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https://multicoin.capital/2019/04/24/multicoin-investment-thesis/

https://multicoin.capital/2020/06/04/defis-invisible-asymptotes/

https://multicoin.capital/2019/10/29/exchanges-are-open-finance/

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https://solana.com/

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Welcome back to another episode of your weekly Dose of DeFi 👋

The place where we keep you, the builders and investors, up to date with all that goes on in this ecosystem!

What we cover in today's podcast:

Today we cover three very similar topics all with the undertone of tokenised ownership and how it's the best coordination tool since equity!

We start from a theoretical standpoint with an amazing write-up from Julien (Investor at Fabric Ventures). We discuss Julien's post, why we think it's interesting and our learnings from it!

Then we go deep into this topic as we consider governance challenges already emerging on decentralized finance protocols pioneering these mechanisms, such as Compound, Balancer, Curve and Ampleforth.

Links mentioned :

Julien Thevenard shared an amazing post to dive into what it means: 📖 Tokenised ownership is the best coordination tool since equity
To dive more on the governance dimensions, you can explore the Bankless post, Brice mentioned: 🔮 The Life of a Protocol Politician
💰 CurveDAO: You'll find the documentation about the Curve DAO & token here.

🌊 AMPL Geyser:

AMPL is a beast of its own. Here are some resources to help you learn more on the token and its incentivised Uniswap pool (the Geyser).

Official AMPL Basics Introduction
Another introduction to AMPL
Official AMPL Geyser Documentation
1.85 Million deposits in a week

Tools: AMPL Rebalance Calculator, Zapper.fi (can be used to get into the Geyser, you still have to stake the pool tokens manually)

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Founder & CEO of Bison Trails, Joe Lallouz and I sit down and discuss all things blockchain infrastructure & product!

What we cover in today's podcast:

Joe's background and the funny story as to how he got into the blockchain space
His Angel investing career - "I'm a pretty strong believer that you shouldn't be an advisor unless you invest in a company"
How Bison Trails is helping more people & companies get access to protocols and the technical decisions they've made to make this possible
The unique product challenges Bison Trails faces as a blockchain infrastructure company
Joe's approach to customer development
What slashing is & how Bison Trails helps validators avoid getting slashed
Joe's advice for other product founders in the blockchain space

What's Bison Trails? - Bison Trails is the easiest way to run secure node infrastructure on multiple blockchains. Their platform provides enterprise-grade security, multi-cloud / multi-region distribution, and a 99.9% platform uptime guarantee.

Want to launch a staking node, voting node, storage node, private node, baking node, encode node or relay node? You can do this on Bison Trails!

Links mentioned:

Website - https://bisontrails.co/

Bison Trails -https://twitter.com/BisonTrails

Joe Lallouz Twitter - https://twitter.com/JoeLallouz

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Links mentioned:

Compound Token Distribution 📈:

Great summary on Compound($COMP) token distribution,
Expanding Compound Governance,
The Compound Protocol Belongs to the Community

Curve.fi APR & Volumes Exploding 🚀:

Curve Finance Twitter,
BTC Farming Ren, Curve, Synthetix,
Curve.fi Website

Smart Wallet Market Analysis 🔎:

Smart Wallet: New Paradigm for Blockchain Account System

Additional Mentions :

Amazing Synthetix x UMA founders discussion hosted by Marc from Aave,
Bancor Attack,
Top DeFi Podcasts of 2020️
Maximize $COMP Mining

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Links mentioned:

Covalent Launches SafeKeep 🔑:

Tweetstorm for launch - https://twitter.com/gane5h/status/1270084861877841920?s=20
Safe Keep Website - https://safekeep.app/
Blogpost announcing the lanch - https://www.covalenthq.com/blog/10-multiple-ethereum-wallet-support-safekeep-launch/

Rari Capital Helps You Chase Yields 💸:

What is Rari Capital? - https://medium.com/rari-capital/what-is-rari-capital-8a96b9e02032
How To Make Money With Dai? - https://medium.com/rari-capital/how-to-make-money-with-your-dai-5a3d5218b144
Comparing and Contrasting Lending Protocols - https://medium.com/rari-capital/comparing-and-contrasting-lending-protocols-717cff88c7ec

