The DeFi Daily

Pat and Amy discuss Bitcoin mining hitting 140 EH/s, Sushi managing to stay in the news, and talk about the Equilibrium project and DeFi on chains besides Ethereum.

Amy and Pat chat Bitcoin / US Market correlation, Swerve + DAO = Curve, and the Sushi rug pull. They also contemplate if DeFi is getting the same retail interest as ICO, and why or why not.

Amy and Pat talk countries getting into crypto today – Kazakhstan’s putting $700mil into mining, you can pay your Swiss taxes with BTC and ETH, and America continues their very confusing crypto regulatory environment.

Market takes a big swing to the downside – Pat and Amy discuss that, plus UMA flipping the DeFi throne (temporarily), and Eth fees are still going nuts.

Amy and Pat chat about the influx of forked meme coins, from Kimchi to Hot Dog, plus run through some twitter submitted coins, and discuss if forking is a death knell for DeFi.

Pat and Amy discuss Buffet’s big monetary move to Japan and how it impacts crypto, chat about the Bitcoin Cash fork, and go way too deep on DEXes.

Amy and Pat talk DeFi hitting $9bln TVL, Coinbase losing their trading volume crown to Uniswap for a day, and China’s getting real close to a CBDC.

Pat sort of loses his mind over a crazy price prediction from Tyler Winkelvoss, but Amy manages to wrangle him back to discuss more general crypto adoption trends.

Pat and Amy discuss the renBTC custodial situation, and spend some time on defining common DeFi terms.

Amy and Pat discuss the DeFi landscape, with TVL hitting $7bln, but the dark cloud to this parade is user growth isn’t snowballing for some of the more valuable protocols like you’d expect.