best yield farming opportunities Superfluid yield farming The downside of DeFi tokens Where this is taking us next Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Multis - bank your business without a bank (1 mon. trial!) Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing ----- Resources discussed: (Article) Superfluid Collateral in Open Finance (Article) Meet the SAFG  (Article) Voting for cash flows (Listen) Episode 12: Protocol Sink Thesis (Listen) Episode 11: Going Bankless with Compound ----- Episode Actions: Subscribe to Bankless newsletter to get Dan's next article Read Gavin's article on SAFG ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Watch Bankless shows and tutorials on YouTube Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Welcome to the State of the Nation a new video podcast where RSA & David Hoffman weigh-in on topics relevant to the Bankless Nation every week. Watch the video here. New episodes on Tuesdays. SotN #1 - BULLISH Tuesday, June 16, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....BULLISH! The Bankless boys discuss why. Covered: - Why DeFi tokens are the next pump narrative (but better than 2017) - How 100m ETH accounts is like the early internet - Do and David disagree on his Bitcoin tweet? We show you how: - To calculate returns on your COMP tokens ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Multis - bank your business without a bank (1 mon. trial!) Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing ----- RESOURCES: 1) Look up COMP returns (credit Mika Honkasalo @mhonkasalo)  2) DeFiMarketCap shows COMP market cap  3) InstaDapp maximizer for COMP mining   

Episode: #17 June 15, 2020 An alien visits earth. He sees our cities, our governments, our moral codes. He's curious, "What's are you trying to do here?" he asks the humans.  The humans respond: "We're trying to get coordinated". Coordination is how humanity rose above the animals. Built the pyramids. Put a man on the moon. We've coordinated as hunter-gather societies in tribes. As agrarian societies in kingdoms. As industrial societies in nation states. And now...as information societies in digital nations like Ethereum and Bitcoin. This. Changes. Everything.  Covered: Uh...why are we here? What's the point? A nation is more than a nation state! The thing that makes humans special Getting past Dunbar's number The rise & limits of nation states The next evolution of the nation How you become a citizen of Ethereum Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Multis - bank your business without a bank (1 mon. trial!) Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing ----- Resources discussed: (Article) A Bankless Nation (part 1) (Podcast) Episode 12 talks about Settlement Assurances ----- Episode Actions: Read David's "A Bankless Nation" piece from last week  Subscribe to Bankless newsletter so you don't miss part 2! ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #16 June 8, 2020 Nic Carter is one of our favorite writers in crypto. He's shaped our thoughts on many subjects over the years. Now we got to sit down and talk the challenging stuff. The stuff typical podcasts never as him...we dive right in. He's a bitcoin yes...is he an Etherean? He's bullish on stablecoins...is he bullish ETH value accrual? He thinks free banking is good...does he think Maker is good? Nic believe in bitcoin values...does he believe in bankless values? This episode is jam packed with insights. Covered: Is Nic an Etherean? What does Etherean even mean? Are stablecoins good or bad for ETH? Why the entire point is blockspace demand How economically dense transactions win Settlement assurances & property rights Why crypto banks aren't all bad Emerging digital nation states Will this bankless thing work? Plus Ryan and David discuss: How David got pepper sprayed last weekend Bankless as an anti-authoritarian movement Building it up not burning it down Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Multis - bank your business without a bank (1 mon. trial!) Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing ----- Resources discussed: (Article) It’s the settlement assurances, stupid - Nic Carter (Article) Visions of Bitcoin - Nic Carter (Article) Crypto-fiat: Mutualistic or Parasitic - Nic Carter (Article) While the cities burn below - RSA ----- Episode Actions: Read some Nic Carter articles! (see above) Catch up on previous episodes (#2, #7, #12) Pump Bankless by giving us a 5-star review on iTunes! ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #15 June 3, 2020 The bankless boys think ETH is undervalued and they explain why. Also, a talk on governance why putting it on-chain is a money killer. Join Ryan and David in this special bonus episode. Covered: ETH fundamentals are fire Metrics  Gas usage at all time higher Daily active users up Stablecoins on Ethereum up BTC tokenized on Ethereum up Network fundementals up! So why isn't price up? Maybe ETH is Undervalued! New Crypto.com wallet is protocol sink thesis! Maker on Coinbase is a big deal On-chain gov hurts store-of value  Decreases credible neutrality Handing the keys to plutocrats Join us next Monday for a fresh episode! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Multis - bank your business without a bank (1 mon. trial!) ----- Resources discussed: (Article) ETH is doubly undervalued (Tweet) Why ETH is headed to bull market ----- Episode Actions: What do you think - is ETH undervalued? Give Bankless at 5-star review on iTunes! ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #14 June 1, 2020 Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss on Bankless! The mainstream world knows them as Zuckerberg's bane from "The Social Network" but the bankless world knows them as multi-faceted entrepreneurs, early believers in crypto, and the founders the Gemini exchange. Whatever you think you know about the Winklevoss twins you have to admit...these guys have an uncanny ability to see the future. So what do they see in our future? Future of crypto? Future of DeFi? Of the world? They bridged technology to our social lives. They bridged crypto to Wall Street. What bridges are they building next? Is Gemini the DeFi-friendly bank we've been waiting for? We cover: How Cameron & Tyler "see things" early What the Winklevosses first saw in Bitcoin The evolution of crypto banks JPMorgan is banking Gemini!! Big Banking vs Big Tech Is Gemini DeFi friendly? Why the Winklevosses are ETH whales What's the next crypto-sized opportunity? Will the Winklevosses turn Gemini into a bridge to DeFi money protocols? Listen to the episode and decide for yourself! Note: David and I skipped our Big Picture chat this week to get straight to the Winklevoss convo but we're releasing our Big Picture chat in a special Bankless episode coming to you on Wednesday June 3rd! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Ramp - the fiat onramp for DeFi (mention Bankless!) Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Multis - bank your business without a bank (1 mon. trial!) ----- Resources discussed: (News) JP Morgan Banks Gemini (Article) How to Bank your Businness without a Bank ----- Episode Actions: Look at DAI trading pair on Gemini Download Bonus Bankless podcast on Wednesday! Give Bankless at 5-star review on iTunes ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #13 May 25, 2020 Argent is the closet thing we've seen to a mainstream ready bankless wallet. Is this crypto's Netscape moment? Ryan & David sit down with Itamar the co-founder of Argent to find out. Coming off a big week of releases, Itamar tells us how DeFi's almost reached parity with traditional finance, hasn't quite found product market fit in developed countries, but why he's incredibly bullish about the future. We cover: The why: Why Itamar's here Argent's ethos What makes Argent Bankless The walled garden approach The what: Why typical wallets suck Superpowers with DeFi What's holding us back What if Argent goes away? Collecting an email address Argent in Argentina The when: 1 billion users & Argent in 5 years Finding the Netscape of crypto Two things he wants from the Bankless community How soon until 1 billion users? Listen and decide for yourself. Before the episode begins we also talk about: Why if feels like 2016 again The BlockFi breach and "DeFi fixes this" ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing DYDX - trade, margin, BTC perpetuals (10% off with this link) (trade.dydx.exchange/r/bankless) ----- Resources discussed: (Article) It's 2016 again (Article) How to get your first DeFi Wallet (Argent) (Podcast) Learn about the Dai Savings Rate in Ep #9 ----- Episode Actions: Download the Argent wallet & try it! Use a money protocol on Argent (how to) Share the wallet with a crypto newbie!  ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #12 May 18, 2020 When someone gives you money how confident are you that it's really yours? That's a settlement guarantee. It operates at the base layer of our societal tech stack and usually requires law and nation-states to enforce. With crypto we have something new, we have settlement assurances. That changes everything. Protocols with higher settlement assurances are more dense. They sink to the bottom of our societal tech stack and become the foundation for everything else. This is the protocol sink thesis, that DeFi protocols with the highest settlement assurance will become the base layer..the base layer for crypto banks, commercial banks, and even nation-state banks. When enough value is locked and enough time has passed, the money protocols win. That's what the thesis predicts! Dive into the protocol sink thesis w/ Ryan & David! We cover: Settlement guarantees through time Legal system settlement & traditional finance Why protocol settlement changes everything Protocol Sink Thesis ("How DeFi Wins") Why Trusted things get built on How DeFi protocols sink Time Value Locked as the meter stick How to test the thesis The transition to long-term thinking Understanding this thesis will help you become a better crypto investor. Before the episode begins we also talk about: ETH FUTURES! Grammy-award winner RAC issues on Ethereum ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing DYDX - trade, margin, BTC perpetuals (10% off with this link) (trade.dydx.exchange/r/bankless) ----- Resources discussed: (Article) It's the Settlement Assurances Stupid (Article) Crypto-fiat: mutualistic or parasitic? (Article) Great protocol sink (How-to) How to buy $TAPE token (VIDEO) David's Settlement Assurances talk ----- Episode Actions: Watch David talk about this at Ethereal  Watch for evidence of protocol sink thesis: Crypto exchanges add DeFi protocols Trustless stablecoins like DAI taking from USDT Stablecoins issued on public chains like Ethereum More value flowing into BTC and ETH Give Bankless a 5-star review on iTunes right now! ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #11 May 11, 2020 Your savings account, your high-yield bank deposits, a CD. Can we replace these bank functions with a protocol?  Compound seems to think so. Compound is a two-sized money robot that provides borrowing and lending to create something new: interest. Learn what it does, why it's powerful, and how it's evolving as we talk with Robert Leshner. We even ask if there's a way for the community to get its hand on some Comp tokens and start shaping the future of the protocol. We cover: What you can do w/ Compound Power of programmable interest How Compound's different than: WellsFargo (traditional banks) Maker (other procotols) BlockFi (crypto banks) If crypto banks will out-compete DeFi How you can get COMP tokens Future of protocol politicians The protocol sink thesis Robert's biggest fear for DeFi How the Bankless community can help This is our final of three episodes in the "King Money Protocols Series" where we talk through the three most important DeFi protocols. Catch up on Episode 10 and Episode 9 if you missed them.    Before the episode begins we also talk about: Tron stealing our tax money What wBTC backing means for DAI ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing DYDX - trade, margin, BTC perpetuals (10% off with this link) (trade.dydx.exchange/r/bankless) ----- Resources discussed: Compound protocol - interface Dharma - build on Compound Compound governance - interface Ryan's voting record - two votes! Read: How to get a Dai savings Rate - include Compound ----- Episode Actions: Try earning interest on Compound Stay tuned for governance opportunities: Here's how Bankless plans to govern Give Bankless a 5-star review on iTunes right now! ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #10 May 4, 2020 Uniswap isn't a bank, isn't a company, isn't a website. It's a liquidity robot, an unstoppable trading layer for the bankless money system, the first of its kind. Ryan & David talk with Caleb Sheridan about using Uniswap for trade & profit, its ability to serve as a public good for the Ethereum economy, and the coming liquidity robot wars.    We cover: An explanation of Uniswap in 10 sentences What you can do on Uniswap Trading Suppling liquidity (for profit!) Listing assets Bootrapping liquidity Funding projects Why Uniswap succeeded where others failed If Uniswap is really unstoppable In what ways Uniswap is a 10x improvement The coming Liquidity Robot Wars Uniswap as an price Oracle The end game This is our second of three episodes in the "King Money Protocols Series" where we talk through the three most important DeFi protocols. Stay tuned for the final episode!   Before the episode begins we also talk about: The Coinbase Oracle The UMA token sale on Uniswap ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing DYDX - trade, margin, BTC perpetuals (10% off with this link) (trade.dydx.exchange/r/bankless) ----- Resources discussed: Uniswap Exchange Pools.fyi - check Uniswap returns Use Zap to one-click deposit to Uniswap Pool Read: How to Make Money on Uniswap  Uniswap is Infrastructure - David Hoffman Rise of the liquidity robots Constant Function Market Makers ----- Episode Actions: Try a trade on Uniswap  Become a liquidity provider on Uniswap and earn ETH ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #9 April 27, 2020 Ryan & David talk with Mariano Conti about Dai, Maker, & his epic bankless journey. Learn how Maker can help you go bankless through this conversation with Mariano. We talk: Mariano's life in midst of Argentina's capital controls Why Mariano moved from Bitcoin to DAI and Ether The components of Maker including: DAI (stability) Vault/CDP (credit) Dai Savings Rate (interest) Governance (MKR token) Centralization risks of Maker Is Maker the last say on decentralized stablecoins? What's it going to take to see 1m people into DAI? This is our first of three episodes in the "King Money Protocols Series" where we talk through the three most important DeFi protocols. Stay tuned for the next two episodes!   Before the episode begins we also talk about: The Lendfme hack & what it implies Insanity of negative oil prices!  ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Zerion - portal to your DeFi portfolio ----- Resources discussed: VIDEO: How I Survive Argentina's 50% Inflation - Mariano PODCAST: Rise of MakerDAO: A Personal Journey - Mariano Learn how Brice pays for his lunches with DAI - Bankless Follow Mariano's on Twitter  ----- Episode Actions: Check out Maker protocol How to get a DAI Savings Account - Bankless Tactic 23 Give Bankless podcast 5 stars in iTunes! ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #8 April 20, 2020 Where the rubber meets the road... this episode is all about both the mental mindset and the actual tools needed to go Bankless.    Bankless is a state of mind! It's a lifestyle centered around independence and freedom! This episode discusses the tools that you can use in your life to support that mindset and enable Bankless growth.  