EIP 1559 Analysis 📄:

Analysis of EIP-1559 - https://insights.deribit.com/market-research/analysis-of-eip-1559/
Wallet Visualisation - https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1266029370910662656

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Topic 1: Trustless Stablecoins, after DAI?

sUSD usage picked up (-> Curve Pool)
RAI (MetaCoin/Reflexer) & iDOL (Lien.Finance): no over-collateralization + governance minimised
Lien.Finance: 2 synthetic assets to "crystalise" inertia (SBT) and volatility (LBT)
MetaCoin - uses Reflex Bonds to deliver a "more stable" version of ETH then used as collateral for a stablecoin (RAI)

Topic 2: BTC on Ethereum?

https://btconethereum.com/ - Dashboard
wBTC picks up traction (1000 BTC eq minted by a whale) - usable as collateral in Maker since May 03.
tBTC launches & then shuts down (relaunching soon)
wBTC picks up traction (1000 BTC eq minted by a whale)
RenBTC? + Curve.fi Pool (with wBTC) BTC++ on Katana

Topic 3: UNISWAP v2 & DeRisking DeFi: Guarded Launches

Risk Management is a Killer Feature
Guarded Launches: Protecting Users with Limits
Examples - Maker, Compound & Uniswap

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Links mentioned:

SKALE Labs website >>> https://skale.network/

Chadwick's Spotify Page :) >>> https://spoti.fi/2ypbsRa

Chadwick's post on ETH2.0 >>> https://skale.network/blog/ethereum-2-0-simplified/

Christine’s post on Layer 2 Migration >>> https://skale.network/blog/migrating-to-layer-2-using-a-phased-approach

Chadwick's Recommendation >>> https://newmodels.io/

Chadwick's ETHBoston talk - Running EVM Solidity on SKALE >>> https://youtu.be/4AIrcs__Cek

How you can get involved:

SKALE Innovator Program >>> https://skale.network/innovators-signup

SKALE’s Github >>> https://github.com/skalenetwork

SKALE’s Sgxwallet >>> https://github.com/skalenetwork/sgxwallet

SKALE’s BFT consensus >>> https://github.com/skalenetwork/skale-consensus

SKALE’s libBLS >>> https://github.com/skalenetwork/libBLS

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Argent:

Website >>> https://www.argent.xyz/
Itamar's Ethereal Talk >>> https://youtu.be/Hc_YrEOAOR4
Argent Tweetstorm >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts/status/1174765294910353410?s=20

Hosts:

TokenBrice >>> http://tokenbrice.xyz/
Abel >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts
Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/

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Links mentioned:

Topic 1 (Aave): - Aave website >>> https://aave.com/ - Aave Ethereal Announcement >>> https://youtu.be/TvAAFscZ4Ag - Great Summary of News From Defi Rate >>> https://defirate.com/aave-lend-governance/

Topic 2 (GasToken): - GasToken(GST2) website >>> https://gastoken.io/ - Video Explanation of GasToken >>> https://youtu.be/1N6yLcqss2Q - Github >>> https://github.com/projectchicago/gastoken

Topic 3 (DeFi Events Recap): - DeFi Discussions >>> https://defi-discussions.dystopialabs.com/ - Ready Layer One >>> https://readylayer.one/ - Ethereal Summit >>> https://www.etherealsummit.com/

Additional Links: - Article from TokenBrice >>> https://tokenbrice.xyz/posts/2020/great-defi-filter/ - DeFi Panel, The Layerization of Decentralised Finance: Synthetic Assets, Futures, Options: What's Next? >>> https://youtu.be/WllCpM8ki5o

Hosts: - TokenBrice >>> http://tokenbrice.xyz/ - Abel >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts - Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/ - Our mDeFi Panel >>> https://twitter.com/monolith_web3/status/1250424425540771848

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Links:

Topic 1:

https://twitter.com/hegicoptions/status/1253937104666742787?s=21
https://twitter.com/dguido/status/1254260710470815744
https://discordapp.com/invite/B4kjkgv

