*Disclaimer: not advice. See more below.* As we get closer to Mirror v2, Columbus 5, Pylon, Nebula, and Ozone, more and more details are dropping! This week, the focus was on Ozone, including airdrop details. The Ozone proposal is public at https://agora.terra.money/t/ozone-insurance-mechanism-v2/914 This week also saw a surge in LUNA coverage in crypto media! Some of the articles mentioned include: The CoinMarketCap piece at https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/luna-bound-exploring-the-...
May 03, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 29
*Disclaimer: not advice. See more below.* Evan and Pete are live, answering FUD and questions from KSI and other community members! Huge Thailand bank joins Terra; upcoming content and releases; and a summary of what sets UST apart from USDT and USDC! Rough timestamps: 1:30 Luna Loot 2:53 Answering the Supply FUD 6:17 What was the FUD? 18:23 Siam Commercial Bank 25:36 KSI asks about UST 41:00 Ledger and Hackathon Content 49:25 What Terra Needs Most 54:11 Main Changes for Columbus-5 56:45...
May 01, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 28
*Disclaimer: not advice. See more below.* What a week for the Terra ecosystem! New dev videos, numerous article drops, Mirror v2 very soon, Crypto.com listing, Alpha Homora, the King of Thailand, O3 token for Anchor insurance, and so much more... Sign up for the upcoming Terra hackathon at https://eventornado.com/event/defi-connected - everyone welcome! Join the new Terra Bites Pod Telegram channel for exclusive AMA insider chats every Friday! https://t.me/TheTerraBitesPod *** Stay up to date wi...
Apr 26, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 27
*Disclaimer: not advice. See more below* Tom Norwood, Co-Founder and CEO of Loop, joins Pete and Evan to talk about Loop's marketplace app ( https://loop.do ) and DEX ( https://loop.markets ). Featuring crypto payments, DoorDash Drive delivery, and Solana and Ethereum tokens! Join the new Terra Bites Pod Telegram channel for exclusive AMA insider chats every Friday! https://t.me/TheTerraBitesPod *** Stay up to date with Terra Bites, the place to get news, interviews, and explainers on the Terra ...
Apr 26, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 26
*Disclaimer: not advice. See more below.* $10 billion of liquidations as Bitcoin dives. Hope you're keeping those positions safe! Otherwise, a fantastic news week. - Pylon fundraising protocol announced, using aUST - Automatic bridges to UST using Curve, bringing easy deposits of USDT and more to Anchor - Mirror v2 coming, with governance improvements - Nebula in audit - Stablecoin insurance info coming in a week Sign up for the upcoming Terra hackathon at https://eventornado.com/event/defi-conn...
Apr 18, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 25
*Disclaimer: not advice. See more below* Pete and Evan are live with all the latest and greatest news around the Terra ecosystem. Coinbase stock coming to Mirror. Are Binance Stocks a competitor? What is Pylon? Why does Mirror need more assets, and how can we make that happen? And more! Join the new Terra Bites Pod Telegram channel for exclusive AMA insider chats every Friday! https://t.me/TheTerraBitesPod *** Stay up to date with Terra Bites, the place to get news, interviews, and explainers ...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 24
*Disclaimer: not advice. See more disclaimer below.* A whole constellation of new projects to keep an eye on! Plus, more listings, Coinbase and mCoin, stablecoin worries, and more! Join the new Terra Bites Pod Telegram channel for exclusive AMA insider chats every Friday! https://t.me/TheTerraBitesPod Watch the YouTube video to see all the mentioned diagrams and concept screenshots: https://youtu.be/egzTyXiobOE *** Stay up to date with Terra Bites, the place to get news, interviews, and explain...
Apr 10, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 23
*Disclaimer: not advice. See more disclaimer below.* Chai in Vietnam. Kash bringing all Terra products to emerging markets. Delphi, IDEO, and Terra team up for a DeFi Hackathon. This and more in this week's news! Join the new Terra Bites Pod Telegram channel at https://t.me/TheTerraBitesPod Watch the full video from the Erica Show, quoted at the start and end of this episode, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wW0csbse88 See the Harpoon Protocol video at https://twitter.com/harpoonprotocol/stat...
Apr 03, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 22
*Disclaimer: not advice. See more below* ETFs! This is a huge addition to Terra. Pete calls from Egypt to walk us through (barely having time to finish before his Internet cuts out). Then, we talk payments, Anchor Protocol, and more, and answer some questions from the live chat. *** Stay up to date with Terra Bites, the place to get news, interviews, and explainers on the Terra DeFi Crypto Ecosystem. Reach out to [email protected] or @TerraBitesPod on Telegram. Vote for the Terra Bites validator...
