Author: miko
DeFi JavaScript Smart Contracts with Agoric
Talk with Dean Tribble CEO of Agoric Timestamps 0:00 Welcome 1:19 History of Agoric 2:06 The First Smart Contracts 3:20 What is a Smart Contract? 4:51 Code is Law 6:04 Automated Economy 8:53 Coordination of Economic Activity 11:35 Pluggable Governance 14:10 Sex 16:41 Recombinant Money Legos 24:11 Zero Knowledge 28:39 Smart Contracts in JavaScript 33:01…
DeFi Opium Decentralized Derivatives Exchange
opium is a long running and exciting Derivatives exchange. Learn more from founder and CEO of Opium and get two announcements about the new Insurance products! 0:00 introduction 1:53 How Opium Started 3:43 Why switch from CeFi to DeFi 9:09 Announcing Insurance Products 15:41 Where can users buy Opium Insurance 16:47 What if Tether Collapses?…
NFTs with CoinFund’s Jake Brukhman
Index: 1) Timing and Exponential growth of NFTs Art, Collectibles, Games, Financial Assets: history going back to “rare Pepes” and timing https://youtu.be/dZKyRPxXG4w?t=97 2) Art could be a breakthrough for non-blockchain mass adoption. Non-technical and non-blockchain artists are joining and making a full-time living https://youtu.be/dZKyRPxXG4w?t=252 3) Coinfund’s investment thesis around NFT–liquid Intellectual Property: the wholesale migration…
DeFi both Institutional and Retail
Great conversation with Aya Kantorovich from FalconX. Discussion of the state of regulation, CeFi vs DeFi, BitMex, AML, AMM, liquidity etc. * DeFi opening finance and democratizing market accessibility for retail * CEX, DEX, or the same? Crypto juggling labels and what it means for traders. * Liquidity! Centralized and decentralized, what differentiates AMMs (Automated…
DeFi OUSD Origin Protocol Yield Stable Coin
A discussion with Josh Fraser who is a founder of Origin Protocol. Origin has launched oUSD which is a stable coin with very interesting properties. Video Index: 1) How did Origin and OUSD get started? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=104 2) How does OUSD work? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=299 3) Can the OUSD balance also go down? https://youtu.be/JUF32K4pC6U?t=403 4) How does gas…
DeFi Yield Farming with Joshua Lapidus
A fun discussion about pickle and a number of other DeFi projects and the state of Yield Farming. As you know, ETH gas prices are down and it seems that there is a decreased amount of yield farming going on. He is @JSLapidus on twitter, please check him out! He’s working on a cool project…
DeFi on Tezos with the Tezos Founders
Video Index: 1) Arthur Breitman shares his origin story of Tezos https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=85 2) Kathleen Breitman shares her origin story https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=206 3) Arthur: Tezos as “Coordination Mechanism” for Open Source governance https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=347 4) Governance and Fair Funding of Open Source https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=507 5) Miko: “Loot Drama” has existed since before the Bronze Age https://youtu.be/yWavH6ocGC8?t=660 6) The DAO…
DeFi: How do YFI Vaults work? Mark Jeffrey Explains
YFI is one of the dominant DeFi protocols. Mark Jeffrey was early into YFI and has deconstructed the inner workings of the YFI vaults. He explains this and much more about YFI governance and culture.
DeFi How to bridge Bitcoin on Ethereum Blockchain with RenBTC
Interview with RenBTC
DeFi: Synthetix Derivatives: Meet $SNX Founder Kain Warwick
In this video I interview Kain Warwick the founder of Synthetix. TimeStamps 0:00 Welcome 1:49 Announcing Synthetix on Chainlink 7:23 Derivatives on Synthetix 8:35 DEX Volumes 9:21 SNX, Product or Protocol? 11:33 Decentralization Maximalism 13:49 Optimism and Roll-ups 16:29 Implementation of Optimism 17:40 Smart Contract Audits 20:25 DeFi Insurance 23:15 Mainstream Adoption 26:31 Governance 29:10…