Category: DeFi First Looks
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Volatility’s Best Friend: VOLT #05
Designed to generate returns in volatile market conditions while offering protection on deposited principal. Combines yields from lending (interest payments) and tail risk protection from volatility products (options) into a single, powerful DeFi product. Performs best in rising interest rate and high volatility environments.
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Everything Wrong With The Degen Trilogy
The Degen Trilogy is a 3-part interactive film series featuring the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Apecoin communities. In today’s Hot Stuff, director Robin Schmidt dissects everything wrong with the first part
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META ditches Novi – is the Web 3 dream over?
FACEBOOK FOUNDER MARK ZUCKERBERG DUMPS CRYPTO screeches the headline from the Mail Online. META IS PULLING THE PLUG ON ITS CRYPTO PAYMENTS WALLET burps Tech Crunch. Yes, Novi, Meta’s crypto wallet is now No pulse, dead, kaput, finito. Yet more evidence of the artist formerly known as Facebook’s ham-fisted attempts to co-opt the values of […]
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The Ngrave Is the Most Secure Hardware Wallet Ever Made. But Is It Any Good?
NGRAVE have made what they claim is the most secure hardware wallet ever made. The only financial product to be rated EAL7. This is our review.
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APEFEST, AMY SCHUMER AND THE LATEST MEGA MUTANT IS REVEALED
We are at Apefest. How are people reacting to the Bored Ape Nazi Club video? What did Amy Schumer do to piss off the BAYC? Coming up in this week’s Hot Stuff.
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Coinbase Dumps 18% of staff, 3AC on the rocks
Another day another dump. And more bad news as the true picture of just how few clothes our beloved Emperors truly had. After Celsius now it’s Coinbase and 3 arrows capital to face the painful unveiling of their nether regions. Brian Armstrong painfully acknowledging massive layoffs and Su Zhu tacitly acknowledging that, yes, there is […]
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Three Metaverse Stories – Merit Circle, Grit, and We Are All Going to Die
In this week’s Hot Stuff we’re covering three metaverse stories
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Binance Under the Spotlight
When the bear market bites the knives come out and it’s been telling how much savage critique we’ve witnessed right across the board. From VC’s being flogged for selling assets at the bottom to influencers being outed for all the wrongdoings they may or may not have talked about on Telegram. Nate Chastain arrested and […]
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Have sex. Get paid. Move to earn is officially topped… (narf narf)
SEXN: web 3.0 sexual app that implements the sex-to-earn concept. SEXN is designed to give users two of the indispensable things that humans love most: sex and money.”
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Catalog is the Deadpool of DEX’s
Catalog is a secure, decentralized platform that makes it easy to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more.
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Stablecoin Wars, Where Is the Smart Money Going?
After UST’s fall, we are starting to see a shift in preference between stablecoins. In this video we take a look into where the big players are allocating their capital.
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Update: UST & LUNA Crash Harder, 8000 ETH Moved by Azuki?
It’s been less than 24 hours and things have changed, for the worse. UST went as low as 22 cents, Luna goes under 1 dollar, Do Kwon announced a recovery plan, and team Azuki is on the move.
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BendDAO Degen Strategy – Franklin’s Big Bet
Bend is a decentralized non-custodial NFT-backed borrowing and lending protocol where users can participate as depositors or borrowers. Depositors provide ETH liquidity to the lending pool to earn a passive income, while borrowers are able to borrow ETH through lending pool using NFTs as collateral instantly.
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Justin Sun’s Us Double D – Is It Too Hot?
“The @usddnetwork will provide custody service for the $10B worth of highly liquid assets raised from blockchain industry initiators and use them as an early-stage reserve.”
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Red Hot DeFi Opportunity | 67% APY on Mars Protocol
Mars is a credit protocol for the future: non-custodial, open-source, transparent, algorithmic and community-governed.
