Grant was joined by the dYmension team to discuss what RollApps are?! Yup, that is not a typo. We delved into what the current limitations are with all L1s and how application-specific chains can implement the dYmensions stack to increase capacity, latency, throughput and much much more. Learn more - https://twitter.com/dYmensionXYZ Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for ...
Sep 27, 2022•59 min
We three idiots sat down and covered the latest updates in the market. Some talking points were The Wintermute hack, zk next narrative, Ethereum proof of stake, Gensler and ETH in US jurisdiction, Wombat Exchange, HXRO Updates and much more. Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing in the crypto space, and front-running information you ca...
Sep 21, 2022•54 min
I was lucky enough to be joined by the Y2K team who is currently building on Arbitrum. The product itself allows users to hedge against pegged asset risk in DeFi. This is something not seen before in DeFi and could have resulted in a lot of people not getting completely wiped out by the likes of UST. This was a fascinating discussion and it is really cool to see such novel products being built in this space. Kudos. Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news S...
Sep 19, 2022•31 min
PART 2 of 2: Noah Seidman runs a YouTube channel that has become part of my weekly routine over the past 12-18 months. Noah's perspective on the markets is typically counter to that of the masses and this has allowed him to build a yield-generating portfolio that pays cold hard cash every single week. Learn how you can construct such a portfolio by visiting his channel and listening to his words of wisdom. I have personally learnt a lot from this conversation, Ben is on fire this episode and the...
Sep 14, 2022•52 min
PART 1 of 2: Noah Seidman runs a YouTube channel that has become part of my weekly routine over the past 12-18 months. Noah's perspective on the markets is typically counter to that of the masses and this has allowed him to build a yield-generating portfolio that pays cold hard cash every single week. Learn how you can construct such a portfolio by visiting his channel and listening to his words of wisdom. I have personally learnt a lot from this conversation, Ben is on fire this episode and the...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Grant, Jedi and Dan spoke about their thesis and predictions going into the merge. We discussed why LARPs exist and their role in the ecosystem. What we believe the next narrative could be and the likes of Manifold Finance, Handle Finance and Hxro Network. Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing in the crypto space, and front-running inf...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Jedi and Dan spoke about a large variety of topics including the $LUNAC rip, the upcoming Zebu Live Conference that we will be attending in London, Why is this bear market so ripe with builders and what happens to Ethereum miners post-merge? Handle Finance and much more... Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing in the crypto space, and ...
Sep 08, 2022•41 min
In today's Friday episode, Jedi gives Dan some life advice about not fading his own advice, and a look into the strength and unstoppable power behind ATOM and MATIC. and Dan shares his story shorting MATIC before full send. Plus more from Pelosi, Jim Cramer, J Powell and Arbitrum turns on the turbo boosters as its Nitro upgrade goes live. Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal pick...
Sep 03, 2022•45 min
Grant, Jedi and Dan discuss THAT Vitalik photo, the recent pump and are the bulls back, Has Bitcoin failed its narrative(s), Good Dog tokens, Lyra Finance and the Crypto options markets. I'll give the funniest comment some magic internet beans... Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing in the crypto space, and front-running information you cannot find anywhere else. https://blocmates.substack.com/ Past episodes you ...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Jedi has a chat with Matt about the Metis ecosystem. The past, present and what is coming that could pave the way for governance and community participation perhaps for all ecosystems. We also look at the gamification aspect of how to maximise returns on all aspects of what Metis has to offer. Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing in the crypto space, and front-running information you cannot find anywhere else. ht...
Sep 02, 2022•50 min
Grant is joined by Trading Tulips and The Aerarium Fi team to discuss the future of their project. We talked about Metis and their $100m ecosystem grant, the future of cross-chain and how the Aerarium revenue model works. Small Cap Scientist dropped by too you can check out his podcast Market Capping in the links below, it is one of our favourites. Market Capping - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxc... Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the we...
