Month: April 2024

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Federalist Radio Hour - From Baltimore To The Bay, Maryland’s Surprising Lessons On Marriage And Family

President of the Maryland Family Institute Jeffrey Trimbath and Grove City College Sociology Professor David Ayers join Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how strong marriages and families in Maryland positively affect the state.  

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: Ethena’s USDe Grew to $2 Billion in 7 Weeks. Is It Safe?

Ethena's synthetic dollar, USDe, hit a $2 billion market cap in just seven weeks, raising eyebrows. Ethena Labs founder Guy Young explores the risks of reinventing the digital dollar.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.

This week, Ethena was in the spotlight after the airdrop of ENA, its new governance token. Ethena’s flagship product, the “synthetic dollar” USDe has amassed a $2 billion market cap in less than two months. Meanwhile, ENA’s market capitalization sits around $1.4 billion, with a fully diluted valuation of $15.5 billion. 

In this episode, Guy Young, founder of Ethena Labs, discusses the risks associated with Ethena, including custodial risks and counterparty risks to exchanges. Young also talks about the use cases of Ethena's governance token, and discusses the potential for Ethena to be integrated with DeFi and CeFi.

Show highlights:

  • An introduction to what Ethena is and how USDe works
  • Why the team doesn't want to refer to USDe as a stablecoin and prefers to use the term "synthetic dollar"
  • What the risks of USDe are, including custody, counterparties, and smart contracts
  • Why Guy is "pleased" with how the ENA airdrop went through
  • How ENA will be used and what its role will be in the governance of Ethena
  • Why Ethena is now onboarding Bitcoin as collateral
  • Why Guy thinks that there's been an "exaggeration" regarding the situation with Maker and Aave
  • Guy's response to the critics who say that Ethena is essentially Terra/Luna
  • Whether USDe would only work in a bull market
  • How the Ethena insurance fund works and what it aims to accomplish
  • What's next for Ethena after onboarding Bitcoin, with Solana potentially being the next asset

Thank you to our sponsors!  Polkadot  |  iTrustCapital

Guest

Guy Young, founder of Ethena Labs. 

Previous appearance on Unchained: How Ethena's USDe Challenges Traditional Stablecoin Models

Links

Ethena: 

Unchained: What Is Ethena’s USDe Synethic Dollar? A Beginner’s Guide

Decrypt: Ethena Just Launched to a $1.2 Billion Market Cap: Here’s What You Need to Know 

Dust on Crust by Arthur Hayes

Airdrop:

Unchained: Airdrops From Wormhole and Ethena Labs Set to Inject $2.4 Billion Into Crypto Market This Week 

CoinTelegraph: Ethena will become highest revenue-generating crypto project — Delphi Labs CEO

ENA Airdrop and Season 2: Sats Campaign 

Learn more: What Is a Crypto Airdrop? A Beginner’s Guide

MakerDAO/Aave controversy: 

The Block: MakerDAO proposes allocating $600 million worth of DAI into USDe and sUSDe

The Defiant: DeFi Projects Clash After MakerDAO Adds Ethena’s USDe As Collateral, 

Comparisons to Terra’s UST: 

Unchained: As Ethena’s USDe Quickly Reaches $2 Billion in Market Cap, Some Wonder If It’s as Risky as Terra’s UST

The Defiant: Ethena Stablecoin’s 27% Yield is Triggering Terra-Induced PTSD

Andre Cronje’s thoughts on USDe

Cointelegraph: Ethena Labs founder clarifies USDe stability amid high yield worries

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The Phil Ferguson Show - 487 – Trump Stock, will it flop? SPAC – Annuity Review – Free Steak Dinner

Trump Stock - Truth Social went public and the initial valuation was as high as $11 billion.  However, the company is probably worth....wait for it.... $0.00.  What will happen next?

Annuity Review - A show listener sent me a bunch of info on an annuity they were asked to invest in.  All of the details will be exposed.

Free Dinner - I got a free steak and heard about all of they ways they can protect my money.
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Focus on Africa - Is Ghana allowing child marriages?

An underage girl has been placed under police protection in Ghana after it emerged she had been married to a 63-year-old traditional high priest. There was public outrage after footage of the customary wedding went viral. The office of the priest defended the marriage, saying it was only ceremonial. What's going on?

Also we hear a moving conversation between two Rwandans, 30 years after the genocide

And we visit London's first ever Nigerian Michelin star restaurant!

Presenter: Richard Kagoe Producers: Charles Gitonga, Susan Gachuhi, Patricia Whitehorne, Nyasha Michelle Compliance: Karnie Sharp Editor: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Who were the Si-Te-Cah?

Did a race of red-haired, not-quite-human, cannibalistic giants really terrorize the Paiute people in ancient America? For a long time, according to the story, this tale was thought to be little more than a piece of imaginative folklore -- until, that is, the fall of 1911, when guano miners stumbled upon a thousands of artifacts hidden in a mysterious cave just outside of Lovelock, Nevada.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: Taiwan’s Earthquake, Franklin Templeton on Ordinals and Poolin’s Asset Sale

We go through this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, including the dangers to TSMC chip production from the earthquake in Taiwan, Franklin Templeton on Ordinals and Poolin selling its 100 MW farm for a fair chunk of change.

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Welcome to the news roundup! Today we chat about potential delays to TSMCs chip production from the earthquake in Taiwan, Franklin Templeton on Ordinals and Poolin selling its 100 MW farm for a fair chunk of change.

Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:01:07 Intro

00:04:21 The Big Empty Documentary

00:05:40 Taiwan Earthquake Impact

00:10:55 Bitcoin Ordinals Corner

00:15:33 Mining Pool Centralization

00:24:23 Stratum V2 Discussion

00:29:35 Poolin Sells Texas Assets

00:35:18 Sauna Miner Test: S21 vs M60

00:38:08 Outro

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Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 

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Getting Hammered - Wackadoodle Time


In today's episode, we're unpacking the latest polling data, diving into J.K. Rowling's Twitter saga, and exploring the intriguing concept of sleep divorce. Tune in!

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Time Stamps:

13:51 | Latest Polls

26:46 | Love to Hear It!

36:38 | J.K. Rowling

44:26 | Israel Strike

51:14 | Sleep Divorce

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