Topic 2:

https://twitter.com/PoolTogether_/status/1253025782735220742
https://defirate.com/pooltogether-pods/
https://decrypt.co/26636/pooltogether-odds-winning-crypto-no-loss-lottery-just-got-better

Topic 3:

https://twitter.com/AdamScochran/status/1255332313241706498
https://twitter.com/AdamScochran/status/1250938829449674752

Hosts:

TokenBrice >>> http://tokenbrice.xyz/
Abel >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts
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Our mDeFi Panel >>> https://twitter.com/monolith_web3/status/1250424425540771848

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Links mentioned in the podcast:

Fireblocks >>> https://www.fireblocks.com/

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win >>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Successful-Strategies/dp/0989200507

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets >>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Play-Bigger-Dreamers-Innovators-Dominate/dp/0062407619

Masters Of Scale - Escape the competition - Peter Thiel, Co-founder & CEO of PayPal >>> https://mastersofscale.com/peter-thiel-escape-the-competition/

About this episode: PayPal's Peter Thiel knows: Your goal isn’t to beat the competition — it’s to escape the competition altogether. Thiel is a former colleague, frequent co-investor and long-time intellectual sparring partner with Host Reid Hoffman. Enjoy the sparks.

Masters Of Scale - Look Sideways - Diane Greene, Co-founder & Former CEO of VMware >>> https://mastersofscale.com/diane-greene-look-sideways/

About this episode: Cloud computing pioneer Diane Greene knows: You don’t need a scaleable idea from day one. You might not know what your product will look like, or how you’ll get to market, or how you’ll make money. It's OK. The most scalable ideas often come at you sideways.

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

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Links:Topic 1:

DeFi SDK: Making Money Lego Work >>> https://blog.zerion.io/defi-sdk-making-money-lego-work-1dc08b8982cf
DeFi SDK GitHub >>> https://github.com/zeriontech/defi-sdk
Reach out to Zerion team on discord >>> https://discordapp.com/invite/B4kjkgv

Topic 2:

A Summary of the Attack on Lendf.Me on April 19, 2020 >>> https://medium.com/dforcenet/a-summary-of-the-attack-on-lendf-me-on-april-19-2020-e2f1c5d96640
Good breakdown on twitter from @FrankResearcher >>> https://twitter.com/FrankResearcher/status/1251771278719098886

Topic 3:

Balancer >>> https://balancer.finance/
ELI5: What is Balancer Labs? >>> https://medium.com/token-terminal/eli5-what-is-balancer-labs-16c8cfe092d9
Katana Pools >>> https://katanapools.com/
Katana Pools Explained >>> https://blog.bancor.network/user-generated-liquidity-pools-new-self-service-portal-for-creating-on-chain-amms-71a5bac1177

0x Protocol >>> https://0x.org/

Uniswap >>> https://uniswap.org/

Events:

https://readylayer.one/ >>> May 4-6th 2020
https://hackathon.money/ >>> Starts April 24th
https://www.etherealsummit.com/ >>> 7 - 8 May 2020

Community:

Maker - https://github.com/makerdao/community

Synthetix - https://www.synthetix.io/community/

Compound - https://compound.finance/discord

Aave - https://discordapp.com/invite/AnSqnvV

Hosts:

TokenBrice >>> https://twitter.com/TokenBrice
Abel >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts
Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/
Monolith >>> https://monolith.xyz/
Our mDeFi Panel >>> https://twitter.com/monolith_web3/status/1250424425540771848

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DeFi needs better primitives — that is to say, DeFi needs better base-monies!

Just as HTTP and FTP were the primitive building blocks of the web, today’s decentralized assets, BTC and ETH, are the primitive building blocks of the new DeFi economy.

These assets can be arranged to construct instruments for lending, debt, synthetic equities, and more. But today their limitations lie in their volatility and high correlation to one another — hence the requirement for extreme over-collateralization and the looming risk of auto-liquidation.

Join Evan Kuo and I as we speak about this in today's episode!

