DeFi Lunch (Ep 327) - Apr 6, 2023 - Reviews of Newly funded projects / Treasury Dept is Ridic

<p>You are missing out - Join our community -&gt; <a href="https://t.me/missiondefi" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://t.me/missiondefi</a></p> <p><strong>On today&#39;s show:</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>The Treasury Department</strong> released their split personality report on DeFi</p> <p><a href="https://md1.to/treasreport" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://md1.to/treasreport</a></p> <p>Reading it though is difficult, so instead we rely on the legal experts from Brad&#39;s Crypto Legal List (<a href="https://md1.to/cryptolegal" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://md1.to/cryptolegal</a>)</p> <p><strong>DeFi Education Fund</strong> (@fund_defi) summarized most of it very nicely - <a href="https://md1.to/defifundtreas" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://md1.to/defifundtreas</a></p> <p>In addition, <strong>@Timccopeland</strong> noted the split personality of agreeing that most illicit activity doesn&#39;t happen on DeFi, while they claim it can happen on DeFi... Sigh - <a href="https://md1.to/opereas" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://md1.to/opereas</a></p> <p>--------</p> <p>Then we ran through how much <strong>@Coinbase</strong> is doing to protect DeFi and crypto legally and technically and read through <a href="https://twitter.com/iampaulgrewal">@iampaulgrewal</a>&#39;s thread on their legal filings in the #TornadoCash case - <a href="https://md1.to/cbtreas" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://md1.to/cbtreas</a></p> <p>--------</p> <p>In more news about Coinbase, we discussed an anonymous donor&#39;s gift of <strong>Base.ETH</strong> to the Base Chain (@BuildOnBase) to reward them for their focus on decentralization - <a href="https://md1.to/baseeth" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://md1.to/baseeth</a></p> <p>--------</p> <p>We spent more time discussing what Coinbase is doing with Base and the potential it has as well as potential revenue models for it. </p> <p>--------</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.