Apr 02, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 21
*Disclaimer: not advice. See more disclaimer below.* As I was finishing this video, I heard Do announce that Terra was in conversation with Prime Trust to bring fiat to UST onramps in 6 currencies! We'll have a discussion video about this soon, but I did manage to drop in the sound bite! See the full original video the start sound bite is from on A11 Crypto's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2186&v=LEGDIoK6o-8 In the meantime, check out the other great signs of ecosystem grow...
Mar 25, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 20
*Disclaimer: not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Do Kwon, CEO of Terraform Labs, joins the show! We talk about Anchor, Chai, upcoming projects, the music notes, insurance, the Bank of Thailand and regulation, and more... Plus a solid community livestream Q&A afterwards. The Lunarian dashboard concept mentioned is at https://twitter.com/_0x_larry/status/1373888438852812803?s=21 The helpful chart of Anchor’s mechanics mentioned is used for our episode here: https://youtu.be/YAAk9ytKMtc **...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 19
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Engage with Anchor Protocol at app.anchorprotocol.com! Of course the Anchor release is this week's major news, but there's more too: - Pay With Terra - Thai Central Bank notices THT - Mirror Wallet adds credit card buys of UST - Massive Korean company Naver invests with Hashed, a backer of Terraform Labs - Arrington XRP Capital report on Anchor *** Stay up to date with Terra Bites, the place to get news, interviews, and explain...
Mar 19, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 18
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Welcome back to Terra Bites! We built some home studios today and are starting up the cameras, and you should join us for the DropAnchor livestream Wednesday morning (that's tomorrow) at 7:00am UTC! The stream will be on our channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsAHWZ2obmWYM71otvEvEhA Today we talk about Anchor Protocol's crazy interest rate of 20% APY and how that's possible, a couple of tidbits on who we are, and the g...
Mar 16, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 17
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Great article drops this week! We read a post on Terra and Mirror by lead Ethereum content producer Ryan Sean Adams (RSA) of the Bankless podcast. Read the article and follow the mentioned links at https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-trade-synthetic-stocks Plus, read the interview with Do Kwon, "A Deep Dive into Terra and Anchor: The Reliable Savings Protocol," at https://blog.coinlist.co/a-deep-dive-into-terra-and-ancho...
Mar 12, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 16
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Today's News Bite turned mostly into a chat about Anchor! We talk more about: - how Anchor adds a final puzzle piece to supercharge the crypto CDP model pioneered by Maker, Aave, Compound, etc. - urgent : why & how to stake to get Anchor tokens in the upcoming airdrop, especially if your LUNA is stuck on some platform (here's looking at you, Voyager) - the security audit work going on now and why it's essential - why you mi...
Mar 11, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 15
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Polkadot, Solana, Cosmos, Terra, and later Ethereum 2.0... all coming to one amazing protocol! When is Anchor coming? What are bAssets, and how does borrowing and lending power a stable interest rate? Plus, what's coming next for Terra Bites? This and more in today's deep dive discussion! *** We regularly discuss developments in the Terra DeFi ecosystem, as it revolutionizes finance for people and businesses around the world. G...
Mar 07, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 14
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Another packed week for Terra! Billionaire buys, Harvard Business Review, Anchor milestone, Spar demo video, and more! Mentioned links: - Do's thread on the HBR article and Anchor: https://twitter.com/d0h0k1/status/1366218257976360961 - tbarrett's thread on big YouTubers mentioning Terra: https://twitter.com/tbarrett/status/1366802465069301763 - Spar Protocol monthly update and demo: https://twitter.com/spar_protocol/status/136...
Mar 04, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 13
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Meme contest winners! Anchor Protocol rates insane? Anchor airdrop is coming soon! Loterra dropping on testnet! Plus, what are these LUNA oracle seigniorage rewards about? This and more today as we discuss the latest from the Terra DeFi ecosystem, as it revolutionizes finance for people and businesses around the world. *** Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TerraBitesPod or reach out to @TerraBitesPod on Telegram. To s...
Mar 03, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 12
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Today we've got popular crypto fund manager, web designer, and YouTube content maker Menno Pietersen on the show. We talk about the experience of the crypto markets from 2016 to today – ICOs, euphoria, crypto winter, fundamentals vs. hype – and where we might go from here. Then, Menno tells us why he's so excited about Terra, and the kinds of things he believes can take it to the next level! *** Menno's managed fund on Iconomi,...
