Polygon's Hamzah Khan Wants to Make DeFi More Accessible Than Running Water
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Hamzah Khan, Head of Defi at Polygon. Polygon is one of the biggest players in DeFi with $1.5B in TVL and in the blockchain space in general. Hamzah begi...
10 Nov 20221h 11min
🎙️Offchain Labs' A.J. Warner on Making Arbitrum the Leading Layer 2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with A.J. Warner, the Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs, the builders of Arbitrum, one of the leading scaling solutions for Ethereum using Optimistic Ro...
3 Nov 20221h 4min
Delphi Labs' Gabriel Shapiro on How 100% of DeFi Could Become Illegal
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Gabriel Shapiro, general counsel at Delphi Labs and a member of the LeXpunK group of crypto lawyers. He’s regarded as one of the most prominent voices on...
27 Okt 20221h 15min
a16z's Ali Yahya Says We’ve Entered The Golden Era Of Blockchain Applications
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Ali Yahya, General Partner at a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz. a16z is an investment giant - they’ve raised $6.7B between their crypto funds in t...
21 Okt 20221h 5min
🎙️Friends with Benefits' Alex Zhang on Building Web3 Communities That Endure
This week’s Defiant Podcast is from a conversation I had with Alex Zhang at the Unfinished Live conference. Alex is the mayor of Friend with Benefits, or FWB, a prominent DAO of creatives. Friends wit...
13 Okt 202250min
Wintermute's David Micley Says Institutional Investors Are Here To Stay
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with David Micley, the business development director at Wintermute, one of the largest digital asset market makers in the world. With all the macro headwinds ...
6 Okt 20221h 1min
Starkware Founders: Ethereum Could Surpass Visa's Transaction Speeds Within Months
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founders of Starkware, one of the leading Layer 2 scaling solutions for Ethereum. Post Merge, Ethereum continues t...
30 Sep 202257min
ConsenSys' Ben Edgington On The Future Of Ethereum After The Merge
This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Ben Edgington, the product owner of Teku, an Ethereum 2.0 client being developed at Consensys. It’s been a week since Ethereum switched from Proof-of-Wor...
23 Sep 202258min