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$Silo – The Hottest Defi Opportunity in the World Right Now
Welcome. It has come to my attention that you out there, you want more actionable intel. More alpha. Well, you’ve been heard. The show you used to know as First Look has now been transmogrified into a fire-breathing monster of a… okay, not really. We decided we’d rather cover more projects in one go, or […]
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Head to Head Refik Anadol || a Defiant SPECIAL
4:00 pm CEST, 10:00 am EST we go live with someone that is, and this is NOT a stretch to say, one of the leading digital artists in the world right now. Any ideas? One things for sure, this man eats data for breakfast.
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Move2earn – Is Stepn the Future of Crypto Powered Fitness?
Stepn is a web 3 lifestyle app with social-fi and game-fi elements. Players can make handsome earnings by walking, jogging, or running outdoors
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Testnet Turbo Booster – DeFiLlama Token Faucet
Token Faucet is a list of token contracts deployed on all testnets with deterministic addresses. Anyone can mint tokens from these contracts or create new tokens easily.
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Aave V3 launched: Higher Borrowing Power, Cross Chain Txns, & Improved Risk Management
The Aave Protocol is decentralised non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can participate as suppliers, borrowers or liquidators. Suppliers provide liquidity to a market and can earn interest on the crypto assets provided, while borrowers are able to borrow in an overcollateralized fashion. Borrowers can also engage in one-block borrow transactions (”flash loans”), which do not […]
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Arctic Money, the Birth of Crypto
The Defiant team are on tour! We have wandered to the winter wonderland of Svalbard way up in the Artic circle. But this Northern settlement has far more to it than meets the eye and in its history, dwells a rich self sustaining economy, one that is very reminiscent of our beloved DeFi.
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Moverdao – A Metaverse Debit Card for Everyone. But How?
Metacard is the first metaverse savings card. It is an NFT card that is metaverse-ready, comes with automated DeFi Savings, and a crypto debit card.
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XDeFi – The Last Wallet You’ll Ever Need?
XDEFI Wallet is a cross-chain wallet extension. You can store, send and receive all your digital assets from a single place.
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The Future of Passive Income? Nebula, From Terra
Today we are diving into Nebula Protocol. Is this the future of passive investing? It could well be, and also could easily not be, but that’s what we are here to find out. But if Nebula does what it says on the tin, it could be the holy grail of crypto investing.
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Is This the NFT/DeFi Crossover We’ve All Been Waiting For? Idols stETH Bond $VIRTUE
The Idols is a collection of 10,000 unique NFTs living on the Ethereum blockchain. Similar to other projects, Idol NFTs will serve as a proof of membership to a special community (The Idolverse). Unlike a standard NFT mint, no ETH raised from The Offering will be paid to the founding team. 100% of funds raised […]
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Leverage Just Got Sexy | Gearbox Protocol
Gearbox Protocol allows anyone to get leverage in a decentralized way and use it across various other protocols in a composable way: margin trading, leverage farming, and more.
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Lens Protocol – The Metaverse’s First True Social Layer
Lens Protocol is a new attempt at creating a decentralized Web3 social graph reimagining the way we connect through social networking. Rather than requiring apps to onboard users and scale as more join it devolves that process to the network itself and simply asks app developers to build on top of the user base. The […]
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Are We Unfairly Ignoring Harmony (ONE)?
Harmony is a sharded PoS smart contract platform. It also happens to be Robin’s first blockchain employer so he knows a little bit about it. It’s been growing an increasingly muscular TVL in DeFi thanks largely to DeFi Kingdoms, a gameified farming platform built around NFTs and the $JEWEL token. In this episode we take […]
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Did India Just Legalise Crypto? Unpacking the Digital Rupee
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Cardano’s SundaeSwap Dex is Here. Does It Work? | Sundaeswap First Look
SundaeSwap is a Decentralized Trading Protocol on Cardano. It’s a native, scalable decentralized exchange and automated liquidity provision protocol.