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 - ...
Aug 14, 2020•46 min
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 - ...
Aug 12, 2020•53 min
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 tit...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 39 min
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 - ear...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 5 min
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 un...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 37 min
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! �...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 11 min
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, B...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 30 min
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...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 8 min
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...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 47 min
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 - MONET...
Jul 14, 2020•54 min
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 ...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 44 min
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! 💳 ...
Jul 07, 2020•45 min
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 v...
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 51 min
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 BANKL...
Jul 02, 2020•38 min
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...
Jun 28, 2020•1 hr 27 min
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 Coinmetric...
Jun 24, 2020•39 min
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 ne...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 28 min
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 y...
Jun 17, 2020•54 min
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 digi...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 5 min
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...
Jun 08, 2020•1 hr 40 min
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...
Jun 02, 2020•52 min
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 b...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 33 min
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 Ar...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 27 min
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...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 19 min
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 co...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 27 min
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!) Listi...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 28 min
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 decentraliz...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 26 min
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”) ----...
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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 lendi...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 18 min
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 ----- Res...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 13 min
