In what we believe is an industry first, the Cover insurance program for DeFi is paying out after the Pickle hack. Plus, Pat and Amy ponder if Coinbase crashing yesterday heralds the start of the official bull run, OkEx says they will start with Transfers (Pat is skeptical), and Cronje has a new project coming […]
Tag: Coinbase
Oct 9th, 2020: DeFi Crashing, But We Still Believe
DeFi is having a tough week, with both a price crash and the exit (or not…) of Andre Cronje. Pat and Amy also talk about the 60 Coinbase engineers that have opted into the exit package, and Square’s continued big bet on crypto.
Oct 2nd, 2020: Is Crypto Catching Coronavirus?
Markets take a hit as Trump gets Coronavirus, Pat still can’t understand why Coinbase made any statement at all (even as their employees are taking them up on the severance), and some technical mumbo-jumbo about Ethereum front running.
Sept 30th, 2020: Coinbase Takes a Stance by Refusing to Take a Stance
Amy and Pat breakdown Coinbase’s weirdly political stance to not take a political stance, talk about China’s continued foray into DeFi, and Pat makes an incredibly bold non-prediction that DeFi is both a bubble and a force to be reckoned with. If Coinbase can take a non-sensical, contradictory stance, by god, so can Pat.
Sept 18th, 2020: UNI Dropping In on Ya
The UNI airdrop is the big news this week, Pat and Amy go deep on it, plus talk BurgerSwap, BNB, and hot damn, Ethereum hit 1.4 million transactions, that’s a lotta sushi.
August 31st, 2020: Coinbase Gets Uniswapped
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.