Sidney Powell is the co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance . Maple is a DeFi platform that offers uncollateralized loans and facilitates interactions between institutional borrowers and lenders. In our conversation we dive into Sidney’s background, how uncollateralized loans work, how the bear market affected Maple, the benefits of blockchain-based financial systems and more. We begin our conversation with Sidney giving us an intro to Maple Finance. Also, if you’d like to have a say in The Defiant...
Apr 18, 2023•59 min
Harsh Rajat is the founder of Push Protocol and a leading figure in the world of decentralized messaging. Push Protocol is a messaging protocol that utilizes the power of decentralized networks to create secure, private, and efficient communication between dApps and Web3 users. In our conversation we dive into Harsh’s background, the founding story of Push Protocol, their business model, the intersection of Web3 and AI, challenges in Web3 UX, and more. We begin our conversation with an introduct...
Apr 10, 2023•56 min
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!
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 4 min
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!
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Today we are joined by the dynamic Ethereum KZG Ceremony Duo, Carl and Trent of the Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Ethereum and related technologies. With Carl and Trent, we dive into the KZG ceremony, why it's important for scaling Ethereum, the ETH roadmap, demystify jargon like Dank Sharding, IP 4844, and we talk about the culture of the Ethereum Foundation, why Ethereum has become a bit more adversarial with time, how they plan to continue scaling wit...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 6 min
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!
Mar 25, 2023•1 hr 5 min
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: This episode is brought to y...
Mar 23, 2023•49 min
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!
Mar 18, 2023•1 hr 4 min
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 ...
Mar 16, 2023•58 min
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!
Mar 13, 2023•59 min
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 ...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 7 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, Camila Russo chats with Matthew Gould, the founder and CEO of Unstoppable Domains. Unstoppable Domains is a service that facilitates the creation of blockchain-based domains that users own to build and verify their digital identity and login into applications, games, metaverses, and much more. In our conversation, we unpack the concept of digital identity in Web3 and discuss where the market is headed. But first, Matthew explains the importance of having a block...
Mar 03, 2023•49 min
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!
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 2 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, Tegan Kline chats with Kain Warwick, crypto OG and founder of Synthetix. Synthetix is a new financial primitive enabling the creation of synthetic assets, offering unique derivatives and exposure to real-world assets on the blockchain. Today, we dive into what's next for Synthetix with the latest V3 launch, and what will cause the next big leg up in DeFi - what we’re calling DeFi Summer 2. We go on to discuss the differentiation between different perpetual produ...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 3 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, Camila Russo chats with Andre Cronje, the co-founder of Fantom, a Layer 1 blockchain, and also the founder of Yearn Finance, one of the first yield aggregators in DeFi. Andre is certainly a key figure in the DeFi space who, at times, has been seen as a rockstar, and also been criticized for his controversial takes. We start by talking about Andre’s backstory: How did he get into crypto in the first place, and why did he decide to build in DeFi? Thanking our podc...
Feb 18, 2023•1 hr 9 min
The Weekly Recap is where The Defiant reporters discuss the hottest news of the week 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!
Feb 18, 2023•1 hr 5 min
The Weekly Recap is where The Defiant reporters discuss the hottest news of the week and share further insights from our reports. It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday at 1230 ET. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with our latest videos!
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Tekin Salimi, the founder of dao5, a Web 3 investment fund founded last year. Tekin was previously at Polychain Capital. Dao5 is an experimental cryptocurrency investment fund with plans to convert into a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO. We dive into the biggest DAO drama from the last year, why Tekin is so bullish and excited about DAOs. We also discuss Tekin's investment thesis while he was at Polychain, his switch to focus mostly o...
Jan 27, 2023•59 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Tal Tchwella, Product Manager of Products Engineering at Solana Labs. In our conversation, we dive deep into Tal's work on crypto inside Facebook (Meta), his transition to Solana, the resurgence of NFTs on the network, and all the hype with the $BONK meme coin. We also discuss what it’s like working full-time in Web3, the Solana Phone, as well as the future of Solana after the collapse of FTX. Thanking our podcast sponsors: This episode is brought ...
