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The Defiant

The Defiant

The internet of money is being built with blockchain technology and without banks. We call it DeFi, short for Decentralized Finance, and this is where you can hear the builders and users of this cutting edge world tell their stories first hand. Hosted by Camila Russo.

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343 episodes

  1. THORChain Refused to Block the $387M Bitget Hacker. Here’s Why | Chad Barraford 56:44
  2. Mark Karpelès Opened the Ledgers. The Spy Chips Are Mass-Produced. 17:35
  3. He Lost $14M to FTX. Now He’s Putting Real Stocks on Solana | Armani Ferrante (Backpack) 56:41
  4. STRK’s L1 Bet: Eli Ben-Sasson on Starknet’s Exit Plan 45:37
  5. Ledger Was Hacked — Who Do You Trust With Your Keys Now? 17:34
  6. Tokenized Stocks Get an SEC Sandbox. Who's Left Out? 17:00
  7. Solana's Historic Governance Vote — While Robinhood Invades Its Meme Coin Turf 54:55
  8. Can RobinHood Chain Take This Boom? w/ ARB's Steven Goldfeder 58:29
  9. The EIP That Wants to Cap ETH Staking at 50% 20:35
  10. The $114 Trillion Question: How DTCC Is Tokenizing the Entire U.S. Market 29:34
  11. Memecoins Eat Everything: Robinhood's Accidental Casino & Base's Identity Crisis 17:37
  12. Now or Never: Inside the Fight to Pass the CLARITY Act 18:10
  13. Saylor Selling BTC: Strategy Lifeline or Betrayal? 10:19
  14. Inside the Ethereum Foundation Overhaul: is a Multi-Node Structure Bullish? 13:34
  15. "Bazooka in Every Hand" Do We Really Want Unstoppable AI? w/ Jake Brukhman, Haseeb Qureshi, Jesus Rodriguez 26:13
  16. DeFi's Near-Death Moment | Mike Silagadze on Ether.fi, Security, and What Comes Next 45:29
  17. DeFi Hacks Happening Every Day; Institutions Are Still Coming 56:59
  18. Top Talent Is Leaving the EF. What Happens to ETH Now? 52:28
  19. DeFi Yields Are Too Damn Low! Here's Why 56:35
  20. The $300M DeFi Bailout: Heroic or Unsustainable? 58:52
  21. Should Arbitrum Have Frozen North Korea's Funds? Griff Green vs. Gabe Shapiro 56:49
  22. Optimism Is Done With “Ethereum Alignment” — Users Come First 36:59
  23. Did L2 Fragment Ethereum? - With Yuval Rooz, CEO of Digital Asset, Co-Founder of Canton 51:45
  24. The Bitcoin Renaissance Legacy : Beyond Digital Gold Ep. 2 20:41
  25. Why DAO Governance Always Turns Political 55:56
  26. Robinhood’s Crypto Head Johann Kerbrat on Why Public Blockchains Will Win 41:21
  27. Rebuilding Global Payments with Stablecoins | Circle & USDC with Nikhil Chandhok 45:53
  28. Crypto’s Point of No Return: Institutions are Finally Here, with Brett Tejpaul 49:08
  29. Why OG DeFi Failed | Kain Warwick, Founder of Synthetix 54:22
  30. Ethereum is for Institutions: Danny Ryan Says Tokenization Isn't Enough 26:10
  31. How Stablecoins Are Rewiring Global Payments | Borderless CPO Alex Garn 25:33
  32. The Rise of the Fan Economy | Consumer Crypto | Avalanche Ecosystems Ep. 4 18:26
  33. Uniswap is about to “turn on the switch.” with Hayden Adams 1:08:18
  34. Ethereum’s “HTTP Moment” with Marissa Posner & Yoav Weiss 40:00
  35. Becoming the "Institutions Chain" With Avalanche’s Morgan Krupetsky 40:19
  36. Tokenize Everything: Robert Leshner’s Vision for On-Chain Finance 22:12
  37. ​​Is DYOR Dead? Building a Safer Web3 with Alex Katz 37:08
  38. Avalanche DeFi: the Journey to Bring Institutions Onchain 15:23
  39. Inside the PYUSD's takeover of PayPal with May Zabaneh, VP Crypto 42:17
  40. Why Yat Siu Believes Altcoins Will Surpass Bitcoin 1:01:14
  41. The AI CEO Era: Breaking Build Bottlenecks with Vibe Coding | Ahmad Shadid 47:10
  42. How Avalanche is Tackling the Blockchain Trilemma 26:44
  43. What Crypto VCs Want Now | Aryan Sheikhalian 46:50
  44. Solana vs. Bitcoin: Why Pantera Capital is All In | Paul Veradittakit 35:59
  45. Can Crypto Be Trusted? Ben Nadareski’s Answer to the Skeptics 46:15
  46. StarkWare Bets on Becoming Bitcoin's Execution Layer, Not on Attracting Corporate Chains 54:07
  47. $100 Million DeFi DAT Chooses ETH | Ryan Zurrer 44:58
  48. Plasma’s Plan to Dethrone Tron | Paul Faecks 45:02
  49. J.P. Morgan’s Nightmare: How Stablecoins Let You Be Your Own Bank | Reeve Collins 41:33
  50. Solana’s Rise as a Treasury Powerhouse: DeFi Development Corp’s Bold Strategy 1:09:35