Aug 28, 2022•54 min
Grant, Jedi, and Dan discuss how people can best position themselves for the Arbitrum Airdrop. What is happening with the ETH BTC Chart? Sudo Rare Rugs for $800k. Sam Trabucco steps down from Alameda Research as FTX ventures and Alameda join forces... There is a lot more so enjoy! Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing in the crypto space, and front-running information you cannot find anywhere else. https://blocmat...
Aug 27, 2022•48 min
Sign up to THE APE ENCLOSURE below - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing in the crypto space, and front-running information you cannot find anywhere else. https://blocmates.substack.com/ Grant, Jedi, and Dan sat down and discussed all things Metis. What does this Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution offer that other L2s don't? We dug into some emerging projects over there, DACs, The Metis ecosystem grant, and more. We also discussed the macro env...
Aug 23, 2022•55 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Beat the market with our front-running newsletter. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocmates-newsletter Jedi and Dan chat about market uncertainty, is the merge a strong enough tail wind? Why tornado cash are developers being arrested. Is code free speech? When is the bounce coming? Past episodes you may also enjoy are: Our interview with GMX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SVLXm-gjgk&t=1s Our interview with Hxr...
Aug 23, 2022•49 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Beat the market with our front-running newsletter. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocm... Grant and Jedi sat down with Alex the CEO of Umami Finance. This is one of our favourite protocols in the full game. Their new USDC vault which hedges GLP exposure to be close to delta-neutral earns depositors 20% APR. Remember UST? Well, this is nothing like that. Umami finance coined the term #RealYield and is changing the way...
Aug 17, 2022•48 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Beat the market with our front-running newsletter. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocm... Grant, Jedi and Dan talk about Sudoswap and XMON. How to use Sudoswap? Adding NFTs as liquidity and more. What is the fair value for the HXRO token? What price will ETH be after the merge? Why is Bitcoin looking tired? Is the merge narrative still strong? Past episodes you may also enjoy are: Our interview with Messi: https://ww...
Aug 17, 2022•48 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Beat the market with our front-running newsletter. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocmates-newsletter Grant, Jedi and Dan go through all the latest crypto, web3 and DeFi news from this week including How did Curve get hacked? Is USDC blacklisted? Is your USDC Safe? Will Maker and DAI become a non-stablecoin? BlackRock offers Bitcoin Spot to Customers. Will other Wall Street Firms join them? Past episodes you may also...
Aug 12, 2022•48 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Our top picks of the week, chad of the day and front running alpha all FOR FREE. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocm... Grant and Dan break down the USDC drama and how blacklisting is a slippery slope for any centralised stablecoin. Tornado Cash is being sanctioned by the US after claims that North Korea is using the protocol to evade sanctions. We take a look at some small-cap charts and take a guess where ETH is he...
Aug 10, 2022•53 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Our top picks of the week, chad of the day and front running alpha all FOR FREE. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocm... A Capy Named Ben joins Jedi to discuss the latest developments in the crypto and DeFi space. You can follow Ben on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ubenjammin2 - Hopefully, we can convince him to join us more often as he actually knows what he is talking about. Past episodes you may also enjoy are: Ou...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Our top picks of the week, chad of the day and front running alpha all FOR FREE. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocm... Grant, Jedi and Dan are back again talking a load of rubbish about the crypto, DeFi and Web3 space. We take a look at some charts, some lower cap projects. We take a look at what happened to the Slope wallet hack on Solana, Michael Saylor steps down, entangle protocol and more. Past episodes you may...
Aug 10, 2022•51 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Our top picks of the week, chad of the day and front running alpha all FOR FREE. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocm... Grant and Jedi are joined by John and Nick from AvaLabs to discuss the Core Wallet and its user-friendly features. We discussed GameFi and the need for ease of use and how that will attract the next 100m users to this space. Will the next 1000x project come from the GameFi space? Will they be deploy...
