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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.

The Defiant - DeFi Podcast Camila Russo

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    • 5.0 • 6 Ratings

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.

    ✊ Coinbase is ready to fight the SEC

    ✊ Coinbase is ready to fight the SEC

    The Weekly Recap is where The Defiant reporters discuss the week's hottest news and share further insights from our reports.

    It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday at 1200 ET.

    Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with our latest videos!

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Dan Finlay Explains How MetaMask Will Become The Google of Web3

    Dan Finlay Explains How MetaMask Will Become The Google of Web3

    This week on The Defiant Podcast, Camila Russo chats with Dan Finlay, the co-founder of MetaMask - one of the leading Web3 wallets.

    In our conversation, we dive into Dan’s background prior to co-founding MetaMask, where Dan sees MetaMask heading in the upcoming years, their privacy policies, a potential MASK token, and much more.

    Dan shares his hopes and dreams for the next bull run. But first, Dan tells us the origin story of MetaMask.

    Thanking our podcast sponsors:


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    • 49 min
    Arbitrum Airdrop Is Confirmed!

    Arbitrum Airdrop Is Confirmed!

    The Weekly Recap is where The Defiant reporters discuss the week's hottest news and share further insights from our reports.

    It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday at 1200 ET.

    Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with our latest videos!

    • 1 hr 4 min
    How To Decentralize a Fortune 500 Company

    How To Decentralize a Fortune 500 Company

    This week on The Defiant podcast, Tegan Kline hosts Jesse Pollak, senior director of Engineering at Coinbase, Eva Beylin, the director of the Graph Foundation, and Ben Jones, the director of the Optimism Foundation, to give us a deep dive into the launch of Base, Coinbase's recently-launched Layer 2 blockchain.

    Base is an Ethereum Layer two that offers a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly way for anyone anywhere to build decentralized applications.

    In this episode, we talk about the evolution of Base from inside a Fortune 500 company, the importance of decentralized tools like the Graph and Optimism, and the importance of thinking positive sum, not zero-sum.

    Jesse discusses decentralization inside a centralized company and how Coinbase plans to onboard millions of dapps and a billion users.

    Thanking our podcast sponsors:


    web3 with a16z is a chart-topping podcast about the next generation of the internet, from a16z crypto. Click here to listen now.
    This episode is brought to you by Orbs Layer-3. Trade DeFi like a pro using decentralized TWAP order type on SpookySwap, SpiritSwap, and Pangolin. Learn more: https://www.orbs.com/dtwap/

    • 58 min
    Why Is The Crypto Market Dumping?!

    Why Is The Crypto Market Dumping?!

    The Weekly Recap is where The Defiant reporters discuss the week's hottest news and share further insights from our reports.

    It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday at 1230 ET.

    Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with our latest videos!

    • 58 min
    Everything You Need To Know About Eigen Layer with Sreeram Kannan

    Everything You Need To Know About Eigen Layer with Sreeram Kannan

    This week on The Defiant Podcast, Tegan Kline chats with Sreeram Kannan, the founder of Eigen Layer and the director of the University of Washington's Blockchain Lab.

    His research at UW focuses on distributed computing, information theory, queuing theory, networking, coding theory, and game theory of blockchain systems. 

    Eigen Layer is a proof of stake validation marketplace that reuses state capital and existing validation infrastructure. With Eigen Layer. Ethereum can enable permissionless and modular innovation across all blockchain layers.  

    Today, we dive into Sreeram's background in academia, how the blockchain space piqued his interest, and the hype around Eigen Layer. 

    But first, Sreeram is going to tell us exactly what he's up to at Eigen Layer and how he merges both a data availability layer and a restaking platform.

    Thanking our podcast sponsors:


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    web3 with a16z is a chart-topping podcast about the next generation of the internet, from a16z crypto. Click here to listen now.

    • 1 hr 7 min

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