Defised: Recent Episodes
Shanif Dhanani and James Uzzalino
We discuss the latest happenings in the world of crypto. From NFTs, to DAOs, to our favorite tokens, you‘ll learn about the latest trends and happenings and stay up to date in the world‘s new, crypto-led economy.
James and Shanif go over the de-pegging of UST and the subsequent downfall of LUNA. The unusual mechanism by which UST was pegged to the dollar, combined with the way it was tightly linked to LUNA, previously the 8th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, led to a massive crash in both.
In this episode, James and Shanif discuss the recent hacks that stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crypto from the Axie Infinity game and the Beanstalk DeFi network.
James and Shanif go over the upcoming Ethereum merge and how the future of Ethereum might shape up.
James and Shanif analyze each of the key bullet points from the recent cryptocurrency executive order. Follow along with each bullet point on the page shown below:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/09/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-on-ensuring-responsible-innovation-in-digital-assets/
James and Shanif go over downturns in crypto, asset allocation, inflation, and general investing
James and Shanif go over privacy on the blockchain. Topics include:
- How public and private keys work on the blockchain
- Use cases for privacy-specific blockchains
- New privacy techniques that coins are using to obfuscate data
- Privacy-specific coins
James and Shanif dive deeper into DAOs, DeFi, NFTs, the creator economy, and privacy infrastructure.
James and Shanif discuss how they think of crypto when it comes to investing. They discuss how to prepare for the inevitable volatility that comes with crypto, trading vs. investing, diversification, and asset allocation.
In this podcast, James and Shanif go over the original cryptocurrency: Bitcoin. They discuss its origins, its key benefits, whether it's a currency or store of value, and they debunk several common misconceptions. The conversation gets intense but it's all fun and provides a lot of good information about the first crypto.
In this podcast, James and Shanif highlight some of their favorite crypto tools and services across various exchanges, wallets, services to exchange tokens, tax assistants, and mining software.
In this podcast, James and Shanif lighten things up a bit and go over some of their favorite coins. They talk about what they are, why they're excited, and what are some of the risks. Included in this podcast:
- Solana (SOL)
- Avalanche (AVAX)
- Blockstack (STX)
- Cardano (ADA)
- Algorand (ALGO)
- Eternal (ETERNAL)
- Binance Smart Chain (BSC and BNB)
- Decentraland (MANA)
- IOTEXT (IOTX)
James and Shanif discuss network scaling, congestion, and fees. They go over how Ether can scale going forward, what Level 2 solutions are doing, how sharding, rollups, and sidechains work, and some of their favorite approaches in the market today.
Topics that we cover:
- Ethereum gas fees - what they are and how they work
- How EIP-1559 helps improve fee predictability
- How Ethereum 2.0 is working on improving the situation
- Rollups and sidechains
- Layer 2 solutions
- Polkadot
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James and Shanif talk about how cryptocurrency is enabling decentralized finance. They dive deeper into lending, borrowing, and staking, touch on Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake, and talk about some of the projects that they're most excited about.
James and Shanif talk about DAOs and their impact on the future of work, finance, and philanthropy.
James and Shanif what's going on in the world of NFTs, including what they are, how they're being used, and what we're excited about in the future.