Aug 10, 2022•41 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Our top picks of the week, chad of the day and front running alpha all FOR FREE. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocmates-newsletter Grant, Jedi and Dan are back again talking a load of rubbish about the crypto, DeFi and Web3 space. We take a look at some charts, some lower caps projects that we like and also explore the Nomad Bridge hack and what the downstream effects of $150m being drained is. Past episodes you may...
Aug 03, 2022•52 min•Ep. 181
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Our top picks of the week, chad of the day and front running alpha all FOR FREE. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocmates-newsletter Grant and Jedi are joined by John and Nick from AvaLabs to discuss the Core Wallet and its user-friendly features. We discussed GameFi and the need for ease of use and how that will attract the next 100m users to this space. Will the next 1000x project come from the GameFi space? Will th...
Aug 03, 2022•41 min
Our top altcoin picks of the week, chad of the day, front-running alpha and airdrops to watch out for are all FOR FREE in The Catch-Up - Our almost-daily newsletter. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocmates-newsletter Grant is joined by Coinflipcanada from GMX to discuss how the past year has been for one of our favourite protocols. We discussed the Real Yield movement, #passiveincome and why this is only the beginning for the GMX and GLP token. Hopefully th...
Aug 02, 2022•49 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Our top picks of the week, chad of the day and front running alpha all FOR FREE. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocmates-newsletter Grant and Jedi are joined by their good friend Gunny from Hxro to discuss how he got his start in trading, raising money from SBF and the next evolution of on-chain derivatives Hxro Network. We look at the HXRO token and its economics, and what the value accrual might look like. On a per...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter - Our top picks of the week, chad of the day and front running alpha all FOR FREE. The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocmates-newsletter Grant sits down with Stephen the Calculator Guy to discuss all their favourite areas of this space, how he got his crew and how they defined their edge with one of the best Discords in the whole space. I encourage you all to check out the DeFi Dojo Discord which you can access below: The...
Jul 27, 2022•48 min•Ep. 20
Sign up to our FREE weekly newsletter The Catch Up through the link below, where we release all our alpha tips for the coming week: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocmates-newsletter Grant and Jedi speak with the Chainge Finance, Fusion and AnySwap Co-founder DJ Qian about mobile-first DeFi. We get into the developments happening at Chainge Finance and how that affects the $CHNG token, having over $70bn in aggregated liquidity and what the future holds. DJ also tells us a crazy story of encryp...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Grant chats to Thyborg about how best to play the Cosmos Ecosystem and all the emerging and existing projects that are building over there. We discuss the Collapse of Terra, LUNA and UST and how this creates an opportunity for other Cosmos ecosystem chains to provide a home and community for those affected. There is constant wisdom that comes out of Thyborg's mouth and I encourage anyone interested in the ATOM and Cosmos to go follow him (link below): https://twitter.com/Thyborg_ https://datastu...
Jul 23, 2022•47 min
Sign up to our FREE weekly newsletter The Catch Up through the link below: https://mailchi.mp/857f84b13460/blocm... Grant and Dan try to figure out which crypto projects Nancy Pelosi would shill. Polygon announces zkEVM. Coinbase Employee charged for insider trading. Su Zhu files for $5m from 3AC. Kyle Davies Wife receives a $65m loan from 3AC. Thanks to our Sponsor Hxro Network. Go check them out below: Website - https://www.hxro.network/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/hxronetwork blocmates link...
Jul 23, 2022•1 hr
We are joined by one of our favourite players in this space, the man himself Messi. As always we will go in to how he got his start, what motivates him now and how to define your edge in this space. blocmates links - https://www.patreon.com/blocmates Personal telegram - @blocmates Personal Discord - blocmates # 0001 Discord Community - https://discord.gg/blocmates Telegram - https://t.me/+UtYbMzXmlhb6R4Xd #DeFi #Crypto #Bitcoin #LUNA --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/po...
Apr 07, 2022•2 hr 35 min
