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

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

Yoni Assia is the founder and CEO of eToro, one of the most successful crypto and stock buying apps with over 27 million users in more than 100 countries. Originally founded in 2007, it was one of t...

24 Touko 202250min

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

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

Kevin Zhou is the founder of crypto quant fund, Galois Capital and former head of trading at Kraken. Last week, Terra, one of the most prominent ecosystems in crypto, effectively disintegrated in days...

16 Touko 202257min

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

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

This week we speak to Diego Fernandez, the secretary of innovation and digital transformation for the city of Buenos Aires. Recently, news broke that Buenos Aires will be taking tax payments via crypt...

9 Touko 20221h

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

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

BoredElonMusk is one of the most prominent Twitter personalities in the crypto space with over 1.7M followers at the time of recording. With decades of online gaming experience, he is now taking his s...

3 Touko 202251min

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

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

Fabian Schär is one of the most prominent academics focusing on blockchains and specifically DeFi. He has a great deal of experience speaking with regulators and studying different laws and frameworks...

27 Huhti 20221h

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

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

Jill Gunter is the co-founder and chief strategy officer at scaling solution Espresso Systems and a venture partner at Slow Ventures. She became interested in Bitcoin via her experience with Latin Ame...

18 Huhti 20221h 1min

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

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

We have a special podcast episode this week — a live conversation between Defiant founder Camila, our head of video Robin, and our editor Alp, recorded directly from The Defiant’s video studio in the ...

12 Huhti 20221h

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

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

Ethan Buchman is the co-founder of Cosmos, an ecosystem of interoperable blockchains which includes Terra, Osmosis and Crypto.org, and has the most value locked after Ethereum. It's a complex network ...

4 Huhti 20221h 5min