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The Defiant - DeFi Podcast

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.

Weekly Recap: SBF Arrested; CZ Under Investigation

68 hours 52 mins; December 17, 2022

BitGo's Mike Belshe on What's Next for WBTC & Crypto Custodians

52 mins; December 15, 2022

Weekly Recap: SBF Willing To Testify Before Congress

63 hours 27 mins; December 12, 2022

Arweave's Sam Williams on Storing Files On-Chain for Eternity

58 mins; December 08, 2022

Weekly Recap: SBF's Publicity Tour

76 hours 38 mins; December 03, 2022

Filecoin's Juan Benet on Upgrading the Heart of The Internet with Blockchains

76 hours 56 mins; December 01, 2022

Weekly Recap: Metamask is Tracking You

74 hours 15 mins; November 26, 2022

Saga's Bogdan Alexandrescu on Making Web3 More Accessible to Builders

60 hours 58 mins; November 24, 2022

FTX Fallout's Ugliest Turn Yet

56 mins; November 19, 2022

Onyx's Tyrone Lobban Takes Us Behind the Scenes of JP Morgan's First DeFi Trade

64 hours 57 mins; November 18, 2022

The Fall of FTX - Everything We Know So Far

63 hours 36 mins; November 14, 2022

Polygon's Hamzah Khan Wants to Make DeFi More Accessible Than Running Water

71 hours 21 mins; November 10, 2022

🎙️Offchain Labs' A.J. Warner on Making Arbitrum the Leading Layer 2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum

64 hours 22 mins; November 03, 2022

Delphi Labs' Gabriel Shapiro on How 100% of DeFi Could Become Illegal

75 hours 10 mins; October 27, 2022

a16z's Ali Yahya Says We’ve Entered The Golden Era Of Blockchain Applications

65 hours 6 mins; October 21, 2022

🎙️Friends with Benefits' Alex Zhang on Building Web3 Communities That Endure

50 mins; October 13, 2022

Wintermute's David Micley Says Institutional Investors Are Here To Stay

61 hours 44 mins; October 06, 2022

Starkware Founders: Ethereum Could Surpass Visa's Transaction Speeds Within Months

57 mins; September 30, 2022

ConsenSys' Ben Edgington On The Future Of Ethereum After The Merge

58 mins; September 23, 2022

Liquity's Robert Lauko On Censorship And Building A Fully Decentralized Stablecoin

71 hours 52 mins; September 19, 2022

🎙 Stani Kulechov on Building a Social Network for Web3 so Users are Not the Product

68 hours 45 mins; September 08, 2022

Zcash's Zooko Says Crypto Users Must Have The Choice To Transact Privately

66 hours 2 mins; September 01, 2022

Jake Chervinsky on Tornado Cash Sanctions: The Rightful Outrage and the Need to Further Decentralize DeFi

68 hours 34 mins; August 20, 2022

0x's Will Warren On The Future Of DEXs And The Impact Of MEV

68 hours 35 mins; August 04, 2022

UMA's Hart Lambur Says The Current Market Crisis Is A Sales Pitch For DeFi

61 hours 14 mins; July 27, 2022

Justin Drake on How The Merge Helps Make Ethereum the Settlement Layer of the Internet

73 hours 9 mins; July 20, 2022

Tezos Co-Founder Arthur Breitman Looks Forward To No-hype Crypto Shining Through

64 hours 51 mins; July 12, 2022

Ex SushiSwap CTOJoseph Delong on Why DAOs Fail

58 mins; July 06, 2022

Hasu: Lido's Staked ETH Poses No Systemic Risk to DeFi

46 mins; June 28, 2022

Gmoney on the NFT Projects That Will Make it Through the Bear

49 mins; June 22, 2022

Mati Greenspan: Only Those Who Are Well Funded or Most Committed Will Make it Through the Bear

47 mins; June 15, 2022

The Fabricant Co-Founder: NFT Fashion Blurs Lines Between Creators and Consumers and Both Share the Upside

51 mins; June 08, 2022

Yoni Assia on the Rise of Active Trading in a Blockchain-Based World and Building a 27M-User App

50 mins; May 24, 2022

Terra Post Mortem and Future with Kevin Zhou, One of the Few Investors Who Predicted the Crash

57 mins; May 16, 2022

Buenos Aires City Innovation Chief Talks Crypto Tax Payments and How Web3 will Revolutionize Democracy

60 hours 11 mins; May 09, 2022

BoredElonMusk Talks Crypto Gaming and Growing a Twitter Following to the Millions

51 mins; May 03, 2022

Prominent Academic Fabian Schär Says Crypto Regulation Should Happen Only at On/Off-Ramps and Ditch Consumer Protection

