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Bankless

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Episodes

SotN #13 - SOBERING with Anthony Sassano (SushiSwap Founder DEFECTS, Farming 4 Gitcoin)

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: πŸ’Έ UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE NAMES FOR ETHEREUM AND CRYPTO ADDRESSES 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI πŸ’³ MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS πŸ’Έ AMPLFORTH - MONETA...

Sep 09, 2020β€’1 hr 16 min

29 - Aave to Billions | Stani Kulechov

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 πŸ’³ MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS πŸ’Έ 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 amoun...

Sep 07, 2020β€’2 hr 1 min

SOTN #12: Positioning! w/ Mariano Conti (yEARN deep dive, ETH Golden Age, ETH P/E, Sushi!)

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: πŸ’Έ 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 πŸ’³ MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA C...

Sep 02, 2020β€’1 hr 21 minβ€’Ep. 12

28 - The Bull Case for DeFi | Vance Spencer

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 ...

Aug 31, 2020β€’1 hr 50 min

AMA#2 - Antonio Juliano, Founder of dYdX

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: βš”οΈ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade ! πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet...

Aug 28, 2020β€’1 hr 12 min

SotN#11 - BUILDING w/ Raul Jordan (Eth2 Testnet Broke? L2 will Save Us! Pro-o-o-tocol Sink!)

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: βš”οΈ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade ! πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ 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! πŸ’Έ AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXP...

Aug 26, 2020β€’1 hr 44 min

27 - DeFi in the Eth2 Metropolis | Haseeb Qureshi

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...

Aug 24, 2020β€’1 hr 44 min

SotN#10 - GAMING (MONEY GAMES - YAMS NOT DED, CRV LAUNCH FAIR, MAXIMALISM GETTING DUMBER?)

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: βš”οΈ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade ! πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ 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! πŸ’Έ AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPER...

Aug 19, 2020β€’1 hr 39 min

26 - Investing in DeFi Paradigms | Charlie Noyes

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...

Aug 17, 2020β€’1 hr 39 min

AMA#1 - Kain Warwick of Synthetix

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: βš”οΈ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade ! πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes ! 🌈 AAVE - LEND & BORROW YOUR CRYP...

Aug 17, 2020β€’1 hr 2 min

SotN#9 (PART 2) - Guest: VITALIK BUTERIN on ETH SUPPLYGATE!

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: βš”οΈ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade ! πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes ! 🌈 AAVE - ...

Aug 14, 2020β€’47 min

SotN#9 (PART 1) - PROPAGATING (WTF ARE YAMS, DEX VOLUME INSANE)

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: βš”οΈ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade ! πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ POLYMARKET - BET ON CRYPTO - bet your beliefs! - use it to bet on DeFi outcomes ! 🌈 AAVE - ...

Aug 12, 2020β€’53 min

25 - YFI: Farming the Farmers | Andre Cronje

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, 2020β€’1 hr 39 min

SotN#8 - PUMPED, Introducing: $BAPs! (ETHSCAPE SHIRTS, ETH2 COMING, BULL MARKET MENTALITY)

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: βš”οΈ GODS UNCHAINED - TRADING CARD GAME - you own the cards - start a free account, play and trade ! πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ 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, 2020β€’1 hr 5 min

24 - Exploring the Frontier | Erik Voorhees

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, 2020β€’1 hr 37 min

SotN#7 - EXPLOSIVE, Special Guest: DARYL LAU (YFI TOKEN MAGIC, ETH PUMPED, DEFI RISK)

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: πŸ’Έ 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! πŸ’³ DEVERSIFI - DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE FOR PRO TRADERS - use this exchange! οΏ½...

Jul 28, 2020β€’1 hr 11 min

23 - Investing in DeFi | Joey Krug

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, 2020β€’1 hr 30 min

SoTN #6 - EXPONENTIAL, Special Guest: LUCAS CAMPBELL (DEFI TOKENS, ETH PUMPING GOOD, TOKENS VS ETH)

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: πŸ’Έ 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! πŸ’³ DEVERSIFI - DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE FOR PRO TRADERS - use this exchange! πŸ’Έ AMPLFORTH...

Jul 22, 2020β€’1 hr 10 min

22 - The People’s Narrative | Ben Hunt

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, 2020β€’1 hr 47 min

SotN#5 - HEDGED (WHERE INFLATION, CRYPTODOLLAR BAN, COINBASE IPO + SPECIAL GUEST!)

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: πŸ’Έ 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! πŸ’³ DEVERSIFI - DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE FOR PRO TRADERS - use this exchange! πŸ’Έ AMPLFORTH - MONET...

Jul 14, 2020β€’54 min

21 - Ethereum: Past, Present, Future | Vitalik Buterin

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, 2020β€’1 hr 44 min

State of the Nation #4 - HUNGRY (BUYING THE ETH NARRATIVE, $2B IN DEFI, AND THE DEFI VORTEX)

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: πŸ’Έ 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! πŸ’³ ...

Jul 07, 2020β€’45 min

20 - The Ethereum Opportunity | Chris Burniske

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, 2020β€’1 hr 51 min

SotN #3 GROWING (The Flippening is Back, India Banning China, DEXs going parabolic)

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: πŸ’Έ RAMP - FIAT ONRAMP FOR DEFI (ONRAMP $100k FREE WHEN YOU MENTION BANKLESS) https://ramp.network/ πŸ’³ MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKL...

Jul 02, 2020β€’39 min

19 - DeFi vs Banks | Hasu

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, 2020β€’1 hr 27 min

SotN #2 - CHURNING; ETH bears wrong, Venmo loves crypto, Gas fees good

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, 2020β€’39 min

18 - COMP Growth Hacking DeFi | Dan Elitzer

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, 2020β€’1 hr 28 min

SotN #1 - BULLISH; DeFi tokens, Internet-era growth, Fee v Issuance Debate

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, 2020β€’54 min

17 - A Bankless Nation (Part 1)

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, 2020β€’1 hr 5 min

16 - What's an Etherean? | Nic Carter

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, 2020β€’1 hr 40 min
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