How to go bankless: Start with why (“goals”) Set a weekly plan (“process”) Start doing things (“implement”) Measure outcomes (“measure”) ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Zerion - portal to your DeFi portfolio ----- Episode Actions: Set goals & commit to level-up weekly Read articles: How to dollar cost average into crypto The crypto money portfolio Bankless level up guide Download Argent Wallet Set up your own ENS name Give Bankless 5 stars on iTunes ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #7 April 13, 2020 Ether has some native mechanisms that contribute to its scarcity and value. David and Ryan explore these value mechanisms and compare/contrast them with money printer go brrrr. This episode covers: 1. Scarcity mechanisms and fair games 2. Ether’s value mechanisms 3. How USD will fare vs. ETH ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Zerion - portal to your DeFi portfolio ----- Resources Mentioned: (Watch) Conway's game of life (Article) Ether is equity (Article) The Final Puzzle Piece to ETH's Monetary Policy ----- Episode Actions: Listen to previous episodes to get a firm foundation! Read these The Final Puzzle Piece to ETH's Monetary Policy Ether is equity Watch Conway's game of Life Give Bankless 5 stars on iTunes ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #6 April 6, 2020 Different Ethereum applications require different amounts of trust, depending on how each app is designed. This episode discusses how to think and measure the trustlessness of each app, and where the humans and computers meet.  ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Zerion - portal to your DeFi portfolio ----- Resources Mentioned: (Article) Ethereum will eat Wall Street (Article) Two Faces of Ethereum (Article) The Great Protocol Sink ----- Episode Actions: Give this podcast 5 stars in iTunes! Evaluate protocols on the DeFi Trust Spectrum Read these: The Two Faces of Ethereum (Article) The Great Protocol Sink (Article) ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #5 March 30, 2020 Most people identify memes are internet images with text, or reaction gifs. Memes are much more than that; they are a tool for information transmission at the largest possible scale.  Memes are little packets of data that hop from brain to brain. They can transfer data across the globe and also across time! Join David and Ryan as they explore the role that memes have in crypto, and some of cryptos best and worst memes! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Zerion - portal to your DeFi portfolio ----- Episode Actions: Subscribe to this podcast Subscribe to Bankless newsletter program Give this podcast 5 stars in iTunes! Think: do you believe the right memes? ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #4 March 23th, 2020 There are three asset "superclasses" - Store of Value - Capital Asset - Commodity Asset Join Ryan and David as they explore the boundaries between asset types, and discover where Ether lies in relation to these three classes.  Additionally, Ryan and David compare and contrast the economic and financial institutions that make up the world we know, and how they relate to these three classifications.  Links mentioned in podcast: (Article) Ether: A New Model for Money (Video) Ether: A New Model for Money ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Ethereal Summit - the most bankless crypto conference yet ----- Episode Actions: Subscribe to this podcast Subscribe to Bankless newsletter program Read the links above mentioned in podcast ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

Episode: #3 March 15th, 2020 While the internet revolution is all about data, the crypto revolution is all about value. Scaling the internet is all about scaling data bandwidth, but scaling crypto is all about economic bandwidth.  Join Ryan and David as they explore the concept of economic bandwidth and how it relates to crypto-systems. Links mentioned in podcast: (Article) Ethereum is an emergent structure (Article) ETH and BTC are economic bandwidth (Article) The trillion dollar case for ETH (Article) ETH is irreplaceable (Dashboard) Economic Bandwidth metrics ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Ethereal Summit - the most bankless crypto conference yet ----- Episode Actions: Subscribe to this podcast Subscribe to Bankless newsletter program Read the links above mentioned in podcast ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter

March 9th, 2020 Episode: #2 How did money get to where it is today? David and Ryan explore the historical progress of money, and the management of money, across time. We ask questions like "what makes good money" and "how does money get managed" and "who gets to manage money, and why" We end with a comparison of the different money management policies of each respective crypto-system, and how each system arrived at that conclusion ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Ethereal Summit - the most bankless crypto conference yet ----- Episode Actions: Subscribe to this podcast Subscribe to Bankless newsletter program Make the commitment to go more bankless ----- Subscribe to podcast on iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Feed Leave a review on iTunes Share the episode with someone you know! ----- Don't stop at the podcast! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program Visit official Bankless website for resources Follow Bankless on Twitter | YouTube Follow Ryan on Twitter Follow David on Twitter