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Ryan Sean Adams: Mythos Capital – On Becoming Bankless

Episode Summary

Ryan Sean Adams is the Founder of Mythos Capital and the author of the popular DeFi newsletter, Bankless. He also hosts a podcast by the same name with David Hoffman.

Episode Notes

Ryan Sean Adams is the Founder of Mythos Capital, a crypto fund and staking provider for “big fish” stakeholders. He also writes the popular DeFi newsletter, Bankless. In addition to providing excellent insights about the ecosystem, Bankless takes a very practical approach to leveraging DeFi. Ryan shares strategies and encourages readers to complete action items to utilize the full potential of decentralized finance and become bankless. He also hosts a podcast by the same name with David Hoffman.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Ryan's background as a tech entrepreneur and how he got involved in crypto
• Launching ​Mythos Capital and the thesis behind this fund
• The importance of becoming “bankless” to preserve self-sovereignty
• What good analogies we can use to describe DeFi and the use of clear terminology to describe cryptoassets
• The power and advantage concentrated in centralized exchanges
• Trustless nature of Ethereum vs. Bitcoin
• The role of nation-states in the DeFi ecosystem as it continues to grow
• The idea that “Eth is money” and Eth as a store of value asset in Ethereum
• The impact of Covid19 on the economy and crypto markets
• The future of Ethereum and Bitcoin

Episode links:

• Mythos Capital
• Bankless newsletter
• Bankless podcast
• Ryan Sean Adams on Medium
• Mythos Capital on Twitter
• Ryan Sean Adams on Twitter
• Reset Everything

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This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/334