60 hours 50 mins; April 27, 2022

Jill Gunter Talks Crypto's Role in Emerging Markets and Building Scaling Solution Espresso Systems

61 hours 14 mins; April 18, 2022

Making Magic - A Defiant Love Story with Robin Schmidt & Alp Gasimov

60 hours 48 mins; April 12, 2022

Cosmos Co-Founder Ethan Buchman on Building an Internet of Sovereign Blockchains

65 hours 27 mins; April 04, 2022

🎙 Blockchange Ventures' Ken Seiff: Betting on Crypto's Base Layer and a Multi-Chain Future

67 hours 41 mins; March 28, 2022

Gitcoin's Kevin Owocki on Fueling Public Goods Funding for the Ethereum Nation

58 mins; March 21, 2022

Fabian Vogelsteller, father of the ERC20 Standard, on the Shift from Blockchain Addresses to Social Profiles with Lukso

65 hours 6 mins; March 14, 2022

Laura Shin on Solving Ethereum's Greatest Mystery with Her New Book, The Cryptopians

54 mins; March 07, 2022

Polkadot's Gavin Wood on Building a Layer 0 to Underpin the Entire Blockchain-Based Economy

70 hours 36 mins; February 28, 2022

Sovryn's Edan Yago on Building Bitcoin DeFi; Slower Growth But Strongest Foundation

66 hours 35 mins; February 21, 2022

Vitalik Buterin on Building a Base Layer for the Global Economy Without Compromising on Decentralization

91 hours 38 mins; February 14, 2022

Giveth's Griff Green: Super-Charging Public Goods and Charity With Crypto

69 hours 16 mins; February 07, 2022

AVAX's Emin Gun Sirer Says Blockchains Should be Scalable at Their Core; Layer 2s Mean Giving Up

74 hours 1 min; February 03, 2022

Synthetix's Kain Warwick: What it Takes to Scale an Ethereum DeFi Protocol

87 hours 19 mins; January 24, 2022

Behind the Scenes of The Defiant with Robin and Camila

86 hours 9 mins; January 17, 2022

Nick Johnson of ENS: "We Want to be the Naming System for Every Digital Resource in the World"

60 hours 2 mins; November 29, 2021

Geoff Cook on Building a Crypto Name: "The Strongest Brands Compete on Emotion"

56 mins; November 22, 2021

Nadya of Pussy Riot: "We Can Be Truly Unstoppable if We Combine Our Ideals With Tools that Crypto Provides"

39 mins; November 15, 2021

Zeneca: "The Market is Fed Up With the Same Sorts of NFT Projects and There's a Flight to Gaming NFTs"

67 hours 30 mins; November 08, 2021

Eric Wall of Arcane Assets: "Bitcoiners Protect BTC Against 'Shitcoinism' But They're Also Keeping it From Valid Technical Ideas"

84 hours 54 mins; November 02, 2021

🎙 Scoopy Trooples of Alchemix: "Liquidity Mining is Like a Drug; You Have to Wean Yourself Off Over Time"

71 hours 6 mins; October 25, 2021

Braintrust's Adam Jackson: “Nike is in Crypto Now and They May Not be Fully Aware”

62 hours 50 mins; October 18, 2021

"NFTs Gave Me a Sense of Security and Economic Stability I Never Felt Before:" WoW Creator Yam Karkai

56 mins; October 11, 2021

"Wall Street Bets Taught Me to Have Faith in the Collective Intelligence:" WSB Founder Jaime Rogozinski

69 hours 36 mins; October 04, 2021

"ETH and most DeFi is Trading Cheaper Than Web2 and With Better Growth:” VanEck's Matthew Sigel

68 hours 30 mins; September 20, 2021

"There's Going to Be a DeFi Universe Geared Towards Non-Fungible Assets:" NFTfi's Stephen Young

43 mins; September 14, 2021

"NFTs are Giving Way to The First Art Revolution Since the Internet:" SuperRare's John Crain

62 hours 26 mins; September 06, 2021

"I Realized We Could Scale Play-to-Earn to Impact Thousands, Hopefully Millions of Lives:" YGG's Gabby Dizon

52 mins; August 30, 2021

"There's Been a Zero-to-One Switch for Institutions and Crypto:" Pantera's Dan Morehead

61 hours 16 mins; August 23, 2021

"There is No Political Voice to the Millions of Crypto Users in the US:" Ryan Selkis

65 hours 58 mins; August 16, 2021

"We're Not Really at an Inflection Point Yet:" OpenSea's Nate Chastain

61 hours 27 mins; August 09, 2021

"We Get to Tell Future Pixar Animators They Can Quit Their Jobs and Come Build With NFTs:" Stoner Cats Team

62 hours 26 mins; August 02, 2021

"I'm Not an Enemy of DeFi; I Want People to Know About Anything That Goes Against DeFi as a Tool for Financial Liberty:" Chris Blec

