STATE OF THE NATION #14 - Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....FUNding It that time of year....GITCOIN TIME!!! Every quarter, 4 times a year, Gitcoin Grants rolls around. This is one of the few times where the money in your wallet means 10x more than it used to... IF... AND ONLY IF.... you donate to your favorite DeFi and Ethereum infrastructure.  We bring on Kevin Owocki, el presidente of Gitcoin, to discuss the role of Gitcoin in funding the DeFi ecosystem and the technology behind funding public goods.  -----  GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE NAMES FOR ETHEREUM AND CRYPTO ADDRESSES 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI  💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS  💸 AAVE - BORROWING AND LENDING DIGITAL ASSETS ON ETHEREUM - DID SOMEONE SAY YIELD FARMING?? ------ STATE OF THE NATION #14 - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....FUNding Special Guest...Kevin Owocki @owocki on Twitter TOPICS: GITCOIN with Kevin Owocki 1) Gitcoin Round 7... START 2) This round is different... WE'RE IN A BULL MARKET 3) DeFi protocol, DeFi farms, DeFi teams are SENDING GITCOIN $$$  4) Gitcoin is out of the shadow of Consensys, the EF 5) Decentralized Identity, Sybil Resistance of Gitcoin StableCredit USD 1) Bankless Video was helpful... still need more help in understanding Andre Conje's new StableCredit USD system 2) Aave + Maker + Uniswap + Synethix = StableCredit USD (?) 3) Yearn needs a place to park its capital; it filled all the other protocols 4) Contracts done, UI soon BTC and ETH are the crypto monies that matter MicroStrategy Buys $175M More in Bitcoin, Upping BTC Holdings to $425M Bitcoin’s prisoners dilemma  ETH just passed BTC on total value transferred and that’s huge Fake DeFi doesn’t cut it (CeDeFi) Binance Smart-Contract Chain https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684900933/Binance-Smart-Chain-Launches-Today 100m fund Binance Block Explorer https://bscscan.com/ Token Sets Introducing the DeFi Pulse Index on TokenSets | by Anthony Sassano | Set Labs | Sep, 2020 ----- Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter  Follow Ryan on Twitter  Follow David on Twitter Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.

STATE OF THE NATION #13 - Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....SOBERING! No, we haven't rewritten the laws of the universe, things are still the same... Follow Anthony on Twitter! -----  GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS: 💸 UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS - HUMAN READABLE NAMES FOR ETHEREUM AND CRYPTO ADDRESSES 🌈 ZAPPER - ULTIMATE HUB FOR DEFI - ZAP INTO DEFI  💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS  💸 AMPLFORTH - MONETARY EXPERIMENT FOR BASE MONEY  ------ STATE OF THE NATION #13 - Tuesday, September 8, 2020 The State of the Bankless Nation is....SOBERING! Special Guest...Anthony Sassano @sassal0x on Twitter TOPICS: 1) SushiSwap Founder dumping all his Sushi; defecting from the protocol 2) The newest wave of ETH 2 killers is here 3) Protocols directing funds to Gitcoin for Gitcoin Grants: BULLISH for ETHEREUM ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1) Aave Founder Stani on the Bankless Pod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b76HL0jFctQ&t=938s 2) AMA with Loopring's Matt Finestone on THURSDAY 3) Tactic coming out on the Bankless Newsletter: How to get Yield SAFELY. Subscribe! https://bankless.substack.com/ We show: 1) Sushi Founder Market-Dumps Sushi 2) Ameen Soleimani post-mortem twitter thread 3) Sushi Founder: "I'm a good guy" 5) Kevin Owocki submits 1% YAM treasury to Gitcoin proposal 6) Andre with the DUNK: 7) David puts the final nail in the coffin 8) BASED now giving Gitcoin 2%! --- ACTION ITEMS: 1) READ: Sushi's Sin of Betrayal: https://bankless.substack.com/p/sushis-sin-of-betrayal-market-monday 2) READ: How to use yEarn to maximize yield https://bankless.substack.com/p/how-to-leverage-yearn-to-maximize 3) Subscribe to Catch SOTN LIVE every Tuesday at 10am EST (2pm UTC) https://www.youtube.com/c/bankless ----- Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter  Follow Ryan on Twitter  Follow David on Twitter Follow DeFi Dad on Twitter  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case.