Binance Lists $PEPE, Coinbase International, takeaways from the Fed meeting
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!
8 Mai 202344min
From AWS to Aave & Lens Protocol: Nader Dabit Explains Web 3 Social Media
Today we are joined by the all-around dev phenomenon Nader Dabit. Nader has become a household name across the developer community with his combination of to-the-point tutorials, live coding demos and interviews focused on modern web development, Web 3, AI, cloud computing and more. He's always learning and experimenting in public. Nader is currently the Director of Dev Relations at Aave/Lens. Today, he'll get to do some details behind his journey into Web 3 starting with The Graph, decentralized social media, the devs building on the Lens Protocol, Lens infrastructure and he'll give us a mini deep dive into gasless transactions via Lens. But first, Nader tells us about what it was like being early to AWS before he made his switch into Web 3 full-time. 🙏 Thanking our podcast sponsors: Stader Labs, a multi-chain liquid staking platform with 40k+ DeFi partnerships across 6 chains, is coming to Ethereum soon. Sign up to get alpha on ETHx—their ETH LST. Be the first to know about $1M in DeFi rewards!
2 Mai 202359min
Ethereum Name Service: Nick Johnson's Journey from Google to Ethereum, ENS Roadmap, and Cancel Culture
Today we are joined by the ma behind ENS - the Ethereum Name Service. Since we last chatted with Nick in 2021, he has made ENS a household name across the crypto industry and beyond. Nick and I get into the details behind the ENS roadmap, including the latest V3 announcement, what it was like for Nick to go from Google to the Ethereum Foundation to founding ENS, and the inside scoop on last year's drama with Brantly and the current culture at ENS and so much more. But first, Nick is going to tell us the founding story of ENS and how he managed to go from Google to Ethereum to founding ENS. 🙏 Thanking our podcast sponsors: Stader Labs, a multi-chain liquid staking platform with 40k+ DeFi partnerships across 6 chains, is coming to Ethereum soon. Sign up to get alpha on ETHx—their ETH LST. Be the first to know about $1M in DeFi rewards!
24 Apr 202359min
Bringing Institutions and Businesses to DeFi: Maple Finance's Sidney Powell
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 Podcast, and ask questions to the following guests, please join our discord channel or sign-up for a Premium account, by following this link. 🙏 Thanking our podcast sponsors: Stader Labs is a non-custodial multi-chain liquid staking platform with 40k+ DeFi partnerships across 6 chains. Sign-up for our ETHx alpha list today and be the first to know about $1M in DeFi rewards! This episode is brought to you by Silo Finance, the risk-isolated lending market on Ethereum and Arbitrum. Lend and Borrow your favorite crypto without compromising on security. Learn more: https://silopedia.silo.finance/welcome/what-is-silo-finance
18 Apr 202359min
The AI/Web3 Intersection Will be Mindblowing: Push's Rajat
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 introduction to Push Protocol from Harsh. 🙏 Thanking our podcast sponsors: This episode is brought to you by Silo Finance, the risk-isolated lending market on Ethereum and Arbitrum. Lend and Borrow your favorite crypto without compromising on security. Learn more: https://silopedia.silo.finance/welcome/what-is-silo-finance
10 Apr 202355min
Will the crypto market rally continue?
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9 Apr 20231h 3min
Should we ignore the Binance FUD?
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!
7 Apr 20231h 5min
KZG Ceremony Duo Summons The Ethereum Road Map
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 without sacrificing decentralization or censorship resistance and so much more. But first, they tell us their origin stories about entering crypto, why they joined Ethereum and what they're focused on today. Timestamps00:00 Crypto Journey04:57 Ethereum Foundation Work Culture08:08 Question from a Twitter follower11:30 Near and Long-term Roadmap18:06 Next Steps25:41 Question from a Twitter follower28:55 EIP-484431:58 Danksharding33:31 Staking Withdraws36:47 ETH Governance41:44 Proposer Builder Separation45:42 Single Slot Finality49:17 Use Cases55:33 Impact Thanking our podcast sponsors: This episode is brought to you by Silo Finance, the risk-isolated lending market on Ethereum and Arbitrum. Lend and Borrow your favorite crypto without compromising on security. Learn more: https://silopedia.silo.finance/welcome/what-is-silo-finance web3 with a16z is a chart-topping podcast about the next generation of the internet, from a16z crypto. Click here to listen now.
3 Apr 20231h 5min