74 hours 58 mins; July 26, 2021

“The Biggest, Clearest Bet of All is Ethereum:" Raoul Pal

64 hours 49 mins; July 19, 2021

"It's Almost Like EIP-1559 Fixes an Economic Bug in Ethereum; More Usage Can Now Capture More Value:" Tim Beiko

69 hours 29 mins; July 12, 2021

"V3 is Winding Back a Bit of the Uniswap Revolution; It's Going to be Very Influential:" Dan Robinson

65 hours 9 mins; July 02, 2021

"There Will be Billion-Dollar Communities on the Internet:” Jess Sloss

62 hours 39 mins; June 25, 2021

"VCs Typically Treat Community as an Afterthought; That's Wrong:" Soona Amhaz

59 mins; June 18, 2021

"Having Legal Tender in a Currency You Cannot Control Means You Cannot Print Problems Away:" Mariano Conti

62 hours 46 mins; June 11, 2021

"Everyone Can be Rich in Crypto; There are no Divine Rights:" Terry Crews

66 hours 23 mins; June 04, 2021

"The Bull Market is Intact for the Next 10 to 20 Years; We are in a Secular Shift:" Arca's Jeff Dorman

64 hours 35 mins; May 28, 2021

"Blockchains are Adding Property Rights to the Internet:" Kayvon Tehranian

64 hours 1 min; May 21, 2021

"Ethereum is About Six Months Away from Proof-of-Stake:" Preston Van Loon

67 hours 18 mins; May 14, 2021

"Identity is The One Vulnerability Being Exploited Across All Systems. It’s the Mother of All Battles:" Santiago Siri

60 hours 44 mins; May 10, 2021

"We Said Let's Start With Uniswap and See What We Can Unbundle:" Pranay Mohan of Hashflow

73 hours 19 mins; April 30, 2021

"We're Lifting Barriers For Outside Users; If You Allocate Capital in a Vacuum, It's Kind of Meaningless:" Terra's Do Kwon

68 hours 2 mins; April 16, 2021

"It's Not About Fighting for People Already in DeFi, But About Bringing More People In:" SushiSwap's 0xMaki

63 hours 0 mins; April 09, 2021

"Collector DAOs Are Going to be a Game-Changer For The NFT Space:" pplpleasr

61 hours 44 mins; April 02, 2021

"I Try to Tell People About DeFi; It Will Come Here and Completely Flatten You:" Jim Bianco

66 hours 0 mins; March 26, 2021

"People Are Seeing The Writing on The Wall; DEXs Will Rule Crypto:" dYdX's Antonio Juliano

58 mins; March 19, 2021

"I Don't Think We're in a Bubble. We Had a Bubble in ‘17; Now We're in a Movement:" Mike Novogratz

49 mins; March 12, 2021

"We Were Idiots and We Were Poor; Then From Mid 2020 to Now, Suddenly, We're Right: " Ameen Soleimani

72 hours 26 mins; March 05, 2021

"We Haven't Seen Anything Yet, So Hold Your Long-Term Bag:" Qiao Wang

58 mins; February 19, 2021

Mark Cuban: "ETH Has an Advantage Over BTC as a Store of Value"

64 hours 31 mins; February 12, 2021

"For the First Time, You Can Buy a Piece of the Art, and a Piece of the Gallery:" MetaKovan

68 hours 38 mins; February 06, 2021

Crypto Devs Are "Building a Life Raft For The World After Fiat Falls Apart:" Erik Voorhees

57 mins; January 29, 2021

"I'm Imagining a World Where Every Song Has an Investable Layer:" DJ 3LAU

46 mins; January 15, 2021

"I'm a Strong Believer in Blockchain; This is Just the Beginning:" Atari CEO Fred Chesnias

50 mins; January 08, 2021

"Bitcoin is the Most Honest Form of Money We've Ever Had:" Robert Sharratt of CrescoFin

74 hours 59 mins; December 23, 2020

"We Took Lessons From the Food Festival to Level Up the DeFi Experience," Bloq's Jeff Garzik

59 mins; December 14, 2020

"The Only Thing Where I Probably Agree With Arca is That GNO is Under-appreciated:" Gnosis' Stefan George

61 hours 50 mins; December 07, 2020

"This Boom Feels Organic; Traffic's Not Coming Out of The Blue Like With ICOs in 2017:" Infura's EG Galano

58 mins; November 30, 2020

"You Can Wake Up With an Idea for a Fund and Deploy it in Minutes:" Melon's Mona El Isa

51 mins; November 23, 2020

"I Do Believe Ethereum Will Flip Bitcoin in the Next Four Years:” Balancer's Fernando Martinelli

71 hours 27 mins; November 16, 2020

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