10 - Going Bankless with Uniswap | Caleb Sheridan
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Episode: #10
May 4, 2020
Uniswap isn't a bank, isn't a company, isn't a website. It's a liquidity robot, an unstoppable trading layer for the bankless money system, the first of its kind. Ryan & David talk with Caleb Sheridan about using Uniswap for trade & profit, its ability to serve as a public good for the Ethereum economy, and the coming liquidity robot wars.
We cover:
- An explanation of Uniswap in 10 sentences
- What you can do on Uniswap
- Trading
- Suppling liquidity (for profit!)
- Listing assets
- Bootrapping liquidity
- Funding projects
- Why Uniswap succeeded where others failed
- If Uniswap is really unstoppable
- In what ways Uniswap is a 10x improvement
- The coming Liquidity Robot Wars
- Uniswap as an price Oracle
- The end game
- The Coinbase Oracle
- The UMA token sale on Uniswap
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Resources discussed:
- Uniswap Exchange
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- Use Zap to one-click deposit to Uniswap Pool
- Read:
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Episode Actions:
- Try a trade on Uniswap
- Become a liquidity provider on Uniswap and earn ETH
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance. |
| 0:19.0 | This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front run the opportunity. |
| 0:23.0 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm here once again with David Hoffman |
| 0:26.0 | and we're here to help you become more bankless. |
| 0:30.0 | David, we have a fantastic episode. |
| 0:32.8 | This is our second in a series where we're tackling the top three D-5 protocols. |
| 0:38.2 | This is how to go bankless with UNISWOP. |
| 0:41.8 | What are we going to cover, cover David and why is it important? |
| 0:45.1 | We are going to cover the complete scope of the UNISWOP protocol which is not a small feat. While UNISwop is very simple, the UNISwop rabbit hole goes very, very deep. |
| 0:58.0 | There's a lot of layers to UNISwop that it goes beneath the surface and we're going to peel back all of those layers and explore all of them in this episode. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah, this is going to be fantastic. |
| 1:08.8 | UNASWAP is cool because it is one of the most decentralized defy applications on that |
| 1:15.1 | defi trust spectrum that we've talked about in previous episodes. |
| 1:19.2 | Uniswap is not a bank, it is not a company, it's not a user interface. |
| 1:24.0 | This is a protocol, it lives completely on Ethereum, completely on chain, |
| 1:28.0 | and the possibilities that it brings into the open finance |
| 1:32.8 | Ethereum economy are incredible. |
| 1:36.0 | And we're going to dive into all of them. |
| 1:38.0 | But before we do want to take a minute |
| 1:40.4 | to talk about our fantastic sponsors. The first one is for our US |
| 1:44.9 | listeners primarily so if you have an IRA or a 401k a retirement account |
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