Links mentioned in the podcast :

Website >>> https://www.ampleforth.org/

Ampleforth Twitter >>> https://twitter.com/ampleforthorg

Defi Needs Better Primitives Blogpost >>> https://medium.com/ampleforth/defi-needs-better-primitives-6402c633b799

Telegram >>> https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@AmpleforthOrg

My Twitter >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts

Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/

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We're back :)

Here are some of the links mentioned in the podcast:

Hackathon >>> https://consensyshealth.com/covid-19/

More info on Hackathon >>> https://soundcloud.com/healthunchained/ep-58-healthcare-industry-revolution-heather-flannery-ceo-consensys-health

TokenBrice >>> https://twitter.com/tokenbrice?lang=en-gb

mDeFi >>> https://www.meetup.com/monolith/

Monolith >>> https://monolith.xyz/

Our mDeFi Panel >>> https://twitter.com/monolith_web3/status/1250424425540771848

My Twitter >>> https://twitter.com/AbelsAbstracts

Our Newsletter >>> http://abelsabstracts.substack.com/

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Covid-19, Financial Market Meltdown & another Crypto Crisis

It's been an interesting past few weeks, in this podcast we reflect on all that's happened so far!

In this episode, we discuss:

Some thoughts on Covid-19
Thoughts on the recent Financial Market Meltdown
Crypto Crisis, what happened + potential new episodes on MakerDAO

Relevant links discussed:

Covid-19https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY

https://sites.google.com/view/sourcescorona

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP2rTwJDhic

Let's stay in touch :)

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What's it like building a new blockchain from scratch? Well, that's exactly what you'll find out in today's podcast!

In this episode, we discuss:

What Near Protocol is + how it works
The lessons Sasha and the team at Near learned along the way
What the Open Web Collective is and how it works

Relevant links discussed:

https://nearprotocol.com/
Product teams - https://openwebcollective.com/
Developers - https://nearprotocol.com/developers/
Developers - https://docs.nearprotocol.com/
Discord - http://near.chat/
Sasha's twitter - https://twitter.com/aliaksandrh?lang=en

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The 8th largest decentralised finance protocol has been attacked!

In this episode, we discuss:

What bZx, Fulcrum, Margin Trading + Flash loans are
Exploit 1 + 2 of the bZx protocol
What product and protocol teams can learn from this exploit

Timestamp to skip if you're already familiar with bZx, Fulcrum, Margin Trading + Flash loans: 05:09

Relevant links discussed:

https://ethtrust.org/
https://mythx.io/
https://samczsun.com/taking-undercollateralized-loans-for-fun-and-for-profit/
Julien Bouteloup's Twitter thread with a breakdown of what happened (Exploit 1) - https://twitter.com/bneiluj/status/1228757175595438080?s=20
https://medium.com/@1inch.exchange/yes-we-hacked-bzx-fulcrum-but-one-month-ago-3f7e5c437ee3
https://medium.com/@peckshield/bzx-hack-analysis-exposes-challenging-defi-inherent-composable-liquidity-risks-e3e1c623b7bd
https://etherscan.io/txs/label/bzx-exploit
Larry Cermak's Twitter thread with a breakdown of what happened (Exploit 2) - https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1229671232456593408
https://bzx.network/blog/postmortem-ethdenver

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For Today's EP here we’re going to cover:

A few Event Updates
Product Launches
Crypto/DeFi Ecosystem Updates

Event Updates:

ETHDenver 2020 - Denver, CO - February 14-16

https://www.ethdenver.com/
https://www.cobizmag.com/Trends/A-Practical-Guide-to-ETH-Denver-2020/

ETHLondon 2020 - London, UK - February 28th - March 1st

https://ethlondon.com/
https://twitter.com/ETHLondonUK

Product Launches:

Activate Launch - https://activate.codefi.network/
https://codefi.consensys.net/blog/proof-of-use-activating-networks-through-encoded-participation
https://codefi.consensys.net/blog/activate-token-launch-standards
SKALE - https://skale.network/
https://skale.network/whitepaper

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Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the very first Episode of Abel's Abstracts!

Thank you so much for taking the time to listen :)

What is this about:

This is a podcast dedicated to exploring the world of Blockchain and Decentralized finance (DeFi)

Who is this for?

If you're part of a product team (Developer, Designer, Product Manager) and you're aiming to build a protocol or product in the blockchain space or are just curious to learn and stay up to date with all the amazing things that go on in this space, this is for you!

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