Mar 01, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 11
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* **News for 19 February - 25 February 2021** Featuring: - Mark Cuban?! - Mirror vs. Synthetix vs. Robinhood - More LUNA Staking Rewards! - A Bite on Slashing - All the Cosmos Chains - Beautiful Saturn.Money Demo ...and more! *** Stay up to date with Terra Bites, the place to get news, interviews, and explainers on the Terra DeFi Crypto Ecosystem. Reach out to [email protected] and join the community discussion at https://agora.t...
Feb 25, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 10
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* One of the most active validators in the Terra ecosystem, Smart Stake, is coming on the show today! In this exclusive interview, we learn about BigB's projects and why he's so excited about Terra and active with analytics tools and news and statistics posts on Twitter. Then, we discuss the upcoming Mirror Analytics Dashboard, community validators, slashing, the LUNA supply question, "user farming" with the open source Mirror Wa...
Feb 22, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 9
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* **News for 11 February - 18 February 2021** Featuring: - Who the F#!K is Alice? - Saturn.Money. Burning improvements again! 10X staking rewards for LUNA stakers! - Stargate offers IBC and more to Cosmos-based chains, including Terra - View the video on interacting with the Terra blockchain using Python at https://twitter.com/3william5chen/status/1361456280921985024. - Read Do's post about Terraform Labs priorities for Q1 2021 i...
Feb 18, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 8
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Mastercard! First, they announce that they're enabling cryptocurrencies on their networks. That's not crypto to fiat, folks, that's direct use of crypto! But Mastercard didn't mention *which* cryptocurrencies. Do Kwon, co-founder of Terraform Labs and Twitter poster extraordinaire, mentioned a Chai and Mastercard partnership back in July... Is UST, backed by LUNA, going even more global with Mastercard? Let's speculate! This an...
Feb 17, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 7
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* **News for 3 February - 10 February 2021. Yet another massive week for crypto!** Tesla buys Bitcoin, markets move, and LUNA continues to rampage. New Alice Finance concept teases a debit card. Mirror protocols consolidated into "Mirror v2." More details about the Anchor token, which is coming to LUNA stakers. And more! Stay up to date with Terra Bites, the place to get news, interviews, and explainers on the Terra DeFi Crypto E...
Feb 11, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 6
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Everyone's talking about Anchor Protocol. When is the token drop? Who gets it? What does it do? Plus, more LUNA is burning, and pumping! How does the UST minting machine work, and how does it relate to the LUNA supply? This and more today as Panterra0x is back to team up on the latest discussions on the Terra DeFi ecosystem as it revolutionizes finance for people and businesses around the world. Subscribe to Terra Bites to keep...
Feb 10, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 5
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* **News for 27 January - 3 February 2021. Another massive week for crypto!** Markets move up, and LUNA and MIR outdo most of them as their market caps surge. Balaji tweets about Mirror, and the Coinbase Blog drops a mention, all against a backdrop of overall positive news for cryptocurrency. Except for that possible India thing, but hey, we've got to have *some* FUD. See step-by-step instructions for the Mask/mTSLA promotion at ...
Feb 03, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 4
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* The WallStreetBets and GameStop saga has been an incredible ride, and it has a lot of people asking: is there a better way to get exposure to stocks? A place where Robinhood can't just shut off my ability to buy? A platform where I can buy and sell 24/7? Mirror Protocol is a user-controlled DeFi platform that's been adding stocks rapidly and is built on Terra's Cosmos/Tendermint blockchain. Users can earn yields by providing li...
Feb 01, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 3
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* Novogratz, Coinbase, and Pantera invest in Terra, and Bloomberg publishes it! Proposals on improving efficiency and creating money markets! Big pump for LUNA and MIR! Stay up to date with Terra Bites, the place to get news, interviews, and explainers on the Terra DeFi Crypto Ecosystem. Reach out to [email protected] and join the community discussion at agora.terra.money and forum.mirror.finance. Learn more at terra.money, ancho...
Jan 27, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 2
*Disclaimer: Terra Bites is not advice. Read more disclaimer below.* A successful payments app, a powerful financial synthetics platform, a savings protocol, and a complete stablecoin solution. Terra reached early adoption in 2020; what is it poised to do in 2021? This inaugural episode of Terra Bites surveys what Terraform Labs has accomplished in 2020 and what both they and the broader community are bringing in 2021. Learn more at terra.money and mirror.finance . Or, reach out at hello@terrabi...
Jan 22, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 1
