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🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 🟠 Michael Saylor's BTC-Backed STRC Is Coming For A $300T Market 0:00 - Intro 2:46 - CJ’s background and role 7:23 - What Strategy does with Bitcoin 10:40 - Why offer perpetual preferred equity 14:58 - Which instrument is most senior? 16:44 - How AI helped design Strategy instruments 19:18 - What is STRC? 23:23 - Where does STRC yield come from? 26:14 - ATM program explained 29:21 - How STRC enables Strategy to buy BTC 36:49 - A $300T market + impact on BTC price 41:48 - MSTR vs STRC investors 44:36 - Who is buying STRC right now? 47:04 - DeFi teams tokenizing STRC 51:41 - What are the real risks for STRC? 55:00 - Would Strategy ever sell BTC? 57:50 - Why STRC is Strategy’s "iPhone moment" 1:01:55 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to Chaitanya Jain from Strategy for joining us!

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

179,210 views • 6 months ago

🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 🕵️ Private DeFi Is Coming: Why Privacy Is Ethereum's Next Frontier | Lean Ethereum 0:00 - Intro 2:31 - Why Ethereum? 5:11 - What is broken with privacy today? 6:52 - What should be private in DeFi? 11:50 - The call for privacy on Ethereum 15:05 - Private txns on Ethereum by 2027 20:53 - Importance of FOCIL for Ethereum 26:51 - When will private DeFi be ready? 30:58 -Network vs protocol vs wallet-based privacy 35:04 - Aztec’s approach to privacy 38:14 - Private DeFi on Ethereum vs Zcash 41:22 - Privacy for institutional investors 43:36 - Network meta data and privacy 45:44 - The future UX of privacy on Ethereum 51:22 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to Ethereum Foundation Researcher soispoke.eth for joining us!
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🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 🕵️ Private DeFi Is Coming: Why Privacy Is Ethereum's Next Frontier | Lean Ethereum 0:00 - Intro 2:31 - Why Ethereum? 5:11 - What is broken with privacy today? 6:52 - What should be private in DeFi? 11:50 - The call for privacy on Ethereum 15:05 - Private txns on Ethereum by 2027 20:53 - Importance of FOCIL for Ethereum 26:51 - When will private DeFi be ready? 30:58 -Network vs protocol vs wallet-based privacy 35:04 - Aztec’s approach to privacy 38:14 - Private DeFi on Ethereum vs Zcash 41:22 - Privacy for institutional investors 43:36 - Network meta data and privacy 45:44 - The future UX of privacy on Ethereum 51:22 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to Ethereum Foundation Researcher soispoke.eth for joining us!

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

43,585 views • 22 days ago

LIVE NOW - The $280 Million DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever A $280 Million DeFi exploit exposed the hidden fragility of crypto’s most trusted systems. Dan Elitzer and Odysseus | phylax.systems break down: - how the attack happened, - why bridge risk and protocol composability made the damage so severe, - what Arbitrum’s intervention means for immutability, - and why DeFi now needs an aerospace-grade security mindset to survive the AI era. Enjoy the episode. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:57 Worst DeFi Hack Ever? 7:01 What Happened? 10:11 How Sophisticated? 11:42 Explaining the Hack to TradFi 16:51 Who’s to Blame? 22:13 L2 Architecture Consequences 28:17 How Does it Get Resolved? 31:46 Circuit Breakers & Rate Limiters 34:05 AAVE V4 34:51 Arbitrum Intervention Implications 42:02 Code is Law vs Human Governance 51:59 Stage 1 vs Stage 2 Rollups 55:29 Post-Hack DeFi 1:03:05 Aerospace Level Security 1:09:49 Will DeFi Survive? 1:14:33 Closing & Disclaimers
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LIVE NOW - The $280 Million DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever A $280 Million DeFi exploit exposed the hidden fragility of crypto’s most trusted systems. Dan Elitzer and Odysseus | phylax.systems break down: - how the attack happened, - why bridge risk and protocol composability made the damage so severe, - what Arbitrum’s intervention means for immutability, - and why DeFi now needs an aerospace-grade security mindset to survive the AI era. Enjoy the episode. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:57 Worst DeFi Hack Ever? 7:01 What Happened? 10:11 How Sophisticated? 11:42 Explaining the Hack to TradFi 16:51 Who’s to Blame? 22:13 L2 Architecture Consequences 28:17 How Does it Get Resolved? 31:46 Circuit Breakers & Rate Limiters 34:05 AAVE V4 34:51 Arbitrum Intervention Implications 42:02 Code is Law vs Human Governance 51:59 Stage 1 vs Stage 2 Rollups 55:29 Post-Hack DeFi 1:03:05 Aerospace Level Security 1:09:49 Will DeFi Survive? 1:14:33 Closing & Disclaimers

Bankless

10,178 views • 5 months ago

🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 🪷 The Next Battle In DeFi Lending Is What's Inside Your Vault | DeFi Frontier 0:00 - Intro 2:22 - The team behind Lotus 3:45 - The problem with shared pool design 7:23 - The “missing middle” in DeFi lending 9:31 - The problem with isolated markets 11:17 - What does Lotus aim to solve? 13:40 - The elevator pitch for Lotus 19:54 - How tranching plays a role in Lotus 24:00 - Demo of Lotus and how it works 28:56 - Credora ratings in Lotus 33:19 - Earning more with productive debt 37:52 - Productive debt dampens rate volatility 42:13 - How Lotus differs handling bad debt 45:08 - Who will use Lotus? 48:04 - What uses could Lotus unlock? 50:49 - Security, audits, and lessons from rsETH 57:02 - Closing + Lotus launch 🙏 Thanks to Lotus Protocol Founder David Reising for joining us!
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🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 🪷 The Next Battle In DeFi Lending Is What's Inside Your Vault | DeFi Frontier 0:00 - Intro 2:22 - The team behind Lotus 3:45 - The problem with shared pool design 7:23 - The “missing middle” in DeFi lending 9:31 - The problem with isolated markets 11:17 - What does Lotus aim to solve? 13:40 - The elevator pitch for Lotus 19:54 - How tranching plays a role in Lotus 24:00 - Demo of Lotus and how it works 28:56 - Credora ratings in Lotus 33:19 - Earning more with productive debt 37:52 - Productive debt dampens rate volatility 42:13 - How Lotus differs handling bad debt 45:08 - Who will use Lotus? 48:04 - What uses could Lotus unlock? 50:49 - Security, audits, and lessons from rsETH 57:02 - Closing + Lotus launch 🙏 Thanks to Lotus Protocol Founder David Reising for joining us!

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

21,736 views • 5 months ago