The blocmates Podcast

We are back, Dans Mum is working out in the other room bicep curling tins of beans with the girls!   Whilst in today's episode we talk about the potential that Bitcoin DeFi aka BTC-Fi has and the projects building on Bitcoins layer 2, stacks. Plus a look at the Hermes v2 upgrade and why it's a hidden gem, Optimism's super chain thesis AND Tapioca DAOs beta goes live with a potentially HUGE oTAP (options TAP) airdrop coming.  Join 4,169 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week.   👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/danblocmates https://twitter.com/theapeenclosure Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

An Interview With Maia DAO | Who is Maia DAO? Maia DAO is the epitome of what DeFi should be in terms of governance, and being multi-faceted in every regard. There really is nothing these guys are not capable of doing. Listen in on the multiple layers they have built around their project.   Jedi interviewed the Maia DAO team to better understand how they are managing Maia and empowering their community to tap into value across the board. From owning a DEX, to maximising yields and spreading their wings to Arbitrum.  Follow the team on socials here: https://linktr.ee/maiadao blocmates articles on Maia DAO https://blocmates.com/blogmates/what-is-maia-dao-a-complete-guide/ https://blocmates.com/blogmates/what-is-hermes-a-complete-guide/ Join 4,000 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week.   👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/byChadManDan https://twitter.com/theapeenclosure Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

The boys are back for the weekly catch-up after another wild week in the markets. The big news today is Coinbase goes DeFi with Base.  How does Coinbase elevate itself with Base. Arbitrum taking a beating and are public sales a good thing?  Link to Grant's threadoooor  30 Projects under $50m market cap that have a strong narrative or upcoming catalysts https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom/status/1627901945917632519?s=20 LSD's  https://blocmates.com/blogmates/what-are-liquid-staking-derivatives-a-comparative-overview/ Gearbox and Lido AMA https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom/status/1628640498209665024 Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news.  Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter digging into a big topic, the latest hot crypto news, the charts and industry secrets happening across the blockchain you won't find anywhere else.  👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/byChadManDan https://twitter.com/theapeenclosure Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant sat down with the Gearbox Protocol to discuss their novel leverage protocol. The "undercollateralized" word is banned at Gearbox as it is somewhat taboo in the industry given a lot of projects that failed to implement this. Gearbox isn't that though. It is an innovative way for users to gain margin and leverage exposure to a variety of different DeFi yield strategies including Curve finance, Yearn Finance, Lido and more.   Join 4,000 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week.   👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/byChadManDan https://twitter.com/theapeenclosure Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

An interview with Smilee Finance - A new project launching on Arbitrum soon.    Join 4,000 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week.   👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/byChadManDan https://twitter.com/theapeenclosure Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant is still MIA on a beach somewhere whilst Jedi experiences trading PTSD and Dan is still in mums basement.  The blur air drop printed millionaires but how will Arbitrums airdrop outshine Blur and Optimism? China is getting bullish on crypto with the recent blockchain research center + Hong Kong will soon make retail trading easier we discuss the up-and-coming zk narrative with zkSYNC and Matic.  Plus...Do Kwon...the SEC are still after him.  Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news.  Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter digging into a big topic, the latest hot crypto news, the charts and industry secrets happening across the blockchain you won't find anywhere else.  👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/danblocmates Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ ***************************************************************** Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Jedi had a conversation with Kurapika, co-founder of Factor DAO.  Factor aims to democratise & decentralise asset management. It will allow DeFi participants to gain exposure to relatively risk-averse strategies potentially, and more importantly, an opportunity to handpick a strategy based on their liking – from a host of innovative and interesting options. Tume in to find out how they plan on doing this.  https://twitter.com/Kurapika_DAO https://twitter.com/FactorDAO https://linktr.ee/factor.fi Join 3,500 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week.   👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/byChadManDan https://twitter.com/theapeenclosure Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant sat down with Danku_r (https://twitter.com/danku_r) to discuss a whole load of topics including becoming a multichain validator provider in the Cosmos Ecosystem, lessons learnt in the Terra Luna (UST and LUNA collapse), Content creation with ethics and the path to being a sovereign individual.   Join 3,500 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week.   👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/byChadManDan https://twitter.com/theapeenclosure Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant sat down with The Llamas (https://twitter.com/WenLlama) to discuss their upcoming mint and how this NFT meets DeFi project is going to revolutionise how the treasuries from mint projects will put their capital to use.    Join 3,500 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week.   👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/byChadManDan https://twitter.com/theapeenclosure Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant sat down with Sreeram Kannanthe founder of Eigen Layer. Eigen Layer is a highly anticipated infrastructure layer on top of Ethereum which allows users who stake their ETH to Restake through the Eigen layer to earn additional rewards. This additional yield will be generated from leveraging the security of Ethereum to lend trust to other infrastructure projects.   Sreeram https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan https://www.eigenlayer.com/ https://twitter.com/eigenlayer Join 3,500 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week.   👉 blocmates.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👈  Join the official Ape Enclosure telegram news channel to keep up to date 👉 https://t.me/theapeenclosure 👈  🏋️ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blocmatesdotcom https://twitter.com/jediblocmates https://twitter.com/byChadManDan https://twitter.com/theapeenclosure Join us in Discord: 🦧 https://discord.gg/blocmates Here's our Patreon: 🏋️ https://www.patreon.com/blocmates   and online at: 🦧 https://blocmates.com/ Note: This is simply for entertainment purposes. Nothing in this video is financial advice as we are simply commenting on what is going on in the markets and the world. Do your own research--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message