Jan 20, 2023•42 min
Microsoft is a Web2 giant producing software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Yorke shares his experience working at Microsoft in a strategy and transformation role in blockchain and Web3 technology, specifically focusing on producing a blockchain-based full-stack application within one of the largest supply chains in the world. We dive into what Microsoft is doing within the blockchain space, how Microsoft is using NFTs internally, and the use-cases of Ethereum a...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Dear Defiers, In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms. Weekly Recap is a show where we discuss the hottest news of the week together with The Defiant writers and share further insights from our reports. It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday. In this week's recap, we discussed SBF getting bailed out of jail, stablecoin adoption, Visa's plans for non-custodial auto-payments, and more. Hope you enjoy it! Also, a q...
Dec 24, 2022•58 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Adam Cochran, an investor at Cinneamhain Ventures, who's probably most known for his extensive Twitter threads. We kick off our conversation by asking Adam if he expected to turn into a meme in the crypto community for his long-winded tweets. The primary driver behind crypto this year has been traditional macro markets. Crypto markets have been at the mercy of inflation and rising interest rates and the FED recently raised interest rates by half a ...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Dear Defiers, In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms. Weekly Recap is a show where we discuss the hottest news of the week together with The Defiant writers and share further insights from our reports. It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday. In this week's recap, we discussed SBF getting arrested, the Binance investigation, Trump NFTs and more. Hope you enjoy it! Also, a quick side note, make sure to check out ...
Dec 17, 2022•1 hr 9 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Mike Belshe, the CEO of BitGo, a digital asset custodian, wallet, and issuer of wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC). We start our conversation with an overview of BitGo and Mike's crypto journey. Wrapped Bitcoin is the most successful representation of Bitcoin on Ethereum. There’s about 200K Bitcoin in BitGo's custody, which is the equivalent of $3.4B. WBTC is an important piece of the ecosystem as it enables Bitcoin holders to interact with DeFi. We dive into ...
Dec 15, 2022•52 min
Dear Defiers, In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms. Weekly Recap is a show where we discuss the hottest news of the week together with The Defiant writers and share further insights from our reports. It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday. In this week's recap, we discussed SBF agreeing to testify before Congress, Vitalik's favorite things, Apecoin and Link staking, and the Ethereum roadmap. Hope you enjoy it...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 3 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Sam Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Arweave, a 'collectively owned hard drive' that enables users to store data, applications, and documents on-chain, forever. We start by learning about Sam's crypto journey, from discovering Bitcoin in 2010 and going on to invest in the Ethereum ICO and finally, starting Arweave. Sam thinks we're seeing a renewed focus on decentralization as the debate over censoring transactions continues. He believes it's es...
Dec 09, 2022•59 min
Dear Defiers, In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms. Weekly Recap is a show where we discuss the hottest news of the week together with The Defiant writers and share further insights from our reports. It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday. In this week's recap, we discussed SBF's recent public appearances, the ongoing manhunt in The Bahamas, Uniswap’s NFT marketplace and more. Hope you enjoy it. Also, a quick...
Dec 03, 2022•1 hr 17 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Juan Benet, the founder of Protocol Labs and the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System. Juan is also the creator of Filecoin, a storage network incentivized by crypto. Both of Juan’s ventures are hugely ambitious as they are in direct competition with the basic rails of the internet, with protocols such as HTTP and data giants like AWS. We begin our conversation with Juan explaining what led him to start IPFS and Filecoin. Juan points out that...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Dear Defiers, In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms. Weekly Recap is a show where we discuss the hottest news of the week together with The Defiant writers and share further insights from our reports. It goes live on our YouTube channel every Friday. In this week's recap, we went through all the latest on FTX, discussed MetaMask collecting user addresses, update on arrested Tornado Cash developer and more. Hope you enjo...
Nov 26, 2022•1 hr 14 min
This week on The Defiant Podcast, Tegan Kline speaks with Bogdan Alexandrescu, co-founder and VP of Engineering at SAGA. SAGA is focused on lowering the barrier of entry for building in Web3 so that developers can spin up a blockchain in a single click, and the company places emphasis on the metaverse. In this conversation, we dive deep into Bogdan’s departure from Apple after six years to work full-time in crypto, any advice that he has for anyone looking to make a similar switch, what the meta...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min
