Alex Mashinsky (Celsius) returns – Unbank Yourself again!
Alex Mashinsky is the CEO and founder of Celsius, the platform that lets you earn interest on your crypto and use it as collateral to get fiat loans. Celsius offers a platform of curated services that have been abandoned by big banks – fair interest, zero fees, and fast transactions. Their goal is to disrupt the financial industry, one user at a time, and introduce financial freedom through crypto.
Meme Power – MemeFarm is bringing the memes to NFTs & DeFi
Mark Berisha is the CEO of APECoin and the MemeFarm and BustAbnb ecosystems. APECoin embraces the humor and viral nature of memes to bring new participants into crypto. Apecoin is developing a game called “Bust-a-BNB” for Binance Smart Chain (BSC). An airdrop will occur for existing APE holders on March 14. GO APE!
Techemy Capital launches DeFi ETP on Balancer
Techemy Capital has launched decentralized Exchange-Traded Portfolios (ETPs) on Balancer, starting with a DeFi ETP. We’re joined by Techemy Capital CEO Fran Strajnar and Balancer CEO Fernando Martinelli who discuss why these ETPs are a potential game-changer, how to invest, and what this means for DeFi.
Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov on how DeFi goes mainstream
Sergey Nazarov is the co-founder of Chainlink. In this podcast, Sergey lays out his current thinking on DeFi (Decentralized Finance), how it improves on CeFi, the role of oracles in decentralized finance, and the fast and slow cases on what is needed for DeFi to go mainstream. Sergey says “decentralized finance is the thing that people want. They just don't know that they want it yet.”
The transition to digital currencies and decentralized finance is accelerating
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a number of pre-existing trends, including remote work, home-schooling, the transition to digital currency, and the adoption of crypto trading.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos – Why decentralized protocols are a force for good
The legendary Bitcoin evangelist, educator and advocate Andreas M. Antonopoulos returns for his second appearance on the Crypto Conversation. Topics of discussion include the Ledger data breach, crypto security, the proposed new FinCEN regulations, techno-optimism, and why decentralized blockchains are a source of hope.
The new solutions solving DeFi’s liquidity problem
The 2020 DeFi boom has ushered in a new wave of decentralized finance applications while the yield farming phenomenon has provided new solutions to the liquidity problem
Identifying key Non-Financial risks in Decentralized Finance on the Ethereum Blockchain
Decentralized Finance applications have experienced exponential growth in 2020 with a boom in the value of DeFi tokens and their protocols. The value of DeFi locked in the Ethereum blockchain grew from $4 in August 2017, to $14.37B at the end of November 2020. Some popular DeFi applications include lending, stablecoins, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), derivatives, synthetic assets, insurance, and asset management.
Defi Lego connects as Yearn Finance announces five mergers in a week
Yearn Finance has strengthened its position in the DeFi ecosystem with the announcement of a series of new mergers and acquisitions
VeriTX chooses Algorand for aerospace digital supply chain
Leveraging 3D printing and blockchain tech to deliver on-demand aircraft parts, VeriTX plans to build a digital supply chain for aircraft parts using the Algorand blockchain.
Waves Association to distribute 1 Million WAVES in grants to boost ecosystem development
Waves Association, the non-profit organization that supports the Waves blockchain ecosystem has launched a new grant program with 1 million WAVES tokens
Bitcoin Bull Run – Targeting 20K by January
Josh Olszewicz is a professional crypto trader and analyst. In this episode, Josh explains why he thinks a Bitcoin price target of $20K by January is reasonable. Plus Josh gives his views on DeFi, Monero, and his new crypto analysis YouTube channel for Brave New Coin.
Smart Pools – Balancer is Uber for liquidity pools
Fernando Martinelli is the founder and CEO of Balancer, an automated asset management platform for programmable liquidity. Balancer allows anyone to create public or private liquidity pools for up to 8 assets with customizable weighting.
DeFi’s DEX Aggregator – 1inch finds the best rates by splitting orders across multiple DEXes
Anton Bukov is the co-founder and CTO of the 1inch exchange. 1inch is a DEX aggregator that executes a swap of tokens at the best price in one single transaction. Anton is a software developer with more than 15 years experience.
Radix integrates Chainlink Oracles
Radix is integrating with Chainlink’s oracles to provide Radix developers with high-quality market data to build DeFi apps such as financial derivatives and lending products.
Launch Notice of The BNC-BTSE DeFi Index
Brave New Coin is launching the BNC-BTSE DeFi Index (BBDX) according to the initial constituent weights attached.
