TN Lee is the CoFounder of Pendle Finance and a CoFounding member of Kyber Network.

In this episode, we explain Pendle Finance and provide a rare guide to DeFi yield trading strategies within the increasingly popular protocol. Pendle was a breakout star in DeFi during the doldrums of the crypto bear market, and if you listen to the ethos behind TN Lee, you'll soon understand why. Pendle aims to reimagine the traditional finance interest derivative market, worth over $400 trillion in notional value, but instead as trustless DeFi money lego, where anyone with a crypto wallet can execute yield strategies such as earning fixed yield or longing the stETH yield rate. 

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
04:12 - TN's background and founding Pendle Finance
10:07 - Why has the DeFi fixed yield use case struggled 
12:11 - What is Pendle Finance?
13:53 - Yield tokenization
16:54 - How Pendle Earn works
21:40 - Pendle AMM and Pendle LPs
24:30 - Strategies for profitability in Pendle LPs 
28:15 - The best yield trade explained
31:21 - Pros and cons of YTs
34:47 - What happens when we buy YTs
37:17 - vePENDLE and its utility
39:04 - Pendle Wars
41:32 - Reflections on insane growth
49:23 - TN's favorite Pendle strat and roadmap updates
52:38 - Closing

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🔗 Guest Links 🔗

► TN Lee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tn_pendle
► Pendle Finance on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pendle_fi
► Learn about Pendle Finance: https://www.pendle.finance/
► Pendle Earn: https://app.pendle.finance/earn/fixed-yield
► Pendle Trade: https://app.pendle.finance/trade
► The Pendle Yield-Trading Handbook: https://handbook.pendle.finance/
► Pendle docs: https://docs.pendle.finance/
► Pendle Guide to Profitable Yield Trading: https://app.pendle.finance/trade/education/learn?level=0
► "The Best Trade of All Time" on Pendle: https://twitter.com/pendle_fi/status/1678781288759824386
► Links to Term Discord, Telegram, and Medium: https://linktr.ee/term.finance

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Pendle Finance Explained: A Guide to DeFi Yield Trading Strategies

► Seb Audet is the CoFounder of Zapper.

In this episode, we discuss how can Zapper make the blockchain social. For years, Zapper has been a well known gateway to millions of users in DeFi and Web3. From DeFi Summer to now, Seb shares his experience and insights from the evolution of Zapper into a social web3 explorer, which allows users to follow the blockchain journey of other people in NFTs, DeFi and DAOs. While Seb sees the future of crypto in Web3 social networks, he explains his thesis for why we must first make the blockchain readable before we can ever build more social products in Web3.

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
05:29 - DeFi Summer memories
07:04 - Seb's background and origin of Zapper
13:10 - Zapper's mission as of 2023
15:47 - What's changed in DeFi/Web3?
21:22 - What's social in DeFi/Web3?
28:20 - Zapper's product suite
32:25 - Thoughts on Web3 messaging
37:12 - Leveraging Lens social graphs on Zapper
38:32 - What does Zapper data say about the bull cycle?
41:19 - Ways to use Zapper Activity Feed
42:46 - Why did Zapper retire Zaps
48:05 - Zapper Event Curation
53:09 - Ideas for incentivizing event curation
54:40 - Closing

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► Zapper on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zapper_fi
► Try Zapper: https://zapper.xyz/

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Can Zapper Make The Blockchain Social?

Dion Chu is the Founder and CEO of Term Finance.

In this Quick Hit, we review a new fixed rate auctions protocol on Ethereum, launching today (August 1st) on Ethereum.  DeFi is known for its volatile variable interest rates. Term offers a new non-custodial fixed rate lending and borrowing protocol for a maturing DeFi markets that demand more predictable fixed rates, like those we find in traditional finance. With Term Finance, borrowers and lenders are matched through a unique recurring auction process, poised to usher in enormous growth for DeFi this next bull run!

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
07:33 - Background on Dion and origin of Term
14:55 - How Term Finance works
18:19 - Why fixed vs variable rates
22:19 - How auctions work
26:25 - Term repo tokens
27:28 - Guarded launch and results so far
29:59 - What's needed for multi-year term loans
33:12 - Closing

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► Term Labs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/term_labs
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► Links to Term Discord, Telegram, and Medium: https://linktr.ee/term.finance

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Term Finance: Pioneering Fixed Rate Loan Auctions on Ethereum

Samee Siddiqui is the CoFounder and CEO of Atlas.

In this Quick Hit, we review Atlas and their new ChatGPT tool for writing smart contracts. Atlas is self-described as the fastest way to build on Ethereum, L2s, and any EVM chain. Samee gives us a live demo and talks about why it's so crucial that we radically lower the barrier to building protocols and dApps with tooling like Atlas.

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Topics Covered

00:00 - Intro
06:49 - Background on Samee
08:30 - State of tooling for dApp developers
14:00 - Overview and demo of Atlas suite
18:47 - Feedback on Atlas tooling
22:00 - Productivity gain from Atlas
24:13 - Atlas for auditing code
26:13 - How to get started with Atlas
28:06 - Closing

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Guest Links

Samee on Twitter
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Atlas on Twitter
https://twitter.com/atlas_zk

Learn about Atlas
https://www.atlaszk.com/

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Atlas: ChatGPT for Smart Contracts

Alex Cutler and TaoWatts are Core Contributors at Velodrome Finance.

In this episode, we discover how Velodrome defied all odds in the bear market to become a DeFi darling and recently shipped Velodrome V2. Launched in June 2022, just weeks after the Terra UST collapse, Velodrome has managed to not only survive, but gone on to thrive as the most popular DEX to deposit liquidity on Optimism.

The first half of the pod explores the remarkable story of how they built  a popular DeFi product during the worst crypto bear market. The second half is a guide on everything you need to know to understand Velodrome V2, including their ve(3,3) mechanics and how to strategically approach being a liquidity provider or veVELO voter.

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
06:39 - Background on Alex and Tao
14:10 - 2 theses that guided them through the bear
19:47 - A true community launch
25:30 - How less resources led to being resourceful
26:28 - Locking the Velodrome treasury for 4 years
28:34 - Why ve(3,3) AMMs incentivize action
34:32 - Velodrome explained
39:40 - How the weekly rebase yield works
41:43 - Locking up VELO
42:55 - Velodrome V1 vs V2
46:17 - Biggest updates in V2
52:02 - Velodrome Relay and LP voting
53:43 - Fees flipping bribes/incentives in V2
55:05 - Sustained high yields
58:39 - Emission rate updates in V2
1:01:18 - Alex's alpha 
1:02:56 - Closing

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🔗 Guest Links 🔗

► Velodrome Finance on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VelodromeFi
► Taowatts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/taowatts
► Alex Cutler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wagmiAlexander
► Learn about Velodrome Finance: https://velodrome.finance/
► Dune Analytics dashboards referenced: https://dune.com/0xkhmer/velodrome
► Velodrome V2 Docs: https://velodrome.finance/docs#

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DeFi Dad Transcript on Youtube

Pendle Finance Explained: A Guide to DeFi Yield Trading Strategies

Can Zapper Make The Blockchain Social?

Term Finance: Pioneering Fixed Rate Loan Auctions on Ethereum

Atlas: ChatGPT for Smart Contracts

Velodrome Finance: How They DeFi'ed The Bear Market and Delivered V2