The Defiant - DeFi Podcast Camila Russo

Li Jin is a prominent figure in the venture capital industry. She is the co-founder and managing partner at Variant Fund, a venture firm that invests in Web3 and the ownership economy. Before founding Variant, Li Jin worked at Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, where she helped to shape the firm’s views on the emerging tech landscape, including the gig and passion economies. In today's discussion, we delve into memecoins, Web3 social media, and the evolving landscape of token models, examining how these elements are shaping the future of digital economies and influencing user interaction in decentralized networks.



0:00 Intro

1:11 Variant Fund

3:20 Li Jin

4:55 Benefits of Blockchains at Consumer Level

7:55 Web3 Social Media

12:50 Speculative Media

18:20 Memecoin Products

24:24 Censorship

25:47 Web3 GTM Strategy

34:30 Token Models

47:41 Governance Tokens

52:00 Trends



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In today's podcast we host Mike Silagadze, founder of ether.fi, an Ethereum restaking protocol, and Nikhil Raghuveera, co-founder of Aethos, a decentralized policy engine being built on EigenLayer. Liquid restaking has recently emerged as a significant trend in the Ethereum ecosystem. In today's podcast, we'll delve into the use cases that restaking unlocks via Active Validating Services (AVSs) through EigenLayer, shedding light on how this innovation is shaping the ecosystem.

0:00 Intro
2:08 ether.fi
7:40 Aethos
13:15 Economic Security
18:28 AVS Allocations
23:20 Aethos Revenue
30:08 Risks of AVSs
39:40 Rehypothecation
43:07 Depeg Risk
54:14 ether.fi Roadmap
57:28 Aethos Roadmap

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TN Lee is the founder of Pendle Finance - a DeFi platform that enables users to tokenize and trade future yield on Ethereum assets. Pendle has shown remarkable expansion since the beginning of the year, elevating its TVL from $250 million to over $3 billion in just a few months. In this podcast, we explore the fundamentals of Pendle Finance, providing a comprehensive understanding of one of DeFi's most complex and innovative products. We start off with a background into Lee, then breakdown Pendle's core concepts and gradually dive deeper into Pendle's use cases, risks, and future plans.


0:00 Intro

0:53 TL;DR Pendle

2:06 TN Lee

7:30 Pendle V1

12:13 Growth of Pendle

22:04 Pendle Basics (PT, YT)

30:53 Use Cases

36:25 Pendle Users

38:25 Risks

48:43 Learnings From Kyber

49:39 TradFi vs Pendle

51:20 $PENDLE

58:19 What's Next?


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Tomer Weller is the VP of Product at Stellar, one of the earliest alternative Layer 1 chains that existed before Ethereum. Stellar recently launched Soroban, its smart contract platform, designed to enhance the blockchain's functionality with efficient, developer-friendly tools for building sophisticated applications. In today's conversation, we dive deep into Stellar, overview their fundamentals, reflect on its decade long journey as a Layer 1 blockchain, and have a closer look into the current use cases.



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0:00 Intro

0:58 Stellar Overview

2:01 Tomer Weller

3:48 Stellar Fundamentals

8:49 Being Early

12:06 Smart Contracts

17:26 Attracting Developers

23:09 Use Cases

29:52 Argentina

33:10 Franklin Templeton

36:49 Censorship Resistance

39:30 Scaling

55:17 Stellar Validators

1:00:58 What's Next?



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Erica Kang is the CEO and founder of KryptoSeoul, a leading community building team in South Korea that focuses on blockchain projects. Erica has been a bridge between the East and the West for a very long time, and today we get to dive deep into her journey. She grew up in Korea, then moved to the United States and did a stint in Vietnam. She has not only reshaped the blockchain landscape, but she's also championed a new era of community driven empowerment. Before we dive into all of that, Erica will share a little bit about how she first got involved in the crypto community.



0:00 Intro

0:48 Community in Crypto

5:16 Erika Kang's Personal Journey

8:03 Differences in Culture

13:12 BUIDL Asia + ETH Seoul

15:47 Crypto Projects in Korea

20:30 Kimchi Premium

22:20 Information Flow

26:55 BTC as SOV

30:09 Terra's Implosion

33:00 KryptoSeoul Community

38:17 Events in Asia

40:50 How are you defiant?



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In today's podcast we host two guests: Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, and Meg Lister, GM at Gitcoin Grants Labs. Gitcoin is a platform that connects developers with open-source projects for funding, collaboration, and building digital public goods through various forms of contribution like coding, design, and more. In our conversation we learn about the origin story of Gitcoin and breakdown the main funding mechanisms, such as quadratic funding and retroactive funding, benefits of onchain capital allocation over traditional funding mechanisms, and we delve into Allo Protocol, an open-source protocol that enables groups to efficiently and transparently allocate pooled capital.



0:00 Intro

1:37 Kevin Owocki and Meg Lister

4:12 The Story of Gitcoin

12:39 Quadratic and Retroactive Funding

18:21 Main Usecases

24:35 Grants Programs in the Bull

28:44 Onchain Capital Allocation

33:53 Allo Protocol

37:33 Gitcoin Token

38:17 Revenue

41:01 Ultimate Vision

49:05 Fiat Onramps



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