State of the Nation #4 - HUNGRY (BUYING THE ETH NARRATIVE, $2B IN DEFI, AND THE DEFI VORTEX)
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🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
STATE OF THE NATION #4 - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
The State of the Bankless Nation is....HUNGRY! The bankless boys discuss why.
Plus a special guest...Luke Martin from VentureCoinist!
Watch the video here.
Covered:
- Is ETH a good narrative investment?
- What $2B locked in DeFi means
- The DeFi Vortex!
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We show:
1) DeFi Pulse hits $2 billion!
https://defipulse.com/
2) The DeFi Vortex
https://twitter.com/paulsalis/status/1278920299136741378
3) Ethereum's tech tree
https://bankless.substack.com/p/ethereums-tree-of-life-market-monday-34c
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Episode Actions:
1) Look at $2B on DeFi pulse!
https://defipulse.com/
2) Think: what are the next crypto narratives?
3) Watch for David's article on Bankless tomorrow! https://bankless.substack.com/
Also...subscribe to Bankless YouTube to watch State of the Nation every Tuesday!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to episode |
| 0:15.0 | to episode four of State of the Nation. |
| 0:18.6 | State of the Nation is every Tuesday episode |
| 0:21.6 | that David and I talk about what's happening. We relate it to big picture stuff, |
| 0:26.2 | the things that are going on in the bank list community in the bank list nation, |
| 0:30.5 | and we hope to drop some insights and action items every single week. |
| 0:35.0 | David, how are you doing sir? |
| 0:37.0 | I'm doing absolutely fantastic. |
| 0:39.0 | Really stepping up the YouTube game with his brand new sexy graphics that you guys see on the screen. |
| 0:44.8 | This is just a video recording, but soon it will become a live stream. |
| 0:49.0 | Really stepping up the Bankless YouTube channel. |
| 0:51.4 | David is now a certified video DJ at least he's going to night school for it so we're |
| 0:56.0 | excited to see his skills and if it's a little choppy you know who to blame. |
| 1:00.3 | Wow I'm just getting I just get it. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm just kidding. It's going to be great. |
| 1:06.0 | So, okay, so every Tuesday we release this on YouTube and then it comes out on the podcast on Wednesday. |
| 1:12.0 | And actually today we are super excited to have a special guest. |
| 1:16.5 | We're not going to tell you who it is yet. |
| 1:18.3 | We'll get to that in a few minutes but I think you are going to be excited as well. |
| 1:23.0 | But David, we should talk about what's going on in the main podcast too because it's an exciting month already. |
| 1:29.0 | We just finished a podcast with Chris Berninsky, which was absolutely fantastic. What were your |
| 1:34.7 | takeaways from that sir? Yeah recording that episode with Chris was |
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